drilltech1

A while back and more than once, DCI subcommittees were not successful in obtaining cooperation from those who manage the Carrier Dome in Syracuse in even pursuing the possibility of an indoor regional there. Even now, other than university sponsored occasions, only the NY State high school field band championships are allowed to have contests there. At one of the times DCI looked, I was on the subcommittee as the then current Syracuse Varsity football coach was a personal friend of mine. He had no problems with the DCI possibility; in fact he respected the corps quite a bit.. It was the stadium management who were against it. The Dome has almost no near parking and the field band movement of equipment is always a hassle for their equipment trucks. Acoustics is another matter. The front sideline to audience distance is similar to Allentown.

Michael Klesch, present music arranger for Carolina Crown, was a bass drummer for the Cadets before he became their drum major for '83; he won the first DC I World Class championship titles with each of these two corps!!! Joe Reichert, drum major of the Cadets in 1995, had been one of their snares. Jim Zulick, drum major of the Cadets in 2005, was previously their color guard captain, a high school saxophonist who learned a mean rifle; he also won World Class championships.

You explain yourself well and are clear in your conclusions....but not in all the observations. Though the singers and counters and narrator stood in the pit, not all were front ensemble members but I think all were musicians. In fact, the narrator was a low brass horn player, the horn sgt. I think. So if one figures in the breathing control and diction maintained in counting, singing, and appropriately and consistently reciting the narration while also doing that great horn score with the simultaneous demand of the body work and rest of the visual involvement, my respect for what they perform only grows. Perhaps you might adjust your assessment in light of that appreciation while still holding true to your likes and dislikes. Thanks for sharing.

In a time when DCI saw some great drumlines in the Sanford days at Santa Clara, the Delucia days at Hawthorne Muchachos and the Bridgemen, all those wonderful 27th Lancer lines which got not as much play as the drill and color guard, ...in the days that prelims for championships was a two day outing (just for what we today call World Class), it always amazed me how much Rodney would sample the line and still have the energy and the reserve to stay calm and clear headed in those post-contest critiques which at times got a bit "heated" because Rodney called them as he saw them (that day.) While sometimes some disagreed, always he was respected.

Look again sir, the jobs are no longer out there for the ones beginning. I am glad your experience was different but it is far from the universal experience. Fine arts are now, unfortunately, considered luxury money and are often subjected to the first cut backs. For some many regions of our nation, it is that bleak. Looking at your drum corps teaching resume on your DCP profile does not challenge how vunerable and unstable the choice as a life profession really is, does it? You don't seem to stay for tenure...

it is now confirmed, cf. Cavaliers.org. Mike Martin marched Phantom and has assisted in many ways since he aged out. The bio says he and dad have been with Regiment for four seasons lately.

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Well, it seems 2 things will be certain: 1. the trumpets will be excellent. 2. We will be able to hear the Cavalier hornline. Very experienced masters who should do well based on previous performance.

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What has changed dramatically in their financial resources from the time they previously participated in DCI Open Class which would now allow them to take on DCI tour participation, even in a limited way??? What concrete differences are there so that the past is not repeated and Teal Sounds' problems are not cloned. I agree that Florida is ripe for a corps but DCI will have to be convinced that things have changed...for the better.

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. As far as charging Sound Sport Participants for seats at shows? Our local show will let us in for free to play the National Anthem and watch the show but if we want good seats we pay for them and it's not a big deal. I buy a ticket for myself and I'm usually manning our recruiting table. I buy a ticket because I like to support the local show and the Colts Drum & Bugle Corps. I am glad that you made the distinction between seating for the remainder of the contest and preferred seating for the best view of the contest. For many decades, the custom for exhibition groups and units completing their performances was for those units to be admitted without charge and to sit on the back side of the stadium. This you probably already knew. As the shows became more TV presentable with everything masked to the judging box, sitting on the back side of stadium fell into disfavor and kids began bleeding into the preferred seating to sit in open seats. (I understand their desires but recognize the problems and the loss of income for the show sponsor when all seats are full but not all seats are paid for.) Now that we no longer have retreats except for Championship finals and since corps are already prepped after performances to head off several hundred miles to their next show site, the backfield seating custom has died in most instances. In fact, it is impossible at Championships as LOS drapes off the backfield because of considerations for best sound and acoustics. That you are an individual capable of affording buying tickets even when you exhibit in this down economy is lucky for you. Most in this economy, particularly the youth for whom the activity is supposed to be a growth forum, aren't that fortunate. Please look at the larger picture beyond the width of your own wallet. Thank you for what you do and contribute.

All the above posters have given (antiseptic) factual answers which are included in the news brief which went with the original photo where I found it. I guess my reason for posting wasn't that pedantic but hoping for a little off season humor for which DCP is known. They must all be sleeping in for the holiday weekend or sleeping it off at DCA's. Oh well.

