BRASSO Posted February 13, 2013 Share Posted February 13, 2013 Mylar snare heads Corps busses were both driven and pushed. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garfield Posted February 13, 2013 Share Posted February 13, 2013 Most of the snares has longer hair than anyone in the Color Guard. But what of those who played them? :tongue:/> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BRASSO Posted February 13, 2013 Share Posted February 13, 2013 (edited) Yup, most of this would describe the time in which I marched. When I marched, it was a time in which the drum corps I was in had to work with what they had. You are really " Old School " if you remember a Drum Corps officially named : " The Thing ". As in " The Thing... are you ready to take the field for Competition " ? ( DM acknowledges.. salutes ). ( announcer) : "Ladies and Gentlemen from Milwaukee, Wisconsin ( or some such )... The Thing !! " .. and then passing by the stands at retreat the announcer says " Com'on gang ( fans in stands ), lets give it up for the Thing !! " Edited February 13, 2013 by BRASSO 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fred Windish Posted February 13, 2013 Share Posted February 13, 2013 When the Chief Judge pistol shot drew gasps and awe to indicate "Wow, they just made it! What perfection!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BRASSO Posted February 13, 2013 Share Posted February 13, 2013 (edited) When the Chief Judge pistol shot drew gasps and awe to indicate "Wow, they just made it! What perfection!" Inspections. ( really, really " old school " ) Edited February 13, 2013 by BRASSO 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fred Windish Posted February 13, 2013 Share Posted February 13, 2013 (edited) White bucks, red soles, and a little bottle of white shoe polish (with the sponge applicator top) that got all over your fingers? Edited February 13, 2013 by Fred Windish 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fred Windish Posted February 13, 2013 Share Posted February 13, 2013 (edited) Relieving oneself on a small hill just below the interstate guardrail? Edited February 13, 2013 by Fred Windish Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Boo Posted February 13, 2013 Share Posted February 13, 2013 Your shoes were called "bucs." (I never knew why.) If you were on the actual performance field, it meant your show had already started. The biggest decision any drum staff could make was marching Ludwig Challengers or Slingerland TDRs. If you heard the word "Olds," you didn't think of a car. Your color guard actually guarded the colors. You took a three-day weekend tour and never made it outside your city's suburbs. Breakfast was doughnuts and weak orange juice off the equipment truck. Dinner was something out of an industrial-sized can heated over a Coleman stove. Water breaks? We didn't need no stinkin' water breaks! Of the seven corps that played "Battle Hymn" in the same contest, your mom liked your corps' version the best. One of the guard members dropped a rifle inside a school gym and a couple of the floorboards had to be replaced. Kids from one suburb wouldn't even think of marching in a corps from a neighboring suburb. Your corps trousers were made of scratchy, itchy wool that created a sauna effect during the summer. A big container of salt tablets was always open during hot weather rehearsals. At least two dozen corps with satin jackets and shakos were unidentifiable from each other in black and white photographs. If you were friends with members of other corps, you kept it a secret from your corpsmates. You had two choices of snare stick manufacturers, and maybe two choices of models from each line. One was Ludwig...the other wasn't. The screamer sopranos each owned at least to "Rudy Mucks." A flag penalty could cost your corps a national championship. It took up to two weeks before you heard about show results from other parts of the county. News about scores from shows in your same region only took about one week. Many drum solos were about as musical as listening to bacon frying. New guy games were never as bad as legend made them sound to be. Sometimes they were worse. If you lived in Chicago, you thought Don Warren could be elected President of the United States. If you lived in Chicago's suburbs, you swore you wouldn't vote for Don Warren for dog catcher. You thought the girls in other guys' corps were always cuter than the ones in your own. The guys in the other corps thought your girls were much cuter than theirs. Any corps girl dating a guy from another corps was considered to be a spy by both corps. You wondered how you would ever make $100 to pay for tour. Your corps played the same closer year after year. Dr. Beat was the corps' resident beatnik tenor player. Gold Bond powder was available only in New England. Members of east coast corps never let on about their favorite regional product. When you heard there were a couple drum corps in California, you laughed. You remember band directors going to contests with sketchbooks in hand. You thought Don Warren was old. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bstar82 Posted February 13, 2013 Share Posted February 13, 2013 You had a OTL Stop time. American flag squad. Phantom w/ 10-12 extra members above the regulated 128 standing on the end line. Drum corps News. US Open International Open Nothing on the front sideline except a drum major, possibly a podium, maybe one photographer and a small table and tabulators Trooping the stands PB&J your only choice for lunch and dinner 75% of the time on tour. Box trucks as your equipment truck (if you were lucky) Inspections Real fist fights with other corps Drum downs w/ other corps Trips to Canada Arbella, St Ignatius and the other all girl corps. Truman Crawford Tymps w/ cranks School Bus corps Skokie Imperials VFW and American Legion shows and their different procedures. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BRASSO Posted February 13, 2013 Share Posted February 13, 2013 Drum Corps kids would run the High School football players off the High School football field so they could practice on it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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