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Nope, not really.

All I know is in 76 I should have gone to the east bay and not down south.

It is all about the illegal immigration. Now you bring down one of your there foreign color guards and they kick a@@, this is what's go'n happen. I mean it aint about the S word at all...now I know that when I drive our good, god fearing American colorguard to their performances I use that word quite a lot, especially at them d@#$ed foreign drivers, so it aint that they have not been "acquainted" with that particular word a tall. I tell you what... Oh and as regards your Unicorns.... ####...####...####...####!!! I despise unicorns!!!!!!!!

Good times, good times...

This would be amazing!!!! :tongue:

Oh they still talk long poo about other corps, just like we did...

Now that's what I'm talking about!!!! I remember getting on a Blue Devil bus to go up to the Portland show in the Winter of 75/76 to find that they had found a company named, "Vanguard", that made toilet seat covers and displayed in the front of the bus so every time you exited you saw "Vanguard Toilet Seat Covers"! I laughed my ### off. My personal rivalry ended when I said "I Do" and married a Blue Devil, but Park & Bark and "Really, you call going up and down yard lines a drill concept?" are words that still exit my mouth. I love you guys!!! By the way, "Cities of Glass" was an amazing show!!! D@#$ it!!!!

No seriously, almost every post has been prefaced with, "I think." Let's take this discussion back a few years... For the record, regardless of the facade, there has always been a huge rivalry between Blue Devils and The Santa Clara Vanguard. Seriously. We all talk pretty when the lights go down, but underneath it all...yea. Look at the evolutions of the two corps. I will go to war for some of the BD shows and have, but I will also talk the longest poo about them too. I think the words, "Park and Bark" and "Smoke and Mirrors (2010 excluded)", play heavily in my verbage. I marched with some of those guys in college, suprising how limited their vocabularies are for college kids, and while we rocked it in band, on the Summer field, it was war. Now I know that if you go wake up some dinasours, the guys/girls who actually marched, you'll find that there was a corps called Blessed Sac that wasn't very fond of BAC (Boston Crusaders) and the Kilties needed police escorts into and out of the country of Canada. Homework is called for here.

Someone had to take 'em....

Me too Bro.

It was at retreat, but I'll PM you...

Who wouldn't...

...a bucket for something anyway...ba dum tsst!!

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69, when you were with BAC.

Who is this?

I marched cymbals so I am biased, but at the same time, I am a snob. I want to see more cymbal lines if they are good. How's that?

Me too.....Rockanne!!!!

Were you there the night a baritone was tossed over SCV's head to another corps who wore gold? That night is legendary in SCV lore.

When I was five years old, I was helping my father mow the lawn. There was a strange, rhythmic rumbling coming from the distance. I looked at my dad, who had a huge grin on his face and gave him the classic, "Huh" face. he told me to go get my stuff that we were going for a ride. What i saw when we pulled up was a memory that has stuck with me through thick and thin, even after the party with 27th in Edmunton, which caused me to forget much of my math background. Drums everywhere, glocks everywhere... A little background information might be called for. In Northern California, every year in October, there was what was called, "State". The morning started with drill teams and progressed to the myriad of drum & bell corps that existed in California back then. I think batons factored into that equation too. There were so many at one time it lasted all day. Then, when the sun went down came the Drum & Bugle corps!!!! Oh my frigg'n god!!! I was home. There was over a dozen corps back then so it was quite a show, in fact The Show out this way, since touring hadn't been innovated yet. Remember too, that these were the days when drinking and smoking in the stands were not only allowed, they were encouraged... I went to this thing for years, I took some lessons, but didn't really pick a corps I wanted to march with, until 1967/68 when this ragtag group of kids came out dressed in green satin, yes, green satin and walked like gods. Once, again, I was home. I knew I had to be a part of this, and in 1973 that dream came true when I donned the now red tunic of the Santa Clara Vanguard. Which made my dad beam!! Did I mention he marched in the 40's?

Seattle Imperials

We'll see. It is an amazing staff and it would be awesome for Phantom to have a great guard!!!

I had that too...it was good.

I am really looking forward to PR's guard this year!!! An amazing staff!