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SBrancheau

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  • Your Drum Corps Experience
    None - couldn't afford it
  • Your Favorite Corps
    27th Lancers
  • Your Favorite All Time Corps Performance (Any)
    Tie: 1980 27th Lancers & 1987 Garfield Cadets
  • Your Favorite Drum Corps Season
    1980 - any of the top 5 could have won!
  • Gender
    Female
  • Location
    Indianapolis, IN
  • Interests
    Color Guard, Scuba Diving, Reading, Quilting

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  1. Thanks! Missed it in the regular forums...
  2. Wow, I'm surprised. No mention of the passing of Fred J. Miller in this forum! From my earliest baton-twirling memories, there have always been Miller's Blackhawks. They completely DOMINATED the USTA (United States Twirling Association) for many years (National Champions from the 1950's through 1968, if I read that properly). Mr. Miller was passionate about pageant arts. And we, as afficianados of the sport owe him a debt of gratitude for bringing spinning (flags, rifles, sabres, even batons) into the "norm". Thank you, Mr. Miller! Sally
  3. We had this happen when I was in the Marching Sycamores at Indiana State University. So genius in ISU's athletic department decided to schedule the Sycamores AT U-Florida...in The Swamp. Their fans threw oranges and ice and their football players tackled a member or two of our color guard. The best part was, the 5th-ranked Gators won 17-14. We almost didn't make it out of Gainesville. To this day, I despise Florida.
  4. Here's the link: 2011 WGI Hall of Fame Discuss. I only know one of the inductees. And, since it will violate DCP's TOS, I won't comment. The person's impact on guard can't be denied, but their personality is not stellar. And that's all I'll say about that.
  5. I agree with this completely. When you are teaching a fluid move, there has to be some "reference points" so that it's more uniform. For example, moving the silk from left to right in 4 counts, it's easiest to clean when you say, "1 is at the left 45 angle, 2 is straight in front of you, 3 is at the right 45 angle, 4 is back at right shoulder arms". Well, there's more subjective opinion about the speed and angle of those counts! It is interesting that there was a "style"...East, West, Midwest. From the Midwest, I did push spins (and I actually prefer them for fluidity than drop spins) in high school and BOTH in college. With drop spins, one has to be careful not to "flap" the elbows.
  6. Sue, about Vanguard 87...I agree completely about where the show looked the best. I think you sent me a tape of just the high-camera angle, and it was very beautiful.
  7. I'm with "Crowding" here. I have money to spend. I'm a "guardie". I like costumes and dancing, to a point. What I want to see is kick-### equipment work that's clean, clean, clean. I don't want a lot of props and stuff cluttering the field. If you can't illustrate the music with just equipment work, you aren't working hard enough. Guard members should not have to have a dance major to participate and instructors should not have to have a dance degree to teach it. I, too, love drum corps. That which is being fielded currently is not drum corps. JMHO.
  8. I would COME BACK if shows were 80's/90's type shows. I left awhile back. If you have to have a premise, complete with "liner notes", it doesn't need to go on the field. I take NOTHING away from the kids today. What they do is absolutely amazing. What I have issue with are the adults who have led the kids down this path.
  9. Sam, I didn't say anything about not fitting the theme. I'm saying all that stuff was not NEEDED. Unnecessary. Cluttered the show. Distracted me. Who knows, if I weren't so obsessed with the STUFF, I might notice how great the rest of it was! Cadets could have trotted out a whole bunch of props, visuals, etc. Yet, they let the drill and the equipment book provide the picture and color it. As I said, I'm one in about 10 million who did not like SCV's show. I'm okay with that.
  10. Okay, I'm going to get the heck flamed out of me, but I did NOT like SCV's 87 show. Now, I did not see it in person. But I did see it live and on PBS. And I have the Legacy DVD, so I watch 87's Finals a lot. Didn't like the "wizard" - which was cheesy; didn't like the backdrop, which looked cheap; didn't like the fuzzy Russian hats - which were incongruous to the summer outfits of the guard, BTW; didn't like the props of the guard - balls, hoops, etc.. I DID like the music and thought that SCV played the heck out of it. Marching was very good. I liked Cadets' show because it was uncluttered with 'stuff' (see litany above). The music, drill, choreography told the story and painted the picture. Yes, Cadets' guard book was ridiculously easy. I thought spinning the rifles by the strap during that 'western' section of music was a great touch. Guard uniforms were incredibly gorgeous. Great idea to have dowels in the skirts of the guard for visual effects. I'll probably add more as I think of stuff. But, I think that, in 1987, the proper corps took home the hardware.
  11. For me, they were the whole package: strong music, outstanding horn lines, great drumline, but that color guard was what sealed it for me. Their guard (flags and rifles) threw everything into the air...never seeming to miss! Spot on...ALWAYS! And with a "I dare you to find anything wrong with me!" Like they could spin telephone poles. My jaw dropped every time I saw them. Amazing, amazing, amazing. Plus, dare I admit it? I love plaid. Wacky for the khaki!
  12. Nancy: Oh my, these photos are so great! It truly brings a tear to my eye. I hope we can meet some day. You, me and Malibu...
  13. Lawrence North High School, Indianapolis - July 1981 First time I'd seen 27th Lancers in person. I'd seen the 1980 Finals on videotape and played 27 over and over and over. Being a "guardie", I was hooked on that flag and rifle line! Oh-so-bada--! Anyway, at LNHS, just when 27 was to take the field, the front stadium lights went out. Only the back stadium lights were lit. After a 15-minute delay to see what the problem was, 27 decided there was enough light to perform with just the back lights. Needless to say, when those flags started flying (the tri-colored - red, black, yellow - with streamers), it looked like the guard was spinning fire! WAY COOL! People were throwing babies! THAT is when I became a HUGE 27th Lancers fan!
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