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  1. Those nitwits at Drum Corps News are still wondering why the Ferns never showed at the '69 World Open.
  2. DotRats only took members from St. Ann's, St. Peters and St. Williams.
  3. The Fresno Ferns have been conducting secret practices on zoom.
  4. They looked incredible and sounded great when in tune. The problem was the tympani could be tuned by ear relative to each other, but it was often impossible to hear well-enough to tune to the horn line, especially when giant cymbals were stationed in between. The early move to "ground" tympani was beneficial to sound as well as bodies. I would never change the past, but I do have a fused disc and one leg 1/2 inch shorter than the other. The radiologist says it occurred "right around the age of 15", which was my first year carrying that instrument. We did always have a front row seat during concert, and got to hear a very ###### drum corps closer than anyone (inside the arc as FD would say), and see and hear the crowd sitting within feet of us. Marching tympani were a huge step in the evolution of drum corps, but tympani belong in the pit, being played by a single musician.
  5. I'm teetering on the brink of insulting a corps which I enjoy, which is the opposite of what I am trying to say. Justice Potter Stewart famously wrote in a case about defining pornography (bad analogy), "perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly defining [it], but I know it when I see it". That is probably how it is with GE, that je ne sait pas quoi of drum corps, where judges are in the position of comparing apples and oranges. For me, sometimes the fairest approach is watching the reactions of die hard fans of Corps A to the show and performance of Corps B. When people spontaneously respond by screaming and jumping out of their seats, there is GE. Top GE for me is a combination of unique design, difficulty, and performance, without which the show design is meaningless.
  6. Respectfully, because as enjoyable as they are to watch, it is more reminiscent of a BOA show. Cute does not take top GE in DCI.
  7. 1969: Falmouth Flounders and Cotuit Quahogs merged to form Chatham Chowdaheads Islington Lizards and Viagra Vagabonds merged to form Ereptile Dysfunction
  8. Harvard Band show design is thoughtful and relevant to the thing most on the minds of students today: http://www.boston.com/life/2015/11/17/harvard-band-gives-unwanted-anatomy-lesson-claims-wan-purpose/jMWlQ4pFZagdMlLkEPD46H/story.html?p1=story_hp#comments
  9. Has SUNY Albany ever been considered? Located at the intersection of 87 and 90. New stadium with upper deck. Give away the seat outside the 20 yd lines to youth groups. http://www.albany.edu/map/
  10. The road beside the stadium, running off Hancock St., leads to a baseball field, and eventually a larger multi-use field. You will most likely find warmups there. There is also a new jr. high across the street on Hancock, but the stadium is probably too close for playing. The entire area there is a system of parks which is worth exploring, and given the traffic, go early.
  11. If they were 65-ish, they didn't march in the Blue Devils when they were winning, if they ever did march. I marched in BAC in the somewhat bad old days of the late 60's. We were regularly booed in Massachusetts, and occasionally even spit at by blowsers entering the stadium. We did our talking on the field. Today at shows, I keep my mouth shut unless it's to cheer for something I appreciate. I never lose sight of the fact that every competitor works harder than we ever did "back in the day". Most importantly, the competitors are someone else's kids. These days, that crap is not tolerated in the stands in Massachusetts. If it occurs, people should not hesitate to speak up. If that should lead to unpleasantries, well then its a trip in the drum corps time machine, when the fans were a cross between roller derby and a biker bar.
  12. That snare line is really beginning to cook, as is the entire corps. Tough to lose a member but virtually impossible to bring someone into that position at this point in the season. Close the gap and go BAC.
  13. This seems like a lot of effort to produce a sound which ought to be available using any decent synthesizer. Come to think of it, most of those heavy, bulky percussion instruments from prior centuries could also be eliminated. The open positions would of course be filled by vocalists and woodwinds.
  14. 5. In 1968 at the US Open, this corps placed 7th in prelims beating Madison Scouts, Hawthorne Muchachos and Boston Crusaders. The Boston Crusaders did not compete in the 1968 US Open.
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