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we are interested in your drums please email me at jerry@mydogneedshelp.com and we can talk about these drums
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Rapidfire Percussion is looking to rent out our equipment for any of the competing drum corps this summer for a very reasonable fee. For more details please email us at rapidfirepercussion@gmail.com
We are looking to talk to you about your drums for rent .We are a drum corps in york pa. which help intercity youth learn the art of drum corps please tell us the breakdown of the drums and your asking price.
Saints of Saginaw Drum and Bugle Corps
Bluecoats
Westshoremen Director 1995-1997
DCA World Champs
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I looked through the whole thread and cannot believe Morgan Larson from the '85 and '86 Madison Scouts is not mentioned. He was unbelievable...especially the cadenza solo from '86. You talk about being hung out to dry...but he nailed it every single time. I marched Bluecoats that year, and we saw Madison a lot. I never heard him so much as waver a bit. As a fellow soloist of that same time period, I must admit...I never missed their show when we were in the same show because he was downright inspiring to listen to!!!
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Thanks for the words of encouragement, Phil. How far from central PA are you? I would love to bring you on board once we get things rolling. If you would be interested, let me know.
Good Luck Jeff with this exciting and noble effort you are undertaking. I hope you are able to help some misdirected youth and give them an experience they will never forget. -
The Saints of Saginaw Jr. Drum and Bugle Corps is located in Saginaw PA in York County. We were moved by the presence of God in all of our lives to praise our Lord through Drum and Bugle corps. Our goal is to offer a musical education to the youth of York, Lancaster and Harrisburg. We charge no fees and all equipment, lessons, and rehearsals are paid for by donations from local churches, corporations, individuals, and fund raisers by the members. We are reaching out to the inner city streets to help troubled youth get a musical education and discover that God has a greater plan for their lives than the streets have to offer them. We are a non-denominational music ministry committed to changing the world tomorrow by changing the lives of troubled youth today!
If you would be interested in helping in any way, or would like to find out more about us, please feel free to respond here or private message me.
Thanks and blessings
-Pastor Jeff Wilt
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The Saints of Saginaw Jr. Drum and Bugle Corps is located in Saginaw PA in York County. We were moved by the presence of God in all of our lives to praise our Lord through Drum and Bugle corps. Our goal is to offer a musical education to the youth of York, Lancaster and Harrisburg. We charge no fees and all equipment, lessons, and rehearsals are paid for by donations from local churches, corporations, individuals, and fund raisers by the members. We are reaching out to the inner city streets to help troubled youth get a musical education and discover that God has a greater plan for their lives than the streets have to offer them. We are a non-denominational music ministry committed to changing the world tomorrow by changing the lives of troubled youth today!
If you would be interested in helping in any way, or would like to find out more about us, please feel free to respond here or private message me.
Thanks and blessings
-Pastor Jeff Wilt
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Hey all
Here's the official Corps logo.
T Shirts, bumper stickers, etc... are available. Just contact me. Also, keep an eye out for a web site. I'll post the URL here as soon as it is up.
Still looking for horns and drums. With your help, we can help a youth find a passion for music instead of addiction to drugs and crime.
We need your help, and we believe God will bless you for helping.
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The Saints of Saginaw Jr. Drum and Bugle Corps are asking you, the Drum Corps community, to think outside the box in how you can help a child beat the lure of the streets, drugs, and crime by offering drum corps as an answer. We have started a music ministry using drum and bugle corp to bring our message to the inner city youth of Central PA (currently Harrisburg, York, and surrounding areas)! Could you please extend a hand and help. You can join our booster club, pray for our ministry, volunteer your time and/or talents, donate or help us find free or low cost equipment. We will have a web site up soon, but until then, please feel free to respond here or PM me. Whatever works for you. I'm open to all questions and suggestions.
With your help we can rescue these youth from the dangers of the streets and we can change the world...one note at a time!
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The Saints of Saginaw Junior Drum and Bugle Corps!!!
Looking to start a junior corps serving the youth of York County and the rest of Central PA (Harrisburg, Lancaster, etc...). We will be reaching out to troubled teens, juvenile offenders, inner city disadvantaged youth with the love of Christ Jesus, drums and horns. We are looking for anybody who may have equipment of any type that we can use to get started.
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My point is that most people especially those who marched in junior corps in one way or another have "peaked" as far as amount of time practicing while in drum corps. Lets be honest, you would be hard pressed to find any 25-30 years old who practices as much as a 22 year old in drum corps. Therefore the less you practice, the more the product suffers.
However, most people who take up golf after drum corp find their scores lower during their 25-30 's. Why??? More time playing than when in drum corps.
But that is my 2 cents.
Now I would rather hit a Titleist than a High C.
I did four years of junior corps with the whole 6 to 12 hours of playing a day. I did the college music major thing. Then my life took a turn and now I am in full time ministry as a pastor, growing a marriage, raising two children the be Godly adults, and taking classes toward my masters. I hardly have any time to practice, but I still play in the Westshoremen Alumni and I play in church. I don't get to practice for a tenth of the time I used to, but after playing for more almost thirty years of my life, I have learned how to be incredibly efficient with what little time I have. I have learned more about my instrument and musicality than any 25 year old could dream. The "quality" lessons of age and experience far outweigh the "quantity" time of "not yet having a life."
