MDBaritone
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Posted by DCI's facebook/Jersey Surf.
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One thing most people bring that I've never found I needed is a sleeping bag. Sweatshirt, sweatpants, pillow and sleeping mat for sleep. If it's not a lot of floortime I just grab my pillow (that's already on the bus) and grab 30 minutes of sleep while everyone else slaves over inflating their beloved airbed (I use a normal Boy-Scoutish airmat). If there's more floortime I'll get it out, but honestly I'm always tired enough to be able to fall asleep without being 100% comfortable.
Bring a power strip with your chargers electrical-taped to it. Write your name on a little duct tape flag, so if you ever leave it in the gym the drumline (or whoever cleans up the gym in your corps) knows who to give it to (I know I'm fairly merciless in throwing unlabeled stuff away when in a rush to clean up).
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Not possible! Haven't you been reading some of the comments above? You're supposed to have hated the sound on the field and the echo that will haunt you until the day you are mercifully touched by the sweet sting of death.
Uh oh, guess I should have paid more attention. Maybe we were too busy enjoying how awesome the air conditioning is
I notice just as bad of an echo on Allentown's field as I do in the domes.
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When I asked around other members of my corps after semis we pretty much all agreed that we love it in LoS. (roof closed please).
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Most of BD's show, but I don't recognize the music so I cant put a name on it :/ (Can anyone help with this? Like a list of songs in the order of the show so I can follow along on fan network)
Surf's preshow
Crown's opening hit and two pit features (Ironman and Paint it Black)
Cavalier's Nature Boy
Madison's whole show
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Madison Scouts, Jersey Surf, Blue Devils.
(And Blue Knights, Phantom Regiment and the Troopers)
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As a marcher (and returning member) of an open class corps making it basically a requirement to use us as a feeder corps would be offensive. People who join usually make it painfully obvious they plan on leaving ASAP, this would compound the problem.
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1) Blue Devils
2) Bluecoats
3) Cavaliers
4) Santa Clara
5) Crown
6) Cadets
7) Blue Stars
8) Phantom Regiment
9) Madison Scouts
10) Boston Crusaders
11) The Glassmen
12) Blue Knights
13) Troopers
14) Academy
15) Colts
16) Spirit
17) Jersey Surf
18) The Crossmen
19) Pacific Crest
20) Teal Sound
21) Mandarins
22) Pioneer
23) Cascades
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The cost-benefit ratio is up to the individual; and I currently believe it to still be acceptable at the "upper World Class level". However, I personally do have a problem with a lower level Open Class yearly dues being just as high as an upper level World Class dues. If academic institutions reflected drum corps', yearly fees at Junior Colleges would cost the same as the yearly fees at Ivy League Schools.
"Lower" corps have all the same costs as the "upper" corps but they have a much smaller pool giving them money through donations, large bingos, etc. I'm impressed smaller corps can offer competitive rates.
And the drum corps experience doesn't diminish when you leave the "top".
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The squawk right at the end of the beautiful Crown ballet in 08 (07?)
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Bluecoats 2010 Bari solo and synth voice were both perfect.
Cadets 07.
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Crown 09, Crown 10
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I will always support Drum Corps. DCI might not always be drum corps though.
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Blue Stars. Love that mello line. It's so unique, I'm surprised more haven't copied it yet.
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Glassmen - 1997
Madison Scouts - 2008
Phantom Regiment - 2008
Blue Devils - 2007
Madison Scouts - 1996
Santa Clara Vanguard - 1989
Bluecoats - 2010
They're the top tier, there's about 10 others shows around tied on my 'next tier' of top shows.
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I know a guy who marched soprano for Phantom and he told the story that when they were asked by girls that saw them in their civilian clothes that they would calmly look around to make sure nobody else was around and then tell the girls "snare."
"Can I see the rack tanline?"
Also, lol at lying straight to the DM's face.
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Define bando. Someone who's only marched band and not corps? If they don't act all googly eyed at a corps or say stupid things arey they still bando? Can someone who's marched corps still be considered bando if they still act like a DB after marching corps? Is a 65 year old person at their first drum corps show who doesn't get why everyone is "booing" Bluecoats, or calls a corps a band a bando?
In my corps a "bando" was basically someone a corps member used to feel better about themselves. Quite the annoying term.
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What's the golden 64 ratio people are talking about? How does it split out?
And I think it's good that different corps have different ratios (or different sounds, I've never been one to count). I love the Blue Stars having a mello-heavy sound, but I love BD with their trumpets too. Different styles of music, different corps histories need different hornline ratios.
For the record I would still go to drum corps shows if it was battery and a (clean) hornline of 120 blowing my face off for 11 minutes.
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My corps had a system where if you did a mental "tick" in a rep you would silently do 5 pushups during field time. If you didn't want to do them that was your own choosing, the field techs wouldn't punish you for not doing them.
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Wow. Hardly any other 2008 fans? I'm surprised.
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Tour fees around 2300 probably, I used about $50 in cash for laundry/food while on tour, then you'd have to figure out travel costs (if you're flying or driving to camps).
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Glassmen 97
Phantom 07
Crown 05
Scouts 08
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No offense to Pioneer but I would not pay to see 50 Pioneer-type corps
You're probably the kind of fan that walked out on Jersey Surf right before their home-show performance.
I'm sure the kids loved watching the fans pour out of the stadium right before they performed.
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I'm marching Drum Corps this year.
I will march until I turn 21.
I will enjoy the activity regardless of the politics behind it.
I hope fans don't ruin my performance at Indy because they are mad.
Now I'm getting off DCP until August.
Your favorite shows corps have done!
in DCI World Class Corps Discussions
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1. Cadets 2007
2. Blue Devils 2011
3. Cavaliers 2011
4. Crown 2005
5. Phantom Regiment 2007
6. Santa Clara Vanguard 1989
7. Bluecoats 2010
8. Boston Crusaders 2011
9. Blue Knights 2010
10. Madison Scouts 2008
11. Blue Stars 2010
12. Spirit 2011
13. Glassmen 1997
14. Troopers 2008
15. The Academy 2011
16. Colts 2007
17. Crossmen 2008
18. Pacific Crest not sure, based on iTunes playcount 2003.
19. Teal Sound 2010
20. Mandarins 2011
21. Cascades see PC, but 2011
22. Jersey Surf 2008 or 2011
23. Pioneer 2008