memphomello08

2002 and 2009. Lackluster and the Oil Drum.

Best toes in DCI history!

If you do the right kind of push-ups, they will help holding the horn. Horn holding muscles are primarily your proximal deltoids and trapeziums/lats. There are push-ups that work those specific muscle groups, and they DO help. I would always do 10 push-ups right before basics block (and yes, I know I marched a light horn), and it still helped. It especially helped on horn appreciation day when I got a euph.

Which is exactly why Spirit's design team chose the music of Kansas. Their music is much more complex than many people think. Just listen to a few songs with a theoretic mind, and your mind will be blown at all the nuances of the music, and at the individual talent of the musicians. The complexity of Kansas's music gave Scott Boerma lots of opportunities to write a very intricate musical book, and Journey From Mariabronn was, from a technical demand and vertical alignment standpoint, one of the more difficult pieces on the field.

Uhh, have you actually LISTENED to a single hornline from the past three years? Blue Stars sounded magnificent in 08, SCV was just about perfect this year, Crown has been phenomenal since 05, Cadets were a POWERHOUSE in 07, BAC has always had under-rated hornlines, and Spirit has had lots of great moments, especially this year. I think people like you need to be more open-minded about drum corps, stop criticizing what's out of your control, and just appreciate the product that's put on the field year after year by the thousands of KIDS that work hard to do it.

A couple thing in there I would change, but I'm too lazy and too anti-confrontational to do it.

I definitely think Spirit will surprise some people this year, regardless of placement.

Haha, they never let us have cherry coke last season

Swedish fish.

I vote the '89 Vanguard mello/bari duet for the best. Gives me chills every time I hear it. HM to 2006 Crown, trumpet and mello.

Yeah, Sound did pre-tour rehearsals at Bethel for at least two years. Last year though, one of the parent volunteers was up late the night before tour doing some of the staff's laundry. She fell asleep with the dryer running. Dryer overheated and caught fire, forcing the entire corps to evacuate the dorm at 3 a.m. It was quite an evening, to say the least.

We did. They don't let us back there anymore though, after we almost set the dorms on fire the night before we left on tour

Memphis Sound, 2008. During our every-day rehearsals, there was a large group of under-privileged kids from alcoholic families that stayed for a couple days at the college we rehearsed at. While walking in deuces to brass block, one of the kids hung halfway out his dorm window and yelled "Hey! I play the trombone too!" There were also hand-written signs all over the campus telling the kids not to "get in the way of the Memphis Sound Band." And while walking to the showers one night, a small African American boy from the group jumped out of a tree, looked at the half-naked half-dozen of us, screamed some words that I didn't understand, then ran off. I love Tennessee. Same corps, same year. In Warrior, Alabama at Corner High School, we come in from morning brass block to find a full Alabama potluck lunch waiting for us. Band parents rule.

What a tragedy, especially to someone as young and selfless as Robert. I guess it's true that only the good die young. God has taken another one home. My prayers and deepest sympathies go out to his blood family and drum corps family. RIP