GuyW

1974

Cant answer the query as there's no difference between the two activities.

Don't have a large database to draw from, but: 1. DCI Finals 1974 in my one and only tour in Anaheim Kingsmen; 2. DCI Semi-Finals 2007 with Kingsmen Alumni

....knock their socks off... .

It didn't attract kids then - the ones who joined did so in spite of the name (I was there)....and we never got a dime from the US Tuna fleet or canneries, the Portugese community or the Italian community. A loss all around... .

Here's to raising a beverage of your choice, to all of the small corps that persevered and fielded a competition corps....

Belvederes from Schuylkill Haven, PA

Where can a body find a video of the show? .

Anaheim Kingsmen's 1974 drill was specifically designed to be curvilinear / non-linear, in part to deal with tics for alignment / cover, elbow contact, etc. As to whether it was exactly the first curvilinear show, I make no claim. .

LOL! Those sneaky Bridgemen, putting on blue... I guess we didn't really make that big of an impression, huh? .

Hey! Maybe they could act like its a bugle corps..... .

IMHO, its all about pushing a world view on audiences, under the rubrik of "artistic license". .

Kingsmen DVD was available at the xkingsmen website, probably still is.... .

Wow - I'm so sorry to hear that another great bugle corps has left the field. I wish I could have seen you all in your glory. .

Absolutely - the old recordings don't do justice to the corps (the older the recording the worse). Someone with the skills (and access to folks with firsthand corps knowledge) would do a great service by altering the old recordings to make them true to pitch, correct tempo, and removing extraneous noises, etc. The reason that bugle corps existed and prospered for 60+ years (so that the activity could be hijacked by bandos) was that it produced exciting music that the general public appreciated. .

G-D bugles, we pulled a slide to get half-tones. Piston - left thumb, slide - right hand. (1965-67, SoCal) Then came G-F horns, which came with rotary valves (rotaries were probably also available on G-Ds but I lack personal knowledge...cue Ken Norman) So with the G-F rotaries, we switched hands, piston - right thumb, rotary - left index finger. For my money, Olds Ultratone G-F P/R horns have not been surpassed (acknowledging "built to a price") ...which is part of "why" I played a Duratone bari in Kingsmen Alumni.... .

I'm not sure we have all the facts to determine who is/was "the LARGEST DRUM CORPS TO EVER PERFORM".... But, just to keep the record a little straight.... ...according to the beanman site, 27th Alumni marched 286 dedicated people.... ....Kingsmen Alumni marched.....wait for it.....286 dedicated people..... .

I have appreciated all of the alumni corps shows heretofore, and despite being a partisan (Kingsmen), prefer to just enjoy everyone's efforts. ....now, if someone were to propose a judged alumni corps contest, that would be a slightly different matter....I wonder - what size crowd it would attract?? .

Nice pic - but the blue didn't come out true.... .

Dunno about what the Cadets do, but generally, no - you don't need to wear the shako to practice.... .

Belleville is #####in'....really, any of the military-inspired uniforms is great...and

Yep - add the Cavies Alumni to the "A" list.... .

Are we talking color guards or dance troupes? Colorguards? Anaheim Kingsmen dance troupes? Riverdance.... .

More correctly, 2009 was the Anaheim Kingsmen All-Age Corps, not KAC.... .

Kingsmen fielded a corps up through 1988. [edited to correct my inexplicable loss of memory] .