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To qualify for an award you must remove yourself from the gene pool.

What is she doing now?

That's how Arbitron works for radio. My family was an arbitron family and their were diaries for each listener in the family to track time and the station we listend to for a week.

Was there a re-entry in 77 then?

Ok what was the Appalachian Ending in 77? When I marched SCV in 83 I was under the impression that was the first time the soft ending was done? Was I mistaken all these years?

Rick South was drum major in 77. I'm not sure who Garth Snow is but, Garth Ruhlin was drum major in 82, 83

Liferaft Earth Piano Concerto #1 -- Keith Emerson Karn Evil 9 - ELP First Circle -- Pat Metheny BD's classical jazz show?

Rick South

I thought it was a piston and rotar? And music used to be taught: Piston, rotar, piston, open, open, ...

Come on Sam you liked looking at Jack do a half lotus. :)

I remember that he came back from school in '84 and was using some new grip for double mallets that his instructor had shown him. Catherine liked it and had the rest of the pit copy it. In '84 he had learned the Cadets show so well that it was difficult to tell the difference between him and the Cadets' date=' until he started to add to his version. About a year or so ago I exchanged some emails with him and he said he was living in the NYC area at the time.

If I recall correctly Dave was studying at Juliards at the time. He used to listen to other corps shows and memorize their keyboard parts. Then he'd go back and practice them on his off times. Before I & E he would have about three or four pieces he would be working on through the summer. Then about a couple weeks before the competition he would choose the one he liked best and then practice it almost every spare moment he had.

I believe the tater tot started with a mid-horn player who walked away from his plate at a meal and lost his tater tots in the process. When he came back he was "upset" about it. "Where's my tater tots?" Which eventually if I recall earned him the nickname "tater tot". Speaking of drug accusations was it 84 or 85 there was an accusation of drug use? It had something to do with some lipbalm the horn staff had on hand at a warm up before a show.

Sam, it wasn't so much a mis-translation, rather they didn't know that piscine meant swimming pool in French. As I took it they kept telling the girls they were staying at the swimming pool. Tater tot was 85? 84 and 85 were pretty close tour wise that it's hard to keep straight which year events happened. But the wall was Denver. Because a few minutes after "the act". I got an earful from some SCV guard members I had marched with in 83. ce le vie.

Wasn't 84 also the infamous Tater Tot incident? "Who ate my tater tots?" and remember in Montreal we were staying the word "piscine" was everywhere when we walked in the door. I remember at the show some members of the corps had made arrangements to meet some girls the next day (a free day in the city). And when the girls asked them where they were staying, the guys thought the name of the school was "piscine". I still remember hearing the girls laughing at them.

In '84 there were about 20 - 25 people who had marched SCV in '83 and went to BD. When I arrived I used to hear jokes like, "well you came to BD so you could win at Pacific Procession." And then didn't win. What a surprise it was that BD didn't win that year. I believe the first is several years. Was this the year we did the partial show for the opening ceremonies for the international sports competition in Walnut Creek. And just before we finished because of the time they started the fireworks during the final tune? (yeah I'm getting old so memories get fuzzy). And then there was the "wall" at Mile High in Denver. Wasn't there a complaint over it? And barking at DCI Midwest? I think there was a complaint there also? Wasn't '84 the year of the Lansdale (sp), PA show? Happy Birthday. Then prelims at Atlanta. I would love to have seen the corps photo that was taken that night. As far as La Fiesta, it was the tune of the night at finals.

'85 was more than just smores for BD. It was the year we ate like Troopers after the fire. Hot plates and Roy Rogers anyone? It was the year we had several people end up in the hospital for stiches while on first tour. It was the several hours in the desert near Wendover, NV because of a cracked engine block. (Years later I was driving through the area and pointed out the spot where we were stuck in those many years ago. The look I received was a, "I guess you had to be there look." Then I got the, "do you need to leave flowers for you lost youth" comment. And wouldn't you know it just outside Wendover a tire exploded on the truck I was driving. We spent several hours looking at the salt flats waiting for the correct tire size to be delivered.) And I still remember Jon bent in half walking to the car at Stillwater on his way to the hospital. And with mentioning Stillwater, SHHHHHHHH... It was the year of the first, and only, time I lost to Madison. It was the year it rained on us in Canada. It was the year of the orange cone at prelims.

Wasn't Casper the infamous "applause meter"? I believe BD lost many times to that meter.

Doesn't that tend to be a mindset of BD? When ever something strange out of place etc happens it tends to energize the corps. I remember the Canadian show when it started raining in the middle of the show there was this inexplicable energy that seemed to come out during the last part of the show. Or, after the fire and the Rosemont show (when the drummers used VK's drums -- turquoise with fluorescent orange).

When Garfield showed up at prelims/finals the show's tempo was slower than what it had been previously in the year. At finals the most exciting show was Blue Devils in the top three.

When SCV introduced the new guard skirts in '83 a week before finals one of the guardmembers lost her skirt at a show in the Tampa Bay area. Her skirt wasn't fitting her well because of the amount of weight she had lost during the summer.

To beat Sam to the punch: "I marched 84 BD. Where's my ring?" :)

I have my BD chain that hung on the jacket. I have a pair of Phantom guard gloves (one pink one white) from 84. My SCV starburst was stolen but I still have my no Garfield button from 83.

Hey Sam, was it 84 BD when a couple of the snares wore the dog collars?

That was the tendency of all the finals shows that BD did during the early 80s. A case in point was 1983, of the top three corps that night in Miami BD's was the most electrifying. SCV's show was flat from prelims, and the shows that Garfield was doing at finals just didn't have the excitement as they were at DCI Midwest. To clarify, I'm not saying their show was not good at finals, but that it just wasn't as exciting as they had done earlier in the season. I'm sure my comments are debatable, but my point is that BD was the exciting corps on the field that night.