geneseo_bari_87

Do you still have the DEG 2v baris?

How much for the King euph?

I guess I'm a pretty boring guy. It's usually an F scale for me. The lowest complete major scale playable on a 2-valve horn.

This brought back a great memory - Marion, OH, 1983. After watching Garfield from the sidelines, the shock and awe of watching their show was followed by the shock and awe of their drumline playing their cadence as they marched on the track in front of me. It wasn't so much the cadence, or even the drumline as a whole, but the #1 bass playing that thing like it was a snare. As I recall, their cadence had extended sections where the #1 bass was playing solo. An indelible image.

Very good! Here's another: It's really hard to hold a beer in your left hand while you play a "marching tuba".

Anybody know the best place to get a copy of this record?

I was sitting at the base of a microphone stand, 5 feet from the front sideline on about the 30 yard line for that performance. My friend John Abraham and I couldn't believe we were able to just walk up and sit there for that. I can still picture those 2 mallet players marching directly toward us...

Amplification (unnatural) was strike one. Synthesized sound (even more unnatural) will be strike two. Woodwinds = marching band = strike three - Buh Bye Drum & Bugle Corps!

This one time, at band camp...

Bingo.

Maybe this is the point. The show is meant to make people angry, depressed, disappointed...we're talking about it, aren't we? I haven't seen it yet, but I'd probably feel the same way. Is this the only frontier left - the controversial show? In '83, people were in an uproar about the Cadets, but in a good way. Back then, it was "A whole show of asymmetrical drill? I never thought such a thing could be possible, or be so cool!" Now it seems like "A show with narration about controversial subjects? I never thought drum corps would come to this." We're still talking about it, but...we're questioning where the designers are going instead of being thrilled about the genius of the new concept. It seems more important that both the ideas and the way the ideas are being expressed are controversial. The beauty of the art is taking a back seat to the controversy. Does it make it less valid? Probably not. Does it make it less attractive? Seems so, to most.

I believe he marched Emerald Knights 82-84, then Cavaliers 85-86. He then came back to Cedar Rapids and taught the EK hornline for a couple of years. I marched with him 83-84. He had some solos with EK - No More Blues in '83 and All Night Long in '84. Really intense dude that was a role model for me as a player. Saw him a few years ago when I was hired to put together a small jazz band for his parents' wedding anniversary celebration. Check out his CD with the Hindemith Sonata on it - amazing. His tone throughout the whole album is like buttah. He also has some pretty weird stuff on YouTube. I have no doubt he could bring the volume when necessary. I think all sounds prouducible on a brass instrument have their place at one time or another. Don't box yourself in thinking there is only one way a horn should sound.

Ironically, the associate principal trombonist for the LA Phil since 1999 is a drum corps alum.