Walter
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As Rondo says, "This place IS electric !!!"
........and the SCOUTS will be on fire next season.
You heard it here first......and in SIXTH PLACE.........
Well I'm reluctant to start making predictions at this point, butI think you're right - it will be ELECTRIC!
I like being optimistic....
I've always been a Scout fan ever since I got pushed back 20 yards by their horn line at the 1975 U.S. OPEN FINALS !!!!
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Actually U of W band director Mike Leckrone was the on-air commentator for the 1975 DCI Midwest/Whitewater broadcast, so there is a drum corps connection.
Holy crap....talk about stretching it !!!!!!
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As Rondo says, "This place IS electric !!!"
........and the SCOUTS will be on fire next season.
You heard it here first......and in SIXTH PLACE.........
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Shouldn't this be in Marching Band Planet ?!
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Can't take credit for this ... It's an old Sunriser joke.
Uni's include Tukes (tooks?) and parkas.
Toques.Thanks a lot, eh, hoser. I never got that one right.Slow Adam uses his Canadian "Eh" Dictionary from Webster !!
It has all the metric spelling of those hard to spell Canadian words.
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Name: Canadian Commadores (or they go by their nickname CC)
Location: Canmore, Alberta (tucked away up in the Rockie Mountains an hour outside of Calgary)
Uniform: Totally Spanish Influence with the Flat rimmed hat with the wide brim, a white satin shirt with puffy sleeves at the cuff, the pants are black wide bell bottom flare, the will have a red waiters style jacket with white trim.
Claim to fame is they are the only Spanish influenced drum corps to NEVER play Maleguanea(sp).
Music: Just crisp, loud in your face Spanish music. All the music the Commadores play is recognizable Spanish music. The deep,rich tones of some Spanish music is enriched with the 20 man CONTRA line.
Being from Alberta, Canada, the corps will partake on a 2 month tour that will start on June 3 in Casper Wyoming and continue until August 18 when the corps returns from DCI WORLD FINALS in London England. For the third time in DCI history finals will be outside the USA, in England for five straight years.
For the London leg of their tour the Commadores will be joined by the Barcelona Matadors who will be bringing a real BULL to the corps and form the largest drum corps to ever compete in the DCI World Championships with 475 members, outnumbering THE HOLY NAMED CADETS by ONE MEMBER.
Corps Song: Brick House by Lionel Richie & The Commadores
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The Surf is UP !!!!!
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Wake me up when next year is over !!
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1. This corps drum line wore kilts but aren't the Kilties and they resided in Wisconsin.
5. This NY corps took 10th place at A-I finals in 1982.
1. The Thing
5. Avante Garde
These are my guesses.
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Dutch Boy has never had a problem crossing the border as far as I know, either way.
There is a huge market of drum corps alumni up here that would love to go to a World class show.
However, for every year they don't come up here the smaller that market gets.
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In 1972, we were in St. Clarie Shores, Michigan, to do a show. The show wasn't till the next day so we got there the day before to reherse.
We unloaded the buses and got ready to go to bed. Our horn instructor was to arrive later that night. Before we had lights out, one of the guys went down to the lake and went for a walk. When he came back he had a two foot DEAD carp and was wondering what he could do with it. "WHAT HE COULD DO WITH IT ?"
He had an idea. After all the kids were in bed, he went outside and got the fish and put it inside our horn instructors sleeping bag !!!!That's no the end of the story by a long shot. At three o'clock the air conditioner in the VWF Post cut out. When we woke up, all we could smell was this dead fish. It was enough to make you puke. Our horn instructor, stayed at a hotel that night because he didn't trust us.
We were very quickly asked to leave
and then all the windows and doors in the post were opened. I wunder if they ever got the smell out !!
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I think we should let them know that we want the old music back !!!!
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On the 1975 DCI finals on PBS, Tim Moxley, brother to Blue Devils Mike Moxley, announced the Etobicoke Oakland Crusaders as the E-TO-BI-COKE OAKLAND CRUSADERS. The "K" is silent and should have sounded like "ETOBICOE".
We all had a good laugh over that.
Don't the guest announcers go over the pronounciation of the corps names before they go on the air ?
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Mr. Boo you are one funny, funny guy !!!!
We'll have to have a "cold pop" when we meet !
You buying?Mike, I'll buy the first couple of rounds ya and GREAT Canadian beer at that ...sure, but you'll have to come to CANADA first to see a World Class show !!!
Geez, we're never going to meet....are we ???
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I still kind of look like that, only my platinum locks make me far, far more sexy. Mr. Boo you are one funny, funny guy !!!!We'll have to have a "cold pop" when we meet !
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I still think it is a misprint. Definitely not an accurate judging of the finals performances that night.
Blue Devils were your true DCI 2008 champions.
It doens't matter what 9 judges that scored the performances before they even hit the field say.
Congrats BD!!!!!
Why, why oh why is it a "TRAVESTY" when the corps you are cheering for doesn't win ?
Sure you always want "YOUR" corps to be on top but that doesn't always happen.
You may think that "YOUR" corps had the better show but it's the judges that determine that. As much as I loved both BD and PR shows, I do think that Phantom had the crowd on their side, as was obvious at the end of their show and when the scores were read.
Maybe next year things will be different.
A great year for all corps, THANK YOU !!!!
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To my American friends and drum corps family.
September 11, 2001 was a day I will never forget. I was at work and my sister-in-law came in and said that two jet liners had hit the twin towers of World Trade Center. I automatically said "They're under Terrorist attack. There is no other explanation." After many days of listening to the news and finding out that there was 24 Canadians that were killed also.
There isn't a day that goes by that I don't think of all those people who were killed and their families.
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The loudest moment I have ever experienced was this one:
"With a score of 98.1......Blue Devils !!!!"
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Hey Jeff, as always, if you need anything, we'll be here for you !!
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Jeff you and your family, are in my families thoughts and prayers.
Your family is not alone in this, your drum corps family are with you as well.
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Heard at DCA that AL CHEZ might be returning to "THE HOLY NAME CADETS " staff for the 75th anniversary.
Then who's going to play trumpet for Letterman !!!!
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I've been on DCP for a couple of years. Been a fan of the activity since 1980. I marched in 1984. One thing that has stayed the same was a lack of loyality in the activity.
It seems like no one stays with one corps. The idea is to march one year with a small corps, get some experience then march with a larger corps. It's not just open to world, It's top 15 to top 5.
But what surprises me the most is that it's so accepted. Very few people have loyality to one corps. Oh I see people who love the larger corps they marched with but very little of the smaller corps.
Can someone explain the lack of loyality in the activity.
Like pro athletes they go where the money is and why not ?
In drum corps they go where they think they can win a championship ring.
I wish I would have been able to march with the corps I loved back in the 70's but I couldn't afford to go to Santa Clara.
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What would pyrotechs instruct ?
Whoops, you mean "fireworks" sorry !!!
I've been saying that for years but what about the Homeland Security guys ?
What Now Defunct Corps should be brought back
in DCI World Class Corps Discussions
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With Vicki Drummond as drum major !!!
Oh wait....she maybe a bit over age by now !!