I play better now than I ever dreamed of at 25 and I am less than half a year from hitting 40.
Another point that needs to be made in response to your earlier post is this. I'll take the entertainment value of listening to life experienced musicians who do what they do for the sheer purpose of enjoying themselves and entertaining the listener over the technical excellence of a less life experienced musician who has enough hours in his schedule to play with "good tone and technical proficiency" every time.
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If someone casts aspersions they are a hypocrite.
(It's the whole "He who is without sin cast the first stone" thing...)
Your Biblical quotation is taken from within the first 11 verses of the eighth chapter of the Gospel according the John, commonly known as "The story of the Woman Caught in Adultery. In this story, the pharisees were not attempting to excuse adultery, nor were they trying to pander to "the culture" by making it a "wink wink nod nod" "just live with it" life choice. Both of which, have been the primary arguments on this board in favor of booing. When Jesus said, "let him who is without sin cast the first stone," He was making the point that sin is sin...without progressive levels of sinfulness, and that the only right to punish sin belonged to the sinless. In other words, the only person in the crowd that day who had the right to pick up a stone and throw it was Jesus himself.
For that reason, I will now take two drastic steps that are rarely taken in forums such as this. First, I am humbly apologizing for my extremely rude and judgmental attitude in my earlier posts. I still whole heartedly feel that it is rude and insensitive to boo, but I should not have allowed my own disdain for their actions drive me to something as belittling as name calling. Second, I want to thank you and others who have pointed out my earlier flaws in character. And I want to especially thank you for using the Holy Word of God in doing so.
One last, but important point. At the end of the story, Jesus does forgive the adulteress, but then admonishes her to "go and sin no more." I hope the booers will read to the end of the story.
I'm curious...how long have you been a follower of Christ? It is refreshing to see people still using the Word of God as their compass and guide.
Sincerely,
Pastor Jeff Wilt
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It is so easy for many to judge and condemn and name-call nameless, faceless people that partake in actions one doesnt approve of on the great DCP. It gives many of us who would otherwise go unoticed in the drum corps community an outlet to feel special, all-important, and relevant. I would love to hear how many of you vocal anti-booers would walk up to the masses who did the booing on Thursday night and condemn them...blah blah blah, sure as one or two respond and say "Believe me, Ill tell them a thing or two" ...right !!!!
I dont condone booing, I wouldnt boo, ever, Its not my responsibility to "call out" or judge those that do. Im sure someone has booed once or twice in twenty eight years that I would call a friend.
What makes me laugh and shake my head here is the hypocrisy......I quoted you playing all righteous about not booing, yet you feel you have the right to call those that do jerks, and are allowed to go off on them any way you see fit ?? Who the heck are you to judge those that "boo'd" that night. Why says your negative action about them is ok, but they cant boo ????
Two wrongs dont make a right and all that other mumbo jumbo........
Funny thing is, I bet the majority of those that boo'd that Thursday night, and It was way more than half, have moved on with their lives, their flawed, worthless lives , as some of you would like to believe and dont even recall that night or that action.
So, how many of you that condemn and judge and sit in your chair of judgement actually lead perfect lives and have not sinned since...say, Finals night ??
What makes you think you are any better than those that boo'd ??? Selective sinning and selective behaviour ????
And those that are against it, who says your (our) way of thinking is superior to them ?? They bought a ticket just like we did.
And, how many that are playing judge and jury were actually there ?? Thats the biggest travesty of all. sorry, condemn me all you want, block me, dismiss me, whatever, but those that were there had more of a "right" to boo than those that werent even there and love to re-hash it every chance they get on a little web-page. talk about living vicariously. LOL
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It is not hypocrisy at all Michael.
If somebody steals they are a theif
If somebody kills an innocent person they are a murderer
If somebody cheats to get ahead they are a cheater
If somebody boos they are a jerk.
If I were to take a friend to a show and they booed a performance or a score or a placement, it would be the last trip to a show I would take with them. Also, as for the comments about posting to feel "special, all important, or relevant," I did not post for any of those reasons. I posted that people who boo are jerks because I think people who boo are jerks. Sometimes it is truly that simple.
And anyway...I thought people who needed to feel "special, all important, or relevant" became writers. (Don't flip out...I truly just meant that one in fun...I love your writing.)
In all seriousness, Michael, we have both been within and around this activity for a long time, and this booing thing has been a black eye for a long time. Maybe I overreacted...but I've simply had enough. The quarter finals example, for me, was the straw that broke the camels back.
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People who boo are jerks, and many of them have even gone so far as to post proof of such all over these boards in an inane attempt to defend themselves. It is utterly juvenile and devoid of any class whatsoever. If you boo, and you are proud of it, then fine, but at least have the cahones to simply admit you're a classless jerk who doesn't really care about anybody but yourself. It's not like it's possible for any of us to think you're more of a jerk than we already do. If anything, your honesty in admitting you're a jerk might be mildly redeeming.
