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    Holes?

    in DCI World Class Corps Discussions

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    There was a hole in 2000 BK's horniline for the same reason that there SHOULD HAVE BEEN a hole in Blue Devils bass line in 2000.....

    but thats just what I hear. I wasn't there.

    2000 BK marched a lead sop hole at finals. He was sent home after the semifinals performance.

    DCI Cinecast

    in DCI World Class Corps Discussions

    Posted · Edited by BbTrpt1

    I was at the theater in West Palm Beach and I was very impressed with the quality of the picture and sound. They did a great job, definitely worth the $15. The theatre was crowded, but not full.

    Some quick thoughts:

    1) The Glassmen "New World" arrangement is very cool.

    2) The first half of SCV's show I thought was done very well. Then came RCM..... uh, didn't someone on staff think to check out the '87 video? Where was the excitement?

    3) Blue Knights play very clean and have a nice sound. Could have used more upper end from the horns. It all seemed to be mf - ish.

    4) The woodwind parts in Candide are in the pit?!?!? - BOO Boston! (Garfield played 'em... heh)

    5) By far the most enjoyable Crown show I have ever seen. When did they learn to play their horns like that?????

    6) Favorite shows of the night (like many who have posted) were Bluecoats, Madison, and Phantom.

    7) Blue Devils - huh? What the heck was that? Yowza indeed.......

    8) Cadets have an interesting show, but when they finished there wasn't much applause. Every one kinda looked around a bit confused. Including the "dreamgirls" who were interviewed, lol.

    9) '94 2-7 still rocks!!!

    The DCI Yearlys: 1987

    in Historical Junior Corps Discussions

    Posted · Edited by BbTrpt1

    Right on the spot with Wave... they were really fun that year.

    1987 was a great drum corps summer. It was my third year with Florida Wave and we knew we had a realistic shot at making Finals.

    I remember beating Dutch Boy for the first time that season at Finals at DCI Canada in Hamilton, ONT. They then proceeded to play "O, Canada" off the field and we got booed all the way out of retreat..... ^0^

    I remember the first time we beat the Troopers somewhere in the Midwest. We were all psyched because it was the first time we beat a Finalist Corps. I still give Jason Buckingham (who was marching bari in Troopers in '87 and is now their Caption Head) crap about this all the time..... ^0^

    Beacuse of the scheduling that summer, we didn't go head to head with SkyRyders until about 10 days before finals and only saw them twice before semis. The first time we saw them we were on like 2 hours before them and they crushed us by 9 points. We saw them again a few nights later the show before DCI and closed the spread to 2.5 points. We took 2nd place at quarters behind Bluecoats (finalist corps from '86 didn't have to do quarterfinals) and were ready to smoke semifinals. We had a great show but ended up in 13th, .6 behind SkyRyders. They actually only beat us by .5, but Dean Musson (who later became corps director of Crossmen) got us a .1 penalty for some stupid boundry violation with the backfield podium. In an ironic twist, the guard members who played Tony and Maria for SkyRyders that year were both from South Florida and had both marched previously with Florida Wave in 1984 and 1985.

    Long story short, Florida Wave never recovered from missing Finals in 87 and folded 4 years later. If we only could have seen SkyRyders 1 or 2 more times before DCI and caught them, who knows what would have happened. Might have changed the history of drum corps in South Florida.

    Oh well, at least I got to say "Horn Line, Ready Switch" at retreats the next two summers. Heh, good times.....

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