bradrick

Ironically there's another thread about Top 12 Corps not having any female directors... http://www.drumcorpsplanet.org/forums//ind...topic=69809&hl= This is from SCV's 2005 Instructional Staff Webpage "Tour Director: Allan Dekko Assistant Tour Directors: Mackenzie Arnold, Kelly Bennett, Carl Ruocco, Michael Yoho" I met Allan Dekko and Kelly Bennet when I had the priviledge of briefly traveling with the corps this summer on support staff. Allan has just about the best sense of humor of anybody I have ever met. I know he really helps diffuse allot of the inherent stress of running the tour. Had me practically rolling on the floor laughing. And Kelly has a heart of gold. She works very hard and sometimes has to take on all the responsibility of the tour if Allan has to leave for a day or two. Kelly definitely goes to bed at night completely exhausted.

OK, Thanks for reminding me how much I miss Suncoast Sound. :P (My accountant doesn't thank you though... How much is the Legacy DVD Collection? I guess I really need to purchase the whole thing and get over it!)

What about Geneseo Knights from 1985? The Jesus Christ Superstar show! I love to listen to that one. Has to be one of the best hornlines to ever be in a 19th place corps. May not be squeaky clean but there was nothing timid about them. Gutsy hornline.

hmmmm... I would think The Troopers would also be considered a western corps. And a pretty well respsected western corps at that.

Yeah. I don't honestly know how they expected the "uninitiated" (that the broadcast was supposedly custom crafted for) to know that huge chunks of the show were missing. I don't remember hearing any acknowledgement of that all night. BTW, my above post was meant as sarcasm (I hope I didn't create the impression that I disagree with you B) ). I personally thought your post hit one of the many nails precisely on the head. And BTW also: Thanks for the nod to 87 Sky Ryders. That ending was an awesome way to end my first drum corps show. I feel very lucky to have been a part of it.

WHAT? You mean some of the edited shows were "anti-climactic"? Pretty interesting, since it has been repeatedly stated on the forums that the justification for chopping up the shows into "snippets"was because PBS and ESPN told DCI that the full shows were too boring.... hmmmm.....

You know drum corps is really in your blood when... You spend $170 on a DVD burner just so you can transfer your personal drum corps videos (like the ones your dad shot on his handheld video camera) to DVD. With no plans to use it for anything else. Anybody else in this same boat, with "vintage" one-of-a-kind videos that are still on VHS? I bet there's a TON of this stuff out there from the eighties and 90s.

The main point that seems to be coming home over and over again is "The DCI broadcast is not designed for us. It's designed as a recruitment video for the uninitiated". Take a look at what one band director has to say about last night's "recruitment video". : DING DING DING!!! What HE said! B) I got hooked on Drum Corps because in the fall of 1986 my HS band director put in the DCI broadcast of the 1986 Cavaliers and said, "Check out this cool drill". And then I stood in the band hall in awe and watched the 86 Cavaliers' entire show from start to finish. I had barely even heard of Drum Corps - but without any background or sappy heartstring stories or being told one single thing about the show, I WAS HOOKED. The field show spoke for itself. When that one show was over, he hit stop on the VCR. I looked at him and said, "I wanna do that!". I don't think I really even knew where the nearest drum corps was. I didn't even see my first show live till I had already performed in my first drum corps. And the first show I saw live was ... The 1987 Cavaliers. And I raced up into the stands to see them with the memory of the amazing drill from the 11 and a half minute video in my head. And the memory of what a cool piece of art the entire package had been. Anybody think much of that is going to happen after the "uninitiated" see this year's broadcast? Anybody think the "uninitiated" will know or understand the difference it makes that such huge chunks of these shows are missing from the broadcast? (P.S. I speak only from my own experience. I doubt I would have been interested in becoming a member of a corps if the shows had been presented the way they were last night. And if today's potential members and fans are more in need of making the activity appear like a multimedia TV event... I dunno...because it isn't designed for that. It's almost false advertising to present drum corps in a way that doesn't represent what it really is... IMO. )

Ahem... Like ANY respectable cult, there are certain things we just don't speak of...

Man! 1987 SCV and Garfield. Those were two absolutely amazing and absolutely different shows. How would a GE Visual judge be able to pick from those two? Apples and oranges. And both of them were amazing. Both of them had the crowd.

I've seen the Broadway production of "Phantom of the Opera" twice in the last 15 years. Both times, the Phantom dissapeared at the end of the musical by sitting in his chair and covering himself with his cloak. When the company/lynch mob comes in during the last chords, they uncover his cloak (which looks like he's still underneath) to find his mask on the chair - and him gone. I think one of the girls actually lifts the mask up (just like Juliet did) and a very tight follow-spot on the mask is the last thing you see on stage before the final curtain. That's what I remember about the end of Andrew Lloyd Webbers "Phantom of the Opera" on stage. I haven't seen the movie (I just can't listen to the guy singing the Phantom role). So I don't know how the movie ends. B)

I'm off topic, but I thought Cook no longer owned the bus company. Anyone know?

I don't really mind people speculating on who the next SCV Director might be. I suppose that's a fair issue for discussion. HOWEVER, if this thread becomes another place for malicious people to start taking pot shots at a truly GREAT guy who has given his love and time to DCI for over 20 years, I hope DCP closes it - just like they closed the previous threads that went that route.