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I don't know about the rankings...but I do know that Carolina Crown could have done their show 10 times and I wouldn't feel like I wasted 20 bucks tonight. Their show is awesome, entertaining, challenging, entertaining, excellent, entertaining, and did I mention that they were entertaining. Every show had "something" that I enjoyed, but Crown had the only total package I enjoyed.
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What brought about this change???? Better yet, who??
:o'The way I figure, they took away the penalty out of pity for George. After all...two points is nothing compared to spending the rest of his life being the guy who put that piece of smelly cheese show on the field.
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Should they have been penalized for wanting the field properly marked...no
Should they have been penalized for having the tackiest show to hit the DCI field since Star played the theme from Mickey Mouse Club...YES!
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At best they might be needed for the initial set when entering the field. After that, you never look at field markings again by this point.
Sure! George just risked getting a penalty and pissing off the DCI leadership for fun.
If they didn't need the hash marks then there would be no sensible reason to do what he did...even for George. I mean really...you don't march their show and you have no freakin clue whether they need the hashes or not. Some corps march picture focused, some corps march spot focused and at the level of a top 5 corps their is usually a combination of both. Often at their level of drill (which was amazing tonight) their a lot of blind pass through moves which absolutely do require every field marking to do safely.
Look...I'm not a big fan of the Cadets show this year, and I'm definitely not a Hopkins fan, but as somebody who has written a lot of drills at many various skill levels, I would not have wanted to see that show attempted without all of the field markings.
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hey guys (and gals) I found a wet Weasel at Hersheypark today.
Hersheypark.....every time I think about Hersheypark, I hear Pentagon music in my head and my ankle gets sore.
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Without a doubt,
Jeff Wilt, Bluecoats Sop soloist '86-'89, hands down the guy that gave the Bluecoats their identity(he's the guy in my avtar here to the left).
Soultrain, Spirit of Atlanta 1988
The red headed sop soloist with Spirit of Atlanta from '85-'86 (maybe '87 too....someone from Spirit help me out here).
All of the soloists from the '88 Blue Devils, smooth as silk and confident.
DW
Thank You Darren. It does my heart good to be remembered and appreciated all these years later. It's hard to believe it's been two decades.
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I'd also like to add that every time I listen to that show, I do my own rendition of your now famous fist pump after the solo. Awesome! I hope to meet you sometime soon!
I am grateful for your kind words. I had no idea that you youngins still listen to that stuff from twenty years ago.
As for meeting, you never know. I see that you are a Penn Stater. I am also in PA. I am in York County. I get up your way every now and then for conferences. I used to spend a lot of time up there. Back in the late 80's I wrote the drill and taught marching for State College High School's indoor color guard.
The next time I'm coming up that way for a conference, I would be glad to let you know I'm coming and we could grab a lunch.
Do you march. I didn't see anything on your profile.
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Ah naivete...and generalization.
You left competitive drum corps because you chose to. It was obviosly not for you, as you were never able to find a corps home.
FYI there were drugs in your high school, your college, etc. I bet some of your BAA buddies light up the joints once in a while. I'll put $$ on it
Drum corps is not immune to drugs.
Every drum corps I have ever been a part of would KICK YOUR ### OUT if you were caught with illegal drugs. PERIOD.
I am sorry that you were unable to have a great experience in the competitive drum corps world, but to make such statements is ridiculous.
But the point of the thread is not whether a corps would kick you out for drug use. The point is, what are the corps doing to weed out (don't laugh) the users. It's one thing to say they will be tough on drug use "if anybody gets caught." My point is this: What are they actively doing to do the catching. If you just wait for some kid to walk up to the director and say, "by the way, I have some weed on the bus. Is that a problem?" then it ain't gonna happen. But let that same kid and a few buddies be getting high behind their housing site and have a rep from the sight happen by, and that director sure as can be is going to wish he had done more to find the problem himself.
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I just can't believe drum corps has come to this. That is why I left competitive drum corps and now march to serve our country.
I just signed up to serve. What a great idea. Never heard of this before. As a pastor, I have done a lot of military funerals, and lately they have been using this fake bugle that looks like a flugel horn and it has a recording built into it. Sounds terrible and the guy faking the playing keeps breathing in the middle of phrases.
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The problem with using just one source, however, is that with issues like marijuana there's about a billion studies for and a billion studies against.
My senior year of high school I took AP American Government, and my teacher was a young girl fresh from working in DC who had a husband who was in the medical field. Her father was also in the medical field. One day legalization of marijuana came up and she told us that her husband (for legalization) and her father (against it) would often sit for hours throwing studies at each other that supported their cause and refuted the others. The bottom line is that there is no definitive answer, you kind of have to look at the entire body of research for both sides and see which has the most supporting evidence and then go with that.
I did my own 15 year study. The results were quite conclusive. It was really, really stupid and the only thing it cured me of was overachieving.
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