1994 Santa Clara Vanguard at DCI East

SCV comes to Allentown

In 1994, I became the Percussion Director of the Santa Clara Vanguard. Our appearance in Allentown was awesome, I had friends and family all over the place, and our Red Poppy show was really starting to come together.

Above all, the location for DCI East was perfect, Allentown is a legendary and historic show site, the stadium where I first saw many corps.

In this photo, the drum line starts the show on the back sideline playing a percussion feature at 200 bpm. Getting this high speed intro to line up with the pit was the most difficult ensemble moment of the show.

It is hard to see in this photo, but the snare line is moving playing small brass cymbals, suspended on a string.

The 1994 SCV color guard was golden and brilliant!

Myron did a great job on our drill in 1994.

All in all, leaving Pennsylvania as a snare drummer with an impossible dream and returning as the SCV Percussion Director made for a rock star day in Allentown, one that I will never forget.

During the slow-motion martial arts portion of the drum solo. Our drum solo was cool, but truth be told, it was difficult to write drum parts for a drum solo at 200 b.p.m.

I loved having five tenors. The only thing better than five tenor drummers in a drum corps is having six tenor drummers.

Maybe seven.

This company front was as LOUD as [BLEEP]

Thank you for attending Drum Corps Scene 7.

I hope you enjoyed these photos from 1994 DCI East Prelims!