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Carolina Gold, a DCA corps has a necklace with a golden ring and a show bead. Some sections will have beads specific to them but the hornline does a black bead as theirs every year I think. Every member receives a "piece of Carolina Gold" after the first show.

As of right now Carolina Gold has Yamaha drums and a mix of Adams and Dynasty for the front ensemble.

Carolina Gold uses Dynasty trumpets and tubas and King mellos and baris, IIRC.

Bushwackers Bluecoats 2006-2015 Sunrisers Fusion Core Phatom 2010 Crown 2008, 2005 Madison (other than that one year I forget which)

As far as Psychology goes...the only shows I can think of are 1988 Suncoast, 2010 Cavies, 2014 Blue Knights or even 2013 Blue Devils. But some of those are a stretch even. If you want something that will stir up a discussion however, I highly recommend this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IUX0Qy-IDM

The music of Conan The Barbarian.

To hopefully help clear this up, as a member of a drum corps front ensemble I as an individual and the front ensemble have more of a job today than say 10 years ago to contribute to the overall package of a drum corps show. We don't just stand there and play because... that would be pretty boring, in all honesty, but we definitely do not dance to the music we are working with. We "pulse" which is used as a timing mechanism as well as a way to show the crowd that we are actually enjoying what we are doing. Because light travels faster than sound, we use pulsing and prepping (the up and down motion of the mallets dictated by the center marimba to tell the members of the pit when to play their assigned parts) as tools to keep time in the crazy listening environment that is modern drum corps. In my teaching, the center marimba watches the drum major, dictates the tempo and the rest of the ensemble watches to keep time, while everyone is also listening back to the drum line. In addition to pulsing, some front ensembles (see Cavies or Bluecoats) also add visuals into the playing to add to the effect of the show and some even go as far as almost acting (Phantom 2014/13) however that is not how I was taught so I do not know much about how all that works. Long story short, we pulse in order to keep time as an ensemble as well as to not look bland in front of all the movement and color that is happening behind us. Just a comment from someone who fell in love with that section of a drum corps and eventually was a member of that section!

Reading, PA show we got a standing O even though we had an off day, Home show crowd gave us a huge applause even though the show was delayed 2 hours, a torrential downpour, a tornado the county over and drizzle while we performed. That weekend was one of my fondest memories of this summer, right up there with Finals weekend. Surprisingly we didn't get as much applause at DCA Prelims/Finals, and because I am in the front ensemble I found myself performing for scowling faces and shaking heads..and some people even laughing as if they were making fun of my corps... The rest of that weekend was amazing, however.

How could I forget, Phantom 2010!

This year when Caballeros ripped my face off at the end of the show. The Latin section in Crown's 2010 show Crown 2005. Bucs faux company front this year (I got so frustrated I nearly threw a tantrum ) My finals run this year.

Charlotte, NC, loads of cities in NY , Austin, Texas

It was truly an honor to perform underneath those lights on Sunday, being the last Drum Corps to perform in the 2015 season. No words could ever describe the feeling that I got after pouring my heart out on that field with my corpsmates.. I guess you could say I felt the ''Rush''

Got home at around 1:30 Tuesday morning. Good thing I slept on the bus!

Insightful comments. Thanks!

The suspense is killing meeee!

Probably shouldve waited until tomorrow until posting that but im sure someone will decipher meaning from my half asleep, half caffeine high late night diabolical scheming. Now to take over the world and lower gas prices by 3 dollars.

I'm hoping they will approach Counterpoint in sort of the way Reich writes his music; minimalistic yet brooding and expanding (not sure if thats grammatically correct but w/e) In other words, I think if they take that approach and apply it to the hornline it will be amazing and ###### in its own quirky way. Say the mellos/trumpets and the snares play a tasty lick, with color and movement added from the colorguard and body/drill as usual, and then add in the baris/euphs and the tenors; present a new idea with just that section, and then do the same thing but with both the high and low brass etc etc. I dunno if any of this makes sense at all, but its how im hoping it will play out just for that particular piece; think City Life back in 2013, but with more technical and moving (get it, kinetic....moving, heh.) harmonic parts.

Electric Counterpoint is one of my favorite pieces and I just know theyll do it justice in some innovative, creative way. Hyped for this season!

I know when I marched that we would always look to vets (especially people that had been there for more than 3 years) for help and or alumni who decide to still be involved in the corps and in turn theyd tell us stories of how it was and their individual experiences way back when. I honestly think that that was a big part in my whole experience, feeling as if I had a home, and hundreds of brothers and sisters that marched before me as well as with me. I felt part of a legacy, and I could never be prouder. Now that I am involved with Senior Corps I can feel that same feeling of belonging and legacy multiplied 3 fold

Wondering where the best places to get patches are at DCA/DCI competitions and which if any have specified patches for the certain competition. I really feel like i missed out on a lot of ways to remember my past season as far as memorabilia goes and I wish I had been more on the look out for things to put in my "memory box"last summer

Could you possibly link said banners?

Are there any banners for DCA Corps? I was just wondering because I know there are World Class DCI banners and I think some for DCA would be pretty cool. Would anyone be willing to make them?

Very Excited.

Gonna be a great season!

I have manic depression but I think I recall an autistic person marching DCA last year?