olddrummer34

This place is overrun with negativity. Literally every thread, someone hijacks with negativity. In this thread about the cavaliers - some random person suggests that they "have a feeling" the corps is next to ceae operations, with no information. Just negativity for negativities sake. For the good of the activity, shut this place down until the summer when there is actual discussion here.

First of all, you haven't gotten a response and you are jumping,ping to a huge conclusion here Alumni groups are ALL ADULTS. Soundsport groups DO background check staff, but the participants are all KIDS. DCI doesn't;t background check the performers either because they are kids. They all complete safesport. What else do you expect DCI to do? Do you have anything to do all day rather than stir up drama here? And what does any of your post have to do with the cadets bakruptcy. Why do you insist on turning every thread into a "DCI isn't doing enough and doesn[t care".

Oh stop. First of all, you are still waiting for a response, so saying anything like that at this point is un true. Soundsport and Alumni groups don't tour, they essentially meet on a few weekends to get their act together and meet up at DCI. They have no money - and could never afford background checks the way corps that tour do. Should every adult community sports league background check the participants? Because that is the equivalent of an alumni group. Everyone is an adult.

Ok, not sure why you are being defensive. I would suggest running it by DCI. Otherwise you are asking a forum of people who don't know instead of the organization you are asking about.

John Mackeys normal band pieces sound like a drum corps show anyway, so I don't think anything he writes for crown will be that mind blowing. What will be interesting will be how it works with what I assume will be Michael Klesch writing the rest of the book. Are the percussion arrangers going to write in tandem with Mackey? Do they get any say in what he writes, or does he just hand them a score? In my opinion - it felt like Klesch and the new perc arrangers needed another year to really mesh - so adding Mackey to that equation is an interesting choice.

You would probably get an answer if you reached out to DCI and ask, have you done that? The background checks for TSA precheck and for DCI and most education entities are not the same.

This is not unique to 2024. In the 90's corps struggled EVEN MORE to fill spots. In 1996, the world champion corps started the season with a lot of holes needing to be filled - because they didn't have the turnout to fill them all. That doesn't happen nowadays to hardly anyone in the top 12. Colts are the only one I can think of.

Many times the person running the social media account is a hired employee with social media experience who probably has no idea about these abuse allegations. They have no reason to know, and probably have no idea why a piece of music the corps has performed is controversial.

You are completely wrong. Most of the top 12 corps were completely full and then some. Quit being a doomer

Looks like Michael Lentz (from onyx) and his team are out at Troopers. This was an exciting off-season development for them and is quite the bummer. I wonder why it happened? Also noticed that they Hired Jason Rob as a program coordinator who was, if Im not mistaken, at Madison Scouts last year.

No, this place is not positive. And I used to enjoy reading, for YEARS. never posted. Decided to make an account to post because of all of the negativity. And go back and read Jeff Ream's posts. You will see deeply unhappy people that just want to make us all see how miserable they can be.

Care to tell us what those rumors are? Some of you are just so eager to tear down these drum corps. It is exhausting. Go start your own forum where you can talk trash all day long. Just leave the negativity off of here. Seriously. It is getting so old to open a thread and see the same 3 people (Jeff Ream, ShherexadeGhost or whatever) being completely insufferable. You have ruined this place

I am just creating an account to tell the 3-4 of you that continually post about NOTHING in the thread to PLEASE STOP. Take your grievances to your DMs and let the rest of us talk about the 2024 corps.