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Me too...

Dang, Mike...you beat me to it. But I'll contribute to the idea anyway...

Or as I think I once posted before...if you have to explain the punchline, then the joke isn't funny.

The hype is really gaining momentum!

2015 OPEN CLASS Atlanta CV "EYEconic" Symphony No. 1 (Alfred Reed), In Your Eyes (Peter Gabriel), Nessun Dorma (from Turandot, by Giacomo Puccini) The Heat of the Day (Pat Metheny Group) Link Bushwackers "Industrial ®evolution" Industrial ®evolution (Robert W. Smith), The Factory (Robert W Smith), Wild Ride (Robert W. Smith), Tempered Steel (Charles Young), Nimrod (from Enigma Variations, by Edward Elgar) Link Cadets² "The Red Square" Russian Christmas Music (Alfred Reed), Lullaby (from The Gayne Ballet Suite, by Aram Khachaturian), Dance of the Tumblers (Nikolai Rimsky Korsokov), Russian Sailor’s Dance (Reinhold Glière) Link Carolina Gold "Let It Snow" Palladio (Karl Jenkins), Let It Go (from Frozen, by Robert Lopez, Kristen Anderson-Lopez), L’Inverno (Antonio Vivaldi), The Frozen Cathedral (John Mackey) Link Connecticut Hurricanes "After Hours" Since I Don’t Have You (Brian Seltzer), Nutville (Buddy Rich), Harlem Nocturne (Earle Hagen), Jump Jive and Wail (Louis Prima) Link Fusion Core "All Aboard" Empire State of Mind (Jay-Z), Jungstaposed (Craig Fitzpatrick), Hot Honey Rag (from Chicago, by John Kander), Sing Sing Sing (Louis Prima), And Hope Led Them Home (Patrick Roszell, Justin Williams) Link Hawthorne Caballeros "Unchained" Original compositions by Key Poulan Link Kidsgrove Scouts "The Stone Circle: The Myths and Magic of Stonehenge" Featuring Music from Medea’s Dance of Vengeance (Samuel Barber) Link Long Island Sunrisers "Come Fly With Me" Come Fly With Me (Frank Sinatra), El Camino Real (Alfred Reed), Cavalleria Rusticana (Pietro Mascagni), Jai Ho (from Slumdog Millionaire, by A.R. Rahman), La Marseillaise (Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle) Link Minnesota Brass "Mad Circus" Featuring the music of Emerson Lake and Palmer, Danny Elfman, Rufus Wainwright, Beats Antique, Queen Link Reading Buccaneers "Twist-It" Pagliacci (Ruggero Leoncavallo), Palladio (Karl Jenkins), Moonlight Sonata (Ludwig van Beethoven), Going The Distance (from Rocky, by Bill Conti), William Tell Overture (Gioachino Rossini) Link Skyliners "Whatever Lola Wants" Meglio Stasera (from The Pink Panther, by Henry Mancini), Whatever Lola Wants (from #### Yankees, by Richard Adler, Jerry Ross), Ain’t No Sunshine (Bill Withers), Tonight Quintet (from West Side Story, by Leonard Bernstein) Link White Sabers "Incantation and Ritual" Incantation and Dance (John Barnes Chance), The Rite of Spring (Igor Stravinsky), Incantation (from Quidam/Cirque Du Soleil, by Benoit Jutras), Uninvited (Alanis Morissette), O Magnum Mysterium (Morten Lauridsen), Danse Bachhanale (from Samson et Dalila, by Camille Saint-Saëns) Link 2015 CLASS A Alliance "Sub-Zero: Overcome the Elements" Ice Dance (Danny Elfman), Avalanche (James Newton Howard), Coronation (from Boris Goduvov by Modest Mussorgsky), Music of Progue (Karl Husa), Frozen Cathedral (John Mackey) Link Chops "OUTATIME" Times Like These (Foo Fighters), Johnny B. Goode (Chuck Berry), Music from Back To The Future (Alan Silvestri) Link Cincinnati Tradition "Both Sides" Thnks Fr Th Mmrs (Fall Out Boy), Both Sides Now (Joni Mitchell), The Pretender (Foo Fighters) Erie Thunderbirds "The Show Must Go On" Music by Queen: Under Pressure, Fat Bottomed Girls, Another One Bites the Dust, Somebody to Love, Bohemian Rhapsody Link Excelsior "Destination 'U'" Stay With Me (Sam Smith), Maps (Maroon 5), Payphone (Maroon 5), I Just Can't Stop Loving You (Michael Jackson), Signed, Sealed, Delivered (Stevie Wonder) Link Govenaires "Outlaw" Battle Without Honor or Humanity (Tomoyasu Hotei), The Magnificent Seven (Elmer Bernstein), The Ecstasy of Gold (Ennio Morricone), Enemy Guns (DeVotchKa), Kashmir (Led Zeppelin) Link Kilties "A Tour of Time: Old Friends. New Adventures." My Favorite Things (Richard Rogers), First Suite in E Flat (Gustav Holst), English Dances (Malcolm Arnold), Skye Boat Song (Harold Bouldon), Loch Lomand (Norman Luboff) Link

