KeithHall Posted October 13, 2010 Share Posted October 13, 2010 Fossil you call me? The past week students are thinking I am 35!!! That's right, lose almost 20 lbs, grow your hair a bit more and I took 15 years off of me!!!! Bring on ELECTRONICS!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pearlsnaredrummer77 Posted October 14, 2010 Share Posted October 14, 2010 ROTO TOMS Timbale/Bongo Clusters "Marching" Xylos, Marimbas and Vibes with harnesses Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pearlsnaredrummer77 Posted October 14, 2010 Share Posted October 14, 2010 (edited) oops-double post. Edited October 14, 2010 by pearlsnaredrummer77 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uncle z Posted October 15, 2010 Share Posted October 15, 2010 Who remembers doing a parade, then having a few hours off to attend the carnival in your uniform pants and white t-shirt before the show?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uncle z Posted October 15, 2010 Share Posted October 15, 2010 If you played it, you carried it (just ask any drummer about the bag of triangles, tambourines, and miscellaneious noise makers they had to sling over their shoulder.......) Ask any drummer about having to talk your Mom into going to the fabric store for some fake leather so that she could sew you a bag to hold the maracas, tambourine, claves or flex-a-tone that you played during the show. Also, that you needed two shower curtain hangers so you could hang the bag from your drum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john2780 Posted October 15, 2010 Share Posted October 15, 2010 Ask any drummer about having to talk your Mom into going to the fabric store for some fake leather so that she could sew you a bag to hold the maracas, tambourine, claves or flex-a-tone that you played during the show. Also, that you needed two shower curtain hangers so you could hang the bag from your drum. What ....no Vibra-slap Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KemoLondon Posted October 15, 2010 Share Posted October 15, 2010 You KNOW you're a fossil when your corps had to go to the hotel where your VFW or Legion Post was staying to play an exibition when you won the State Championship and then had a police escort back into you home town when you got there and had to play an exibtion at the home post to a bunch of "excited" fans inside. Remember when State Championships mattered? And THEN you went to a National. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reallyoldfrt Posted January 11, 2011 Share Posted January 11, 2011 You know you're a fossil when you remember that in the 1950s and 60s there were literally THOUSANDS of corps in the US and Canada. (not kidding). Senior corps Junior Corps. Standstill Corps, Parade Corps. When the top 200 competing corps were probably within less that 20 points of one another, top to bottom, under that nasty, negative old tick system. When less than ten percent of all corps attended the Nationals unless it was held in their area that year. When even very good corps never even left their state, or metro area. When you realize that within 5 years of the founding of DCI nearly ninety percent of all those corps were dead. And many of those had been around for decades prior to 1971. (Hmmmmm.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bstar82 Posted May 10, 2011 Share Posted May 10, 2011 Spats Citation cords Tymp cranks Taking the portable stove off the bus and sitting it on a table so the cooks could get it started . Altos Tromboniums Piccolo sops Joe Bruno DATR at Jeffco stadium Troopers performing every year year at a Denver bronco home game with as full of a corps as you can imagine and getting standing ovations from a non drum corps audience Gene Rayburn Finals televised live for four hours on PBS "Go get em kids"!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BRASSO Posted May 10, 2011 Share Posted May 10, 2011 (edited) " you know you're a fossil " if you remember when half the current DCI and DCA judges were young as kids themselves and didn't know the difference between the bugles or the Beatles. Edited May 10, 2011 by BRASSO Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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