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It was always cool to see corps busses pull into the lot with their names and logos on the side. WIth rentals that doesn't happen. Or could someone make magnetic stickers so we could temporarily have our nostalgia!

Larry David would like a word.

Really interesting explainer on a lot of what was being presented in the BB Half Time show:

I thought the show was great. People are correct that it may have been hard to follow inside the stadium but: 1) The in-stadium folks are not the intended audience 2) Stadia have giant screens and I'm sure lots of stuff was going on on those screens Also, as for "can't understand the words" I can say that about much of the music that is performed in English, too. Music and words all go together and some of it is very legible and some is not.

Carnac the Magnificent!

That was fun! Way after my time but I still got a couple of the uniform questions. Two seconds of sound though, no way. It was great to watch them geek out to the shows.

All these posts about "a business lives on its revenue" forget that drum corps is non-profit. So no, it won't live on ticket sales alone. It needs the support of a community.

Corps formerly could not cross the sideline. Then they could (cool!, break down the wall between audience and performers!) Then they built a wall of keyboards, amps, drum sets, etc. etc. One step forward, then block that approach!

Don't take us on a tangent Mr. Ream.

Birmingham during the day in August....nuff said.

Loved the look and sound of that stadium but it was already decrepit when I marched there 15 years before that.

I joined Blue Devils B without ever seeing a show. The first time I saw a drum corps perform live was the infamous Stockton camp indoor standstill of Blue Devils A corps where each section wore different costumes including the snare line in tuxedos, the tenors in McDonald's uniforms and Dave Dugan, the drum major, in a gorilla suit. I had only ever played in the B corps horn line and had absolutely no clue the kind of power a world class horn line could produce. Photos here: https://bluedevils.org/programs/a-corps/seasons/index.php?module=photos&albumID=56&season=1976

Fascinating. The question it begs for me is what percentage of each corps total budget does the DCI revenues constitute? How much of their money comes from DCI and how much comes from other sources?

And Feats of Strength. "We marched uphill in the snow both ways in the heat of Birmingham in August carrying tymps and wearing wool uniforms."

2016 is an outlier, but basically they seem to win finals if they win more than half their competitions during the season. It'd be interesting to see how this compares to other corps.