CorpsPhan
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I was going to ask if it were in G or Bb. You can't flame me, this is the propane forum and it wouldn't be safe.
As Larry the Cable Guy would say, that's funny, I don't care who you are.
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This was in HS band, we played at the grand opening of a fiber-container company. The gig involved us marching around inside the factory to a designated point, playing, and then marching out.
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Hmmmmmmm?
The truck pulled out in the darkness of night, and now that we've seen it in the daylight we may have a problem......I don't recall the three foot lettering on the box saying...... "Art's Plumbing. We're The Turd Best in New York".
Does that now mean we're #1 in the #2 business?
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Reminds me of that George Cloney line from O brother were art thou, "this place a geographical oddity"
Going through everything that they documented, I got to the point where I said that if this was a movie or TV show, my reaction would have been "come on already, WTF were the writers smoking when they wrote this script???"
Truth really is stranger than fiction.
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Well, for 2 Kiltie drivers, the season ain't over yet....
Maybe we start a pool on which happens first; the needed part arrives and the truck gets fixed or the trapped miners in South America get rescued....
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Be careful what you say. The Reaper may come for you.
"Don't fear the Reaper" -- BOC
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OT here, I know, but for all the slings and arrows being thrown at Rochester, I have to say that at least for me, personally, DCA in Rochester, other than ridiculous airfare this year which was solved by flying to Buffalo, has been relatively low-stress. Now that may be because the Kilties are housed close to the stadium, but even if we weren't, parking hasn't really been a hassle, overall access wasn't bad even with the construction this year, and so on.
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What about no pants???
Pants, schmants...
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Mine, but then I might be a bit biased.....
Otherwise, it's a toss-up between Cabs and Bucs.
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Don't forget there is a small percentage of DCI members that drop in to finish out DCA corps' season after DCI Finals.
I think it's larger than "small"....
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Jimmy & Jay are STILL in Coufu NY. Part for EQ truck wont get here untill Wedesday afternoon.
Time for more
I guess. All I can say is wow.
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When I saw the title of this thread I thought it was going to go in a whole 'nother direction....
I think there will be several special Moon-Awards at the banquet this year. Meanwhile, thank you and everyone who had to deal with this. WWBD indeed.
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It all depends on what you want out of drumcorps. There are many people on this board, me being one of them, that prove you can *not* march DCI and still go on to live long and productive lives.
But as people have pointed out, once you hit the magic age, DCI is no longer an option.If you want to do the full touring experience, do DCI, even if you can only do it for one year. If you want drum corps experience, either one will fill that need.
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You can barely hear them here, plus Frontier isn't surrounded by houses like Marina Auto is.
They were loud as heck at my hotel, though......
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Oy gevalt.....
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guess I should have googled first... indeed it's kimmelweck
never heard weck before - just wick
forgive me mighty John... I owe you a Red Osier's sandwich
actually - if you REALLY want a treat... go out to the Red Osier restaurant - it is 5 STAR with the best prime rib anywhere... but it's a bit of a drive in LeRoy
Uh, different John.....I know, we all look alike.
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Completely agree. Prelims that year was the worst show of my life. I didn't play an entire note during the show because I couldn't move my fingers to use the valves I was so cold.
A friend who was in the stands in 2006 said that it physically hurt to be sitting out in that.
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Flatlander!
At least it isn't FIB!
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The "Bubbler" was a 1888 trademark of the Kohler company of Wisconsin for a unique drinking fountain designed to make the water bubble as it flowed out from a drinking faucet. The term "bubbler" stuck here and is parochial to southeastern Wisconsin, Australia, and Oregon. If you ask where a "drinking fountain" or "water fountain" are in these parts, people will correct you and tell you it's a bubbler. When in Rome...
Wikipedia "Bubbler": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubbler (not a RickRoll)
Thank you, sir, and you are accurate on the correction if you say 'water fountain'.
It's still a water fountain, though....
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Dang....and most of us complain about a 300-400 mile trip! Whew, my sediments go out to those mid-west corps!
Just as a FYI (I don't want this to come across as whining, because it's not; it's just a statement of fact), the Minnesota weekend involved me putting 1,061 miles on my car.
A practice weekend in Racine involves putting close to 250 miles on my car.
That is all.
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Like the Dixie Chicks sang, Earl's got to die.....
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Speak for YOURSELF John...
Spoken by someone whose residents say " Yah, sure you betcha" and "goin' up nort' dere"
(putting on my best attempt to sound 'Scanda-hoovian', "don'cha know")
Pat.....
And I reiterate...
Spoken by someone who speaks with a Sout'Side Chicawgo accent with a bit of Hoosier mixed in.
And despite the number of seasons I spent up in Wisconsin, it's still 'pop' and not 'soda'. Coke and Pepsi are pop, seltzer water is soda. And it's a freaking drinking fountain! Where 'bubbler' came from is beyond me
OK, back on topic.
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....Plus they had these neat accents. They said we had accents, too.
No, no, no. Over there, we have the accents. Over here, they do.
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What if the solo required actual dynamic contrast? Something beyond f-fffff (in the lower range)?
Well.....if the pit wasn't amplified, then the soloist wouldn't have to be amplified to overcome that, would he/she?
Sorry, couldn't resist.
Strangest Place You Ever Played A Standstill
in DCA - All-Age Corps Discussions
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Now that you mention it, 2 experiences with Kilties come to mind.
One was after the South Side Irish parade, don't remember which year, but I'm thinking 2004. One of the corps officers' relatives lived near the end of the parade route so the corps was invited after the parade for some food. Those of us that were there decided to hold a mini-concert in the lady's back yard.
Then after the Racine 4th of July parade, 2005 I think, the corps was asked to play for one of our fans' birthday, so after the parade the buses drove us over to the person's neighborhood, we got off and made our way via the alley into the person's back yard and surprised them.
I still think the factory gig was the actual "strangest" place in my experience, though.