MiamiSun76

I played it backward and I thought I heard: Turn Me On Dead Man Paul is the Walrus Coo Coo ka Choo. ?

Take it from one who knows - it only gets worse, 55 and aching

DPV & Frank Pamper in the HoF :P

Try broadening your horizons. The Sunrisers have an extensive library available for download at www.sunrisers.com Pick any year ending in "8". My favorite is 1978.

You mean he found his way home after Robbie threw him off the bus 25 years ago in the middle of nowhere?

AFLAC?

Wagner was Evil............

Now that Reading has gotten away from the Russian theme, you've got years of material. A "Greatest Hits" show would probably fall flat for Bush in particular because there's no one piece that ID's the corps. You are from an era when shows are changed completely year-to-year. You don't have a Flamenco Cha Cha, NY NY. or Mag 7 from the 60's to work with.

Aren't all show designers legends in their own minds? B)

I wanted to do Vanguard(s) cubed: Miami/Santa Clara/Des Plaines.

St. Catherine's Queensmen. I think you've got St. Patrick's Cadets of Jersey City mixed up with St. Patrick's Imperials (mid-west?)

FYI, Miami/Florida Vanguards/Wave were the same corps. And not that anybody is remotely interested, but we were the only Vanguard that was plural (Vanguards); named after the ill-fated mid-50s missile launched (and crashed) from Cape Canaveral, not the leaders of a movement.

Billy Cobham: St. Catherine's Queensmen & Sunrisers.

Jo Wessman took Florida Wave to 13th place in the late '80s.

From the way the release reads, all creative and technical staff positions are open (not that people can't be re-hired into their old roles). That would open the possibility of some staff returning in different capacities (i.e. Key Poulan as brass arranger but not program co-ordinator). I hope that whoever Denise hires, they are on 1 year contracts so that the new director can have his/her own team after their 1st year. While I was at DCA, the thought crossed my mind: given his success creating and maintaining the Renegade hype machine, what about Lee Rudnicki moving to Vanguard? Or is that another situation where his day job is much too successful to allow the DCI time commitment? I'd assume the above also applies to Frank Dorritie?

How to do this delicately? How about a poll: listening to Sunrunner 5 times vs. an address by the good doctor?

I didn't see the "event" because I was trying to take care of my daughter between shows, but I did notice that both nights Bush's entrance (the Red Square Parade Bass Drum Block) was disrupted by the corps before picking up flags, etc. pretty deep on the field. I think the real problem is with DCA rushing the corps on and off the field, then taking an eternity to hand out the 500 awards and patting themselves on the back during retreat. I'd really rather have each corps troop the stands (after all the next corps is entering from the back sideline anyway) than to have Fran doing one-liners while DCA and the AL get their act together. (No knock on Fran, some of his filibusters are downright funny).

I have been active in both in a variety of ways. I no longer have much interest in DCI because they just don't entertain me. I doubt that people "convert". Well, maybe Renegades fans do

I remember my father explaining the guns to me as if they'd always been there. He marched in the 30s-50s. As to "circuit", there were local circuits and the 2 vetrans groups hosted the national championships. They were independent of each other. I believe the Legion held the annual rules congress, and their rules were adopted by the various circuits for the regular season. Try posting this on the alumni site. I thought the beepers were used in DCI when I was involved in the late 70s, and DCA used guns until very recently. Everyone has their favorite "gun" story. While recording shows in the early 60s, Ed Burke of Fanfare records was one of the 1st to use multiple mics in a stereo format. During a Hawthorne performance, someone tripped over a cord unplugging all 4 mics on one channel. Ed noticed the unplugged cord a few seconds later and pushed the plug back in just as the warning gun went off. The shot echoed through the mics as the other "half" of the corps came back on line. It sounded like a cannon!

No, it was a long sleeved blue shirt. With a microphone. Honest

Sometimes what isn't done is more respectful than doing something poorly. There were some super "A" guards at championships (the Hurcs naturally come to mind). There were others that should probably have stayed on the bus. How to best show the proper respect for country, state, sponsors should be left to each corps.

I wasn't there. Only my liver is that old :mmm:

That was the American Legion, 1927. Won by Harvey Seeds.

Was one of them named Crystallllllllllll?

I think what struck me was a realization that, in Boston, I was blowing off more shows than I watched. (by the time finals rolled around, I was eating and chatting between SCV and Phantom) while in Scranton, I was pretty much glued to my seat from Cabs on. Bad for the concession stand, but good for drum corps.