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Ontario until fairly recently had it's own competitive circuit of several corps. Some good groups!

I live in sa and worked with revo in the past. Like almost all open class corps revo has, ahem, recruiting challenges in the brass and color guard sections. These problems do not seem like the were aggravated substantially by the crossmen's move to town. I know I would rather see former revo members who are looking for a world class experience go to xmen than out of state. Like a lot of TX residents i feel it would be wonderful to have a "top 6" level ensemble within our borders. I feel both corps' problems have nothing to do with the fact they are based in the same city and feel they should keep their independance.

Hey, very interested to hear about incognito's show tonight; if you can talk about it that is...

I've often thought each corps should have a recruiting coordinator. Maybe somebody who is also on the instructional staff with good connections to area music educators. This person can put together pamphlets, videos, schedule presentations at area schools and contests, maintain and assemble email lists of prospects, etc. Top 6 types prob don't need this but I think it would be great for everybody else. Somebody who can bridge well from the drum corps world to the scholastic world.

I really hope for the best for xmen and think if they get through the next few years they will be ok. It is very tough in TX not only with marching band/summer band commitments but also most HS bands are very active with spring trips and other non-UIL contests and festivals this time of year. Sky Ryders started in much the same way in the 90's and ended up folding, although I think this had more to do with admin./fund problems than the fact they were based out of TX. As for music profs not supporting drum corps participation I don't think this is unique to TX univerisities.

Saw CNN uber news babe Robin Meade taking some bp with a baseball team on headline news this morning and before she entered the cage she spun and tossed the bat a whole lot like she's had flag/rifle experience. Didn't look like baton technique. Anybody know if she had previous marching band/drum corps color guard experience? She was miss ohio a long time ago.

check out "one part without a door" by caswell

very cool! you got my vote! pretty realistic as well, do you write "real" drill?

revo switched to a Bb/F line last year

gotcha

In the afternoon I went to get drill pg. 184-191 printed at Office Depot straight from the yea site, new drill mayhaps? sure sounds like it to me...

concert euphs might just flat out be the most "pretty" sounding brass instruments, would be cool to hear a whole section of them, maybe phantom?...

was that a kid in a wheelchair with a concert euph? what a cool idea, nice to see

no, it means none of the rest of the top 3 were there and the judges didn't have to work too hard to rank the corps; might be significant that they might not be in box 5 in a few areas at this point though...

ah cmon brad, nothing was wrong with '87, we even had busses 90% of the time...