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year1buick

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  1. Hopefully they can right the ship and come pack as planned in 2024. I’d be heartbroken if not.
  2. So, the elephant in the room— who else is in similar shape? I can’t imagine SCV is the only one.
  3. Hopefully it’s just a hiatus and not a folding. As to your first question, I loved touring along side them in ‘91 when I was a rookie in Sky Ryders. That was a seriously cool show.
  4. I’ve mentioned it on here before (and my screen name alludes to it) but the “Buick” nickname for Phantom Regiment’s bari/euph section started in 94, NOT 89. It wss during a mid week pre-show warmup, when (then) caption head Bill Peterson was working with the line. He had us playing a three note sequence from the beginning of White Witch Doctor and, apparently, we were being a little too dainty with it. So he explained that if you imagined all of the brass sections having a different car personality— say the sopranos being Porches— then we had to be Buicks. The next show, he called us Buicks again and we eventually started calling those three notes the Buick mating call. Somehow, over the years, the real story was forgotten and morphed into the 89 line supposedly sounding like Buicks, but that was never the case. (For example, not once in all of 92, or 94 up to that point, did anyone ever refer to the section by that name.)
  5. Red McCombs REALLY wanted to get the Raiders in San Antonio. It’s a bigger market than Vegas (more than twice the population) but there’s no way Jerry would allow anyone to cannibalize his fan base. (Which is big in San Antonio as well.)
  6. From what I remember, I think we practiced in the stadium. I miss Denton too! Feels like a lifetime ago… I actually had two rounds there- once as an R/TV/F major and later for pre-dental. But never for music! (I was one of the few non music major Buicks when I marched. Heck, I wasn’t even in the marching band.)
  7. Later on, I spent quite a bit of time there rehearsing with Sky Ryders. (Frank Troyka was our tour manager.) Regiment also housed there and held a clinic in 92. It also just dawned on me that I took several biology classes at UNT back in 2004-2006ish with someone who must’ve been one of your section mates at SCV back in the day. (Drum corps is a small world...)
  8. My first drum corps show to attend was at Lake Highlands in Dallas in 90. Star was a near religious experience for me that night.
  9. I noticed that Regiment has made an interesting update to their FB banner: I wonder if that background choice is offering us some kind of hint?
  10. The Byron nuclear power plant cooling towers saved my ### back in 94. Regiment was rehearsing in Byron and, one night, I borrowed a friend’s car to take a girl into Rockford to see a movie. (The Crow. Ugh.) I thought I had a handle on how to find my way back but … I didn’t. In short order, I became utterly, hopelessly lost. After midnight, with no phone, in the middle of nowhere. I began to panic, thinking I’d have to sleep in the car on the side of the road, knock on someone’s door to use a phone, and show up God only knows how late to rehearsal the next morning. Panic. But then, in the darkest moment of my despair, I found a glimmer of hope. Literally: the faint light of those Byron cooling towers. I pointed the car towards the twin glow of those beautiful, atomic powered lighthouses, floating across an endless sea of corn. (At least, that’s what it felt like.) The going was still rough. Those country highways tend to meander, and I was led astray more than once along a false path. But, I had faith. (Or, at least, hope.) It took a few u-turns here and there, but I eventually found my way “home.”
  11. When I tried out for Sky Ryders in 91, I had only played trombone up until that point. I had to ask someone to write the fingerings on a few lines of music so I could figure out the pattern. Then I just had to act and sound like I knew what I was doing. Even At Regiment, I was still thrown off sometimes when they’d start talking about scales or whatever. (It was like speaking in non native language- I still thought in terms of bass clef in my head.) I was one of the few people in my section that wasn’t a music major. Ironically, I was going to North Texas for my undergrad. (Though I did take a euphonium class in the Fall of 93 so I could have an instrument to practice on for my 94 audition to go back to Regiment.)
  12. Mine also worked well but I thought it was weird that the app for my smart tv still required streaming from my phone. I had to reboot the phone app a couple of times before it started playing the audio through my surround sound system. The apps that run natively through the TV (Netflix, HBO, etc.) never have an issue. Plus, I don’t like having to depend on a fully charged, separate device to be able to watch. It’s just a little more cumbersome than it needs to be.
  13. I’m so proud of Phantom Regiment and the monumental improvement they’ve made since 2019! Keep up the momentum! And congratulations to the Blue Devils and every other corps out there tonight. You were all incredible!
  14. Each time one of these last corps comes out, I’m like, holy **** this is champion level. Each time. Particularly with Boston. Then Blue Devils show up. Wow. I’d just have to pull one of the last four names out of a hat.
  15. When I was in dental school, I had a dream once that my cat was sitting on a chair in the corner of my operatory, critiquing me. I was like, shut up, you don’t even know what you’re talking about. Then woke up and was like, what the **** was that?
  16. I’ve been hoping for a push to the front at the end of the ballad (wedge maybe?), similar to how they did with Fire of Eternal glory back in 93.
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