drmr27
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I have no idea and wish you would let the world know!!! lol (I bet it was when you were marching....!)
1975, My first year on the sidelines.
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I never knew Lancers wore Black Watch kilts. THAT is a major trivia question!
An even better trivia question for you. When did the 27th Lancers drums change from Black Watch tartan to Stewart?
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Am I dreaming - didn't you bang a timp in 1971 ?????
Yup. 1970 too, but DCI wasn't invented then. Neither was the internets.
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72, 73, 74, and Once more in '94
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Comments heard in Drum Corps:.............
- What do they wear under their kilts?
Years of experience...
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1982 Montreal Finals
and the guy on the right is thinking, "eat 'em up Boston...(sigh)"
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Contact Thom Hannum. He did his thesis on marching cymbals.
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Hey Billy,
I'm pretty sure that middle bass drummer is Tommy Murphy, Ann Murphy's brother and not my buddy, Steve Groh :)
I think we should all go find Steve Groh and beat the $#!^ out of him.
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And we still managed to place 2nd after all of that! Not too bad for a "rinky dink" Corps from California. Heh...
Rinky dink?
Maggie we only had to travel about twenty miles for the show but did it in yellow school busses or our own cars. (have you ever seen a 36" bass drum stuffed into the back seat of a VW convertible?) We owed too much money to the bus company to get 3 coaches. I remember that week very well and we did our best show at the CYO only to see 7th place. We could not believe we could have ever won the World Open against the real powerful corps like Anaheim, Troopers and some other corps from northern California.
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Miami, FL
1 87.450 Troopers
2 86.750 Boston Crusaders
3 85.550 The Cavaliers
4 85.050 Blessed Sacrament Golden Knights
5 84.900 Blue Stars
6 84.550 Kilties
7 83.800 Madison Scouts
8 82.550 Argonne Rebels
9 82.500 27th Lancers
10 82.200 The Cadets
11 81.400 Blue Rock
12 74.000 Black Knights
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Their tribute site is here:
http://www.desplainesvanguard.com
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Des Plaines was one of my favorite corps to compete against and some very cool people.
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Yeah!! Yeah! But didja ever march the Dream?
Yeah...won it too! It was wicked pissa!
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Does photoshop count?
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I'm not sure we have all the facts to determine who is/was "the LARGEST DRUM CORPS TO EVER PERFORM"....
But, just to keep the record a little straight....
...according to the beanman site, 27th Alumni marched 286 dedicated people....
....Kingsmen Alumni marched.....wait for it.....286 dedicated people.....
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I heard this beanman guy marched that show with a mouse in his pocket. Does that make it 287?
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Apparently the 27th Lancers are alive and well. In Makati City in the Phillipines.
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I was going to write a novella here about how we were "blue collar" all the way through our history but I decided to just let the sound and pictures speak for themselves.
http://beanman.net/HistoryX.html
Take the tour, chapter by chapter in the words of the Lancers themselves.
UPDATE: I think I have a few broken links in there but most of it is intact. Time to get of my ### and fix the site I guess.
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I had seen St Patrick's Imperials at finals at US Open in 1972. I checked corpsreps and they weren't there. I remember seeing a corps with Kilts on and Kilties weren't there. The other thing about that show...I saw the cymbal players from Racine Scouts tossing cymbals over the horn lines head. Did I remember this or was I just dreaming?
The Kilties were there and finished 4th. 27th Lancers were there also and finshed 2nd.
2-7 percussion wore kilts in '72.
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I was there.
Whitewater mosquitos were bigger than pigeons, and it rained like hell!
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Inspection strategies.
Almost every corps lined up for inspection by section and in an order something like their OTL opening set. If you ever saw the 27th Lancers line up for inspection circa 1969 you saw a seemingly random lineup of a soprano next to a snare drummer next to a flag next to a contra next to a cymbal player, etc. The move from the inspection line to starting line wasn't a company front but instead a crowd, randomly sauntering to form an orderly opening set on the starting line.
The inspection lineup was actually very carefully thought out and crafted. The 27th Lancer uniform of the late 60' was pieced together from Army & Navy stores around Boston. Shirts and pants were often different shades of khaki and sometimes slightly different styles. By mixing up sections and uniforms on the inspection line it made it harder for the inspection judge to pick out variations in the uniform.
