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This actually made me laugh out loud! Oh, the good old days. VK had some old buses from the late 50's? One was called Silver sides and once inside you felt like you were headed toward a dark goth underworld

Are you thinking the tympani player in 1982? As far as I know, no it is not the same person. In fact "this I believe" lol his brother was drum major of Cadets that same year.

37, favorite was 1982. Love Montreal

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Troopers guard numbers, OUCH!

Back in my days marching, on free days too!😂

I can never listen to 83 enough! One of my favorite shows!

Sun is making it back out, most of the clouds moving northeast of the area, but quite a bit of thunder lurking.

There was a corps just rehearsing in the stadium now. PA announcement in the stadium to clear the field for lightning and hail headed this way. Pretty dark clouds, but plenty of time for this to pass. Corps was told to seek shelter on the concourse.

Since we don't have Brooklyn's to hang out at anymore, found a decent pub a few blocks west of the CSU canvas stadium. Mo Jeauxs at 820 city Park avenue. I'm positive the Swifties are blowing the socks off of the Brooklyn's staff near Mile High right about now.

I got a feeling they won't have these issues when Motley Crue, Def Leppard, Poison and Joan Jett are here Tuesday night.

I waited 10 minutes in line at the most. Folks saw the long line on the NE corner and just got in it. I walked on the opposite side of the street along the post office and saw nine gates and 2- 3 of them had less than 20 people in line. And this was near 545pm. If I recall in 2009 or 12, the souvie stands were placed in either the area behind the north end zone (same or a lower level ) or way up on a higher level. That year, fans went into the main gates near where sound sport was being held on Saturday. Plus, I saw a number of elderly fans needing and struggling to walk up the various group of stairs from the east entrance to the west side. My other observation was for the entire three days, there were no concession stands open from the east entrance until they got past the marketplace. I had numerous folks stop to ask me where I got my drink from. The lines in the Wynn club were really long and then by Friday and Saturday, other concessions had opened up past the main west area but closer to the performer's entrance from the lots. But this was in a location where probably 60-70% of fans would not walk to in order to enter their respective tunnel. A poorly executed plan by DCI and LOS higher ups.

Don't forget Brass Angels, the all female theater group made up of mostly drum corps gals who were taught by mostly drum corps staff members and toured Japan in 2008.

Social distancing makes riding a bus, rehearsing on a field, standing in the chow line and sleeping on a gym floor impossible

Plaintiff mentioned has been a long time volunteer and driver for various corps i.e. BK, BD, Troopers among others. He also marched in the 70's with the USAF drum and bugle corps. When I didn't see him or hear of his whereabouts this summer, some of his closest friends only heard he was taking the summer off. Get well Tony.

I had a feeling something was up when there wasn't any announced audition camps this far into the off season. I spent one season volunteering with them from far away. So sad to hear this

I recall those bus drivers on 2014 and they were a strange group of older men. One thing was for sure. They had no knowledge of anything related to drum corps or how the tour played out over the summer. Two of them approached me asking if they requested hotel rooms instead of sleeping at the school and getting money for "real" meals instead of eating with the corps, if that would be given to them. I told them unless it's your contract, I doubt it. One of them (brass bus?) made it a point to turn down the member's hype music on the way to a show and would play country music just to #### them off. Not the crime of the century but just stupid things like that. As for nearly falling asleep at the wheel, I recall one of the drivers (probably the brass bus) as we arrived in Cheyenne about 6am from Ogden waiting to get the all go to unload and settle in, I walked over to his bus to give him a message and there he was passed out on the steering wheel not five minutes from when we pulled in. That scared the living S&*t out of me thinking he barely made it to the school. On another note two years later I was friended by a gal that I met on a free day in 2014 who was the older sister of a then current member. They both found me somehow and the gal revealed to me her younger sister had decide to quit drum corps because of MS's comments and leering towards her. She still had many years under her belt left to march and I have not seen her with any other corps since. This would be her age out year in 2019. At the time, the two gals thought they didn't have enough if any evidence to file a complaint. One of the sad stories that comes out of this mess.

I'm not sure if this was the start of all this or just a part of a bigger issue, but there was an incident in Denver with one particular member and the parents of the member who couldn't get either a straight answer or a quick response. Now if this lack of communication was being blamed at the corps director ( who may not have been on tour at the time) or someone else who was in charge of the staff in his absence, I couldn't tell you. But I know MQ fairly well and I can't believe he would ignore a situation or conflict on purpose

Joel Alleyene and the late Dan Veerhusen were both great. I met Dan a number of times. I last saw him in the press box in 06 with the alumni corps. He remembered me from our days in 79 and 80. I'd also like to mention Milt Allen of the Sky Ryders, Bret Mascaro of the Crossmen and Jim Jordan of the Bridgemen.

I was up to 600+ shirts twelve years ago. No idea what that number is now. Only place I spent more on souvies was the Masters in Augusta a year ago. 2 grand in one day.

This reminds me of attending a show many years ago and afterwards, GH and some of his staff were in a local bar. A man came up to GH screaming. accusing and wanting to fight him over these same types of antics with his daughter and a couple of staff members intervened and had the man removed for creating a scene. This is a sad day in DCI's history.

Spent a week in Ohio doing all of the HOF events, the Rock and Roll Museum and the Indians-Yankees game. My last event was the show last night. Wow, that place was packed especially at the main entrance and at the souvenir stands. Being near the top of the stadium, I had great views and what seemed like great sound though I wonder how much the speakers and the roof might have contributed to keeping the volume inside the stadium. I was really impressed with Boston since seeing them in June and the Cadets and Cavaliers both grew on me since the start of the season as well. My brother attended a show with me for the first time in probably 30 years and he described the shows now being more of a Cirque du Soleil feel with the props and dancing and story lines. He didn't look at it in a bad way just different from when I marched and was surprised how professional every show looked. He did ask though why there were so many mics and relayed to me how that could be judged fairly unless everyone is using the exact same equipment and parameters of the electronics. He did ask if DCI would have a best sound man award which made me chuckle. A great night of drum corps, but my only concern was it took forever to get to the top rows of the stadium and I didn't dare leave at intermission. I didn't want to miss anybody. Maybe the HOF stadium in Canton is a better choice in the future. No Indy for me this year as this week and the Masters in April ran me into five figures.

I found out the band I was referring to was Jackson HS, 250 strong.

Plenty of parking in the east lot as of 5:10 pm.