spiritofboston

The rest of the percussion staff has been announced. http://troopersdrumcorps.org/page/aboutus/educational-team/percussion-staff

The scv vet from UNT auditioned for timpani but is playing rack. I believe he was the rack player last year too.

Just for fun doing the "off season" Things to consider: Blue coats had a high vet return rate this year SCV has paul now, along with all the phantom vets from last years 1st place drumline Boston has Ellis now, who in recent years had been working with Phantom's line

I went to some of Phantoms rehearsals last year and noticed a trend. The way paul talked to the line was so calm, I couldn't even hear him most of the time. I never saw any screaming or "physical punishment" being dealt out to the drumline. The rest of the captions seemed to have a different approach, yelling and even calling some of the students names. Not to mention the amount of running and push ups I saw dealt out. Phantom to me has the image of being "hardcore" andI think the drumline just didn't have the same belief. If the rehearsal I saw were any indication of how the whole summer went, then why would the drumline have corps loyality over their caption head who never "punished" them? Also, my friends son marched mello this year and told me something interesting about the end of the year banquet. He said only two drumline members attended the banquet. Of a 30+ member drumline only two felt like going tocelebrate their corps! That to me says the drumline goes into things together. It doesnt seem that far fetched to me that they would decide on their own as a group to leave for scv with out paul talking to them. Drummers don't go to Phantom to march Phantom, they go their to march under Paul. Now that he's gone I think we can expect a huge drop off in experienced talent. I would be curious to know how many spirit vets left for Phantom.