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Written by Cozy Baker
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Wednesday, 07 February 2007 |
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 Similar to the television commercial comparing the Mac to the PC, corpsdom's "P.C.," Paul Collins, is the guy who has been around many years, no fancy bells and whistles, but a guy who just gives and gives to so many drum corps. Does he charge for his repairs? Of course, but Collins' prices are typically far less than storefront music shop repairs, based on quotes Collins gave me during an interview at the DCInternational Atlanta meeting in late January.
The first time I encountered Collins was at an Empire Statesmen rehearsal in the early nineties. Since then, I've run into Collins seemingly everywhere, from DeKalb, IL, to Centerville, OH, to Powder Springs, GA, to Orlando to Madison to Rochester. It takes all of us to make corpsdom click. Collins and BAC Horn Doctor Mike Corrigan, www.horndr.com, are the only two touring repair services. Collins and Corrigan are typical examples of the gypsy lifestyle so many endure on summer tour. |
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Written by Michelle
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Tuesday, 06 February 2007 |
 Camp this weekend went by very quickly. On Friday night, I arrived a half hour before sectionals ended because my friend and I couldn’t leave Tallahassee until 5:30 due to a class. She has a thermometer in her car we watched drop from the low 50’s in Florida to the high 20’s as we pulled into Jacksonville, AL around 11 at night. I didn’t expect such a chill because I was wearing gaucho pants and flip flops – bad idea! The only thing I did do on Friday was receive a drill number. Just like last year, I got the second mellophone drill spot, except I’m not longer M13. At night I had the worst time sleeping. Being back in Mason Hall, the girls were in the band room where not all the lights go off. I couldn’t get comfortable. |
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Written by Cozy Baker
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Tuesday, 30 January 2007 |
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Attention! Rarely have the winter rules votes by both DCInternational and DCAssociates created such a tempest in a teapot, a hornito, as has occurred this aught seven. A few fan$ want to bail out on the corps whose directors voted on certain electrifying issues. Poppycock! You know the who of what and when of which I speak. The why and how is complex. Off the cuff, I'm almost into the realm of blog journalism here:
The passion is percolating over in both DCI and DCA circles. It shows that "we" care. DCA decided to tighten the circle of voters from 14 possible to 10 possible. Seemingly 1,400 to 14,000 fan$ disagree, some with horripilating vitriolic verbiage. Concerning DCI's rules voting last weekend, some have threatened that they and their wads of $50 bills will stay home based on parameters they oppose.
Dan Acheson, DCI executive director, said it best in his opening speech in Atlanta, "Learn from the past, and then get...out of there...Eighty % of people's energy is used to worry about the facts." |
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Written by Jeff Young
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Tuesday, 30 January 2007 |
 I LOVE Chipotle… and Q Doba… and Moe's Southwestern Grill… and our local Mexican restaurant, Cancun. The first Chipotle in the United States was in Denver, Colorado and every time I go out to work with Pomona High School's marching band the first place we go for lunch is Chipotle! Nothing beats a good burrito with beans, rice, chicken, cheese, salsa, and sour cream. With chips… yah- LOTS of fresh tortilla chips. And a soda, of course! I know that it is not good for me, but my mouth is watering just thinking about it. If you are like me, there are certain foods that you just have to have every once and a while. The difference between good nutrition and poor nutrition is in how often you make the choice to eat those things that you crave and those things that you know are good for you. In addition, good nutrition involves learning more about what you actually eat and what you should be eating. |
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Written by Cozy Baker
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Sunday, 28 January 2007 |
"It's a tie!"
Electronics -- No one hopped down a hole to predict this outcome. Somehow, the future of, speculate, two years from now, time-warped through a parallel dimension to Sunday morning in the director-packed DCInternational meeting room in the Sheraton in downtown Atlanta. George Hopkins, Cadets director, had told me just the day before in a one-on-one that he didn't expect his electronics proposal to pass.
Hopkins explained in the exclusive interview, "I just try to keep bringing it (electronics) forward."
You could have found a drum corps 8-track cassette easier than you could have espied an apathetic demeanor in the metaphorically "smoke-filled room" when Sue Kuehnhold, DCI official, announced that 10-10 tally. |
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