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Just to clarify...The Cadets at present still operate under the YEA! umbrella. We will be an independent non profit organization beginning on March 31, with a full board of directors as required by the government. Please please rest assured that we know what we are doing. If you have serious questions or concerns about this then please email me at bmartin@cadets.org. As the Development Director i can assure you that you can make a donation to The Cadets today or after March 31 and everything will be fine. Brad Martin Development and Marketing Manager The Cadets

Bought Detroit and St. Louis today. First row 50 baybee.

Your comments are interesting. I live outside of Boston and have attended local shows for years. Fifteen, twenty years ago if you talked with young people who had dreams of marching in WC, it was Cadets. After 2010, you started hearing more about Crown and Bloo. Now Boston Crusaders is in the mix. Cadets not having satellite camps as frequently or as early as other corps was probably not wise, but to be fair they are not the first and won’t be the last organization not to read the signs of the times. The key is that the new folks on board know both the tradition of the Cadets and the changing landscape, or perhaps better put the new landscape. You would also need folks who understand that the rehearsal tactics of the past can’t be used today due to the new health and wellness policies. Personally, I think some of the people on board have more than an understanding of what needs to be done, but it takes time to create a new culture. Too many people thought being rid of GH would solve all the problems, but his departure was only the beginning of the solution.

It's a tradition. Somebody has to say that or it's not Drum Corps and everything will just go to pot. I mean take that away and the next thing you know there'll be MMs in strange spandex outfits running around, using sousaphones, trombones, and God knows what else.

I still like BD's re:Rite of Spring better that year.

Do the Eagles perform only half their show for the first month or nah?

And what do you get with those? Deafened by the sound? LOL

I remember a time when it was cool at some concerts to spit and hit the lead singer.

My apologies, it was 70 rookies in the corps (out of 135). Hornline was the standard (of the time) 64, I think 20 trumpets, 12 mellos, 22 baritones (no euphs) and 10 tubas. Within a few of that, for sure. To illustrate my point about the inexperience of the corps (and stackedness of 2005); there were 7/10 tuba vets in 2005, 2/10 in 2006.

I didn’t realize you used to do the electronics hook up work for the Crossmen on semifinals night!

Some were sung on the bus...some cannot be posted here.

The Cadets don't have a talent problem that a few well designed shows can't fix.

I am the guy that says "HANG ON! WE NEED 5 MINUTES! JUST 5 MORE MINUTES!" And then the penalties roll in

yeah Star dirty was still better than everyone else.

You know what was healthy? Spartacus.

Yeah, that was healthy.

So Very Hard to Go.

McArthur Park Madison 1975 Channel One Suite BD 1976 Don't think there is anything more B@da$$ than those

MacArthurs Park, 1975 Madison! For that matter, many Scouts hits during this era. Some of the bugle soloists were unbelievable.

True. DCI should offer an insurance policy for shows that get cancelled. Yes, corps need the money from ticket sales but I hate to lose the cost of a ticket when the show is threatened by bad weather. Especially when contemplating a long drive to an out of town show site.

Too late.

I'll be in Miami for the Detroit show. Will have to find a theater there.

38th row, center section for Detroit here.

92 without a doubt for me. That was the year I really learned about drum and bugle corps. PBS was showing the top 6 live and I recorded it and watched live. Little did I know how many times I would be watching that tape and geeking out over every single corps. I was officially a DCI fan for life after that season. So perhaps I'm a bit biased on the '92 show since I've seen it so many more times than '91. I liked '91 but really loved the intensity of the '92 show and felt it was a lot more entertaining. That closer was absolutely on fire.

Pretty sure it was 64?

Speaking of Guardsmen, how about Tiger of San Pedro.

What is Hip? BD '75...the birth of the BD jazz era. Another crowd favorite of mine- '79 North Star and the Beach Boys. AND still another fave close to home. '79 Guardsmen Henry V.

Yes - we need to make the cadets negativity dual pronged. All it achieved is people discussing it here vs there. But well done!

>40 pages of comments from people that didn't want to read >200 pages of comments is the reason for this separate thread.

Even if 2013 Crown wasn't the most entertaining show for me to watch (why do they keep counting in high pitched voices?), I gotta admit that horn line has gotta be in Top 5 Of All Time. (Can be said about many Crown or Blue Devils shows of the last nine or so years.) I guess the counting in 2013 is probably a Glass thing too, huh? I'm not sure I like this guy.

... Also, it's not like the 80s/90s anymore. A lot of corps know how to find and maximize talent year after year, partially because of staff from Cadets. It's not just BD and Cadets and Cavaliers... it's BD and Cavaliers plus SCV and Crown and Bluecoats and Boston and Cavaliers and Blue Knights... Some of those old Cadets shows - most of them - you had to be real fanatics to work that hard and endure that much pain. The Hop cult helped that, but as he became increasingly unmoored from reality and senile.... Meanwhile, the response was to double down: Work harder, march faster. One hour of floor time. 7:30am wake-up. Not executing? Circle drill at 192 bpm. Rehearse in the rain until 11pm on the night before prelims. And who wants to endure that for Jethro Tull and Cancer and Stoned and Little Geoffrey and whatever 2017 was (one of the weirdest shows ever)? More to my original point, lots of corps have had satellite camps in Florida and Texas and Indiana etc. for years and years; Cadets efforts in this area were inconsistent at best. The year I marched there was a talk of an Atlanta camp that coming fall and they acted like it was an amazing new idea.

gotta have kids that can do it. Plus, especially BITD, Cadets played the long game. a loss in July mean nothing. finals night was the goal. examples: 85, 87, 90, 93 and 11

het at least no one yells Baba Booey!

