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helmsm

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  • Your Drum Corps Experience
    Marched 7 years with Spirit of Sunnyvale Marching Youth Band, which competed in the Youth Band division at DCI-West shows
  • Your Favorite Corps
    Santa Clara Vanguard, Blue Devils, The Cadets, Star of Indiana, Phantom Regiment
  • Your Favorite All Time Corps Performance (Any)
    1987 Santa Clara Vanguard, 1987 Garfield Cadets
  • Your Favorite Drum Corps Season
    1985, 1987, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 2004, 2006

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  1. I'm the director of the Spirit of Sunnyvale SoundSport team (Sunnyvale, CA). We're always fighting for membership, but we do local parades and our standstill SoundSport shows (we compete in the Virtual SoundSport World Championship) regardless of how many people we have, usually around 10-20 members. We get who we can and have fun. I know it's hard, the recruiting, financials, etc. but if you keep the expectations in check, anything is possible. I would recommend that these groups come back as SoundSport teams.
  2. My top-three favorite corps, in order 1) 1972-present SCV 2) 1982-1994 Garfield Cadets/Cadets of Bergen County 3) 1976-1994 Blue Devils
  3. Here's my list of the truly great and legendary shows from the DCI era: 1972 Kingsmen 1974 Santa Clara Vanguard 1975 Madison Scouts 1976 Blue Devils 1980 Spirit of Atlanta 1982 Blue Devils 1983 Garfield Cadets 1986 Blue Devils 1987 Santa Clara Vanguard 1987 Garfield Cadets 1988 Madison Scouts 1989 Santa Clara Vanguard 1991 Star of Indiana 1993 Star of Indiana 1994 Blue Devils 1996 Phantom Regiment 2002 Cavaliers and 2008 Phantom Regiment!
  4. Former member of the Spirit of Sunnyvale Marching Youth Band from 1986 to 1992. We competed in judged exhibition against drum corps and competed directly against other youth bands at DCI-West shows and in our own west coast youth band circuit, when there was an active west coast youth band circuit. Auditioned for 1992 SCV and made the corps, but left to go back to Spirit of Sunnyvale to finish off their 1992 season. Just a personal decision that I had to make, as Spirit of Sunnyvale was more my fit. Do I look back on that decision in regret? Not really, as I got to live out my dream of playing in the SCV hornline, even if it was for a brief amount of time, playing Tradition and Sabbath Prayer from the 1992 show and Send in the Clowns too. That was priceless. Now, I'm just a fan. My two year-old son has a great love for drum corps (he calls it "woo-woo and drums") already and loves listening in my car and watching videos as much as possible. I've taken him to a few outdoor SCV rehearsals, and will be taking him to his first show at the Gilroy, CA show. He enjoys playing on my trumpet and he uses my one-valve bugle also. So, I might just fall into the family category one day, anything is possible!
  5. I'm very confident that SCV will have, when it comes down to it, a great show, just like they have EVERY SINGLE year! No worries here.
  6. I really like this uniform update. I'm happy that they lost the shoulder blades, I always hated those!
  7. Go into 3D mode...you'll get great quality...at least I did ^0^
  8. SCV - pretty much the whole show, but in particular, the helix/pinwheel move towards the end Troopers - the classic sunburst (so classic, yet so cool!) Any well-executed company front!
  9. Out of the corps that I saw (only attended the Stanford show)...SCV (great music/drill), Bluecoats (very entertaining), Blue Knights (awesome dark music), Troopers (happy to see them back/loves me the sunburst)
  10. I really liked the 87 team. Cesario explaining the Blue Devils' opening drill using a telestrator..."Xs and Os moving into wedge form and wedge form, etc." and reliable Rondo saying something like "Move over John Madden..." Hated Curt Gowdy though. After 89 SCV's show he said something like "It looked like they had trouble with the wind" to which good old reliable Rondo QUICKLY said "No they didn't!" I think I need to go back and rewatch those years...gotta get quotes right
  11. 86 Blue Devils. Enough said. SO super-close second...87 Garfield Cadets.
  12. In no particular order: Star of Indiana Freelancers Suncoast Sound Sky Ryders 27th Lancers
  13. I have a 40GB iPod with all DCI finals 1972-2006, pre-DCI SCV, DCI Ornaments in Brass, Star Brass Theater stuff, and SO many more to choose from... :P
  14. Here's my picks: 1983 Garfield Cadets 1987 Garfield Cadets 1987 Santa Clara Vanguard 1988 Blue Devils 1993 Star of Indiana 1995 Madison Scouts 2002 The Cavaliers 2005 Phantom Regiment
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