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  1. When we started utilizing cassette tapes by judges in the early 70s, nobody remembered that this had been tried over a decade earlier. I have all the musical archives of my mentor, DCI HOFer Emil Pavlik. I decided to check out a pair of 5" reel-to-reel tapes labeled from 1959 contests in Madison and Marinette WI. I sent them to mi amigo Roy Perez in California, and he turned them over to Munson Chan for conversion to digital format. Today, I received the ensuing MP3s. What a surprise ! There is commentary running throughout the performances, by unidentified GE judges. Apparently, this was an experiment, by either the Wisconsin All-American Judges Assn. or the fledgeling Badgerland D&B circuit. The idea didn't catch on, probably because in 1959 virtually nobody owned a home tape recorder. They were relatively expensive [a half-month's wages] and not very portable. I know Emil never owned one (he taught me the drop-the-needle method of transcription), so today may be the first time anyone ever listened to those judges' comments.
  2. lindap, please repost the writeup of the Ontario drumcorps GIRLS hockey game. It is a true journalistic gem.
  3. This person did not get very educated in Chemistry 101. Chromium is a metallic element. Electroplating is a finicky process. The item first receives a flash coating of copper plate. Then a layer of nickel is put on. Then the final finish of chromium is applied. The EPA has come down heavily on the plating industry and its highly poisonous byproducts. This is why automobiles no longer have chrome trim or accessories. And this is why we no longer have chromed bugles. In any key.
  4. Who could ever forget the Wawasee Warriors ???
  5. Drummers in the NJ HOF invented a special rudiment, and named it in his honor. The rudiment is called a faddawiddikah.
  6. Also has a zero on the top. It's a countdown clock which ran . . . . umm, clockwise [looks like they didn't have 15 min. quarters in Joisey Football] This scoreboard appears as a backdrop in numerous classic Moe Knox photos. Including one in the WDCHOF scrapbook, of a young rosy-cheeked Sunriser soloist who now calls himself Iron Lips.
  7. I usually post this pic of the iconic Roosevelt scoreboard at Halloween time:
  8. My son marched his first parade with his HS band in Tucson. LA FIESTA DE LOS VAQUEROS. Gringos call it the Rodeo Parade. It is proudly billed as THE WORLD’S LONGEST NON-MOTORIZED PARADE. Form your own conclusions.
  9. Drill 7 holes into the barrel of a rifle. Cover 6 with your fingers, then blow across the hole closest to the chamber.
  10. The West Milton show was judged by a panel of very senior members of the Ohio All-American Judges Assn. All the scores were way inflated. There was only one GE judge, and he sat halfway up in the low bleachers, on the 30. Well, at least every corps there got the same read.
  11. <br /><br /><br />Those are cooties. The Military Order of the Cooties is an internal subset of the VFW.
  12. I better join, he invited me into his squad when we all did the 2011 massed BAA hornline. Along with Walt Street and THE Carl Allison.
  13. Yes. I saw the Wm Tell bit, and I only saw the Troopers one weekend that year, in Massachusetts. The caps are a daytime show, no back stands. Gotta be the Danny Thomas on July 18. I remember 27th arriving in their own cars and changing in the parking lot - visible from the stands.
  14. Except for the August Championship foray, that's a weekend-only contest schedule. And the corps only practiced 2 or 3 evenings a week for 2½ hours. A number of the guys held fulltime jobs.
  15. Straight bass drummers from that era were good to have if your corps got into a rumble.
  16. 1969 Night Train was the percussion solo following Chattanooga Choo Choo, and was a mid-season replacement. 1970 Night Train was played out of concer by the bugle sectiont, followed by the intro and A stains of A Train leading to Chattanooga from the bridge & out. For a while, there was no drum part for the 1st 16 counts of this mashup. The frame capture IS the Choo Choo formation. Which came right after the bridge of the tune. The lyrics of the bridge are "When you hear the whistle blowing 8 to the bar, then you know that Tennessee is not very far". So the location is Track 29. -------------------------- The Kilties were not at the evaluation show, remember they were not invited to be a charter member of DCI? I do.
  17. #1 would have to be 1972. There were no corps shows in Warhawk before that season. The first was in early June of that year, just an evaluation show with multiple judges and no tabulation. Only the Midwest DCI founding corps. #2 can you view the whole flick and enumerate the Kilties tonal drum section? The setup from mid-July 1969 through the 1970 season was 4 tymps and 2 large horizontal bass trios. ( I ghost-wrote their book.) Both hornlines were 36 in the drill and 3 floating contras. 4 snares, 4 tris, and I really don't remember the BD/cym count. Or guard. Not my job. Tell me the music, including drum features. There were significant mid-season changes both years. I could make a good guess on the location of #2, but not quite yet. And I'm biting my tongue on a previous comment.
  18. Surely a railroad right-of-way. You know that Tennessee can't be very far.
  19. #1 looks very much like the Stadium Formerly Known As Warhawk.
  20. . . . . . which proves there's more than one way to skin a cat
  21. HornsUp

    Valve oil?

    Note he said warm water. This is really important if you have an older instrument with nitrocellulose lacquer, as hot water will melt the finish. Lye-based cleaning solutions will do likewise. And any solder repairs will burn the lacquer. Plated horns and those with a baked epoxy finish are exempt from this warning.
  22. Yes, resting comfortably on both shoulders without any blocked vision.
  23. The original Holton OTS Bass-baritone: The Whaley Royce OTS Euphonium bugle: The DEG Trombonium: and from the 19th century, a Lehnert "toilet seat" Eb bass horn:
  24. 1972 was the last season for the Warriors. The highlight of their existence was winning the 1969 World Open Class B title - by over 10 points !!! They were formed as a parade corps around 1963, and originally wore Indian Warrior uniforms. Sponsored by the local Kiwanis club and the YMCA, they went under the name of K-Y Warriors until . . . . well, you get the picture. I wrote all their music from 1967 on. ( And was also responsible for the "Applause" cue painted on a bassdrum head when they played "Applause, applause" as an opener.) The staff was all Racine guys attending UW-Oshkosh. Kiltie soloist Les Chambasian tutored the bugles. Racine Scouts John Mathe and Al "Ungey" Karls handled the drums and M&M/guard. Corps director was history prof Howard Johnson, a Kiltie alum. The colorguard, in cherry red hotpants jumpsuits, was quite a pleasure to behold.
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