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Sooooo, how’s the SCV repair work going? Any updates from the leadership? Is there leadership? Is there a functional revamped BOD ? I’m sensing 2024 isn’t happening. Is there Bingo #2 (aka The Savior) happening? It has been very quiet.

IMO it is a terrible idea to punish a child for the sins of the parent. In this case IMO… It is up to the management of the places she is working to make sure the environment is safe and secure.

NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!! Reminder: "Stoned."

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Those were hard won victories. Decades of hard work went into them.

CrownLIVE tickets are now available for purchase https://get.crowntickets.com/eventperformances.asp?evt=783 Saturday, June 17, 2023 8:00 PM Spangler Stadium at Gardner Webb University Boiling Springs, NC

May your truck have the "must buy" item of the summer!

Allow me to also chime in here that even though I am not a musician in practice, I appreciate music that moves me. Music that does this comes from all of the music genres that I have listened to and that doesn't really omit any of them! This is why I naturally gravitated towards Phantom Regiment when I moved to Rockford and discovered/rediscovered Drum Corps with Phantom at the core of my Drum Corps world. I can go back many years and immediately enjoy pieces used in previous year shows even though I may not know much about them or their composers. The list of my favorites include Rollerball, The 1812 Overture, and since I had heard it played live for my first time hearing it: Elsa's. Phantom's music always moves me but I also appreciate good music played by other corps and will often go buy a shirt from a corps if I enjoyed their show (so glad I don't have to explain why there is a picture of me out there wearing an XtraordinarY shirt now...). As to seeing many of you getting excited about this year's repertoire here in this thread, I feel that I will not be disappointed with the music, as if that can ever happen. It's looking to be that I will have several chances to hear the show over the summer as I prepare to likely return to the souvie/merch driver position for this year.

👍🏽 A terminal degree is the highest level advanced degree awarded in a field of study. It's the level of degree needed to teach in most universities as a professor and go tenure-track. In the academic field of dance there are two, the MFA (for studio practice, 2-3 years) and PhD (for research, 3+ years.) I earned mine from one of the few universities in the world that maintains both tracks, just blocks away from UNT's excellent music program. I chose to become a professional dancer because I wanted to learn how to prevent the colorguard injuries and poor colorguard teaching practices I endured. If a person with a terminal degree in music were here arguing that poor musician technique was injuring members, this group would listen to them. Same thing here.

For the record she has a dance degree and danced professionally for many years, plus her extensive guard experience. I would say she's more qualified than the vast majority.

Staying O.T. : I grew up in North Jersey. Remember "Action Park " well. "Action Park , Fast Times ,Wild Rides , and the Untold Story Of America's Most Dangerous Amusement Park" . Great book.

Spent some time listening to perc sectionals last night. I'm really digging the writing.

@Chief Guns called it. And I wasn't crazy.

10-4! I too have done them before but it looks like an opportunity to drive a member coach again just wouldn't present itself this year... So, why not go back to another of my loves? I didn't choose the Souvie Life, the Souvie Life chose me.

The thing is, corps have been doing ST’s for a number of years now. But with varying lengths of ST’s and several winter camps, they still usually come out in the low 70’s at best. What may happen is a faster rise in scoring than usual. But I don’t expect a “longer” ST to get anyone a significantly higher score out of the gate.

Point taken.

I gotta respectfully disagree brother. No one is coming out scoring 82+ their first show. Felliniesque was like 74 out the gate, I think BD 2010 has the highest first show score at 76 (might be wrong on that.)

I don't think that's how this works.

Safe travels this summer RebelGTP. I did Regiment souvies for several summers. Long hours but it was worth it to meet all sorts of drum corps fans. Great people!

..."Where YOU control the ACTION!"

Well. Degree + reasonableness of the argument, which you satisfy both, will typically carry the day here. Then there’s the Juilliard grad who made that epic critique of the musicality of SCV 2018 that was just WILD in its claims. 🤣 I still lose it when that pops up from time to time because I’ll read it with fresh eyes and get to that line where he was saying there are NO discernible memorable melodies (or something like that) and the drop hit from My Body Is A Cage booms in my head in refutation.

What’s a terminal degree? Asks the Computer Science major who only arts experience was MB and DC

There have been comments that she should not be hired because of her father. That is what my comment was aimed at. Whether or not her technical skills are up to snuff I leave to others, as I am far from capable of knowing that.

