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FYI: Cincinnati is the proper spelling. /go go go Tom Slade!

As a CorpsVets member, I enjoyed my time in Bridgeport, especially the Cardinal Shehan Center!. Saturday was a humbling and surprising response to our performance that I will not soon forget. Nice contest, and the parade was a blast! Add some 90-degree air and it will be *perfect*! :)

I am selling a 30" Yamaha bass drum: - Yamaha brand, built for drum corps/marching band use - Nearly new Pearl rims - Evans heads, 2 seasons usage but still playable - Color is like these tenors: tenors picture but should be easy to re-cover - Another action picture here. See left side of picture. It is not on eBay (yet) because I would like to sell without shipping it, and I believe there are local people on this board. I live in Cincinnati and frequently travel to Atlanta. If you want to buy and can meet somewhere on I-75 then you will save approx $50 in shipping. Any interest? If interested, e-mail to ericlandis2003@hotmail.com. If you post a reply here, I might not read it.

Uniform parts for sale: 32 Black Shakos with bird logo and boxes PICTURE 32 Black Plumes, feathers, with plume box! PICTURE 40 Cesario jackets, solid blue, with attachable B/W sash PICTURE 40 Black Cesario gauntlets PICTURE PRICE: Make an offer on any set of parts, or all of them. PICKUP LOCATION: Between Cincinnati, Ohio and Atlanta, GA. I can mail to other locations also but some stuff is bulky. EMAIL: Write to ericlandis2003@hotmail.com

Oh yeah, and the hotel has a pool. I'm bringing the Speedo. And some Wild Turkey. /a good goat'll do that //slashalicious! ///america recycles... so do I

Wow, CorpsVets and Renegades at the same hotel. I'm saving up for this.

OMFG! I would like to invite EVERY FRICKIN' BOTTOM BASS PLAYER in the United States of America (and elsewhere if your country has developed tonal basses) to the CorpsVets Intermission In The Dome 2006. (CIITD06) I don't wanna sound like a big swinging Richard but I have the privilege of 6 counts of stuff that will make your subsonic heart melt, fellow basses. Mmmmmmmmm. See you there! /Will catch as many Junior corps as possible //Will join 105 others in a Rock Star Moment ///Really?... you people buyin' this Rockstar stuff... b**bs ////Slashies on loan from Fark and Jennifer /////more of a Top bass but that's for another website

There's a big world out there and we love to travel! It's always fun putting CV on the road. Never a dull moment. Hey Fran, I think we ate dinner next to you at the Rib/Steak place. We were the second people in the dining room at 5PM and my girlfriend was the one full of beers and marveling at how your entourage knew stuff about 8 particular counts played in 1978. She's learning.

They are unused and stapled in the bag, as they were my backup pair. The main pair worked great on a 30" bass and can make lots of sound. $25 for mallets and shipping anywhere in the continental USA. Write to elandis@3z.net for Eric Landis and we can do payment by PayPal. I expect this listing to be here for a long time, so don't assume they are sold!

I heard that CorpsVets did OK. Any other people at Dover see the *entire* show?

You mean crazy like insane? Mental illness is no joke! my gifts to you ---> ' , . Y

You should see the giant pushpin that just landed down the street. OMFG, it's huge. It landed right on top of the post office for 45241. I'm in too... in the DCA wasteland that is Cincinnati. Adam Wells, where are you?!?

It was a good show... Don Ellis charts. Good execution and some sweet drumming with nice musicality, interp and timing. Horns sounded great from where I was, and the ending had incredible energy. Heard from their members that Sunday's show was even better, but this did not boost the scores.

Unfortunately, Tech's "Weather Condition Simulation" task force had the temperature set about 20 degrees too high. The grass was fantastic. That's interesting too, and I read prediction after prediction of our inevitable placement. Those who have seen us live or heard the latest recording from www.corpsvets.org know that CV has a better chance this year of escaping our previous position in the pack. Hopefully those people will come out to see our practices in Mountain Top(www.edline.net/pages/Crestwood_High_School) and you may be turned on to something other than the top 3.

TMI follows: We were on asphalt parking lot. It is difficult for recording because of a ticket booth adjacent to DM podium that prevents moving the mic far away. I attached Shure VP88 (stereo mic that I use in mid/side mode) to scaffolding at approx 15 feet off ground, maybe 8 feet behind drum major and 12 feet behind pit. I have made recordings on the ground and this close, but it was all pit. I wanted to get higher for better balance. Show starts off as all pit, but later the balance isn't that bad. Being this close gives a nice stereo image. For example, you can clearly hear the basses moving right to left during drum solo near 7:45 mark. Recorder is Marantz PMD660, recording onto compact flash card. I think it's a decent setup but would like a recorder with better preamps. You have to have a hot signal or else it's noisy. I have not recorded on the parking lot and had to guess on levels (because I'm playing bass during the show). There's only one "over" which I consider success! There is a light amount of compression to make the quiet things louder. This may cause the pit to seem equally loud as full corps when you compare different segments of the recording to each other. Mastering is through Akai DPS24, a great audio workstation that I highly recommend. So, making the recordings is a fun part of drum corps, but more fun is playing in a line like this year's. Don't know where we'll end up, but in my 11 or so years on the field I have not played in a battery or bass section as good as this (maybe I have dragged them all down).