MikeD

One of the best bass drum lines I ever taught were four female clarinet players. They were good friends, and they were the bass drummers for a band I taught in the early 80's. Started them as freshmen, and by their senior years they could plat anything I threw at them. Amazing young women! My daughter is a percussionist as well, and she was part of another great all-girl bass line in the last band I worked with, from 94-2018. They called themselves the Snails, as they would carry their basses backwards, on their backs, when moving around the field area. They figured out a way to "wear" their bass mallets on their heads, sticking up like antennae. That was 20+ years ago, and they are still great friends to this day.

Awful news about a band bus crashing in NY State. Band Bus Crash

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Oh of course. I nevet want a rehash. This design team is amazing.

My favorite Cadet show, 97, featured “Year of the Dragon”. The MB I taught did it in 98. Love to see it used again. Mandarins would do a great job.

I believe that the OLPH Ridgemen lost some members. In my era they wore blue Cadet-style jackets with white trousers.

Mod hat again. I have removed a few personal attack posts, one made even after my warning about making such posts. These must stop immediately.

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…at the right time in the right way and do it right.

My annual request for PR to do Janacek’s “Sinfonietta”.

That is what I was thinking. Before blaming the announcer those things are important to know.

Espiritu del Toro is a great opener. My first full-time music teaching job was at a HS in Wayne NJ, and we played it in 1976 as our opener. We marched 40+ trumpets, so it sounded pretty good. There was a behind the scenes name for Spirit of the Bull that had one of those words in it. 😀 George's drum solos were amazing. He was also the Cadets percussion person at the same time, from 69 through 71. I marched tri-toms in 71 in Garfield. Hawthorne and Garfield are basically right next to each other. After George was let go from Garfield after 71, a good percentage of Garfield's drumline moved to the Cabs to stay with George.

I wonder what he was given to say. A one-liner that got lost in the days events ongoing? Was he given a reasonably constructed announcement of the alumni show and who was in it? Sounds like he did a lousy job recovering his miss, even if just a one-liner, but I would not put the whole blame on him without knowing more.

Their Down the Shore with the Jersey Surf was along those lines. It was a great program, my favorite show of theirs. They’d be a great corps to do a Buffet show. Excellent idea!

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Dino here. Saw my first show in 63...marched 64-72, judged corps 76-82'ish plus DCA one year around 90. I have thought there should be WW in DCI for a long time, since RAMD days. What is the feeder for DCI corps now? Bands, not smaller local corps as in the distant past. Band brass, guard and percussionists all have a place to continue their marching experience at the highest level. WW do not, and IMO it is long overdue that they should. Caveat to me is that it is up to the corps to decide if WW are a good idea. I happen to think it is.

Ok, you Dallas fan living in Pennsy.

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Really???? I think those should be kept secret. 🤪

I judged in the Garden State Circuit in the mid/late 70’s to early 80’s. One year in the 70’s the directors voted to have the judges use a National Linear concept in judging. That meant we had to judge every corps, even the very beginners, to the same standard as, say, the Blue Devils. That approach lasted about 2 or 3 weeks into the season, lots of corps were getting zeroed out on sheets, or close to it. The GSC held an emergency meeting and changed it to GSC linear immediately…oops! 😀

Tics were totally subjective. Was event X a tic or not? If so, did it warrant a group tic? How many tenths in that situation? Judges were taught to only mark tics for the section they were standing in front of. I was a percussion judge starting in the mid/late 70's. If I was in front of the snares, and I thought I heard a tenor tic, I could not mark it, since I was focused on the snares at that point. The judge field placement only worked when drills were not as complex as they became. Adding in the pit, tics were just no longer a valid way to judge the totality of the percussion performance.

Maybe they can place urinals AT the concession stands, or have somebody selling hot dogs in the….never mind! 😎

I think they need his alter ego - Eas Penderight

It was 69. I saw fonals in Philly. It was a shame the VFW powers that be made them drop the bells. Their other drumsolo, the 7/8 Unsquare Dance, did not fare as well without bells. It was great WITH them most of the summer.

Slowly I turned...step by step... For those Abbott and Costello fans as old as me! 😀