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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
  15. Here's my list (top 12 only): 1 - Phantom Regiment 2 - The Cavaliers 3 - Blue Devils 4 - The Cadets 5 - Santa Clara Vanguard 6 - Bluecoats 7 - Carolina Crown 8 - Madison Scouts 9 - Blue Knights 10 - Boston Crusaders 11 - Glassmen 12 - Spirit OR Crossmen OR Colts
  16. If we're talking DCI-era shows, then here's my list: 1974 SCV 1980 SCV 1983 Garfield Cadets 1993 Star of Indiana 2002 Cavaliers Honorable mentions: 1976 Blue Devils 1991 Star of Indiana
  17. I totally agree. The drummers should have been throwing down instead of saying it.
  18. OK, I sent in an idea and didn't receive an email back or anything...so...does that mean my idea wasn't even considered? Oh well...
  19. Here's what I proposed to George... 2007 Show Theme Rediscovering Our Roots Music Preamble For A Solemn Occasion, Copland Symphonic Ode, Copland The music I've selected is both exciting, accessible and not used very often by drum corps or marching bands, so it will also feel fresh and new. It is also very fan-friendly and will appeal to both old-school drum corps fans as well as newer fans, and I'm sure will definitely be a crowd favorite each and every time it's played. Preamble For A Solemn Occasion was written for the founding of the United Nations. Very fanfare-like in quality with soaring French Horns and extremely brass-centric. http://www.amazon.com/Copland-Collection-O...TF8&s=music Symphonic Ode features complex rhythms, great ballad section, fanfare qualities, and an ending that will make all drum corps fans stand and cheer loudly! http://www.amazon.com/Copland-Early-Orches...TF8&s=music
  20. I have a 40 GB iPod, so I have all the top 12 finals mp3s for 1972 through 2005 on it :P But, for one CD's worth of drum corps, here's my picks... 1983 Garfield Cadets 1985 Santa Clara Vanguard 1986 Blue Devils 1987 Garfield Cadets 1987 Santa Clara Vanguard 1988 Garfield Cadets And here's one more... 1990 Star of Indiana 1991 Star of Indiana 1992 Cadets of Bergen County 1993 Cadets of Bergen County 1993 Star of Indiana 1999 Santa Clara Vanguard And one more (All SCV)... 1974 SCV 1985 SCV 1987 SCV 1998 SCV 1999 SCV 2004 SCV And one more on top of that (All BD)... 1976 BD 1984 BD 1986 BD 1988 BD 1992 BD 1994 BD All lastly, one more (All Cadets) 1983 Garfield Cadets 1985 Garfiled Cadets 1987 Garfield Cadets 1988 Garfield Cadets 1992 Cadets of Bergen County 1993 Cadets of Bergen County The problem is, there's just TOO MUCH great drum corps shows out there for ONE CD!
  21. Star of Indiana was the same way back in the day. 1985 - 10 1986 - 8 1987 - 7 (tie) 1988 - 7 1989 - 6 1990 - 3 1991 - 1 I'm not saying it's a fair comparison, but, the records speak for themselves.
  22. Here's my picks: 1977 Bridgeman 1978 Santa Clara Vanguard 1983 Garfield Cadets 1986 Blue Devils 1987 Velvet Knights 1987 Sky Ryders 1992 The Cavaliers 1992 Crossmen 1993 Star of Indiana 1995 Madison Scouts 2002 Boston Crusaders 2005 Phantom Regiment
  23. LEAST cheesy show ever? I'd go with 86 Blue Devils. Classy to the end. Here's my short list: 86 Blue Devils 88 Garfield Cadets 89 Phantom Regiment 90 Star of Indiana 91 Star of Indiana 93 Star of Indiana 93 Blue Devils 94 Blue Devils 99 Santa Clara Vanguard All solid shows. There are a few shows I love that have just ONE cheese moment: 85 Garfield Cadets (the soprano solo in the middle of Overtude to Candide) 85 Santa Clara Vanguard (changing pants) 87 Santa Clara Vanguard (magic tricks...but listen to the crowd, they eat it all up!) 87 Garfield Cadets (the solo male guard dancer) 92, 93 Cadets of Bergen County (hand bells) 98 Santa Clara Vanguard (dancing tenors)
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