Tricia-A BD/BK Mom

I bought the Blue Knights jacket with the white buttons in the late 90's. It is awesome.

I've seen you in Stanford, Stockton and DATR, from the first show I was sold. Your show is fantastic. I have loyalty to corps but with that being said, you like what you like regardless of the corps. I love this Cadets show. It is entertaining and easy to understand. I had some people who had never seen a drum corps show before last night sit behind me; we were at 300. I know this because they never knew “bands” could be that great. They were funny too, when the white uniform corps members came out they became very worried your "band" was going to be too small. With that being said you rocked their world when you were through performing, I smiled. I didn't notice any problem with sound but I'm not an expert just a long time fan of drum corps. I am convinced you will win this year. My heart went out to every kid last night that had a slip on that field. My daughter is in BK Guard and said it was very hard to perform. Good luck can’t wait to see you again in SA.

This show does nothing for me. If they think there are jazz runs thrown in he should go to their archives and pull out their 2002 show, "Jazz Music Made in America" that was a great show, that was jazz, that was talent.

Could be wrong but the clouds come over the foothill mountains here and from my room that faces them it is looking like Blue Bird skies are coming our way. YAHOO! Gonna jump in the car and head out.

I live in Littleton and it is raining with thunder and lightening. But as I look out my window at the foothills the sky seems to be getting brighter...please pass storm!

Thunder and lightening and rain please go away. It looked so promising an hour ago. Hopefully this black will do it's thing and go east. Send good thoughts, DATR has to go on. After 12 years of taking my daughter to every Drums and every year I listened to her say, "I'm going to be down there some day." Tonight is the night, please rain GO! The hourly forecast predicts this will be gone by about 8 PM, will they still have the show?

Have you seen any of these shows this year? Just wondering hope you haven't set your expectations too high. Just saying...

The thunder is in the back ground rolling in. Since it's 2PM this is a good thing. Hopefully this will be a quick moving storm. The clouds are not as dark as they have been this week. Still holding on to hope. Hope they have that field covered.

Okay-doaky, the clouds are starting to tumble over the mountain. There is still some sun poking through but the clouds look like they might want a little action. I haven't heard any thunder rolling around in the background, that is always a good sign. I hope if it does it will do its thing early and move on to the east. I also hope with the rain Invesco Field has been covering the field!

While standing on the scaffolding the instructor pulled out his phone and acted like he was talking a couple of seconds while the guard watched. He then yelled out, “XXXXX, I have the ground on the phone and it is lodging a complaint. It has asked if you would quit dropping your flag it is starting to hurt and it is getting very annoyed with you. It is sorry that the wind catches your flag but it says it will support you if you try to catch it!”

Absolutely Brooklyn's. You will have a drum corps party there. Won't be able to go this year, my daughter has a free day so I will be taking her home. My son will be there as usual. He said the atmoshere is comparible to Allentown's after party.

My house looks over the foothills where the thunderstorms come from and at this time we have "blue bird skies" with just a few white clouds. The clouds are not clustering together as they come over at this point BUT it is 9:30 AM if there is to be a thunderstorm tonight it will start creeping over the mountain at about 2 -3, although yesterday's storm came early. Hoping this one passes us by. If I see the big thunderheads pop up I will give my predictions based both off experience and the radar. CO is great, you have to love the weather, if you don't like it wait 10 minutes and it will change.

I heard the same thing from the guard. Stacia said she was upset with herself because the guard was a little off too. Understand these kids were practicing in pretty bad conditions. No one can mow their lawns because we keep getting rain. I will add both The Cadets and Blue Devils have been in Denver since Thursday but did not choose to do the show last night. Their choice but I heard, this could wrong, that last year when The Cadets performed at this field they got torn up and opted out this year. By torn up I mean this is probably not a good stadium for drum corps, in my opinion.

