Jaminbenb

Hey, I had fun! The fact I ran in to Bob was a BIG plus! Was great playing catch up with him! This was MY first senior show in a few years, and the fact that it was less than a mile from my in-laws made it an easy stop! (other plans fell through for the weekend, so I made the trip up, and swam most of the day!) Loved seeing others at the show, and enjoyed what I got to see!

And Ruth's cymbals..... My old percussion toys.... A bunch of old McDonald's flags....

Cool! Another reason to like them!

Sure they weren't some sort of parade corps start up thing? I mean everyone can't be Spirit, and make top 25 their first year....

Ok. ya learn something new.... Someone put a query on FB: Ok so random question? How many people here have marched for a corps that is no longer around in any way.... So I put where I was, and after a while, I got a notification that someone responded to it.. and I opened it and it was a guy that marched in the California Dons...so I said "Hey you're one of the guys that got our equipment! And he said that in 86 Carolina Crown got it from them! hahahaha! Small world, huh?

I just remember back when I marched that there was a show in Danville either the last weekend of May/first weekend of June that was always an exhibition...just sort of got everyone's first show jitters out of the way, and let you perform in front of a crowd. IIRC, most of the judges were usually there just giving us the once over, and it was just a great night to start the season.

Two Mad Elf's and I think you'll spill your guts on a lot of things!!! (and bring Brenda...once you're out cold, we can exchange pleasantries with her!)

Beers at Jeff's, then?

we all have those....

Bummer! Come on George! You can do it!

Yeah.... I wasn't aware that the LKO was in town, and I was standing ready to leave with a few friends at a Your Place while someone was hitting the men's room...and bumped into this rather "thick" lady coming in and said "excuse me" she said (with a British-like accent) "no problem, anytime!" and winked at me! I just smiled and kept going....never realized that it was her until after we got into my friends car and saw one of the "LKO" vehicles that one of the local car dealers supplies...and my one friend said "I THINK THAT WAS LAURA DAVIES THAT WINKED AT YOU?!?!?!" And we're pretty sure it was!

I just remember the one year when we got back to Hershey High's parking lot, there was a small pickup truck filled with ice and beer!! I also remember one year (I don't think it was corps related, though) that Laura Davies was flirting with me at Your Place!

Yeah, that was always a nice Sunday!!!

Heard it was significant...which was why he "had to sell" but didn't know the amount.... That was in an overheard conversation when I was working with Carlisle... So no display in some case in some "office"? Yeah.... I remember hearing the name way back...but never knew 99% of the judges back in those "daze"

I'd like to know what our Fairfax, VA July 4th parade/exhibition brought in...If anything Hershman probably pulled in a decent amount! I think when we did the Carlisle fireworks, that was just free use of their stadium for an entire day...

Not sure I remember that one off the bat... just looked at my 82 schedule, and we had no Connecticut shows... I do remember his name, though...

My 82 & 83 schedules each had about 25-30 performances...and NOT including the concerts at the beginning of the season! I agree...those Sunday shows were a HUGE pain...although if they weren't competitions, we could usually get away with having a few before hand, and most of the times, the shenanigans was pretty high effort! One show we were so drunk that we stopped at a spot in the show and one of the guys said "hey we're supposed to be up there!" and started walking up and motioning for the rest of us to follow! That's sort of why I was planning on taking a break in 1984, it was just getting to be too much after working all week, then having to devote the whole Friday-Saturday-Sunday thing...and occasional Wednesday sectionals... no time to do anything else...

Do they have them on a display? Or are they just in some back room?

Heck I just look at the old schedules I have, and remember how many shows we had during the year! Last weekend of May you had Danville's exhibition on Saturday, and the Clifton show on Sunday...how many times during the year did you have an over-nighter with a show Saturday night, and one Sunday afternoon? Or even some exhibition somewhere? I see the schedules NOW, and feel bad for the corps because they only get a third of the contests that we ever had! Almost doesn't seem worth it! I also remember how many local shows we had, too...Hershey, Mechanicsburg,Carlisle, Scranton, Lewisburg, Reading...my parents got to see me several times during the season, as well as prelims and finals... People had ways of making money for their corps, and they were pretty self sustaining...ok, maybe some had help from their local legion or something, but still..there was a lot of work for everyone! One thing that I noticed at about the time I was getting out of the whole teaching thing, was that the kids just weren't as into it as they were when we were young, and into it... the kids just had a "my parent's want me to do this" attitude, and as it got to the point where even getting a grade for band was getting eliminated, it got even worse in some places.

Hard to say...it was just a surprise when I saw it...never saw that one before...

I honestly never had an issue with him...although I wasn't in his "section" so I didn't get to experience him as much... I always had a great time with his brothers....Sat with both Brian and Mark on the bus for a few years... But JB's attitude and mine didn't mesh that day...no biggie...

Yeah...I was thinking that it might have been that one uniform that was at the display a few years back, but you're right...color WOULD be helpful! (the fact that the shields on the shako's are different is also weird...)

Yeah..83 DID have its issues with the ringchasers...but the drumline had its major issues because RM dropped the ball big time, and the drums were about a month behind on getting to "that level"... I also remember after getting our solid 4th in prelims, a lot of us had just a horrible attitude and decided that no matter what we did, we were getting fourth, so we did a little in between shows party, and pizzed off a few people...but we were on a "why bother"!?!? (John Bowling and I had a nasty discussion in the hallway of the hotel that ended better than it started, but I think I got him onto our side of the fence...) And yeah, that was a great hornline! The thing is when you listen to 82 and 83, you can tell that the corps turned a corner...and I really think that if the 84 thing never happened, it would have been another good year! (although, I was burnt out, (and fed up) and wasn't coming back)

Ok..was just curious if there were any other historical things.... Btw...I was bored yesterday, and I looked to see what CD's may be around... just the one on E-Bay and this was the picture...no other info...

Ours was always our weak spot...we had good sections, but never a full section that just kicked everyone's butt! The first few years it was all snare..80 we had a great timp line and bass line... 81, nothing...82 sort of half tom, half snare...83 just toms....If we ever got the whole thing on one page it would have been great! Horn line was always great! EDIT: Just took a look at the picture....83 had a good bass line as well (except for that one hit in Love for Sale) The snare line had some slackers in it... I also took a gander at 82, and THAT snare line had some SERIOUS slackers... (didn't we try to get someone to not march...or was that 83?)