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Oh. Ok. I get it. We can only talk about this past summer? Did Cadets win? Guess they are a bunch of losers then, since we can't talk about history beyond the past few months.

Do corps usually give out jackets and other items before the season or after the season? If the corps acknowledges you marched a year by their normal means of recognition, then you did, regardless of what somebody else tries to say about it. I missed one show due to a migraine and I missed a couple days of rehearsal due to "walking pneumonia." Did I not march drum corps?

I can remember some people thinking guard uniforms have been a little risque in recent times, but watching those Cadets' girls in the late 70s was a completely different experience!

I'm likely out of touch with the way things are ran these days. When I was going to camps, the best advice was to listen, give your best effort, practice everything you aren't doing well, and keep coming back until they tell you to go away. I've seen lots of people cut themselves from drum corps over the years. I even did it a couple times myself. I'll not repeat anything that has already been stated. I learned that it is a good idea to bring a 3-ring binder/folder, perhaps with plastic cover sheets, to put music and other important information in. This way you will be able to keep all of that easily organized.

Maybe not these days, but I think there was some box 1 action back when I marched.

Which corps? I think it depends on the reasons you had to leave the corps. If it were something out of your control, some benefit should be extended. I was not all that impressed with people that left corps for things like "band camp", "drum major camp", and "school." :)

What if we broke Quarters, Semis, and Finals into equal blocks of corps. Have different panels for each block and don't let the different panels share any information or results between themselves. They would only know the total scores that have been announced up to that point (on Thursday and Friday), but they won't know the numbers handed out in their particular captions. I understand it would be unreasonable to do this kind of thing at every show, and perhaps tough to do at every regional, but surely they could arrange it for championships. I suspect the numbers might be interesting...

I never thought about the time issue, but isn't it strange to have a program designed as a recruitment video shown at 10 PM on a Thursday night? I would think a recruitment video would be aimed at highschool kids, since I would think that most people that are likely to care about DCI already know about it by the time they are 18. Even under the old PBS broadcast situation, everybody I knew that was involved with marching band already knew about DCI by the time they got to college.

Percussion judge track should be for the top 6 scores in that caption. Certainly it would be better than listening to SCV's line take 7th.

I don't remember it ever being talked about when I marched. We must have had some sort of unofficial "Don't ask, don't tell" policy or it just didn't matter to anybody.

In this 'build-up system', I can see your point that capping the score at 100 seems a bit arbitrary. A cap works when you start at 100 and work down much better than starting from 0 and going up with mostly subjective numbers. Since a score of 100 doesn't mean perfection, the number is meaningless in our current judging system, isn't it?

It would be nice if they could somehow do both. The setup for the current version of the broadcast is effective for the channel it is on and the market it is aiming for. I do think that there is a market out there, though, that would be hooked more by some full shows that is not yet prepared to buy the DVDs/videos. I know some of my prized possessions, when I was first introduced to drum corps, were the recordings of the PBS broadcasts from '89-'91. I was able to get some shows for the cost of a videotape, which fit well with my budget in highschool (the full finals video sets were $90 or up at the time, I think) and being able to play them constantly made a difference for me. Maybe I am out of touch with the kids of today, though.

I wonder why we had 3 buses filled to capacity back in 1993, from what I recall. Nobody went without a seat partner. Guess we had more staff riding on the bus than would happen these days? That I can definitely agree with. I'd rather they go back to 128. I don't have a problem with it in regards to the pit. I love that it allows for much better technique on the instruments. What I hate is that people have to use it as a means to talk over the horns and drums.

Oh yeah! For some reason I was thinking Drum Corps Pacific...

Fewer corps will result in less variety.The less variety there is, the lower the ticket prices better go because I doubt I will suddenly enjoy every single corps hitting the field just because there are fewer of them. It hasn't been the case over the past decade and a half with me and it isn't likely to change in the future.

Just imagine the uproar here when only one particular corps at a show doesn't get the encore. I like the idea as long as there would be a moratorium on anybody getting their feelings hurt when people don't want to hear/see more from them.

How many did they use in 2006? Design choices are still expensive. I'm sure hauling around all those tables didn't make a difference in expenses, then? I read the contention that amplification lowers expenses over the long run. I'm not questioning it, but I'd love to see some data on that.

How about 2006?

Is this going to air in Canada at all?

He already heralded in the age of amplification, increased memberships, and an extra truck just for props.

Think all the recent oppression regarding copyrights is due to Napster waking up the sleeping giant?

The days of two tours were awesome. DCI tour didn't start until mid-July, generally. You had roughly a month for regional tour (first tour) and a month for DCI tour (second tour). I always thought that was a better way to run it. Although I have been told there were problems with some of them...maybe DCE (Drum Corps East) specifically? DCM was the best ran, it seems, and thusly lasted the longest. From what I recall, we had DCE, DCM, and DCP...and DCS (Drum Corps South) was around for at least one year (1993).

If it is copyright reasons, the RIAA and related folks are really sucking the life out of everything they can. "Back in my day" there were people buying videos before they were even out of uniform. You could get just about anything on video back then, as well. I wish I had more money at the time because I would've bought everything. Now you can't even get audio recordings for the top 12 throughout DCI history (just check the downloads area of dci.org and see how many are missing), nevermind actually hoping to see recordings available of non-finalist corps from years past. The new aggressive style of "copyright enforcement" actually reduces revenue for the very people they are supposedly trying to protect.

Indeed. Virtually all of his proposals seem to raise the cost of drum corps, not make it lower. If you want to keep costs down, you don't bring in amplification, electronics, other instruments, increase membership, take a bunch of props on tour, etc. The man does nothing but raise the expenses, so to claim that he even cares about the impact on the activity is a head scratcher.

If they put that line back in for Finals, is there anything else they put back in that was changed/removed for Semifinals?