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What's so difficult about separating the person from his art? Pretty common practice. E.E. Cummings, Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, etc . . .

If you mean what original & creative thing has drum corps done that has gone beyond the bounds of the idiom? Nothing. Nothing wrong with that. Drum corps is great. Just not popular.

BK '02 but of the listed -- PR '96

I'd go & watch, but I don't want to deal with all those #### people hanging around. I'm having Thanksgiving dinner at my place in Brooklyn--ya'll should stop by after the parade!

Scouts --Rosander on drill, plus the return of many horn vets, plus the highest finish since '99 Bluecoats --of course Southwind --made semi's for the first time since . . . '00?

I edited the post: those are three titles I actually enjoy. And as for the New Yorker, well, I'll stick to Harper's & their writers any day.

Phenomenom of Cool The Carmen Project Inventions for a New Millenium For the most part, I think pretty cheesy & too overtly trying to be 'artsy.' edit: those three are three I actually enjoy. The vast majority of show titles are quite cliche.

I just gave a presentation for one of my jobs re: multiple intelligences. I used drum corps to talk about nearly all of them.

I can guarantee you that Marian and Plymouth and Center Grove and those of that caliber are not importing drum corps shows, nor are they imitating corps. They're much, much different than corps, but with equally as well-designed shows.

bit off-topic: I took a flag to the head at the Canadian Open in '00. Bled all over the place (uniform, field, flag, others, etc . . . ) and finished the show with a smile. Didn't hurt, though--that was the strange part.

1.SCV '00 2. Madison '95 3. Cadets '97 4. Magic '02 5. Southwind '00 6. Madison '92 7. Crown '05

Shows Better Designed than Cavaliers 2002: SCV '00 Cavies '00 Star '91 Star '93 BD '95 Cadets '98 Cadets '97

oh, good call, good call let me replace that with . . . Cadets '98. I can't get '98 out of my mind, apprently.

I'll agree with you but add SCV '98, as well.

BK '03 is a great show to listen to. 'Kavil Sviri' especially is great--so dark up until the end, then it just opens up. That show and Southwind '00 are my two favorite non-top 12 shows ever.

I'll agree with everyone else--there are plenty of those moments. SCV '00 --Adagio PR '03 --Canon, Lord's Prayer Cadets '05 --Dance in the Dark Magic '02 Spirit '03 --October, Let it be Me The list goes on & on

Rosander's drill is, in fact, the second coming. To prove: SCV '97-03

BD '01 Saw it more than a few times over the course of the season, but never got into it at all. Was bored by it, actually. Now, I love it--especially that 2nd ballad.

Cadets: '98 Cavaliers: '00 Phantom: '03 BD: '95 Bluecoats: '05 Madison: '99 Crown: '03 SCV: '00 BAC: '02 BK: '98 Glassmen: '98 Spirit: '01

Southwind '00 Blue Knights '03

SCV 2000 The. Best. Show. Ever.

I made that walk enough times--not too bad. It'd be nice to stay at the Regent again.

1. Madison 95-99: entertainment at its best 2. SCV '97-'01: original and innovative

SCV '00 Scouts '95 Regiment '96

Mike, Would you guess it: I just read a book called Hip: A History, and wrote a paper on 'hipness' in post-WWII American poetics. I'll PM you later tonight with the discursive answer. B)