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Well then, serious measures will have to be taken to get us that slim

I think that in a manner, corps will eventually have to adapt and change (i.e.-pit amps, etc.) However, having some things constant allows a corps to develop an identity or sense of tradition. It's a very fine line that is constantly being towed in each direction from opposing corps and judges

Bah. Forget you all. GO RAYS!!!!

Haha, agreed. I also agree that the visual will sink in before music to any non-corps savvy chap. Unless they're music majors or something, the Cavies would be your best bet there. I like the '02 show where they rotate within the big box near the closer (before the triangle move), and it's about 30 seconds.

I thought the last 30 seconds of the Cadets show this year was pretty beastly. Carried both the visual and musical package that drum corps is known for. But if that's not available, the Bluecoats clip would DEFINATELY work

In no particular order: '03 PR '00 Cadets '95 Scouts '08 Crown '07 Bluecoats '03 BD '04 Cavies '89 Star '89 SCV Limited to one per corps.

It is where you spend about 1/4 of your summer in (sometimes longer), so the need to be comfy in the bus is very important. And yes, the need for "bus boxes" are very important. They contain all of your bus snacks (which are life savers for all-night bus rides), any small souvies you buy on tour (patches, programs, etc.), and anything else you want on the bus (books, music, movies). Other than that, you can have little white boards to hang on the windows, or anything else to entertain you and your seat partner.

Star would be my first back, followed VERY closely by Suncoast Sound

As the guys called it this summer... "NAKED TIIIIIME!"

Me and my seat partner, being the geniuses *caugh* we are, bought the following "off the beaten path" items during the summer -Walkie Talkies (we could keep in touch with our favorite vis. tech and annoy people sitting next to us as we talked to each other) -20 Ft. Slip n' Slide (for our off day in Georgia) -Dashboard Jesus (trust me, if you were on our bus, you'd need him too) -Coloring book (becaus we're still kids at heart) -Nerf Guns (because we hate each other...actually, the whole bus had 'em. You gotta protect yourself) Of course, thanks to the low, low prices of Wally World, we got these for a total of around $70 (split two ways=around $35)

Love who they got for sponsors too lol Who knows, they could give INT a run for their money. Even though INT has gone without losing for quite some time, I've gotta good feeling about these new guys. I hear their program next year will consist of "Ice Ice Baby", "Cold as Ice", and "Hot Hot Hot".

Congrats to Surf! Hope we get the call-up next =) But mainly, good job! You guys have earned it

Whenever we did them this year, after we were done with the sprint portion, we'd sprint over to our instruments and just sustain a low Bb for however long they wanted us to. Breathing blocks are pretty intense and after doing one, lungs feel like they're on fire... but they work

'04 Crown (minus the whole "poetry jam") '03 Phantom (doesn't get the recognition it deserves, IMO) Wanna say 88 (?) Bluecoats? I forget the year. They played 'Sing Sing Sing' the year I'm thinking of I can't really think of that many "underrated" shows. Any DCI show is something special, IMO (Oh, and 07 Madison)

Should be interesting to follow. Wish I had the wherewithal to do percussion because of this

"We've got plenty of time before that (storm) gets over here!" Next thing we know, in the middle of a run, our instructor starts to climb off of the scaffolding, and starts to walk briskly inside Also, "This is perfectly healthy for you"

Because it had to be a half decent band I kid, I kid. I know we've only got 4 corps kids: Me, another mello from BAC, trumpet from Spirit, and pit (marimba?) from SCV WAR EAGLE!

Very nice, I'd forgotten about that. How about Crown's guard getting the wave started during retreat?

Gave my vote to the Bluecoats for the single loudest moment this year (very nice horn feature in the ballad) For the loudest throughout the whole show, I'd have to either give it to Phantom or Crown

As Matt Rainer already stated, they can never get our city and state right without some of our staff sitting up there. And to take it further, our Program Coordinator came up with these rediculously hard-to-pronounce names for our tunes, as the group's music we were playing (Rajaton) was from Finland. But for runthroughs during rehearsal, we would constantly make fun of the actual location of the corps: "From Jacksonville, North Carolina" "From Thomasville, Alaska" "From New York, IT'S SATURDAY NIGHT!" Also, numerous times this season (before they changed Vesuvias to be the closer), the announcer would announce the end of the show about 40 seconds too early for The Cadets

i too liked doing an east coast tour this year. it was a blasty blast. wherever you decide to march, tuba, i think you'll have the time of your life. it's certainly a neat experience

Orlando, FL 2004 Just a sophmore in high school (or about to be) Got to see the Cavies do 007, and I was overwhelmed. I'd never really seen anything better than our area's high school bands. After that, I tried to get as many people from high school to see that show, and got acquainted with some other cool shows. So far, from my old high school, we now have (including me) four people who marched this past season, and next year, we should have three more joining us.

Fantastic work on these!