ContraRich77

Um.........................I'm going to have to go with the Blue Devils.

Suncoast formed a delta with their horns on the field during retreat. Very classy. Ding Ding!!! Jim wins! Yeah, it was very bittersweet. We had a real tough rivalry with Spirit, but no one wanted to see them in the stands on Saturday. I had a really good friend, John McBrayer, who had marched Suncoast 88 and was with Spirit in 89. He and many others were right behind us at finals Retreat. We just felt that people could not forget the "other" Southern corps on Saturday night. And really, it was not only our horns, but we left our socks under the horns, so that when we left the field, the Delta was left behind... Here are a couple images: The irony is that the rumor at the time was that Spirit was folding. Little did we know... Wow!!! I can't believe I was standing on the retreat field and didnt' see that! VERY classy indeed. I was on the other side of the field, probably still in a mental quagmire thinking about THE SOLO.

????????? Gulke wasnt the 90 Drum major ..... 94 was his first year. ~G~ Blue Devils 1990 Drum Majors were Derek Mullins and Brian Pollard. My dad likes pizza.

I know this is a biased opinion, but I would have to say Blue Devils 1990: "Tommy" by the Who. That was my last year marching in junior corps, and whenever people ask me where/when I marched, usually the only corps/season I get any reaction about is "Wow......you marched the Tommy show??" Loved that show. (sob) We ended up tying for fourth with Phantom Regiment.

Yeah Rich, I remember that year the nice bond we had with the Scouts, like when we did you'll never walk alone with them in that fieldhouse in Seiverville, TN because the weather was so bad. Folks got a real treat that night. I also remember standing out with the other contras at retreat, and hearing, "At least it was Scouts and not Devils." We all seemed cool with it. You mentioned getting spanked, and this is weirdly off topic, but for years I remembered getting our clocks cleaned at the first show we did with Dev's. I remembered clear as a bell it was like, a twelve point difference, we got crushed, right? Well, a couple of weeks ago, I went on CorpsReps and looked up the scores for that year, and lo and behold, it was only THREE points! And after we went our own way, we won every other show that year, until the end of course. It's funny what we carry with us all these years later. For me, mainly just images, just a few real specifics. Anyways, just seemed like the right time to bring it up. See ya bro. Jeff Banyots p.s. Nice to see you switched to the dark side, horn wise I mean! Woof! J Word, Jeff! Yeah, we had quite a bond with the Scouts that year, got to meet many of them. Playing our shows together in Sevierville (as you've already reminisced) and at least one joint run of "You'll Never Walk Alone" in parking lot after a show (forget which one), and last but not least our SHARED free day in New Orleans! Yeah, it was amusing that the chief emotional reaction on SCV member's faces after losing the title by two tenths was........amusement/laughter! We FINALLY reached our almost unattainable goal of beating the Blue Devils, and had actually assumed that by reaching that goal we would unquestionably seal the title! It was funny that we finally beat BD and DIDN'T win. Go figure LOL! BTW: Am LOVIN the wonderful world of contrabass............I only use french horns for spittoons now!!

I marched in DCI Finals in Kansas City in 1988, with the Santa Clara Vanguard. We beat the Blue Devils. We lost to the Madison Scouts. I really don't have any complaints how the season turned out. I thought that Madison was fantastic and they deserved their title, and by the end of the season we'd cleaned up our act enough to give the Blue Devils a run for their money after getting spanked all season long. I stomp them.

Why is it only the 1989 version of Phantom of the Opera anyone ever talks about????? Marcia, Marcia, MARCIA!!!!!!

Thank you for your honest and frank review, Ryan...........and thank you for the nice things that you DID say about our show. Glad to have you as a fan:) SEVEN

UGLY is being in smog so thick you can cut it with a knife, and simultaneously being expected to actually put air thru a Contrabass. (cough, hack) LOL WAY, WAY, WAY out of breath afterwards..................but I had a pretty good show/s nonetheless.

w/Stp: Yeah, what was up with that "forest" growing on the football field?

I STOMP THEM!!!!

Thanks to your dad for the kind words about our show (Renegades) There is a new EVIL ending yet to be implemented.............stay tuned! Audio and Video media of our 2003 show is being constantly updated and displayed on our site at www.renegades.org DRUM CORPS IS EVIL!

That has been one of the chief moteefs that has made their shows so exciting for these last few years. My opinion.

I watched Taipei Yuefu's DCI finals performance last year in Madison, WI. WOW. They performed a high energy, complex show with a sound not befitting a corps of their relatively small size. Their prescence was LOUD. I thouroughly enjoyed their show and I am sick that the SARS tragedy is so vast in it's scope and effect as to be such a liability to this drum corps that they had to make the painful decision not to field this year. Looking forward to Taipei Yuefu's return.

