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I’m sure most posters will place Crown fourth (or lower) in the predictions thread. But I’ll be honest and say last season was significantly more enjoyable for me because I tuned all that stuff out for the most part. I can only speak for myself but obsessing over scores, placements and spreads kinda kills the fun.

I knew someone who marched with Garfield Cadets from 78 or 79 to 82. He went to school in Boston and we had a mutual friend. His story was not that different from those who marched in other corps who move up in placement. He loved the family atmosphere of when he first marched. He’s my major source of the miracle in 1980 where the threat of not finishing the season and certainly not making finals was real and then finding themselves in 10th. 81 things began to change. He struggled in 82. New instructors were brutal, volunteers and longtime members pushed out, and the atmosphere changed. He was a year or two older than me and I don’t recall if he aged out. He was always loyal to Cadets, never spoke about wild parties, and his comments only came when the discussion went to George Zingali and the influx of former 27th Lancers. Looking back at that time, it did seem that for many corps, the harder you worked, the harder you partied. For some, partying hard is why they didn’t make finals but that’s another story. Whether that happened with Cadets, I can’t say but whatever the corps, underage marching members, in the case of the young woman a high school student, with college age kids and adult instructors all at the same party is a recipe for disaster, especially when 1983 became 1984.

This was my thought based on the preview of the document so I could see. It only named the party “The Garfield Cadets”. After thinking about it, since the judge ruled CAE is the same organization, it would be a clean up tactic to remove parties that aren’t actually applicable at this sense. Could that somehow save the plaintiff money? With court costs or attorney fees by reducing the amount of parties? Not sure. I’m tempted to just pay for the service to go to all the docs and see.

Shout out to the '72 Blue Stars.

✅ She has a new job as an investigative reporter for USA Today with a much broader purview. https://www.usatoday.com/staff/2646173001/tricia-l-nadolny/

I fully support you paying for the ability to see all the documents. Let us know all the details. 😎

Congrats Cavaliers...you got a good one!

I am pleased lol! He just needs to tell the pit to lower the amps and we are good.

That 4th movement & then, Canto. Hard to rank my favorite shows, but 2010 was in my top three. May be number one. Thx! 💔🖤❤️

When I reached out to her, I got the impression she was not on the beat anymore. She redirected me to local news outlets.

After all these years it's finally coming out that a some of the top corps in the activity were more of a hot mess than we've all been led to believe. The two things that seemed well known with the Cadets but never discussed were GH being a tyrant and an activity wide "my way is the only way" bully and the money issues. I'm still not convinced about SCV having righted their ship, either.

1990’s The Crossmen and Pat Metheny- Specifically the album Still Life Talking. This gets constant play in iTunes for me. I hope at some point we can get a corps show doing a modern take on that album. Side Note: 1991’s drum break in Third Wind and how it was brought back in 98 with a deeper groove- Heaven. Love it to this day. 2015-2023 The Bluecoats and Pat Metheny- Thanks for putting some more great Metheny music into your shows! You have expanded my music library to go out and find the albums with Shaker Loops, Heat of the Day, and Finding and Believing. 1984- Madison Scouts - Waltz of Mushroom Hunters. (Buddy Rich, and that album cover from the Roar of 74!) - I would LOVE to hear that on the field again from Madison or even a take from another corps. Blue Devils - Hank Levy, (various pieces through the years)- There is Pegasus, and then there is the 1993 show music, which was really obscure stuff for me to find. 1990 and 1998 Madison Scouts - Remembrance, Paul Hart.- Hard to find on an album, but thankfully YouTube has it being played by a few ensembles. One of my favorite drum corps pieces ever played by the Scouts. And like others, these 5 are just to name a few. I am with a lot of people saying John Adams was introduced to them by drum corps. But I also want to say Frank Ticheli, John Mackey, and all of the great British Brass Band pieces we have been hearing lately.

I'm surprised no one has mentioned they are going to get 4th place yet.

I suspect it means there was no one (or no entity) whom the plaintiffs could serve with the suit. In any case, this event by itself has no bearing on any other aspect of the action.

I was there for 1990 at 15 years old. And yes, when they turned front field for that first hit in Gloria during the opener…. -It was as loud as your speakers at home or in your car tell you it is. -It was G goodness, and “ loud is good”. -It made me a drum corps fan. And when they went into the Windows drum solo of that show…. - The crowd just ate it up and threw babies - I decided I was going to march corps at some point. - It was, and is still, one the greatest drum solo/ segments in a show I have ever seen. I saw Star of Indiana do the same thing at that show. Man, I was lucky to be able to see those shows, that year, right at the prime time of first being introduced.

Great pick-up! I was really hoping Bloo would get him. Matt is a low brass guru … that should make Hook’em happy!

BEEF!

2010…..Beautiful interpretation of an incredible musical idea.

That’s some darn good bourbon. Pappy Van Winkle is hard to come by. I think you have to pick it up, though. https://go.rallyup.com/crownraffle/Campaign/Details?fbclid=IwAR1D9pPNEinZOUotFBStoXdPdqQMvvfLGus8KYn24uN1pNW4kX0WbjGinXo&fbclid=IwAR2YK3GaxfHhyD7CKTgs1VTvIRJO3JZz63cGi4UIrGHsHeVaOQfhZEZquCs_aem_ATIpetw59ZalQnXzTL-_jk5U8aIU-e1WECIbyROyLNmXsWuZNA6zRjnwzBknv2BgoM

gigantic list. dci is what really got me into instrumental/classical music as a young teen. I played in the band and enjoyed it and all, but after getting exposed to the following pieces and composers with dci, I became the kid listening to classical on my walkman/discman (yes, i'm old) while all my friends were listening to Nirvana and Kriss Kross. 91 Star: All of the Respighi stuff. This got me to backtrack and watch some older corps,, including Cadets 87. Ended up going to the library and checking out cassettes of both The Pines of Rome and Appalachian Spring. Ended up wearing out the entirely of both cassettes and my love for classical was born. 92/93 Cadets: The Holsinger stuff they used really got me into wind ensemble music for the first time, and I started to really embrace 6:30 AM rehearsals with my band and understand the stuff by John Barnes Chance, De Meij, Gillis, Nelson, etc that we were playing is really really really good. The only way to get recordings of wind ensemble stuff back in the early 90s was my school's music library where out band director would put all of his sample CD's from publishing houses. I "borrowed" them for a couple years. 😉 93 Star: I had heard Adagio for Strings by Barber, but this opened me to all of his other stuff. Same with Bartok. The fall of 93 is when I started playing for the first time in our local regional symphony and the first pieces I performed at a concert were Mahler 1 and we had a guest soloist do Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E Minor, so that was more. dci truly was really the catalyst for all of it for me though.

Oh the Blue Devils doing Tommy in 1990 was good too. Blue Devils were all about the jazz idiom then so it was a real departure and surprise for many, but i dug it.