Oldbuc

It was so hot at Nazareth that some drum lines actually stopped drumming for short periods during the practice day!

Great show last night in Nazareth. They even had sauerkraut for the hot dogs! Oh and Fran, it can be officially noted that SUN IS BACK!

Cadets2 had the largest horn line on the field Saturday night. Unless MBI has over 60 horns, then they are the largest. The question is.........does size matter?

In 1966 I was sent to Ft Holabird, Army Intelligence School (I know, an oxymoron) in the Dundalk area of Balmere. (proper pronunciation) My 1st night there, a Friday night, I was getting settled in & I was sure I heard a drum corps playing. I walked outside & just on the other side of the fence was the GM parking lot & YR practicing drill on the asphalt. Between Reb's practice & working with St Pat's Jr corps I had alot of drum corps & steamed crabs in few months in Baltimore!

Here's an idea! The Baltimore area should start a drum corps & call them the Yankee-Reb............never mind!

The reason for my original post was, like others, I want to see entertaining shows at Wildwood. What I don't want to see is corps playing & marching for half the show & then playing the rest of the book from a semi-circle. If June 18th is too early for a completed show, then I agree that the calendar might need to be adjusted.

Why doesn't DCA have the ability to invite corps that are ready to compete? Bucs are ready, Cabs are ready. Maybe Sky or Cadets2 are ready. Just a thought! Best of luck to "Frank" and his never ending conflict with the Jersey Shore sound system this year. Hello to my friend Fred W. & a thank you to John for his incite and "inside baseball" knowledge. Hopefully we will meet in the future John. I'm just 7 miles north of C'ville & I see you're in the T'dale area.

I've heard that the Wildwood show could possibly be an exhibition only due to some corps not having their show's ready. Is there any facts available to verify this? What corps don't have completed shows? Why can't a corps have a show completed by the middle of June? For the younger members of DCP, back in the day our first show was Memorial Day weekend & it was very rare to find a corps, Jr or Sr, that wasn't ready to blow the stands down by the end of May. Wildwood is one of my favorite shows and I've been attending for many years, but I'm not driving over two hours each way to watch an exhibition!

Anyone else going to coal cracker country tomorrow for the Scranton show? Looks like a good line up & rumor is that exhibition is by the Mahanoy City Perogiemen! See you there Fran!

Hawthorne really sold their show on Saturday night. Reading's horn line just seemed kind of flat. I don't know, maybe they left it on the practice field. I was great to see Sunrisers back with a full complement of horns. Fran did his normal exemplary job, even while dealing with another NJ sound system!

And this all transpired 6 or 7 years before DCI was even thought of!

Tom, Thanks for that information. Very logical, considering the personalities involved at the time. I was not familiar with any of it. I was in the service from '66 to '69 & pretty much removed from the activity. The wealth of information on this site just boggles the mind!

In '65 there were DCA & non-DCA shows. I played with Reilly in '65 & we never competed with DCA corps. It was Cabs, Reilly, Rochester, Brewers, Sunrisers & a few others at the shows. At 18 years of age I really didn't care about the politics. I just wanted to play my horn & have a good time. (Oh, and I did!)

I'm sure we did stand on the field together back in the day at many shows. I also stood next to Bonnie Ott at retreat in Hershey Stadium in '74 or '75. It was a Jr/Sr show back then. I was on the end of my rank & Bonny stood between Reading & BD to play here solo in "Chase the Clouds Away". That girl could play with power & confidence! On another note; In 1964 was DCA yet formed? I know there was a "split" in '65 but I'm a little foggy on '64.

I ott to know the last name of this "Bonnie lass" but my memory isn't what it was!