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OK... this is either a picture of the new Falcons stadium, or an artist's rendering of the Bluecoats' 2017 show.

"The Commandant's Own" The United States Marine Drum and Bugle Corps performs a Holiday Brass Concert live at the National Museum of the Marine Corps. Very proud to have a future son-in-law in this unit! https://www.facebook.com/MarineBarracks/videos/998394776933001/

I too felt that the survey was not well constructed, not well focused and was severely weighted by distributing it only by Twitter. If the opinions of the public were being sought, that approach seemed generationally biased, anti-luddite, and cavalier (apologies to Rosemont.) Not all fans are tech savvy, interested in Twitter, or free to peruse such. I disagree on each of Bruckner's comments except increasing the number of participants (by which I mean the number of corps not the number of members on the field for each corps. DCI shows have been more active on the field by legacy than the hippopotamus size units of certain h.s. band circuits and many college bands.) To do what DCI has always done has involved most of the corps MMs almost all the time, not the whole-scale "time-outs"/sit-outs the larger bands use where sections and subsections are, at best, hidden behind the scrim to wait until its their turns resulting in MMs only doing 1/2 or !/3 of the whole show at times. Southern and Texas bands are notorious for that when I evaluated shows down there; I always presumed it was due to a heat and humidity factor or the Texas restrictions on how many hours a band student may practice in a given week. . Even 150 MMs is too large sometimes for the DCI level of drill as well as the echo in most of the indoor stadia for regionals and championships.

I wasn't aware there were any other colors more important... LOL

Bloo and SCV, where I listened to over 1000 brass auditions between 2006 and 2015. (I've been back at Bloo since 2016, but not doing auditions) I'm 100% sure Jeff Feidler provided that list to every cut, along with the sheet you described (cut, call back, or contract). I'm 99% sure Dave Glasgow does the same thing. I'm not 100% because I haven't seen the sheet...I've only heard about it. So it doesn't originate from the caption, but from the admin in both cases. FWIW, Dan Acheson did the same thing at the Glassmen, and that was even before they made finals. All of these leaders want every kid to experience DCI, no matter how it happens.

Reduce WHAT to six?

This is not related to Crossmen, but a kid I used to teach tried out for Bluecoats this past weekend in Ohio. He didn't make the call-back but had a very positive experience. The staff recommended that he try out for Blue Stars and offered to pass along his information if he was interested. He said that the hornline and percussion have call-backs from all camps in Ohio in January and that they finalize all spots plus alternates by the end of that January weekend. The guard is a little different since they don't come back until April.

All of this "G7" chatter is interesting from an outsiders point of view. I feel like this would be a really good story to hear over a beer sometime. Or perhaps this whole mess would make a good reality TV show and replace Clash of the Corps series (yawn). I'd pay for this story...

i answered honestly and asked for contact on one of my ideas

Dan says hi

I was tempted to close with: "...and get off of my lawn!"

They realized with another camp with another 250 kids that you can make another $25-50k at $100-200 per person...