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Scooter Pirtle

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    Black Knights (Belleville, IL), Star of Indiana, Star Alumni Corps, Star United
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    Prairie Fire
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    Phoenix, AZ

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  1. Scooter Pirtle
    Coach Knight brought his players to watch rehearse at Memorial Stadium. They were updating the turf and we were running reps in the parking lot. Coach Knight visited the Star Base one evening and watched us rehearse. He spoke to us and was gracious. My recollection of the evening was the hornline in an arc and the neighborhood dog wandering out and loitering in front of us. Shortly afterwards another neighborhood dog arrives and, to our horror, attempts a conjugal visit as we played our chorale in front of a bemused Bobby Knight. As a native Kentuckian, I was expecting Coach Knight to grab a marimba and hurl it across the field!
  2. Scooter Pirtle
    Absolutely! And ditto! Also, there are more than a few Star alums who joined the ranks of Cook Group and had (many still have) successful lifelong careers. It’s almost hard to believe, but the lore is Star of Indiana was born in the stands of Grant Field at Georgia Tech during ‘84 championships week. So, between mid-August and audition camps (just over three months later), Cook got the properties, the staff, the equipment, and an infrastructure in place to start rehearsals.
  3. Scooter Pirtle
    Are you sure? Star was more like a “Who’s Who” of the drum corps world.
  4. Scooter Pirtle
    http://www.middlehornleader.com/Drumcorpsdecline.jpg Brian Tolzmann collected info on the number of corps. I created an infographic. There was a slight bump in the number of corps in the early 1990s.
  5. Scooter Pirtle
    Tiffany Johns acquired the Meehaphone that was in Ken Norman’s collection and created a great video with some playing samples:
  6. Scooter Pirtle
    Boston Crusaders strikes deal with B.A.C. Of Kansas City and will use their 825 line of instruments for 2023 season: https://bostoncrusaders.org/2022/12/825-brass/ Kind of shocking.
  7. Scooter Pirtle
    So sad for SCV. So where are all these players going? How will this affect auditions at the other corps?
  8. Scooter Pirtle
    Put Augst and Shaw in the same corps together and you have some good reality tv potential. Unless the Vice network produces it. Maybe Andy Cohen could spin off the Real Housewives franchise. The Real Angry Staff of DCI?
  9. Scooter Pirtle
    A Cavalier friend who marched ‘80/‘81 mentioned a brass player got hit in the head with a rifle during a show and was blinded. He stuck his elbows out (two step interval) and touched elbows with the guys on either side and finished out the show. The marched off the field and he collapsed. His vision came back shortly thereafter. Baller! Madison Scouts claimed to have a judges tape (1970s) of a judge dying of a heart attack while adjudicating their show. Not sure if true. Wasn’t a Chicago corps (Des Plaines Vanguard) rehearsing in a hangar at O’Hare that was struck by a crashing plane in ‘68?
  10. ironlips

    Hi, Scooter.

     

    Did the Marines get a dispensation for those 3-valve instruments? I know their original orders specified two. Maybe nobody makes those anymore.

    Best,

    Frank

    1. Scooter Pirtle

      Scooter Pirtle

      Not sure of the financial inner workings of the USMC. I know they are making an effort to play more modern lit and three valves will be required.

      BAC out of Kansas City fabricated three valve G baris, sopranos, and contrabasses. Mellos pending. Utilizing Kanstul templates.

      BAC could have easily made two piston bugles.

      BTW, BAC also upgraded the Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps bugles from one piston to two. Pretty wacky setup on these too!

    2. Scooter Pirtle

      Scooter Pirtle


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    3. ironlips

      ironlips

      I have a couple of the "old" Old Guard bugles, built by Lawler.

      Most are Bb/F but a couple are Bb/Ab. A few years back, three of us performed "Buglers Holiday" with a concert band using these. The other two players were Dennis Aquilina and Jim McFarland, Garfield and Blue Devils alums, respectively.

      Of course, we had to modify the arrangement slightly, and the band trumpeters were amazed. They all wanted to try our horns but none of them could figure out the C scale.

  11. Scooter Pirtle
    And some new bugles with 3 valves. https://ibb.co/df4JH3d https://ibb.co/KmtVyTX https://ibb.co/DD701nD https://ibb.co/fdFBGN7
  12. Scooter Pirtle
    May flights of angels sing to thee thy rest. RIP Moe.
  13. Scooter Pirtle
    I had a friend who volunteered to help Magic of Orlando at a preseason camp. He noticed at 9:00 pm, quite accidentally that he was the only non-marcher adult onsite and remained the only adult at the school until the next morning. He was pretty terrified at the lack of basic organization with the corps.
  14. Scooter Pirtle
    Rest in Peace Michael.
  15. Scooter Pirtle
    I just started the finale of Cheer. I didn’t want to like it, but it is very compelling television and, as mentioned, the parallels to the drum corps experience are ever present. I don’t know if a similar production would work as well with a corps with 150 members. And not being able to utilize performances of the music because of copyright issues is pretty problematic. ”Cheer” is worth a watch. Those kids are very inspirational.
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