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Oh, okay! My apologies.

I'm not sure that the story was true, since there were only 24 or 25 guys in the guard that year (out of a corps of 135). Hopefully the staff would have alerted them ahead of time about shower arrangements. Funny story, but I doubt that it was true.

Its not a drum corps related tattoo, but a guy from 03 Bluecoats had "SPQR" tattooed on either his shoulder or upper arm ("Senatus Populusque Romanum").

Magic of Orlando 1994, 95, 96

Would it be possible to go back to a similar format (smaller, regional circuits), and then have a larger tour heading to DCI?

Is the "Storm" section from their 1995 show?

I ran across Joe Shuker's bio on Dutch Boy's staff page. Talk about starting young! http://www.dutchboydrumcorps.com/staff_bios/J.Shuker.pdf

That was probably the WORST crowd I have ever seen! They did not even acknowledge any corps not from the Chicago area (except East Coast Jazz). Each corps put on fantastic performances, and the crowd did not even respond with polite applause. I'd rather they booed than not even acknowledge them at all. Very, very rude. Ironically, the best crowd I've seen outside of DCI Finals was in Michigan City in 2003--The Cavaliers' other home show. The crowd went wild for our (Scouts) performance, even wilder than for the home team! Still my favorite performance as a marching member.

I think that Rosie Miller-Queen was on their guard staff in the late 1990's. If you watch the 1995 PBS broadcast, there's a guard vignette with Bruno talking with Cesario. In the background, you can hear a female giving instructions to, and counting off, the sabre line: that may be her.

Phantom Regiment's 1996 "Black Light" flags: in-person, they looked like a white flag with a black box in the middle, but were actually purple and white. Also, the white 2005 ballad flags fit the music's mood to a "T". Cavaliers 1998 opener flags, the ones with the purple and white diagonal zebra-stripes. Cadets 1995 opener flags, kind-of reminds me of a patchwork quilt (and probably felt like one, spinning them on seven-foot poles). Blue Knights 1994 opener blueish flags on the wooden poles, and the tri-color red-white-green flags (they remind me of Madison's old flags from the early 1980's). I honestly don't know where to find other pictures of these flags.

If you're refering to Phantom Regiment Cadets/Phantom Legion, then that was a very interesting look! It might work well with the corps, but with shiny black pith helmets and plumes.

Spence, they're definitely all on the same page. All or almost all of the staff are Cadets alumni, and they have kept a VERY tight, consistent program going back at least to the early 1980's. I'm obviously talking from an outsider's point-of-view, as a huge fan of their guard since 1988. Now, if only they could get Jim Moore back on board :big hug: C.J.

That was a great show. I'd heard about it for a long time, but didn't see it until after I aged out in 03. Also, those are soprano bugles, not trumpets.

I actually do not find the military traditions to be odd (uniforms, salutes, spinning rifles/sabres). I take it to be a nod to tradition, so to speak, even with the activity's many non-militaristic changes/innovations.

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