BDCorno
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Yes it certainly is "the end".
Yes, we were always glad to get it "behind us".
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Roger (hubby) said that's just a part where they're bending over in the show.
Yes, that would be at the end of the first movement of Channel One Suite.
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Hubby said it was some small show in California in 77 but...I don't know..what's evaluations? Is that some sort of thing like inspection before a show?
Looks to me like Atwater/Gustine - "The Hickdome", in the words of the immortal Mel Stratton. It's been far too long, but we usually had a camp early June out there so the timing would have been right for evals.
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Cavaliers are also wearing THEIR new unis from '76 in the pic, so yup - it's '76.
Ummmmm...naugahyde...
Naugahyde unis? That's gnarly...
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Polish Falcons: Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York City
(Competed as an M&M corps beating Holy Name at West New York, May 30th, 1942)
My father, John Tyburczy, is seated third, left to right, next to intructor.
Now THAT is a great picture...
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Darn those shakos! It's so hard to pick yourself out of a picture!
Yeah, what was up with THAT? Who's that over-age kid in the second row? I think his name was Jerry, or something like that. LOL.
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Talk about historic....
Sweet! And that was back in the day when a 19 in drums and a 90 overall was hard to come by...
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1979 Blue Devils class picture...
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Great photograph. I love candid, fully-uniformed, off-the-field shots like this.
Thank you.
How about these goofballs? You're looking at a photo of some of the horns from BD 1980. The shot was taken in Birmingham not long before finals.
Left to right:
Dave Carico (bari), Brad Kintscher (french horn), Mike "Gilligan" Culbertson (french horn), Martha Stevens (bari), Glen Babros (flugel), Chris Nalls (french horn), Dave Tuttle (french horn - but where did all the hair go????), Ray Atlas (bari), and Todd "Golden Boy" Thacker (flugel/mellophone). Those were the days!
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Oh let's just add on, shall we:
ankle snapping pot holes B)
Oh, yeah. Forgot about those. LOL. I never much noticed the sprains through the itching.
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Anyone recognize this sign???
...they also forgot - home of:
- Blazing sun and hot temperatures (no shade at all)
- Howling winds and cold nights
- Sand Fleas
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Anyone recognize this sign???
All too well, my man... It's not quite as famous as the "Slow Down" sign that the Little League people posted (for our benefit, of course). I recall it ended up as a coffee table at the "import house". Jerry was not amused. LOL.
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Did someone say "wafro"?
Wayne Downey and Jerry Seawright at DCI Finals in 1976.
Yes, the staff that year was the "All Hair Team". Mike Moxley had quite a mane going, but I think Brian Price still had the longest hair of anyone in the organization, male or female. LOL.
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Dazed and looking like he is in a fly catching contest? B)
Note that everyone has that glazed-over look. As Lee pointed out, the overnight ride after WO - followed by rehearsal and a rain-soaked show. Another "drum corps sucks" moment...
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Would that be the origin of, "No food, no showers F%#$ off?"
You, sir - win the grand prize!!! LOL. I don't think I'll ever forget it. The next morning at rehearsal was a barrel of laughs, too. Remember that???
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Nah, twasn't anything new. In '72 it rained hard in Cheyenne WY and the field was such a muddy mess that we wore "Texaco" trash bags instead of our brand new unis. The yell of "Go Go Texaco!" followed us around for the rest of the season.
LOL. That is hilarious!
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The better part of this story is that the night before Binghamton we were at World Open in Lynn, MA, more than 300 miles away, and the night AFTER Binghamton, we were scheduled for a show in Newton, MA. Now Jerry Seawright, God love him, thought it would be no problem to just pop over to NY for a quick show. It's just the next state over, right?!
We left everything that we wouldn't need for the show in MA (sleeping bags, suitcases, changes of clothes, etc.) and drove all night to Binghamton. Rain, rain, rain, we can't do the show in our NEW cadet uniforms. We marched in whatever we happened to be wearing for the bus ride! T-shirts, cut-offs, whatever. Show's over (still won the show by a point BTW -- I would have been peeved if I was SCV), then back on the busses to drive BACK to MA.
