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  • Your Drum Corps Experience
    *Titans, Bremerton WA, 1972 thru 78. (Cymbals, Tympani, Triple-tenor, Snare.)
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    Santa Clara Vanguard
  • Your Favorite Drum Corps Season
    1975
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    Edmonds, WA

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  1. Thanks for replying. I was looking for this for an almuni event in Seattle, but we are looking at another tune. While I love this song, the crowd probably wouldn't get it.

  2. Looking for an arrangement of Dean Martin's "Ain't that a kick in the head". Digitized is a big plus. Any suggestions??
  3. Great question. I'm looking for the 12 lug model. I was able to get a few from e-bay yesterday, but am still looking for more.
  4. I'm looking for any used 14 inch Ludwig Challenger Snare Drums. Our Drumline (Pacific Alliance, Seattle WA is in the process of reconditioning them for use. They have a great deep sound when used with the Ludwig Silverdot Top Head. We are also looking for the 14 inch Ludwig Challenger Snare Drum Hoops. 4 top rims, and 2 bottom rims. Any input would be helpful. Thanks, Kevin
  5. You can name a drum solo by the Corps and the year by hearing it, or you could say the name and Corps and sing it. Santa Clara, "Young Person's Guide" 1974, 81, "The Clock" 1975, "Birds of Fire" 1975, "Lezginka" 1978, 79, 87. Blue Devils, "Channel One Suite" 1976,77 78, 86, "Paradox" 1982, 83. Bridgemen, "Black Market Juggler", 1982, 83. Now there are snippets. Four measures for snares, then tenors, then basses. All interchangeable, and the movement is becoming more important than the notes. The Blue Devils are now famous for their warm-up "Diddy" (Which is really cool.) Not a slam at the kids, but more of a way to say I'm disappointed in the staffs and the current trend.
  6. Great story!! I bet it also gave some of them a spark and the desire to work harder. Great for them to see that those people in this great corps are "real people" too! Maggie, another story. After aging out, I went to check out a Seattle Imperials practice. The late Paul Seibert (SCV snare legend) was there, and asked if I wanted to look at the score of their new drum solo, "Tambo". He looked at it with me, and I thought, "wow, He's talking to me...).He was alway's so nice (I was a multi-tenor in the Seattle Imperals and saw him work the snares in the winter of 76-77). He knew how to teach, yet was very nice. The everyman who had extraordinary talent. I also talked to Freddy (center snare in 2004). He was very nice, and let me check out his drum. He handed me his sticks and said, "go ahead and play on it". I played some stuff. (I think he was suprised I could still play.) But I was impressed with his, and the other drummers demeanor. Santa Clara has alway's been about class!! (Don't mean to hi-jack the thread...)
  7. Thinking of ways to keep your snare drum from moving while marching (stiff leg, etc), marking time (stiff leg up and down, toes up and down). The Closer was the "Off the Field". More corps were called by their cities, "Concord", "Garfield", "Anaheim", "Etobicoke", etc. Shaving necks and tucking hair under the Shako for inspection. Marching Bands looking down on you because you were in Drum Corps, and us taking offense, so we'd "pump up" the drum parts. Warming up with other drumlines. Sharing busses if another corps bus broke down. (In the Titans in '74, we toured with the Portland Hawks, and we rode together for a while while one of their busses was being fixed.) Corps were full of "Local Kids".
  8. Stu, I'll answer to the best of my ability/knowledge, 1) Even back then, I don't think that any DCI Level (World Class) corps wouldn't train somebody on the spot. You would have to be in the Cadet Corps, or a "Feeder Corps". 2) I didn't know that. Maybe there could also be a circut that would be less pit, amps, and other junk. Like Body Building, the new circut could be like "natural bodybuilding" (no steroids), and rely on the on field percussion voices, with little pit. It is nice there are other organizations of which to grow in. 3) I guess I'm a dinosaur in that regard. And can you tell me how many drum corps marching members go on to become ready for a "professional Career" in their chosen instrument? 4) Well, in 1972, I was trained to play cymbals. I spent time in the Seattle Imperials in the winter line from 76 to 77 and learned a lot. At that time, I could've played anywhere in the country. Back in the day, the corps had kids from the city/town of which they were from. Now, there are very, very many kids trying out for spots from all over the country. (And less corps from which to go.) One of my friends is an original Blue Coat, and he was a snare drummer. He went to see them in Boise in 2007, (or 08), but they treated him like royalty. The drumline asked him questions, and the drum instructor asked if he had questions as well. He asked. "How many people in this line are from Ohio?". The answer, 2. So funding from the town may not make sense. And since the activity has changed so much, from all the extras in the pit, to the philosophy of Movement being more important than the Music, (don't get me wrong, those kids work very, very hard. It's the staff who get's me worked up.) and the Kids have to be more athletes than ever. Although I would love to hear different sounding drum solos. But, IMO, Cymbals should be part of the marching experience. If not, then why have musicians at all on the field. They all could be condensed in the pit with mikes, and the field could be all a Play/Production, etc.
  9. MelloHorn13, THANK YOU!! When I joined a Drum Corps back in 1972, I didn't know how to play an instrument. I tried unsuccessfully to play a horn, and ended up in the Cymbal Line. After lots of hard work, great instructors and some talent, worked my way through the drumline. And thanks to a financial settlement from my late Uncle, I was able to get new drums for the Pacific Alliance Drumline. (Who needs a classic car anyway?)
  10. Good post. My favorite 5 (ok, 6); Santa Clara 74, 75, 79. (All very difficult, yet musical. And in 75, the ending of Birds of Fire, playing a very very hard ending with the drum judge in front, playing it perfectly and the judge walking away.) Etobicoke 77. (Tough and perfect. A machine.) Blue Devils 82, 83. (Great playing, GE, and excellent accelerandos.)
  11. 1. Santa Clara '75 2. Santa Clara '74 3. Blue Devils '76 4. Kingsmen '74 5. Blue Devils '75 6. Bridgemen '77 7. Santa Clara '89 8. Blue Devils '86 9. Velvet Knights '87 10. Santa Clara '04 11. Phantom '05 12. Cavies '04
  12. Actually, I was impressed that the Cavies had the guts to go to Mylar. I was wondering what that wonderful sound was during that time in the show, and lo and behold, Mylar!! A snare drum that sounded like a damm snare drum!! (But then, you can get a real snare drum in the pit. Weak IMO.)
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