flugelswerebugels

Parade = seirous hearing loss (at least it did when I was 3rd soprano and had to march directly in front of the baritones, or "blare-a-tones".

its about quality - Bluecoats and Crown did it well. Cadets.........not very well. It was not integrated and really did not add to the show. Still no excuse to boo, though.

Flugelhorns have always been better than narration! (check my username)

All white - kind of looks like pajamas. But yes, nice feet! Nice echelons, too.

That would certainly include not accusing a corps of "cheating" without any evidence. "Cheating" is a pretty strong word, implying gaining an unfair advantage by breaking the rules. You have no evidence of either rule breaking or an unfair advantage, cowtown.

Gazackly!

Oh, I think that is very much on topic, Puppet. There used to be so many corps, many of them marching members as young at 9 or 10 years old. I was 12 when I started.

Yes, Top Pot is great. Don't count on coming to Seattle for a drum corps show this summer, though. Even though there is a show called the Seattle Music Games (http://www.nwmusicgames.org/) [well, OK, the show seems to have two names, neither describing the city it is actually held in], its in Hillsboro, Oregon, about 190 miles away. Is this a record for geographic misnaming of a show?

A bottle of suncreen...SPF 45. Or, to go old school, a piece of peeled sunburned skin from pre-sunscreen days.

After 4 years in BD, and two championships, I could see the activity was leaving me behind talent-wise. I was a kid from the neighborhood (grew up in Concord) and everyone else was starting to be music majors, serious musicians, etc. Sometimes I wish I had marched (could have done 3 more years), but I went to college, started doing lots of other interesting stuff, and can't say its my greatest regret not to have finished up as an age-out.

I killed this thread - sorry.

Ah yes, the Hound. I think its identity is confirmed by the "#2" by the drivers' window. Speaking of things going out the window, I remember a ziploc baggy of purple vomit (after some blueberry pie at a truckstop in the Rocky Mountains) being passed to the back of the Hound for disposal via defenstration. That was probably in '78. Good luck using the wipers to remove that from your windshield!

The opening scene of "2001: Space Odyssey" depicts the first time a corps director discovered the hash marks were missing!

BD had them for many years - they were old and beat up when I joined BDA in '78.