There are some pics in the yearbook of Binghamton. I'll have to dig out my copy and see if they'll scan decently. :-)
Thanks, Lee. I didn't recall leaving everything over is MA, but I do recall trying to dry out before getting back on the buses. I guess it makes sense, in that we had nothing else to wear... LOL.
Certainly a "drum corps sucks" moment. Remember the one in the Northwest (78, I think), where we hadn't been off the buses or fed for a very long time - or even had showers? You probably remember the rest of the story... LOL.
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Did it rain in Stillwater again? b**bs
Anyone remember the 1976 show in Binghamton, NY? I recall there were torrential rains at the show, but since it was drum corps we couldn't cancel the show. SCV was brave and performed in full uniform. We had our new duds and the staff didn't want to ruin them, so we performed in trash bags. A picture of that would be darned near priceless. I don't know of any other time you'd have found BD at a show wearing trash bags! In a way, we might have set a record for cheapest matching uniforms in history. LOL.
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Woah! Helmetless PR corps.
Too bad the editor couldn't spell the name right...
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The point he was making is that yes, they DID go to three valve G horns. Later both DCI and DCA permitted any key horns to be used.
...and that's why I found it puzzling why we ended up with almost everyone playing on Bb instruments. Cost? Profit? Familiarity? Availability? I just don't get it, outside of drum corps having some intrinsic need to be "accepted" in the mainstream scholastic and marching band activities. If that's all it was, then shame on them - if the activity sells out that which makes it unique, then what is the attraction?
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Uhhh... DCI started allowing three-valved G horns in the early 90s.
Uhhh... That wasn't my point. Instead of going three valve G, they went three valve Bb....and got rid of french horns in the process.
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"One " of the reasons the switch to multi key from G horns was because the instruments were better " musically" giving corps a wider range of musicical choices for performance.
So why are we not hearing more difficult music ?
I still don't understand the switch to a *Bb* multi key horn from a G horn, outside of band-ifying drum corps and making it easy on the manufacturers. Or perhaps it was going to make it cheaper to obtain instruments. It wouldn't have been difficult to add a third valve to a G horn. Honestly, I don't think a Bb horn sounds good at all outdoors. The G key is a better sounding fundamental for me. The decay, and loss of resulting bass response, make Bb instruments sound sorta tinny to me. Could you score your Bb instruments in keys closer to what you'd have found with a G horn? Sure, but the intrinsic "home key" of the instrument makes a profound difference for me musically - in an outdoor setting.
Once drum corps took the "G" out of bugle, the groups have just become brass marching bands (no offense to bands, but what is really the difference anymore?). I guess that's what the whole genesis of the horn change was - merging/"legitimizing"/mainstreaming drum corps. It sure has had a positive effect on the growth of the activity now, hasn't it??? [no sarcasm here - lol]
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We are waiting on the arrival of newly purchased K-40 King Flugal Bugle.
1st: Does the flugal use a special flugal mouthpiece or just a trumet one?
2nd: Should this Bugle be used for solos, played as 3rd par sop or added to the mid range section?
One thought of mine is to have a soprano or mello player use it for solo work.
What do the experts out there think?
Not 100% sure on the mouthpiece, but regular flugels take a special mouthpiece. I'm sure you could get away with a trumpet mouthpiece, but the sound wouldn't be the same. A 6A4A might sound *a bit bright*. LOL.
It's likely a matter of what type of music your group plays. If you're hardcore jazz and use the middle horns as the sax section, then you should keep them with that choir most of the time. The nice thing is that you can move them from choir to choir as necessary, depending on the nature of the music at a particular moment. The french horn [shameless plug] can fit the same kind of situation. They could be part of the middle horn voice one phrase, and then be the icing on the bass choir for the next.
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some old corps photos
in Historical Junior Corps Discussions
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Ahhh, the Crossmen staff. When I was on staff of the VK in 1983, we had a dandy "little" party with the Crossmen staff in the parking lot of our school in Monterey. The party was a huge hit, and loud enough that it attracted some of Monterey's finest to "join in the festivities". Honestly, they "broke up", rather than "joined in", but hey - a good time was had by all!