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I saw a video last night. Very nice. Thank you for just playing interesting music. (that is as good as it gets from me) your football team and hockey team still suck though. lol 😄

BD does it. it's called not practicing to death and talking to your members like adults. I hear it works but I need to see their record of win/loss.

2019 Mandarins

Actually I do not really care about A corps. I am looking forward to BDB. The staff is the best yet. Efren is an amazing guy and the rest of the staff get along very well. Watch out for them in 2020.

From the reports I am getting A corps was on fire. They do a tap shoe thing on wood. Nt brother showed up from Austin so I didn't go. first time in decades I missed it.

Exactly why I didn't go.

2016 was their last nice uniform.

Excellent! I prefer that show over the bay area shows. Acoustics are real good there and it is a nice big stadium but the seating isn't all cramped like Stanford.

Are they doing the Sacramento show?

1st or 4th

If you come for recognizable tunes you can tap your foot to... Thanks to all the dullards drum corps has been dumbed down and is more like BOA anymore. Please play interesting music which is what drew me to DC in the first place. never mind..

saw BD tonight. lol

Last year I said SCV will repeat. I hope they do. I will know more after tonight. BDB is changing their focus to local talent and for that I am happy. Their new staff if incredible and watch out 2020 for them! They are still going to be a force to recon with though.

I heard that the music sounds kind of like Mahavishnu Orchestra with the guitar and violin. That is all I know.

I never said they were not "Talented" (which itself is a fallacy better known as PRACTICE). I do and have many times called out BD for doing stupid stuff. Yowza. I thought Tommy was a lame show and would have been ten times lamer with vocals. Just because they are legal now doesn't mean you can't call them out. Session 44 was one of the very few instances where a vocalist actually did work. The only thing missing from this band is a bunch of Murses and a fixie bike. I am unrepentant in calling out stupid crap. the new BD uniforms are even more a joke and they know I can't stand them. nice try.

The performance of the music was excellent but that cheesy singer ugghhh next

There is a reason drum corps was always different from BAND and this is the main one.

It doesn't matter who was POPULAR we didn't sink so low as to play POP. We listened to good progressive music which was never popular but none of that mattered as we were actual musicians who didn't care about hitting it "big". Back then it was about the MUSIC not being popular. People who pay 200 dollars for sneakers generally fall for what is popular and simple. All those "prog" bands as they call them now days played lots of notes and sought to stimulate minds rather than sell drinks and trinkets. If my corps was to collaborate to who was popular back then I would have quit without notice.

barrrrrrrf! How insipid can you get? I just threw up.

Most of the Mandarins drumline comes from Tri-City Percussion.

No actually their left handed guitarist has already aged out and now teaches B corps pit.

I am rooting for an SCV repeat this year. Good luck Vanguard!

I still haven't gotten over BD playing Rocky in 77.

2018 Cadets were my favorite show! They did some real high brow stuff. I hope to see them out west soon.

I remember when you could call up the hall and ask what they music was going to be around November. They would tell you.