Terri Schehr

McGill stadium in Montreal had old splintery benches like that.

Everybody lost some shows.

I did NOT like marching on that field.

My middle school concert band played The Pines of the Appian Way so I was slightly familiar with the Pines of Rome.

I liked it.

My favorite Hermann score is “Vertigo”. His favorite, believe it or not, was “The Ghost and Mrs. Muir”. The movie, not that silly tv show.

I first heard Tower of Power from Anaheim Kingsmen. Now I try see them in concert once a year. I saw them again last November.

Mr. Warren would recruit guard members from the juvenile detention home. I heard that story from an old Cavalier I marched with in the RA reunion corps. He said that young lives were turned around. He rescued them and gave them purpose. Sie Lurye and many others did the same thing.

Except Kilts alumni corps. I’m really sorry they did that because if you weren’t going to do it right, then don’t do it.

Oh well. I liked it. Hahaha 😂

I’ve heard more than one person call the Royal Airs a street gang from Humboldt Park.

I’m not going very far back. Mandarins last year. I’m usually kind of meh about them. Not that they aren’t good because they are. It’s me. But when I saw them in Cincinnati last August…holy moly… 🥰 First runner up: 2022 Troopers. Didn’t see that coming either. .

It really was. Lots of spectators, too, which was great for the members.

I could have a card game with the amount of spectators in the stands Thursday morning. On the upside, It’s the only time I don’t have to evict anyone from my seat. The most people I saw in attendance for Div 2/3 now open class was when finals were in Madison. But you had a lot of relatively local corps in the shows. Cap Sound, Americanos, Blue stars were Div 2. Plus a lot more corps in those divisions. i have seats in 240 for the all-age championship. It will be interesting to see the support level for that event, especially with a free Soundsport event is being held down the street.

I’ll see them on Thursday morning. I’m going to an open class show in Cincinnati, too. Plus, most of shows I’m going to have all-age and open class. Trust me, after spending five years watching Div 2/3 almost exclusively, i support open class.

I chopped a day off of our stay. We’re coming in Thursday morning instead of Wednesday. It’s only 1 1/2 hours from Cincinnati. No reason to be there Wednesday night.

I think Ken actually had some integrity about that. He sued Herscher high School (and won) in the mid 70’s for lifting one of his arrangements note for note.

I did see them. I was in the first 29th place DCI corps ever!

I think most professional sports franchises make more money from television contracts than gate. Maybe college, too.

I listen to classic rock in the car. I can tell you any Steely Dan song in five notes or less.

I’m nice the first six times. 😂

Mine still fit before I did the great purge. I still weigh the same so i imagine it would still fit. I’ve went up and down in weight five or ten pounds for several years but I weigh about the same as when I marched. Jim had a VK jacket from when he was helping them out in the 80’s and it was so small because he was in the Marine Corps. Definitely wouldn’t have fit him now. 😂

I don’t make it through everyone those three days, either. I schedule to see everyone over three days. I am in my seats for the entire finals show. Except 2022 when chaos reigned the streets and I barely got in for Troopers. Happy Leap Year Day, Everyone!

Lucky you. You witnessed magic. I was 7 and hadn’t even picked a French Horn until the next year. Hahaha Jim and his Dad went, too. He said he wanted to be in the Royal-Airs but by the time he was old enough to go, they were no more. So he went to the Kilties.