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Mikah

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  1. 6 minutes ago, BACSnareMama said:

    I'm late to the game here, but had to say WOOHOO, great run BOSTON CRUSADERS!!! (I spent the day moving my kid's stuff back to college and walked in the door literally 2 minutes before Boston's show started-so glad I didn't miss it!). That is all, lol. :3_grin:

    Glad you made it! Boston's whole show gave me chills. I didn't feel that with the Cavies, plus I cried at the end of Boston's show. Love it!

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  2. 3 hours ago, Northern Thunder said:

    Am I remembering correctly that James Curnow was on the Imperial Guard staff back then??

    I don't know. I've heard the name, but I don't know if there is an IG connection. I didn't march their 1st year. I do know we had some talented people behind us like, Larry Kerchner, who wrote Emerald Eyes for us, Tom Roe, who wrote our drill designs, and George Tuthill, who handled our percussion arrangements.

  3. Since I was very young, I wanted to be in band, and march in parades, wearing a Busby (which never happened). In 1975, my middle school band director added a rifle line to our parade unit, and I became their captain. My band director showed us a video of the '75 PBS broadcast of the DCI finals. Since then, I have been in love with drum corps, but I thought it would never happen to me, being there were no nearby corps.  My freshman year of college, (my school had no band) 1980, I was walking on campus when I heard the familiar sounds of DCI. I had to find and speak to this person, who shared the same passion. The girl marched in the drumline of the 1980 Imperial Guard (and she is still drumming in her own band today). I joined the Imperial Guard in '81. 

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    Wow, the '65 BAC cleaned up nicely in the off season. I really like it. I rarely see corps members wearing anything other than sweats, shorts, t-shirts, tank tops, and sometimes, as little as possible. What shocks me is the smoking. I don't recall any of my band mates of the '70's smoking, and I don't remember any corps members smoking in the '80's.

     

  5. Hey all! I'm new to this forum, but I've been a drum corps nut since 1975, when I saw the PBS broadcast of the '75 DCI finals. I marched rifle in band from '75 - '80. During concert season, I played flute. I watched the DCI finals every year it was on PBS, and the last year when it was on ESPN2. I had cassette tapes of the top 12 corps, from '75 - '78, and maybe '79. I saw my first live DCI show was in '78. I joined the Imperial Guard Drum and Bugle Corps as a flag in '81, and marched rifle in '82. I won $100 betting on the final 12 of '82. I would not trade my corps experience for anything in the world. My only regrets: I wish I had joined drum corps sooner, and I wish I had joined another corps when Imperial Guard folded my age-out year.

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