84BDsop

Don't know the origin of some of these....but.. 84 BD Suds (guard girl...was Gino Cipriani's girlfriend on tour....didin't know her real name was Constance until I got the yearbook) Peaches ('nother guard...slim black girl, gets a nice camera feature near the end of the opener...a real sweetie....another one whose real name - Veronica, I think - I didn't know until the yearbook) Igor (bari...had it on his member jacket...no one EVER called him Charles 'cause I don't think he even LIKED his name) Spaz/Sam, Sam, the ElfQuest Man (OK....this is me. Spaz I've had sinze Jr high. SSTEQM came out of the t-shirts I constantly wore to practice that were from a cmonic book series called ElfQuest that I was heavily into during it's production run. The name was usually sung t the opening lick of "On the Town") Stay-puft Man (Andy in the sop line....one of my roomates, in fact. Kinda resembled teh Ghostbusters character) Stymie (upper lead soap....said so on his member jacket. Long term BD'er, great horn player, quite a funny guy....and the dude who gave The Look at the end of La Fiesta) Bubbles (not because of his large glasses, like I thought at first, but hecause he had a theory of intination that inviolved the player being in a theoretical bubble, IIRC. He was also the dude who disliked me the most in the entire corps...and spent 90% of the show marching next to me!) Zoomie (one of the tenors) Manson (snare....really did LOOK like Charles Manson!) Smirt (euph...came to us from Geneseo Knights, I think) Hackmaster (One of the La Fiesta trio...really hacked through it the first few times)

*sigh* My old base (Griffiss AFB, Rome, NY) was closed sometime in the 90s... I remember when they had the last Woodstock festival there. MTV made a big deal about a fenced-in "artist's enclave" at one end of the old runway...I wonder if any of those guys knew what the BIG red circles painted on the tarmac meant....the ones the size of a B-52 ('cause that's what they were drawn around) *raises glass* Here's to the Griff (particularly trhe 485th Enginnering & Installation Group...my old unit). Good times.

Yeah....the CD recording is semis

Y'know....same here! I'd never seen it!

I suspect it's screwed on to his head!

The classic BD 80s. Classic SCV....also 80s 27th

My guess is the hat was okay....I mean....it's a corps icon!

Huh....funny, Craig. I LIKE the 84 show...in fact, when I was in Air Force tech school, I stole -- er -- transcribed "Let Me Try Again" for the student corps (although I graduated before we got a chance to work on it). I've always really loved the last few chord transitions going into the "Ruslan & Ludmilla" restatement.

Ever listened to a show that just didn't push your buttons musically....but then came ONE section that DEFINITELY did it for you??? For me....1991 Bluecoats. "Nutville" was OK. "Palookaville"...ehhh...most of "Whiter Shade of Pale", same....but then came the push (where it starts sounding like "Hey Jude")...and from that point on it's one of the best musical moments of the year. I can listen to that section a LOT and not get bored by the emotion in it... Anyone else??

BD used DC-10s when I marched. I used to have a pair. The originals were #### near indestructible!!! Float would whack a pair together to keep time. They were chewed up all to ####, but they never broke! I've fooled around with some really li8ght sticks made on a lathe...forgot what they were modelled after. I suspect on a drum they'd sound something like the untaped wood sticks Cavies at some point in a show in the 90s.

And appropriately titled...ewwwwww... How about the early solo horn entrance (bari, I think), leading into the drum feature in the same show?

Tell me about it...a whole buncha colors not found in nature! heh...thanks....the wonders of auto tinting film! Actually, I thought the 90 unis were worse...TERRIBLY unforgiving of body flaws...

And thus speaks the ultimate authority....since Tim's the guy who PLAYED that note! Thanks, Tim!

Hmmm...he's on the BD board...I'll ask him.

And there was the girl in 87 Regiment who lost her skirt at fimals...

Early season SCV time: 86...a contra misses teh pants change in the tunnel during the opener at Riverside...Picks up his horn, marches smartly to the front sideline, facs field, puts horn down, parade rest for the rest of the show. 95...another SoCal show (don't remember where). 1st year they had the nice new and VERY large Kanstul contras...one poor shmoe trips and fals...amazing how far a contra will bounce...bell bent in half and everything... Oh....and I'll throw in a certain rook-out soprano for 84 BD who had an interval error in "Like a Lover" you could drive a truck through...all season. It haunts me every time I run the DVD...for some reason I just could NOT get that first step correct (it was a direction change and turn backfield) urgh....

Catch the PBS version of thr 86 broadcast...dropped flag right on camera. And I think one of the sop screamers at the end of BD 90 missed a step off into the very last phrase...if you canspot him, you see him taking a GIANT leap to get back into form. And speaking of equip drops...87 Bluecoats prelims, anyone??

'Sokay, Martha...SCV won the show that night, so BD was happy (I mean, if WE didn;t win we pulled for you...west is best and all that...)

85 Cavies....one poor guard guy got the butt end of his flagpole caught in the shoulders wings on his uniform at the end of "Mars". 'Course, it always seems that if you're in the guard and drop equipment, THAT is when you get your one and only closeup on the broadcast...86 BD comes to mind...same for the backsticking flub before the long roll and turn backfield in the drum feature. The thing is, there's ALWAYS going to be some flaw in the show...tjat's the nature of a live performance with s lot of people involved, especially with something as intricate as drum corps. Once you release the arrow you can't call it back...so if you flub, you go on to the next task.

There's a separate thread about this....it was 84. Re cymbals falling apart...prelims 85, Avante Garde....first chrash of the show and a dude's strap broke. I felt so sorry for him....and hoped it wasn't his age-out show.

The infamous half-a-beat early gong at the beginning of 90 BD?

Dugada or bd5times could confirm this....but 82 BD in T.O.....wasn't there a halt where, on camera, the center field cymbal kept marking time?

Uh, Craig...re the leg....read Dave Fowlers (84Cadet) post on the previous page...same with other post re the raim t'wern't none....gettin' old, man!

Uhhh....Doug? There WAS no gun in 84...that's the year they started judging all captions for the entire program

What took you so long, Dave?? heh