uncle z Posted September 25, 2008 Share Posted September 25, 2008 (edited) Seeing Iowa............................................................................! Playing "Iowa." Being 13 years old with a girlfriend in the Port Washington Windjammers and a girlfriend in the West Bend Patriots and NO WINGMAN!!! Somebody wearing a beer can hat to practice. Sympathetic back pain for North Tenors in '76 BD. Sympathetic back pain for Septom drummers in '77 Spirit. The first time ever hearing the fugue portion of "Variations on a Theme by Purcell." Old-school nicknames for other corps. Trying to engage Ed Trautner in conversation at shows in the hopes of seeing my name in the "Trivial" column. Explaining to my non-drum corps friends why I listened to Chase music instead of Cheech and Chong. Leigh Howard Stevens grip vs. Gary Burton grip. Firing a Pringles can urine bomb out the bus window. Boob, I mean Tube Tops. Pre-season predictions as to which corps' show would serve as the "time to go get a hot dog from the concession stand" based upon the repertoire announcement. The bongo/timbale player from Freelancers that single-stroked 32nd notes. Laundry day. Guys with wafros having to buy a hairnet from the quartermaster. Corps housing at Bosco Prep in Boston (just blocks from the Combat Zone.) Wasn't Garfield's opener one time "Advance of the Strawberry Sponges to the Left Bank Express?" Guardsmen KFC commercial. "They're ALWAYS ready!!!!" After four years, going to an out-of-state corps and FINALLY!!! Not having to do the Appleton Flag Day parade. Being 20 years old with a girlfriend in the Marquis and a girlfriend in the Pioneer and NO WINGMAN!!! Hearing CAC 888 play "Softly, As I Leave You" and instantly being 20 years old again. Edited September 25, 2008 by uncle z Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrewvyG2 Posted September 25, 2008 Share Posted September 25, 2008 Great thread! A very interesting read. For me: Winning the 1978 VFW Nationals. BTW,thank you to all the open class corps for not showing up . Playing our victory performance after the show in the Hyatt Regency and catching all the $$$ that people were throwing down at us in the lobby from the many stories of rooms. Seeing Carol Burnette walking across the Hyatt lobby. Also, myself and a few others following Paul Linde to the pool area and then acting like we didn't know who he was when he noticed us. He was not amused. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forpetessake Posted September 25, 2008 Author Share Posted September 25, 2008 Then there was time when we were playing in the cornfields, waiting for our bus to get repaired. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stoods59 Posted September 25, 2008 Share Posted September 25, 2008 Random memories from the road in 1980: Being asked for an autograph after a show in Little Rock Arkansas (1st and last time THAT happened)! Blowing not one, but 2 bus engines within a mile of each other in Butler, PA. Letting your best friend borrow your Frank Zappa shirt, which he is wearing as he disappears into the bushes with your OTHER friend's girlfriend. 2nd friend probably STILL thinks it was me! Seeing your horn instructor de-pantsed in front of the entire horn line by one of the snare plares. Putting 7's on our faces in prelims for Birmingham in hopes of breaking the 7th place curse. (It worked as we made finals, but we then dropped 7 points in out finals score!) Aging out with 21 others, leaving our shoes on the turf and a judge chasing after us with an arm full of shoes, trying to give them back to us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrainWreck Posted September 25, 2008 Share Posted September 25, 2008 (edited) 1982 Blue Devils losing to the Troopers in Cheyenne Wy. Scores were done by applause meter Waking up at a truck stop..."what state are we in? What's the drinking age?" Snagging a towel from the chambermaid cart at the Casino in Windover (Bendover) Nevada and walking the hotel to the pool area. Nice seeing the whole corps wondering how in the world we made it to the pool. Pool feat was replicated at multiple food stops while on tour. We had a theory which always proved true. Wherever there is a truck stop, there is a hotel or motel. Wherever there is a hotel or motel there is a pool. Where ever there is a pool, there's a way in. Isle Queens Bus Lurches Scorpions in Nevada. Late to lights out, found a swimming pool at a hotel. Worth the risk :) Edited September 25, 2008 by TrainWreck Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forpetessake Posted September 25, 2008 Author Share Posted September 25, 2008 (edited) Having a girlfriend from the Colts in 1982 and a girfriend from The Bridgemen in 1983. Meanwhile having my fulltime girlfriend waiting for me back home. In the program book for the 1983 Colts show, it listed our drum solo as, Dinner Music Of the Goods. Actually was called, Dinner Music Of The Gods. Edited September 25, 2008 by forpetessake Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guardguy89 Posted September 28, 2008 Share Posted September 28, 2008 Having a girl steal my show socks after a show somewhere in Ohio Having kids go through all the Cavaliers asking if they were on the rifle line and getting us to sign autographs when they found one of us A whole free day spent at a truck stop with a bus breakdown in '89 Being so nervous at my first Cavies audition that I actually couldn't understand anything in English (even though technically - I'm pretty bilingual) 5 run throughs in a row before our first show in '89 - with 2 minute water breaks in between (which meant that the horns and drums dranks while the guard just had time to put all their equipment back in place) Beating the 27th Lancers once in '85 - and having it be the only show where we didn't have a retreat Later, Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CHRISP Posted September 28, 2008 Share Posted September 28, 2008 Having a girl steal my show socks after a show somewhere in Ohio Having kids go through all the Cavaliers asking if they were on the rifle line and getting us to sign autographs when they found one of us A whole free day spent at a truck stop with a bus breakdown in '89 Being so nervous at my first Cavies audition that I actually couldn't understand anything in English (even though technically - I'm pretty bilingual) 5 run throughs in a row before our first show in '89 - with 2 minute water breaks in between (which meant that the horns and drums dranks while the guard just had time to put all their equipment back in place) Beating the 27th Lancers once in '85 - and having it be the only show where we didn't have a retreat Later, Mike I remember when you beat us that show in 85. It was a Sunday afternoon in upstate NY. We had to get on the bus and head to another show. We were going to eat lunch on the bus. After the scores were announced, the staff threw tuna sandwiches at us as we boarded the buses. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steelcityrabbit Posted September 28, 2008 Share Posted September 28, 2008 Blowing not one, but 2 bus engines within a mile of each other in Butler, PA. I have pics that I took a month ago of one of them sitting along some RR tracks. You can still the name on the side. Bad news is I am unable at this time to download from my digital do to technical issues. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdostie Posted September 28, 2008 Share Posted September 28, 2008 Rocking the bus(es) back and forth as if to tip them over as part of our pre-show hype. Man I am glad we never succeeded, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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