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hmm. Seems to be SCV, Wyoming edition...or else Rockford Regiment in Wyoming? I wonder what the connection is? (said tongue in cheek.) P.S. Time served in Guyana and Poland seems interesting credentials worthy of a Troopers tour? Best to all.

Do the Cavies do auditions in Chicago (or Illinois) anymore or is it too dangerous? I do note their world tour of staff for several auditions..., rivals BD it seems. Is Crown the only remaining "local" corps as they seem to do auditions only within a walk from their home office? (Unless one counts Avon H.S., chuckle.) Isn't audition season great: Temperatures in Denver climbed past 70 degrees (21 Celsius) over the weekend only to fall to 14 degrees (-10 Celsius) early Monday."

Nov. 11, the Feast of St. Martin of Tours, a Roman soldier and patron of all soldiers (one of the reasons the Armstice was signed on 11/11 at 11). Armistice Day became Remembrance Day which has become Veteran's Day. Some may find this article of interest regarding where my uncle is buried after he was killed the last week of WWII. Not forgotten. And why I cheer Jubal.) https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/americans-gave-their-lives-to-defeat-the-nazis-the-dutch-have-never-forgotten/2015/05/24/92dddab4-fa79-11e4-9ef4-1bb7ce3b3fb7_story.html https://www.theday.com/nationworld-news/20191111/why-we-call-it-x2018veterans-dayx2019-and-not-armistice-day-x2014-or-veteransx2019-day

C'est bon.

I'm beginning to think that you either have a farm which grows what eventually becomes woodwind reeds (for clarinets, sax, oboes, basoons, etc.) or you've become an ideologue.

This isn't too far from Craiga is it? Spartans would usually do the French parade there around the time of the Feast of St. Jean Baptiste in June. https://www.pressherald.com/2019/11/10/band-of-rookies-biddeford-high-resurrects-marching-band-program/

11/11 at 11am

As Auditions have now begun (Cavies today in Japan, Cadets Experience at Meadowlands, etc....) how have turnouts been according to those actually present? Of course the corps public relations offices will bleed out twits that it's the best numbers, most talented, most amazing auditionees ever, but what's the truth for November 2019??

Has the future brought back the annual Navy-Air Force-Coast Guard DBC competition? (Add in Commandant's Own as hosts and Hellcats as judges...)

And much of that trip is through Misery, I mean Missouri. 😛

oh, you've heard him play?

True story. When DCI Rules sheets were being formulated (not merely re-copied from Am. Legion sheets,) the Rules Congress got hampered by a very energetic, even aggressive discussion about "what ifs" as for the first whiles percussion items would only be judged by the percussion judges, marching only by the m&m judges, horns only by the brass judges unless the horns also marched. Well the pinnacle example that infuriated everyone present to jump into the debate was "What if the guard were given finger cymbals attached to their flag pikes and simultaneously played them in unison or did a cascading sound across the field: would they be judged as percussion members or guard members and by which set of judges?" It took a few decades to put that example on the effect sheets with today having two effect judges (one with a visual background and one with a music background.)

But what you subjectively judge as moving the activity "forward," others just as subjectively judge as distraction or going backward or trying to make a zebra into a chicken. Today there is not a commonly agreed purpose for the activity but rather small camps each pushing subjective agendas.

not that long ago, even in this century yet, what the corps wore was part of the elan of the corps and part of the drawing mechanism which inspired the new mms to auditions. With the constant shift with instructional faculties today, corps have become more cookie-cutter and not as unique as once were (e.g. 27th was quite distinctive and never to be confused with the Bridgemen.) Today the cutting-edge borders are not as distinct. Now it is as often who the designers are or instructors are with mms following some name like lemmings off a cliff, all in the hope of padding the resume' for non-existent future employment in the music field.

I won't say which corps but...

yup, and you paid for it twice (taxes plus ticket price.)

I will now add that word to my lexicon in case it eventually appears on the S.A.T.s or A.C.T.s or Graduate Record Exam. 🙂

You had those snappy teal uniforms well before wearing teal became a thing. DCP mod MikeD who marched Garfield Cadets drumline has said many times on DcP how smart your unis were, even if the Bensonhurst source of the financing was intriguing, ha. ha.

'10 was so smooth.

I've heard similar both on the East Coast and in Colorado. Amazing how similarly "close minded" some of the "clothes minded" can be when judging themselves avant garde: sounds like you are saying: Accept my artistic genius or get out.

this front side-other side contrast mimicks what a number of corps have done over the years going all the way back to when BAC had black on the back of their jackets and red on some, white on others on the front. Cadets 2005, etc.

What did you have for supper? If that company isn't giving any drum corps $$$ today, are we giving them a lot of free publicity?

I'll go through Dave Shaw's book today. That sort of thing would be mentioned if it did happen (and not one of things or people that GH censored out of the script. Yes, he did that to several longtimers he didn't find loyal to him.) Googling Circle K info finds that Circle K sponsored Suncoast for 2 seasons; Cadets of Bergen County moniker and Suncoast were on the field at the same time, but Tampa dissolved first; no mention of Cadets in Circle K info.

I don't at all and I was on staff those years. Circle K is not present in NJ and PA as it was in Florida and South. But it's all 30 years ago and what would an officer of the corps know...

Circle K sponsored Suncoast Sound.