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Gray3

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  • Your Drum Corps Experience
    1992 - Cavaliers
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    Cavaliers - Phantom Regiment - Santa Clara Vanguard
  • Your Favorite All Time Corps Performance (Any)
    Finals Encore performance - 1992
  • Your Favorite Drum Corps Season
    1988 - 1992
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    Male
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    Kennesaw, GA

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  1. While I do believe that the visual is not what it was last year, a 5-point spread seems a bit much.
  2. I saw Spirit, Glassmen, BAC, HNC & PR this past Monday - HNC hornline is pretty good. Not much range dynamically, but they can play loud. The arrangements work for them and the ending should bring the house down at Finals. I like Spirit. I thin kthey have a decent corps that might be getting slotted a bit. They sound pretty good up close and personal and can blow the house down with Seet Georgia Brown - still. Their "Live,, In COncert" show is done fairly well (I could do without the synthesizer) but the drill still needs to be ramped up to give the kids a chance to move up. PR - oh my... The visual is not done very well this year. Not much going on that would make someone think anything other than *I think I saw PR do this in the 90's.* Sounds good (if you like to hear toungues hanging out of the baritone's bell) but the visual design needs major improvement.
  3. Doing fairly well, Chris. Boxes around the house but dwindling. Wife still eneds a teaching job. Daughter Amalia is great - best part of coming home from work. I'm looking forward to seeing The Cavaliers' show in Atlanta, if I can swing the evening off from work. My sister and nephew have put their name in the hat to sell shirts for CPI during the show. Should be a good visit after my quick trip down to FWB to help put on the DCI show there on Monday. How's that for random thoughts and wanderings?
  4. I give credit where credit is due but, this is DCI Finals retreat. It is not the f'ing military. This is not really that "important" of an event. The Cavaliers have always had a relaxed style regarding the way they do things - from walking on to the field to being somewhat relaxed at retreat. We shared some candy in 1992 - does that mean that we were wrong or disrespectful? Who's to say? You may think it is the worst kind of disrespect imaginable. I don't. I guess we both win this one. If the staff of the drum corps has no issues, then why is this even a topic on DCP? All of these kids display class. Why does "everything" that they do have to be done the way "we used to do it" or "old school?" This is not "your" drum corps anymore - let the current staff and members determine their own retreat behavior. I guarantee that The Cavaliers were not "mocking" BD. The entire corps (and the CAC888 corps) applauded BD as they left the field on Friday night. The Cavaliers don't take many things about the activity as seriously as other corps do. Who really cares? I guess those that are opposed to something different at retreat could leave the stadium before scores are announced. I just don't see why folks would waste time criticizing (or praising, for that matter) what a corps does at retreat. It isn't about the retreat, especially at Finals. It is about the end of a long, hard journey that some will never get to experience again during their lives. Leave it at that and give up trying to find fault with every little thing that kids do. They get enough of that in their regular lives. Drum Corps is not regular life. Hell, I thought VK was ROTFLMAO funny when their DM's brought out folding chairs. Why can't we see more of that these days? Although, to be honest, I love the Troopers DM!!!! To each his (or her) own.
  5. I think the cleaning days give the kids more time to get comfortable with any changes being made to the shows. Learning and running through 10-15 new sets in the closer, and then performing them a few hours later can be difficult. The kids that get a day or two to "forget" the old drill and music and lock into the new stuff have a bit of an advantage, in my opinion.
  6. No pressure, huh? I missed the step-over in Crown's show -again - last night. How did it look? (My wife just doesn't get that I should not be bothered when I have the door closed and the sound is up...) I hope I can get my step size figured out before I kill someone in the guard...
  7. I am glad that this article has gotten a little bit more "airtime" here at DCP. Normally, I would not expect a mention of this type of positive message on the forum. Thanks, Vince, for letting the light shine on this article and getting more of the history of drum corps out there. Whether you marched one year or many, you should feel a strong connection to the history of this activity. It is amazing how strong an emotional connection marching members have for their corps
  8. Any word from folks at the show about changes to any of the shows? Do The Cavaliers have a new ending? Does Phantom murder more slaves? Did The Cadets really water down the narration? Is SCV really that far back in cleaning their show? Just curious...
  9. A great tribute to three great corps from a member of amother great corps. It's good to read stuff like that...
  10. The mind bender is a good analogy. I already think I'm nuts for getting out on the field again. However, all of this is so worth it. My wife even gets to be a groupie this time around.
  11. What do The Cavaliers call us? The Age Out Corps?
  12. I have to believe that my wife is giving way more rope than I deserve to march with the CAC. She is even willing to be a volunteer while we are up in IL and IN in August. I have not gotten the "bill" for all of this yet, but I am sure it will be significant. On another topic, I have some small "prizes" for the best - loose term with this group - golf group on August 5. I'll give them to you that morning.
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