craiga Posted February 20, 2023 Share Posted February 20, 2023 Boston Crusaders double bass drum in 1967, played (and carried by) Anthony Smith, future BAC Visual Designer, Corps Director, DCI/DCA/WGI judge, and long time consultant for BD. Boss Annova can probably post a pic of this! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IllianaLancerContra Posted February 20, 2023 Share Posted February 20, 2023 51 minutes ago, MikeN said: Kind of funny in a "what goes around" sense, single tenors have made a comeback, looks like primarily in some corners of BOA and scholastic WGI. Mike Is this what ‘flub’ drums are? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barneveld Posted February 20, 2023 Share Posted February 20, 2023 13 minutes ago, craiga said: Boston Crusaders double bass drum in 1967, played (and carried by) Anthony Smith, future BAC Visual Designer, Corps Director, DCI/DCA/WGI judge, and long time consultant for BD. Boss Annova can probably post a pic of this! 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scheherazadesghost Posted February 20, 2023 Share Posted February 20, 2023 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TOC Posted February 20, 2023 Share Posted February 20, 2023 1 hour ago, craiga said: Boston Crusaders double bass drum in 1967, played (and carried by) Anthony Smith, future BAC Visual Designer, Corps Director, DCI/DCA/WGI judge, and long time consultant for BD. Boss Annova can probably post a pic of this. Wasn't Boston the first corps to march four timpani? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeD Posted February 20, 2023 Share Posted February 20, 2023 In the 60’s I recall corps having a large bass for the real deep sound, and maybe a smaller one. They were not tuned in the sense of what happened in the 70’s. Also small and wider rudi basses were popular. Blessed Sac’s duo in the late 60’s were amazing players. They actually did tune those to create different pitches in 69 for one of their drum solos. Flat basses were created to provide a timpani style sound. Some corps just attached two standard basses together and left off the bottom heads to get a more resonant sound. I played one of those in Garden State Circuit corps in 69. Manufacturers built a variety as well with 2 or 3 drums. St Lucy’s from Newark attached metal rings to theirs one year. Called them the “garbage cans”, as that is what they looked like. The addition of marching timps replaced those. Truly tonal bass drums took off in the 70’s. Before that “regular” straight basses did not march sideways. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeN Posted February 20, 2023 Share Posted February 20, 2023 2 hours ago, IllianaLancerContra said: Is this what ‘flub’ drums are? Technically yes. I think they're brilliant. Mike 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ironlips Posted February 20, 2023 Share Posted February 20, 2023 2 hours ago, craiga said: Boston Crusaders double bass drum in 1967, played (and carried by) Anthony Smith, future BAC Visual Designer, Corps Director, DCI/DCA/WGI judge, and long time consultant for BD. Boss Annova can probably post a pic of this! Here's Anthony "Tony" Smith, Hall of Famer and first person to play tuned horizontal basses. Jerry Shellmer made him a star. Note the illustration on the album cover: 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcjordansc Posted February 21, 2023 Share Posted February 21, 2023 If you want a good source for drum corps history mixed with a well written, sometimes hilarious personal drum corps story, read this book. Resume March: Confessions of a Drum Corps Addict https://a.co/d/3fRgqoI 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ironlips Posted February 21, 2023 Share Posted February 21, 2023 Perhaps DCP can start a support group for us. "Hi. My name is Frank and I'm a Drum Corps addict." "Hellooo, Frank." It might require more than 12 steps. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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