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Well, he's kind of a type of purple...

yea, I Cor. 13 says something about cymbal playing and I think Tim K has already had a liking for that particular piece. But is ADM the cymbal clanging or the big bass booming???:w00t:/>

For once we are in agreement, ha, ha. But I am not persuaded by the examples you've chosen from the marching activity samples you present. All your BOA bands have shows centered around extended miked solos by astounding flutists. Avon's pie in the face routine was done by North Star Drum Corps from the North Shore of Mass in DCI back in the last century. Ok, So the similarities between Broken Arrow's Surrender to Hope and Boston's Rise show are so copied (check out the tunnel entrance for each with talcum powder, no penalty in BOA) that I guess we'll have to get Craiga, Ghost, and Brasso to rename BAC the Broken Arrow Crusaders. But really, original. I have seen all these examples elsewhere in the activity. Originality is not the strong suit in any of these examples.

but I could also hear and see this on the Horizons for a drum corps show

any photos available of same above?

I was trying to say "au courant." That was my raisin-d'etre, ha, ha.

Impossible you say? How currant, O Brasso!

and yet, some of those color guard uniforms, I mean costumes....:tongue:/>

borrowed this idea from a comment made by a friend who is well-into drum corps: Krown Kardsmark: greeting Kards for all Occasions: "Impossible you say?", "My love will never end..." etc., etc. Actually now that I think of it, it would be a cool way for some Crownie to make his tour monies for 2014 like that Spirit guy David does with his JDFuncorps videos.

check out some of the great photos and funny captions and comments of above on Cadets' FB page (I saw it last week.) The guy had great straight leg technique too!

How sad. Sevierville show was so memorable to so many corps for so many years for so many reasons. With Greater Knoxville growing and Gatlinburg still getting the tourists, maybe another venue will be found.

Thank you for your service. Great to meet you and your folks at Allentown. Congrats, Alum, you have a mighty fine drum corps.

MCL refers to Music City Legends, the all age corps, and not Music City, the Open Class corps.... ....am I correct?

I couldn't figure, Skywhopper, whether your caption referred to you or Linda Harvey on the podium, ha, ha. Garfield, I agree with your above statement. Her wave immediately set the crowd ready to listen and react positively...an acknowledgement that Crown wanted them as part of the engaged viewers, not just the green shirts. Another classy move by a class group and one classy lady.

"You know, there are psychologists who can help talk you through this psychosis of yours. Really, they can help." I wonder if this is wisdom learned when you realized you were the only person posting "George Hopkins" and thinking it was a funny response to anyone's question? Or maybe when you recognized other authority issues at work when you react to people saying they know the type of person you are by the posts you make? I wonder where this wisdom derives???

Maybe they can talk to Hopkins quick and get at least four of the colors for that banner from his fabric covers for the towers, ha, ha. I think that is a cool idea, Mike. But does that make you Bi? (Visual and Percussion consultant????)

Well, Boo, it looks like you turned out your Hoosier Highlanders from the DCI office staff to red neg me. It doesn't matter to me whether you have a desk next to Dan Acheson or whether you write in your jammies from Chesterton. But it is a legitimate point to raise that if DCI subsidizes you in any way for all the articles you write for their website, or situates you with most preferred seating for the big contests while others have to pay for those seats to assess the same opinions, then you come off de facto as an official spokesperson and not the common person in the stands. Given all the questions about the cost of the activity, it is legitimate to ask if DCI funds your travel, housing, meals, snacks during intermissions, etc., the same as it is legitimate to grumble on DCP if the paying audience is getting the bang for the dollar with the ancient judging panels who are ensconced now almost four decades (Oliviero, Czapinski, et al.) I don't care whether it is two dollars or two peanuts. That's a battle for others to fight, although I do hearken back to the days when everything associated with DCI was volunteer, at least on top of the table. Then the offices in Lombard and suburbs changed all that. And corps are folding as the gross costs have grown so high and corps can't afford DCI participation or their own reasonings for existence.<br> Despite your being affronted, you still have not publicly stated here what your rationale is of charging some DCI participants and not others(?) Why charge newcomers more for what for forty years others, including you when you played your glockenspiel in the Cavaliers, got for free? Your reaction almost sounds like that those who disagree with you are disloyal to DCI, rather than admitting that there are no corps, and thus no DCI without these same people donating their monies. I won't even get into the resentment some have about your blogging this year about you taking potshots at some units (like the Cadets' drumline moving props) and almost none about your alma mater in a very down year. You may not get a full time salary as a DCI front office employee but you set yourself up as a person in the know with big connections there into the backdoor DCI thinking in the office. That's why your limited answer to a variant opinion is unsatisfactory. <br>You may be a very nice person with all the best intentions, but this needs to be spelled out further. <br>Why charge Soundsport participants to watch the corps when we don't do that elsewhere to others in the activity the same way except for Finals?

Did this thread just jinx it for them, like touching the Stanley Cup before you actually earn it?

Art and Excellence are its own reward. Each drillwriter has his/her own inner challenge to meet, max, and surpass as well as giving the kids something memorable and desireable to march that they remain proud of, even years after the judges go safely home.

I guess the on-off-on again contest will now be known in drum corps legacy as "SPORES & CORPS!"

If the activity moves to twirling batons (as the Cadets featured a few years back), we'll have come full circle as an activity. There was a time when spinning/twirling rifles and sabres, whether real or imitation, was considered novel, and by some disrespectful, by others dangerous. As a geezer, I remember the uproar for doing anything other than the manual of arms or "posting. The Legion and VFW almost had heart attacks on the spot. And then the Troopers dared to take the auxiliary flags out of the holster and do some manuevers while the Medford Golden Grenadiers actually held the flags horizontally over their heads. Horrors! How far we have come, or have we? Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose.

That might make for a very funny looking tee-shirt. But the crowd will still be asking: "Who gets killed?"

Will somebody please hit the needle arm! This broken record keeps playing the same blurb over and over and over and over again...

"Impossible, you say?"