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Poway was there as well.

It really was an amazing time. Magical times growing up in Chula Vista. I live in Miami now but those times hold a special place in my heart.

Brian! How are you??

This was 90-91…Washington Grays march.

Me too. It’s rare when people come together for anything nowadays and be in the moment. Those days were special.

im current student of eric mabrey, bangle's first year was i believe 1981-82! the stories that i have heard from both mabrey and bangle himself are always entertaining to listen to

What was the competition March for the 86-87 year?

@@bdfan4ever right we did Army of the Nile , king Karl king, barnums circus and one other but I am trying to remember what order .

@@tareneraven3571 thanks for the reply!!! I lived in Chula Vista in that era. The Trojan band was so well known. I remember being in 6th grade and watching the fiesta de la Luna parade and even my parents telling me about the castle park band. Truly a marvelous time to be alive.

According to Del Bangle, they didn’t do anything for the band score or the overall score for that matter. He did away with it somewhere in the late eighties from what I recall. The next to disband their drill team units in the Sweetwater District would probably be Chula Vista High School with 98 being the last time the Spartanettes did a parade. And from what I recall, Montgomery High was the last to feature a high school drill team unit. But I haven’t seen them in parade for a few years now.

@@kuxica some good bits there. Thank you!

Rare and Excellent Video! Priceless 📝 I'm sure! 😇

​@@kuxicaspartanettes last maytime was in 97. Montgomery las aztecas last maytime was 98.

We took high music on the street and got like an 88 on the field. Our show sucked but our music made up the difference. This was definitely my favorite year playing lead with Eddie. I mean my senior year was super fun too, but we didn't play festive overture, we didn't play the great gate of Kiev... I mean sure. We played night on Bald mountain and Dvorak's. New World symphony, but fever was so much more fun to play, and the trio for the drum feature where we just made up harmonics for the theme to America from west side story, just to clown Poway. When we did one hand one heart the year before it was so much better than Poway did it in 1990 at TOC. In my humble opinion that is...

@@p.j.thomas7480 wow!! That 1989 field show, so about it: I saw you guys perform it at sweet water band pageant. I was in Chula Jr at the time. I can’t begin to tell you how awestruck I was. That show cemented why I love matching band. Chula HS and CP were like rockstars to me at such a young age. You guys had this INCREDIBLE aura and we all though you were just bad ass! Congratulations on being part of that. Ps: must have been amazing to win music sweeps over all those bands.

Dropped them at end of 1990 school year. Many schools were doing it. Various reasons.

@@andrewdt74 that's sucks. Even though they were apart of the showmanship from the year before that earned spot for the following year. Bummer

@@MarxBrown agreed. SCSBOA the adjudicators starting incorporating drill teams into overall scores. Bands were highly competitive and could not afford losing points due to drill teams. I always thought we should have kept them for school and local functions.

@@andrewdt74 I know exactly what your talking about. They should of made the drill teams work harder. Chula ended theirs in 97, Montgomery in 98. I got really familiar with everything since I continued after high school for 13-14 years non stop. I marched from 92-99 Montgomery jr. & HS. Went to CP for one semester 97. then did drum corps 99-03 aged out with Cavaliers. Marched A,open, and world class winter guard. 99-02 Caption head CG div 2 drum corps 04-05 And caption head CG senior drum corps 06-09 I know exactly how all of that stuff works lol. And then some. 😉

@@andrewdt74 it's a trip how the sweetwater districts bands have changed. It was so fun to be apart of the 90's generation