Had a student in her mid-40s from NJ. I had just watched a documentary about (tr)Action Park & asked if she had been there. She said ‘Yes - broke my arm there once’. edit - Jersey Surf could build on last season’s Atlantic City show & do one based on Action Park. All kinds of potential.

Not sure how it’s more money but I guess if you consider inflation and the cost of absolutely everything going up, yeah it could be more. Sports can be cheaper if you’re playing pick up basketball or sandlot baseball but it’s very possible it isn’t much less if it’s at an equivalent level. How much is AAU basketball? Including camps, travel, etc. How about baseball? Good gosh even ballet costs as much. My daughter did a 5 week intensive for $5,000, years ago and got a lot less out of that than kids get out of drum corps.

yep. and to the best of my memory i saw 7 of them. in fact i saw 2 different endings in 24 hours

oh no....i went there mostly willingly last summer before then. i say mostly because i finally got to Galaxys Edge, met Vader, drank at the cantina and due to heat i puked on the Magic Kingdom. I lived every 6 year olds dream!

The Bloo Devils

JD has a huge musical footprint, within and outside of Drum Corps. His work with the Boston Brass is stellar, for example. For the first Tour of Champions in '04, he composed an opening fanfare and arranged the National Anthem for 150 trumpets, the combined sections of Phantom, Cavaliers, Vanguard, Blue Devils, Madison and Cadets: https://www.dci.org/news/the-tour-of-champions-an-faq I was honored to be asked to arrange the show's finale of Sing, Sing, Sing, but JD, who was teaching the combined 400+ brass, had my back. He called from the camp and said, "Hey, this is great. Eighty contras on the opening vamp from the front sideline! But would you mind if I tweaked the baritone parts just a little?" "H*ll no", says I, "Tweak away". He did, and it rocked. Look, if Leonard Bernstein wants to fix the trombone part, what would you do?

I said this last year. Just because they went coed didn't mean they had to lose the Madison style. I'm sure a lot of the females who joined Madison were wanting to perform that style. But last year just really wasn't it.

2023 Phantom Regiment - Exogenesis - Show Repertoire: Isolated System by Muse Supremacy by Muse As If A Voice Were In Them by Oliver Waespi to wALk Or ruN in wEst harlem by Andy Ahiko Piano Concerto No. 2 by Sergei Rachmaninoff For I Have Fought the Good Fight by Stephen Melillo

Did you take any Viagra last night?

Can we get through 23 first?

And they're doing Batman. Which would make the tagline of the show "Atlas Rising: Dawn of Justice." 😏

Heard some recordings of PR at their camp this weekend. They sound fantastic. I forsee them jumping in brass placements. They have a really good hornline over there and the guys in the next few spots above them need to be watching their backs. Havent heard anything about show design or visual, which imo is their weak link But with a brass like that, who cares. Super excited to see how much better it gets cause its already amazing

CONGRATULATIONS! Mr. David Glyde. He's been an incredible contributor to Blue Devils' success.

This is the way.

i'm sorry where on the sheets or rule book does it say props are required? the key of brass used isn't in the recap, so why isn't Phantom switching back to G? or using mylar heads on the snares instead of kevlar. the activity has always had monkey see monkey do...and at times Phantom has been the monkey doing, and at times seeing. quick...what corps truly mastered story telling and role playing....soon to be 15 years ago? Now how many corps do role playing and story telling? 2008 Phantom Regiment.

I predict with the recent hires (and questionable moves of others) that Phantom will be top six next year.

Phantom Regiment presents..."Two Thousand and Twenty Trees."

I don't know him. Never claimed to. But I know enough to know she >> him

What are you trying to tell us Mr. Cawthorne? You captured this season brilliantly and many people thank you.

Enjoy!

I wonder if Scott L. is now having the final laugh?

Loved Phantom this year. So pretty. Only thing I would improve upon is the death toll, it's called Phantom Regiment not Alive People Regiment

Shhhhhh! Phrygia wasn’t supposed to know about Varinia, but wait! Maybe she did….

Now that I think about it…the body count was 4. Spartacus kills one of his fellow slaves, next up Varinia Spartacus’ main squeeze, then Spartacus is offed, and finally the Will Pitts character get’s the shaft. But if you count the number of people in the audience who were slain by the performance at finals…that number goes waaaaay up.

Add Robert Cawthorn to the list of staff that needs to stay with the Regiment for years to come!

