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I had a hard time deciding, but finally went for Cavies over BD. I just didn't like their '05 show, but, yowza, it was close.

For several years Corpsreps ran an e-mail drop list. They said something about not having enough interest to do it anymore. Other than that, you just have to wait for snail or e-mail through the corps or whatch for the innumerable threads about who is going where.

A better question would be who has NOT had those dreams! I have occaionally woken myself when I sat up "at attention."

^0^ Been thinkin bout this recently! We are doing Handel's Solomon this semester in choir. It is written for two choirs - left & right. Early stereo! It has some lines that would be wonderful for corps. Most of the time it uses either echo or round effects. It would be effective with the drill having the same echo or round effect if the corps was large enough.

I just love this one of Taipei Yuehfu.

Cordinating the implementation and deciding which shows to have it implemented are two different things. Always loved this tradition. Saw it first in '90. Keep the stories coming.

Glad to have had you, hope to see ya again!

Yellow, Blue, or Green? /OT I can understand the reasoning for banning, but think it is better to ban giving association with corps, if that. We all sometimes accidently go to far, but we need to learn to follow the "if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all" rule. (Which has been said in another form already.)

Bàrd et Cosheeaght Bàrd - Scots - bard, poet et - French - and cosheeaght - Manx - walk, march, gait, promenade, procession (Closest I could find to what I was looking for) Imagine the fun on the bus after anouncers try this one!!! Seriously, though, I think you should either keep the current name or the new name should include either band or bard.

Been there, done that. Well it was a "Echoing Drum & Bugle Choir" (for Echoes DC). In Expressions, it was the director's name that was always mangeled. Thibideaux is pronounced (all short i) Ti - bi - dough. The only place they got it right was somewhere in Canada, but then the Cajuns come from displaced Acadians. The one that hung arround a couple weeks was Tie-by-do-ex. Got a clean bus, have you?

Bad instrument vs no instrument? Easy - send it. we have lots of kids who used school instruments before K b/c they couldn't afford the essitentials. This includs those, like flutes & clarinets, that are traditionally student owned. Many of those now without could never afford their own instruments. Some who owned them now have nothing so a new instrument is low on the list of what to spend money on. ALSO many salvigable instruments are without cases. I know of several which floated on top of the sludge. The case lineings & padding is unsalvigable, but the instrument could be cleaned & is useable. Imagine the damage that can occure from taking your trumpet on the bus with no case!

When you find it, please post the info here. Thx.

And I thought that was all the times running for the chow line.

Well said. As I said shortly after the storm, we will survive and choose to thrive! It needs to be included that our participants came back to us from as far as Florida and California. I don't remember where Nicky's (melloclone's) friend came from, but that was another state.Edit: fix typo

The MUD I was in during 94-95 was essentially a cross between the way the fantasy corps are now and plain ole chat rooms. CyberCorps "competed" with a combination of captions from live corps and member participation. Rehearsal (chat) was Thursday nights, with a static bbs system set up for communication the rest of the time. It was actually encouraged to "march" with something you would never really take on the field, hence my "playing" contra. Edit: We had blazingly bright yellow shirts someone made up so we could recognize each other at live shows.

As had been said, holding it is the best practice. The weights are helpful if only because it feels so much lighter w/o the 5 lbs when they're off. Another thing, but you have to be careful to not attempt it fast, just step slow & steady - stairs. March upstairs in poped (bell to the press box) back down in carry position. You are not just carrying the horn, you are continually lifting it higher. You do have to be aware of your heart rate, though, as it can get high fast soing this.

Sounds like a sweet deal, but I'll wait to form my final opinion. Rotation is NOT about not wanting to Indy so much as wanting to keep going to some of the places we currently have a decent working relationship with. I would rather rotation simply b/c once in a great while it comes to somewhere I can actually go for a week - TX, MS, & FL.

