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the sound of the horns or the sound of the players? give a professional a beginner instrument he/she will make it sound good give a beginner student a professional model instrument it will still sound like crap. Obviously this is a gross simplification/exaggeration and there are many more factors, but hopefully that makes still sense. edit: changed some wording, nothing big

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Brigadiers switched to Bb in 2008

People who bash DCA when they've never seen a show from it, after you see it you can bash it all you want I don't care, but at least TRY to from an opinion from something besides speculation. When people try to compare DCA to DCI in terms of difficulty and precision. That's really all I can think of now, I enjoyed both of my years with the 2 corps I marched with given their differences (Reading 07, Brigs 08) I will say that in DCA's favor, they really make drum corps fun, which is what I think it's all about. Which is making being in a top 6 DCI corps more challenging in some ways, but it still has it's perks too. I'm sure I could think of a lot more for the DCI thread, which speaks enough for DCA

I think park and bark and I think jazz, so I said BD, but I thought about it more, and SCV, Bluecoats, and especially Cadets have some killer moments where they "park and bark", my 2 favorite times of this are BD from just about any year especially in the 80's and from recently, Cadets 2007 in Blue Shades.

I'd say Academy, for the same reasons others said. And for 2010 I say Star of Indiana, they'll be in the Friday night show for sure.

The Cadets + INT = INT All fun and games, I love the Cadets.

From what I've heard from other corps, I think that that there will be a big increase in the number of corps that improve, we saw it last year with Hurcs and MBI, I think other corps this year will follow that. I'm thinking the 5 spot will be very competitive like the 12th spot for DCI has been in recent years (or at least as long as I've been paying close attention), minus the fact that whoever gets 6th place will still in finals, but it's about the "prestige" of the top 5.

I don't mind them, it's entertaining to look at the people in the "audience", some dance, some don't make any facial expressions, some clap to the cadence. Would I want to do parades all summer? **** no, but it's different from the rehearsal and shows, which is why I *usually* enjoy them. Maybe my mind will change after junior corps this summer, who knows.

I would love to see a corps play Nathan Daughtrey's Limerick Daydreams, such a neat piece, and lots of music to pick from it, probably could do a show on just that piece. And Edvard Grieg's Funeral March, the big hit it in is so epic, and it happens twice!

You know....if we were still using G bugles..... just figured I'd get that out of the way quickly

On the 07 DVD for Regiment, on Multi-Cam at the end when they do they wedge on the bottom right of the screen a judge walks by and has the biggest smile on his face.

I've been holding dumbbells up in front of me as if I were holding a euph, usually about a 7.5-10 lb weight in each arm. Seems to be working well so far. Others say a gallon of milk, just something heavy if you don't have access to a marching euph. Although I've also been going to the gym everyday, doing chest presses, biceps and triceps exercises as well. I can't do pushups very well unfortunately, my elbows and wrists crack with a sharp pain everytime I do one, so I just go with the chest press to build up chest/pecks, but pushups can work too.

All they needed was someone getting kicked in the groin during a rehearsal and I'd give it a 10/10 for wackiness.

What if the 2 "tie-ing" corps tie in number of captions won as well...

what time does the parade start? there's coverage of the event all day, I just wanna see the parade for colts and cadets and the actual inauguration.

1. "I am Spartacus" 2. Goose stepping hornline/slave revolt battle (PR) 3. Cadets ending 4. Crowns hit after the end of the first candide 5. Cavaliers ending (heck the whole show, I loved it!) so many other good moments that made this hard to decide. Great year for my first live finals

That reminded me of the lady sitting in front of the lead baris in 07 spring preview when we hit the first chord of Blue Era. She had the greatest/funniest look on her face, good times Good luck this season Buccs, sure to be another exciting program!

Wildwood convention center. it's like smoothed concrete that is VERY slippery, and isn't a full length field, my starting set was 2 up from the back sideline and splitting the side 2 5 and 0 line, so I was on the wall. I almost slipped on a gauntlet from a euph player who fell. *I didn't march Corpsvets, this was the first pic of the place on google images.* We had a rehearsal field that was called "Rock Field" because the field was part pavement, patches of grass, and had rocks scattered around it. And a rehearsal field in Scranton that had not one flat area and was very bumpy, I managed to fall and my horn landed on the 2nd valve slide, but it still worked and was in tune! And with Brigs the field we used the most was next to a treeline where ticks lived, and the grass was never cut. Good field were the Bridgeport, CT show, which is carpet turf, my favorite. Another Buccs rehearsal field on a parking lot, I would rather march on asphalt than grass, or turf on a hot day. Brigs rehearsed at my high school twice which was a great new (but worn in) turf and the housing site was right next door (A rare occurrence for all-age corps, at least in my experience).

I'll be there Sunday to check things out!

hmm, that is very interesting. I would guess that possibly there are more legacy fans that aren't as tech savvy as fans today, so the legacy fans buy the dvd's and the newer fans purchase the v/apd's for their iPods and such.