My sister got me interested in Drum Corps. I started attending parades and so forth, while she marched with the Blue Angels Drum and Bell Corps from San Lorenzo, Ca., from the time I was 9, and thru my 13th year of my life. The one thing that always intrigued me were the tenors. From then on, I wanted to be in DC. I would take my set of sticks and CONSTANTLY play along with the album recording from Combine West '71. (Cavaliers show) God I loved SCV back then. In 1971, I had asked my sister to see if I could join the Blue Angels, I had the "fever" bigtime by then, but she was advised at the time, that I was not good enough to be a member of the Corps. That's cool, no worries....heh. Finally, her and I decided to join the Royalaires Drum and Bugle Corps (where I met Scott Johnson), from close by San Leandro, Ca. I auditioned, and was accepted to play bass in the drumline. Sis and I remained with the Royalaires until 1974, when the corps merged with the Stockton Commodores, to form the Royal Commodores, which lasted one season. Then came the turning point in our DC lives...........1975. She had always adored the Vanguard, as did I, but by then, I had grown an admiration for the Blue Devils jazz sound. So off I went to Concord, and she to Santa Clara. Then the fun began, she with her VERY conservative Vanguard, and me with the swashbuckling Blue Devils. SCV had just come off a DCI Champoinship year, and the Devils had just made a jump from 24th in '73 to 9th in '74. I always liked an underdog. :P Drum Corps from that point on was an interesting topic in our house, but Mom and Dad always stayed neutral, and did what most parents would do in that case, cheer for BOTH sides! In '75, SCV ended up in 2nd, and we (Blue Devils) in 3rd (we had beat SCV quite a few times throughout the year, including the World Open, and CYO Nationals leading up to Finals week), so no "blood" had been spilled.........yet. :P Then came 1976, the year that gave me SO much joy, yet so much sorrow also. For those of you who don't know, the 1976 Blue Devils dominated DCI in a way that no other had EVER done, as we swept all captions, and won by 2 FULL POINTS! What I will remember most about 1976, was the announcer in Philly......... "in 2nd place, with a score of nine zero, point seven zero........................the Madison Scouts!" - The world stopped for me and I'm sure the rest of us in the corps for a few moments. We all jumped, hugged, kissed (heh), threw our shakos in the air, ran around like little kids. Pure pandomonium had broken out. I can vividly remember the euphoria that was going through my body at that moment. At that particular retreat at finals, we were staged between the Scouts and SCV. At a time that I thought NOTHING could change what I was feeling, something did. As I made my way around the corps to congratulate my co-members, I looked towards the Vanguard, and what I saw, made the title seem meaningless. - My sister had been in DC since 1967. - She was my hero for twirling her baton, while the drummers drummed, and the bell players played, I LOVED watching them. - She had brought me to the activity that really gave me some direction and MUCH joy in my young life. - She tried desperately to get me into Blue Angels. - She brought me along to join the Royalaires. - SHE looked out for her little brother. What I saw that night in Philly, STILL chokes me up to this day. I saw my sister, standing at attention in the proud Vanguard traditon, her knee's buckling, overcome with emotion, trying to keep from breaking down, heart broken, exhausted, but she dug deep inside, and showed the pride that SHE had taught me. - In the span of 2 or 3 minutes, Time stood still for me again. Everything that happened in 1976, the hard work, the sweat, the thousands of hours of practice, meant absolutely NOTHING to me. The only thing I could focus on was my sister, and the pain that she had to be feeling that night. After the years of marching she had experienced, and was gracious enough to let her little brother "tag along", it was I who had just gone to the pinnacle of Drum Corps. I felt like someone had just ripped my heart out. It was not allowed to break the SCV ranks, especially at Nationals, or break any corps rank in general. I felt SO helpless, this was not a casual acquaintance that I was looking at in pain, this was my own flesh and blood, my sister. If I could have changed uniforms with her at that moment, I would have....afterall, SHE deserved it more than I did. I wanted SO bad to go over to her and hug her, tell her that they had given it all they could, that I loved her for what she had given me the opportunity to accomplish in DC. But I couldn't. Retreat had ended, SCV left the field, and my sis and I didn't see each other until we came home to Cali. I learned something that night in Philly, that heart was more important than winning. That giving was more important than receiving. My sister gave so many things to me in life, and in Drum Corps, including the championship in 1976. So I will take this opportunity to say........... Thank you sis, for on the night of August 21, 1976......it was you who was the champion on the field.

…7 years later…