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    Carolina Crown 2024

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    11 minutes ago, OldSnareDrummer said:

    Camp Town Races

    Cadets, Boston, Troopers....well as the tune is incorporated into Lincoln Portrait that is. 😉

    My HS band did Lincoln Portrait for our opener my senior year.  The band director had long used 'Doo dah' in place of expletives he wasn't supposed to be saying in front of us.  My senior year he quipped toward the end of the season, "All these years I've been saying doo dah and now we're playing it." 

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    Vintage DCI at 2023 BOA Grand Nationals

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    1 hour ago, gak27 said:

    The bolded and underlined sentence is one that I doubt many of us would NEVER have heard BITD.  Good to know things have changed, drastically in some instances.

    Band being the 'it thing' was a thing at my school in the 80s.  We were a 2500 student school that regularly marched about 260.  We were, by far, better than the football team in bringing home wins and trophies.  In my sister's time, it became policy the band had to stay the whole game because letting the band go after halftime on Friday night (due to an early Saturday call for travel to our shows) meant half the crowd disappeared with us.  

    In my time, there was a year the football team decided they were gonna harass the band/guard girls in the band hall before school.  We tried shooing them off but got the "Band F__" treatment out of them.  The band director complained to the Football Coach, who by reports, just shrugged and smirked.  The AD didn't back the band director either.

    So ... next game we had a double show schedule on Saturday.  Early slot at one location then a late slot at another.  Lots of travel.  Band director said, "screw the policy, we're done after we come off at halftime.  The AD might talk to me then." Our crappy football team jumped out to a surprise lead v. a state ranked opponent and we had the atmosphere pumped up. And then lost by like 28 points after the 2nd half was flat with no spirit from the crowd.   

    The AD blew his stack, the principal of the school got involved and resolved it with a "no football players in the band hall" and "the band stays for the whole game" agreement again.  We marched in for the next game with all the trophies we'd won that season thus far, we were sweeping captions at shows too, each had their own trophy.  So like the Drum Majors and half the guard carrying trophies as we enter the stadium in full parade formation rather than just filtering in.  Crowd going nuts with pride for us.  Student body included.  Football team got stomped...again.

    Point. Made.  

    Don't f' with the band.

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    2023 Audio Performance Downloads - Will they be produced?

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    Posted · Edited by KVG_DC

    A fair few corps have used their social media youtube accounts for "official releases" of their shows too.  In cases where they were proactive about getting all the rights in order themselves. 

    I want that to be a growing trend actually.  It drives people to the CORPS social media a thus puts eyeballs on them and ensuring their show will be releasable in this manner becomes a priority for their design teams because it reflects on their brand.

    That said, it'd be nice if DCI then makes a 'master playlist'

     

    Off topic post... CPR

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    2 hours ago, Cainan said:

    Unfortunately, I was informed by the gentlemans son that he passed peacefully yesterday with his 5 kids at his side. He thanked us for not allowing his dad to die alone on the floor of the town market, but rather with his family by his side.

    I had very mixed emotions when I heard the news. Naturally I thought "could we have done more?" and then I realised how daft that thought was. We kept him going enough for the paramedics to intervene. The paramedics (there were 4 of them btw) showed up with all of their training, their equipment and their meds and it took THEM a half hour to stabilise him enough just to transport him to the ambulance. Once in the ambulance, he arrested twice more. They managed to get the man to the cardiac specialist hospital in Liverpool where with a wealth of cardiac doctors and untold amounts of equipment and technology even they couldn't stave off the inevitable. I suppose when it's your time it's your time.

    I spoke with one of the paramedics that was on scene and he said the guy was gone before he hit the floor and that in no uncertain terms, we saved his life. His family got to say a proper goodbye because of everyones intervention and I can live at peace with that.

    Would I do it again if the situation presented itself? Absolutely. Would I have done anything differently? No.

    Mixed feelings are natural.  You gave the family a gift to let them have goodbyes and some dignity to his passing.   My mom and dad had been trained in CPR at a church event and had to use it with a neighbor across the street from them at one point.  He too passed in the hospital a few days later but had the opportunity to do so after some goodbyes and somewhere other than in the midst of a crisis situation on their driveway.

    The favor was somewhat returned years later with the residents of that house across the street after them performed CPR on my mom. She too passed a week later and although she hadn't regained consciousness, it gave us a chance to gather and say our goodbyes.  

    I think about that often when I refresh my CPR training.

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    Cadets Suspend for 2024

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    28 minutes ago, Terri Schehr said:

    Having lived in tornado land and now, hurricaneland, a direct hit in hurricaneland is terrible.  I lived in tornadoland for 63 years and I never took a direct hit. Lost a few shingles a few times.  Lived here a year and three months and boom.  Direct hit. 

    Tornadoes are a finger of God coming down to draw on the earth.  Hurricanes are the whole #### arm rolling through like a drunken uncle at your 4th of July cookout.  

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