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40 minutes ago, gak27 said:
Ahh, Brador. I went to college in Detroit and would frequently travel across the river to Windsor for beer runs....and "guard" practice...
No Tunnel BBQ?
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41 minutes ago, Phantombari1 said:
Continental I have great memories of marching that show, this is the first time I've seen a video of finals that year. Comparing it to today's shows is like night and day.
I love how the drill continually flows. Everything just so clean.
There's one set that JB repeated from '80 (well, almost identical). The rotating arcs that meet in the center before the brass/guard pass through in the ballad are very similar to the opening arcs in Easter Overture at the beginning of the '80 show.
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I sincerely hope honoring the Cadets tradition means a return to maroon and gold.
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2 hours ago, Sutasaurus said:
Nope. I was on M&M staff then
Cool overhead view of Phantom's '81 show - from prelims in Montreal.
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1 hour ago, Rocketman said:
JB's first visual writing for Regiment was 1980!
Didn't PR win M&M that year?
***just confirmed, they did win M&M in 1980.
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30 minutes ago, xandandl said:
Thanks, men. I knew my memory wasn't completely gone. Thanks for the visuals (when GE meant more than just lavender and lilacs.)
The guard back then was tough as nails.
Suta, was John Brazale running the guard program for Phantom back in '79? I thought he started with the guard and then moved to visual in the 80's.
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4 hours ago, cixelsyd said:
No amount of furniture changes that.
IKEA really should sponsor a show. Overheard in the stands during said show:
"I can't pronounce the name of this show."
"35 pages into the drill and I still don't see how this all comes together at the the end."
"I can't wait till they add the matching end-tables at the end of the season."
"That drill in the upper right hand corner has become too tight and it's caused a crack."
"Is it me or is there a part missing in the show?"
"I thought this show would be quick, but it seems like it's never ending."
"Why does everyone stand in the aisles during the show?"
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21 minutes ago, xandandl said:
much earlier than that, didn't the conductors of Regiment wear a red top with a black helmet for several seasons? (I couldn't find the photos in Kodak's closet.)
Drum Major with red top can be seen in the above.
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3 minutes ago, xandandl said:
Yah, here's a photo of himself in partial red which PR's p.r. used in the announcement of his transition from Rome to Rockford. (Wonder if everyone in the corps will have to have blond hair by the time the season ends, ha, ha.) I'll look for a real red photo from previous archives. The Joanettes in red for 2nd half of '19 show was stunning to say the least.
Looking back, Phantom has had red as part of the uniform on multiple occasions.
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Just now, Sutasaurus said:
It’s a family name. I’ve been around for centuries
My emotional support Llama just told me to start supporting everything you said from now on.
Great family name!
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Just now, Sutasaurus said:
Continental who?
Sutathesaurus? What kind of a name is that?
Oops - get ready for the off-topic police.
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2 minutes ago, Sutasaurus said:
It’s the font police watching👀
LOL
Oops. I'm not supposed to agree with you. Tag teaming once again.
My emotional support Llama tells me not to. I tell him to stop spitting at me.
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34 minutes ago, Fran Haring said:
Could you please post with regular font?
It's bad enough I misread posts with regular font... this small-font stuff is no help.
Its regular on my end.
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5 minutes ago, Jeff Ream said:
I have few hobbies. Pissing people off on here who think a post count is an insult is one of them
LOL
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3 minutes ago, Jeff Ream said:
yeah there used to be this place called the off topic forums where a bunch of us posted all the time. that count hasn't really grown since 2007, but thanks for playing.
For someone who doesn't take this place seriously, you spend a lot of time here.
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4 hours ago, xandandl said:
also heard uniforms will be all red since BAC and SCV have relinquished that powerful color. Regt. has already done the white, the black, and the tan. I think their conductor wore red at some time in Rockford's history.
While not being all red, there were multiple times when they had red as part of the uniform...the latest being 2017 with the red accent
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8 hours ago, Jeff Ream said:
no i get credit for deciding some days DCP aint all that
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12 hours ago, Sutasaurus said:
Scars heal my friend.
The emotional support Llama I got is helping.
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On 9/13/2019 at 6:57 PM, 2000Cadet said:
REALLY wish Cadets would tackle the Ambient music genre. There are so many ballads that are just WAITING to be played.
The ballad from Paul Lovatt-Cooper's "Immortal" would be perfect for Cadets.
But please oh please go back to maroon and gold.
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4 hours ago, Sutasaurus said:
The point I tried to make four pages ago.....
I would write a supportive comment, but yesterday I was emotionally scarred because you and I were accused of being a tag team duo.
As soon as I stopped hyperventilating, I looked up "rent a safe space" on Google. None were to be found. I rushed out of the house and luckily on the corner of my street there was a cardboard pop-up safe space (great idea Fridgidaire!). I curled up on the floor of it in the fetal position as I pondered life and all things about it. A good amount of time passed (as well as a nearby skunk) until I began to think of ways to turn this unfortunate event into something more positive. Unfortunately it started to rain and the walls of my safe space began to bend. It was time to return home.
However, while thinking of ways to turn this around, I came up with a show idea for HGTV called "Trading Safe Spaces." I feel it would be quite popular although they need to be careful which designers they choose for the show. Hildi would probably cause more emotional damage with her designs.
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8 minutes ago, dans said:
Sadly, in current America, differing opinions are labeled as randomly and casually throwing out some type of repressed hate...and deserve to be shamed. In other words, opinions you don't agree with are to be shamed. Very open minded of you!
There is hate out there. A lot of it is obvious hate. Your generalization does not make it any less horrendous than it is.
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14 minutes ago, HockeyDad said:
Employer says “climb up there and yada yada”. Employer doesn’t provide safe climbing equipment. Such as a spotter, someone to hold the ladder and so on. Employee falls and gets hurt. Hard to see how employer escapes responsibility for this. Plus the employee was never paid any wages? Oh boy.
The staircase props from this year's show might have been put to good use.
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1 minute ago, JimF-LowBari said:
Wondering if insurance company will check this out to decide if it might have been preventable. And then figure out rates for next renewal.
Then the cost increase can be passed onto the membership.....YEA!
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1 minute ago, Jeff Ream said:
suspended once, had a post or 20 removed. but fighting a cold, and irriitable today, so i choose carefully before i type
Someone like you with the experience you have on this board is the last person I would expect that response from.
So it must be the cold taking over your body and making you a completely different person than you usually are.
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2020 Phantom Regiment
in DCI World Class Corps Discussions
Posted · Edited by Continental
Was a landmark Windsor restaurant located near the entrance to the tunnel to Detroit. Was closed about 5 years ago.