Past and present band members

Past and present band members include:

  • Bennie "Big Peter" Pete (sousaphone and band leader); 
  • Terrell "Burger" Batiste (trumpet) (lost both legs in an accident in Atlanta, Georgia in April 2006); 
  • Harry "Swamp Thang" Cook (bass drum); 
  • Jerome "Baybay" Jones (trombone); 
  • Alvarez "B.I.G. AL" Huntley (trumpet); 
  • Dinerral "Dick" Shavers (snare drum) (shot and killed while driving with his family in 2006, aged 25); 
  • Raymond "Dr. Rackle" Williams (trumpet); 
  • Keith "Wolf" Anderson (trombone); 
  • Jereau "Cousin" Fournett (trombone); 
  • Wendell "Cliff" Stewart (saxophone); 
  • Demond "Bart" Dorsey (trombone) (died of a heart attack in 2004, aged 28);
  •  Jacob Johnson (trumpet) (found shot execution-style in his home in 1996, aged 17); 
  • Joseph "Shotgun Joe" Williams (trombone) (shot dead by police in controversial circumstances in 2004, aged 22); 
  • Gregory "Koon" Veals (trombone)
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