Alex M.

Does anyone know where I can pickup an mp3 of BAC's '93 show? It's a good one and my old tape is dying. thanks!

SCV's 2012 tour shirt was great.

I'm confused. Did he not write for the Bluecoats?

I love Crown's drum book and I'm a drumline guy. There is no shame in enjoying Thom Hannum's book.

THIS! I think about this a lot, actually. In my mind Sunday's would be great missionary opportunities to perform for the community. I don't know if "letter of the law" LDS parents would want their kids half naked during rehearsal. I'm not sure it would work but the possibility is definitely there.

I'm totally excited for the ESarn kids. I'd love to hear the back story on how the trip was funded because there aren't a lot of kids in Thailand who could afford such a trip. I'm guessing Yamaha had a hand in it. Way to represent Thailand, ESarn. What a great way to showcase Asian drumlines.

Watch the link below. If this run was last night then no, there aren't many changes coming tonight.

Since we're gushing over Crown, I'll join. I've never been head over heels for Crown. However, I love this show/corps so much. I've never been a fan of vocals in drum corps but in this show it just works for me. The narration in the ballad is so incredibly powerful. I'd like to write the ballad narrator a "thank you" note because he freaking nails it and I'm completely moved. Here are my fears/concerns. A) Indoor venues have a way of killing emotion from drum corps, IMO. I hope this show translates well indoors or I'll be living off of mid season recordings of this show until I die. B) I don't like Crown's history with endings. They've had some classic drum corps endings that have been changed to cheesy "try too hard" moments (my opinion). I would have no objections to the current ending being 'it', but I doubt this will happen. Please please please don't kill the show with a lame ending.

It would do them a lot of good to communicate to customers (us) what the quality standards are (if any) and share the challenges post show. I realize it's a moving target moving from venue to venue but the least they could do is give insight. It doesn't have to be much. Just let us know you're working on it and you value giving us a quality product. It's easy to be patient when you have a little knowledge of what's going on.

I'm curious, how did the staff communicate to you after the show. Were they ###### as hell or did they try to keep your morale up?

At DATR in '99 the Cadets had a huge pile up as a growing square wound around. This was right at the beginning of the show. One member went down then it was the domino effect that was pretty dramatic, if my memory serves me well. They recovered but I remember the crowd gasping. I'd never seen anything like it.

I'd usually agree but this show is so bad ssa that I don't really care what the story line is. I'm completely engaged from start to finish and the horn line makes me feel like it's 1995 again. Watching them live was amazing. It was like I had been fed for the first time in years. My soul starved to hear and see amazing drum corps and it was satisfied. For the record, I dig the drum book too. If you're wondering if you should or shouldn't go to a show where Crown is performing you need to go or you'll regret it forever. It really is that good.

Those BK drums.... ummm.... nice holes.... I mean color.

Lots of drumline pics on their FB page: https://www.facebook.com/SCV Snares: 9 Tenors: 5 Didn't the gal play snare with XMen last year?

I don't know if this is the right forum for this, but I thought it is interesting and may be interesting to other drum corps geeks too. Jason Sutter marched with Sky Ryders in the early nineties, I think. He's a product of UNT and really just an awesome percussionist. Below is an interview with him talking about getting auditions, his UNT days and drum corps experience. A YouTube video of helped him get the gig with Manson, if you can imagine that. What a great advocate for the activity.Part 1 Part 2