KeithHall

Shoot them all...those 36 that voted in favor!!!!

How about 27th Lancers when they did Danny Boy or even the Madison Scouts?

Vince Monacelli with Dutchboy but he also won several WGI Championships with Holley, Bishop Kearney

1977 Frontiersmen...most of the closer was a long freaking chord in Chicago's "Wishing You Were Here"

I guess it did as far as marching and even putting harmony to some of the cadences but then this was way back in the 1970's. Our Drill Sgts. were tough but a year later they started getting more relaxed to the point that they were not allowed to swear. Soften the Army up, ha ...no wonder we're still in the Middle east!!

Anyone have the history for these outstanding corps???

I remember in the 70's they did Stairway to Heaven and TSOP. Anybody else remember what they played. They were pretty good.

About freaking time someone brings back the hap, hap, happiest music ever written!!! Thank you Michael Boo You are the MAN!!! Disco, Disco , DISCO!!!!!! Long live the BeeGees, Yvonne Elliman, Donna Summers,Tavares, etc PS I am really sick

I would guess Olds. Getzen made them and then there was Waley-Royce (melli's). If I were to put money on what they (Madison) played, I would say Olds.

I believe it was 1971 and Edmund Muskee was running for President or Vice-President. Our corps had the honor of playing for his arrival in Buffalo. We are all set up in the street, we see the police car leading the limo and as it approached we began playing....problem.....it was a funeral! I guess it was good practice for when the Senator finally arrived 10 minutes later.

I'd like to see them wearing the uni's that they wore in the mid 70's. Didn't they wear shorts with Aussie hats and capes? Retro KK. That sounds groovy!!!

Look at how the horn line holds their horns....blasphemy!!!

I am feeling the love! Merry Christmas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Darn, I thought this was about False STARTS. I had afew in my younger years and a false stop at Finals at DCA. Oh well.

A Rudy Muck!!! NOT!!!

Good, I care about all of you guys and girls!!!

You know I loved watching the Southern Tier (Appalachin) Grenadiers, especially the hats. I chatted with some Gauchos in 1977 at a show, nice people from what I remember. I miss the fun we had in NY back then.

Just wanted to say that!!! I miss working and playing with drum corps. I had to shout that out. To all of you who I have met or chatted wit...I LOVE YOU ALL!!!!!!!! No I am not depressed...just like having all you as friends no matter where you are.

Guess this wasn't a popular thread!!!

I do know that a few members came from the Rochester, NY because they left our corps (Renegades) after 1982. Aaron Oppenheimer, Neal Singlaub and Mike Colletti.

White Sabres had 40+ brass? WOW!!! Good for y'all!

I had to go back to my Drum Corps History book but.... Can someone tell me why The Purple Lancers went from DCI finals in 1974 to nowhere the next year? Did members see something better with Avant Garde? Greece Cadets? Squires? In 1975 Greece won the first "A" Class DCI title and the next year they went downhill. Squires placed 13th in '75 and 17th in 1976. Gauchos (1976) and Imperial Regiment and Mighty Liberators (1977) made A Class finals. Ny corps declined from there. LI Kingsmen and Avante Gard were in Open Class and Squires made finals in "A" Class. By 1982, Avant Garde and Renegades were in Open Class, with the Volunteers, Eagles, Patriots, Gauchos, Barons of Stuben, Firebirds and Frontiersmen in A Class and mello Dears in All Girl. By 1986 Patriots and New Image were the only NY corps competing at DCI. In 1999 the Patriots won Div II. Now the Patriots are gone as are Purple Lancers, Marauders, Eagles, 76ers, Greece Cadets, Gauchos, Mello Dears, Frontiersmen, Royal Coachmen, Imperial Regiment/Lakeview Shoreliners, Renegades, Northmen, Fusion, Alpine Girls, Tri Town Cadets, American Patrol, Barons of Stuben, Volunteers, Avant Garde, Squires, St. Joe's (as a junior), Firebirds, New Image, LI Kingsmen, etc. Sad, sad, sad!!!!!! \

If memory serves me correctly, Purple Lancers were inactive after their big season.

The Great St. Johnsburg Blue Sabres from Wheatfield, NY played STH back in the mid 70's. In fact, the infamous SLEDGE was their horn instructor at the time.

Will NY ever have a successful junior drum and bugle corps? Or should we not even think about that?