The Velvet Knights Drum and Bugle Corps , a.k.a. VK, is currently an Open Class Drum Corps based in Pasadena, California. The corps takes its name from the Anaheim Velvet Knights who were active from the 1960s until the late 1990s. The Anaheim Velvet Knights became a DCI Division 1 corps in the 1980s and was famous for humorous, irreverent, and entertaining shows.