TKYR_FA1986
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The More I watch SCV the more I am in LOVE with this show. However I fear they will get the Odyssey 1987 treatment (It won't be appreciated until MUCH later).
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Top 4 IMHO and in no specific order are Onyx, SCV, Sac. and Pride.
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I just watched their show on fan network and I really really enjoyed it. Those were 10 very talented kids. If they had the dance training and access to the teams of designers that other guards had, they would be incredible.
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SCV
Crown
Carmel
Logan
Blessed Sac.
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I really like their show and those are some extremely talented kids. I would love to see it live. On fan network, the floor makes it hard to see sometimes.
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after watching again, I think it is the dresses and the color scheme from 08 that made me think of SCV... and I think I might LOVE Warren Central. Actually SW will be the most interesting contest this year in my opinion
The poster whop thought Sac looked like SCV I think it's the dresses that do thatCypress Ind. I saw them at a regional and frankly I dont get it...looks like a realllll good open Guard to me Boring.
Like Braddock ( Only saw on Fan Net )
Love Onyx ( Fan net )
Like Fahrenheit ( Alot , A & World )
Like Carmel
Love Logan
Like Flanagan ( But the same stuff )
Like Black Watch ( BUT looks like a late 80s or 90s show )
Like Trumbull HS
Like Crown ( Fan Net viewing )
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I just purchased Fan Network for this year and I have to say........I DON'T love anyone this year. I hope that changes after a few more viewings. I like Santa Clara and find their tarp interesting. I like Logan but so many others just have remixes of their previous shows, Flanagan especially. I like Sac but is it me or do they look like SCV from last year? I have yet to watch Avon, and Braddock two guards I usually like. I need to watch Warren Central because I LOVED them last year. I know this sounds bad but I do NOT like Pride.......at all
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"the 4th,the 5th,the minor fall,the major lift".....my source at santa clara maintains that they are using a variation on rufus wainwright's "Hallelujah"!
this saddens me. I love the song but Jeff Buckley's version is FAR superior. Hopefully some of SCV's signature flag work will make me forget it's Rufus and not Jeff.
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What happened at Centerville???
I think it is a reference to their show's Marie Antoinette influence. see show announcement on WGI.org
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I want to see more shows with up tempo music. I want to see more work in unison. I want to be entertained. What I don't want to see is that little heel clicking thing under tosses. I also want people to stop sprinting from one spot on the floor to another spot for no apparent reason.
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Great story. I didn't march in the Cavaliers winter guard in 85 but I marched on the field that year. I did march in, 80, 81, 82, 83, and I had a blast.
I was a young puerto rican and cuban kid from New York City, and the guard at my school was big and quite good. I got in a fight with a guard member, and the guard instructor broke up the fight. That guard instructor was Steve Brubaker, who at the time was working with the Cavaliers B corps guard. He challenged me just like this; "If you are so tough, come back and audition for a place". Back then I always took a dare, and I auditioned and made it. After my second year, he challenged me to audition for the Cavaliers, but my mom thought I was too young. He convinced her that he would watch over me if I made it, and I did. Drum corps, and guard specifically changed my life forever.
You Marched in the West Side Story and James Bond shows?
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yes indeed a memorable production!
now tell us the rest of the story...........
Me, a young black kid from Alabama who picked up a rifle after seeing Sky Ryders Drum & Bugle Corps. I was blown away by that rifle line. I started marching in local guards none that were any good but it was fun. One day while flipping channels I came across WGI on PBS. I popped a tape in the VCR and tapped it. I remember being blown away by Velvet Knights and Odyssey. Then Cavaliers came on and it was over for me. I had to be in a "real" guard some way some how. Once I saw Erte my eyes were glassed over. I studied that tape as much if not more than I practiced my instrument.
I played Oboe and had been offered a few scholarships and ultimately went to LSU. At LSU being an oboist, I joined the guard so I could participate in LSU Tiger Band. Here I was a kid that had memorized pretty much every rifle feature done in 1985 so people thought I was pretty good. I met a flute player named Cindy Jones, who told me about her sister, Nola Jones and about Final Analysis. The rest is history... I marched Final Analysis in 1986 and got to march on that same court I had seen on PBS
Another funny thing. That Sky Ryder rifle line I saw a few of the members were Tommy Keenum, Wes Cartwright, and Karl Lowe.
