Going through old email I found this lovely description by my Mum of Extra Action Marching Band’s appearance in the Point Arena (Mendocino county, Northern California) 4th of July parade:
Toward the end came the Extra Action band from San Francisco —
impressively rehearsed, vividly brass- and drum- rhythmed, scantily
(though decently) clad, very very flashy. They had silver lame`
flags and a lively routine which they performed now and then; the rest
of the time they kept the music going while members of the troupe
danced and wove among each other and out through the crowd — very
cheerful, very bold. A group that gives anarchy a good
name.
Exactly so.