john2780 Posted August 17, 2011 Share Posted August 17, 2011 (edited) I remeber Zingali yelling at us on the bus that we sucked so bad the night before that we killed Elvis Edited August 17, 2011 by john2780 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LancerLegend Posted August 17, 2011 Share Posted August 17, 2011 What he said (above)......plus - this is a gray "memory" area. I remember Bayonne had been DQ'd, and their busses where near ours. They got an injunction to perform at finals and their corps erupted in celebration. John2780 - do you remember that? Yes - I also remember finals were on Friday. I think the Broncos had a pre-season game on Sunday - or - the eastern corps had soooooo far to travel home and the DCI BOD voted to move the finals. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Northern Thunder Posted August 17, 2011 Share Posted August 17, 2011 Yes - I also remember finals were on Friday. I think the Broncos had a pre-season game on Sunday - or - the eastern corps had soooooo far to travel home and the DCI BOD voted to move the finals. DCI had to have finals on Friday, because the American Legion had Mile High Stadium reserved for its championship on Saturday (the Crossmen topped Garfield for that title). The Legion had more clout with the city of Denver than DCI did. I'm sure the Legion national convention brought a lot more cash to town than DCI. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCIHasBeen Posted August 17, 2011 Share Posted August 17, 2011 Wait. Elvis is dead?! Well, if that's the case, I was sitting right here in New York City, right now. C'mon, this is some kind of hoax, right? Like The Onion or something .... right? " No, Elvis is not dead. He just went home. ..." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dc oldtimer Posted August 18, 2011 Share Posted August 18, 2011 Someone said told us at rehearsal during a water break. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kelly99 Posted August 18, 2011 Share Posted August 18, 2011 At home in Brantford, Ontario Canada. Received a call from my friend Sandy who was marching with Seneca Optimists that year. She called from the mall in Boulder saying people were running screaming and crying through the mall. Kelly RIP Sandy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rayfallon Posted August 19, 2011 Share Posted August 19, 2011 It's not Elvis, but in 1978 the Pope passed on just before tour (you can look it up). It was a normal, grueling tour in the days before smart phones and lap tops or for that matter wifi. Or maybe the internet. At any rate I got home and I'm doing all the grown up getting back on track things and I stop by a store and look at the paper and the headline reads "Pope to be buried today"... You have to picture that I've been out on the road since like Memorial Day and all I can think is that "Geez he must be starting to smell by now"... How could I have known we'd been through an entire new Pope while I was gone, elected, coronated (or whatever we do with popes - sanctified? ) served, and passed on... all while we were on tour. And he may have had a better summer than we had!!! At least he got elected!!! No offense intended to my brothers and sisters - I'm Catholic too - I just forget some of the technical jargon and I'm not quite as good a Catholic as I was during my altar boy days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Opti-Burr Posted August 19, 2011 Share Posted August 19, 2011 We were in Boulder , CO and after practicing all morning, a few of us went for lunch at a nearby MacDonalds and saw the news of Elvis's death on a TV there. That was the first time I'd seen a TV at a MacDonalds and it was also my 19th birthday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LancerLegend Posted August 19, 2011 Share Posted August 19, 2011 .....How could I have known we'd been through an entire new Pope while I was gone, elected, coronated (or whatever we do with popes - sanctified? ) served, and passed on... all while we were on tour. Ray - something similar. We were on "first" tour of 3 weeks in 1976 - went to CA and back. Of course followed by second 2 week tour winding up in Philly and then home. A few weeks later, I read in the Boston Globe..."Tom Yawkey's widow...." I said something at the dinner table - "did Tom Yawkey die a few weeks ago when I was on second tour?" My family looked at me as if I was in a time warp. Mr. Yawkey had passed away during our first tour in July.....the old days of tour was different. Ray - how often did you ask your friends "what city are we in today?" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Puppet Posted August 20, 2011 Share Posted August 20, 2011 It's not Elvis, but in 1978 the Pope passed on just before tour (you can look it up). It was a normal, grueling tour in the days before smart phones and lap tops or for that matter wifi. Or maybe the internet. At any rate I got home and I'm doing all the grown up getting back on track things and I stop by a store and look at the paper and the headline reads "Pope to be buried today"... You have to picture that I've been out on the road since like Memorial Day and all I can think is that "Geez he must be starting to smell by now"... How could I have known we'd been through an entire new Pope while I was gone, elected, coronated (or whatever we do with popes - sanctified? ) served, and passed on... all while we were on tour. And he may have had a better summer than we had!!! At least he got elected!!! No offense intended to my brothers and sisters - I'm Catholic too - I just forget some of the technical jargon and I'm not quite as good a Catholic as I was during my altar boy days. OMG! Did the Pope transition, too! It's only been like one page ago I found out this guy named Elvis died ... now this! Oh, the tragedy! Next thing you know Jim Morrison gonna keel over .... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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