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Since I want to compete, it is 320 miles one way from Negaunee, MI (that's in the Upper Peninsula) to Racine and Kilties are they closest competing corps. I'm also a member of a non-competing corps, the Ishpeming Blue Notes which are 3 miles from home. Lakeshoremen, even though they are in Michigan, are about 7-8 hours away. Chops and Brass are about 8 hours as well - so I really don't pass much of anything!

Thanks! :) :) :)

My horn needed to be repaired about every three days. The contras tended not to practice the drill part of the move while the rifles were doing the bomb scare. I was never hit during a show, but was tagged at least 25 times by a wayward rifle during run-throughs. The six of us eventually took to wearing construction hard hats with Union Jacks on the front of them during full run throughs. Talk about making the rifle line mad! In '81 (the Whitewater pic) we changed the horn move a little by holding the horn over our heads while we stood back field, then while going up the 50 yard line fanned them in a waterfall movement while the rifles flew over our heads in the same order as the fan. This really cut down on the dings and bangs since the rifles were traversing the line behind the horn as it passed over head.

Actually, that's Marquette, MI in June. The "Beef" pictured here, or as the kids up here call it "Barf-n-Chew" or "Grease-a-Roo", is located on Front Street, near the lake. I live 4 blocks from the one in Negaunee, MI. Whenever I'm visiting Rockford with various groups, they all want to go to Beef-A- Roo and I always think "great....., I just ate there yesterday!" :)

Great! Hope it works out!

Andy, Did anyone contact you yet?

Thanks Tom.. I'll keep looking and you keep up the great work! Mark

Tommy, Any chance of getting more Guardsmen '81 pics? I've lost mine through the years, and it is great to see not only my corps from those years, but many that flood the memories! Mark Rogers '81 Guardsmen

We could have easily fit a 8" woofer in those bad boys!

The Guardsmen (Schaumburg): in '75 they placed 31st, then in '76 placed in 12th and made finals for the first time. 19 placement movement in 1 year. I know, I'm old! :P

Beat me to it Nex! Was that the Randsom House Dictionary or the OED?

[quote name='danielray' date='Feb 24 2007, 03:40 AM' post='1759558'] Here's a simple way of putting things into perspective. You marched in Kingsmen (in your youth) back in 1972, 1973. For those same years, the top 5 billboard singles were as follows: Great analogy Daniel! Last night my wife and I were discussing this and she used the same analogy - what we liked then doesn't necessarily mean that people will like it today and vice versa. Does that mean that what is going on today in DCI signal its death? No, because musical and visual arts are always changing; it is the individual who choses to change, or not to change, with it. Simply because an individual choses not to change their taste with the form does not signal its death.

Come on up Z! Heck, I could also throw in some Congress pizza time with the Blue Notes D&BC.

Don't let 'em bother you Z! I had the same glasses and hair style then too...also had the same style of sweater. Looks so much like me that my wife thought the pic was of me!

Tim was the brass director and basically the go to guy of Guarsdmen 78/79-80, then went to SCV, when they won in '81.