shostahoosier

Well...you got me there. Even OC finals was in the middle of nowhere.

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Nah...when I read reviews online...they often start with "Unfortunately I wasn't able to make it into the stands for the first few corps". So even when smaller corps are opening shows for the bigger corps, people are still missing their performances.

We never called you Skeletor at the old place. 😉

This may be one of my favorite posts on DCP ever! I’m not a dinosaur opposed to innovation, but for me part of what made DCI special was how the designers could create sounds and visuals within the limitations that they had. Zingali’s “Cross to Cross” would be less impressive if the members did it on go carts.

I marched for drum corps for 4 summers and for two of them I had drum majors that had previously marched and for two of them I had drum majors that had just auditioned for the role. From that experience, personally, I heavily prefer a drum major that is a vet. The drum majors that had never marched never seemed to fully understand what it was like to rehearse as a performer and sometimes even seemed to believe they were the highlight of the show. I know plenty of excellent drum majors have never marched before, but I just always found it easier to identify with (and even approach) a

Well at the university I attended, sororities had a similar problem. The less popular sororities complained that the more popular sororities were offering callbacks to too many girls, and in the process hurting their chances of recruiting those women themselves. The compromise/solution was that the more popular a sorority was during recruitment, the fewer women they could offer call backs to. This worked because the popular groups were less likely to have girls quit if they were offered a spot. Though not perfect, I think this system could work for DCI. Corps could be asked to put a

I hate when people ruin the joke by not getting it...now I hate that I'm one of those people

Why can’t they push them harder?

I predict a BD soprano player from 1984 will chime in and tell us BD has no need to change their consistent staff formula.

Good luck tonight Regiment. SUTA

This never gets mentioned but the book that Michael Klesch wrote for Phantom Regiment in 2001 was quite good,

How much would $1,000,000 buy in today's drum corps world though? It would do wonders for a small corps but it sounds like the big corps spend almost that much on a tour each summer. Starting up (without the sponsorships) would probably make things even costlier. But I would be happy to be proven wrong if it meant Star would return.

I think the Star of Indiana actually played very little from "Pines"...(that amazing company front that came out of nowhere to the end of the opener). Either way the way that Jim Prime put it all together was fresher than what any corps has done since.

I think the decreasing traffic of this site can partially be attributed to the trickle down of fewer corps = fewer marching members = fewer alumni = fewer people keeping in touch. I know there are a lot of posters here who have/will never march....but I feel like most of the long term die hard fans here are fmms. I aged out in 2001 and was still crazy about drum corps for another 5 or 6 years. Now I just check in from time to time to reminisce or see what the latest strange gossip is. I will always LOVE corps but my day to day interest in the activity has waned considerably and continue