DCA reality check

[SaraNYC]

I have to say the look on our newest sop players face at dinner Sunday night when I told the table I marched 1985 Star - my age out season - was PRICELESS!!! I think he has three years before he ages out?

I too remember the Vietnam war and body counts on TV.

[donincardona]

in '69 i was in my 3rd year with cru. i marched in my 2nd al nationals and 3rd dca finals. i had been in every big show there was except the dream and had beaten every corps but reading. the last 2 things happened in '71. '69 was a very magical year for me. probably the best of my life in and out of drum corps. and yes goldie i missed woodstcock because of drum corps. i also had my first and greatest love that year........and i married her. the guard captains daughter. so i married the bosses daughter. what a great time it was to be alive. my favorite corps was the skyliners follwed by the yankee rebs. i missed the moon landing because of mission drums. actually it was armstrongs first walk. i met joe genero that year and truman crawford. pepe and i got drunk at the rochester show at the turners club. that's how we met. i could go on & on but i'm probably boring you all. man does this bring back memories. B)

[TennTux]

Most of the DCI corps members were born in or near the year 1989.

For them, Alvin Ailey, Andrei Sakharov, Huey

Newton, Emperor Hirohito, Ted Bundy, Abbie Hoffman, and Don the Beachcomber

have always been dead.

1. What Berlin wall?

2. Humvees, minus the artillery, have always been available to the public.

3. Rush Limbaugh and the 'Dittoheads' have always been lambasting liberals.

4. They never 'rolled down' a car window.

5. Michael Moore has always been angry and funny.

6. They may confuse the Keating Five with a rock group.

7. They have grown up with bottled water.

8. General Motors has always been working on an electric car.

9. Nelson Mandela has always been free and a force in South Africa.

10. Pete Rose has never played baseball.

11. Rap music has always been mainstream.

12. Religious leaders have always been telling politicians what to do, or else!

13. ³Off the hook² has never had anything to do with a telephone.

14. Music has always been 'unplugged.'

15. Russia has always had a multi-party political system.

16. Women have always been police chiefs in major cities.

17. They were born the year Harvard Law Review Editor Barack Obama announced he might run for office some day.

18. The NBA season has always gone on and on and on and on.

19. Classmates could include Michelle Wie, Jordin Sparks, and Bart Simpson.

20. Half of them may have been members of the Baby-sitters Club.

21. Eastern Airlines has never 'earned their wings' in their lifetime.

22. No one has ever been able to sit down comfortably to a meal of 'liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti.'

23. Wal-Mart has always been a larger retailer than Sears and has always employed more workers than GM.

24. Being 'lame' has to do with being dumb or inarticulate, not disabled.

25. Wolf Blitzer has always been serving up the news on CNN.

26. Katie Couric has always had screen cred.

27. Al Gore has always been running for president or thinking about it.

28. They never found a prize in a Coca-Cola 'MagiCan.'

29. They were too young to understand Judas Priest's subliminal messages.

30. When all else fails, the Prozac defense has always been a possibility.

31. Multigrain chips have always provided healthful junk food.

32. They grew up in Wayne's World.

33. U2 has always been more than a spy plane.

34. They were introduced to Jack Nicholson as 'The Joker.'

35. Stadiums, rock tours and sporting events have always had corporate names.

36. American rock groups have always appeared in Moscow.

37. Commercial product placements have been the norm in films and on TV.

38. On Parents' Day on campus, their folks could be mixing it up with Lisa Bonet and Lenny Kravitz with daughter Zöe, or Kathie Lee and Frank Gifford with son Cody.

39. Fox has always been a major network.

40. They drove their parents crazy with the Beavis and Butt-Head laugh.

41. The 'Blue Man Group' has always been everywhere.

42. Women's studies majors have always been offered on campus.

43. Being a latchkey kid has never been a big deal.

44. Thanks to MySpace and Facebook, autobiography can happen in real time.

45. They learned about JFK from Oliver Stone and Malcolm X from Spike Lee.

46. Most phone calls have never been private.

47. High definition television has always been available.

48. Microbreweries have always been ubiquitous.

49. Virtual reality has always been available when the real thing failed.

50. Smoking has never been allowed in public spaces in France.

51. China has always been more interested in making money than in reeducation.

52. Time has always worked with Warner.

53. Tiananmen Square is a 2008 Olympics venue, not the scene of a massacre.

54. The purchase of ivory has always been banned.

55. MTV has never featured music videos.

56. The space program has never really caught their attention except in disasters.

57. Jerry Springer has always been lowering the level of discourse on TV.

58. They get much more information from Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert than from the newspaper.

59. They're always texting 1 n other.

60. They will encounter roughly equal numbers of female and male professors in the classroom.

61. They never saw Johnny Carson live on television.

62. They have no idea who Rusty Jones was or why he said 'goodbye to rusty cars.'

63. Avatars have nothing to do with Hindu deities.

64. Chavez has nothing to do with iceberg lettuce and everything to do with oil.

65. Illinois has been trying to ban smoking since the year they were born.

66. The World Wide Web has been an online tool since they were born.

67. Chronic fatigue syndrome has always been debilitating and controversial.

68. Burma has always been Myanmar.

69. Dilbert has always been ridiculing cubicle culture.

70. Food packaging has always included nutritional labeling.

OUCH! b**bs

Thanks Mickk3...

And I just HAD to read this on my B'Day....LOL

(ok, so it was posted on my B'day.....hehe)

1st DC show I saw was in '59 (Manning Bowl, Lynn Mass, I lived across the street and was 5yrs old)

1st year marching '63

'69 BAC...

'89 "retired" from DC for 4 yrs!

[TomPeashey]

Don

you are married to Bob Ashton's daughter? How'd I miss that? The original "kinky" (referring to his hair of course)... that man was a real story teller... Did he ever tell you how he got his purple heart?

[Fastone]

In 1969 I was 17 and marching in the St. Ritas Brassmen, my 11th year in drumcorps

[RickCogley]

Wonderful thread! Wow!

[melligene]

In 1969 I retired as Drum Major upon returning from DCA finals at Aquanis Stadium in Rochester. That's after 11 years of competition at the ripe old age of 26. Worst day of my life. :(

Edited August 22, 2007 by melligene

[JoSaints]

Since we've shifted the discussion to 1969 ... that was the year I started HS and was already marching for several years ... my age-out was September 11, 1976, on Maxwell Field in Wildwood NJ at Legions.

History-wise, my most significant year was 1974 -- first year my corps marched in the Dream (in exhibition) and went "on tour," even if it was only a 5 hour trip to Lynn MA for World Open. I, on the other hand, was in Jersey at the time, in isolation with mono and some other nasty stuff watching Nixon resign his presidency ...

jo

Edited August 22, 2007 by JoSaints

[JammitorDan]

I was 5 yrs old in 1969. I remember walking into Roosevelt Stadium with my dad for the Dream and running into some members of the Emerald Lancers in the parking lot, who he taught at the time.

Oh and Frank, congrats once again on the HOF induction and sorry I won't be there to see you throw down at I & E.

[darkman]

in '69 I was 10.

I was 11 in 1969

Didn't know anything about Corps until 1972

March my 1st show in 1973, Memorial Day Weekend Beleville Black Knights Show...

Black Knight still the coolest uniforms ever...