MadScout80

Back in '97 I jokingly asked if Madison's drunken pirate section section might be considered by some to promote drinking... and started off a 20 page debate on RAMD. Glad to see things haven't changed all that much.

Well, this thread got me to subscribe to the Fan Network! I just remember this one part of the show, where I was waiting with baited breath to hear what would happen next after college... and not once but twice the music got softer and I thought we would get to hear the rest of the story... but to my dismay the music got louder and they kept me waiting for several more seconds. So I would change that part.

I have a Madison Scouts historical 3-VHS set that has their 1981 prelim performance from McGill - high angle, Madison only. They (Scouts) may still be selling this, I got mine in '06. Wish it was on DVD though. Just checked website and don't see this. It is a cool set, goes back to the 40s and 50s even with video.

See, this is what I'm looking for! Now if we can just find the wrinkled bar napkin with the scrawled words "Channel One - Buddy's idea!" ...

Did the Blue Devils choice of jazz as their primary style have anything to do with the Concord Jazz Festival or the Concord record label? I've always wondered that but never asked.

That awesome jazz/rock piece with the wailing sops. This has always been one of my all time favorite drum corps tunes!! I always thought it was called Black Orchid and indeed that's what both corpsreps.com and the "History of Drum & Bugle Corps" calls it. corpreps says it was Stan Kenton. Anyway, I've been looking for the original tune for 30 years (literally) and never been able to find it. I think it is a tune called "Out of the Night", on an Album "Basie & Beyond" (Quincy Jones/Sammy Nestico) http://www.amazon.com/Basie-Beyond-Quincy-...s/dp/B00004YNDT . This album was recorded in 2000, it isn't the original obviously. I don't think the song was called Black Orchid. Was there a change of repertoire by the corps and the media never got the memo? Was it an original SCV composition that Sammy Nestico later renamed and re-arranged?! :) BTW, this Basie & Beyond album also has "Ya Gotta Try.... Harder!" of BD fame.

Miles Davis was from East St. Louis. In his biography he talks about his dad knowing the guys who built the bridges over the Mississippi between E. STL and STL, and knowing they were cheap and probably used bad materials and was convinced those bridges would collapse and thus would avoid them. To the day he died he was surprised that the bridges had not collapsed yet. Now what is spooky is I had just finished reading these words when my wife called me and said the bridge had just collapsed. I used to drive that route to work and Minnesota Brass practice. But don't use it so much these days. -Cam

I agree scores are earned, and I'll agree that there are criteria that attempt to standardize things. But the criteria are ultimately subjective. Box 5 in 1997 was different than Box 5 in 2007.

I remember RAMD around 91-92. There were probably less than 50 active posters and only a few posts a day. Remember most of the group (about 25) met in Madison in '92. Remember we had T-shirts made so we'd recognise each other? Cathy Doser, Vince Lamb, Christina Mavroudis are about the only names I remember. I don't even remember what my name was.

I suspect that if the season lasted till mid-September, the top 7 corps at DCI would not be maxed out at 100 with the remaining top 12 in the mid-90s. Yet that is what should happen if they continue improving their shows. So clearly it is not an objective scale. The whole notion that there is anything remotely objective about scores is laughable.

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Just for the sake of argument, suppose the MSARP didn't help the current Scouts one iota, SO WHAT?! It helped 200+ men. Why is that so easily brushed aside? Because we're forty-five instead of twenty we are less worthy or in need of a life enriching experience? To dismiss it as simply "reliving our youth" is downright insulting. The whole thing was about so much more than drum corps. It was about life. I learned valuable life lessons in the 70s and 80s in drum corps. And I learned lots the summer of 2006 as well. I am a better person for having been a part of it. It was a beautiful thing.

So true. t\These younguns take it so for granted. And I have had continuous feed since BD ended. I really feel like I'm there. I applaud DCI.

if i had gone to mankato....

theoretically i could be in mankato minnesota tonight watching that show and viewing this one simultaneously on my iPhone

actually it better than being there because my wife brought me a martini during cavaliers and i won 80 online poker before BD came on :)

I have had no stream problems at all. I feel like I am there.

the wings are circa 1980

Do you write The Cadets narration?

did a train go by during Glassmen?

how is madison doing this year?

Best Metheny show was the day after Finals 2005, at the Newport Jazz Festival! Pat Metheny at Newport Jazz fest In the photo I took is Gary Burton, Chick Corea, Roy Haynes, Christian McBride and Metheny. They were all on stage together jammin for Hayne's 80th birthday. Haynes has drummed for every famous jazzman alive - including Louis Armstrong!

its a popular song at pro sporting events as well

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Definitely. The years where I go to DCI and see Thurs-Sat. corresponds to the years that I bought the DVDs. I just can't get excited about a show if my only exposure to it is thru a video. Maybe if I was a new fan it would be different but after you've been watching drum corps for 30 years and "seen it all before", it is as much about reliving the emotions I had live as it is the actual material being performed.