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I really LOVED that show. The fact that it was all guys. The music. All the tricks. I was a senior in high school and was off to college in the fall. I didn't know how I was going to afford it. What guard it would be and where it would be located, but I knew I was going to be marching in some guard in Dayton in 1986.
Thank you Cindy Jones for telling me about "a guard that your sister, Nola, was going to be working with"
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It has been removed from WGI ON Demand for what I am pretty sure was copyright issues. I got it on a WGI ON Demand Disc a few years back but it has since been removed from the site.
AMAZING show, it was definitely the winning show of 2004 in my humble opinion. I think IF it would have been cleaner it would have won.
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Cavaliers, Madison Scouts and Blue Devils. ALL HORRID. There is no way on God's green earth would I have worn those Unis. They day they pulled them out would have been the day I left camp.
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Blue Devils, Madison Scouts, and Cavaliers........what were they thinking?
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Are there any rumors of NEW world class guards coming out next year?
I hope so. I love the idea of a new guard coming from out of nowhere and doing well. Last's years "new world guard" became Crown Guard and that was a big disappointment. I think Adam Sage has lost his mojo.
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recent updates at fantasia indicate that mykail costner may be out due to irreconcilable differences with director gary locke and jay murphy may be replaced with the venerable johnny escalante.
at this time word is mykail costner may be entertaing the possiblity of starting his own guard.
I really don't see Fantasia being Fantasia without Karl Lowe. Other than SCV, I see Diamante being the next BIG California guard.
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I'm just hoping Cavies stay away from the "body conscious" uniforms they used for their Chicago show - those were just wrong!
Those uniforms would have been enough for me to quit. Can you imagine auditioning, going to camps, starting to learn the show and then seeing that uniform? I would have made a bee line for the airport.
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Nice review. you and I see thinks A LOT a like. thanks for taking the time and for sharing.
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I am sure it has to be SUPER expensive to put a guard on the floor and in this economy it has to be even worse. When I marched Final Analysis in 1986, I remember the dues being around $500. We had high school students and college students from LSU, Ole Miss, USM, Delta State and a few other schools. We were starving college students and some of us couldn't afford to pay those dues. Tommy Keenum and Keith Hall put a lot of that on their credit cards. He even said in an article that they paid for it for years.
These days with the digitally printed floors costing many thousands of dollars, uniforms, travel and a staff the size of a small army, it has to be #### near $100,000 to put out a world class guard. Who can afford that these days?
We need to get back to simpler times.
With the rate that guards are folding or going inactive for a year (or so) sooner or later Lake Erie Regiment (IW) will find themselves in 15th place if they can hang in there long enough
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I agree with everything that's been said so far. (Told ya we had an AMAZING bunch of shows in Dayton...!!!)
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A couple more from my list:
SW: Avon's show from beginning to end.
IW: Amachi's show from beginning to end.
I could watch both of those programs on a continuous loop and never get tired of either one. Ever. In vastly different ways, each of those performances was as close to perfection as I've ever seen. I feel extremely fortunate for having the opportunity to see them live.
I was so happy for Avon. That show was so well performed by those kids. Their performance dripping with elegance.
I admit I didn't like Aimachi at Prelims, mainly due to my expecting too much, but enjoyed it more at Finals and I liked it more every time I watched (well until I had to close my browser and lost it). I could still do without the batons but the show was beautiful and even batons couldn't make me hate on it.
Braddock, NEI, SCV, and Warren Central were all high points for me. I hear Avon and Flanagan had VERY young groups so next year should be UNBELIEVABLE. I think Choctawhatchee, Warren Central and Carmel are the groups to watch though . They are all capable of medaling in the near VERY near future.
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IMO
1 SCV
2. AIMACHI
3 CORONA
4 ZYDECO
5. NEI / ONYX
1 and 2, I can see, especially after watching it again. 3, 4, and 5..... NO FRIGGIN WAY
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Thank you!
you are welcome. Radiohead is a fantastic band. I was actually surprised that they got clearance. I bet those songs won't be on the DVD.
Fantasia.... What Happened?
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I would NOT be surprised if they didn't make finals. No disrespect to the kids performing but who designed this show and more importantly, WHY?