We took a chance and drove north hoping the weather would miss Loveland. The interstate we were driving got hit hard and flooded; we had to drive about 20 MPH for awhile so I apologize for not getting all corps. I want to say the altitude is killer for corps and musicians alike. Another setback for all the corps was the grass was long and wet from all the rain we have had during the week. With that being said some of what I saw may be very off because the field was in poor condition and it is hard to adjust to altitude. Blue Knights aren't immune to the altitude either; a lot of their corps come from all over, I have housed kids for about 10 years now. Once you leave the state, like tour CA, you get so much oxygen you feel like you can go on forever. Just a week out of CO and you have to learn to breathe again. I am not as technical as some that do reviews on here, I can only tell you how each corps made me feel and what I notice. Phantom: Was very clean, I like their show. It's easy to follow, they have some really good effects but they need to tie them together; there are still some parts lacking. Their horn line is very good, as usual. The closure needs some work. The sound is good and the corps and guard intermingle well. Without a doubt I can say this corps is doing the hustle and the season is young. The crowd gave them a standing "O" at the end of their show. SCV: I don't understand this show. I understand what I have read and what it supposed to mean but I just don't see it. The show is hard to follow; the drum line isn't used as much as "I" would like to see, because they are impressive. The horns are weak and don't sound like years past but again the altitude could have been at play here. One thing that dropped my jaw was a couple of the color guard mace tosses that hit the moon, WOW! When I saw them at Stanford I don't remember them using their equipment as much. The crowd cheered but there was not a standing "O". Blue Knights: I am at a loss here. The show is crowd friendly and accessible. They are cleaning up but at the same time they are adding and refining the show. This is not the show I saw two weeks ago! The brass is loud and pure. The drums are so integrated in the show it is amazing, I LOVE them, it is a very exciting part of the show and it really works the crowd up. Obviously I am passionate about BK and have followed them for years but truthfully this is my favorite show. This is BK finding their niche. During several parts of the show the crowd applauded because it just felt good. The show is fun! The crowd gave it a standing "O". This is a difficult show that is still under construction. There are some shows you've seen through the years you just remember, this will be one of them. Academy: I find it hard to believe they just moved into world class. They should be very proud. They have very finals worthy opener but their ballad needs something more. They need some work on their closer. I am anxious to see tomorrow night’s show; I think it will be more accurate considering the conditions tonight.

At this point the show is planning to go on. They got hit pretty hard about an hour ago. My son said the sun came out but clouds all around. We looked up on radar and it looks like it will be a go. Darn wet field though.

Loveland went under thunderstorm alert and it poured. Right now it is clearing but the clouds are still moving north. Tomorrow At DATR, there is 40% chance of thunderstorms. Let's all give some give positive thoughts that the storm will miss Denver tomorrow.

Judge Constipation!

Well as Frank Sinatra would say, "The best is yet to come!" If your show is complete and just needs cleaning I think you might call it peaking early. This show is in the growing process and I think at DATR you will be very surprised to see the changes. Blue Knights are heading to their home turf watch them pull some magic out of their plumes. This is a great year for them, with the 2011 DESIGN TEAM watch for more of a good thing. GO BLUE KNIGHTS

I care! My son is on staff for BK and he just slips me a text as he can. I am waiting to hear what the judges say and find out more from him. It's just hard because he is running everywhere. BUT here on Drum Corps Planet he knows we live by our computers on show nights and can appreciate we want to know things. I pound that into his head. He knows how important this is to all of us. He knows I love it! I'm glad we at least have someone on the inside that is guaranteed to be at every show. They are loading the buses now heading to Utah so I didn't get much out of him; he had to take care of something (?) he sounded very serious so I KNOW I am going to talk to him later.

Wow GE Cadets = 32.4 Blue Knights = 31 Visual Cadets = 16 Blue Knights = 15.1 Music Cadets = 31.0 Blue Knights = 29.5 Pretty crazy.

Cadets 80.3 Blue Knights 75.4Will have rest soon.

Thank you very much, this is my daughter's first year in the guard. My son has been doing visual for the past 5 years. He and Wes marched together in '98. Love Blue Knights, great show this year.

tic toc tic toc, no word yet. I will ask about the judges but will know more after he meets with them after the show. While I wrote this encore over 5 minutes ago. Waiting for scores.