I think Ike Ianessa was the brain behind this strategy. Maybe there is a Moe Knox picture of this somewhere.
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I have a "virtual" performance of the 27th Lancers from 1968 up on www.beanman.net.
I call it virtual because the video is a super 8 film transfer shot at a local circuit show early in the season without any audio. The audio was from the 1968 World Open synched to the video. It took many hours of adjusting the timing and speed of the video to sync up with the music. There are some places where the pictures and sound just would not match up and if you look very closely at the snare drums, its obvious that they are playing parts in June that were drastically changed when the sound was recorded in August.
It isn't the oldest thing out there but it is what a local Eastern Mass. circuit show looked like 40 years ago.
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Wonderful bit of history! I played around with the photo a bit; hopefully this is better:
BTW, Legend. The tenor completely obscured by Zinga's big giant head, thats me. ####!, I never looked better! Oops. I think one of my socks fell down.
Was BIG Wally marching then? and was he carrying his library card?
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It was Columbus Day 1969 when I first saw my future corps. I was standing on a side street, with my former CYO band waiting to step off. It seemed like every band, drum corps and drill team marched the Revere Columbus Day. It was the look of the Aussie hat, the simple khaki shirt and slacks with Sam Browne belt, spit shined shoes, Kelly Green ascot along with that sound of Rawhide and I was hooked.
I extend a Happy Birthday to the brothers and sister I marched with and post here:
drmr27
John2780
UP4479
A27Lancer
O.P.
tgk2779
LancerFi
1975-27thLancer was older, & ferb27, his bro Keith, and Lancerlady, were younger - but we shared the same passion.
Legend, your passion and intense dedication to the Lancer family has always been inspirational. All of the good people you mentioned, and many more, are greater than friends, they ARE family.
The first time I ever the 27th Lancers was the very first time the corps competed on any field. It was Kelly field in Hyde Park, early June of 1968. I was hooked just watching them walk on to the field. It took me two years but I took that walk in 1970 with the Lancers onto the field in Bridgeport, CT. I remember hearing the opening gun then the next thing I remembered was the sound of my own heart beating, drowning out the cheers of the crowd.
The next time I felt like that was in Foxboro 24 years later.
Happy birthday all!
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Isn't that our own adorable DCPer Steve Groh on the rightmost Tymp...( and Kenny McKay[ AKA Giant] on the leftmost)...
1971 27th Lancers is my favorite Lancer CorpS. I can still hear Wes hobby "and when the competetive dust had settled at Manning Bowl, the 27th Lancers were Wold Open Champions !!!!!!!
ps... I hated the counterweights on the tymps.. some chiropractor's idea
Hehehe... adorable.... No one but my mom ever said that about me, you're not dating my mom by any chance, are you, John?
A couple corrections about the ID's in that picture. The unknown tenor was the one and only, how could anyone ever forget, DAN DENNEHY! (Daaaaaannnnnn....)
The 2 man cymbal line was the best executing, and most humble subsection of the entire battery. If you look at the hands holding the left side cymbal, you will see that one of them is slightly darker than the other. Those two professionals were Ric Manning and Keith Maynard, aka, salt and pepper.
adorable....hehehehe.
counterweights $uck
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I was lucky enough to be in the Lancers during some very good years but ended my tenure in 1974. Without a doubt the worst year in the corps' history to go out on.
That 1974 show was not a very good show to begin but if you could get past some obvious performance issues and listen to the structure of the show there were some pretty good ideas going on there. Unfortunately those good ideas were too few and far between to hold an audiences or judges interest for very long. After the staff made the changes and "improvements" recommended to them in many post show critiques, the show we brought to Ithaca was REALLY bad. In spite of all that the members and staff all worked extremely hard that year if only to get the corps to survive until 1975.
Someday I am going to get around to re-posting the original version of "TWO-SEVEN" up on the Beanman.net. I thought chopping it up into 8 or 9 chapters would make it easier to stream and more accessible but sometimes you just have to leave things alone...no matter how bad they are.
Special note to John2780: come down to Florida where the weather isn't nearly as hot and stormy!
Boston Crusaders
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So if it ever gets to the point that BAC would have to go through a name change operation ( breath NOT being held here) I think they could get the name "27th Lancers" for real cheap. No one seems to be using it right now.