Walter
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Dutch Boy is the name of the sponsor. Dutch Boy Food Markets. Nothing we could do. They sold out to Sobey's Food Markets in the late 90's. There's no way we're changing our name to what? Sobey's drum & bugle corps?
By the way how do you pronounce " Etobicoke "
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OOPS, Who's fault was that? The drum majors or (Gail?)
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In the late 60's and early 70's a corps from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada,
the Cadets LaSalle, had a soloist, I believe his name was Jean LeBlanc,
would end the show with a least a 20 second solo that would have the crowd on their feet before he finished. Back then corps ended their show with a closing fanfare or something. It was spine chilling, it had the hair on the back of my neck standing up, it was just great soprano playing. I loved it. Too bad I
only saw him once. Boy could he whail. It was great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Is it worth it to merge two corps to make one good one?
Who wins in this situation? Was it really worth it?
Have you marched in a merged corps? How did it go?
When was the last time a merged corps won a DCI title?
Just thinking about this. Discuss it amongst yourselves.
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A friend of mine, not too close, asked me what was new in drum corps. I haven't
been too close to the dc scene for quite some time but I told him that the current
day corps is using Bb Trumpet/soprano. He just about dropped the nice cold POP
I gave him. Could someone please give me an answer I could tell him without
getting too technical. He isn't as sharp as he use to be.
Thanks, Rob D.
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How about the 1988-91 Dutch Boy, 27th Lancers, Muchachos, Northstars(Kitchener)
Bridgemen, Blue Rock and Argonne Rebels.
Too bad we can't turn the hands of time back and do it all over again......
But for some of us once is enough.
NOT ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Why did Gail chew you guys out??????
Just wundering!!!!!!!!
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With regards to your answer for number 10.
Didn't the Oakland Crusaders finish 6th in 1975 and 8th in 1976?
Both times at Franklin Field in Philly!!!!!!!!
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How about the Northstars from Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. We weren't
around long but we weren't bad either. But honestly, do mergers ever really work.
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I marched contra for seven years no big deal. It has some good points though:
1. Your parents won't take long finding you if they lose you in a crowd.
2. If you have to take your horn on the bus ALWAYS sit up at the front.
3. You have to develop a drummer kind of attitute.(Nobody is better than me,
then practise you butt off to back it up.)
4. You are usually at the back of the corps during parades so you get to see where
the horses were before you step in it--(you know what I mean.)
5. You are the backbone of the horn line. Every body counts contras if you have
a lot of them, 8-10, most people will think that your horn line is good(until
you start playing that is. )
6. When you stand at attention, put the horn on it's bell in front of you and only
pick it up when some one yells at you. (Talk to your horn staff about a special
stance--(They like it when you ask them for advise first)
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My first horn in drum corps was a ONE valve baritone. I felt kind of ripped off because all the other corps had a valve/rotor combo. Any way the next year I
changed to mini-contra (something like a full size contra but half the size we were
a poor corps at the time) which had a valve/rotor and I was pleased as punch.
Then in 1977 we got brand spanking new Olds contras. (full size) There's nothing
like taking the plastic off a new horn and walking into the horn room and have
everyone else go YYYaaahhh!!!!!!
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Hey, BD Legend:
My second greatest thrill was having Wayne Downey come to Kitchener for our
camp we had in March of 1977. (everybody was saying "Who is this guy." I just
said "Keep your mouth shut and do what he tells you."
Do you know Myron Melnyck He taught our horn in Dutch Boy Cadets in 1976
then got a better offer from Seneca Optimist (better known around here as
Bananaheim)
ODBC
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There's nothing wrong with being old school. But two of the best are Jim Jones founder of the troopers and Gale Royer founder of the Santa Clara Vanguard.
Can anybody beat these two? I don't think so. Thanks, Old Dutch Boy Cadet
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My biggest thrill in drum corps happened at the American International in Butler,
PA. in the summer of 1976. It was our last year as the Dutch Boy Cadets and we
were going to merge with our cross town rivals the Flying Duchmen. It was my own personal goal to beat them in a show just once. Well we knew that we had made the finals in the "A" Class Division but we weren't sure what place we were in. I didn't care. Our drum major came running back to where we were practising,
he stayed behind to get the results, when he got to us he was winded took a few good big breaths and said "WE BEAT THE DUTCHMEN". I didn't care what place we came in, I yelled my head off. They were about the same age group as us but each corps had their own character. Although they beat us in the finals by two points, it was the proudest moments of my drum corps career. We came up to the corps gate to go on the field, and the were around the gate hollering and cheering us on. We wanted to show them we were not the little corps from across town any more but a corps that they should be looking at as a serious threat. Although this was probably a big joke to them, it's my biggest thrill. (And I LOVED every second of it. )
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I guess my biggest downer was in '73. The Dutch Boy Cadets were just coming off a very trying year and were looking forward to the next year. We had finished our usual Oktoberfest routine: 10 shows at various festhalls and a huge parade. It came on a Sunday morning at about 10 a.m. I got a phone call that our horn instructor who also plays in a German band was in an accident. I asked my section leader how he was... There was about 5 seconds silence then he blurtted out, "Rob he didn't make it, he's dead. His car flipped over and burst into flames." This was one of those guys who will do anything for the kids in the corps. We used to have horn practices at his house and he'd order in pizza and feed everyone, about thirty-eight of us that year. He was 33 when he died and he was like a big brother to all of us. He is always remembered by everybody from the 1972-73 Dutch Boy Cadets. He is dearly missed by those especially in the horn line. Mike Schuster
would be 64 if he was still alive. God I miss him. Thanks, Rob Dunnington
DCI Membership Question
in Historical Junior Corps Discussions
Posted · Edited by Old Dutch Boy Cadet
To Crest99
I'm not that up on too many things but I'll try.
Back when DCI was spreading it's wings, I guess they wanted to separate the
corps that were good from the corps that were the "Elite". To become an
"Associate" drum corps of DCI you had to place 13th-25th. Also back in the seventies, you only had one shot at making finals. In the prelims, two days
of ONE more time and that's all you get. If you had a bad show, too bad.
Now you have three days of quarter finals, semi finals and the finals.
It sounds like a money grab from DCI to me but I've been out of drum corps for so long, these ideas probably sound stupid to some people. What the heck it's my
opinion, that's all. But then I never tried to figure out the way DCI do things.