Madera Dons

Hey, how about my back pasture here in the Madera Ranchos, Central CA. B) If I had known DCI was serious about coming west I could have offered my pasture for free. We could have brought in some bleachers from the local highschool, circled the field with the bus lights for evening performances and borrowed the Cavies ladders for the high shots. B) Oh well, since they probably won't come back for another 33 years we will have plenty of time to build a state of the art facility to host the event. And, possibly by then the Madera Dons can move up from a fantasy drum corps to a div I corps. But seriously folks, I have heard for years that many of the eastern div II/III corps just couldn't travel all the way to the west coast. To them I would suggest that they talk to corps like the Mandarins and the Pacific Crest as well as others to see how they can afford the trip east each year. They spend their funds wisely and if you check their schedules they stay in the west near home up until the last two weeks before they head east for a few shows and finals. I would expect that if the Rose Bowl can handle crowds of over 90,000 for the Rose Bowl game every year handling the considerabley smaller crowds for DCI should be a piece of cake. Granted, the roads into the bowl aren't super highways but the Bowl sets in between two major freeways and can handle parking for over 90,000 people. Thankyou DCI.

I will second what DCIDork said. I think that the only corps that I remember seeing all of their show was SCV, made my day as well as the guy next to me who marched with the SCV Cadets this year. In the beginning when they were showing parts of the shows that had performed earlier there was a feed break. We only got to see KK and probably not all of that. Someone from the theater came out and said if it continued we would get a refund. He then came back out later after about 14 feed breaks to say that we would all get two free tickets. He went on to say that if he were talking to a group watching a movie they would all have been gone by then. My guess was that no one had left and I had quit counting at 14 feed breaks. I'm guessing that there were 30 to 40 breaks. I was surprised at how good the crowd was considering. As said above they were entertaining during the feed breaks. I would rather have seen the full show than get the two free tickets.

I have a friend that has a pair of tickets for sale in Section 216. Let me know if you are interested. -- Neil