beckylynn44 Posted March 7, 2009 Share Posted March 7, 2009 Kiwanis Kavaliers unfortunate loss of a member in 2002 comes to mind. It wasn't a marching member... it was a staff member. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IllianaLancerContra Posted March 7, 2009 Share Posted March 7, 2009 (edited) It wasn't a marching member... it was a staff member. Kilties Sr had a member die on the field at DCA prelims a few years back. Personally, I think this is in a different league than a long bus ride. RIP Lothar. Edited March 8, 2009 by IllianaLancerContra Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TenorsForWorldDomination Posted March 7, 2009 Share Posted March 7, 2009 It wasn't a marching member... it was a staff member. Hence why I said member. Member does not denote a marching member nor a staff member. Heck, it could even mean a cook, driver, board of director. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TenorsForWorldDomination Posted March 7, 2009 Share Posted March 7, 2009 Kilties Sr had a member die on the field at DCA prelims a few years back.Personally, I think this is in a a different league than a long bus ride. RIP Lothar. RIP indeed. Being at the gate waiting to go on that night was probably one of the weirdest ones I have experienced. The feeling in the air that night was something else. I can't put my finger on it. Going on after Kilties after the loss of Lothar wasn't something I felt very good about. We felt the impact that had being at the gate, but I can't imagine being on the field with him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loopin' froot loops Posted March 7, 2009 Share Posted March 7, 2009 I heard a story that sometime in the 80's (?) a staff member of Blue Knights was on the tower giving instructions when a storm came rolling in and lightning hit the tower.. Any truth to this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
josh161 Posted March 7, 2009 Share Posted March 7, 2009 Spartans 07, our first show was right next to our home town so things went well there. After we left for new york the next night we lost our food truck. Now this is the horrible part, for our dinners for the next 5 nights we had olive garden, pizza hut, and chinese. It was horrible! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
traveller30 Posted March 7, 2009 Share Posted March 7, 2009 I heard a story that sometime in the 80's (?) a staff member of Blue Knights was on the tower giving instructions when a storm came rolling in and lightning hit the tower..Any truth to this? The storm came rolling in and after calling rehearsal the staff decided to turn the scaffolding on it's side so no one would get hurt by a lightning strike. This was in 1986 at the home rehearsal site in Denver and that moment almost killed the corps as much as the big bailout of 1985. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TerriTroop Posted March 7, 2009 Share Posted March 7, 2009 Tiny, scrappy Houston Nighthawks had our equipment stolen sometime after tour started in 1984. We did a few shows with borrowed equipment from Spirit, SCV, and Suncoast. (and I think maybe Blue Devils as well, maybe others that I don't recall or even know about.) We folded after our home show in July. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GGarrett Posted March 7, 2009 Share Posted March 7, 2009 How about when the whole corps gets sick from some "bug" that someone picks up here or there. A week into tour you've got 15 members out of commission... sick on their sleeping bags with no energy, other members exposed and yet to get what ever it is. We had a nasty bout of stomach flu like problems back in Guardsmen in 1979. It was pretty bad for a few days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mellbloo Posted March 7, 2009 Share Posted March 7, 2009 How about when the whole corps gets sick from some "bug" that someone picks up here or there. A week into tour you've got 15 members out of commission... sick on their sleeping bags with no energy, other members exposed and yet to get what ever it is. We had a nasty bout of stomach flu like problems back in Guardsmen in 1979. It was pretty bad for a few days. ya we had that same problem. . .we called it "the sickness." It was a problem because it made people puke for about a day straight, which made them dehydrated, and dehydration is never good in drum corps. A few members even had to go to the hospital. Luckily i never got "the sickness." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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