Actually, I think the historian(s) should be first in line for any pics... Dontcha think? B)

As of now, there are over 30 members of the newly formed "2005 Santa Clara Vanguard Appreciation Society". Feel free to join us! The more the merrier! B) Click here for details: http://www.drumcorpsplanet.org/forums//ind...showtopic=69478

OK. I think this makes me a Historian of the Texas leg of SCV's 2005 tour. Any other "historians" with pics of the tour PLEASE feel free to climb on board. Enjoy! B) Click here for Bradrick's 2005 SCV Rehearsal Slideshow

1982-1984 Suncoast Sound Drill Design/M&M Caption Head

This description is based on my own personal experience as a drum corps member. It may not match yours exactly... but it usually does pretty good. The things that I always fall back on when pressed to explain what corps is compared to a marching band are: -The fact that for the competitive season, you do basically nothing else for 3 months. You spend nearly all of your time asleep and awake with the corps. You sleep on busses or on a gym floor. When the summer is over you have no idea what songs were popular or what has been in the news. It's as if you live in a vacuum for 3 months. And when it's over, the fortunate ones are sad to have it end. - For three months, you spend your waking moments putting every ounce of your concentration striving for a seemingly unattainable goal of perfection - because the performance demand is so high. You perform a show many times ON THE ROAD in front of rabid fans. And being scored by judges along the way until the culmination of the competitive season at the DCI World Championships. -The level of intensity and demand during that time for me personally was exponentially higher than any band experience I had before or since. I was never as exhausted and motivated simultaneously as when I was a corps member. The rehearsal hours, overall time and financial commitment for me personally were exponentially higher than any band experience I had before or since. -This is an activity that people pay money to participate in, fly from all over the world to be in the corps of their choosing (if they make the audition cut). Even change or quit schools to be a part of. Move from one state to another... All because they want to be a part of a corps that has touched them somehow - and they can't stand to be doing ANYTHING else but marching. Everyone's life experience is different. All bands are unique to themselves. I always loved the bands I was in and always enjoyed my marching band experiences. But I can't say ANY of the above things about any band I've ever been a part of.

HA HAAA!!! LOL!! :P And a Marine D&B contro too!

Here's Gordon's complete bio from the DCI article I bolded where it mentions visual stuff. I didn't know he was a visual designer. And I had totally forgotten he'd been visual coordinator for SCV in 87 and 88. Kinda kewl!: Gordon Henderson is the associate director of bands and department of music vice chair at UCLA. Henderson directs the 250-member Bruin Marching Band, and the varsity band. Under Henderson's direction, the Bruin Marching Band has appeared at five Rose Bowls, two Cotton Bowls, two Sun Bowls, the Las Vegas Bowl, the Aloha Bowl, the Freedom Bowl, the Silicon Valley Bowl and the Fiesta Bowl. In 1993, the UCLA Bruin Marching Band received the prestigious Sudler Trophy, presented each year by the John Philip Sousa Foundation, to recognize excellence and innovation. From 1989 to 1995, Henderson directed UCLA’s jazz ensemble I, performing with numerous guest artists, including Roy Hargrove, Bob Mintzer, Kenny Burrell, Conte Candoli, Matt Catingub, Bill Watrous, Steve Houghton, Snooky Young, Gerald Wilson and Paquito D'Rivera. Under his direction, both the jazz ensemble I and the jazz combo won their respective divisions at the 1995 Reno International Jazz Festival. Henderson has served as head horn instructor or brass arranger for three Drum Corps International Champions: The Santa Clara Vanguard in 1989 and 1999, and the 1992 Cavaliers. He also served as visual coordinator for the Santa Clara Vanguard in 1987 and 1988. In 2003 and 2004, he was a member of the brass staff for the Cadets, and since 1990, he has been the Arranger for the Tenrikyo Aimachi Marching Band in Nagoya, Japan, the four-time All-Japan National Champions. Henderson was an assistant director and drill designer for the 736-member Olympic All-American College Marching Band that performed at the Opening Ceremonies of the 1984 Los Angeles Summer Olympics. He has composed and/or arranged band music for several major motion pictures, including “In the Line of Fire,” “Little Nikita,” “Fatal Instinct,” “Legends of the Fall,” “Don't Say A Word,” “First Daughter” and “Road Trip.” Henderson is active as an arranger, guest conductor, adjudicator, drill designer and clinician throughout the U.S., Canada, Japan, Taiwan and Thailand.

Well one of the kewl things about DCP is that there are probably 10 different active threads where you can list them all! :P

My answer to all of your questions is - nope not new IMO. But it seems to be drawing allot of attention (See post #81 for my humble opinion on why some people may be working this show over.) And Tommy... YES you told me to watch 2003 - but you didn't say I had to purchase the DVD. (I was gonna borrow them from somebody.) And I promise to watch the shows in the order you specified in your e-mail... It's all good! B)

Wow! I'm lovin' that take on it! :P Now, I guess I definitely have to order the DVDS...

DONE!

Actually in Houston this year, we cooked "short ribs" for the corps. We all thought they were kinda burnt, but the members just couldn't thank us enough, regardless. I also helped make this massive amount of macaroni salad. It took all afternon to boil the huge amount of macaroni for that much salad. But HEY! I was giving back to a corps that gave ME so much, so it was kinda neat to get to be involved on the other side. Since this thread is about corps food, I really have to give a shout out to anybody who served on a corps support staff this summer. And I'd like to personally thank the ones who helped out on Miss Amana (SCV's food truck). They are some of the hardest working people I've ever met. (Linda - You are amazing! ) And you can tell just how much each of them truly loves the corps and its members. If you've never been on a food truck in Texas in the middle of the summer with the oven's and warmers running, well... let's just say in Houston in July, it was cooler outside the truck in the middle of the day. My all time favorite drum corps meal: SCV's world famous Chicken Broccoli! I had the extreme priviledge of getting to help prepare Chicken Broccoli in San Antonio. (It was actually the one thing I just had to help cook before I left. ) I lost count of how many 1 gallon cans of cream of Chicken soup I had to open that day! The corps loved it as much as I remember. sigh... B)