You know you're old school when...

[Super Don-O]

You are old school if:

your corps practice "field" was a parking lot behind a strip mall and under a highway overpass

you didn't march Madison, but several of the guys in your corps were also in your scouting troop just the same

you could name 20 active corps within a 2 hour drive of your house

there were horn players in your corps who couldn't read music, and made notes on their sheet music like 1, 12, 0 to show which valves to push

the notes they kept never showed a valve numbered 3, but might have had an R

[OldBones]

When you pick up a members trumpet and automatically place your right thumb where the valve should be and your left hand back where the rotor should be them tell him "your horns broken". The confused look (even from some of the staff) was priceless.

[BRASSO]

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You are "old school " if you recall these same $15.00 Drum Corps albums being sold for $2.98. ( haha)

Edited February 14, 2013 by BRASSO

[BRASSO]

When you pick up a members trumpet and automatically place your right thumb where the valve should be and your left hand back where the rotor should be them tell him "your horns broken". The confused look (even from some of the staff) was priceless.

You are not " old school " if you refer to it as a " trumpet ". ( just kidding)

You ARE " old school " however, if everyone you knew when you marched understood that a " Tuba " is something that is used in a Marching Band, while that instrument carried up over the shoulder in the brass line in Drum Corps is called a " Contrabass ".

Edited February 14, 2013 by BRASSO

[gak27]

- runners returning the judges' sheets to the tabulator table....along with the bag sliding down the cable from the press box

- prelim scores being written in Magic Marker on placards and taped to a big board down at the far corner of the field

- when souvenir tables were often a single table for many corps

- when you learned how to play a horn in your corps and then went to H.S. and didn't know what that third valve was for (and what happened to the rotor)?

[OldBones]

You are not " old school " if you refer to it as a " trumpet ". ( just kidding)

You ARE " old school " however, if everyone you knew when you marched understood that a " Tuba " is something that is used in a Marching Band, while that instrument carried up over the shoulder in the brass line in Drum Corps is called a " Contrabass ".

I ALWAYS say Contra. The kids keep saying TUUUUUUUUUUBBBBAAAAAAAAA!!

[BRASSO]

I ALWAYS say Contra. The kids keep saying TUUUUUUUUUUBBBBAAAAAAAAA!!

In that case, I recommend that your status come up for a reconsideration vote, OldBones ( haha)

[Michael Boo]

We used to paint the soles black too, for additional bad*ss effect.

Fred O.

We did until 1976 or 1977, when it was rainy out and we brought back black dye onto the gym floor where we were staying. It was a horrible mess and management proclaimed immediately that we would no longer dye the soles. I don't remember how the mess got cleaned up.

[Jeff Ream]

if you waited for Drum Corps News to arrive in the mail

if you knew Fleetwood's mailing address by heart

[pbeau]

You know your old school when...

you think they should bring back inspection and the starters pistol and the red cross tent where they brought the kids that fainted in the hot sun.