tommyfromhowardst
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Allan Murray, performer, instructor, designer and entrepreneur, has accepted a position with Ludwig-Musser to bring the label back to prominence as the new Director of Sales and Marketing.
Expect new designs to bring Ludwig-Musser into the 21st Century, and a new dedication to the marching percussion community.
I am confident that Allan will be successful in this challenge, as he has been in similar situations before. I'm looking forward to Ludwig-Musser taking a leadership role in drum corps and marching band once again.
Garry in Vegas
PS Whew! I've been sitting on this information for two weeks!
CT,
Long time. I visited Ludwig in Indiana about two years ago with a new marching drum design for snares and bass drums--I wonder if they ripped it off and call it theirs now. Hope not. It was a well engineered drum designed by a drummer and a couple of structural engineers from Chicago that incorporated the shell with the rim--no more floating rim, no more 14 lb drums, no more formica sound and no ringing. Amazing. I will be interested to see what they come up with.......
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What color were those uniforms?
They were black and white.
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Phantom
Crown
Cadets
Blue Devils
Cavaliers
Blue Stars
Glassmen
Santa Clara
Boston
Cubs
Madison
Spirit
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check this out... maybe there's a big gold triangle on there somewhere...
Nice plume placement, though I'm sure most people have felt like doing that to someone now and then...
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Fold, fold, diminish, fold.....I'm 3-0-1.....they were going to pay me NOT to join Madison.....
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Maybe for Eastern/Western Lowland and Mountain Gorillas.
Black is boring with a capital B. Should only be used as an accent or border color, not as the major part of any uniform........
Whoa--you better check out Belleville's uniforms from bitd.......Black Knights had some of the baddest unis around!
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I thought she was going to say "they're dusting off their sombreros" but said "skills" at the last second!
Go Americanos!! Great press coverage.........
edited for incorrect word use
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I'm sorry for your loss--thank you for your story. It made me feel better.
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it's interesting that the White Sox are in the picture in the OP. The first time they used black was in 1951 I think, and before then it was mostly dark navy pinstripes. Black has been primary for them since 1991.
Yeah, they bounced around with red, light blue, navy blue, and black.....since the first (official) American League game back in 1901 against the Cleveland Indians.....
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4th sop in BD...alot of it was supporting parts....upper lead sop stuff an octave down, doubling the lead bari, etc.
Lead sop in Keesler Blue Knights
Cymbals in Dagenham (half the line!)
2nd sop in Empire
Director of Nightfire
2nd/3rd sop in SoCal Dream (mostly 2nd...played 3rd on a couple of charts over the years)
Fencer in Crunchy Frog!
2nd sop in BD alum
Show-off!!!
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Hey Northern Thunder, do you have corps breakdowns for 1960, 1950, etc. how many and state by state? I hear tell there were a lot more than the 442 from '72.
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All of our best to you , Donna-Mae.
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I'm all for it--the current two-tone jobbers never really did it. Looked like spokesmen for Lincoln automobiles. Phantom never won with their two-tone uni bitd either.
Needs a red plume. Silver buckle. Cross straps. Something. They are going to tear it up this year and new unis will further them along. Like it did for SCV '73. We can only hope.
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One of the best for myself and many others was Kenosha, Wis. early June '73, first show of the year. Des Plaines Vanguard. We came marching out of the fog breathing fire and tearing the ground up with Holst's Planets (the original). Jim Unrath (HOF) was doing GE and we could not hear his comments on the tape due to his twirling the mic around like a bolo, screaming his head off, jabbering something about being in the high 90's at that point. Apparently we had pulled off the most exciting, loudest, monster opener of all time. Crowd almost rushed us on the field. Nothing but screaming, crying, and clapping. The air was charged that night and we were the recipients. We made new friends.
Unfortunately the rest of the show and season took a 90 degree turn south for us as we placed 20th that year but those 2 1/2 minutes were the greatest of all time.
Was anyone else there?
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You would have marched with a number of Mariners who jumped to DPV midseason in 72. Johnny Jackson, Larry Odom, Steve Rasputin Batton. A bunch of Mariners including future Blue Stars DM Don Fitzgerald went to LaCrosse the following year. Bobby Williams was another.
