Bob J
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Regarding my world class experience, I feel that I went from a "new school" approach to an "old school" one...and in my opinion as a performer, the old school approach produced a louder product. Yes loud isn't everything, but speaking strictly about volume, that's what I got out of it.
As we used to say, "if you ain't loud, you ain't ####"
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Just goes to show how naive/super talented (take your pick) I was back in the '80s, to be able to go from playing trombone in marching band, concert band, jazz band and orchestra in the off season, to playing 2V baritone or euphonium in the key of G...
Yes it was different, but I don't think it was so hard. Reading the parts in treble cleff was probably the biggest challenge!
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Just because it hasn't been mentioned...
Sac.
As in "Sac............ is............ back!"
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Garry, thanks for posting the pictures! As I was reading through the thread I was hoping someone would, because (even as a brass player) I wouldn't be able to tell the difference on sight without your "scorecard".
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I think if we want to compare to a sport where equipment and rules have changed the look and feel, try auto racing. Compare a modern NASCAR race to stock car racing from the '50s or '60s. Or Indy cars. Or formula 1. Yes the cars all still have 4 wheels (mostly) and drive around a track, but there the similarity ends.
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Oh good, for a second there I was worried that I had been looking at the schedule without being granted access, and DCI was going to come and take my computer away (the schedule is posted on their website after all)!
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To add another opinion, I dragged my wife and 2 sons (12 and 16 at the time) to quarterfinals in '07 (my nephew was marching), and 2 out of 3 of them were bored out of their skulls, and left after Crown (intermission). These are people who DO have a lot of exposure to lots of different kind of music, so not quite "Joe Public" types. The shows put on by the 15-7 corps just weren't exciting enough to keep their attention, I think because they all sounded the same with snippets of unrecognizable "generic drum corps" bugle playing interspersed within lots of drum breaks. Not a lot of memorable stuff (from their perspective.
I don't think it is likely that I could get them to sit through '79 for comparison!
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The order is more like
Berkeley>UCLA>>UCSD>>UCSB>UCI~UCD>>>UCSC>>>>UCR>UCM
Yes, but the band at Cal is painful to watch (but still better than Stanford!)
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So Glassmen 23?
Maybe he predicts they will be so boring, that the judges will forget they are even on the field, and not score them!
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I think George must still be sore about getting "ticked" by that field percussion judge back when he marched...
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1985 Drum Corps World
I have 2 questions. Is the first horn a French Horn or Mellophone?
Is there a web site that has history of the marching French Horn as it relates to drum corps?
Thanks :-)
Sam is right, french horn. IIRC, we marched 12 altos in '84 (the year of the photo) 4 french horns, 4 mellophones, and 4 flugelhorns.
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OK, more than a month has passed, along with a few camps, show announcements etc... any new predictions?
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But was anyone really surprised with the sound at LOS? Its INDOOR drum corps for gosh sakes! Don't you all remember what it sounded like during rehersals in the gym? Even with all the sleeping bags all over the place? C'mon, what were we thinking?
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So if even by court order the Scouts or Cavaliers had to include women, they would still have to pass the audition, wouldn't they? Would representatives of the court have to be part of the audition process to make sure the girls weren't discriminated against there? Where would it end?
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Do I have deja Vu, or did this exact same story and thread appear about a year ago? I had to go back to the OP to make sure it was today. Someone please search the archives to see that I'm not crazy...
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I had to finally comment. Ban synthesizers. It is taking drum corps (farther) down a road I'd rather not follow. Finals will eventually be held outdoors again, even if it takes a few years. It will be even sooner if people stop showing up at Indy though. I hope that doesn't kill DCI though, I do enjoy the music.
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OK, how's this for a fund raising idea, sell tattoos at the souvie stand! Get a real tattoo artist to put your favorite corps logo permanently on your skin during intermission! Let the corps make part of that $200 bucks.
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I think you need to make it a poll though...
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OK, I know most of you out there in DCP land are too old to march a DCI corps, but if you were still of age, and could audition for a current corps for the 2010 season, and could play and march at your very best, who would you be auditioning for? Only rule, not your old corps.
Easy for me, VANGUARD!
or maybe Madison. Or Phantom. Possibly Cadets.
Not so easy.
Final answer, Vanguard.
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And I gotta add, how amazing it was to be at so many shows with the both of them back when I marched. We may have been in their "neighborhood" geographically, but not in their league. The once or twice that we would beat one of them in a caption was always a thrill.
Oh, and Vanguard
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I think I saw the Freelancer uniform in ORANGE on a college band in '85 or '86. I think it was Riverside City College.
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I hear they are going to start throwing candy at retreat too.
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SCV copies Cavaliers. That's a good one.
The Challenge
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THANKS!!!
I knew there was a term for it!
Switching from G bugles to band instruments, Amping the pit etc, and electronics was the wussification of drum corps.