Newsgroups: alt.drumcorps
Subject: Oldtimer new to network
From: dowzycki@andromeda.rutgers.edu (Ken Dowzycki)
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 92 15:35:33 EDT
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dawson@willard.UUCP writes:

>exujsch@exu.ericsson.se (Johnny Schmittou T-EEG x7887 Dallas) writes:

>> 
>> I didn't see if anyone had mentioned these guys, but how about
>> "The Muchachos" from Hawthorne, New Jersey?  (Around say, 1976?)
>> We (my high school marching band) had an album recorded live from
>> a contest with that corps on it.  They did a tune called "Pictures
>> of Spain" (I had also heard this referred to as "Off the Line"?)

>That, and another tune: "Spirit of the Bull," (or the Spanish equivalent).
>Our high school band played an arrangement of that one for years.  Weren't
>they DQ'ed for an age violation around that same time period ('75?)?

   Not too long ago one of the net members out in Colorado? posted
that he ran into someone from the Muchachos who marched through '75.
If they are reading this and ever see this guy again please ask him
if he remembers Paul Bongiovi (bass drum), Janette Irving (rifle line),
Scott Starkowsky (mellophone), Guy Pennachio (mellophone) and Ralph
Pennachio (soprano).  I grew with these folks and they all marched in
the Muchachos from '72-'77.  

    The Muchachos were disqualified from finals in 1975 for 
marching 2 overage guys from the Midwest that were from the
Cavaliers.  (Muchachos won prelims by 2 points).  Many feel that
these two guys were planted in the corps for this to take place.
They were never seen again and ran for their lives.  Hence, when the
Cavaliers came on the field in finals, the crown booed the shit out
of them.  If anyone still has a recording of '75 Cavies you can
hear the booing after every number.

  In finals when the lead solo soprano from the Muchachos (Jeff
Kavit) appeared on retreat in full uniform marching towards the
drum majors, the crowd went beserk.   Needless to say (although
the Cavies probably do not have a single person still affiliated
with them from that time) just the mention of their name elicits
growls from old Muchachos.  This could have very well been the 
first east coast champion, instead Madison won.  (SCV, Muchachos,
Blue Devils, and Madison all beat each other that year yet, as I
mentioned above, the Muchachos pulled ahead by a 2 point lead in
prelims).

   As for the Muchachos, they kept basically the same show for
'76 although not as strong and DCI just bombed them, as they
finished in the lower teens.  1977 was their last year on the
field and with a completely new show and a full corps they were
still getting their heads handed to them, losing to corps that
should have never touched them like the Saints, from Edison, NJ.

  Well, that's my tale from the past.  I know there are some
people on the net from '75 SCV, I would like to hear from you
and anyone else, to find out your versions of this blast from
the past.  

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