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    Chris Komnick

    in DCI World Class Corps Discussions

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    Congrats Chris. I had the honor of sitting with your father last year in Austin, TX in the theater for the Quarterfinals broadcast. I also marched Suncoast under Robert and LOVE the direction the coros is moving! Bravo.

    quote name='ckomnick' timestamp='1340306811' post='3153215']

    Uh oh, it's usually not a good thing when you have a DCP thread started with your name in the title.

    :lookaround:

    Chris Komnick

    Executive Director

    Madison Scouts

    1988 Suncoast Sound is DCI Download of the Week

    in DCI World Class Corps Discussions

    Posted

    Jumping in to say that, along with Allen and John in this thread, that it was truly an honor to be a part of this show. Ironically, it almost didn't happen. I vividly remember the first camp of 88 (in the fall of 87) when we read a Robert Smith arrangement of Duke Ellington's "Take the A Train". Yep, 88 was originally going to be a Duke Ellington show. John, Allen, you guys remember that?

    Anyhow, I "grew up" with Suncoast. They had many camps at my HS when I was a freshman clarinet(!) player, and again the next year. (The 85 and 86 seasons) I rode up on my bike, with my boombox on the handles, and recorded hours of camps. Sadly, those tapes are lost... and there was some great stuff there, like when the opening overture had a samba section with an alto (I think) duet. That experience solidified my desire to learn a brass instrument, and 2 years later I was in the corps.

    87 was a VERY hard year, but I will let John expound upon what all went on that year. Obviously, if we hadn't lived through 87, 88 would never have happened either.

    I could go on and on about the things that we experienced in both 88 and 89, but I am at work and what not. Thanks a lot for the love Mike, and everyone else on this thread. That was a VERY hard summer, but obviously very much worth it.

    I also remember reading through "It Don't Mean A Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing."

    Rivalries in DCI.

    in DCI World Class Corps Discussions

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    Didn't Spirit and Suncoast particularly dislike each other?

    No. Spirit and Suncoast finished side by side from 1983-1988....How's that for a rivalry? In 1989 when we made finals and they didn't, we made a huge delta on the field with our horns and a smaller one with drumsticks as a tribute to them not being on the field. I think it was a friendly rivalry.

    Then (1991) and now

    in DCI World Class Corps Discussions

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    This isn't Robert W. Smith. First of all, he didn't live in Illinois in 1991, and second of all, for those of us that know him, he would have never talked like that about another corps. Third, don't quote me on this, but I think he got his Doctorate later than 1991. Think about it...the person who wrote the 1988 Suncoast show, my rookie year, would not have a problem with '91 Star.

    Cadets '10 vs Suncoast '88

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    I saw the Cadets at Stillwater, and I was reminded of the Suncoast '88 show within the first half minute. I actually love that show, it's one of my faves. As I recall they scrapped their show halfway through the season, made up the crazy one real quick, and managed to pull off a top 12 placement - an amazing accomplishment! This year's Cadets show was the first Cadets show I've seen in many years that I really liked, btw (though I liked Suncoast '88 better).

    We had "Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing" at the very first camp in '88 but went to the Contemporary Child show soon after. In '89, we had the show from day one.

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