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Fran Haring last won the day on November 4 2022

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  • Your Drum Corps Experience
    Sacred Heart Crusaders (Manville, NJ) 1971-1976; Long Island Sunrisers 1977-1982; Westshoremen Alumni 2005-07, 2012-16. PA announcer at various drum corps and band shows, including DCA Championships, since 1983.
  • Your Favorite Drum Corps Season
    1977. A magical year for the Sunrisers. The corps' first DCA title.
  • Gender
    Male
  • Location
    Baltimore, Maryland

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  1. Fran Haring
    Well said, Frank. I had the privilege of being taught by Pete in the horn line of DCA's Sunrisers, during our first DCA championship years. A great teacher, amazing brass musician, and a good friend to so many of us. You're right... we'll never see another like him.
  2. Fran Haring
    DCA's Reading Buccaneers played some TOP stuff in the early 1990s.
  3. Fran Haring
    Spot on, Frank. Otherworldly talent.
  4. Fran Haring
    Me too. I knew the PA announcer. 😎
  5. Fran Haring
    This reminds me of a scene early on in "The Manchurian Candidate."
  6. Fran Haring
    A sad day indeed. Truly the end of an era.
  7. Fran Haring
    Can't predict the future as to whether this new all-age thing will work long-term... but I'm hoping that perhaps the all-age corps will come out a bit earlier in the years to come, given the shorter timeline. And by "come out a bit earlier"... I mean come out reasonably fully prepared. Just call me Mr. Perfect World. 😆
  8. Fran Haring
    Yep. My local-circuit junior corps from NJ, 1970s, our director wanted nothing to do with DCI. The corps survived through the 1980 season before disbanding. And DCI was not to blame. The corps simply ran out of money and members.
  9. Fran Haring
    Haven't read this whole thread, so this might have been mentioned already... but the Cadets losing that USBands revenue stream could not have been helpful. I know... Captain Obvious here.
  10. Fran Haring
    One of the best posts I've ever read on any of these forums.
  11. Fran Haring
    I sometimes have wondered what Mr. Cook... a total gentleman and hugely successful business person... might have been thinking in those DCI meetings when Star was around, listening to some directors, whose corps could barely pay their bills, pontificating on how DCI should be run. LOL. "Get me outta here!!!" 😂
  12. Fran Haring
    And Bill Cook in Indiana.
  13. Fran Haring
    Bob would be a great choice!
  14. Fran Haring
    The USBands folks... Sean King, Justin Heimbecker and the rest... were great to work with, and I agree, those scripts were a big help!
  15. Fran Haring
    Heh... at a YEA gig in MD I worked for several years in the 2000s, a guy would come up to me after the show every year and complain about the DCI corps. "Not what it used to be"... etc., etc. I wondered why this guy bothered paying to see this show every year. It was not like his attendance would magically turn back the clock to 1970. 😂
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