NashvillePat
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Hookers on Cheshire Bridge at LaVista??????????
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1994 Crossmen - Children Will Listen
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AWESOME! Another thread where people can tacitly ##### about modern drum corps and repeatedly tell us how awesome things were in the 70's/early 80's
But, in the interest of bringing balance to the Force, I'll give you my story.
I aged-out in 1998 (aged-out of WGI PIW in 99), and even while I was marching I wasn't super interested in most of the corps' shows on the field. I went to one show in 1999, and one in 2000 to see friends still marching (or teaching), and largely stopped paying attention or caring about drum corps from 1999 on.
Then I started teaching high school again fall of 2004, and decided to check back in with the activity to see what the current trends were from a design stand point. Like many around DCP who love to express their disinterest with the state of modern design, I wasn't super happy with brass arrangements, thought show designs were fairly boring, didn't like the sounds of non-G brass, and generally had similar issues as some today. The following year I transferred to a different high school in our district, where the Associate Band Director was on staff with a top 6 corps. I decided that I at least owed it to myself to pay more attention to what's going on in the world of the marching arts.
I decided that instead of focusing on things I didn't like, I would push them mentally aside and focus on things I did like: the awesome visual programs, that are LIGHT YEARS better than anything in the late 90's or earlier. The insanely proficient membership, who could player better, faster, cleaner, more notes, with better intonation and sound control than the vast majority of ensembles in the late 90's or earlier. The drum lines were playing a TON of notes while marching their butts off. The guard was such a larger component of show design, more integrated than ever. There was FAR more subtlety show design wise than the shows of decades past: gone are the days of stringing four or five charts together with little thematic 'thread' holding the show together other than "the arranger thought they were real coo"l: every moment of visual and musical design was there for an explicit reason.
Do I love every design choice from my favorite corps? No; but I NEVER have. Do I like every show design/performance from every corps in any given season? No, but I NEVER have. There are as many things I like/dislike now that I did when I first 'discovered' drum corps in 1991. I love just as many shows from 1976 as I do from 2006. There are just as many boring qualities about drum corps shows from the early 80's and earlier as there are now, IMO.
It's all about perspective and choice: YOU can chose what you like/dislike. Don't like the overly-loud amplification? Don't focus on them, and instead focus on brass and percussion only (and I'm sorry, if you have focus problem that can't let you mentally 'tune out' something as small as that, then you must have TOTALLY lost your discipline and mental toughness from drum corps: something I was taught that I still carry with me. I remember performing with tornados literally touching down less than a mile from the show sight, and I didn't really notice it until after we were coming off the field and I was letting my mind think about things other than the task at hand following a performance).
There are still plenty of things to like about modern drum corps, but it's up to you personally as to whether or not you truly want to rediscover them, while ignoring the things you don't.
Very Well Stated!
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we used to give scholarships to many of our kids
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I always loved Star... reading all these posts I wonder how many of these same people were knocking them for being too esoteric and how they weren't drum corps by their last season????
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Father Ryan Winterguard went to 2 or 3 competitions last year, but was not a member of SCGC.
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go and march Music City first to get your feet wet. Now as for making those first 3 corps that you mentioned.... If you aren't capable of making 1st band at mid-state then don't even bother trying out for any of them, because it will just be a waste of money. Like I said go march Music City first and get your feet wet, then you will be prepared to try out for the big boys... and on the upside Music City is only 30 short miles up I-24
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I must be the only drum corps nut alive that loved Crossmen 1994....Suite Children. That is one show I make anybody that has never seen drum corps that steps foot in my house watch.
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Why not bring back DCM as a circuit for the promotion of midwest corps all age or otherwise? I don't see that shutting down DCM has done any good for anybody except for the member corps of DCI. All it did was kill the 20 or so Div II/III corps. Time to bring back DCM
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Wow! That's all I can say.....Wow!
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Don't quote me but I am pretty sure the car dealership Kolosso is Butch's uncle.
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In the end whichever path is taken by the organization......I can guaranteed you it is going to boil down to the same person it has boiled down to since the Americanos made their comeback in the mid 80's. ..Butch Kolosso....and Butch wants to go DCI.
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As an Americanos at heart, and many years involved with the organization......I say...VIVA!!! Get the Mother F....R rolling!!! I am still ready to start doing that Grant Writing. Somebody tell Butch to give me the word and I am all over it. Go Red Team !!! Yahoo !!!
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Golly boys and girls remember back in the good ole days of the 1990's when you could go to the DCM championships and there were 25-40 competing DIV II/III Corps? What happened to all of them?
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Good Lord People....these places have to send a bid to DCA not you suggest it to DCA so stop the wishful thinking and send these suggestions to the venues and the cities they are in and maybe just maybe (probably not) they will submit a bid. This thread is a total waste of time
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I was wondering what type of equipment truck/trailer do DCA corps use?
We need to get something bigger than our current little trailer. Right now we rely on someone in the corps with a pickup truck to move the trailer. Does a used Uhaul make any sense or should we just use a bigger trailer?
Having pulled both a smaller trailer and driven big rigs for several drum corps.....i would vote for the big rig....It is actually easier to handle a tractor trailer (45 fr. and larger) than it is to mess with those 32 foot trailers.....buy a 45 ft trailer or bigger and rent the tractor.
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Hi there everyone! I am wondering if there are any corps close to the ND area? I also drill with my CG Aux unit around MN Lake of the Woods area which is our main duty station. If you have any information, please visit my website www.honorguardbugler.com or email me. Thanks! Hope to see you all on the field soon! I play bugle and percussion.
closest are Minnesota Brass Inc. from St. Paul, MN, Governaires from St. Peter, MN, and Chops Inc. from Minneapolis, MN.
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just getting here. so sorry if i'm brining up a topic that has already been discussed to death. But is anyone else NOT a fan of the big black backdrop?
A lot of people have been posting how bad they think the sound in Lucas Oil Stadium is here on DCP.....Trust me, you don't want to hear what the corps would sound like in Lucas Oil Stadium without that big black backdrop. It was a God-send at ISSMA State Championships and BOA Grand Nationals last year.
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Congrats Troop......on the gift
How does it feel to know u were given 12th for the wrong reasons (sentimental) besting two better corps below you???
Please...do let us know which judge gave the gift once the recaps come out.....but wait, the Troop has been consistently beating those two the last few weeks haven't they? NEVERMIND!
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6 corps in the top ten from outside the North East will never happen.No way are we letting you have control of the voting block.
My predictions will be much closer to reality
Bucs
MBI
Hurcs
Cabs
Empire
Corpsvets
Brig
Renegades
Bushwackers
Alliance by the skin of their teeth with Crusaders less than a point behind them.
Crusaders, sorry not your year
MCL, keep trying
Kilties, Give up or do standstills[/quote
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Do you honestly think the judges are that bogus? if so, why would any of the corps from outside the Northeast bother to be a part of DCA? They all might as well get together and form their own circuit and championships
Americanos SDCA performance
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It is so gratifying to see the RED TEAM back at it!!! Hopefully this can only mean good things in the future !!! VIVA!!!