KeithHall
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Standing at attention while the corps was being inspected
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Tri Town Cadets wore Bib overalls and straw hats
Black Knights (Oswego) beat Greece Cadets
Buckeyes walked off of retreat in a Rochester show backwards and the bari soloist gave the judges the finger.
Squires were a "B" Class corps as were the Fulton Gauchos
Marion cadets wore short sleeve shirts
Blue Coats were an "A" Class corps
Glassmen wore funny looking helmets
Valve/Rotors or Valve /slides
Triples
Bleu Raeders wore track suits
Practicing company fronts...why?
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I didn't mean to leave corps out, it was off the top of my head after dealing with middle school band kids (end of the year). Yes Avant, Auburn, Squires, etc
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Since the Rochester Patriots are inactive for 2004 I started thinking about what happened to all the corps I remember:
Mark Twain Cadets
Southern Tier Grenadiers
Barons of Stuben
Mello Dears
Castlemen
Verona Eagles
Syracuse Marauders
Oswego Black Knights
Mighty Liberators
Cadets of Greece
Firebirds
Alpine Girls
Tri-Town Cadets
Imperial Regiment/Lakeview Shoreliners
Royal Coachmen
Southern Tier Express
Lockport Blazers/Renegades
Long Island Kingsmen
St.Ignatius Girls
I am sure the list could go on and on.
Those were just some I could remember.
Watkins Glen Squires
Islanders (used to call them the "7-Up" corps...they were sponsored by 7-Up and had unis in green and orange, with a 7-Up patch on their shoulder....
Greenwood Lake Lakers..who merged with the Wayne NJ Monarchs to become the King's Regiment.
Plus of course the many NYC corps.
Mike
How could I forget the Squires? and Purple lancers?
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1970 Penn York prelims with the Royal Coachmen, we made finals that year. Surprised everyone!
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Since the Rochester Patriots are inactive for 2004 I started thinking about what happened to all the corps I remember:
Mark Twain Cadets
Southern Tier Grenadiers
Barons of Stuben
Mello Dears
Castlemen
Verona Eagles
Syracuse Marauders
Oswego Black Knights
Mighty Liberators
Cadets of Greece
Firebirds
Alpine Girls
Tri-Town Cadets
Imperial Regiment/Lakeview Shoreliners
Royal Coachmen
Southern Tier Express
Lockport Blazers/Renegades
Long Island Kingsmen
St.Ignatius Girls
I am sure the list could go on and on.
Those were just some I could remember.
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I was with the Royal Coachmen in 1976, we were competing at the NT Open, "A" Class. We marched the NT Open parade prior to the show and then walked single file to our rehearsal site. Once there we rehearsed briefly and silently, in single file marched over to the stadium. We played and marched the best show and beat out the Kinsmen Krescendos and the Simplex Minutemen to win the "A" Class Championship. The next night we took last place in Open class (won by Marquis).
What great times we had back then!
B)
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What about the Hamburg Kingsmen, Dunkirk Patriots and Getzville Suburban Knights?
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How about Schlossgarde in 1987? Coming out with black capes with hoods playing Emerson, Lake and Palmers "The Score?" Cool corps!
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I see my old Royal Coachmen friends every so often. We have a reunion once in a while. But with NO drum corps in Western NY in sort of sucks. We can sell tickets for a World Championship but we can't support a drum corps, not a one!
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How's it goin', eh??
Get on your thinking toques and gear up for Canadian drum corps trivia.............
1. Which Canadian bugle manufacturer introduced the first mellophone in 1964
and the first french horn in 1968?
2. In 1958, Opti-Danforth changed their name and began the longest unbroken
championship streak in drum corps history, with 11 titles from 1958-1968.
Name the corps who had John Wayne as an honorary member.
3. Name the corps formed in 1937 and known for pony-stepping, short-shorts
and "Waltzing Matilda".
4. In 1963, in Mundelein, IL the Cavaliers and this Canadian corps, with an
almost identical uniform, performed in retreat as a single unit. (Hint:
both corps were known as the "green machine")
5. In 1964, the Jolly Jesters and Viscounts merged to form this enormous
senior corps with fluorescent orange uniforms.
6. Where were the Sertomanaires from?
7. We know tha De La Salle, who marched 32 snares in 1940, were from
Toronto. Where were the La Salle Cadets from?
8. Name the contest held in Toronto each June during the 1960's.
9. In 1976, both Oakland Crusaders and Seneca Optomists made D.C.I. finals.
Which corps won Canadian nationals in 1976?
10. Which two corps merged to form Oakland Crusaders in 1975?
11. Which two corps merged to form Seneca Optomists in 1976?
12. Which two corps merged to form Northstars in 1976?
13. Which corps, formed in 1910, is the oldest corps to have charter
membership in D.C.I.?
