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I attended the DCI BoD meeting in Denver in 1978 when Don was let go. Part of the discussion was in super-secret executive session and some of us waited outside for the "founders" to finish their discussion and vote. You fail to mention that Don is the one who gave us Jackson, MS. plus Birmingham, AL finals sites. Colorful character for sure. DCI was aided in its origin by his efforts for sure.

Meanwhile the Midwesterners, especially Hoosiers and Ohioans have much cheaper travel costs each year DCI hosts Championships in Indy.

would love to hear this but I don't/can't do apps. He is a really great person from an equally great (but intense) and caring family. We all know their talent level. (breathe, duh.)

I am glad to hear (no pun) another opinion about the sound there as I like Minnie and St. Paul alot and enjoy that Northwoods and Scandinavian cuisine. My question about the sun effect is a serious one since early afternoon sun for prelims is not the sun position that one experiences for football games or those late night Autumn band contests. Would you have been there at that time of day in mid-summer or are you guess-timating? I hope you are right.

how much interest there is in tonight's percussion thing they are doing may point us in what direction they are headed.

I've been informed that The Couchmen are willing to come on board as consultants to the adjudicators should the DCI judges are willing to go all the way. Pillow fluff time.

I love how the Troopers maintain their local contact which I see SCV recently made an attempt to also renew (the videos are about on several sites.) Congrats and best wishes to all.

ok, for the 21st century politically correct crowd, insert "Chicago Cabal" instead of the historical term I cited. (Those seeing a slight to Chi-town might refer to the old abbreviation for Illinois.)

and 12 years ago we didn't have the megaprops and their added transport nor the skyscraper sized electronic speakers and sound boards. Pasadena is ok for a small local DCI show but the grass field proved inadequate, bathrooms are outside the stadium, and the stairs were a killer if one was with any physical challenges like wheelchairs, braces, canes, or other medical situations. There are other places in Calif. that would be more suitable. No roses for Pasadena without thorns.

Spot on Jeff......this proposal, very reminiscent of GH/Gibb's G-7 proposal further distances drum corps from the local contacts. It's a suicide mission for the activity.

where some of the 7th Reg. equips sometimes end up. Love the enthusiasm in this piece from today's edition of the local paper there in New London, The Day. Norwich is just up the river a piece from New London. https://www.theday.com/video/20190929/battle-of-bands-at-nfa

That's Indy all over again.

Is there not an echo factor with the new stadium which I understood was designed so that the noise of the audience was magnified to the field, not the other way around the way many DCI fans prefer (to hear the corps.) Having done some consultation with two MN hs. bands, I know that the band circuit there is not psyched on the stadium for this reason; I presume Brian Turner would give the expert answer. Regarding all day prelims in the stadium, would the field have to be set in a certain direction due to the walls of glass (particularly with the Western sun.) And what would we do with all those gulls and other birds who use the stadium for their suicide runs? I've read even the Vikings have had problems with them. But I like the city and neighboring St. Paul.

Spot on. KC hogged them all.

which is why I put it in quotes. Besides, is not George Bonfiglio himself of Italian descent? In fact you don't know my entire DNA do you? Typically, you are making presumptions on the motives of others. Side note: On Sunday I co-hosted at the local Italian-American club he annual pre-Columbus Day parade cultural presentation.

if anyone had money left after paying the parking fees at Foxboro, some of the most expensive in the NFL.

Warren Township!?!? What? Did they name a school after him already. He's only been at PR HQ for a year, ha, ha.

3 of those choices are on the most-dangerous in the country list the law enforcement use.

The term referred to the first CEO and his wife,plus Bob Briske and staff, etc. all who were came from the greater Chicago area where DCI hqs. were ALWAYS until the move to Indy, despite the FACT that the first 12 corps came from across the nation. Only in the later half of the second decade of DCI did that Chicago influence seem to welcome others from outside the region in the power positions beyond the BoD and the implementation decisions of BOD discussion. I'm referring to the day to day workings of DCI plus who staffed what at Championships and regional . It was either G. Royer or G. Bonfiglio who coined the term. When I first heard it in the mid-80's, mine was not the only head that nodded in agreement.

this benefits Midwest fans. The rest of us would have to pay for transportation and housing/board. Since its start in '72, DCI has always struggled with the Midwest (Mafia) as they were often termed vs. the experiences of those on the coasts Atlantic, Pacific, and Gulf. Madison Scouts for a few years proudly wore tee-shirts referring to themselves as Coastbusters.

the librarians assure me they get a commission of each posting. I thought I was complimenting your youthful style. Oh well.

Does increase participation refer to more corps competing, more units (such as Soundsport and Drumline Battle) participating or a larger ticket gate at regionals and other DCI sponsored events during the summer? There are some of us (notably a few if comments on DCP and other social sites are to be convincing) that the tour is stuck in a rut since the decision to fixate on Indianapolis and not rotate the championships as was done for the first few decades of DCI. Since fixating on Indianapolis and LOS with whatever positives some might ascribe, collateral damage to that decision has been the loss of a number of traditional drum corps sites particularly smaller sites and fewer contests each summer in traditionally drum corps regions. Californians rightfully complain that the current model of tour with its fixation of Indianapolis deprives Pacific Coast fans from viewing corps in the later part of the summer when competing corps are more polished. As the costs of transportation, housing, and lifestyle in Indianapolis becomes more expensive and commercial-corporate convention budget account centered, many families can no longer afford ongoing participation in DCI either as marching members or returning audience members, if the comments on DCP, reddit, and other activity media are to be believed. Soon DCI will announce publicly the paid ticket purchases for the 2019 season just finished, and the rumors are that the numbers decreased compared to the number of purchasers in prior seasons. Transparency is an aspect DCI still struggles with; the gnosticism of some illuminati who present themselves as if "in the know" tempers any meaningful conclusions without public figures available to all, particularly those who donate either to DCI, to member corps, or to individual marching participants. Re-addressing the tour, whether prompted by the diminishment of schools willing to house the corps, the costs of alternate housing, transportation, etc. or merely by the boredom factor of losing other DCI shows outside the Central States, is an aspect of the activity few will negate.

6 pages in and I am surprised that no one has yet mentioned that the WGI winter crowd went through this whole rifle vs. other equipment debate a decade ago resulting in the oblige that units use rifles and not other equipment. Dig into WGI archives for that elongated discussion. Since most dinos believe that whatever happens in WGI and BOA during those other seasons of the year follows into DCI during the summer..., the OP's question might have a simple answer.

Not all of us dinosaurs have our own computers. (I use the public library's; much cheaper than paying for all those updates the tech-mess people generate to make a salary.) (I still have a rotary phone which works well; I don't text message due to my hand tremors and eyesight.) You millennials would control the judging just like WGI with snowflakes and unicorns.