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2 weeks? Is your calendar different than everyone else’s?

All?

This.

Thank you for clarifying.

This saddens me. And angers me. We sit and lament the demise of corps and you want a corps to fail? We sit and lament the lack of competition at the top and you want a corps to fail? We sit and lament the lack of entertainment and you want a corps to fail? Really?

less clinical, symphonic wind-ensemble-like perfection and more emotion. Raw, visceral stuff that causes you to react. Everything sounds so clinical and boring nowadays. To be fair, I sit there and marvel at the achievement, but I feel or remember nothing. I'll take goosebumps and a visceral reaction, passion and emotion, over perfection any day.

OK. Not trying to put words in your mouth.

see post above yours.

That's his point, Gary, I think....you can't take the gay component out of your comment and make the statement....your comment kinda assumes that gay men are really people who want to be women and that gay women are really people who want to be men...and that's not true...hopefully we've graduated from that at this point. Not trying to point fingers at you at all...just challenge the premise of your question.

The questions about the showers come from an old fashioned, factually inaccurate and stereotypical assumption that gay people by their very nature are uncontrollable hedonists who can't control themselves when if they see another person of the same gender in anything less than a full suit of armor. Not true. Just because you're a dude and there's a gay dude in the locker room with you doesn't mean that person wants to jump your bones! And don't flatter yourself into thinking otherwise. The person's there to do a job just like you are. Don't assume they're checking out your junk just cause they're gay. Instead, assume that the person is as professional and serious as you are and will go about his/her business just like you would.

from what I can tell, DCA itself runs three shows a year....Scranton, Prelims and Finals. I suppose everything else is left to the organizations/people that sponsor those shows. Cabs run shows in Wildwood and Clifton that have historically had non-DCA corps performing...numerous alumni corps in addition to the Cabs Alumni and <gasp> DCI corps )(Raiders, Jersey Surf, to name two). I could be mistaken, but I believe that several years ago when Bucs home show was earlier in the year, there would be some DCI corps performing. Can't paint DCA with such a broad brush, IMO.

It's simple. Most shows today are antiseptic, clinical and boring. They're about perfection and 'achievement' generate very little visceral emotional response. That and they're all so similar to one another. Makes for an evening full of impressive achievement with very little emotional impact.

----Never mind...not worth jumping into this.

True...and a bit ironic...since the audio clips at issue obscure your listening to the music being played in the first place. Being able to listen to and watch this Christmas show without insipid audio clips about Christmas is, to me, a good thing. A free Christmas present, actually. I mean, Charlie Brown is a blockhead, but he did get a nice tree!

Not sure what purpose it serves to lament or speculate about the 'certain' exit of a DCA corps to either inactivity or another stage without any formal/official information coming from that organization itself. Especially now, in the fall, when all corps are busy recruiting for the coming season...this type of commentary can be very damaging. Who knows? Maybe the corps in question has plans to be around for as long as possible and we've just seriously hampered its ability to recruit - thereby making the rumor stated here more likely to become fact. Just because someone says something to you doesn't mean it's wise to post it here.

[edited - no use to comment on the original post] I saw the video at the stadium and understood it to be a montage of and for the competing corps - after all, it was shown while they were on the field for retreat and they were asked to turn to view it. Actually, I thought it was like a thankyou from DCA to the competing units. It was pretty darned cool. Whoever put the video together - it was great. Thank you.

Ironic that you had to get on one to make your post, eh?

You may want to re-read the review. The numbers the reviewer used were his/her own.

When did Brass move to Wisconsin?

The ! and the in your post seem to indicate that if that is indeed the issue, you're happy that the corps doesn't have the numbers they were expecting. Regardless of the wisdom of the staff change and Hopkins' stated reasons for it, how is it a good thing that ANY corps doesn't get the numbers they wanted? Especially coming from the director of another corps? Should we happy if your corps wants to put 40 horns on the field and only can recruit 20?

Since the poster misspelled every corps' name but one, I'll just assume that only one prediction will be accurate.

Madonna's handlers appeared to be dressed like Roman gladiators and Reading entered the field in a similar fashion in 2010. Split the check! Either way, if Madonna's team was looking at DCA corps for inspiration (and you KNOW they did!), they picked two great entrances. I confess that I immediately thought of the late great Madeline Kahn in Mel Brooks' History of the World when I saw it.

Me too. We want you back on the field. We need you back on the field. But as others have stated, you shouldn't come back to the field unless it is a fiscally responsible thing to do for the short-term and long-term health of your organization. I'd rather wait a year or two more and have the Brigadiers around for a long time than enjoy 2012 and then see you exit the field again. That's probably more damaging because you have to start all over again building membership and so forth. Hurry back. But don't rush back. Best of luck!

When you can't recruit enough people to fill out the corps to the size/quality standard you set for yourself (not necessarily the standards others set for you). When you can't afford to operate in a responsible manner. Although you can take a hiatus or two if it will help. When your leadership is tired and ready to move on and no one will step up to carry the torch. When it's no longer fun. But when you do...that doesn't mean you can't do things other than a full alumni corps. You can do a mini corps. You can do a small ensemble. You can do non-musical things to keep people connected with each other. If you're connected to a competing corps or if there's one nearby, you can stay involved by helping the other corps. Just stay connected to each other and to drum corps somehow.

Anything that brings drum corps people together around their drum corps history is a good think, IMO. An alumni association and an alumni corps, however, are not one and the same and shouldn't be construed that way. No disrespect at all intended to alumni corps. Just a different purpose. For example: the Cabs are great. Cabs Alumni corps is great. There are probably hundreds of people out there who've had a great experience being in the Cabs who, for whatever reason - time, geography, money, desire, etc. - have no interest in being in Cabs Alumni corps. If all the Cabs had to offer its alumni is the opportunity to be in an alumni corps, then they're missing out on getting all these Cabs together for fun, fellowship, all that stuff. If they can get people together because of their status as Cabs, completely separate from marching, playing and so forth, then their bonds as Cabs get deeper - and as a result both the Cabs and Cabs Alumni benefit - because more people are connected to the family. So, IMO a bunch of Cabs getting together in an organized event going to a Yankees or Mets game, as Cabs, is just as valuable as them getting together and breaking out their horns and drums. Before anyone gets upset, I have no idea what the Cabs do or don't do in this regard - I was just using them as an example because they're an obvious example of a great competing corps and great alumni corps.