From: peteo@Ingres.COM (THE OLDER I GET, THE BETTER I USED TO BE)
Newsgroups: alt.drumcorps
Subject: Re: SCV in 1981
Date: 23 Jul 92 21:07:42 GMT
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In article <1992Jul23.122409.14097@husc3.harvard.edu>, fath1@husc9.harvard.edu (Michael Fath)                writes...
>>
>>Pete Ohno
>>SCV '81, EUPH Platoon
>>
>So, you marched with SCV when they won DCI!  Congrats!  If you get a chance,
>tell us about it.  It must have been incredible.

Incredible is a MAJOR understatement.  I vividly remember yardsticks at every
stop when travelling. We practiced our marching basics so often it was 
incredible. Having come a smalls corps that didn't emphasize it as much, the
constant basics drills was a real shocker. But I must say it paid it a big
way 'cuz we won the M&M (marching and maneuvering) caption.  The caption 
awards went like this: BD: Brass, GE/Visual  SCV: M&M with 2nds for every
other caption. Bridgemen: Drums.  When we were at retreat and we heard all the 
captions that BD were winning, an air of doom was certainly present. Let's
face it, if you win 2 captions to 1 it pretty much means you're going to win
the show.  The reason BD didn't was an 8th(?) place in Drums. Man, were they
dirty that year.  I remember hearing they had changed the drum solo a couple
of times. I recall BD hiring on the Floats for the next season, and they 
BURIED everybody in EVERYTHING.  They were really awesome and I am not ashamed
to admit.  The '82 show SMOKED.  Clean, clean, clean...

I still have everything that we got as awards, and still wear my champions
ring now and then.  I've got to admit, we ate and lived like kings on the
road (well, as well as could be expected for travelling by bus and "seeing 
the countryside at night").  SCV really feeds its people very well. Typically,
we had 3 square meals a day (most always hot meals) and usually a snack at 
night after rehearsals.  Daily schedule (home): practice from 9:00am - 9:00pm
with breaks for lunch and dinner. (away): wakeup at 6:30-7:00am. calisthenics
and running (ughhh)from 7:30-8:30. shower/breakfast 8:30-9:15. M&M 9:15-12:30.
Lunch 12:30-1:30. Horn/Sectional and M&M 1:30-5:00 (if no show at night), 
1:30-4:00 (if show at night, gotta shine the shoes :-) ...). Dinner at either
4:00 or 5:00.  Do show, cruise back to gym. Eat a more substantial dinner (we
usually had soup, crackers, fruit, etc for dinner when we had a show). Then
either bed down for the night or get on the bus to go to the next show.

The buses we rode were 1! year old, custom Silver Eagles (the cadillac of buses)
was what I was told.  Really sharp and comfortable. No bathroom on board :-(, 
but there was a kitchenette :-).  We heard stories of other corps like the
Guardsmen who went on tour in school buses (ughh).  We had a big caravan of
vehicles including the equipment truck (which later would become the B corp's
truck when SCV got the new truck), Miss Amana (the chuckwagon, so named 
because of the microwave, booster club trailer, director's camper, staff car,
and the 3 buses. It's a pretty impressive site to see this Vanguard caravan 
cruise down a highway.  By the way, SCV has a newer equipment truck (oh man!)
truck and the older one now is with the B corps. Our truck was the size of a
fairly large sized horse trailer...probably a little taller and certainly 
longer.  

Well that's it for now...

by the way, when I marched in Conquistadors I was a lead/solo soprano, but
in SCV  I was a Euphonium.  BIG difference in mouthpiece size :-O

more later?

\\peteo
SCV '81, Euph platoon
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