In the late 60's and early 70's, my parents were building a house on the edge of Lake Geneva Township. We heard a Drum Corp and began driving. It was the Cavies at Camp Augstana. What a great sound. By my work there is a place that has something to do with horns, and when the winds blows the right way I aways hear Drum Corp music. One year I heard some of the show from Lisle.

My Mom still lives near the Skokie area. She lives of off Touhy & McCormick. Sometimes, I will take the long way home (I live in Bolingbrook) and find myself driving past the Vapor parking lot, find myself in Mt Prospect driving past the Basin.

What did you do in the Corps? Cymbals, Bass Drum, Tenor

What years were you a Corps member? 1980-1983

Five years ago when my son was playing baseball for Diablo Valley Junior college I used to see and hear the Blue Devils practice. They used the college field and facilities for a number of their weekend practices.

My most recent experience though wasn't with a corps, but the UCLA Marching Band and it occurred in of a places Park Ridge Il. In the fall of 2006 we were visiting Chicago and staying at the Marriott at Cumberland and the Kennedy Expressway. When we got back to the hotel we heard what sounded like a DCI corps. The band was practicing in the back parking lot of the hotel along the expressway. They sounded like a corps because they were playing some of Wayne Downey's older Blue Devils arrangements from the 1980s. They were in Chicago because UCLA played at Notre Dame the next day. Ran into a lot of the kids Saturday night--they're a little older than the DCI kids and took over both bars in the hotel.