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seems like hardimon makes the scv recordings from 81-85 or so. The "what a manuver" from cadets started in 91 or 92 if im not mistaken. The 93 line was said by 2 Railmen in the ctowd one of which marched cadets in 94 and the other marched cymbals for scouts in 95-97. They would listen to the 92 recording to try to get the accent down while on tour with railmen it was pretty funny. Gotta throw this one in -----91 scouts before Funny jim Gameral from railmen yells my last name very loud loud enough i could here it from the field. funny at the time. Nice to know i made the CDs in some way.

one of my fav shows of all time just listened to it last week. the opener is sooo beautiful, however i grit my teeth everytime i here that snare roll towards the end!!!!

i would have matt gregg, kent eversmeyer, barbara mullroney in mid voice lee hanson on tenors with scott pearson lee beddis, mike mcintosh, scot johnson, the guy from x men from the 80s, the dude from 85 bd tujuan hawkins, rich viano on snare owens, metzger the 89 bd guy on soprano, 84 madison cymbals with all of scv cymbals. ramthun bros on bari with clay wacholz wow where to end oh ya bobby hullet and dan verhousen as dm's

wow when I read the BOD e-mail this morning i was shocked to see that Span-yo was named to this extradinary position. I love the choice, love the man, love his energy. WOW!!!!!! I have known Jeff since 90 and will always consider him a friend. i will never forget in 90 that he was almost cut(ya i know its hard to believe) even he will admit that then in 91 when we had 2nd yrs in the snare line he and RJ stepped up to be the leaders. winter of 90 jeff kicked his own butt and changed his image from a timid almost scared player to the agressive player and leader he is now. He turned the image of the line around in 91 with help from others and led them to very succesful yrs in the mid 90's. It is a honor to call Jeff my friend and the executive director of the Madison Scouts

first of all, very taken aback by the OP. Why?? Because the MSARP got me interested in drum corps for the 1st time in 5 yrs. I am still to this day anti-DCI they are all about money, not about any corps except top 8, D II/III are almost non-existent compared to the 80s. (ya I know stuff is expensive now adays but so are drum corps tickets.) Unreal that DCI charges 125.00 for finals tics. but that is another subject. I showed no interest until i moved home from Louisiana in June. If i was in omaha over the winter i would have been a proud member of the MSARP. But i couldnt do it!!! i will never go to another finals week show again and havent since 93 but I went to Madison on Tuesday and had the best 4 days in my drum corps career besides 88 finals week. Why?? Because i saw people I may never see again, saw a show i will never see again and it was a blur at night. If you were a scout (past or present) it was a must go to event. Talk to Dan Verhousen or Brian Collicott and ask them why they did MSARP? Talk to all who did it and you will see that they did it to experience the times they had in the past. There is absolutely nothing wrong with that its called LIFE. i am now on the MS alumni site and wasnt since 92. I'm sure there are others who got there interest aroused and signed up too so that in and of itself will help put money into the corps. That is irrmeasurable!!!

From Wed at 1pm when I arrived at practice as a spectator to my drive home it was one of the best weekends I have ever had related to drum corps. ( prob. 2nd behind 88 finals week) The show on Wed was great singing never walk was awesome on wed., thurs was cool checked out some d lines, got some scouts and alumni corps rehearsal in. friday was awesome cause it was my 1st real drum corps show since 93 finals. singing never walk outside the stadium was awesome. Saturdays party was long and i should have left at midnite. The only negative was that the video played over and over and over we made a joke out of it at the end but if you were a scout then this was a shouldnt miss weekend. thank you to scott stewart and all the staff and members for making this happen.

WOW 81 scouts This was the year that my family went to 5 shows in 4 days. The 2 drum beautys in the cities then whitewater then rockford or madison cant remember all in 1 long weekend. Wow then scouts win whitewater it was awesome and I was 11 yrs old and still remember it like it was yesterday. Then off to montreal and I remember the rehearsals with X men in montreal. Ollie mae Banks walkin through the stands begging for money so the corps could pay for the housing. I was so young I dont remember being disappointed when scouts lost . God what a year that was, we followed scouts all around it was awesome.

went to the omaha show tonite and here is my once a year opinion. Scouts show is extremely difficult drill wise, slightly entertaining, dont care for the music, dig the opening with the bass line starting the show. (colin gets his way). LOVE the uniforms!!! totally cool!! the guard unis are horrific and ruins the show. This could be a factor in the low guard scores??!! just my opinion. When the show gets clean they will be competitive come finals. Bluecoats were awesome!!!! never cared for them since 90 when they beat us for the 1st time and rubbed it in our faces, This show is entertaining, fairly clean for the season so far and the d- line rocks. It was the most entertaing show of the night. Cavies.... never liked them either(rivalry stuff i guess) This show was great , my 1st impression was the guard unis were awful but the whole robot thing was great and the guard was clean and entertaining. so that ruined my 1st impression!! The d-line is stock... always great. paid attention to the d-line only during the encore and without a doubt they are great. A excellent show and should compete for 1st place in mad town. The scoring spreads were accurate in my opinion. Cavies are leaps and bounds better than scouts and scores reflect it

i really would like to get a copy of the "tommy" show it is one of my favorites. I lost my 90 cds 2 years ago. Its been 2 yrs since I heard it. Also missing my copy of disc 1 from 1989 and that has "new world" on it. i'll pay anyone please help

1984 85 are in my opinion the best yrs of drum corps. 84 is the year that started my drum corps career so that will always be special. I remember watching cadets at semis and saying to a friend "why is garfield split up on the field" duh west side story. Then watching it at finals going WOW!!!! f' in cool. Then pr and scv and obviously lafiesta. 85 was my fav cause of scv and Madison and Cadets again SCV's show was awesome. Perfect opener and a perfect closer. Gorgeous show!!!

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Sorry not buying that high of a score. How can anything be that closee to perfection with all those performers. 128 people performing that close to perfection is impossible folks!!!! I can see Olympic gold medalists scoring perfect 10's in events because it is one person, but not 128 people. Something tells me the score was this high to WOW future ESPN broadcasts and such ps just a thought

1992 bettendorf ia. The Scouts staff decides to redo the ending from the middle to the end. We have ashow that afternoon and they spring this change. We fell apart sooooooo bad the center snare was just playing a little diddie for a solo during a co. front. Absolutely embarassing and hilarious at the same time. Next day was my age out home show in stillwater so we got it right for that show.

the 1st one that comes to mind is 85 garfield " may your garden grow" an absolutely tremendous song.

The bathrooms on the Madison buses in the '70's didn't work so the "botttle method" for urine storage occasionally had to be used. In '78 (?'79) the horn bus took some sharp turns in the Colorodo Rockies and a glass orange juice container full of urine (maybe one gallon) came crashing down on one poor guy's head. He was drenched, his head was gashed open and it wasn't even his own bottle! True story, happened one seat in front off me. to add to this story, when i marched Scouts we had different rookies have jobs on the bus. We called them boys ie beverage boy had coolers of pop, garabage boy threw away garbage if you had some and you guessed it..... #### boy bought you the milk carton to #### in!!!! on Scouts busses in the 70's and 80's, the drum bus had a bar in their restroom. so guys would drink all night and just get bombed. also heard a story from the early 80's, 80 81 82 dont know which, they were driving home from a show in northern wis appleton maybe, anyway the corps got drunk at a local tavern and pulled over to pee, dont know if its true but I heard one of the buses wizzed on a electric fence. Again, that one may be myth!!!