scv guy

I think it was 1980 when my HS band had a fist full of drum corps staff. Namely, SCV legends Rob Carson (drums) and Phil Olds (horns). I am not sure if it was on purpose or not. Rob was an alumni of the high school (Cupertino H.S.) and Phil was our choir teacher. Though we had great corps instructors and usually at least a dozen SCV A and B corps members, due to our hard-headed band teacher, we were not a drum corps style band! Still doing the prance 8-5 step (you know, "show band"). However, that year we played two drum corps charts: "Children of Sanchez" and the Madison version of "The Way We Were" (with a massive end zone to end zone company front). With one SCV A Corps and 2 B Corps snares, we had a decent drum line. Tymps were on the front sideline. I got a baritone solo in the middle of the show. I was, like, YES! I remember the previous 2 years bothering my band teacher a lot a about doing a corps style band. After doing drum corps all summer, I wanted nothing more, as our band was huge (200+ nicknamed "The Marching Millions"). I did a lot of laps around the track for making such "suggestions". There is a great picture in my yearbook getting yelled at by my band teacher. I couldn't believe it when he went pretty far in the drum corps direction in '80. We finally won sweepstakes at a contest that year too. On the tapes you heard the judge say, "Nice baritone solo!". Cool!

1978 Pacific Procession at Spartan Stadium in San Jose, CA. I was a performer in the SCV "B" Corps. I think we just did a little standstill. Show included: Blue Devils SCV Freelancers Anaheim Kingsmen Troopers VK Man, '78 was a great year for drum corps.

Anyone to your knowledge got a tick for dutting?

Thanks for your thoughtful reply. What you posted does sound more familiar to me. I do recall now that there was dutting back then, but it was only the center snare (In my case, Darryl Cox and Greg Dilley) and it was done more quietly. I also recall the upstroke of the sticks prior to a clean downbeat. Things I thought then were just stick tricks probably also contributed to playing in unison. Yes?

I'm with you bro!

Not at all. I'm just curious as to why it's in modern drum corps and in the past it was absent.

Oh, I see. I guess it wouldn't be so bad if the center snare was the only one doing the dutting, but it seems like it's not coming from just the center. In fact, the whole line seems to want to get into the verbal chaos. Everyone does not need to make this sound, do they?

I was in '80 SCV. The first drum line to come off the 50 for almost the entire show. No dutting. For me, I'd rather not hear dutting. Kind of ruins the music. I wish they could find a better way to stay in time on big moves.

When did dutting start anyway? When I marched I don't recall our drum line dutting. If they did so, it certainly wasn't noticeable. In the KAC, also, no dutting. If highly precise old school lines like SCV and Kingsmen never dutted, why is it necessary today?

You should be! Great. Just Great. :sad:

Go 'Gades! Go Dream!

Very nice video quality and compression. What is are you using to shoot, edit and compress? Never saw a player like that. Is it H.264? Sorry. Video geek....

I think you mean Deb Peterson. She is a former Kingsmen and Blue Devil. Her son is in BDB and her husband Doug was in BD and is marching with Renegades this year. Good people. Kingsmen Alumni Rifle Line: Deb Peterson is 4th from the right

No, not at all. Rick did a great job with Regiment. I'm sorta out of touch with modern drum corps, so my opinions are probably out of touch. Oh, OK. It's not a horrible tradeoff, as they are learning to work together and achieving a high quality of performance. They are practicing together, but unfortunately, they aren't practicing the corps' summer program. I think that a little sacrifice (a few less WGI shows) would benefit the corps in the summer time. I still think that it's too bad that they can't make camp in Jan.-Mar. Perhaps miss one weekend out of three to make camp? Do all major corps have winter guards? Personally, I don't think it will hurt Phantom. Maybe they will begin rehearsing their summer program with the rest of the corps? In my time, the SCV guard that wanted to march comp guard usually joined another organization. Back then, it was the Sunnyvale Royal Sabers, I believe. They did their shows with Sunnyvale, but Gail still expected them to be at every camp. Times have changed though. Kids in corps are not from the local area any more, so a return to the "old days" (of rehearsing with the full corps during the winter) would probably be more painful for the kids that are marching, right?

Doesn't fielding a WGI guard take away from practice time with the corps in the Winter and Spring? I know that the SCV guard doesn't join the corps until April and I feel it's not a good thing. Back in the day, SCV would only perform in exhibition so that they could attend camps with the rest of the corps. I think Rick knows what he is doing. It will create an even stronger guard for the summer season. IHMO!

I don't buy that at all. SCV had a show that was so far above Bloo in the level of sophistication. That show was pure art, highly innovative and exceedingly difficult. To say that fans were just giving them a nod out of nostalgia is pure B.S. Give the fans a little more credit. SCV and Bloo fans are looking for different things, so this is kind of a loaded question anyway.

What about drum solos? I'd like to see two. One of them should be "Flight of the Bumblebee".

Not much you can do. But DCI should put Finals on the FN. They can still sell lots of DVDs for the people that don't have the FN. Besides, the streaming video quality is quite low compared with the MPEG 2 compression you'd find on a DVD. Fans will buy both, I think.

Yes, I've heard on the SCV Alumni Forum that they are indeed a young corps. I hope a lot of the corps comes back next year.

Buzzkill. Go VANGUARD! I hope they crank it up a notch or two. :smile:

Man, I thought BDB had a lock on the title. Congrats SCVC! As a former SCV "B" Corps Member, I am proud of you guys! :smile:

The problem with the piece is that it was too much depresso and not enough uplifting moments. They needed to ramp it up at the end to end it on a more positive note. And if this was to appeal to drum corps fans, they really needed to show the kids playing music, not just holding a trumpet walking down a dusty street. The graphics and the look were fantastic, just that the story telling was too flat. There really could've been more done in the editing room. This opinion coming from an actual editor.

I'm an editor and I prefer straight cuts to picture in pictures. I do think they often linger too long on shots that aren't interesting, though. It's an issue with the way the show is directed. Perhaps they need some new blood?

I kept waiting to actually hear said brass bands. No matter how horrific the sound. The dancing was cool though. Totally WGI material.

Keep dreamin'....