Don’t think of me as ‘old’…
…just as ‘someone who has seen a lot’.
My full name is Daryl Francis Jeffords…
I’ve been a professional drummer since I was 15 (that was 1975 for those of you scoring at home) so 2023 marks my 48th year (and 6th decade) as a professional musician!!
I don’t know if I ever thought I’d be drumming (AND marching) this long – let alone with groups of this caliber AND working full time, but here I am – still going strong!!
Drum Corps…
I have the privilege and great good fortune to be playing 2nd bass in the Avant Garde Jr. Drum & Bugle Corps Alumni Drumline and Alumni Corps.
For those who think that means I play baseball for a team with an also funky name I offer this video as an explanation… This is a bass feature we call ‘SCV‘ loosely inspired by the Santa Clara Vanguard Jr. Drum & Bugle Corps in California…
SCV (30 second bass drum feature) as performed by the Avant Garde Alumni Drumline
Board Games…
And I recently accepted that I am addicted to board games and am seeking treatment… NOT… more on that inside…
The Family…
Ultimately, the reason I do anything and everything is my family… but more on that inside as well…
The ‘Reader’s Digest’ version (for those old enough to know what that means) goes like this…
Both marching in the Avant Garde Drum & Bugle Corps and playing with a solid horn band marked the culminations of 40 +/- year quests!!
In between I became infatuated with technology, played some sports and did some coaching and otherwise tried to overcome my ‘body-by-french-fry’…
In 2004 I settled into family life with my lovely wife and our beautiful daughter and in 2005 landed the best job I’ve ever had as part of a two-man IT staff with the Greenwich Central School District…
Otherwise, that’s pretty much my bucket list… land a great job, have a family, play in a horn band, march in the Avant Garde… there’s not much left… maybe, I don’t know… climb a pyramid and ride a unicorn… 🙂
The full, boring, long-winded story (but with pictures, audio and video) can be found on the pages of this website which will probably be forever very much under construction as the saga continues…
So click around and welcome to my online home!!
And kudos to anyone who recognized that all my page names are song titles!!
