The Knights Drum and Bugle Corps

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Poor Chris dropping my mellophone and folding the bell up like a wallet.

Push starting our bus….again, and again, and again…
Just some random…add your own or clarify…

Watching our pit guys kicking @$$ at DCI…

The engine falling off the back of the bus on our free day in Phillie…

Stewie pounding my seat with his drumsticks…

“Only one cup of juice!”

The Hill…

Poehner giving hickies…

Playing spades on the bus…

Big movie start dog on free day…

A certain guard girl passed out in Estes Park on free day…

Cal Korth watching us from the stands…

Sky Ryders bus being impounded in CO…and us taking a large detour to avoid the same fate…

Bill trying to hit that opening note in 1989…

Practicing outside that prison…Kansas?Updated on Monday – Comment – LikeUnlike – Report Note
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CaraSue Lawrence Hall at 10:20pm February 9
Hilarious!
OMG…the prison was in Massachusettes I believe….I could be wrong but I remember the freaks.
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Joan Berkey at 11:12pm February 9
I don't remember any prison, maybe I just blocked it out. I do remember be scared to death of the bugs down south, and certain guys getting attacked by fire ants during the morning workout. Anyway, thanks for writing that it made my day. Oh, do you remember the pool party the nice neighbors had for us in colorado? That was so fun.
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Jan LaRoche at 12:49pm February 10
I think it was a school. Are you talking about the one where they warned us not to go too close to the windows after dark?
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Karl Schosser at 1:16pm February 10
I remember that being in Burmingham! That was a scary, scary school! Great random thoughts by the way. Those invovled in the pit would remember Dick and the Boys (Larry, Daryl and Daryl).
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Heather M McMeekan at 1:20pm February 10
The prison was a huge building, the scary school was another lovely establishment….I remember some guy yelled 'you suck' and I yelled back 'if we suck so bad how come we're out here and you're in there!' (after which a very freaked out horn instructor told me to shut the ! up)…

and remember the toothless, scary dudes at the National Guard Armory ogling our guard members as they served lunch? Ewwww…

…and that other one up there should be 'star' dog, not 'start' dog…
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Heather M McMeekan at 1:23pm February 10
…remember the contras with their headbands? …and making finals for DCI East (I *think) and not being told about it so being put last for 'not showing up'… ah, the memories….

….and the hall in Geneseo where you had to watch where you walked on the third floor so you wouldn't crash through…

…and Kevin working his butt off to baby the buses….

…and Geno yelling ''Get yer butts on the bus, Guys!”…
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CaraSue Lawrence Hall at 2:24pm February 10
…and Big Al flipping us off…

….and lots of SPAM (which I would never eat) and grape Kool-Aid

…topless workouts

….bus nakedness
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Heather M McMeekan at 2:26pm February 10
Just remember…what happens on the bus, STAYS on the bus, RIGHT? ;PPPPPP
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Heather M McMeekan at 2:34pm February 10
…and Scotty being a monster on the breakdrums

…and Pat Petrillo reading “Man in the Glass”

…and the many, many bruises on the Guard members from the 87 guitars

….and singing our warmup

…and all the peanut butter you could eat

…and sneaking into the Star of Indiana food line

…and Genaro's “Why do we play drums?!”
“To Get CHICKS!”

…and our base drummer marching all season on a broken leg

…and dear Dean DeShepper marching sop using a chair…leg wraps and all in the hot, hot, sun, a profile in courage and character if there ever was one

…and Bob reading “A Bag of Tools” for Rookie Talent Show Night

“Isn't it strange
That princes and kings,
And clowns that caper
In sawdust rings,
And common people
Like you and me
Are builders for eternity?
Each is given a bag of tools,
A shapeless mass,
A book of rules;
And each must make-
Ere life is flown-
A stumbling block Or a steppingstone. .”
~R.L Sharpe, A Bag of Tools, circa 1809
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Sara Blackledge Ashelford at 2:42pm February 10
PMS gym floor
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Sara Blackledge Ashelford at 2:44pm February 10
Steve Deal yellin “GO ALICE” when the cavaliers came onto the field…..i have to admit i laughed so hard
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CaraSue Lawrence Hall at 2:54pm February 10
and mogen david…

..and Genaro's bare feet
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Shane Connor at 7:30pm February 10
Steve Deal yelling MOODSWING!!!!!!!!!

Cal Korth before many drill moves saying, “Like Gazelles everyone…”

Dan Moore & Dean DeShepper's cricket wars.

Brian Bond singing “A-Men” at the end of Simon Zealots in Jesus Christ Superstar for a few shows.

The Lepper walk.

SOMEBODY GET ME A LADDER!!!!!!!!!

