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Your Drum Corps Experience
French Horn: Santa Clara Vanguard 1984, Guardsmen 1978-82, Fox Valley Raiders 1977
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Your Favorite Corps
SCV, of course
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Your Favorite All Time Corps Performance (Any)
At the moment, SCV 1999
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Your Favorite Drum Corps Season
1984
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Djembe and West African music, traveling the world, politics, my beautiful wife and baby boy.
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Thanks for the post, Continental, it brings back a lot of memories and helps make up for the inept finals-night broadcast that year. I joined SCV just about a month before this show, to fill a French horn hole. I had quit drum corps two years before to pursue college, but a friend invited me back at the last minute. I remember my terror the first few shows, including this one, trying not frack or fall over while performing the most difficult book and drill I had ever marched, all with one month of practice. You can see me at the exact 10:00 mark, the right-most French horn with the cheesy mustache and anxious demeanor. I had totally forgotten about those blue flags the horn players were sporting. The flags got ditched after just a few shows, and the horn line got taught interpretive dance moves instead. Horn players learning to dance was one of those "Oh, so this is SCV" moments for me. The show remained amazingly intact throughout the season. T-Racer, correct me if I am wrong, but I don't recall any major drill or horn re-writes that summer. Mr. Royer and his crew knew what they were doing. The exception is the end of the show, which got re-written just about every week. New horn arrangements of the last couple phrases, sometimes twice in a day, and constant drill tweaks, and a slow evolution to the final "tableau" of horn poses by the end of the season. The very end of the show was remarkably difficult, requiring the horns to play at pianissimo at the front sideline, seconds after that long company front played, tunefully, at a lung-emptying volume. You can hear what a challenge it is on this video, when the intonation on the final note goes all to hell. But ####, overall, we were pretty impressive for so early in the season.
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Winston-Salem, NC - Sunday, July 28, 2019
quietcity replied to DrumScorps's topic in DCI World Class Corps Discussions
Oh, don't get me started! -
Winston-Salem, NC - Sunday, July 28, 2019
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Great, now I am all pizzed off about the GoT finale again. Ravens totally under-utilized! -
Winston-Salem, NC - Sunday, July 28, 2019
quietcity replied to DrumScorps's topic in DCI World Class Corps Discussions
I am Joan. I can do better. I will not throw away my shot. -
Winston-Salem, NC - Sunday, July 28, 2019
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In this new era of staged musicians, Knights taking real risks visually, by moving and playing so much, and with such effective drill. Unfortunately, they are dirty as all get out. -
Winston-Salem, NC - Sunday, July 28, 2019
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Wow, compared to Cadets, the Knights have such a more coherent design and music philosophy. I loved the flow and smoothness of their musical and visual ideas. Gorgeous music too -
Winston-Salem, NC - Sunday, July 28, 2019
quietcity replied to DrumScorps's topic in DCI World Class Corps Discussions
Cadets seem to be searching for a new style, but they are not there yet, and it is kind of painful to watch. Their show is made up of bits and pieces of old Cadets and other corps. They don't have a distinctive and coherent new image yet. I am hoping they can achieve this over the next year or so. -
Winston-Salem, NC - Sunday, July 28, 2019
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I don't understand this arrangement of Bridge Over Troubled Waters. The style kind of wanders all over. -
Broken Arrow, OK - Tuesday, July 16, 2019
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Now don't exaggerate. -
Is smoking still allowed on tour?
quietcity replied to HolyNOLA's topic in DCI World Class Corps Discussions
Average price of one pack of cigarettes in Chicago is now $12. I know some young folks who have trouble making ends meet but still buy cigarettes. It is a vicious habit, one of the hardest to break. It is certainly not a corps' job to dictate whether or not a member smokes, but if the corps can dissuade a teen from smoking, everyone is better off. -
Denver, CO - Saturday, July 13, 2019
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Holy smokes, I love BK's show! Beautiful brass writings and coherent musical expression. -
Denver, CO - Saturday, July 13, 2019
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Does anyone know whose voice is being used in the show? Sounds like a very old Leonard Nimoy. -
Denver, CO - Saturday, July 13, 2019
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Loving BK's music, something I have not said in a while. -
Memphis, TN - Saturday, July 13, 2019
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SCV left me cold at the beginning of the season. I am warming to the show, but it still feels like "Babylon: The B Sides" -
Memphis, TN - Saturday, July 13, 2019
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HORN SNAP! jk.....