bluecoat92

84 is still my all-time favorite top 3!!!

Gonna be a great weekend! Can't wait to see the corps!!!

Gotta tell ya... as a proud alumni of the Caballeros it is such a kick to watch the videos they post every week up on their website to celebrate the 60th Anniversary: http://www.cabs.org/60th.asp Brings back lots of great memories from when I marched. Sitting downstairs in the Post after practice watching old Cabs shows on the reel-to-reel projector. So many great shows over the years! Kudos to management and Andy Grilk (webmaster) for putting these videos out every week. Thanks!!! PS... Gotta find 86! I'll freak if you guys put this show online!!!

The 'whole 9 yards' expression, if my history is correct, goes back to World War 2. When planes were in a dogfight, the pilots would want to give their enemy the 'whole 9 yards' meaning the full length of a machine gun ammunition belt (27 feet) or use up their bullets in their entirety. And that concludes todays' history lesson.

'Ego Brain' by System Of A Down. Track 13 off the 'Steal This Album!' CD. Would be a killer, evil ballad!!!

We've all seen the order for Prelims but are the actual performance times listed anywhere? Thanks!

I can only look two weeks in advance on my TIVO. Not sure if all TIVO systems are setup like that.

Oops! Sorry about that. I did mean 1999.

Congratulations to Spirit of JSU for becoming the all-time highest scoring 12th place corps at DCI Finals. Their score of 86.075 beat out the Colts from 1989 (86.00). There's so much history being thrown around on here... just thought I'd point out this little ditty.

BLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The first time I ever saw the Freelancers live was the prelims show in Kansas City in 88. They came out with this huge sound (70 horns?) and blew the crowd away with the ET opener. I never liked when the corps used ET in 89 that they shortened the song. I always thought it was better in 88. Freelancers definitely should have made finals in 90. Saw the corps at Giants Stadium and then up in Buffalo finals week. The crowd definitely dug their show and Batman rocked. I have a much deeper appreciation of the 91 show now than when I marched 'Coats back in 91. 'Coats & Freelancers almost had a huge brawl after DCI Canada finals (do you remember that Cainan?). We only beat Freelancers by a tenth that night after beating them by 2.3 in the morning prelims. We were ###### as all #### and unfortunately we were next to each other on the field for retreat. Needless to say there were some battles happening on the yardline that seperated us (gotta love the occasional elbow being thrown). Luckily cooler heads calmed alot of the corps down and made sure we didn't do anything stupid that night. We competed against Freelancers only a few times in 92: Preview of Champions, DCI East & Finals week. I don't think I watched their show that year due to scheduling of our corps. First time I ever saw the show was on the finals videos. Unfortunately I never saw the corps live again. Maybe someday we'll see this great corps rise from the dead to entertain us all again.

I'll chime in here with a few shows I wish I had seen live back in the 80's. 81 Madison Scouts 82 Blue Devils 82 Garfield Cadets 82 Bridgemen 84 The entire top 5 84 Troopers 85 Garfield Cadets 85 Suncoast Sound 85 Star Of Indiana 86 Cavaliers 87 Bluecoats Pete ReHill Canton Bluecoats 91-92 Hawthorne Caballeros 86-88