sday88

Any chance I could get pictures of the Randall May tenor carrier?

I stopped reading here, and I'm not about to read the rest of the 21 pages. This is the problem. "... mixing for the judges..."?

Here's a picture of Bluecoats tenors:

I'm surprised no one has commented. I was in the next year's DCM All Stars at the Orange Bowl Parade and I'd love to see anything from that trip again. Why don't you go ahead and post the pictures. If I see any Bluecoats I'll post them on Facebook for them to see, if you don't mind.

Please tell me they've addressed this: Ludwigs were junk when I marched. We hated them. And they were freakin' heavy.

I still have my Ludwig quads from 1987. Do you need any pictures of how they were all connected?

Glassmen also used this setup somewhere around 1989/1990.

The only time I "auditioned" was in '88, and all that was, was going into a room with Jay and playing through a few of the warm-ups. In '86 and '87 I assumed that they just evaluated everyone during the winter camps and when the time came to make a decision, they told the people who didn't make it that they didn't make it, and those of us who did make it, they told us that. Even in '87 when I fighting for my life with Matt and Chandler, I never had to do an audition.

We used both the Lexans and Radials in '86 with the Bluecoats and I hated the Radials. You couldn't get any sound out of the drums with them. The Lexans were real nice.

Same comment as in the Marketplace: Please tell me they brought back the Marathon heads.

Please tell me they brought back the Marathon heads too.

Okay, that one was was pretty obvious.

There's three of us in this thread that have it and have offered it to you. I said I had it but didn't know how to get it to you. Phil offered to burn a CD and mail it to you. And Doug asked for your email address so he could email it to you. I don't really intend to be mean, but maybe read the thread and see that you have three offers and take someone up on them rather than coming back on here and keep asking the same question that has already been answered to you.

There are videos recordings out there of the standstill after the Massillon show that were taken by someone in the stands. Is that good enough for you?

How about when someone spells "people" wrong?

I seriously laughed out loud and can't stop even as I'm typing.

I can't speak about your situation directly, but I had a similar experience. There was a corps rehearsing not too far from my house a couple of years ago and I decided to go watch them. I thought I'd do something kind of nice and take them some home baked cookies. My wife then baked over 500 cookies and I dropped them off at the chuck truck. The guy had me give him my name and address. I didn't know why, nor did I care. I don't do things like that for "thank yous". Anyhoo, later that day before they did the final run through of the day they made annoucements with special thank yous for various people. One of them was someone who did something for one of the meals that day, so I was actually at that point expecting something to be said. Nothing. And we never received anything after that. I actually sent the corps an email stating my disatisfaction about how my wife made them over 500 cookies and not so much as a "Hey, thanks". Even after the email, nothing. Needless to say, I'll never do anything like that again for that corps.

I don't understand this comment. How is pointing the bell of the horn at a microphone a crutch? He's still playing what is written on the paper (mostly), it's just coming out of the speakers a little different.

Last year, yes, there was free bus shuttles between the warm up area and the stadium. Cook's bus company I believe. I can't say the same thing about this year or not.

Which center snare? There's two of them. (I actually know which one.) I actually agree with you (except for the electronincs, because I just hate electronics). Their show still really just doesn't do anything for me, but I'm not allowed to voice my opinion for some reason because apparently I'm a buzz kill.

The two are completely independent of each other. "Six Words" is to Bluecoats like "SUTA" is to Phantom, or "Splooie" is to Cavies. It's something you will never know unless you march/have marched Bluecoats, or someone tells you that shouldn't. His "Let's go Blooooooooo" is just an additional statement that has nothing to do with "Six Words". Does that help?

*shakes head* I've lived in Ohio all my life. This is embarrassing.

Are you sure about that?

Excuse me DH? I may see them again on Tuesday and might just have to weigh in on my "new" opinion. Otherwise it'll be quarterfinals in the theater. I'm looking forward to this.

This may be a stupid question (and patially rhetorical), but doesn't the "I" in DCI stand for "International"?