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  • Your Drum Corps Experience
    Troopers Contrabass '86, '88, Bras Staff '93. Phantom Regiment Contrabass '89, '90
  • Your Favorite All Time Corps Performance (Any)
    1993 Star of Indiana, 1988 Madison Scouts, 1986 Blue Devils, 1983 Troopers

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  1. 1989 PR should win this. And I don't say that because I was a member. It's only with the most careful, dispassionate consideration.
  2. Glassmen are a great story. From a small corps getting ovations for playing off of retreat to "Just a Gigolo" in 89 to a finals regular...
  3. Dave Richards sent me Royal Aires mp3s from this era. I wish i could have seen them
  4. Scouts at finals, 1988. Had to visit grandma and missed it, but loved watching them all season. PR at finals, 2008. Rocked the house at Atlanta. But you can't take toddlers to finals.
  5. HBCU bands are famous. They have their own fans, YouTube channels, and on and on. What does DCI really offer their members?
  6. True Story: Blue Knights were holding a drill camp at the University of Wyoming, and George was writing their drill for the first time. There were several of us drum corps guys from Troopers, Phantom, SCV and Railmen at UW, so we all went over there to check it out. A really energetic BK staffer came over to talk to us, and toward the end of the conversation (trading of stories, actually), there was this exchange: My Good Friend Pete: Hey, is THE George Zingali here? Energetic BK Staffer: Yes, THE George Zingali is here. (big smile) Because... the BK guy was George Zingali..... Good times.
  7. That's actually splitting hairs. DCI may have officially suspended the corps for not providing their tax returns to DCI, but they couldn't provide them because they didn't exist. If they had been filed, DCI could have just gotten them from the IRS or charitynavigator. Fair disclosure, I joined the board in 2006. The road back was due to a lot of work by the people already in the organization, as well as through the influx / return of people from outside, and by outstanding support from the people of Casper. Some of the 'outside' people who joined in were originally proponents of ending the organization altogether. It was a great team effort. The corps did not eat their own.
  8. I don't know if I'm allowed to disclose this or not, but it's too shocking to keep quiet. No one is hiring me to be on their staff. There, I said it.
  9. Is the entire top 12 going to break 90 this year?
  10. Fond memories of performing in Eau Claire...including a really nice sausage and potatoes lunch served by a local church that wrecked afternoon rehearsals due to food comas.
  11. I was on Troopers brass staff in '93, and got to see Cadets several times that summer. They were incredible. The drum corps politics of the time played heavily into the criticism of the show and performance. But there is no way to deny what was accomplished. At the time I was most impressed by the masterful use of silence and pianissimo.
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