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Get a King if you can. They are much better than the Deg two-valve Gs. B)

Thanks for the great pics of BD in '84! I always seem to be just out of the picture. :P

Not unless you were playing in the Alto line Matt! I think that's Scott you are talking about there. To his left is Lisa Glaeser and Dean Bull (I think ).

Fact: Material guard: SCV's Dekko teaches Madonna rifle - dci.org

Thanks for that further clarification Bob. I usually interpret "senior" as a relative term when I see it applied to corps in the 1960s and earlier.

So it's a three-valve Meehaphone?

Darn! I was hoping it was in the _shape_ of a wedge. :P Do these lightweight snares really play the same as a standard size field snare?

Uhhh nevermind. That will teach me to finish the thread first. :P (edit for redundancy)

Corpsreps.com knows about them: S.T.A.R. and I just put them on the Massachusetts page on Drum Corps Wiki.

Many corps have marched in "4/4 time" i.e. no stutter step for odd meter music. I did it in a small "A-class" corps in 1980 and with a top 5 corps in '84 and '85. It wasn't a big deal once you got used to it. Difficult to recover from if you get out of step though. ( examples: - 1980 Ambassadors - "Artistry in Rhythm" - 1984 Blue Devils- "Latin Implosion" _Reading_ odd meter in 4/4 seems like a bad idea to me. Whenever I see this done I spend a lot of time trying to figure out what the time signature is supposed to be. I always saw odd meter written out as odd meter in the drum corps charts I played. (edit for examples)

Happy Birthday LancerFi! ... and many more in health and happiness! :)

That's what caught me by surprise on my first retreat with BD. I couldn't BELIEVE it. I was such a hardass about retreat in Ambassadors. ..then there was the business of the extra-long BD horn line in that olympic retreat in a California show in 1984. We caught it from Mike that night too. :sshh:

Thanks to you too Malibu. I guess I have my work cut out for me now!

Thanks LancerFi. I'll get right on that. :) I am pretty cautious about using things. I don't think everyone who posts here expects that their photos might end up on other sites although that is the reality.

If you include old school, I would put hese guys up there: Black Knights (Belleville, IL)

This thread is just getting scary now... :sshh:

Thanks LancerFi. It would be great to have that story on Drum Corps Wiki. Let me know if you find out that it's alright. There is lots of stuff in this thread that I would love to post there but as it belongs to the posters, it's up to them.

This was their uniform in 1987 when I was assisting in instructing their brass line. I don't think they changed them the year after I left but my memory is foggy.

It's right in Drum Corps Wiki now although there's not much else in the article yet. :)

I am out of the loop: What is DCI Central and what is/was its relationship with DCM? I have read that corps are leaving DCM for DCIC but I don't understand what DCIC is exactly. My research on the dci.org is not revealing much except scores for the shows that are said to be DCI Central. (edit for dci info)

It's great to see this history here! What publication is the full story scanned from? Can you 27ers clear something up for me? The Reveries (senior) were in fact a junior drum corps and the Reveries (junior) were their feeder corps? Is that right? (edit for spelling :P )

I can narrow it down anyway. This looks like Olympic Stadium / Le Stade Olympique in Montreal so that means it's 1982 or 1981. (The thread has hit page 500!)

I don't go on about Drum Corps Wiki much other than in my sig so I hope everyone will forgive me... I think it would be great if some of the contributors to this thread would consider uploading some of their pictures to the Drum Corps Wiki site. It's my hobby to set up pages there for every corps I hear of and this thread is a good source. Pictures are worth a thousand words though and some of the pictures here would illustrate the old corps recorded there better than a whole page of text. I understand it's a pain to take the time to do so and there isn't any positive feedback like you experience here in this thread, but if you would like to save your pictures online somewhere (for free) then consider drumcorpswiki.com (this announcement has not been paid for by anyone, much to my disappointment :) )

Don't feed the trolls.

Isn't the DCI rules congress over already? ^0^