bluecoats88

Actually a lot of jazz drummers still play traditional behind their bands and most big band drummers still play traditional too.

in 1986 and in 1987 if you watch the video closely you can figure out how the magic tricks were done that year. as for 1988 and 1989 i never really got a good look at the trick up front to tell, but I'm assuming it was similar to the 1987 appearing girl trick.

Actually most lines where playing traditional in the 80's it was the seventies when most corps switched from matched to traditional.

Wow an Ark, most corps travelled by bus back in those days. b**bs b**bs

The real question is if 27th had made finals in 1986 would they have hung on longer?

Someone mentioned the Cavies bass beat, but you can't forget 'boogie down' which they used in the 80's I remember Sky in mid 80's when their basses played the 'green acres' theme song. "spider' from suncoast is always a winner. I liked phantom's streetbeats in the mid to late 80's always very hard to march to. I remember in 1989 or 90 when my nephew marched with Glassmen their Tenors played the Mario Brothers theme, it was kinda cool.

yep I'm here and yes we did carry those big old heavy squaring off ludwigs. crappy drums

I'll say 1984

Well except for the massive phasing in the hornline in the opening statement, but yeah Vanguard had a great show in 87.

I believe the random draw only occured in 1988.

So which ones still haven't been answered?

let's see we had ####head - Dumb as a pole - marched bari plug in '82 and after finals got hit by a motorcycle crossing the street outside olympic stadium. pisshead - his brother mountain man - looked like he'd fit in on the set of danial boone peabody - cymbal player in '88 looked like the kid from the cartoon with the talking dog and the wayback machine. chilly willy - cymbal player in '82 who reminded us of the cartoon penguin with the same name. Cricket Carl - also a cymbal player in '82 who used to catch and eat live crickets at the practice field. ### jowls - guard chick in '82 who looked like she could hold a lot in her cheeks if you know what i mean. ta ta's - mello player in '87 who had really big ... butthead - tenor player in '88 - not sure where he got the name, but I never knew his real name. sex kitten - guard girl from 1986-1989 - not sure the origin of the name, but I still call her this whenever I see her. Her husband always looks at her funny when I do. fingers - Baritone player '82 flutters - also a bari player '82 teeth - snare in 1984 who always had a smile on his face and really big white teeth roxanne - guard girl in '84 who was good looking and lived on a corner. Named after the police song. her bus seat in '84 was next to the emergency exit and there was a red light over her seat which fit her name perfectly. annie rexic - really skinny guard girl '84-'89 that's all I can think of right now.

I thought Blue Stars did the same thing in like 1978 or 1979. anyone know?

That would be the Seneca Optimists

US Open Championships 1968 - Blue Rock 71.92 1969 - Kilties 84.20 1970 - Madison 79.00 1971 - Blue Rock 84.60 1972 - Kingsmen 88.15 1973 - Kingsmen 80.30 1974 - Madison 87.05 1975 - Madison 87.10 1976 - Phantom 85.90 1977 - Optimists 85.05 1978 - Phantom 86.40 1979 - Blue Devils 87.70 1980 - Phantom 84.05 1981 - Phantom 85.30 1982 - Phantom 88.25 1983 - Phantom 82.15 1984 - Phantom 80.50 (in Columbus Ohio) 1985 - Garfield 97.10 1986 - Santa Clara 95.40 1987 - Phantom 95.90 1988 - Star 94.30 1989 - Star 93.10 1990 - Cavaliers 91.30 1991 - Santa Clara 90.90 1992 - Blue Devils 93.70 1993 - Crossmen 89.90 1994 - Glassmen 84.90 1995 - Phantom 91.70 1996 - Phantom 88.00 1997 - Santa Clara 90.70 1998 - Cadets 90.60 1999 - Glassmen 81.40 it was sad to see such a fine show go away

What about the US Open - That was a major show as well

I believe Bluecoats still have a contra or two left check out their website for their horn sale. www.bluecoats.com

Walt Omecienski (sp) produces shows for the FX channel and he marched bluecoats in the mid 80's

Try being a Bengals Fan - and don't get me started on the Indians

they had the tag all season long. And I believe it was inspired by the tag from the original of their opener "happy Days" by Barbra Streisand in which she does a tag ending much in the same vein as what the devils did at the end of their show.

you could ask who finished second in drums in 1980 and how close they were to the 1st place drum score.

Something like that happened to us at our first show in 1984 when we came back to the field after a year off. Our DM forgot to give the horns up before he started the show. the drum line started the show and played like a measure and noticed the hornline wasn't playing so we just repeated the first measure again and the horn line came in. It was a pretty good recovery for a very young corps. after that show the staff took out all horns up commands and had the brass bring up their horns during the countoff like the drumline brings out their sticks. Solved the problem.

You're right, I was stupidly thinking the dm's were lined up the same as their corps and didn't notice that Star and crossmen's DM's ewere swapped. And the picture was not all that clear on my screen so the star dm's top just looked white.

Second from the right is crossmen, you can't see the corps all the way to the right, and by the drum major uni (farthest right) i don't think it's star.

A friend of mine always pronounced it "lazy twats"