These are some hopeful things that would be good to see in 2015. Nothing is official from a corps or from a knowledgeable source. 1. Renegades come back to DCA Finals. Sometimes Evil is good 2. Thunder Brigade and Shenandoah sound both get the #'s needed for class A and have a good season of MD/ VA border battles 3 Alliance, Atlanta CV and Carolina Gold all have full sized corps and have a real Southern Shoot Out in Atlanta a week before finals. 4. Glassmen show up in DCA either as mini corp, alumni or class A 5, 16 corps (including Kidsgrove and Renegades) battle for 10 open class final spots. 6. C2 has its color guard ready to go in June Well someone had to get this thread started

actually you got a DMCA letter from the Childrens Television Workshop !!

Daave, If one checks with Brian Turner, local TEP for those MN shows, you'll find MN has NEVER had all the World Class corps, If one checks with the Lindstroms, founders of DATR, one will learn Denver was never instituted as a regional but part of an ongoing series of shows in the Rockies, as your Trooper signature probably already knows. I mention it here only for the sake of those real young posters and readers who have made comments similar to your editorial. It is only within the past two years that seeding at that weekend became so important and this was to play into the performance order of the indoor shows. Of course, San Antonio was moved outdoors and split for a few years due to the Dallas Cowboys wanting the Alamodome in previous summers. What the seeding importance is for 2015 is probably one of the items of discussion in Denver this week for the DCI Board meetings. Regionals and Seedings has been a very fluid policy, not something handed on for generations or even decades. Different seasons face different challenges due to weather, availability of corps and venues, and the NFL. (MN was effected last season by Major League Baseball's All Star Game planning and was moved to LaCrosse. Ironically, it poured so hard in Minneapolis that day that the drum corps contest would probably have been cancelled. In Wisconsin, the rain subsided and the show was able to squeeze in before the fog and rain resumed.) DATR derives its importance more for its consistent attendance of fans (I5K+) and the wonderful venue the stadium is. Since I have been doing DCI tours as long as yourself, and even longer, I know my memory sometimes fade. I don't present this as infallible statements. I mention the names so others can do the research if they wish.

I'm not so sure they can call MN a true regional anymore. This will be the second year in a row that they scheduled MN on the same night as Denver.

We're not asking for a national tour every FREAKING year...maybe once every 5-7 years. And thank you to corps like Phantom and The Cadets and to Crown in 2013 who made the trip to the waste land of the west coast. Other than sitting on the beach taking in the sun...we actually love seeing corps from the other parts of the USA.

Thanks Spandy ,good to see you found time to do this again ,thank you

I think that 3-year era was just great drum corps. I remember the first time I saw SCV in 1997 (don't remember where, unfortunately) and my jaw freaking dropped and I literally bounced up and down a bit saying "SCV is BACK!!" Then in 1998 I saw them a lot and really grew to love just about everything about that show. I hung out a bit with their drum line, and had maybe a little too much fun in Montreal (my bachelor party thrown for my by my corps mates). I never got to see them in 1999 live, as I moved from mid-west to Southern CA early summer but that's a great show as well with an insane energy Finals night. I agree that the 97 show, especially the closer (and On the Waterfront, which as a percussion I naturally love) is a great show, and a hallmark of SCV history! I've always LOVED SCV, probably more than any corps, and it would be awesome to see them come out with a great show, march and play like the BAMF they are, and have an amazing season this year!!

