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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.

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!

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/

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.

Yes, only finals for '92 and '94. Sorry.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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)

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?"

Yes, this event is well attended. But it's only once a year. If you add up attendance at all DCI events over a summer, it would easily surpass 65,000. In fact, according to this http://www.dci.org/news/view.cfm?news_id=1...2a-d4e124545486 from last year, DCI events drew 400,000 in 2007. Again, we can't pin the perceived success/failure of DCI based solely on attendance at finals. There's much more to it than that.

This is very key. I too have read that attendance figures from the 1970s and 1980s are unreliable and inconsistent. The key to what was published in the yearbook this year is the phrase "paid attendance." Those big numbers from Montreal and past years may (or may not) be "paid attendance." And consider this: This year, we had about 43 corps (World and Open classes) competing at finals - by all indications less than half of what we had in Montreal, and attendace was still in the 20,000 range - more than half of Montreal attendance. Also, in recent years, with DCI's emphasis on super-regionals such as San Antonio and Atlanta, overall attendance at DCI events throughout the summer is more important than finals attendance. I've read on these boards about people who are more than content to attend one of the big regionals events and skip finals. Add to that the revenue from folks tuning into the Fan Network and at movie theaters, and it seems like DCI is on the right track.

This isn't online, but if you're willing to spend $30, it fills the bill perfectly: A DVD the Blue Devils made a few years ago called "11 1/2 Minutes." It's on their Web site.

I don't think there's any "editorialism" going on here. My guess is this is the only photo the newspaper has of Orwoll; it's probably a file photo that, in the newspaper, is usually just a tiny head shot. Unfortunately, sometimes on a Web site there's only one size for a photo, so a small photo gets blown up. (I know this as I work for a newspaper, and the same thing happens on our Web site with headshot photos.)

If you go see the movie "Cloverfield," be sure to stick around and listen to the music that plays over the end credits. It's incredibly intense, and easy to picture a drum corps doing it - especially in the vein of Phantom Regiment. It's dark and aggressive without being a random collection of dissonant chords. It's by Michael Giacchino, who did the music for "The Incredibles" and works with the movie's producer J.J. Abrams ("Lost," "Alias") frequently.

I agree with just about all of these and would throw in one more - Colts. They didn't make top 12 (missed by .9), but they had a fun show of Blood, Sweat and Tears music (and some sexy color guard moments).

One of the great things about screens like these at shows is you get to see angles unavailable from your seat. If you're sitting down low, the screens can show high-angle drill; if you're up high, you can catch some close-up intensity. At last summer's finals, I especially enjoyed the screen in the Rose Bowl showing us the perfect angle for the Bluecoats' "laser" drill.

You may be referring to the Chicago Tribune book review section from a few weeks ago. They reviewed the book "American Band," which is a year-in-the-life look at the Concord High School marching band in Elkhart, Ind. The book is excellent, not only delving into what makes a successful marching band, but also looking at the kids, the directors, the parents - just about anybody involved in a great band program.

$250, if I recall correctly.

I confirmed what I remembered. This is from the Cavaliers' Web site, recalling 1990: "While in Buffalo we were asked to perform for the half time of a Bills and Giants game. All I remember about it was that football fans are nothing like drum corps fans. As we lined up to go on people were making fun of our uniforms and throwing things at us. One drunken New Yorker had propositioned me to trade my hat for his beer. After careful consideration I had to decline the offer."