RayH
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So sorry to hear this Fran. You are in our thoughts and prayers. May Barb RIP.
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Makes me feel better all these years later knowing we would have beat Madison ... oh well ... making finals was reward enough after the fiasco in Cleveland where Garfield got a 30 in M&M instead of a 20, valuting them past us and the Racine Scouts ... ugh ... that has got to rank up there as the all time tabulation error ... thanks Tony(hic) S ...
As I remember that '64 Cleveland fiasco....no one got the break-downs until a month after the show. If Garfield got a PERFECT score of 30.0, they would have missed finals and PAL and Scouts (I think) would have been in!
Politics played a HUGE role back then.
I also remember seeing Troopers at prelims, thinking they were Custers Brigade, until I saw their company front go by me.....as one person....a perfect company front....totally awesome!
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1990 - retreat - (and here we go again). Love 'n it on tape!
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Anyone know if Friends of DCI has asked why freinds/ex-friends why the downturn?
Could it be that DCI really never cared for the fans, but just wanted the contributions??
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1974 DCI Ithaca:
"From Hawthorne New Jersey, the Mucha....ROARRRRRRRRRRRR"
The most electric corps performance and electric crowd I can remember. I still get chills when I think about that recording.
BTW: The Purple Lancers received a ovation just a decibel or so lower than Hawthorne!
The crowd was LOUD for Purple Lancers when they were announced. "EAST, EAST,EAST", but before half-way thru their show the crowd was silent. Some people a few rows in front of us turned to us and yelled (and I'll never forget it), where's your Eastern crowd now. We were so embarassed, until Muchachos came out! Then the crowd went wild for the whole show (including those mid-west people in front of us).
This is the recording I've played the most (close 2nd is 64 DREAM - Jrs.)
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Yes, one of the most exciting shows of all time. IMO. TRUE, TRUE, TRUE emotion and intestinal fortitude!
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What makes you think that the last 2 minutes would be that much better than the show itself?
Because the corps "let it loose" in those last 2 minutes???? Why not "let it loose" throughout the
whole show. The audience would appreciate it more!!!
If you can't "let it loose" and play clean, why bother at all?
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Oh yes, full drill indoors. That was one heck of a show. I remember lining up in a separate room (off the main floor) before going on in prelims.
I also remember the people on scaffoling watching the show. Oh my.
And I don't know how many remember "Peter and Gordon" were putting on a show in a different room that same night.
It was a HUGE place.
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Hey Keith -
IIRC - Cru DID win horns in 1990. I just remember that as a "fabulous" line (pun intended)
and that version of Channel One was as good as BD's..IMHO..I always atributed it to having Kings..since we were still had piston/rotors in OUR line that year......a very notorious year for MBI.
I found it hard to believe that Cru was 5th with that line..Of course, after our show, a lot of us found it tough to be enthusiastic about Finals.
Pat
Sorry Pat, but NO Cru did NOT win horns that year. Empire did. I don't think Cru EVER won a caption trophy at DCA.
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Ahem.....re-read those sheets.....it was a 3 way tie for total brass at DCA. Bucs, MBI and Statesmen.
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Awwh, come on people.....how naieve can you all be??
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That's 'Waxer', but was Dave ever that thin??? Wholly cr_ _!! Come on, someone photo-shopped this picture right?
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I received mine yesterday and watched the prelim single corps DVD first. Nice job. But today I went to watch the full finals, and of the 4 DVD's only #3 and 4 would play. 1&2 wouldn't even load up. Tsk, tsk, so disappointed, but its par for my luck I guess. I tried to watch Cabs on the multi-cam view and it was too 'flickery' to even watch the whole thing, so I watched it in high camera and thought it was excellent. So disc 3 was fine on high camera, but I did notice that the horns on the first 2 corps sounded out of tune. Statesmen, Minn. and Buccs sounded fine though. Did I get a bad copy or what???
Is anyone else having any of these same problems??
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How very sad...R.I.P. Gerry.
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and you wonder why DCi is in the state it is.
these are terrible.
you want Fan friendly shows but most if the tunes listed here are boooooring. not fan friendly.
Music major friendly ,maybe
drum corps fan friendly ,maybe
general public friendly , no way.
Peter and the wolf comes the closest. and thats never been done.
I am talking a top 17 DCI WC corps.
You hit the nail on the head. Bach's Suite played in A-flat in the 9th Major Chord with strings only, is NOT going to bring people to the field.
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Phantom won Total M&M in 1980 - beating BD by .5.
Phantoms M&M was awesome at Finals.
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Have to agree with you there.
Yep, I agree too......never seen or heard that much applause/emotion from an audience as that night. I can't explain the emotions, but EVERYONE, that night, couldn't control themselves during that performance. It will never happen again, I'm afraid.
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Interesting reading, to say the least. What a way to start the day, Hairbear, you're great!
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Statesmen were perhaps the best third place corps in the history of DCA.
Owwhh, this sounds like someones a wee bit jealous. tsk tsk.
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For me, it was an exciting DCA. The outstanding moments were: Kidsgroves' whole show, Cabs show, Statesmens show, and Buccs "Pines of Rome". That made the night worthwhile.
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I have to go with the 79 show (my fave). Lots more excitement than 80 IMO. The guard seemed much better also......will never stop watching that show at least once every other month.
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Has West Side Story been done yet????
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It's not the kids in the corps that add extra equipment. I don't know of any corps that lets a (let's say) a 3rd soprano guy come up with an idea that changes what the corps is doing. The fault lays with the instrutors (staff)....most are band-o people, whether you like it or not, and they make a living teaching bands, high schools, etc. so why not carry that over to drum corps so these people can have a second job. They should leave the 'band' stuff with the bands......but that's all been said before. We've gone close enough to bands as it is, let's leave it at that. I think the attaction will still be there for those who want to march without band equipment.
Just rattling off, sorry.
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Dr. Beat must be destroyed!
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