FrankBeMe

Neither are all UFOs flying saucers.

May you spend eternity listening to a constant loop of "Ice Castles"

One difference is that their acoustic horns are amped, corps' hornlines and batteries aren't..yet. So this is a moot point. So...enlarge the corps to 150 so they can have 74 horns or so to try to out volume the pit...and sound louder than multi key horns allow, which will make modern hornlines as loud as a 30 person hornline on G's.

Thanks for the info...I will check that out! Who did he march with?

Or maybe that the more electronic crap you put out there, the more chance is that it will all explode one day and take out an entire pit.

Actually no. Never heard of either one.

One problem....for him, for example, to be used in marketing....wouldn't a whole lot more people than the Broadway crowd have to know who he is?

A lot of band directors in the 60s and 70s hated drum corps...many wouldn't allow their students to join one.

Lady GaGa is female??????

Actually...I marched one VFW nationals--in 1972. Our tymps were carried by the biggest guys in the drumline...didn't really matter how well they played. I remember one or two corps carrying their tymps with one sling. Not healthy! And our rifle guys used real rifles...13 pounders and did things that kids today can't begin to do with their two pound fake, wuss rifles. And this "dino" loved power steering from the beginning..and A/C and all the new fangled gadgets that have cropped up in the last forty years. However, OnStar and GPS terrify me.

But that doesn't count because it's shhh sr corps

Love it!!! Who knew Kenny G had humor??

I marched drum corps before I did marching band. I thought marching band was ridiculous. Looking back...it was. Now? U of Wisconsin marching band for example--talk about loud and crass and out of tune (which I thought was impossible with non-G instruments). And then there's the white clarinets....

Plexiglass under the keyboards was enough to be able to hear them...although even before that they could be heard. Obviously, new people today already have massive hearing loss from listening to heavy metal and rap crap in their cranked up iPods or they'd be able to hear things well enough and realize that amps aren't needed. hmmm is he serious or ?????

Yep I know this is difficult to grasp to some people (not you Jeff!)...but it is 100% likely that every corps in existence today will fold. It will be the Bruckner crowd wondering how this could happen with everyone finally playing in tune and the other crowd telling the Bruckner crowd--told ya so!

Not to mention that crappy mellophone soloist they had! (Actually, I thought they had a better horn line than Madison-who won high horns-at finals that year.) What is the problem now? More things to do and less money to do it with.

I got to meet Dick the Bruiser after he beat the crap out of Ken Patera in St.Louis and won the Missouri state title. Up close, he looked like he could be the crap out of anyone....he was an ex-Packer too!

I'm FB friends with Nikita Koloff...so there!

I thought it was because there were less letters in the alphabet back then

I thought it was because of all the good press I gave you guys in DCW that year! You all deserved to be in. During the season, I stopped by your rehearsal in Sun Prairie. Gregg told me to come with him...he said he wanted me to hear something. So we went over to the horn line circle and plopped ourselves down and listened to one of your warm up things that just got louder and louder and louder. Gregg had the biggest grin on his face and told me something to the effect that we (Colts, not me) built that! It was great!!

Would they even know what one is? I was in quite a few while I was stationed in Germany. We did them in Germany, Netherlands, France and Denmark. All of them were awesome! One of the best closings of a tattoo, I can't remember which one it was, but it was a cornet player from a British army band playing whatever the Brits equal to Taps is. I have never heard one soloist fill an entire stadium with such clarity, tone and volume before or since. We were all jaw dropped and so was the crowd. Their band people at the time were all trained at the Royal Academy of Music in London.

Yep, you got me pegged. But, seeing how far downhill they've gone, they've failed miserably in whatever they were trying to do. The days of "7," "Evil,""ham sandwiches" and being Keanu Reeves wannabes are over.

Yes. These guys are awesome!

That's the biggie. We're experiencing high inflation in food and gas right now. Many experts are predicting gas to be close to $5 a gallon sometime this summer. The price of food is and will continue going up as gas prices go up. It's not rosy.

Hearing loss should be a big concern, especially with indoor venues. While in an army band in Germany, medical people came to our rehearsal hall during rehearsal to check decibel levels. They said we were louder than a 747 taking off and pretty much told us to wear ear plugs while playing--which just doesn't work. But I'd be interested in knowing how this project works in other areas like knee injuries and other effects on feet and legs from marching (I had heel spurs really bad after my first year with Kilties). I wonder too if there's been any research about skin cancer and former drum corps members and if that's a concern or not.