buzzgok
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Tomorrow is shaping up to be one big battle!!
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I agree, thanks Kevin and crew for doing this for us again this year.
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Bucs always hold my attention so hard to blog during their show.
Where's Spartacus?
I can believe that!
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interesting uni
appropriate to the theme I think
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CorpsVets in action:
White pants look awesome on the grass!!
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I really wish I could be up there to see how class A is going to shake out, looks like they are going to have a hot one tomorrow night!!
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your wife and who? you said two adults
*sigh* this is true, what can I say?
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LOL.... Remembering we ALL did that too!
Now I know where my claustrophobia comes from!!
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Good idea. The Hotel Haring is already booked.
Major bummer!! I was hoping there would be room for two adults.
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Okay folks, here's something to ponder....
Check out the forecast for Earl. Now, find Annapolis. (or any other East Coast location for that matter.)
I guess no location is perfect.
I am located on the Jersey shore and all we are getting is a lot of wind. Very little moisture if any. Nothing like Isabelle in 2006.
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I probably shouldn't say this publicly....
But I am going to call the Pennsylvania State Police and ask them to pull over the Buccaneers' buses on the corps' way to Rochester.
This will show, once and for all, that the Bucs, indeed, CAN be stopped.
OK.... so I'm out of material here......
bah dum, ching
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I now have this picture of Scott being handed a flag, looking at it curiously for about 10 seconds as he held it nervously, shaking his head, and politely handing it back to someone.
that's about nine seconds too long
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Humm wasn't in the guard that year was he?
Once a drummer, always a drummer. Never was or will be in the guard.
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I am NOT going there. What went on with the Ogre bus, STAYED on the Ogre bus, and I think for everyone's sanity, it's a good thing it did.
Bus 2 was the animal bus. Bus three was called the ogre bus. Hate to disappoint.
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Yeah, it's prolly why he blew out that fresh can of shaving cream on bus 2 on the way to a show in Joisey. To hide the smell of the WMD-SBD he dropped in there....
Or that was done to mask something else he had done.
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Now... that's not something i mastered... hmmm
Yeah, *sniff* we know!!
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Jinks?
ding ding ding, we have a winner!!
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Well then, maybe we have over done the flatulance thing. So let me tell you about the best belcher ever...he was a bari player in Johnsonburg Diplomats and he could almost belch a whole chorus from a popular song in one, shall we say, enlightening moment.(especially after a few Genny cream ales and sourcream and onion chips with a dab of tobasco on top) Just goes to prove how talented old corps was.....Had a guy in the drumline in 93 I think. He could belch the theme from the love boat. Don't know what he used for his "power."
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I'll get there but we were havnig a serious discussion about flatulence. This IS a Senior Corps discussion thread, and well, it can get easily sidetracked by flatulence.
I was also busy looking at that bari solo the young man from the Coats posted. I realized one of the reasons most period bugle parts in our day were in treble clef- that part would be SO much easier to read in Treble clef because there wouldn't be 8 gazillion ledger lines, which also make it look even more intimidating than it has to be.
Pretty sad when you can get side tracked by a fart.
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That rates right up there with a fellow who was our drum major one year(his dad taught drill). After many cold ones he was able to write his name in the snow without stopping. A feat unmatched by anyone I ever saw
Drum corps has many talented people!!
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I will have to use the private message feature to tell you a story of how I dealt with my exwife's folks. I'm pretty sure THAT'S why she's my exwife! LOL!
As long as it worked, that's all that matters!!
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What I can add about that preseason, and first show was knowing how much intensity we had during practices. It was a different vibe than the previous years, we still had fun, and still had times to mess with people during practice, but when it was time to do the job, we got down to it and just did it! ($1. to Nike) I think we had a much younger and more focused corps since a lot of the older stand-by's left that year, and it was a "changing of the guard" so to speak. We had a junior corps attitude, and the talent to back it up. My first few years in Westshore sort of reminded me of my year in the Chocolatiers where we had a lot of older people that "HAD" their time in the limelight! Either being members of the corps when it was really good, or being members of other corps that were really good, and were using Westshore as a "gotta keep the drum corps fires burning, this is fun, I'm not giving it my 100%" attitude. Fo some people it was an excuse to get out of the house on summer weekends, drink beer, and have fun! And for someone like me, (who was 19 at the time) I wanted to win! I appreciated the guidance, and learning experience that some of these people offered, but I wasn't content with "making top 10" and "we're good enough". Sure I wanted to have fun as well, but I wanted to EARN that beer!
I wanted to beat people, and I wanted to see people wearing our t-shirts at shows! There were too many t-shirts in Podunk East Jabip Upstate New York and New Jersey that DIDN'T say Westshoremen! And I wanted to change that! (yes people, I was only in drum corps to market t-shirts!!
) I think 1982 changed that, and got people who were afraid to like us on our side!One thing that always stuck out with me about the Clifton show was when we were warming up outside of the stadium, some guy walks up to Robb and sez "What time are the Cabs going on?" Robb replied "I think they were on first and are probably on now" The guy goes "Crap, all the way from Hoboken and I miss the Cabs!" Robb replied to this "you aren't going to miss much, we're probably going to beat them tonight" The guy said "yeah right, I'm goin' for a cup of cawfee!" Talk about prophetic words!
When we DID win, I was thinking that guy outside the stadium probably dropped his "cawfee" on his shoes when they announced the scores!
The other thing I'll never forget was Larry walking through the ranks saying "when they announce the scores no reaction! stay at attention!" We were all thinking WTF? is our score that bad??? And then the announcement over the PA that they would wait to announce caption awards until AFTER the final scores?!?!?! WTF WAS THAT? we all knew something weird was about to happen, but we didn't think it was good for us!!!!
I remember Larry going through the ranks and telling them that. I also remember we thought something was not going to bode well when they made the announcement about the caption awards.
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And for those of us, us unfortunate souls in the "bottom feeding" Ohio Brass Factory, The news of your victory at Clifton was the subject of much, if not ALL our
conversation... you would probably laugh at some of the rumors about your success. We speculated as to your winter rehearsals and where they were located, and did you rehearse outside in the dead of winter, hire a bunch of killer staff....... every one of us was simply in AWE when we saw you that year! For us, it was a lesson on how to do drumcorps correctly.
As you can imagine, I am enjoying hearing about the inner workings of that season.
It was a blast marching that year as well Bear!!
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"I don't want you to MOVE! This exercise is about NOT MOVING! I don't care if you are sitting on the toilet, taking a dump, and a bug the size of a B-52 lands on your nose, I DON'T WANT YOU TO MOVE!"
(the rant when a guard person of unknown persuasion happened to scratch their nose whilst standing at attnetion during a "hype" session in Fairfax, VA)
freaking CLASSIC!!!
Yeah, and she did it during a freaking monsoon!!
2010 Drum Corps Associates World Championships - Prelims
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I'd predict about a 97.5