14. Name Oakland Crusaders' drum instructor in 1977, when they won drums
at D.C.I. prelims, but the corps failed to make finals.
15. Name the corps who won 1977 U.S. Open at 3:00 a.m. due to a rain
delay.
16. What was unusual about Oakland Crusaders' rifle line uniforms in 1978?
17. Name the corps from Jonqiuere who won Canadian nationals in 1978.
18. Name the first Canadian corps to play at Carnegie hall.
19. What was the first year of D.C.I. Canada in Hamilton?
20. Name the corps from Kitchener that won both D.C.I. Class "A" and D.C.I.
All-girl in 1980.
21. Name the 1982 D.C.I. Class "A" champions.
22. Who won both 1983 and 1984 Canadian championships?
23. How many Canadian corps competed at 1981 D.C.I. prelims in Montreal?
24. What was the name of the stadium at McGill University where 81-82 D.C.I.
prelims were held?
25. What did Les Chatelaines change their names to when they added males in
1984?
26. Name two drum corps artists who hail from Canada.
That's all folks...........................................................................
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Guessing here
1. Whaley Royce
2. Optimists
3. Scout House
4. Toronto Optimists
7. Ottawa
8. Shriners Invitational
9. Seneca
10. DeLasalle Oaklands and Etobicoke Crusaders
11. Toronto Optimists and Seneca Princemen
12. Flying Dutchmen and Dutchboy Cadets
14. Tom Float
15. Seneca Optimists
17. Offensive Lions
18. Delasalle oaklands
19. 1978
20. Ventures
22. Canadian Knights
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How about....
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What Happened?
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Just a yell over the ocean to you...if you want to come over to march with a really fun corps and lay on the beach on your off time...Heat Wave Orlando, FL (DCA) would love to have you.
E mail me at HWBrassKeith@aol.com
Especially all you Schlossgarde people.
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What corps would you have wanted to march with instead of the corps you were in?
Mine would be Argonne Rebels....great horn line and Sandra Opie!
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a tie between.............
Legend of a One Eyed Sailor - '75-'76 BlueDevils
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MacArthur Park - '75 Madison
Definitely have to agree there
Two awesome concert numbers
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I like Al Cass however BiNak seems to work the best in hot and cold weather. Clean valves before applying any oil and you shoudn'y have any problems.
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I'd also like to say Beth Fabrizio with Cru in 1990. She was also the DM and I thought she was awesome!!!!
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A few years ago, while watching quarters at Buffalo, there was a pretty good looking brass tech....I have no clue who she is but would she be with a corps now?
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Bridgemen
Try another...I picked that one!
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VK
Once someone has picked one you can't use it again...sorry
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You can choose to be the director of a "dead" junior corps entering in to DCA, who would it be? Now ONLY CHOOSE 1.
Mine will be...hmmmmm....
Bridgemen
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Remember when you couldn't sit on "concert" side? All competitiors sat in the back stands and you couldn't walk on the track on "concert side. you had to take the long way.
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I was thinking about a few things the other day as compared to today, maybe it's because my 39th is tomorrow. :)
So, ask yourself- "Are you old school"?
Remember When:
1. The only vocal on the field was either "Ten-hut" or "Mark Time, Mark!"?
2. You could guide off of the form across the fifty to tell where you were supposed to be because the form was identical?
3. The American flag was present in every show, and corps played off in retreat?
4. The only form of amplification was a crescendo to a FFFF on a horn chart?
5. It took 4 strappin' guys to play timpani and timpani had cranks?
6. Rifles were real guns that may or may not have had the mechanism welded shut?
7. You picked up your shiny new bugle and wondered what that rotor valve was for?
8. Bass drums (and the rest of the battery) marched up and down the field between the 45's.
9. Flag poles were at least 6' long and metal.
10. If your drill was really cool, you had a rotation off of the 50?
11. Uniforms came from several manufacturers and came in varied lengths and styles, some with cords, belts, capes, buckles and various hats?
12. A corps was really big if they had 10 contras?
13. Bugles were referred to as "sopranos" and "contras"?
14. If you wanted to march with white feet, you either painted your bucks or wore spats?
15. Your show (and everyone else's) had an opener, percussion feature, concert number and closer?
16. Military inspections were commonplace before competing?
17. You didn't want to be responsible for getting a "tick"?
18. At your first camp as a low-brass player, you had to use a fingering chart to read treble clef?
19. The entire percussion section was on the field?
20. Those drums were carried by slings?
So, are you old school? B)
I believe it was 1972....but St. John's Girls who won the US Open were carrying timps and skipped off the field with them. So they weren't strapping guys, and I believe they weren't big girls either.
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Come out to Heat Wave in Orlando and we'll take care of your warm ups!
Try Schlossberg, Arbans, Clarke Studies, Jay Zorn etc