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And now I'm hungry and the only one of those 3 we have is Five Guys, so Five Guys it is. Love their fries. Okay, I'm going right now.

Going from memory, VK was paying staff members as "independent contractors" as opposed to "employees". That provided a number of tax benefits to all parties. The IRS determined that "if it walks like a duck ... " and ruled the staff in question were "employees". That resulted in all kinds of fees, penalties, etc.

We're just not that cultured here, unfortunately.

East coast guy googled: AB5 is CA law spelling out difference between an independent contractor and an employee. Didn’t dig further as probably over my head (hey I studied IT and not legal 🥵).

An excellent Drum Corps Coffee Shop interview with Paul Rennick that details some of the happenings in his own words. It also addresses how the Rennicks have worked with Troopers and how that could or could not change this year (hint, don't expect a huge change).

The IRS will force you to consider a contract a regular W-2 employee based on the following types of considerations. There are probably others, and more detailed, but this is the idea. How specific their job duties are. The more specific the better. Focus on a project, or specific deliverable How long they are continuously contracted. They should be under contract only for the part of the year they perform the work. How long they perform the same duties. They should have separate contracts for separate job roles, to be safe. Rule of thumb is that each contract should not be as long as a year If they act under the direction of the corporation, as if they were an actual W-2 employee. They need to be independent Most corps staff are contractors, and most corps admin are W-2 employees for this reason. If you're paying your corps director, or full-time office people, or bingo workers as contractors you're going to run into trouble.

Chocolatiers ran it til the early 80's, then the Hershey legion and Lower Dauphin boosters ran it til Five Star Brass took over around 84 or 85. 04 was the last one...05 was the year Herco bailed, and the lawsuit and court case ( which I attended.) YEA ran a show there a time or 2 also. i believe it was 2000 with no show due to the turf being put in. 96 was all DCA, 97 was all DCI..in DCE championships. for the first few years 5 star ran it, it was DCA with a DCI corps or 2 in exhibition til it became both. there may have been other years it was just DCI too...pretty sure 89 was Westshore in exhibition and all DCI corps. TOB has had championships there since 09, and Cavalcade of Bands all but a few years since the late 70's. USBands ran some stuff there too. the stories that parking lot could tell......

Irony is I posted about Hershey corps show losing the stadium to a pop concert… it was part of the the Destinys Child reunion tour. 😱

your work was never the issue. Now your wardrobe.....

Besides the CA. AB5 worker laws, corps and their employees (W-2 and IC employees) nowadays may be liable to pay state taxes for work performed in certain states (NY for one) aka. out of state athlete/performer income tax. Some states also have sales tax payments for items sold at souvie booths within their state (MA/RI).

Way back when Pride of Cincinnati was a drum corps, they were running two bingos under one license. They had to shut one down. That’s a no no.

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That's from the classier side of the family. This side goes to Dollar General barefoot.

Sort of like Phantom’ DM last season. But different.

We were ahead of our time in 04. 😉

Followed by "Oh, they're still in line to get in....we're fine."

There's a lot of hair flippin' booty shakin' going on in this thread. Reminds me of some bars I used to hang.....well, nevermind. Cover your eyes, @Hook'emCavies

In 2004 I was able to attend combined DCA/DCI show in Hershey PA. I recall CorpsVets, Cabs, Bucs, Brigs, as well as Cascades, Capitol Regiment, Crossmen, Madison, BD & SCV (featuring DCP's own Scheherazadesghost), with USMC D&BC as an exhibition. One of the top-5 shows I have attended.

Ya get what ya pay for… 🥵

i think it's great. we used to have many shows in the east that had both DCA and DCi corps in it.

While I'm decidedly not getting my hopes TOO high until I hear something for myself, it's refreshing to hear something like this come out of a Cadets camp for the first time (for me) in a few years.

All I’ll say is it’s new pieces to the corps, more modern (in a competitive sense), but still true to the corps identity. I love it, it feels like the corps making the right steps forward without just selling out to what others have been doing lately.

Maybe they called Enron

People who say G bugles can’t play in tune never heard Argonne.

That and the other bingo game they weren’t reporting.