From: dowzycki@andromeda.rutgers.edu (Ken Dowzycki)
Newsgroups: alt.drumcorps
Subject: Re: Off My Chest
Date: 19 Aug 92 14:57:40 GMT
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Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

koreis@milton.u.washington.edu (Robert Koreis) writes:



>"Summer Music Games" my *&)%!  All these comparisons to the Olympics are
>rridiculous.  What was wrong with DCI Championship, except for that it was
>more honest and much less commercial.

   A agree 100%, I never liked the change.

>Yes, I hate the politics too.  Maybe it can't be proved, but too much has
>gone on over the years.  Anyone think Madison got a gift over SCV in '75? 
>It will always be with us.  Sigh.

   I was so devasted by the Muchachos being disqualified that I 
really did not care at that moment who won.  I was surprised that
Madison beat SCV though.  I will have to see finals again from '75
before I shore up my opinion.


>What's with the pomposity of Phantom?  Yes, I know they have always been
>like this, but "Conductors"?  They're drum majors and should introduce
>themselves as such.  Do they really think that a change in terminology
>makes them better?  I wish their show would have been cut from the
>broadcast.  It was obviously inferior to the following shows.  I miss the
>days of a complete, twelve corps finals broadcast.  I feel cheated not
>being able to see SCV but having to put up with Phantom.  AAARRGH!!!!!!


>However, one thing I did like was the use of Danny Boy as the bed behind
>the credit roll.  Very nostalgic.  The only thing better would have been
>to close with an image of 27th.

   Me too!  It was one of the best moments I have ever seen on any of
the broadcasts of DCI.  Maybe 27th's rifle line laying on their backs
spinning would have been a good shot!

>Finally, a comment on the VK bashing.  The more the better.  Was anyone
>else as offended as I with their mocking of SCV?  Worse yet for DCI to
>feature it in the clips of the 7-12 corps.  Comparing them to St.
>Anthony's is absurd.  VK is like the child who uses potty language,
>trying to be cute and possibly to shock.  The traditional behavior of the
>drum majors in sitting down at retreat is boorish at best.  They do not
>have the style nor the respect for the activity and the other competitors
>shown by the Bridgemen.  If you want legitimate drum corps satire, ask an
>old-timer about the Openall Knights ("we never close").  

    The mock bottle dance really bothered me too.  I stated that in '90
it was tolerable (um...) but to do it in the same year was pretty low.
It took what stigma or sting that was attached to the genuine one done
by SCV away.  Just think if somebody did a mock up of the sunburst and
then the Troopers came on, or the suicide rifle/drum major circle exchange?
However, SCV's bottle dance in long dresses and barefoot didn't have the
punch like it did when the legs were visible.

   It would seem that most net members feel it is ok to take pot shots
at all of the other corps:  Blue Devils guard is sleazy, hornline is
top heavy (like that's such a huge negative, at least you know the
soprano line is out there),  Phantom marches in straight lines and plays
whole notes, SCV's show is too easy and brass book is a cake walk, Star
is like a clinic on how to play and march at the same time, but GOD FORBID
you say something that trashes the Velvet Knights, (my favorite, of 
course, is the statue with the male organ hanging from it).  IMO, IMHO,
IMNSHO, I will continue to trash the trash and applaud the class.

Bob, what year(s) did you march in SCV?
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