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Looks like Glen Fugett #### on Spirit's drum line tonight with that crappy number... What's his lame ###ed excuse? 1st time seeing them?

What kills me is a 16 year old talking about a dirty drumline.. Well, then again aren't all 16 year olds experts? I will choose to be understanding due to her age...

Probably just a kid who knows nothing other than the minimal stuff she may have been exposed to. Just ignorant and young... She'll grow out of it with more years. It's great to see all kids out there performing.

Ditto, on the above comment...hope all is good and can't wait to see Crossmen's line.

C'mon recaps....sitting on a plane ....GoGo...like to see the recaps before they shut this wifi down.

Congrats to Crossmen....want them back, just as I want Spirit back, and it's good to see good competition between corps....I bet some dudes from the drumlines have already started some friendships.

So.....That much of a spread from BAC an Spirit in 1 night? Looking to see recaps and see what happened.

accepted...thanks dude.

I love how people get on here and think everyone wants to read their vulgarity.

Nice attitude, and way to take Jesus' name in vain.

Just needing to see if anyone has details of practice sites...I apologize if this is a duplicate topic.

I wish there were enough Alumni, concentrated relatively close to Sacramento, that could take the Freelancer program back and get it going again...with other means of income. I loved marching in that corps.

Because I marched and don't remember any femaile baritone players saying that?????????

I love how some posts start with..."ummmmm...." Nah, I don't like it.....in fact, it annoys the living **** out of me but to each his own. It reminds me of when I would hear a male guard member go off on someone and start with..."...ummmmm..."

I gotta tell ya, for a couple years now I've been walking further away from DCI really just due to my busy life. I haven't really found a reason to stay around the activity enough to justify an enthusiasm that I used to have. Most of it is growing up and wanting become a normal fan, being a dad to my kids, and working hard to earn a living in my career. That being said, I'll always be into my former corps Spirit (of Atlanta) and Freelancers (no longer here). I also taught Crown and like them a lot. It's hard for me to be a normal fan because I'm not really captured by anything anyone is doing, and I'm not really into all the changes to instruments, sounds, and vocals yet. I found myself at the GA. Dome a couple years ago watching and wanting to leave after the first couple shows, and I started dozing off, so I left. I came back and volunteered at the Dome last year and enjoyed seeing everyone I knew from Spirit, great people, but then I left shortly after my volunteer time was over and after Spirit performed. This year, I took my son to watch Spirit's drum line warm-up in the lot and left soon after because I had a prior engagement. I just did not have time to see many shows this year, and guess what??? I don't think I missed it that much... I do get on DCP often to read and post, but now that the season is almost over I'll probably drop off until next year. I get tired of people posting their opinions and then getting blasted on here, and I also am tired of people who look for arguments on here. It ain't right...we should respect their posts and just simply disagree. I don't think that DCI is going in the right direction, and I believe they have lost the normal fan. My parents used to come to shows in the 70's, 80's, and 90's and they understood the music and knew the show was being directed at them, the average fan. They were truly entertained. Now days, if you aren't a music major and you attend a show, you may not know where the music is coming from or how to pronounce the title. My family used to be huge DCI fans and now could care less about ever going to another show. I know things have to evolve, but DCI is evolving in the wrong direction. If my kids ever march, I will get back involved and do the volunteer food thing or maybe teach a little; however, neither of my kids really get into it like I did and that's okay. What was once my life and love has turned into a lost hobby for me...sad really.

We all have our opinions, and I get why the OP is asking......but... 1. If you think about the musical sections in the corps, the drumline may be playing clean with each other in the ensemble, but if their impact points or complimentary parts are off with the rest of the corps then the effect is lost. 2. A guard may be performing their work clean with each other, but if a rifle toss if off from an impact point then the effect is lost. 3. The pit could be playing clean with each other, but if their part is off rom the drumline, or hornline, then the effect is lost... So...yes, being clean is an effect....I get that performance is judged separately, but if it ain't clean then the effect isn't there... My opinion....

I don't know Chadwick...I see Bawston coming from Brooklyn and Baston coming from Boston...either way, it funny talk compared to us rednecks here in the south...

I agree...with a beer in the parking lot!!!!

It was nice marching in the snare line in 90 and being around that guard....Southern Belles are awesome....

I wasn't going to weigh in on this topic because I thought it was a bit creepy for a 40yr man (me) to talk about hot color guards, in a youth activity. 40 yr old man talking about "hot" girls in a youth activity = creepy old guy......not me. Now, what ain't creepy is noticing an attractive color guard and saying they're beautiful.

Jim, that's pretty **** funny! Cainan, got nothing but love for ya man....I'm really glad to see you on Facebook and here, and I see your point. Come over to the states and we'll hit the Atlanta show together....

Cainan???? Why you be dissin???...Just sayin!....... How are ya man?....good point, but I don't know that it was necessarily the issue of kids going somewhere else and not buying into the program. There are a number of things hitting the general area where Spirit is out of (Al, GA, TN) besides the economy. It's tougher everywhere for kids to march, but a kid who I went to church with told me that the dues to march were close to $3,000. I don't know if that was true, but I paid $750 in 1989 & 1990. In the Freelancers, 1985, it was $250, then $450 after that.... Having said that, I'm sure it costs almost the same everywhere else..... See ya man...take care...

You got it....my parents went to the same expense just to see me and my brother. It's just what you do, and now I hope to do the same with whatever activity my kids are in to. Right now, we travel with baseball and football for my son and and dance and horse riding for my daughter. I hope to be able to relive some drum corps days if my kids march, but I'll never be a parent trying to relive my drum corps days through my kids. I know people who marched, whose kids march now, and they are THE example of a supportive parent 1st and drum corps geezer 2nd......it has got to be exciting. Glad you were able to see your kids.....Me?....I wouldn't be able to do it without water trying to hit my eyes, to be honest.

You're not on crack....Pearl drums are sweet!!!!

Yeah, I'm serious... Notice I didn't say anything about the marching??? I just said meat. Listen to the late70's lines and early 80's lines...they played some serious meat. Today's lines play a lot too, but it's just a different style...that's all...