Or to put it another way. * Six World Class corps that we get to see annually (often; sometimes, if you live in So CA for example, you don't unless you drive a bit). In early season, when shows are woefully unfinished and dirty * The entire rest of the World Class corps we don't get to see unless we book a weekend vacation trip. Conversely, the rest of the country often gets to see every world class corps, as each 'region' seemingly has everyone: South, East, Mid-west, and Finals in centralized Indy. East and Mid-west fans get to see all the WC corps when the shows are done and clean. It's no secret why 2007 was huge attendance-wise: western drum corps fans LOVE their corps, and were (are) chomping at the bit to see them in August. Of course, I'm not naive to the benefits of DCI in Indy constantly, the logistics of the 'flow' of the tour, the financial problems of corps traveling coast-to-coast, etc. I get why the DCI Tour is what it is, and don't expect it to change much in the foreseeable future. I'm lucky I live in Southern CA and have an opportunity to see amazing corps without too much of a drive, and I'm lucky to have FN to see every corps on my computer/TV weekly. I'm lucky I don't live in the Pacific NW where they don't get as much live drum corps, or in places like the Dakotas, or Utah, or AZ, etc.

That's because they have so many vets returning. (3-5 year vets).

1980 27th Lancers Invitational. We expected 27th to win finals that year and the show was a huge love fest for the corps. Spirit of Atlanta made its debut in New England at that show and when it came to Spirit, you never forgot the first time you heard them live. Jim Ott had passed about a month earlier and the corps was still in mourning, as one would expect, but they put on an amazing show. At the time I was in high school and while I'm sure I felt sad about the accident, I had no comprehension of what it must have been like for the kids to experience such a loss away from home and all the adults had to do to keep the corps going while at the same time comforting the kids and dealing with their own grief. Now as an adult who has worked with kids in one capacity or another for many years, I admire those who had to step up in such tragic circumstances.

I'm not sure what show I would put in that category, but I was reminded of a well known Boston critic who had a huge smile on her face anytime she could pan an Andrew Lloyd Webber show, including "Evita" and "Phantom of the Opera" which she believed had a score that was nothing more than cheesey scales for dramatic effect. SCV should be glad she was never a judge.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wC-DwfIpuk0 Never mind how dirty the ensemble is or how terrible the acoustics in the Carrier Dome are. What I'm trying to say is that steel drums have been used in a show just this past fall and you didn't even know it.

a famous judge once told me: if you take all of your allotted critique time to describe your show to me, you over-programmed.

Don't know if anyone saw this. Looks pretty cool. Their hands are freaking moving. https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10152767512236911&pnref=story

I had the pleasure of watching my grandson play trombone with the Fort Worth Youth Philharmonic Orchestra tonight. Up until recently I thought he was a cross-country runner, or basketball player, or baseball player that also played music, but watching his intensity on stage at Bass Hall, and listening to his playing (and watching the technique) shows me that at 14 he's a real player. Even neater is that their excellent tuba player was in Iceland looking at school (can't make this stuff up) so Kevin sat in on tuba, 2 seats over from Connor. What we do is worth something - in some cases it's worth a lot - we have inspired people to love music and to want to play better - in some cases to want to play supremely well. We've bought instruments, we've taught our kids, and more important we've gotten out of the way and gotten them better teachers when they had all we had to offer. Our activity has made a difference in the lives of thousands and thousands of kids, and almost 100% for the better - nothing's ever 100% good. The last piece tonight was "Jupiter" from Holst's "The Planets" I was listening to Connor playing the trombone part that the Cavies played - big and majestic and pulsing. Life is good. Life with music is better. Live with low brass music is best. Good night from the Lone Star State - back to frozen Boston (where it's supposed to snow again tomorrow) tomorrow night.

Thanks Jeff. Judges are people too.

Fly on up to Boston and see some REAL snow! Come up and visit us!!!

Agree...I hear DCI is considering one of these...

Seriously, bashing an individual by name is in very poor taste even for DCP

Anyone else old enough to remember when INTs big number/theme song was "Smoking In The Boys Room". Then the Health Dept finally got strick with stadiums and that .... was... that..... (Yeah in a wierd mood after the mess yesterday and getting my 35 yr service award from our Captian the day before....)

Give me an SCV 1998 or 99 again, and my heart will burst. I miss THAT SCV.

Honorable Mention of 2000 The Cadets. I think it was the best company front dci has seen in a long time. I love that pause before it.