perc2100

🤷‍♂️ I'm quite certain we aren't the first posters in DCP (and prior, RAMD) history to make a comment beyond the scope of the original post 🤪

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IDK if I even heard that solo on the recording from that year. I originally had a tape dub of the record, and _maybe_ I heard that trumpet solo first on the audio CD that Cadets produced of their 'Championship Years.' It's been too long to remember when/how I first heard it, but I DO remember the first time I heard it thinking, "ahhh; THAT'S what that sop solo sounds like"

100%, and I know I'm not in the minority when it comes to "people who first 'discovered'/experienced DCI via Blair-produced DCI Finals on PBS or VHS tapes back in the day." IDK if he's in the DCI Hall of Fame, but if not someone REALLY needs to nominate him ASAP to get him in!!

Yes Cadets went 1-6 in 90/91 (obviously 1) Jeff & I went back well beyond the original scope and 2) Greg referenced the tick system days which were obviously substantially different judging-wise than now - but, you know, discussion is discussion especially when it's nostalgic to the older farts 🤪)

Both of those years felt like a flip-of-the-coin who would win, both Finals close spreads between 1 & 2. This is exciting for the activity, with neither being the 'dominant' corps running over everyone else, but still being the front runners displaying design style and setting the pace execution-wise. Fun times for fans!

Useless, yes. Did I want to hit this drum, as a percussionist (and OSU music major) everytime I saw it? HELL yes!! 🤪

I remember a show somewhere when I just _really_ had to go to the bathroom beforehand. On the walk from warmups to starting line I grabbed the snare outside of me as we passed a public bathroom, had him watch my SD, came out and 'speed walk' like I'd never sped walked before in my life to catch up with the rest of the drumline, who at that point was waiting with the horns outside the stadium to enter. Some were like "WTF were you doing?!" and I told them "it's better to duck out to pee real quick, so I have have a great show, rather than be distracted and potentially not have a great show," knowing that when I put it that way there was no WAY they could really argue with me 😏

As an alum of The Ohio State University, you bet you butt I 100% got the joke, but my limitations of reactions are only lol or the 'confusion' and I went with 'confusion' more as a 'that was a bad/dad esque joke' so my apologies for the confusion (Seriously; coming from Central OH I spent quite a bit of time lol'ing at Purdue on the football field, and watching OSU get their butts handed to them by Purdue in the basketball arena 🤪😐)

hahaha; I can tell you that's absolutely NOT what I experienced going to/from Canada-US via drum corps 😁

Ha you're right; I guess starting in Canada it just gave km instead of miles and I overlooked that (I thought that felt a little long for that type of commute but I've never driven around that area personally so 🤷‍♂️)

My rookie year of 'world class' drum corps in 1997 we had 36 shows (including Finals week); we had slightly less my age-out year the following year since we went all the way from Bristol, RI to Denver, CO (obviously not overnight, but over the course of the summer we toured a lot). My corps isn't around anymore, but just randomly: Madison Scouts 1996 38 shows; 2006 33 shows; 2016 29 shows; 2025 21 shows (those all include however many times they performed Finals week) Cavaliers 1996 34 shows; 2006 33 shows; 2016 32 shows; 2025 20 shows BAC 1996 26 shows; 2006 32 shows; 2016 30 shows; 2025 22 scores

In 1999 Kiwanis Kavaliers went from Montreal to Bristol, RI 'overnight' (595 miles according to google maps)

We had stuff like "I'm tired of you ticking the last few weeks" as the snare tech hands the rookie snare drummer their laundry & money to do their laundry (and to be fair, in those instances, that was 1. never me 😏 2. he gave more than enough money for whomever got stuck doing their laundry so they had some fun spending money while doing their laundry)

Looking at your bio, I have to imagine that rookie talent nights involving senior corps could be absolutely WILD 😐🤪