bartyount
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The Cadets
There's something very appealing about the way their members don't really need to be taught how to act or such ... they just "know" because they are The Cadets.
Ditto this for SCV. I've always been impressed with how much dignity SCV members carry themselves with. Their mere presence commands respect.
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You left out Crown, is this a Crown bashing thread? :P
Crown is too loud. :)
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I'm interested to see the recaps to see if Coats managed to hold on the top brass spot.
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Ironically enough, the last time I visited Miss Sippi (which was during my first year of corps), that was the movie that was playing on the TV's at the school.
Dude - that's totally creepy.
BTW - for all you guys referencing Deliverance - the movie was set in Tennessee, not Mississippi!!! :)
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I would hope that bart would be at the show and be mobile to give us updates.....but he let us down....hehehehehehe
Sorry guys. I didn't make the show this year.
It's tough to make it due to work when I need all my vacation
to go on tour in two weeks to help out with the souvie truck! B)
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Ticketmaster blows.
I went to a Police concert last month and paid $25 in "convenience" (yah - whatever) / shipping&handling fees... on $50 tickets.
That's a 50% markup on the price of the ticket.
They are freakin' criminals.
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This is the 1989 Devs hornline we're talking about. Not exactly a girl scout troop.
Those thugs.............well, er....................let's just say they got "stomped"
Nice. B)
Sky Ryders 91, somewhere in Minnesota after rehearsal, a few of our guard were out in the parking lot practicing and some local punks came up and started harassing them.
I'm in the gym and one of our drummers runs in and says "everyone outside, now! And grab a bat!" (there were 15 to 20 baseball bats in the corner of the gym).
I don't think I ever saw anything funnier in my 4 years marching than the sight of 100 of us running outside (20 or so with bats raised) and seeing the expressions of disbelief on those punks faces. Priceless.
Needless to say, they made a hasty departure without the formalities.
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Jackson was '93, I believe. And yes....it was BAD. I remember having a police escort into our (Bluecoats) Housing site and also the 24/7 security guard. Horn arc was always fun, as the local folks would come out, sit across the street with their 40 oz.'s, get smashed, and conduct our music for us. WOW is all I can say.Cue Bart......
Heh-heh... ok...
THAT'S MY HOME, MAN! YOU DON'T DISS A MAN'S HOME!
Ok - so it defintely was one of the worst places in Jackson you could be. For those of you that think the Citrus Bowl is bad - Coats housing sight in 93 makes the Citrus Bowl seem like Disney World resorts!
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so how long before a flaming trailer shows up in the VK show this season?
Aww crap! You beat me to it! The first thing I thought of at reading the words "flaming trailer"
was that that would be perfect for a VK show! :)
Academy - you guys are freakin awesome for stepping up to the plate like that.
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It's not ABOUT YOU - it's a YOUTH ACTIVITY!!
And it's JUNE!!
If I get in for free and they're unprepared and the show is incomplete, then yes - it's about them.
As soon as I pay for a ticket - it's about me.
And so what if it's June? Maybe I should walk in and refuse to pay for a ticket. After all - it's just June, right?
(Ugh!)
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So that was you guys huh?
Well - there were other corps that would do the same, but yeah - we were one of them.
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Sorry --- to all the corps whose horns we accidentally pegged with jolly ranchers at retreat.
There was a guard girl who got a care package like every week, and it always had this super-industrial sized bag of jolly ranchers which we kept at the front of the bus. We would always stuff a bunch in our gauntlets before retreat and share them with the neighboring corps. Cept some corps were too snooty and ignored us (one might say they were more mature, but we thought they were just snobs - haha).
So if we were next to a corps who wouldn't play, we would toss the JRs *over* their block (and sometimes over 2 blocks) to the corps that appreciated our generosity. Sometimes, someone would toss one that went astray and it would hit someone or their horn. These people were rarely amused.
Now that I look back on it, it was pretty juvenile and it would probably never happen today. But then again - it was fun and it made for some good memories - and that's what really counts (right?). :)
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The environment there was definitely like a family. Especially for the core of vets there when you and I were marching.
Unfortunately the corps lost this after the 89 season. Not making finals in 89 was a big disappointment to the corps and I think this caused a pretty big loss of vets to other solid top 12 corps. In 90 we only had a small handfull of vets return and because of this, the family atmosphere of the corps members was mostly lost. Since we were mostly rookies, there was little emphasis on history, loyalty or tradition of the corps. Since I was a rookie, I didn't know any better.
When I went to Bluecoats in 92, I finally saw what my friends from Sky Ryders (who had marched previous to 90) had meant by the corps being a family. In Coats - and especially that year (92), the corps members had an unusually strong bond. I think this is due alot in part that we had many vets - many of which had marched 6 years or more. Even we rookies were made to immediately feel that we were then part of a long and proud tradition and that we were part of the special Bluecoats family.
