Underdawg

OK, while we are on the topic of obscure and rare videos. Does anyone have a copy of Bloomington, Indiana 1986?

Daryl started in 1988 and aged out in 1995.

I don't remember there being a tour video in 1990.

Sam, I think the difference you are seeing in the way she is holding the horn between '83 and '84 is related to the horn itself. If memory serves me correctly the cadets mellos were DEG in '83. They didn't get the King mellos until '84. I vaguely remember asking Barb why she held the horn differently and she said it was something to do with the valve casings being different between the two horns.

Johnny Sanchez and Paul Perniciaro were on the cadets staff in '86.

Answers: There were 84 horns (28 sopranos, 18 mellos, 26 baritones/euphoniums, 12 contras). The guard members were actually guard people. All were supposed to play but I think only a few of them really did. During first half of the tour, twelve of the sopranos spun flag in the opener and there were 5 or six horns that were flags at the end of the show. Unfortunately that got changed to what you saw on the video. The original concept was to have 128 "cadets" that were interchangeable as musicians or visual people. Unfortunately, the staff failed to think through the necessary learning curve to make that work at a "top 5" level of competence. I know the Hoppy bashers will be shocked to know this, but my understanding was that the large hornline/small guard was Michael Cesario's debacle. The contra was played with a soprano mouthpiece by none other than Jeff Sacktig, Cadets's current drill designer. As for how the guard felt, they were not happy about it. It was a tough season for them. The boxing ring things were brutal. Was guard shortage an issue? Not really. There were a lot of ageouts in '85, so it was the "ideal" time to try such a thing. But there were enough girls that returned in '87 from the '85 guard and earlier seasons to have fielded a guard that was 50% vets.

I would love to see those Huntington pictures. There are so few pictures of us from that year.

No kidding, what didn't get re-written?

Well, here are my 2 cents worth. The hornline was overflowing with rookies that year. I have always maintained that if we had marched a normal 64-70 person hornline ( 68 was the standard for cadets hornlines '83-'85) we would have fielded a pretty good hornline despite being so young. However, we had an additional 16 horns that were .....ummmm .......weaker than we would have liked. That coupled with a weak visual design, inexperienced staff members, and a really poor overall staff moral kept us from being more successful. In all honesty, I think the judges were far too kind, Suncoast Sound was a better drum corps that year.

Yet another way for WGI to charge more and more for less.

Boring no one wants to watch a greoup stand still for 3 minutes

Spartans

Didn't Sherry Bowman design the drill for the Ventures in their later years?

Marc definitely wrote our drill in '90

Yes, this second tour '86