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With last year's Jim Jones winner returning to conduct, an honest question: Can one win Jim Jones twice or more? Has anyone?

Not at all. These two can be great with the one liners, dry humor, interesting perspective on life. Why do Regiment people presume everything is an attack? Is the P for paranoid?

being tweeted out from camp at least 40 horns and full percussion section present. Holes, nyet.

What? Dan Fibus and Paul Nye on the same staff bus for the same caption! We all may be dying with laughter. :-)

Hmm. all of a sudden this year this is about the third time you have been homering for BD enterprises. Did you have to sell your soul to get them to come to your Dublin doings or something??? System Blue for you, heh?

With both C1 (Shostakovich Tenth) and C2 (Russian Square) playing shows from West of Siberia, will George's new title be Commissar?

ok, Phantom phamily... No more kidding around from me. Camp has started and business is at hand. @PhantomRegiment pic.twitter.com/2tUBU5PMPO Besides they take their drum corps stuff very seriously there in Rockford. I don't want to end up at the bottom of the Rock River with its namesake abound my neck. Have a great season. Bon Secours!

and the new tech on staff supervising the auditions....

wasn't he with the Muchachos? [Parisian photo from Arc de Triomphe is from 1944; other gentleman shown was leader of the French underground; 2014 was 70th anniversary of liberation of Paris, France.]

I was trying to do the Angels on the right coast, the Devils on the left coast, but you did me one better. Your audition assessment is spot on.

second gathering of the corps this weekend with additional auditionees at this camp. All reports sound promising. Safe travels to all.

Safe travels to all brass and podium hopefuls going to Phantom's camp this weekend. Word has snuck out of Rockford's office that here is the new conductor for the Paris show:

O great pontificator, both spellings for recycling/re-cycling are in the dictionary. Have a nice day.

yes, Blue Angels were a corps from Danvers, Massachusetts not California.

re-doing same old music, same show design, same basic poor girl story, same ending of someone getting killed. Recycling... and Lincoln posted on Throwback Thursday. In many municipalities in the country, the non-Edison light bulbs have to be placed in the recycling bin, not common trash. Now do you get it?

so a thread about BD becomes a debate about Cadets and there you go again homering about the barnyarders, a legend in their own myth. What, are they funding your parish this year or is getting back to the OP's concern too much of the Devils' work? :-p

no, nowadays they have to be re-cycled......................................but that's the sentiment with which the earlier part of this thread started, ha, ha.

http://www.regiment.org/story.cfm?ID=1460

Of course since '14, both BD and MBI have shared brass guru Scott Palmer (Madison alum and Eden Prairie director) as instructor and door keeper.

I have found that making vets audition actually helps the corps administration in determining real numbers of who is in the line for the future season rather than waiting several months until all the vets decide to turn up or not. I see it as a technique to an end, not a goal of itself. However, Perc and Eleran have made very real and authentic points which help motivate the vet to continue to improve and not rest on past laurels. How many vets show up at first camp after a medal has been won is always telling. More common today for vets and rooks to retire with their medals rather than push themselves (and finances) to make it happen again.................................fully realizing that their efforts are not the only factor in the equation by any means. Have we exhausted this side topic while we mark time for Regiment's big reveal??? Less than two days away, snow storms not interfering.

Mike D, We will be sending Michael Boo and J Willis to critique and review. Remember today the timpanist is often featured on the FN and Blair vidz.

Funny Gayle Royer real life story while we wait for the young uns to google whippersnappers. I was viz teching for a Long Island corps when Gayle Royer came East to do the DCI BoD investigation of whether the corps would be business worthy in what we now call World Class. It was the time of marching tympani. The corps was off to supper break when I was asked by the director, a rather verbose fellow who liked to please dignitaries as if they were long lost cousins, to strap on a tympani. Gayle was going through the equipment vehicles and saw a different type of drum harness from what he used out at SCV. He and the director, the quartermaster who had manufactured and rigged the thing, and the the percussion instructor debated the pros and cons for over what seemed like two hours. I was left standing there wearing the thing for the whole time; it was 90+ degrees at 8 p.m., not very usual in L.I. humid weather especially at the water front practice field. Eventually................Gayle moved on to cymbals and color guard equipment. My shoulders have never been the same since sez this wannabee horn player.

Sometimes, not always .... particularly in some corps where changing staffs seem de rigeur. Your loyalty nuances, both ways, is a serious and certainly worthy point of discussion, not necessarily debate. I think your point has some validity.

Reed, RCM, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfOiKknS-Wc https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=aram+khachaturian+lullaby https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcQVv4j6p1o Dance of the Tumblers (as the Cadets should have played it!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcQVv4j6p1o Russian Sailors Dance

Good luck to you as instructor. o C2 alum.