[What shows and corps are you looking most forward to see?]

SCV, Crown, Crossmen, Troopers, Oregon Crusaders

[What shows and corps are you looking most forward to see?]

SCV, Crossmen, Troopers, Oregon Crusaders

[Ogden Show Tickets for Sale - July 3]

I purchased 2 tickets in the center section, but ended up having to buy 6 more when I found out that we are taking friends to the show, and couldn't by 4 additional tickets next to our original seats.

I would like to get face value for these which is a total of $60. These are the tics: Section D, Row 16, Seats 7,8 . Please PM if interested

Thanks,

Kyle

[Spokane Thunder 2011]

Hi Eric

Gotta say I was very pleased to see you finally get a chance to march corps. I have been very impressed with Thunder's ability the last few years (2007-08, 2020-11) to pull things together in a short period of time. I think that a lot of people outside the Northwest don't realize how difficult it is to put a corps together here, especially an open class corps that is composed of mostly HS age students. Having HS students means that you cannot have all-days/move-in's until Mid-Late June, when school gets out.

I hope that Thunder will be able to retain a lot of the current kids, and hopefully have a good recruiting campaign next fall. With a larger corps (horns,guard), I think Thunder could be VERY competitive in Open Class.

In addition to good staff, it takes good student leaders, and clearly you are one of those. I gotta get back to writing the show for WV, but I am a proud former band director!

KB

[Thank You]

If I recall correctly, I think Michael Cesario said something on Field Pass about each corps establishing their own identity. Maybe there is room for a corps like SCV that is going to be "cerebral". I am really enjoying the entertainment value of all the corps this year, and I think that this might the first time in a long time that I will enjoy all of the finalist corps. However, part of the problem I see is that corps performances over the years became very generic (with exceptions here and there). I think that many corps lost the sense of who they were, not in terms of internal traditions, but in terms of their public persona, if you will.

It seems to me like some of the corps are starting to re-discover what their identity is. Clearly, Madison has been very deliberate in their approach to re-establishing their "brand" of drum corps. If a corps like SCV wants to be leading as innovators (the "vanguard" of the activity in some way), knowing that with next year's sheets they could take a hit, I say that is OK. I would not want the pendulum to swing the other way, where every corps is trying to copy Carolina Crown or Madison because they are connecting with the crowd.

My first post here - should I be looking for a flame-retardant suit?