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What I ended up having to do last year was park a good ways into a neighborhood onto the street so it wasn't obvious I was parking there for the show, and just walked about a tenth of a mile from there to the stadium.

Woah, I heard the 1973 Troopers show last night...dang...that's all I have to say. On a side note, why does it seem like some shows are played much more frequently than others? (it seems like I've heard Carolina Crown 1999 and Madison Scouts 2004 a dozen times. Not that there's anything wrong with them, but they seem to come up a lot)

Good stories and ideas everyone, thanks. If I really for sure can't do it this year, I'll be taking them to at least 1 show. I'm not planning on majoring in music, but it is a real passion of mine, and I will have to try to show my parents just how much this means to me.

I hope this is the right forum for this. so I'm sorry if it's not; this will mostly be a rant. Well I was hoping to be a part of Teal Sound this year, and the Operations Director and Director were helping me work it all out since I'd be getting into it a month or two late, and I've been talking to my parents about it for a while, and they generally seemed supportive. But I've noticed that my parents are typically supportive of anything when they think I'm not serious about, thinking it will be a fleeting thing. Well unfortunately for them, and for me, I really was very serious about this, so we were having another talk about this whole thing tonight, and they FORBADE me to do drum corps! They said that they didn't know where I'd come up with the money (even though I have about $900 in my bank account, and I was hoping to receive that CorpsVets scholarship, and collect corporate sponsorships, and do any and all fundraisers possible), how I'd get there (even though I'd been working to find other people in the Atlanta area I could carpool with), and then they said there was no way they'd let me miss school for this (I'm a high school senior by the way, and I was planinng to take care of all my missed work beforehand). I've been mentioning Appalachian Sound in Tennesse as a possible alternative, in case this did fall through, and I can fully pay for that myself, and luckily I don't need to miss school for it, and I know it will be awesomely fun, but I'll miss out on the whole touring experience. My parents don't seem to understand that that the closest 3 junior corps to Atlanta are 3, 5, and 7 hours away. So their solution to the distance problem is to just refuse to let me participate. I'm turning 18 in April, I'm practically middle-aged in this sport! Since I'm still living under their roof and getting free 'room and board' and using a car they own, there's not much I can do, so I'm going to have to try this all again next summer, when I'll be in college so I can slip away on Fridays to do this and can hopefully get rides much easier. They reacted like I imagine they'd react if I told them I was an sex crime fellon with an illegitamite crack baby! Has anyone else had their parents absolutely crush this for them like that??

Oh I know it wasn't Spirit that did the trashing; maybe I was unclear about that. But anyway, thanks again for the info.

I'll second that way. Cool background information, although unfortunate at the same time. Was the trashing of schools that occurred in 1984 an isolated incident, or did it happen a few years around it without notice? If it was a single case, what prompted it? Also, when did Spirit move to Alabama?

::Jaw drops::!!!!!

Oh well. You'd think there would be more support to sustain a Junior corps in Georgia.

I doubt it- they sold all their equipment.

This thing really is amazing. I got it to work and have been listening to it non-stop for the last day and a half!

?????? It was working fine for me ysterday (playing it through iTunes) and now all I hear is one long ad, then it cuts off. Try it again...all I hear is one long ad - then it cuts off. Anyone else having this problem?

I play mellophone. I've actually played clarinet for about 7 years but decided a few months ago that DCI was so amazing, and it couldn't let myself not do it. So a few months ago I borrowed a mellophone from my school, bought myself a UMI 1736 mouthpiece, and started practicing and getting help from some of the top brass players in my band. I'm sure where I'm lacking in playing ability, I can more than make up for in marching ability, musicality, and determination though.

Thanks for all the feeback, I'm looking into all of those. Too bad for Court of Honor.

Yep, good point. Just didn't know it wasn't in existence anymore <**>

I did some more searching, seems like they sold their equipment and aren't coming back for 2006. Curse you Georgia!!