Yuo I remember all those names--Raz was cool, so was Bobby.....I marched LaCrosse in '74 with a lot of the Milwaukee crew, as they were called......cool beans!
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I don't know about quads, but Spirit and Cavaliers had quints in 1978. My guess would be the Cabs, with their timbale/bongo or congo/bongo set up. If you are asking for a junior corps, then maybe Muchachos. I know Ludwig and Slingerland marketed this set-up in the 60's. Since this is a DCI trivia game, my answer would Muchachos 1972.
That reminds me, '73 bridgemen trip line had a pair of bongos fused to their hi and lo drum for a total of 5--does that count?
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Then someone informed me that there were no trombones and I had the "trombone guy" nickname for the rest of the season. I was in the pit, what did I know about drill anyway?
The drum corps culture is packed with places where the slightest bit of newbie ignorance is sure to be met with some friendly ridicule.
You could certainly fill a segment of your speech with funny examples of hazing. There are a million atories that you could get that are better than this one.
That's funny about trombone guy, mine was corps jinx. I remember being at initiations standing nude in front of the inquisition eating a cigarette and an onion--great combo, answering questions that would determine my next punishment, going on zero sleep that night with a hand full of vasaline in my hair that didn't come out for a week, and a looooong, hot, 3 mile parade the next Sunday morning. That's just one day I manage to remember--there was worse.
Are initiations as ruthless as they were bitd?
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Blue Devils home show: 1972 Precision West in Pleasant Hill, Ca.
In attendance:
1) SC Vanguard featuring soprano soloist Wayne Downey
2) San Francisco Conquistadors, taught by Wayne Downey
3) Capitolaires. I don't think they were renamed to Capitol Freelancers yet, could've been.
4) San Jose Knight Raiders
5) Stockton Commodores. My favorite corps and the only one I remember.
There were probably others. My dad has a recording of that show. I was surprised at how well Blue Devils sounded in 72.
When I was in the Des Plaines Vanguard in '73, I saw the Commodores for the first time and their rep was that they were ex-convicts or audy home graduates which scared a lot of folks except my corps the Vanguard--who's members wanted to know if the Commodores had the same parole officers or did time at the same facility. Wacky wacky wacky.......
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How much does it pay?
Garry in Vegas
Ha, and I just moved here to Los Angeles--I better check the web site........
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Now, Mr. FSU, Premier drums in the 70s IS trivia.
And me and the boys from Chicago and New York and Vegas is gonna keep talking drums. Capiche?
I don’t recall any slotted lugs on the Premiers. But what do I know, I only tuned the tympani.
I would have liked to see Royal Scots, with £500 worth of emblazoning on the shells. But our BM bought the cheapest model that would make Sorny happy.
Now Sorny sez if there was too much ring, he just tuned the drums higher. And used the internal dampeners which were standard in all field drums of that era.
We quickly discovered that buzzrolls had to be played off-center. It took a way lot longer to figure out how to release those same buzzrolls without ticking.
The Kilties' single-head thunder bass was carried by Ron “Fogs” Anderson, who actually did know how to use his left arm quite well. He won DCI I&E on tri-tenor in 1974.
All good except Fog won in '75.
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Tomorrow night, when I have my new computer, please? :)
Yer gettin' a new box? What'd ya' get?
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If I remember correctly it was either a trailing penalty built into the show or a timing penalty . 1.8 worth just like Mike said. Average age of the corps. was about 14-15 years old.Had a killer staff too.Bobby Hoffman , Pete and Jody Emmons,Mike Moxle, Don Angelica, Frank Levy,Fred Sanford to name some.
To this day don't I know why it was never corrected.
Wow, those are some heavyweight names...
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There isn't any countdown clock in the rules, Mr. Bone.
Ya want a bugle question, huh? Okay.
For a number of seasons, the DCI rules stated it was illegal to play a certain pitch on certain bugles.
What was that note?
Bonus questions to follow.
Low b flat?
What's with all the hate for BD
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