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    Gotta Love the Locals!

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    It was either the 1979 or 1980 DCI World Championships in Birmingham, Alabama when I was at the high school where Blue Devils were rehearsing. I'm guessing it must have been the first day the corps was there. Someone from across the street from the high school came over to complain about the volume the corps was putting out. He was livid and demanded of the management that the corps stop playing. Of course, that wasn't going to happen. He stayed there, miffed, and then he started tapping his foot. Then he got into it. Then he left. And in a few minutes, he was back, with his family to watch the rehearsal.

    If you can't beat 'em, Join 'em, Right? :tongue:

    lolcorps

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    Or a guy that graduated from Stanford and edited for the humor magazine there. Not to mention the fact that his comic was named the #1 graphic novel of 2007 by Time and has received all other sorts of accolades as well.

    Wow thanks for regurgitating his Wikipedia listing but maybe next time you could just provide the link instead?

    How would a Draft affect the activity?

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    I heard that college-enrolled students of draft age wouldn't be drafted. If that's true, then I think DCI would be able to survive. Although, I'm sure the corps would either be smaller, or the elite corps would fill out and the smaller corps would be much smaller.

    I've heard a lot of things like these, such as:

    You can't be drafted if you're an only son (or an old child?).

    You can't be drafted if you were raised by a single mother.

    You can't be drafted if you're homosexual

    You can't be drafted if blahblahblah.

    etc.

    While all of these (except the latter) make sense I don't think many of them are true. I think if the military wants you and you want to keep your right to vote and suck up the countries benefits, you're going to be drafted. I registered for the draft about 2 weeks before I turned 18, so the day I turned 18 I was legal. I have several friends that refuse to sign up for it, whatever, it's not I that will be going to jail.

    Gotta Love the Locals!

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    First, let me say thank you!

    In 2004 Magic was staying at SwiftWater HS preparing for the famed Allentown, PA. Show. The snareline was practicing next to what was seemingly just a forest. After about half an hour of various warm-ups a man emerged and started screaming that he worked all night and he was trying to sleep and the snareline was keeping him up. The Tech Jeff told him to go back to his house and he wasn't going to stop the rehearsal just because some guy has a grudge. The guy threatened to call the cops. Snareline sub-sectionals were moved else where.

    Another 2004 Magic story, we were in Chicago for the 4th of July parades and as we're standing in parade block getting ready an entire family starts screaming something and after a few minutes they emerge from the house and they're running round their yard screaming. Apparently their team won the World Cup (or something Soccer/Football Related). They said we were they're good luck charm.

    How would a Draft affect the activity?

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    I'm 19 and I know that, in the unfortunate event that a draft were to take place I wouldn't be home for too terribly long. How do you think DCI would fare under these circumstances? Any young man able body enough to march drum corps is able body enough to fight for his country. As an optimist one could note that there would be more all-female corps would surface. What do you think?

    Drumline Colors

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    Well wouldn't any new line of instruments say that there will be the little kinks that have to be worked out? They wouldn't just say, "Oh these are the greatest instruments ever. . . " I'm sure they would probably tell ya the truth if they were asked. I'm looking forward to see how the Mapex work out though.

    There are always bugs with any new product. As far as awaiting what those beauties will sound like, I'm with you brother!

    Which corps do you think produces the most volume?

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    This reminds me of a story.

    During all-days this year, an eccentric local guy challenged our corps to see what was louder... our corps at the loudest part of our show, or his truck.

    Now, the thing about his truck was that it had several HUGE bullhorns strapped to it:

    http://flickr.com/photos/10056173@N07/806167040/

    He beat us by 5 decibels, but both the corps (with only 32 horns) and the truck clocked in between 100 and 110 dB.

    Gotta love the locals!

    Which corps do you think produces the most volume?

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    yah seriously i don't see any hornline getting that loud. . . 140db. . . they wouldn't have been able to stand in front of the hornline if it was 140db. . .

    Well I did say I wasn't sure, I honestly don't remember what the reading was, someone from 99 G-men might be able to confirm what the actual dB reading was. I would venture to say it was probably about 110-115 dB because that was an amazing hornline.

    Which corps do you think produces the most volume?

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    There's no way it was in the 140's in decibels.

    120 and that is already beyond enough to shatter glass, from what I understand.

    140 would be enough to crack concrete, which, although I wish could happen, doesn't.

    I've noticed a lot of discrepencies in how many dBs this is or how man dBs that is. For instance, I found a website that says a trumpet from 5ft away is 150dB and another website that said a doorbell is 110dB. I honestly don't know but I know that G-Men 99 were borderline Deafening!

    Weight Loss/Gain

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    Ok...I don't post on here too much but I've always wondered about this...

    I'm 5'10ish, 130-140lbs (It varies...depending on how much food I've consumed lately). I can not seem to put on weight for the life of me. I rarely eat 3 meals a day though...mostly just alot of junk and fast foods. My goal is to gain weight this summer, preferably muscle (It'll be my first summer of corps). Do you guys think it's possible? And if so..how much?

    Oh, and I'm not sure how much this matters but I'll be marching bass drum for the green team.

    Have you ever considered using Whey Protein (I think that's it..) to bulk up? I personally have never used anything like this but I have never been concerned with bulking up but instead losing the weight. However, talk to some body builders and see what they have to say about gaining muscle mass.

    Is the SCV Tilt Back?

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    Posted · Edited by Vanguard07

    You know, I hear people saying that all the time about the 2005 snareline, but if you look at the snares compared to the tenors, they were the same height. It really wasn't any different from marching (or playing) tenors, only the weight was less.

    That's a little different... The tenor drum set has a spok drum right above the knees so there is reallly nothing there to prohibit leg movement, the larger drums remain off to the sides of the drummer. Whereas a snare drum keeps the bulk of the drum right in front of the player so I imagine those guys had some bruises and what not on them by the end of the season.

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