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tommytimp

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  1. Both, I think. Blue Devils and Bluecoats both played 'That Old Black Magic' in 1988. BD's version may be the best horn book ever, played by the best hornline ever. Coats' version is good, but not all-time good like BD's.
  2. It's not even remotely asymmetrical. There's exactly one sorta-kinda quasi-asymmetric look in the show, out of the drum solo, in the slow section. Holy schnikes, I love that drill so much. Horn trees!
  3. In 1983 both the Knights and Crossmen played the Overture to "Russlan and Ludmilla." Neither corps made finals. Or wore capes at Semis.
  4. IN FORMER SOVIET UNION, STREET BEATS YOU!!! /kills Yakov Smirnoff, runs away laughing hysterically
  5. It was Knights' unofficial policy to let staff deal with extreme punishment issues, and let the sections (drumline, or, say, the basses) themselves deal with personal issues. We did have an hoinorary society for veterans, but it was focused on posditivity. We tried to keep the neg to a minimum, which we did, to my knowledge.
  6. I agree. I was in corps for 6 years and never marched a beat of drill, so I know little about the marching art. But I know that you could eat off that performance.
  7. Unless we're talking about the musical Shenandoah. Which is not bad. And has not been done, I don't believe.
  8. Pride of Cincinnati 82: More Troopers, this year (82) spelling 'HI MOM' in the snare line. Madison 82. End of the Company Front in Ice Castles. Who would put a rainbow in their show? That won't get you into finals. Oh...
  9. Sorry, I'm not going to let The Greatest Thread On the Internet languish for a stupid week. Here are some pictures, again: SCV 83 Troopers, same year:
  10. Partner it with "West Side Story" and there's a truly innovative night of drum corps.
  11. Golly. Thanks for the statute of limitations on the word "never."
  12. Been done. At least twice. And that movie was an abomination.
  13. Been done. Our whole 87 show was Brain Salad Surgery.
  14. Plus, magenta was pretty on trend for the 80s, as were Alliance's color combos. (As was the purple cadet style we adopted in the middle of the decade.) So calling that stuff out seems a little dumb...kind of like "I Love the 80s" is anyway. So there you go. Vanguard 87's show was state of the art, and the drumline was WAY ahead of the game.
  15. "Entrance and March of the Peers" from Gilbert and Sullivan's Iolanthe. (Also known as "Loudly Let the Trumpet Bray.") It amazes me that no corps has ever tried this piece in the modern era. It is brass and percussion personified.
  16. I know this type of jazz kicker isn't really in vogue anymore, but Rob McConnell's "Start With Mrs. Beanhart" is awesome. Especially if played faster than Boss Brass played it. "Ever After" from Sondheim's "Into the Woods."
  17. Late 80s/early 90s. Corps began unifying in the early 80s but didn't start acknowledging it wholesale until about 1988 or so, thnks in large part to Dr. Rosalie Sward's 'What to Listen For' columns in DCW. (Star 88's "Porgy and Brass," etc.) Then comes 1991, with City of Angels, Phantom Voices, The ABCs of Modern American Music, The Cavalier Anthems:An Advent Collection, Miss Saigon, Camelot, and many others. So, like all artistic changes, it happened over time and is hard to pin down but easy to generalize in a time period.
  18. Good, worthy poll... But it's Dutch Boy, not Dutchboy. And how about Kiwanis Kavaliers? Didn't they almost make finals in the 90s?
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