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It would be great to get in touch with Joe again! He can get in touch with me via the BD website. Did you play tenors with Joe and in BD?

Major congrats to my "fellow" Renegades and to my friend, Scott for taking 1st in the snare drum competition!!

Of course! He marched next to me most of the show, being that I was on end of the snare line. He was the tallest in the tenor line and I was the shortest in the snare line! I remember that he had some great chops.

Very much a Float thang. Just spend a year/season with Float and you will have a new vocabulary. In fact, on the way home from tour in '82, me and another snare drummer created the "Tom Float dictionary" which made the yearbook. Another example would be: "sticks up and shut up" or, one of my favorites: "Gentlemen and lady..."

Please explain what you mean by suggesting "have some class." Just curious!

It's a toss up between having a very famous percussion instructor from a very famous DCI corps ask you, "what are you doing next year?" or... marching the exit piece my age-out year allowing myself for a moment to glance up at the very excited crowd and smile during the performance with tears in my eyes. (We were back field). This was NEVER done before.

Brian...do you think that the Conquistadors should have stayed class A in '80? Even though we were an improved drum corps from '79, maybe going open was a mistake...I'm undecided. I think that we were top five in class A in '79?

Yes! This topic should have died long ago!

To be honest Lee, I'm only about five pounds thinner and I think the jacket was too big to begin with!

Cool Pic! My BD jacket still fits and is a tad on the big side! I'm just a few pounds thinner then when I marched...I had "California Blue Crew" put on the back...can't remember the reasoning for that but it still looks like a traditional white jacket! (The ring is a little on the big side too, I might add!)

I have forgotten that both Joel Trice, (of whom I marched with in the Rebel Kadets drum and bell corps from San Jose and Devs), and his sister, Kathy, marched in the '77 cymbal line. The Trice family were all involved with corps. Jim marched Tympani that year as well, I think. I played snare with him in Rebel Kadets in '76. Kathy was an amazing bell player with major chops. Their younger brother, his name escapes me...not sure if he continued on with corps after '76. Cool pic!

Correction: Thx Kevin, (SCVguy) for sharing this info from Martha.

I am beyond shock. Thx Martha for posting. I got back in touch with Greg about four years ago through a fellow Renegades snare drummer who marched with Greg in '78. I had lunch with him at the Monterey Bay Aquarium where he worked part time and we caught up after 25 years! He was one of my mentors as well and I was his cymbal player in a drum and bell corps in '74 and '75. He was getting back into the drum corps arena and was quite "vocal" on a particular drumming website of late as well as the SCV alumni website and was so happy when he got a new corps jacket..."one that fit!" Greg presented to me two very special items from his particular style of martial arts. "To a true friend...." If only I could play rolls like him! My condolences to his wife, Nancy and two daughters.

My first choice? When full corps retreat went away and trooping the stands. Not sure what year. My second choice? When the American Flag went away.

Hey Lee! Maybe I can be a "virgin" performer this year! I might even do a solo...

Wow! You actually made to the left side!

Re: BD that year, as much as I love what the soloist's did and how wonderful they sounded and added to a great show...WAY to much footage on them! I would have liked to have seen more of the drum line, esp. during the drum solo. Many visuals were not viewed, unfortunately, esp. to a "high drums" line.

Yes...it was the South! Nice pic of '79 Phantom, I might add!

Hey, I recognize that Conquistador pin! I looked you up in the yearbook and how cool that we marched together in '79. I saw the Conquistadors for the first time in '78 in Sunnyvale performing at my high school. I was having a bummer drum corps year in '78 so I inquired on how I can join for the next year. I loved the music that the corps played, like "Chain Reaction" in 13/8!

BUT, instead, I got the awesome opportunity to march with Brian in '79 and '80, and we had way too much fun!

Hey Greg...I have to admit that it took me a few minutes to write that, 'cause I have a lot of favorite BD lines! I loved the '79 line, BUT, the '80 line is what really drew me! Back in the day when we had retreat ceremonies and the smaller corps had to watch from the back sidelines, I would try to get as far as I could get in uniform to watch from the goal posts to watch the '80 line! It was your line that told me that it was time to audition...I just wish that we could've marched together!

One of two of my favorite BD lines! Awesome pic!

I joined the Renegades Sr. Drum and Bugle Corps, (DCA), in '05 and marched with a guy in the snare line from '83 BD. It was a bummer, to say the least, that we missed marching the '83 season together by a month or so! Long story short, we are now "an item" and are very happy! I could only imagine how much fun we would have had on the "Funliner", the drum bus, had we been able to march together! I'm sure that I'd be a grandma by now! So, we are making up for lost time, drumming and otherwise!

Yes and amen!

I knew the names of the guys in this line when I was 14! L-R: Tom Brown; Dale Lofgren; Curt Moore; Allan Kristensen; Paul Siebert; Darrell Cox; Rob Carson; Steve Choarzey. Please forgive me for any spelling errors! I made a poster that covered a full wall in my room of drum lines that I cut out of DCW publications and this line, along with, of course, '76 BD, were in the center of the poster!