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Nice! There's also at least one corps in the park, with their buses lined up on New York Street. (39.770622, -86.168698)

I don't think their guard lost again after the Stanford show on 6/23/2012 Phantom 14.7 BD 14.4

I thought that was meant to be the iconic gun barrel sequence from the opening of every James Bond movie...

New music vs. old music... There are many modern composers who write brand new music every day for orchestras, wind ensembles, jazz bands, string quartets etc. Not to mention some of the amazing work that's done on television and film scores. Justin Bieber, Lady Gaga and other pop stars aren't the only new sources of music. Just saying. Edit: On topic, I always find it interesting how new talent interprets a classic piece, whether it's a piece of music or an entire play/film. Christopher Nolan's Batman films, West Side Story (the musical), Metallica's S&M, all of these exist due to revisiting and reinterpreting classic material.

Great ideas, but an extra souvie location would require an additional body to work it. Would the extra income from the lot be more than the extra cost of having another person on tour? What about a tip/donation jar at warmups?

Also, direct link to the results (pdf)

Agreed

Might be perfect for the Open Class events the first half of the week

Both of these points are about southern California, not the bay area.

As far as the poll choices go, Percussion hardest, Guard not quite as hard, Brass least hard. This is based mostly on numbers, since a hornline makes up about 50% of most corps, guard around 25% and percussion about 23%, if each section ages out the same percentage of members each year, the percussion section will have the least spots available. Percussionists trying out for one section are less likely to simply be moved to another section if they can't cut it (especially in regards to pit to battery and vice versa) whereas guard folk going for weapon line may only make the flag line, or a trumpet auditionee may be asked to play mellophone. Add to that what others have already said about the 'cool' factor of being in a snare line, and percussion is definitely the most competitive section. This is probably even more apparent in some of the smaller corps that struggle to recruit a full hornline, but have relatively no problem finding folks for the battery.

BD has 15 guard trophies now, not 16

Scores and placements for both shows are being held until Monday, so they couldn't use that to determine performance order the second night. I heard that the performance order will be different each night, but I'm not sure how that will be determined.

I have seen many members over the years pack a set or two of nice clothes (jeans etc) for free days, laundry days, and after shows, but most of your suitcase will be filled with rehearsal clothes because that is what you will be doing most of the day every day. Your first year, you'll most likely find out you packed way more than you need... especially as you become more and more comfortable with being "drum corps dirty" (a perpetual state of griminess, especially in the more humid regions of the country)

Well it's not a free subscription, it's just free access for this week... so you'll still have your new subcription when the rest of us are cut off once again!

Exactly why this wouldn't work. As long as marching members are paying to participate in the activity, they should have the freedom to choose what corps they march.