Parks received his bachelor's degree in Music Education from Austin Peay State University, where he studied percussion with David Steinquest. Parks was a contributing composer for a multiple-percussion book entitled Multitudes, published by Innovative Percussion, as well as contributing composer and assistant editor for a collection of rudimental solos titled The Blue Book, published by Tapspace Publications.ĭr. During the summer of 1999, he was a member of the Bluecoats Drum & Bugle Corps, and he served as a percussion consultant for Southwind Drum & Bugle Corps.ĭr. He was a founding member of the UK Percussion Quartet, which performed throughout Kentucky, Tennessee, and Indiana, including a performance at the first annual Bands of America National Percussion Ensemble Festival. Parks served on the percussion faculty at the Bands of America/Music For All Summer Symposium and Yamaha Sounds of Summer Camps, and he taught and arranged for high schools throughout Texas, Oklahoma, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Japan. His students also performed with such drum corps as The Cavaliers, Blue Knights, Crossmen, Madison Scouts, and Southwind.ĭr. Parks’ students successfully auditioned for placement in the TMEA All State Bands and TMEA Region 24 All-Region Bands and Jazz Bands, and performed with the Greater Dallas Youth Orchestra. During his time at Smith, the Newman Smith Trojan Marching Band qualified for the Texas State Marching Band Contest in 20. Parks served as Director of Percussion at Liberty High School in Frisco and Newman Smith High School in Carrollton, Texas. Prior to his appointment at Lebanon Trail, Dr.
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Parks assisted the percussion section of the Liberty High School Full Orchestra in preparation for their performance at the 2015 Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic. He also taught the percussion students in the Lebanon Trail Cluster at Fowler Middle School and Clark Middle School, and served as the conductor and director of the Fowler Percussion Ensemble, who performed at PASIC 2015. Parks was the Director of Percussion Studies at Lebanon Trail High School in Frisco, Texas. Rob Parks died of cancer on June 12, 2022.ĭr. There’s no chorus in it, nothing’s repeated.Dr. I spent a long time trying to sound un-clichéd. “I don’t think I could improve “Just Like Gold” in any way. Speaking in NME, Roddy expressed great pride in his choice of debut single. So, get out in the wild and find an original copy, it’s probably the best thing you could ever do, your record box deserves it.īoth sides recorded at Castle Sound Studio, Edinburgh, during January 1981. The acoustically charged and the almost shouted vocals of “Just Like Gold” was a strange choice for an ‘A’ side and has never been re-issued in any format, nor too the 45 version of “We Can Send Letters” – Roddy Frame has refused in the past. I prefer these recordings on Postcard rather than the embellished and cleaner numbers on the album “High Land, Hard Rain”
The young teen Roddy is back with a pairing of love-lorn ballads, earlier versions too, with the original line-up of Aztec Camera.
Only a rather untogether arrangement stands between this strong song and sheer excellence, and the same fault reduces “B” side “We Could Send Letters” to a one dimensional canter. An amazingly mature debut from a sixteen year old writer, this urgent, personal message has an attractive folksy, almost American feel to it thanks to the addition of shimmering acoustic guitars. AZTEC CAMERA – JUST LIKE GOLD released March 1981Īztec Camera ‘Just Like Gold – The second Postcard release during March 1981 is “Just Like Gold” from East Kilbride’s Aztec Camera.
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