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xandandl

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  1. This is the week of the holiday season I always enjoy re-hearing Al Reid's composition, whether you like SCV's or Crossmen's version best. To all my Greek, Russian, Turkish and Orthodox friends, Merry Christmas. To the rest, Happy Epiphany. And since it's a new year, here's both: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n33KOXXRYDk&list=RDn33KOXXRYDk&start_radio=1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYp1fG_TDEs&list=PLiOy0YArE6dB3HuGRgi5dCdefnU2xWgjU
  2. if shows pivot their effect on props, the design is lacking as far as the scoresheets reward.
  3. Haven't found that in my experience when the right contacts are made and the money is clearly available and seen so that the bills are paid. Why has this unit in the last three seasons had problems being welcomed back by schools they have used before?
  4. No conditions required at all. But my experience of sponsorship since DCI started in 1972 is that brass players tend to sponsor brass players and drummers drummers if they don't know the member personally. Agreed that Spirit should be the first one to speak with.
  5. What LaCrosse broke out the Heilemann kegs on those "huskies" the sledders used?
  6. it would be an empty paper. My net monthly "discretionary/luxury" money after rent, transportation and medical costs is exactly $71. There are no longer any savings or assets. This is why I can no longer afford DCI. You're welcome.
  7. I agree with you. What is right, what is proper, and what is legal aren't always the same. Has not Washington shown that all?
  8. I go back to the questions again that you fail to answer while reducing things to ad hominem slurs: ...what good reason would you raise for not granting Poppycock his wish to read through the discussion and minutes of the committee which supposedly generated these proposals? ... Why not be transparent?..."
  9. You did not answer my question. "...If you and DCI are NOT trying to hide anything, what good reason would you raise for not granting Poppycock his wish to read through the discussion and minutes of the committee which supposedly generated these proposals? You proport yourself as knowing who signed what and how. Poppycock usually seems to be reasonable, even insightful, often dramatic with his posts. Why not be transparent?..."
  10. and to make the conversations publicly available will prove that.
  11. If you and DCI are NOT trying to hide anything, what good reason would you raise for not granting Poppycock his wish to read through the discussion and minutes of the committee which supposedly generated these proposals? You proport yourself as knowing who signed what and how. Poppycock usually seems to be reasonable, even insightful, often dramatic with his posts. Why not be transparent? What is being hidden or feared?
  12. Local Allentown paper (MorningCall) featured a drum corps-at summer practice photo one of its Top 10 photos of the year. (mcall.com.)
  13. Remembering when Adolph DeGrauwe of Cavies and David Glasgow of Bloo did that with past proposals (electronix, e.g.) and eventually had to buckle under as judges rewarded the proposed changes scorewise.
  14. I think you need the Sisters of Charity. Your devious diversion from the ire about the Rules Proposal is only temporary.
  15. did she get the idea from the 1980 Guardsmen? Something about using kazoos???
  16. but all Jesuits are only male. She was a hireling.
  17. Probably on DCP you should state that you are NOT a woodwind😣. What caption are you marching and why was last summer a good experience for you?
  18. what are you judging as "growth?" 128>135>150>154? Certainly not the number of competing units? Probably not the number of paid attendees at championships (vs. Buffalo, Boston, Montreal; ok, more than Florida.)
  19. I haven't spoken with Director Bonfiglio about this but I am wondering: Is the proposal about color guard judging and fine skills vs. general impression but a foot in the door to have eventually 2 color guard judges on each panel, one doing the effect, the other doing the fine skills? Similar to the other captions having two judges at least. As today's "guards" (who don't guard anything anymore) are usually compromised of at least as many mms as there are in percussion sections and half the size of the usual WC brass section, each which have multiple judges on each panel, would the guardsters be having another moment of perceived unfairness?
  20. and at what $$$ cost (sports camps don't do 10 weeks on the road, now do they?)
  21. yes that is always the key pivot and too often the problem.
  22. Some joke that the D in DCP stands for Dinos, but quick reviews of other discussion sites/platforms, etc. about the proposed changes don't differ widely from the feelings expressed on DCP threads that the Black mark proposal by Kathy is not worthy of passing, the electronics/amping/soundscapes are worthy of good discussion, color guard judging is getting mixed reactions, limiting judging to 6 off the field is not being positively backed, and other tweeking is worthy of review. Boomers, millenials, geriatrics, and cmms don't seem to be that different from the fmms, alumni, donors, and thread posters here. Look for yourself.
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