When singing along to Brain Salad Surgery on the bus changing the words from “Danger” to “Age-Out”…

Odd words to ELP Karn Evil 9 (1st Impression):
Soon the Gypsy Queen in a glaze of vaseline will perform on guillatine, what a scene, what a scene…

Performing on a stool we've a sight to make you drool
Seven virgins and a mule, keep it cool, keep it cool…

When are the 30 horns coming up from Texas? or is it 60 horns?

LaRoma's pizza & the “anti-freeze” (blue Nesbitts cream soda)

Hardee's MOOSE CUPS!!

Mosquitos at the bottom of the hill at 10pm – glasses fogging up from the heat.
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Christopher Frank at 7:42pm February 10
Bill Lehman's “Sternum hooks” for basics

Learning drill for “Old Black Betty” … I still love that song.

SPAM!

Free Day in Estees Park, …I think there were a couple of us still sober….
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Shane Connor at 8:15pm February 10
Kevin Huntley picking off Road pylons with the bus & sending them flying into the cornfields.

Tires blowing on the highway & Kevin Huntley telling everyone to get to the other side of the bus to equal out the weight.

Hammocks strung from the bays in the bus.

Yelling QUEEN!!! when you had to pass garbage up to the front of the bus.

Genaro saying he had to puke EVERY time we got off the bus so he could get from the back of the bus to the front of the bus quickly. Either that, or saying Pregnant – Lady with a Baby.

Kent Baker's Pink Polka-Dotted Perforated Ping Pong Ball joke.

The framed picture of the Nazis in the back of the bus. The picture of David Letterman with the cigar hanging out of his mouth on the back of the bus.

The MULTITUDES of puns flung every which way by Dan Moore, Tom Shea, Big Al, myself & many many others!!

Bill Lehman's leopard pants and his pink and black blousy shirt.

John Zimney (sp?) coming in the last week of 1985.
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Joan Berkey at 1:00am February 11
Everyone singing “Bill's got checkered shorts” to 25 or 624.

The pit loading the truck in record time; we wrote on the wall of the truck, so it would never be forgotten… “an ever lovin' pain.”

Genaro putting ikins on the end of our names in 87: Joaniekins, Karlikins, Scottikins, Tommikins, Bobbikins, etc.

I've never forgotten moose cups even looked on e-bay to find one a couple years ago… no such luck.

The Round Table giving out crosses.

Yamaha, in 88, finals week giving us stickers to put on our drums after they pulled away from us the year before. Much growling was heard from said drum line and the stickers were not used. I can't believe they got out of there alive. What nerve. We were a sensitive bunch.

Al trying to kill Larry after it hit Dorothy. I was scared.

Kevin Jordan and Pat Petrillo challenging each other at the laundry mat; that was awesome.

Mike Ochs boom box and our Queen loading tunes.

Greg Young kicking ass in 87. I was so proud of us all in 87.
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Sara Blackledge Ashelford at 7:06am February 11
shane…..lol….i totally forgor bout the ” Queen” i guess right now after reading all of this….i just cant believe how many emotions i have….for everyone i have found…for everyone i have found out have passed and to the FUTURE…..i guess no matter how many years have passed we all have something that no one can take away..eachother..
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Shane Connor at 7:09am February 11
Pat Petrillo waking us up to Pink Floyd's “Time” with the clocks chiming & ringing on volume 11!!

The various odd things that were in the Knights Hall: Plywood office walls. Old wooden chairs. The funk of old horns & valve oil in the “dungeon”. The long board that the snares used to practice on. Sleeping bags packed person to person in the warmest room in the hall (1st level above the office).

Motion – Emotion or Motion in Motion whatever we used to call it – uh uh uh uh – ooh ooh ooh ooh…. Garfield watching us do it in Whitewater & laughing their butts off.

Dave Haidle's aerobics….

Darryl Anderson's (big 'un's) aerobics! I never laughed so hard in my whole life!! How graceful he was!!

Brian Bond singing to “I ain't got nobody” Bozy Bozy Bop – Ziddy Bop!!

Brian Bond conducting at 10pm with white gloves on & glow sticks.

The excitement that was felt by all when we saw for the first time our uniforms for the 1985 JC Superstsar season!!CaraSue Lawrence Hall at 10:37am February 11
So true, Sara, so true. I wish that I would have been around to share more of the good times with everyone instead of just one year.
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Chris Ashcraft – Santa Clara's guard watching us warm up before finals in Whitewater 1983

Chris Aschraft – Starting line at finals Whitewater 1983… I remember seeing Tony Chamberlin, Betsy Davis and Kathy Mahoney in the stands and just being very proud to be a Knight

Theresa Basso – Houston Block and the whole horrible western tour in '81, Geno laying on his side nodding his head to our music, Chuck Benton farting at every show on starting line in '82, girls screaming “Madison!” when we would pull into a school and see their busses, Jennifer and her awful allergies….there are too many!

Heather McMeekan – “Feels like my head wants ta bust wide open!”