KristeyK

I got to see them in San Antonio and LOVED them! I've always enjoyed BC, but this year- I am officially a FAN now.

I still have my music from 89 Freelancers, along with my buckle and the SCV Star a friend of mine had given me after finals. After moving in March, I even discovered my old patent leather shoes in a mysterious box full of drum corps/marching memories I had forgotten about!!!

Count me in on the "none" for no change. Being able to spend your summer marching Jr. Corps seems like an excuse to not have to totally join the real world. Would your family really be able to do without the income all summer? Car payments, house payments, feeding little Johny and Suzie, utilities....they all add up- and it'd be darned hard to do it while away playing all summer. (And that's assuming your spouse would like the feeling of being a Navy spouse every summer.)

The year was 1989, the month- July, the show was in Montrose, CO. Towards the end of our opener, the cymbals had a visual where we held our "plates" out and spun around. At this particular show, we had a judge who I am guessing hadn't been on the field with us yet. As we started the visual I made the second step into the spin and BAM! Poor guy had bent down to grab something that was dropped. (I think it may have been a stick.) Bad for him, but it got me out of "Hey ROOKIE! Go load the sleeping bags on the bus" duties for the night. (Which trust me, as a rookie who had only been with the corps since Memorial Day, it was a GOOD thing to be recognized for something everyone else liked! b**bs ) A few weeks later, the poor guy was on the field with us again, and winked at me while giving us a nice WIDE berth. HILLARIOUS! (Still feel kinda bad about that too, but 'tis the hazzards of being a field judge, no?)

I think I paid a bit over $300.00 to march with the Freelancers in '89. (Don't quote me though.... B)

LOVE IT! That's actually a perfect corps name for around here. (We could compete with Crunchy Frog....we could be Burnt Toast! lol.) Not exactly the WORST name, but I have NEVER liked it, especially for a corps from Phoenix- The Musketeers.

GAWD I remember so much stuff! I remember before daily rehearsals started, a LOT of us would gather at Grogan's house (or was it Karl's?) and play ping pong and Risk ALL night, while I learned to get my taste for beer! lol. I swear I still play both those games with a cut throatness that SCARES the crap out of others! It's also how I learned the history of the Freelancers, because of COURSE the old videos would be playing all night long. (Along with all the other old corps...Bridgmen, 27th, BD, SCV....the newest we'd see is like 85.)

I heard one about a guy from Sky pledging $500 from the world champion Caballeros to the Jerry Lewis telethon and it being read on the air!

This is a bit of an older thread but I HAD to revive it!!!! Yo JOJO!!! I remember this, but we were told to look so arrogant that everyone felt like they were trash as we looked through them

Worst thing I remember from my days was someone "hijacking" a VK jacket that we burned in effigy along with a banana the night before semi's in 89. :sshh:

I could have sworn someone like the Bridgemen had something different in the late 70's though. (Although it very well could have been 80. I don't own the historical series of tapes and it's been since 89 or 90 that I've seen them!)

I have to agree... But since you said while marching- it's have to be at a show in 1988 when I was playing drum for a small corps called Sunset Regiment. The guy behind me fell while we were marching backwards...do NOT ask me how I managed not to end up on my rear end b**bs , but it was still a rather harrowing thing and probably would have been better had I just bit it then.

'76 Blue Devils (assuming I was old enough!)

Favorite shows??? I'm a bit partial to '89, but that's the year I marched!!! (Hi CJ!!! Remember "living" in the corps hall with me & Laini before tour??? :P LOL!) 84 was a KILLER show though, as was 91. REALLY makes me wish I had taken another year to get through college so I could have marched my age out year. I have to say my favorite memory of marching WAS semi's in '89. HOLY **** is all I could remember thinking half way through that opening drill move when I could tell from my "back" view that the block was rotating with absolute PERFECTION!!! I also remember at the end of Caddy of the Skies glancing over at a couple of the snares and seeing some real emotion on their faces. ####, I think we ALL bawled at the end of that performance! (At least percussion did.) To this day I wish I had that on tape rather than our actual finals performance.