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Ed Musgrove



A member of Hometown Band since 1995, I studied classical and flamenco guitar for two years as a young teenager. My real love though is singing and I performed with my best friend (who played piano) continually through high school and college--mostly in night clubs where we had to "sneak in"; as we were underage! I also performed in high school and college plays (mostly musicals). After college I got sidetracked by a career! When I was 35 I realized that earning money as a computer programmer was not fulfilling my need for music.

At age 35 I retired and took a job as full-time volunteer technical director for a major community theater in the Pacific Northwest. We had an intimate 100 seat indoor facility and a huge outdoor amphitheater. Recently, the outdoor amphitheater was purchased by a religious organization for which I acted as technical liaison for two years. I have been involved with over 100 shows for various theaters in the region. As I had sufficient financial resources, I was able to donate my time for all these. I not only designed and built sets, I also performed (I was invariably cast as the villain!)

In 1995 I was working with a volunteer crew to renovate a very old building returning it to its original state as a musical theater. It was extremely dirty and dusty and all the volunteers got very sick. I got laryngitis and could not sing for over six months. I was seriously hurting!

As a very young child I was convinced my name was "Eddie stop drumming"! During the time I had laryngitis I happen to be in the local music store picking up microphones for the theater. They had a beautiful set of Yamaha drums sitting there taking up a huge amount of floor space (it was a 10 piece double bass set). It had a $4500 price tag. In my froggy voice (I could just barely talk) I made some comment to the manager like "If you would take the $2000 I just got back from the IRS I would buy those drums." He said "If you can take them today you have a deal!" I did not own a vehicle large enough to haul all those drums but I called a friend who came down with a van. I have been playing drums ever since. I took lessons for quite a while but started auditioning within two weeks of buying my drums. I have never failed to be chosen to perform after an audition. At one performance a bandleader came up and asked me if I would like to play in his band.

That band was the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard ceremonial band--Farragut Brass Band, a formal British Brass Band. I have been playing with them for many years now, often as their sole percussionist. The tuba player with that band is the conductor of Hometown Band--he asked me to play with his band as third percussion or first when needed; I have been playing with Hometown Band ever since. Most of the time I bounce around between first, second and third percussion though I do not read pitched percussion music like bells, chimes or timpani.

In the summer of 2010 I started the last big construction phase of my new house (which was built almost entirely by Hometown Band drummer Bob Nash and myself). This project involved wrapping a large deck around the northern end of the house bringing all entryways up to grade thus wheelchair accessible. Here is the result in pictures:
       
       
       
       
   

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