CHSnare

Have recently discovered this little guy. It may not be loud enough for a whole ensemble but has worked well for full battery/sectional rehearsals. http://www.behringer.com/EN/Products/EPA40.aspx

Used to be the best. Haven't been there in a while. Don't know if its still around.

Is this year the first year they are basically putting a limitation on those seats to only friends?

So the corps block seats are in the friends of DCI section though?

Yes, non-Friends. Sorry for the poor wording.

See, I was unaware of this. I did not know that you could be considered a friend for direct donation to a corp. I thought all the money had to go directly through DCI.

I took a look into what it comes to become a friend of DCI today out of curiosity's sake. Its quite a hefty cost to become a "friend". Now I have a simple question, will it work? Are regular fans going to show up to finals to see empty seats between the 40's because there aren't enough people willing to throw $1000+ at DCI or will the whole system pan out just the way DCI wants it? Please share your comments on this.

If I remember reading correctly from another thread, they lost all their WGI talent. This year SCV instated a rule that disallowed WGI participants from participation in the corp which explains why their center from last year, who marched Pulse this winter, is now at BD.

Maybe I need to change my major for a month or so.

Sounds like an amazing idea to me.

I wonder if its full retreat 2009 Finals style (Boom Boom Pow included), or actually a full retreat without the lame festivities that DCI stole from WGI.

The sad part is that the fan network is so much better of a deal. Of course it isn't live but I pay $60 (actually $30 since I split it with my brother) and I can watch shows the whole season. Maybe this is the audience they're targeting for the fan network, I don't know. I still wouldn't be able to watch finals though even if I weren't going to Indy.

Bummer, not a music ed major.

Seeing as DCI's fan base is made up of many students, college and high school, has it ever been thought of to give a student discount for any tickets? I'm a college student myself and I work all summer in order to pay for school during the fall and winter semesters. This year I will once again be making my yearly trip down to finals, but this year will be a little bit different. Seeing as the prices for any decent seat in Lucas Oil Stadium are $75+ dollars, I will not be going in to see the show this year. Instead I plan to head down and just watch the lot scene all day. I have also even considered going to Open Class Finals as it is much cheaper, and you get to see some pretty good shows. I'm disapointed that the prices were bumped up from last year which made finals much more affordable. So has this ever happened? Would it ever work? I think discounts to college students would be great. It doesn't even have to be that much. If the discount made the prices the same as last year I probably wouldn't mind paying for it, but for now $75 just seems like a lot of money for the value of seat you're getting.

I'm actually probably just going to be lot hopping World Class semi's and finals. Can't really afford the ticket. I was considering going to Open Class finals actually. I'll definitely think about it more now.