MikeBob

I'd guess that marching '93 Star gives one a pretty good perspective on this sort of thing....

Oops! Sorry for all the newbies at the show! Now back to the magical East Coast you go, where everyone is well-educated and courteous.

Um... yeah. Then my question is "Why not let them come out in the full uni?" Four fully suited Cavies standing against the wall is distinguishing enough, IMO. I mean, if that's the way they do things, that's the way they do things, but I just found it odd, is all.

Agreed.

See, "alternates" came up in discussion, but these guys were half out of uniform and didn't get into the other half. This doesn't seem very conducive to jumping in at the drop of a hat. I'd still be surprised if they were keeping alternates handy for the last performance of the year, though. I don't think I've ever seen that.

Loved this year's show. I was so happy for them Friday night when they jumped to 5th -- and even happier tonight when they stayed there! The whole Bluecoats/Crown/SCV/Phantom block was just a great crop of shows, IMO, but out of all of them SCV's is special because it didn't rely on -- forgive the term -- a gimmick. And it made me unconditionally happy for 11 minutes. Thanks, SCV. Here's to Top 4 -- where you belong -- next year.

Tonight, at Cavies' finals performance, four Cavies -- in bottom halves only, carrying their top halves and hats -- walked onto the field with the corps but didn't take the field with them. What was the deal with these guys? I can't figure it out, and I'm so curious about it that I had to come back to DCP to try to get an answer. Did anyone else notice this tonight? Anyone know what the story is?

Thanks! I just think it'd be cool to get some drum corps exposure in the New U. I like to use my vast media connections -- college radio and newspaper -- to promote my own agenda....

Hrm... still no response. There isn't a single Anteater/marching member out there reading DCP? Do none of you want to see your name in glorious 10-point Times New in the pages of the New University, that bastion of journalistic integrity, more or less? Time's running short, people!

Thanks! I just graduated myself. It'd be great to find someone from PC and someone else from, say, Impulse. I've meant to get to this sooner, but if I can't find someone before Memorial Day Weekend, I'll keep at it next week. And for any current UCI students who may be reading: See first post.

Hey there! I'm a writer for UC Irvine's newspaper, the New University. I'd love to find a couple UCI students who are marching drum corps this season to interview for an article -- and if you could take some pictures for me of Memorial Day rehearsal this weekend, that'd rock. I'd like to conduct the interview sometime before the weekend. It shouldn't take too long, and you know you want to shove a little drum corps in the campus's collective face. PM me and let's do this. Thanks!

I'm not sure Terrance has a first language. Apart from Crazese, I mean.

You have to understand how many times this topic has already been raised, discussed, beaten, and buried in the past. Most regulars around here on either side of the fence are probably a little weary of it, and the discussions always seem to come down to "Is not!" vs. "Is too!" anyway. As for "death of drum corps as we knew it," that's already happened time and again. Talk to the guys who lament the death of the pre-WWII drum corps for some perspective. Each of us has a different vision of what drum corps "should" be, but whatever our opinions are as spectators and alumni, they're not going to shape the actions of those who are actively involved in drum corps today. I don't like amps, but amps are here to stay, and me not liking them isn't going to change that. You don't like Bb horns, but guess what? Same thing. Whatever era in which any of us may have marched, we have to realize that it's someone else's ball game now. If you had a time machine (like me -- they're pretty sweet) and could go back to any year of drum corps in the past few decades, there'd always be an "old guard" complaining about how much things have changed. The only difference now is that we have the Internet. No need to fear the death of drum corps: it's happened, it's happening, and will continue to happen. It's called "change."

Yeah, exactly. The guy's just posting opinions on his blog; it's not exactly official. He's going to have to go to DCI -- they're not going to come to him. Unfortunately, as we all know, Hopkins is a bit of a recluse, and tends to shy away from DCI BoD meetings.

I can see where this is going. Brandt Crocker doesn't sleep. He waits.