The brass was unworldly.

I am grateful for the compliments but I have to say, watch the credits at the end of the last corps on either disc and know that list of people, especially director Jeff Clark and audio engineers Jamie Vanadia & Cory Coken deserve the lion’s share of the credit. As drum corps fans, we are so lucky that so many gifted people work on this production every year. And, if you didn’t watch the credits last year, we did a little director’s track from the 2018 Bluecoats, just for fun. But again, thanks!

That was SCV right after Candide in 74. Smh

Did he #### in your Cheerios in the 80s???

Remember “Einstein on the Beach” is an opera. Love is never healthy in opera, or at least is rarely healthy in opera. Opera is filled with jealousy, murder, suicide, twisted love triangles and in one case, you might even be able to say a love hexagon! We cheered Turandot and Calaf finding love ❤️ in Phantom’s great production in 2012 even though it started with the poor Prince of Persia have it his head chopped off and impaled because he could not guess the answer to a riddle. We also can’t forget the father’s servant Liu who was killed because she refused to reveal Calaf’s name. Crown portraying two young lovers on a park bench may have been gooey, but at least everyone was alive at the end, and in the world of opera, that’s healthy.😎

Thanks Brad - love the confidence. Keep rolling and many of us will UP our donations - I plan to.

I feel so much better when people say things like this LOL. Every time Britt asks says something like "I was negative 1 years old when you started college," I don't know whether to feel old or dirty...or both LOL.

Yup. I can think of at least one corps that has fit that mold the past couple seasons... particularly drums April was famous for picking folks for Cadets guard that just worked hard and showed promise - like the one who kept trying, practiced during breaks and then stayed after camp to help put all the equipment away.

Cadets were never the most talented corps. Many people have rings with a maroon stone that would have been cut elsewhere

What comes with that? I booked tix for Boston’s show at Boston College (former location of CYO Nationals) They were $80 each, VIP package; VIP parking in garage, high stadium center seats (padded), early entry, rehearsal, early concessions and doubles. Figured it’s worth it and it is part of their 80th anniversary celebration weekend. I think the next level down, which is still excellent seating goes for $50 each.

BTW..On the east coast the cry was "DAZE ALWAYS READY'..a little combination of Brooklynese and southern twang'' ..lol ..peace

I would give good money for someone to scream "Why you don't you just go HOME? That's your HOME! Are you too good for your HOME? ANSWER ME!” when someone misses a close putt though.

I told BigW and some of the other folks on the DCA side a few years back that I was going to try to convince Britt to scream it during SOA's intro in Atlanta in 2018. It was her first drum corps show and I thought it would be funny. Unfortunately, they serve beer at the stadium literally every 22.5 feet so getting her to do anything other then comment loudly on random things like props was nearly impossible. I think Waliman is probably exactly right. Just because it made me laugh to read this post, here are some of the "first DCI experience" questions that I got that year (taken from my post in '18): Things my girlfriend said to me at DCI South this year (her first DCI show) that made me laugh: "You keep saying things like 'balls clean' and 'p**s clean.' None of those sound clean to me. Why don't all you drum people say like...'Brita Clean' or something?" "Why do they keep saying "dut, dut, dut?" (She then proceeded to say dut, dut, dut very loudly while jutting her head forward like a rooster clucking) "It's summer and all of these people are wearing jackets. Like, who wears a jacket in the summer? Wait a minute...you're wearing a jacket too! What the h**l man?!?!" (referring to corps jackets) "I found my favorite corps thingy!! They're from Denver and I'm from Denver! I'm buying all of their souvies on your debit card. I hope they win." (This is before she had even heard BK play) "They serve beer at this stadium?!?! How do I not know about this drum corps thing?" "I played clarinet in high school....this seems a little more....advanced." "So an entire corps was in the bathroom changing....." "I just noticed that all of you drum people look like your hands got run over by a truck. What's up with that?" "So many unitards.....just so many unitards..."

That song makes some of us cry. In a good way, though snif.

I too loved 27th and “Danny Boy.” I also loved BAC’s Coronation March from “La Prophete” and North Star’s Beach Boys medley was fun. However, I am a huge classical music and opera buff, and I can recall seeing Phantom Regiment at CYO Nationals in 1977 and the next day went to Barnes and Noble at Downtown Crossing in Boston and buying LP’s of Dvorak’s Symphony #9 and Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto. There was a label Sine Qua Non that featured recordings from lesser known orchestras in Europe and sold for 1.99 per LP. Later I would add Grieg, Wagner overtures, Stravinsky, and Saint Sean’s Symphony #3 to my collection.

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