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  1. Family emergency has forced us to miss Atlanta. Selling two tickets: Section 129C, Row 33, Seats 12 and 13. Selling the pair for what they cost me: $191.00. Can pay via Paypal and can transfer tickets via Ticketmaster.
  2. Help! Our cat decided to pee on a bookcase containing our collection of DCI yearbooks. If you have the above years and are willing to sell, please respond and we can work details. Thanks!
  3. There's a screening in Sturtevant, Wisconsin (Racine-Kenosha area/SE Wisconsin) on Jan. 8 -- only if enough tickets are reserved by Dec. 29 (we have 51 to go as of this writing!). Here are the details: When: 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 8 Where: 10411 Washington Ave., Sturtevant (Marcus Renaissance) How to reserve tickets: http://gathr.us/screening/9765 Your credit card will not be charged unless we reach the minimum ticket reservations by Dec. 29 (there's more info about how this works on the Gathr site). No tickets will be sold at the box office (all must be reserved online through Gathr). Cost: $11 total, including a service charge Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/759059487481670/
  4. As much as I love the Scouts, I wish they would move this show to a bigger venue. This is a relatively small high school stadium. Almost impossible to get a read on any drill. Preferred the Madison Memorial site from the mid-2000s. That said, I'm really looking forward to this show! Wondering if Troopers and/or Spirit can make a statement.
  5. Yes, only finals for '92 and '94. Sorry.
  6. Rarely viewed, mint condition VHS tapes of DCI Finals, 1988-2001 1988-1997 are top 12 (vol. 1 and 2); 1998-2001 are top 21 (vol. 1-3). Asking $10 for each year.
  7. We used a brass quintet version of Phantom's "Fire of Eternal Glory" for the processional; it worked great. If you time it right, it builds perfectly to when the bride comes down the aisle. If not, the arranger has a repeat built in if needed. The arranger is Bob Childs; if you're interested in obtaining the music, let me know. We also had a vocal of "Make Our Garden Grow," also a perfect drum corps/wedding tune. We also used "Flower Duet" (from Phantom's '07 show) for the mothers' entrance.
  8. I was there in Port Clinton, Ohio, when mayflies (Junebugs?) inundated the stadium, looking like snow in June, forcing a drum major only retreat and listening to the crunch crunch of the bugs underfoot as people fled the stadium. I was there outside a stadium in West Virginia in 1995 when two children were asking for - and receiving - autographs from a Madison Scout. I was there in 1990 when Santa Clara Vanguard played its last chord from the stadium tunnel. I was there in 1992 when the Glassmen flew kites - and missed finals by .10 of a point. I was there in 1992 when the Velvet Knights' shark ate the opera singer.
  9. Kenny Chesney and Keith Urban performed in the first concert at Lucas Oil Stadium Sunday in Indy. Reviewer notes that sound with the roof closed was terrible but much better with roof open. Here's the review: http://www.indy.com/posts/11556 While a country/rock concert is much different than a drum corps performance, I think this gives us an idea of what the venue may be like.
  10. Question: Are the concourses open to the seating area? I noticed at the Georgia Dome that there was no wall separating the seating area from the concourse - so all that noise from the concourse spilled over into the seating area. Those who attended finals in 2000 at the University of Maryland may also remember that this was a problem until crews erected screens to lessen the noise/disturbance.
  11. If memory serves me, the Cadets did do their field show in its entirety at the Olympics - and on a field with no lines or hash marks - and then did the humor bit with Bill Irwin afterward.
  12. I echo Michael Boo's comments about the old Ames Field in Michigan City. Back in the day, there was an Illinois drum corps circuit (can't remember the exact name) that fielded very small, young corps and had competitions around the Chicago area. Some of those contests were in parks with portable bleachers brought in. I also attended a DCM show in a park in Rosemont sometime in the early 1990s. But the most memorable was a DCI show in a little town south of Grand Rapids, Mich., I think it was 1996. Stands were old and wooden, about 10 rows high, perched on the bank of a creek. First part of the show was all small corps. But then the Crossmen came out and I literally thought those stands would tumble into that creek.
  13. You CAN share your Facebook photos to the "public" (i.e., people who aren't your FB friends). Just go to the photo album on your Facebook page that you want to share and look at the very bottom of the page. There's a URL there that says, "show people this album by sending them this public link." Just copy and paste that URL/link here, and everyone should be able to see it. I THINK they might be able to copy images from there, too, btw. Hope this helps. Ann, using her husband's log-in (I usually just lurk)
  14. This year, after Phantom entered the field and the one DM snubbed the other's handshake, some guys behind me said in unison: "Can't we all just get along?"
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