Still - I made many friends at Sky and I wouldn't trade my time there for anything. But it didn't feel like "home" the way Bluecoats did (and still does).
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Open Wide:
bari quartet>>
Scott Rankin
Jim Rogers
Aaron Suzuki
Shawn McElhaney
One of these is wrong cause I know one of the guys in the bari quartet was Steve McCartney.
Another guy I know had a "euph solo" - during the scatter part of Strawberry Soup. That
was Steve Jones.
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Oh, that's easy: Sky Ryders 1993. Total. Freaking. Meltdown. I am still amazed: a group with such promise and potential going down in flames. I actually have the final performance on CD, but I still can't bring myself to listen to it. :(
Can you expand on that? As a former Sky member, I'm curious about what happened.
After marching 90 and 91, I left because the corps basically doubled tour fees for 92
and I couldn't afford it. I was planning on not marching anywhere for the 92 season,
but in May of 92, I talked to a friend who had joined Bluecoats and was told they
needed to fill a spot. The tour fees were cheap and I dug the Coats, so I went.
It wasn't until I went to Coats that season and seeing how well organized it was
that I realized just how poorly Sky Ryders had been managed.
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gotta go 1993 Bluecoats
Woohoo! My show got a vote!
I would have to vote for it myself as well - that makes 2 votes, right?!
My second vote would be Sky Ryders 86.
I'm not biased or anything.
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I just sent a post to them. If we get enough people to do it, perhaps they will answer the question once and for all. I put it in, other stuff to bust, or something close to that. This Myth has been going on long enough now. Heck, lets give it a go.
I hate to be a puddleglum, but there *might* be 1 person in every 100,000 Mythbusters viewers (if that) who care if a G bugle is louder than a Bb (besides - nothin' catchin' fire or blowin' up).
Plus it's not a very challenging test to set up. All you need is a way to send air through the horn at constant speed and a sound level meter. Why don't you do the test yourself and post the results here? B)
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Concerning smarter vs. harder - when and where I marched (90, 91 Sky Ryders, 92, 93 Bluecoats)
the rehersal philosophy defintely emphasized the harder over smarter. And I believe it cost us.
There were days people were so tired and burnt out that nobody could focus. You could even tell
the staff was feeling the effects (lack of focus, organization, short tempers, etc).
But on the days everyone was well rested, you could really see the difference in rehersal. Everyone
was very focused, worked hard and we would get tons of cleaning done in a shorter amount of time.
If we had had more of these "smart" days, I believe we would have been miles ahead of where ended up.
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I cannot believe DCI is selling tickets thru ticketmaster! Their fees are ridiculous, I have paid $10-15 per ticket sometimes.
Ticketmaster is evil. I just paid $25 in extra fees *per ticket* to ticketmaster for tickets to The Police. For the $50 tickets that's a 50% upcharge!!!!
Evil.
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Two bad words: Jackson, Mississippi
a-FREAKIN-men!
Hey! Respect, man! That's my home! :)
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I've always had a recurring dream since I aged out in 93. It's always pretty much the same - the corps (Bluecoats) calls me up and asks me to fill a hole. So I go and at some point during rehersals I realize I'm nearly 15 years too old to be marching! :) It always ends there - I never make it to a show. :(
I used to have these dreams all the time. Now they only occur once or twice during the summer when I'm following the activity closer.
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Blue Devils '93 (Don Ellis) - One of my favorites. Nobody else seems to like it. Sop/Bari duet in parallel octaves - beautiful.
I like it. I know it's heresy, but it's my favorite year for BD.
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I suppose if you know absolutely nothing about the actual battle it would have been fine, but almost nothing in the film was historically accurate.
I read an article on the history of the battle of Thermopylae and saw the History channel documentary the night before I saw the movie and I thought the movie stuck to the major historical points pretty closely. And assuming that the documentary was accurate, even many of the minor details were accurate as well.
So unless the history channel and the article I read were inaccurate, to say that almost nothing in the film is historically accuarate is wrong.
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90 Sky Ryders - We stopped the show in the middle of our opener because of a sudden thunderstorm w/lightening. After the storm passed we went back out on the field and faced backfield to do a warmup before restarting our show. Sure enough - there was our rainbow - so that's what we played for our backfield warmup. The crowd gave us the biggest applause we got all season for that.
Good times - good times... :)
Drum Corps in California
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Sky Ryders toured out west when I marched in 91. It was a very fun and memorable tour. It was my first
time to ever go to California and I was amazed by how pleasant the weather was. It was a welcome treat
after our 2 weeks of everydays in Texas and a week of trekking across west Texas, New Mexico and Arizona
in blistering heat.