Kevincav

Ah ok, yeah I marched Bucs this year, and really want as much tokens to remember it by as possible. Also I need to update my signature, not sure where to find the logos anymore.

Are we able to buy that magazine or just pdf only?

I'm selling my tickets to DCI east for both days. It's in Section R row 6. $90 for both tickets. PM me if interested. Edit: Sold, thanks for your interest.

So I didn't get to see them, but we were practicing back to back all weekend (marching bucs this year), so I got to hear a little bit of cabs show. They have a really cool sounding show this year, I can't wait to see how they do this year.

I'm selling 3 of my friends of dci tickets for Prelims. Section 439, Row 3 https://colts.io-media.com/#/vr/Section/439/3/8/d. I'll be in Indianapolis tomorrow and will have them in hand. Please contact me if you're interested.

I have 3 left for prelims.

I'm selling 3 of my friends of dci tickets for Prelims. Section 439, Row 3 https://colts.io-media.com/#/vr/Section/439/3/8/d. Please contact me if you're interested. Update: Finals tickets are gone. Update 2: Semi tickets are gone. Kevin Edit: Just a heads up, I'm sending people messages / replying there. Not ignoring this post just keeping it to messages.

Sorry, that might be partially my fault, give or take the other thousands of people trying to access it :).

Wow, it's up 300 bucks from last year.

Won't let me send an email to that address. Returning an error. Got a price/pics for that sop? Edit: Nevermind, gotta but the l in live.

Wait there are ad's on this site? Guess my ad blocker is better than I thought.

Yeah, I don't really play except for marching. I actually got it in today, I like it so far.

Hello, I saw an ad up recently selling some system blue trumpets. I currently have the king 1117sp, and was wondering about the major differences. Would you sell a 1117 for an sb12? Thanks for any help.

If it comes time that I'm wrong, I'll come back and publicly apologize for jumping the gun on this, I guess we'll see. And yeah will do, going to watch the upcoming DCA finals. Hoping to head back to MBI next year, I miss being on the field.

Honestly I'm not looking for attention, I am out the door. I really don't care what people think about my letter. In fact I'm not really going to respond to any comments, I'll leave it alone. I only asked garfield's opinion, because he seems legitimately hurt, that people are leaving.

Did you actually send your letter to DCI, or did you just post it here? No I haven't sent it yet, I wrote it at 3AM, so I'm guessing that there are some mistakes in there, so I'm going to get a friend of my to proofread it first. Have you actually spoken to anyone at DCI, or any corps directors? Yes and no, he's a friend of mine that is pretty far up there, that had the same thoughts, but not an actual corps director. If you find that actual, structural change occurs that improves DCI, will you increase your support of the activity? Absolutely, come a year or two, if it works out and things changed for the best, I'll come back, I'll continue investing money in dci programs, and corps. I really do hope for the best, I just don't see it happening.

I posted up my letter to them; do me a favor and put all things aside, and read it. It's what I feel about the organization as a whole, and why I'm leaving. Just read it unbias, and let me know what you think. What ever conclusion you come to regarding my choice, I'll respect it, all I ask is that you give it a chance before you judge it, based on people leaving.

