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So were you fearful that if you spilled cream on your mustache the cats would lick it off?

SCV? I take it these are the years when the hornline wasn't known as Screaming Chicken Vanguard?

Sam that's Sam Cochrell, he was a Euphonium that came in just prior to first tour. He had marched with Julie Paul (the blonde in the photo) from the guard in Geneseo Knights if I recall correctly. At Geneseo they called him "Smurf". You're right about Peaches (Veronica) being in the photo. The girl in the front is Therese Freitas from the guard.

Hey the same thing happened to my pants too!

I thought if you marched Muchachos it didn't matter what age you were? As far as the 21 age I believe that it was linked to eligibility in the Boy Scouts' Explorer program (which many corps were associated with pre-DCI) which there was an age limit of 14 to 21 years of age.

Speaking of tube tops... (it looks better in the full image.)

This is from Blue Devils tour in 1984. Clipped off in the upper left is Dave Carico. I'm in the front with my head turned (pink shirt).

Hey where's your ear cuff and the Jazz button in the dickie?

In the days before video tape we just used a simple audio tape to audition for a corps. At one time I remember hearing a story of a guy who faked his audition tape (I believe) for Blue Devils. He had someone else play the tape and sent it in as his own.

You're probably right about the name. Lying about experience is not limited to Drum Corps. People have falsified their degreess as to where they went to college/university and what degree they actually earned. And military experience is one of the worst for falsify personal history. Privates become captains, Good Conduct Medals become Medals of Honor, and those claiming combat experience at Hue outnumber the actual number of those who actually participated in the battle. My favorite lie is, "I was in Special Forces in Vietnam." When asked which unit they were attached too you get various answers that go along the line of, "well we were so secret and far behind enemy lines that we didn't have a unit designation." Why people lie has to do with wanting to appear a bit better than they actually are. And if we're honest we'll admit that we've fudged a bit here and there in our lives. But in some cases some people just don't know limits and compulsively lie to make them self just that better than those around them. It's kind of like that skit from the film "The Secret Policeman's Ball" where the old guys are sitting around lying about how bad it was when they were younger. Eventually, the last guy has to claim it was so bad that his family was reduced to living in a shoe box in the road and eating hot gravel for dinner.

Having marched that show, thanks. But personally I would exclude the drum solo drill from it though.

'80 SCV (as originally intended)

#### Yankees

As a parent of three young children I can tell you booing at a DCI show is the least of my worries. There is more to be worried about coming across my television at night than the conduct of a few people at a live show.

First: Santa Clara Vanguard 1983 Last: Concord Blue Devils 1985

This means there can be more saxophones on the field!

Note to self... have my knees examined because they're supposed to be bad from marching in BD. On another note, having gone from SCV to BD I found BD's style to be more relaxed, not necessarily easier, (I also spent a lot more time marching backward in BD compared to SCV).

I thought they did that because they had bent a lead pipe from a previous experience.

Hey Sam I thought you limped most of the season from your underwear being up around your ears? Not just finals. ^0^

Wayne was teaching San Jose State University's Marching Band. I remember him showing me a photo. It was him standing on the lower rungs of a ladder used for conducting (with hair down to his shoulders) talking to the UC Berkeley's Drum Major. I wonder if the photo someone thinks is Wayne with Anaheim might be SJSU, or, a number of high schools he's worked with along the West Coast? [edit: I've just seen the later post, so I stand corrected].

Applause meters. Now where's that "cheesy" emoticon?

I don't live in the Keys and Jacksonville, Ala. is 10 1/2 to 11 hours. Atlanta is nine to 10 hours.

In 1983 SCV did a half-time show for the United States Football League Oakland Invaders. It was pretty funny watching this guy on the sidelines offering a mic for the soloists during the show.

Was that Marcy Correctional Center? Because it was more than just an insane asylum. It was the state prison hospital for the insane. This is were they kept Berkowitz (son of Sam) when he was first inprisoned.

These photos were taken by my grandfather who went to DCI Midwest in 1984. Sorry for the quality, but these were taken before digital cameras.