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Nice pun.

All the best to the Cadets tonite in Foxboro. Let's hope deflate-gate is over, especially when it comes to scoring The Power of X.

Judging panel may be tough for all but West Coasters... G.E. 1; Michael Gray G.E. 2: Nola Jones Visual Analysis: Sly Sybilski Musical Analysis: C. Phillips Pecussion: M. Davis (This stadium, the line-up, and the event should have gotten a full panel, no? It's really the start of the national linear, even more important than the first week regional in Stanford.)

Mikey, Alex, and others... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioI3B04PSXo&feature=youtu.be

cf. the OP where they are mentioned. They were never as competitively successful as the other two corps except that I think Tom Blair and Dale may have drum tekked there for awhile.

Yes, with a 91.8. Interesting side note for the moderns who think this is ancient history of another century. The Ventures' director for many years was the dad of Jon Vanderkolff, present day visual designer for the Bluecoats.

While we await Crown's organ master to do some tweeking with the Regiment's closer, here's something for those who find Regiment 2015 too light, fun, and airy to their liking: some Phantom stuff for the Regiment we all know and love. 5Explore the hidden side of the citySee a different side to Paris with a tour of the catacombs. This labyrinthine construction is home to the remains of six million Parisians that were transferred here in the 18th and 19th centuries. In this maze of dark galleries and narrow passageways, look out for bones arranged in a macabre display of high Romantic taste. Oh wait. Bones? Darn those Crossmen.

The Ventures from Kitchener, Ontario or do you mean the ones from Quebec, Les Chatelaines de Laval, near Montreal?

This has been previously discussed on DCP that the equipment trucks left California 3 days ahead of the corps. The real question is, did they practice on kazoos and pots and pans in the meanwhile or just do laundry?

Oops, there should have been 15 of them playing! let''s go to the vids.

C'est dommage. But the head DCI judge (still) is from Canada.

But those clam cakes, Del's lemonade, and Portuguese sausages in Bristol are worth it! Sez one who used to live in Scituate, Ma. (as opposed to Scituate, RI, not even twenty miles away.)

http://boston.cbslocal.com/2015/06/29/boston-crusaders-to-perform-with-boston-pops-on-fourth-of-july/

merci, bonne fete, eh?.

Joyeux Jour Du Canada, Happy Canada Day greetings to all the Canadian posters, the league office in Toronto, Blue Saints, Les Stentors, Inspector Gamache, Louise Penny, Dudley Dooright, and all our Northern friends. May Canada someday soon return to the heyday of DeLaSalle, Oakland Crusaders, LaSalle Cadets, Scarborough, Dutch Boy, Ventures, Alberta Girls, Bandettes, Pacificaires, and all those great Quebecois corps.

I don't give in to living in my dreams too often, but I wonder what the 2015 would be if BAC was still in this uniform. Methinks the show would be a bit more successfully dynamic. Boston Crusaders, Special GuestsThis year’s program will also include a performance by the Boston Crusaders. The Boston Crusaders celebrate their 75th Anniversary this year. Founded in 1940, its the third-oldest junior drum and bugle corps in the nation and is proud to be a founding member of Drum Corps International. The Boston Crusaders are comprised of 150 young women and men ages 15-22. Brass players, percussionists and color guard members travel over 10,000 miles each summer, performing in more than 40 competitions and exhibitions before a combined audience of over 300,000 fans. For more information on the Boston Crusaders please visit: www.bostoncrusaders.org.

Thanks Liahona. Happy 75th and 4th.

One of the key differences in the the on-tour perception of the low brass this year is the loss of low brass tech Jarrett Lipman who remained in Texas this summer to continue heading a great program at Claudia Taylor Johnson H.S. in San Antonio and returning to his alma mater The Crossman where he had been DM and asst. director in years past. He is part of their improved horn package this season. http://www.crossmen.org/jarrett-lipman-biohttp://www.crossmen.org/jarrett-lipman-bio His Siamese twin, JP Crowley recently of Bridgewater-Raritan directorship, is still at low brass helm. Different line, different charts. But no one doubted the low brass musicianship or book during those winter vids. They are just not getting the same features when the feet are added outdoors.

in no way were the French horns horrid in A-town. Just a different sound from what that one poster expected. Sure, they didn't play his rup-rup-rup. And Allison was excellent.

All the other corps in the contest are doing parade work that day as well. Cadets are ONLY doing 2. Some are doing more.

Why is that, John or anyone? Post show I heard some Cadets mellos arguing this in the lot and heard talk about some special tones or such. Not being a French horn player, I didn't quite get the drift. I still think it is one of the best special instrument features since the rules have been liberalized. I prefer the French horn to the trombones and kazoos.

The IRS will be doubling your tax in 2016 and visas will not be honored once you enter the Republic of Boulder.

http://www.rrstar.com/article/20150630/NEWS/150639968

Thanks. Listening to the drum majors' commenting on the TV promo earlier in these posts, I couldn't help but think what a great resume` factoid for those two guys: "I guest conducted with Keith Lockhart July 4, 2015 at his concert in Boston! and that same weekend, I got to do it at Tanglewood in Lenox too." (Who wouldn't be impressed)

up close, yes. In the box, it won't make much difference.