Dear DCI, I spent the last 10 years of my life, religiously following drum corps, and had the opportunity to march for a couple (Blue Stars 2005, Minnesota Brass 2010). Over those 10 years there have been experiences that I’ll never give up, people who I’ll never forget, traditions and philosophies that I practiced in the military, and even now going through college. In my opinion, DCI has lost its roots to the history of Drum Corps. In 2005 I auditioned for the Cavaliers, and the first thing that Jeff Fiedler said to us was “If you’re here to win, then you don’t belong here. Either go two thousand miles west, or a thousand miles east to do that.” These were words that as a rookie, I had no idea why anyone would not strive to win. Later on in the month, Chad Armbruster called me up, and said we have a spot open if you want it. Thinking that I’m planning on joining the military, this may be my only chance to join a corps, so I took it. For the first half of the season, I thought, “if I don’t join the military after this season, then I’m going to go back to the Cavaliers”; I even strived to get better at the Cavalier style of marching, for practice. It wasn’t till mid season, for our home show, that we added the Star of David to the drill, and premiered it for our alumni, and families. There wasn’t a single person in their seat when we hit that chart, people were crying, the crowd erupted, and cheered till they couldn’t talk anymore; even now, just recalling this instance brings a tear to my eye. When this happened I started to realize, that maybe it isn’t about the scores, maybe it’s not about me but that it’s really about being with the people around me, the alumni, those people we were performing for. From then on, it was all about those around me, not going back to the Cavaliers or a division one championship contender. Shortly after, I went to the doctor to find out that I had gotten bronchitis, which was really close to pneumonia; I refused to quit, even for a day to get better, I kept going no matter how bad it got. It even earned me the nickname ‘coughdrop’. After a lot of dead grass, even more sunburns, and finally getting to finals; when we were getting ready to march on to the field, I heard someone say “These guys deserve to win everything”, sitting there at the end of the show, watching possibly the longest standing ovation ever, and seeing people all around us crying as we marched off. During retreat, all I could think about, was Fielder was right; it’s not about winning, not about the scores, not even about us, it’s the fans, those people who go to one or as many live shows as possible, that without, we wouldn’t exists, I wouldn’t have gotten the experience, and made the friends that I have. Now I’m not going to sit here and talk to you about G vs Bb’s, or amps, voiceovers, synths, or even an old school having only a 50 yard line with marching pit members. Because even with the changes along the way, the appeal to the audience has stayed there. From the 88 scouts playing Malaguena, to the 95 Cavaliers playing The Planets, to Phantom 89, 96, 03, 08, even now bringing back Nessun Dorma and making who knows how many people cry. I even enjoyed Jersey Surf’s ‘amped’ phone call “about packing enough underwear” while having “a good band show, with his drum corps”. Some corps still uphold the integrity of how important the audience is, and ignores the scores. Now I’m sure you already know one of the corps I’m referencing to, and before I talk about them, I just want to say that I respect the corps, and members, and all the hard work they have been through to put a show on the field. But when I was watching quarterfinals in the theaters, they announced the future corps coming up after intermission, and for each corps, people cheered, and it louder each time, until the Blue Devils. You could hear a pin drop, when they announced the Blue Devils, even when it came time for the performance. The focus was not there, no one cared at this point of time, why not? Why are the fans, the audience not interested? I guess the better question is, why are corps being rewarded for a technical show that takes all interest away from the fans? I don’t know one person that I’ve ever marched with, that would willingly stay in a corps to win a title, on the basis of losing the audience. I have a friend, who I served with in the Navy; he left the Cadets after 2005 when they did it, refused to march for them again. This activity is no longer about the audience, and I appreciate the corps who stick with it, but it seems that in order to win, the corps have to break their bonds with the fans. As I said before, I only marched one year of junior corps, then I joined the military. I spent my age out year (season), on deployment off the coast of Somalia doing piracy operations. The only thing that kept me sane, was looking at the scores every night. Finally seeing a corps that deserved to win more than once, rise to the top, made the deployment that much more enjoyable. When I got out of the military, I joined Minnesota Brass; just remembering the kind of respect that they gave the Blue Stars in 2005, with loaning out their horns to us, and sharing the field during an encore. In Minnesota Brass, I saw even more respect between the corps, in 2011, when there was a marriage proposal with a couple of MBI members, the Govenaires stayed behind and played for them. Another instance was when the Buccaneers stayed off to the side, instead of marching off, to cheer on Minnesota Brass, for the championship run. They cheered for a corps that was potentially going to end their 6 year championship streak. The fans stayed behind to watch a cancelled encore, after retreat. I saw a corps member in a wheelchair, and they pushed her around the field to make sure she was involved in the show. In 2005, we were told to have respect for all corps, and it doesn’t matter if they were in front or behind you in standings. The fans have respect back in DCA, and they want to be there and cheer for everyone, especially since the shows are designed around them being entertained, in DCI, I think they’ve lost that respect. With all things considered, I think I’m going to have to part ways with DCI, maybe temporarily, maybe permanent, depending on how things turn out in the future. I will always remember what my time in a junior corps taught me, the life values, or when they refused to teach me the definition of ‘easy’, ‘quitting’, and ‘failure’, and the new family that I made, and will never forget. I will stick with DCA, and will return to March again for Minnesota Brass, and will enjoy the comradery between the corps, members, and fans. I feel that DCA will never lose its history of playing for the audience and alumni, more than technicality.

You're right, I did make up my mind, maybe even before Julian did; although she convinced me to write the letter, which is a lot longer than hers. I completely understand it hurting seeing people leave, with good reason. It's something that I've, well all of us, have come to love, I've made life decisions, based on what the Blue Stars taught me, I still live by all the things that I've learned. But sometimes, it's time to let go and move on. I was contemplating not posting my letter to DCI, due to the fact all the positive/negative feedback towards Julian, but it might get my point across, and why I think it's best. I'll be up here in a couple minutes.

I rarely make any posts in this forum, because of all the arguments here. I could make a new post saying that breathing is a vital aspect to living, and probably half the people would argue, just for the sake of arguing. What I do know though, is that you're trying to convince people to stay, because eventually greatness will come back. Well they passed that torch on a long time ago. Maybe it'll come back, and you might be right. But like Julian I don't have the time to sit around waiting and hoping. There was one real champion last night, and the crowd picked them; it's sad when the listed 1st place gets a "golf clap" as someone intelligently put it. DCI has lost its roots to its fans, and not a whole lot of people are willing to stand in and say "it'll eventually get better, so stick around". What gets me is the fact that people are willing to jump down someones throat for having an opinion. What does it hurt you, when people leave for the better? Based on the reactions that Julian got, I can tell that it's no longer about us, so I'm going follow suit and will send my resignation letter as a member and a fan into DCI also. I'll stick around DCA and enjoy that, the sportsmanship/respect that goes on there is out of DCI's league.

I'm actually writing one up right now, I'll post/send it tomorrow. Just got to send it to a friend of mine, to make sure that I didn't make an 3AM, confusing structural mistakes.

Yes.

Dear DCI, you're right, I didn't want to see the show in theaters. I've gone to every possible theater event, over three different states, and none of them have worked... I'm done trying.

Wow... Anyone care to permanently loan me 1350 bucks :).

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