Walter
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OK, I tried!!
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Actually Sue, if you read the question again, I want to know what YOU did on the bus for those long 10-12 hour bus rides Sue.
I don't care what happened on the bus, JUST YOU!!! ;)^
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Baribrian, that's McCusker's first name, Paul, where the heck I got Steve from....
That's Etobicoke (a suburb of Toronto)
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I didn't know that Sue!!!!! :D
JimF-WSMBari good job, touque is spelled correctly!! b**bs
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uncle z:
Sarnia Sam did a great job on YOUR test of Canadian drum corps trivia,
technically #15 should have been Seneca Optimists, what a great show that
was at Marion that year. We were late by an hour starting our show, Northstars
because of the rain, but that crowd was really something else.
#26 I know one of these artists is Don Daber, is the other Steve McCusker?
That's the only other one I can think of.
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I was thinkng more along the line of Hamilton's Ivor Wynn Stadium!!!!!
That Olympic stadium is so bad, they have to leave the roof on all the time!!
Midwestern Ontario is better because you're only 1 hour from the border in Buffalo!!
^OO^ ^OO^ ^OO^ ^OO^ ^OO^ ^OO^
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Ya Sue, it wasn't that bad. He taught Dutch Boy Cadets until the summer came.
Then just before we leave for our U.S. Open, American International tour he bugs
off on us and goes to teach, I think Seneca Optimists. What a guy huh? <**>
Instructs us all season and just before we go on our major tour he's gone. :(
Well I guess he got a better offer, too bad because we had a pretty successful
time. Remember Butler Sue? HHHMMMMMM!!!!! <_<
Still he was alright. He brought our bass end up to where we were a lot better
than the year before. :P
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I never had a chance to march finals but I often still dream about it.
Standing there with the lights on, looking up into the stands seeing all those
thousands of people. Then you here Brandt Crocker say: "You can take the field of competition" Then you mind goes completely blank, you forgot everything your
supposed to do, HOLY SH_T!!! b**bs :sos: :sshh:
That's MY dream almost every time.
Tell us about your first time at finals, your feelings, emotions, everthing!!!!!!!!
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In the past 12 years there has been hardly any DCI shows in Ontario or anywhere
in Canada for that matter. After all, with exception of the 5 or so drum corps that
are left in Ontario, we NEED some BIG time shows up here.
After all, it's not like we don't come out when these corps come up here. I'd like
to see DCI CANADA come back to Hamilton next year. There is a wealth of alumni
up here who are dying to get a blast of TOP 12 DCI caliber corps again. If DCI could please do something about this I'm sure it would be worth their while.
Maybe some day, but who knows. ^OO^
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You're older than I am, speak for yourself!! :P
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I hear from very good sources that Saratoga Falls, N.Y. is a great little town.
I've never been there but some day you just never know!!! ^OO^
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If I could go back to '78 I would have loved to march with Santa Clara, it was my
age out year and I've always loved their shows.
I can hardly wait for this year, GO SCV!!!!
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You're right Raephel18, the shows of today are more demanding than most of the
shows of the 70's and 80's. However, we both worked just as hard because what we were doing was evolutionary to the shows of the 50's and 60's.
I sit in the stands and hear other alumni talk about the things that the corps of
the 90's and today are doing and let me tell you something, it's fantastic. Unlike some alumni who sit back and try to find fault with the things that you do in your show, I sit back and enjoy every show.
The respect that most of the alumni have for todays members isn't shown as openly as it probably should be but it's there. As the old saying goes:
"It comes from the heart."
You might see posts in hear from alumni who take punches, me included, at
The Powers in charge but don't take this a crack at todays members because it's
not. It's just that when you have passion for something you don't like to see it
ruined.
Enjoy your summer and have a great time competing.
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uncle z:
I with you unc...
I've said that numerous times on here and someone comes on and says the only reason that I want to hear music that I recognize is that I don't understand what
the corps are trying to do...who the heck does??? :(
I figure that I'm paying to be entertained, so come on drum corps entertain me
and start playing for and to the people that are paying to see these corps..ME
not the judges. -_- I loved the shows that 27th, Bridgemen, Velvet Knights
did because they ENTERTAINED everyone in the stands and the judges.
Every corp has the capability to play music that people recognize after all if we don't show up to the shows who are The Powers going to try to get more money from...THE DRUM CORPS THEMSELVES??? Not very likely. <**>
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Thanks, Baribrian I appreciate that a bunch!!!!!!!!!!
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FORTUNATELY, I remember everything in this post with great pride.
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Do you have the scores from Butler '77 as well in that vast memory bank of yours?
How did you guys beat us? Maybe we should have played Singing In The Rain.
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Hey uncle z:
Weren't the Skitaw Rising Queens from San Francisco in the early 60's.
They were only around for 1 year. :P
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I didn't care where we placed, 7th(?), I think, that was the best crowd of a finals
that I was ever a part of. If anybody knows the final scores from the '77 U.S. Open would they please post them. We were never told the final scores.
But that doesn't surprize me, nobody was talking to our corps director at that point of our tour. <_<
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Madison Scouts!!! :)
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I 've got one for you:
SYTUD HBOC ADETOE
Anybody wanna take a guess???
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Welcome Oldargonne, glad to see you on the air waves. Probably most of the
Old Schoolers remember your corps but I really enjoyed you guys whenever I had
a chance to watch.
Baribrian, Thinking back to '77 U. S. Open Finals, I knew it rained like no tomorrow, but when we started our show I was consentrating on more important
things, like not falling on my rear end.
I wish we could have stayed but after what we had been through the week before
maybe it was best that we not stick around. We were burned out more mentally
than physically, but that's a long story I'll tell you some time, not on here!!!
My hat goes off to the crowd in Marion that night, some people left and most of the people on the non concert were invited over to the concert side by the p.a.
announcer if my memory serves me right. It was more like a giant party than a
drum corps show. It didn't matter what corps you were, to see them yell and
jump up and down really got everybody going.
What a night, too bad they don't see shows like that in Marion anymore!! :(
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I'm beginning to think I don't know you that well at all!! :(
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What kind of rude things??
What's Your Biggest Thrill In Drum Corps
in Historical Junior Corps Discussions
Posted · Edited by Old Dutch Boy Cadet
Correction, we were wearing long pants in competitions that year, so there!!!!
Does it really matter??
Obviously you guys had a bad show and we preceaded to kick your butt, OK it was only 3 or 4ths.
But boy did we party, that's why you beat us at finals. Period.