[real saxophonist]

An interesting and fun perspective. I think Spirit is one of the few Corps that still runs a 36" Bass.

[real saxophonist]

Here's another one, probably from that same runthrough.

[smokingfrog]

I thought this was gonna be a thread about fishin’

[Ingtar]

Coworkers son is in there somewhere...

[rlmorel]

That was great, thanks so much for posting it! Man, how I miss those days...:)

I was affiliated with a CYO band (not high school) up here in Massachusetts back in the 70's(pinging my other bass drumming buddy here) and we had a good brand, adhered to the precepts of drum corps

I still think the best repertoires, in this order were:

1.) 1976 Blue Devils

2.) 1975 Madison Scouts

3.) 1975 Muchachos

4.) 1974 Kingsmen

5.) 1975 Santa Clara

Now, I admit these are all clustered in one time frame, but...I have always viewed the mid-Seventies as the golden age of Drum Corps...:)

I remember being up in Sedgewick, ME with some of my friends (we were the kind who listened to drum corps all the time while we were driving around!) during the 1975 finals...we had a little cigarette lighter powered black and white television, and we had to find a high hilltop where we pulled his father's 1974 Gremlin off the road, and one of us had to grab the antenna to get the signal to come in...:)

I joined the Navy, and I made this stencil to spray paint on the back of my flight deck jerseys:

Funny. I simply don't think the Navy would let people do that kind of thing now, but back then they did...:)