Northern Thunder Posted July 15, 2017 Share Posted July 15, 2017 27 minutes ago, Mikah said: I joined the Imperial Guard in '81. When I first saw Imperial Guard warming up at 1980 DCI Midwest, a number of my friends (who had marched the Scouts in '79) thought I-G was the Boston Crusaders. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikah Posted July 15, 2017 Share Posted July 15, 2017 Funny, our open in '81 was Conquest, which is a Boston Crusaders classic. Maybe our founders were channeling the Crusaders, and maybe that's why I love Boston so much today. LOL We shared a gym floor with the Madison Scouts in '81 or '82, on a Texas tour. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Northern Thunder Posted July 15, 2017 Share Posted July 15, 2017 I still have an Imperial Guard patch (just like your avatar). I think I bought it at Whitewater. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Northern Thunder Posted July 15, 2017 Share Posted July 15, 2017 Am I remembering correctly that James Curnow was on the Imperial Guard staff back then?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikah Posted July 15, 2017 Share Posted July 15, 2017 3 hours ago, Northern Thunder said: Am I remembering correctly that James Curnow was on the Imperial Guard staff back then?? I don't know. I've heard the name, but I don't know if there is an IG connection. I didn't march their 1st year. I do know we had some talented people behind us like, Larry Kerchner, who wrote Emerald Eyes for us, Tom Roe, who wrote our drill designs, and George Tuthill, who handled our percussion arrangements. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Northern Thunder Posted July 15, 2017 Share Posted July 15, 2017 Tom Roe lived in Minnesota, and was an instructor with just about every corps that came out of the state. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikah Posted July 16, 2017 Share Posted July 16, 2017 Tom Roe wanted the horns and guard to cartwheel onto the 50, and then fall back into each others arms, like a zipper. We tried it a few times before it was nixed from the show. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocketman Posted July 18, 2017 Share Posted July 18, 2017 Guess it was sort of genetic. Watched my dad and 3 older brothers in the Pittsburgh Rockets. That's what I wanted to some day do, and I did. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kkrepps Posted July 29, 2017 Share Posted July 29, 2017 It was when I saw the Sky Ryders in my hometown in PA in (1981 or thereabouts?). 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CorpwithanS Posted July 29, 2017 Share Posted July 29, 2017 Joined one of many 'C' Corps in a very active Drum Corps community...great feeder corps for 27-BAC. Same year in 1967 managed to see BAC at one of our shared contests... heard that brass book, saw that tight and bad-###ed drill/ CG, and jaw dropped over their very talented trend-setting drumline...fell in love. Three years later walking my dog on a beach and heard 'Conquest' and 'Promises Promises' across the (Boston) Harbor...joined a few months later...never looked back. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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