OK, obviously they never let their kids watch TV, even cartoons. Oh, wait, that's just gratuitous violence, not the devil. /sarcasm Having never seen the vid, I actually agree that there are scenes in the opera itself that are not appropriate for younger kids, BUT the Amazon descriptions make it plain that these vids were synopses scripted for kids. "It has been more than a quarter of a century since these programs were produced, and they still retain their charm." [Amazon] Come on, anything designed for kids 25 years ago rarely can go head to head with 2000's for things in the "kids watch but really shouldn't be exposed to" category!

Their Other One Take a look to the right of the vids & scroll down (from the first one): CAST: Heat Wave Drum & Bugle Corps (Orlando, FL) DATE: Saturday, March 20, 2004 LOCATION: Windermere (Florida) SPONSORED BY: Brown Associates Special thanks to all the Bahia Shrine and Heat Wave Alumni members, who also participated in this event!

Being from a pre-cell time, I the line for the pay phone. /sarcasm I can understand why a group would ban them in view of (1) the stated bills issue & (2) the possibility if it taking all of the member time. That said, I think they should be allowed w/ stated restrictions & severly restricted use time. It sounds that most of our kids have figured out when not to use them in corps settings. Time wise, say 1 meal a day, not the same one each day, & an hour on the bus after competition starting 1/2 an hour after pulling out. I say that time b/c when you first pull out is a major bonding moment. Well, it might not be anymore without retreat. That time is also early enough that most of the members have not crashed yet.

(The following statement does not contain a usage error.) I was listening to some CDs and thought about the fact that Celtic music generally has 2 speeds: reel fast & mournfully slow. What do a bucket of dirty water, a little farm, missing arms & legs, hair ribbons, and a duck have in common? They are all part of Pioneer's new show "Beware of the Pretty Colleen." Courtin' in the Kitchen Mick Maguire Ballad - A Nation Once Again & Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye Black Velvet Band Nell Flaherty's Drake (Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye is the melody used for When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again)

I don't think there is a corps out there that doesn't make up some prety horrible lyrics & jokes about themselves and their closest competitors. Sometimes humor is the only way we survived that one more time-ing. Please don't feel that (general) we think Cap Reg (of any year) was any worse - or better - than the rest of us. I, of course, can't speak for everyone, & every corps has someone to think badly of them, and often someone else to borg for them.

Totally OT Is that Derek from Louisiana who aged out w/ the Cadets (I think) @ '98? If so, tell Ego (Derek) that Gail says Hi! I'm glad to see he grew into his nickname ./OT

Canada and the infamous double 50. Staff set up the pit. Brass line up off them. Guard set up w/ the other 50. Battery started blind & was dependant on the guard to line them up during warm ups. To make it more interesting the reason the battery was blind was this huge prop we called the whale. It was venation blinds & 1 set of silks on a pvc pipe frame - on wheels. The wheels sometimes did not lock correctly, including that day, allowing it to move at random moments. We actually marched all of opener offset & did not come back together until we (brass) skipped the park & blow to line up. We had a show on a baseball field when we weren’t warned it was bb not football until we were lineing up to go on. (That show was always there & everyone but us just knew from experience.) Being @ 80% true rookies NONE of us had any clue how to compensate for the mounds. Interesting. pure improv OT That whale & its wheels - in Denver during rehearsal the guard started yelling behind us. It was a full run through & apparently at that moment everyone on the staff was concentrating on other sections b/c it took a good 3 phrases before ONE member of the staff realized that a good stiff wind was blowing the whale, literally, over a cliff and started running across the field to help catch it. A cliff that had a drop far enough that we did not realize until that moment that there was a busy road, including 18-wheelers, below it. Hey PageantryVisGuy, is that a quote of someone else or your saying in your sig? I love it. "I'm all for "pushing the envelope," but let's not get carried away and push it off a cliff..." /OT

I've been meaning to post. Got the bari Sat afternoon some time. Iis sooooooo nice to go back to 2v from v-piston. Thx.