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sssidney

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  1. I loved BDs show. Maybe it's not DC as we know it. Who cares. The more I think about the more it seems that maybe they aren't trying to play the same game as everyone else.
  2. The hardware store idea makes sense! I'll give that a shot.
  3. Here's the photographers website - http://www.ianlauder.com I'm sure he would be happy to let you use the pic.
  4. I've mainly been playing around the house - driving the wife and kids nuts. I did take my horn to burningman this year I really wanted to march one more year before we moved from CA to the east coast. ACK. I sent an email to Curry about the ccaps but he didn't know the size for my mellophone. I wonder what his return policy is on these?
  5. Those will look great with some 1978 crossmen face paint.
  6. I just got my 6 mph yesterday. Huge diff in sound from the curry 3tf I was using.
  7. It has the Amado waterkeys. I'm willing to risk dressing up a pig.
  8. Has anyone tried using Curry CCAPS (http://www.currympc.com/ccaps.html) on a 3 valve dynasty G mellophone? Which size fits? I contacted Curry but he wasn't familiar with the horn. If you got this to work what did you think? I've read an article about using these on a Yamaha 204 on http://www.middlehornleader.com/Curry%20CCaps.htm and would like to try them on my old mello.
  9. Just one - I’m sick of most of the sounds coming out of the pit – marimbas, xylophones, vibraphones, glockenspiels, etc. Give it a rest once in a while. Maybe these instruments can be featured a few times but I don’t need to hear 12 minutes of plink, plink, plink!!!!
  10. Agreed. Boy it really sucks to be reminded of the real world once in a while eh? Here's a compromise for those that were so put out. Go here http://www.fieldband.org.za/index.asp sponsor a kid and then come back and ##### some more.
  11. Oh man. I am ashamed to say that I started that back in 1979. How did you hear of it? Don't tell me that Ed made that part of history night.
  12. yeah that does work. I added the white collar to my uniform for DCA retreat in 2003. I'll see if I can dig up a pic somewhere.
  13. That pretty much what I said. I was hoping to find a problem with the logic but I can't. Actors reciting lines is new to drum corps so some people are having a problem with it. Those people need to get over it. I just wish the presentation wasn't so Country Bear Jamboree because the poor presentation may actually end up being a roadblock to further innovation in this area.
  14. I've been trying to find a counter to the "they're just actors reciting their lines" argument. It does seem ironic that they are reciting scripted lines that have a theme of choice but hey they are actors. There are times when actors reciting lines doesn't work. Like if Robert Downey jr. was playing the role of a straight laced cop with a serious anti-drug message you would probably go "huh?" but for various reasons that doesn't apply here. Actors giving speeches is new to dc and some people are having a hard time with the concept. My only problem with it is that it seems so Disney stage show cheesy as opposed to maybe a cool Laurie Anderson performance art type thing that it could be if done right. I'm sure someone will get it right if they have the courage to keep trying.
  15. I was thinking that too. His weeping women and monster period stuff could easily be done in a line drawing that would lend itself well to a form on the field. That would include both his art and his personal life in the show.
  16. Regarding the Cadets narration: That's it for me too. Has anyone mentioned the "quality" of the voices doing the narration? The narrators are not quite James Earl Jones or John Facenda. They are not in the same league quality-wise as their horn and drum lines. For me the narration brings the otherwise excellent show down a notch or two.
  17. Well put. I deal with these my way or the highway/America love it or leave it types everyday. They aren't helping their cause.
  18. My last show, after marching for 10 years, was Boonton Nationals :) back in 1979. 1. Crossmen 82.15 2. Meadowlarks 74.90 3. Garfield 73.15 4. Patriots 52.05 I took a few years off (23?) before marching again for a few years with the SF Renegades.
  19. That's who we got it from back in the late 70s. I think in 1979 Tony Smith brought that with him from Boston. Oops. I should have read Doug's message. Sorry. Hey Doug how you doing?
  20. Wow. I marched in that show with Bracken when I was 10. Man am I old. I was also one of the group that went from Bracken to Crossmen the first year. I think that DCI Hall of Famers Jim Prime and Donny Van Doren marched in the Chessmen back then.
  21. hehehe. yeah. thanks for proving my point. I guess you would exclude yourself from those that are above personal attacks?
  22. So then you believe the reason given for closing CE isn't the real reason?
  23. Can someone explain how these two statements are consistent? Are the other Off-Topic forums more drum corps related than CE?
  24. I guess you're assuming that I felt that all the whiners were on one side? Nope. And as far as protecting your cows - well it's one thing to argue and backup your point it's quite another to go off and whine to the mods. So my totally uninformed , as always, opinion is that a few very vocal whiners could have made this place too much of a headache to be worth it.
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