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Hope that's a sign of things to come. Maybe I'm a dreamer

I watched SCV rehearse in Columbia a few weekends ago. They are the only live drum corps I've seen this summer (maybe the first live performance I've seen in two or three years, actually). While I'm probably out of touch, I was left with two impressions: I didn't think the visual demand - from a content standpoint - was consistent enough through the show to score high (on this account, the subsequent show sheets have proven me wrong consistently), and what demand was there wasn't being achieved uniformly across the ensemble -- even for accounting mid-July dirt. My opinion (which means squat, especially since I know nothing about drums and flags) was that if SCV missed out on gold, it would be because of less-than-stellar individual marching technique.

I've watched zero performances before coming. Holy cow Appalachian Spring. The entire field.

I've been hiding out at my brother's house. Gonna head out to catch post intermission soon. I didn't think the weather would go so far south.

That's it. Couldn't think of the OKC suburb. Knew it was close to Mustang. Dan Potter started a Boomer Sooner chant. Wasn't a fan.

Late reply - BA's main attraction used to be the Cavaliers. I think I've seen Cavaliers and Cadets there together a few times. Not sure if they got 3 top 5 groups at once. My first year to attend was 2005. Bluecoats came through OKC with the Cadets in... 2012? 2011? I think it was the year Cadets did Angels and Demons.

I think this may be my first time logging in this season. I have totally been out of the DCI loop this summer. Guess it comes with graduating and looking for and starting a real job. Anyway, playing Simple Gifts before the results are announced? That's a brilliant move if people are afraid of angry horn players messing with it.

Way to go, Cadets. The percussion professor at my school said they'd win when he saw them at Saginaw. When I saw the broadcast the next night, I agreed. Congratulations. What a year for drum corps, top to bottom. Awesome.

Michael boo's Blog is about 10 seconds faster than the video... surprise ruined. :-\

Hey! No super obnoxious hangover! Only a small one.

I remember the single most emotional day of my drum corps career. Now that I look at the date, I think it was August 8, 2005, but I may be mistaken. It was after one of the quarter/semi/final performances with Memphis Sound. Alan Armstrong told us the story of this young man... not a dry eye in the corps. God bless.

Let's go Blue! (or Bloo, if that's your take). Hope they close up/catch up with Phantom. :)

During Winter camp or move-ins, the estimable Ron Hardin once said something along the lines of: "going from 90 to 95 is like putting in the cleaning from 80-90; the scale gets a lot tighter, and each .05 is a lot harder to earn than it was previously"

I agree completely. One of the most significant moments in my life is from sitting on a bus, marching a Division 2 corps (now somewhat defunct), listening to a track from the 2005 Blue Devils CD. I decided that I wanted to share passion with other people. That's what led, and is leading me, to college to become an academic. Having marched a smaller corps is one of the main reasons I don't go to the lot to watch corps warm up as much as I'd like. I try to support (and I probably pay more attention to) the little guys because I know what it's like to go on first with the sun in your eyes... Nice sentiment, I wish a lot of drum corps/marching band nay-sayers would read this (I'm looking at you, high school band directors/instrumental purists)

Bars close at 2 in Stillwater. And it was a Wednesday night, $5 dollar bottomless is Thursday night at Joe's... My job is far less exciting: sit at a desk and watch Hulu.