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DWW11 last won the day on June 22 2023

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  • Your Drum Corps Experience
    fan since 1975
  • Your Favorite Corps
    Blue Devils
  • Your Favorite All Time Corps Performance (Any)
    Blue Devils Metamorph
  • Your Favorite Drum Corps Season
    Every season

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  1. Interesting tho-no matter how much the crowds in Allentown tried to downplay or appear blase about BD, no one ever left their seats when they took the field.
  2. The ABBD/Cali corps animosity in Allentown was real, at least in the 70s-90s. The Crossmen and Cadets fans in the early days had a real chip on their shoulders because they felt BD and SCV would just come onto their turf and try to show them up.
  3. I took a friend that night. This was her intro to drum corps. Told her she shouldn’t count on ever seeing a better show.
  4. I thought you were agreeing but sometimes i read people wrong!
  5. I think you know exactly what i meant but just inn case you don’t: it’s bitterness to imply that what the MMs, design team, and instructors do isn’t even necessary, as they would win by just showing up. People don’t have to like their shows, or whatever perceived advantages they feel the corp may have, but to discount their talent, their hard work, and their showmanship by saying it doesn’t matter smacks of plain old jealousy. I don’t care for several shows from year to year, but i always appreciate the effort and talent.
  6. I detect a note of bitterness. Funny, i thought tears tasted of salt?
  7. Well said. As a survivor of sexual assault at 15, i can assure you that it has impacted me for the 50 years since, and will probably impact me in some way, for the rest of my life. Most people don’t understand that surviving this type of trauma affects choices you make in your life, such as who to date, who to marry, when to leave, etc. It contributes to risk-taking and lack of impulse control. A major decision i made at 18 was influenced by that assault, and scripted my entire adult life, in a manner not at all consistent with my hopes and dreams. And i am an emotionally strong woman. If i were of a weaker emotional build, it could have destroyed me.
  8. Psst…. There is a feature called “ignore”. I think that’s what it’s there for.
  9. BoRhap is my very favorite song but that was just plain strange. (Fred probably would have loved it, tho!)
  10. I have no problem with “non-rifle rifles”, sabers, rings, hoops, balls, or any other kind of equipment. Flags, swing flags, split flags, ging gongs, banners, all good with me. Handling the equipment is what i enjoy. I also have NO problem with dancers and dancing. In fact, dancing in addition to, or in conjunction with, equipment handling is great. I am a BD honk. How could i say otherwise? I just don’t EVER want dancing to replace equipment work.
  11. And that is when i will stop following drum corps. As a fan, i listen to, and love, the music, but i watch the colorguard almost exclusively. I absolutely believe dance and movement in the MM helps to tie it all together but watching a colorguard doing equipment work is my drug of choice.
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