Are/were in it? Lot of us are/were.............but now we need to concentrate on the Renegades full corps field show, so that's why CorpsImpact™ is looking for some players to cover a couple of summer gigs. If you're interested, drop an email to: corpsimpact@netscape.com

Only 4 baritone spots remain open for this year. May camp is coming up quick! Don't have a place to march this summer? We have a spot for you. Visit http://www.troopersdrumcorps.org for 2003 Membership information or email recruiting@troopersdrumcorps.org. Um.............you DO indeed have 1 mellophone spot??

Then you said: So which is it? Either it makes you a better musician, or it doesn't, and if it's not teaching you to be a better musician, I would argue that it's not meeting its purpose. My only focus is hardly marching--as a music major, I spend the vast majority of the year in pursuits other than marching. But marching is and should be treated as a musical pursuit as legitimate as concert playing; students shouldn't be taught that it's not as legitimate to be musical when marching as it is inside. If you can play well moving, you can play well sitting down, and you can't be considered a good musician, musical or not, if you can't play your instrument well. "I stomped them."

Hmmmm........back when I was playing my primary instrument (trumpet) more, I would fool around with a Schilke mouthpiece from time to time. Would love to score a JET TONE and try out for our upper lead sop section one of these seasons:) I remember a 3rd soprano when I was in SCV in 1988 who used to sneak a Jet Tone into his horn during practice, Chris Nalls would usually pick up on some sort of inconsistency in the lower soprano sound, would break it down individually, and kept catching this kid playing on his Jet Tone when he was forbidden to do so. Regardless of how many pushups this kid got, eventually he would keep sneaking the Jet Tone back into his horn. Finally, we were in Oceanside, CA in an upper brass sectional, Chris Nalls noticed that AGAIN this kid slipped his Jet Tone back in! Well, we were practicing right near some sort of sheep/goat pen in a field..........Chris took the mouthpiece out of his soprano and CHUCKED it far into the pen, where it landed THUNK in the mud! LOL love that story........

"I stomp them".

???? Are non guard people actually allowed to/retained to judge guard? This blows me away! Let me ask this: would it be a good idea for a guard instructor to be a DCI Percussion Judge? (scratches head)

Right on..............I think this is a cool idea. I would like to say however, that I LOVE modern color guard, and in my opinion over the last 15-20 years or so Color Guard in drum corps has gone thru MUCH more metamorphosis and evolution than has brass, or percussion.................which is to say that the incorporation of dance, props and all the other wonderful things that have come to be a part of drum corps color guard over the years, is DEFINITELY more of a stretch over the eras than adding a different drum head, or adding a valve to a horn. I don't think modern guard should change, but I do appreciate the vast differences between some of the modern stuff, and the old school equipment work. I would liken this almost to the DCA Alumni show at DCA Finals, where alumni corps do the shows old style, off the line, etc.....it's like walking thru a timewarp. To perpetuate old school colorguard thru a new competitive circuit I think is a great idea, let's see if it catches on!

LOL...I didnt mean to "get" you at all !! Maybe it sounds harsher than it is meant to be but I actually wanted to know......no biggie, as you and I have discussed this privately !! And sorry, if It sounded rude. 88 Suncoast, after watching it again after a long time, wow !! what great ensemble flag work, and the rifle line ?? Again, the birth of todays colorguards, only to be taken out of its infancy stage in 1989 by the same guard (along with Cadets) There was alot of "dancing" and "role palying" in the 88 show, more than I remembered...I cringed a little when reviewing it for this thread but then I realized that ...it was done right, ...and it fit the show...I guess that is the bottom line. When I think of Suncoast Sound, the first thing that comes to my mind is their awesome Brass line. Awesome arrangements, and excellent total sound. I think Robert Smith broke ground in arranging in regards to Suncoast Sound...and (to get back on topic) If only the guards of 1984-1986 were up to par with the rest of the corps, they coulda been unstoppable....... ~G~ I can't let this post pass without comment........The 1988 Suncoast Sound is one of my favorite drum corps shows of all time........and it was an all original composition. The Suncoast Sound is the first DCI Finalist corps that I know of that marched shows of all original composition in more than one season. VERY powerful and ground breaking show, I feel they could have placed higher than they did. Interesting and POWERful horn parts, JAMMIN drum section and VERY, VERY integrated colorguard. They captured the essence of that show QUITE well.

Talking about "nasty"......how about that show Cadets did in the '80's where the guys were dressed in over-alls and the girls in dresses....they put blankets down on the field and proceeded to have a picnic until the guy wanted to do "something else".......needless to say, after a few early shows that year with everone complaining, it was cut and made into to a more "G rated" event! LOL I didn't know that................the only show I saw of Cadets that year was the DCI finals video

How did Dolly Parton get into this thread??? Oh Mike.....<groan> :P bada bing bada (yawn) boom) :P :P

Actually, this is an interesting concept.....Imagine a 66 member colorguard, with like a 40-25 split on brass and percussion, whose parts highlight and accent the color guard work? Weird, not suggesting it be done in DCI.......but maybe another winter guard division of some sort??