Who did this to this football field in greater Pittsburgh? Too many props on field or front ensemble moving vans???

You were an astronaut??? Yup, check the dollar store. Tang is still for sale. Within the first dozen years of DCI and somewhat prompted by SCV's Miss Amana purchase and the Troopers' literal Chuck Wagon, DCI tried several food crew cook-offs and even a recipe book. (Commercial: Glassmen have a recipe book for sale.) With all the nutrition information and changes in American eating since then, especially for those on tour, it may be the time again to try this for the next championships. Pat's Lemonade and Ice Tea recipes... Taco Salad... How to keep Greek Yogurt from wilting during the Texas tour... Swamp tour delights and other Cajun eatin's Indiana Soy bean salad and what not to do with tofu on tour... French food, Indonesian food, Twianese versions, japanese sushi, Irish bangers and mash, and how to keep your foreign members from feeling homesick. Just don't ask the English kids for recipes or you'll get kidney pie. Michael Boo's favorites (just in case you wanted to get asked to co-blog, if that's even legal in Indiana) What to eat if you want to look like Carolina Crown slims and maintain your tour weight all winter long and after Age-out String beans, marshmellows and what not to serve during DrumBattle days... The list is endless...

So you're a Crown fan, heh?

Well at least one of the rumors on this thread is true. http://www.crossmen.org/brass-caption-head And they thank him for his service too.

This!

1.Crown, Cadets, BD, Blue Saints, are at least four that I know of who could not get school accomodations due to the new calendar. Others rented college dorms or other university facilities at university prices, SCV, Colts, etc. Refer to the DCI website/news for a better listing although it is not totally accurate from my experience of also being there at Championships and visiting with several of the corps. For instance, the Cadets are listed as Knightstown H.S. but only practiced there as school was in session. Ditto with Crown who housed at one place and practiced at Avon around the school schedule, etc. etc. There were a number of corps thus effected http://www.dci.org/n...97-b98772f79bfb (Aug. 6, 2013). 2. Your experience and mine may differ. Some people's business accounts, loyalty cards, AARP membership, AAA, and other perk groups may get them better deals than the general public rack rate. I have been at all the five Indy championships and have been involved with several of the corps is trying to find them housing. Nothing I have said is untrue. It may just not be your experience which is singular and yours. Your budget for what you consider affordable may also be different based on your income. I met a bus load of folks who were staying in Dayton and it was still cheaper. Same with the crew who stayed in Shelbyville, Indiana a 40 minute drive. Those who stay at Carmel, Fishers, or at the Indianapolis airport all have at least a half hour drive each way.. 3. I observe that you have had a tendency to prefer to be aggressive and fight on the threads. I am not interested in that, only facts not power plays which is why I generally don't reply to your posts, even those I might agree with. I am out of this argument.

No practicing that Madison-run-across-the-snare heads thingey!

Jeff, Your answer is incomplete and in a ways is very out of date. As Indianapolis and now much of Indiana has gone to a school calendar that begins classes before DCI even arrives in town, more and more DCI corps have no choice but to stay in hotels/motels for at least the weekday nights of the championships. Only now are the corps beginning to use that to their advantage as they book the banquet halls of these hotels for their end of season banquets on Sunday before the corps membership disperses. Greater Indianapolis (Marion County) and environs is larger than either water-locked Annapolis or Rochester, so there is a bit of a greater flexibility for corps to spread out in four directions, not merely two or three. But Indianapolis is also a perpetual convention city and their hotels do not have down seasons. The push of the Indianapolis folks to bring every youth organization (sports, music, etc.) to headquarter there from NCAA to fraternities to church groups was part of the reasoning why the Board of WGI has voted several times not to heed the invite to Indy but to stay planted in Dayton, Ohio, an hour away on the Interstates. No matter what the season, Indy hotel rates are expensive no matter what the number of star-ratings. But DCI does not offer the lowest rates and fewer and fewer fans use them for a package. Friends of DCI (the rich givers) and those in the box suites stay in Downtown hotels through DCI; everyone else commutes but ends up paying for parking. .

With velocity style drills, the ankles are as vunerables as the knees and often more so.

This might be of help to Hopkins and C2? http://abcnews.go.com/Travel/jaw-dropping-castles-rent/story?id=20079663 Then again, if they are flummoxed about paying for rooms for Sunday night which will be empty because they have already headed home, I am certain that there are plenty of homeless folks in any city, Baltimore and Annapolis included, who would love to get in out of the rain and dark and would appreciate a free bed and warm shower. That would probably end the hotel putting a choke hold on the corps for minimum nights needed.

Knowing Bruni, he's probably has some "small" ceremony planned to install a commemorative plaque to honor Euponitone at Felton before moving onto the Davidsonville site, ha, ha, ha.:rolleyes:/>