camoone Posted August 2, 2003 Share Posted August 2, 2003 Not knocking any corps, just listing my most memorable "screw ups".... BD 99 a horn player gets knocked in the head while backing up on the right side of a form, right in front of the camera (probably a busted lip somewhere in there). BD 98, right before the 'two circle' bit near the middle of the show, one of the lower sopranos holds a god awful sounding note past the release. Everyone in the stadium section I was in just looked at each other with weird looks on their faces. Cadets of BC 95, there's a company front after the second or third tune, and they rotate segmented parts of it right before the company front hits to close the piece. Right when the company front forms, two different horn players hit the dirt (running and soaked turf don't mix). BD 96, on the rack one of the snares loses control of a stick right in front of the camera. Madison 94, during Malaga there's a tenor feature where one of the guys completely loses control of a stick. He also happened to be the tenor tech for our 2/3 corps in 98 (americanos), and one night when the corps was about to hit the sack, someone pulled out a video and about 10 or 15 people crowded around the tv and started screaming when it happened. Speaking of my corps, I had a really bad screw up (that comes to mind, I'm sure there was many more than one) during the season -- although luckily for me, you can't go back and watch it on video because it was at a 2/3 show int he middle of the season. It was a prelim/finals type show, and we were really closing in on capital sound. During prelims in the afternoon, we had an awesome show in the heat, and closed to within around a point (we had been down more than 10 poitns to them earlier in the season). Then finals rolled around and we were pumped. I had just gotten my horn fixed (the third valve slide had a horrible ding in it and refused to move), and my sop tech or the guy fixing it had put a load of grease on it. Well, during a horn flash halfway through the opener, the valve slid off to where there was about a half inch of space between the removable slide and the slide connected to the third valve (for any of you sop players). However, it was still stuck on because the entire slide hadn't been greased, just enough to work well. I then spent the entire show trying to get the slide back on without breaking from form, which was ####, because it was honestly stuck off. Not playing in a hornline of less than 40 really shows up, too. The worst part though is that I was in a sop trio at the end of the show. Luckily, I took the time where we walk up to the play the trio to really focus on it and I finally slid it back. The funny part is that I finally played my trio part as well as it was supposed to be played for the first time all season. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
84BDsop Posted August 2, 2003 Share Posted August 2, 2003 Not really his fault, but at one of our shows this year our bari soloist in "Malaga" had a valve spring totally die on him...right in the middle of the solo! Had a new spring pretty #### quick, tho! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Galen Posted August 11, 2003 Share Posted August 11, 2003 One show in Aught-2 one of our soprano players smuggled a tape recorder in his uniform, the plan being to record himself while he performed. It went pretty well until we got to the end of 'Avalanche'. After that, the tape is silent, and the last sound you hear is the loud 'clink!' of his leadpipe hitting the field as it fell off of his horn. He didn't play a single note the rest of the show :-D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herbel Posted August 12, 2003 Share Posted August 12, 2003 This year, at Music in Motion in Allentown, PA: one Jersey Surf snare trips and falls while moving backwards. A second trips over him, and loses his drum (which ended up about 6 feet to his right) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GMichael1230 Posted August 12, 2003 Share Posted August 12, 2003 Favorite drum corps screw-up ??? Putting the Scouts over the Blue Devils in 88 LOL LOL LOL...I'm kidding, I kid. ~G~ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCImonkey Posted August 13, 2003 Share Posted August 13, 2003 1997 madison scouts.... the 2 pirates sword fighting on the rack as it rotates and one of the pirates sword bends in half...oops ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
One of the Sops Posted August 13, 2003 Share Posted August 13, 2003 the last sound you hear is the loud 'clink!' of his leadpipe hitting the field as it fell off of his horn. He didn't play a single note the rest of the show :-D Good grief! What was he playing, a DEG? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lancerlady Posted August 14, 2003 Share Posted August 14, 2003 (edited) I don't recall if this was a finals show or a mid seasosn whitewater show but the famous or infamous; however you want to call it, Garfield fall,(Yes I called them Garfield, because they were then) in 85 I think. When they all fell down and got right back up, but the thing about it was, they got right back up in time and kept on going like it never happened. Anyone remember that one? Edited August 14, 2003 by Lancerlady Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluecoats88 Posted August 14, 2003 Share Posted August 14, 2003 Aside from The Frack...'87 prelims...Bluecoats color guard does a rifle exchange at the end of "Autumn Leaves"...about 3 rifles get dropped and bounce across the field...right on camera! did you happen to notice the one rifle that bounced up and hit the soprano soloist (steve) right in the head. you can see his helmet go crooked - but he didn't even crack the note, although you do hear it waver just a tad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluecoats88 Posted August 14, 2003 Share Posted August 14, 2003 also this year at allentown when the rifle toss landed on the horn players horn in the middle of cavies show. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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