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  1. I know you said there was no one on the enemies list but does that include 'musicians', better known as horm players? LOL
  2. I've checked the DCA website and don't know if anyone has posted earlier here, but are prelims available again this year on live streaming video? This was a great option for those of us, who for various reasons, couldn't make it to the Championship weekend last year.
  3. Two voices of reason as usual!! Congrats to Cabs as it is evident they are working extremely hard.
  4. OK, so I'm old and you got me on a technicality! Guess it was 2006 I was there. #### it sucks being out of drum corps....maybe I can latch on with Cadets...........oh wait, no I can't..........just foolin around!!!
  5. Empire was there at least a couple of years in a row 2001-2003 timeframe. Very long haul and requires many to book Friday off work, or overnight on bus. Other than that, I thought it was a great show, and a way to make sure you pushed to get show done early. Hence lots of 'cleaning' time.
  6. I predict another year that I'm going to miss Wildwood (*%^%*)@)! Love this show, venue, Kelly's, boardwalk, sunshine (mostly) and Friday night rehearsal browsing. Have fun everyone and I hope all corps have their best show of the year
  7. To your first two sentences and middle comment..........couldn't agree more As to the future, I see the eventual creation of a new division called (what for it)............ "Senior Corps". IMHO C2 has to be good despite the "experience" factor, and will spawn copies. Perhaps other World Class DCI corps creating 'all age' corps, maybe to the detriment of current BD "B" type corps, who knows? The only thing for sure is that if too many corps with an age cap are successful (and this is certainly not guaranteed because of the financial aspects and all the other things mentioned in this thread)there will be a whole bunch of +25'rs who will get fed up with trying to keep up with the athleticism of these new corps. And I know how it works. I last marched in 2006 at age 59 with some other "experienced" folk, and being in pretty good shape, once the season got going, so did my body & brain. Our show was not what anyone would consider easy either, but we did it. But I certainly don't think I could have done a DCI performance class show. If the demand level starts to rise, because judges reward the higher physical demand levels put out by "age capped" corps, you see where I'm going with this. (hey! is this a new demograhpic we just invented?) Still think its all good, though. Long live drum corps in whatever format!!! JUNIOR DRUM CORPS ALL AGE DRUM CORPS (Now defined as 25 or less or perhaps INTERMEDIATE DRUM CORPS) CHAMPIONS (SENIOR) DRUM CORPS (Formerly All Age). LOL........hey WWBD!!!!
  8. Kilties have the same visual issues with their black shoes and the white spats. Even if there is very little phasing, it sometimes looks that way. And the kilt itself contributes as they don't all fall back and/or move the same with different shaped marching members. (Not to mention some have bigger "sporans" than others LOL)!
  9. My original post was about creating a new "masters" division of DCA. I wasn't suggesting that alumin corps start competing. There would still be room for the alumni corps movement, just as now. It would just provide a venue for those older people who still wanted to compete......and ONLY if DCA became too strenuous for those with older knees etc to handle the new, younger demands. Apologies if I didn't make that clear. This venue would be for those who couldn't handle Open Class/Class A DCA demands, but still had that competitive bug, not satiated by the almuni experience.
  10. Frank, The sad thing is you are definitely not too old for today's DCA, along with a lot of other 'senior' members of many corps, but if the activity actually moves more towards a faster paced, higher physical demand it may mean a lot of very good drum corps folks won't have the stamina and/or young enough body joints to handle the pace. However, there are two positive possibilities. Maybe it will mean the birth of more alumni corps, or a return to larger memberships and higher quality in some alumni corps who are having trouble keeping memberships high. Or here's one for you..............I've always thought there should be a competitive "senior circuit" like they have in golf. It could be called the DCA "masters" division. Like in some sports leagues (hockey, baseball) members would have to be 'at or over' a certain age to march. This division would have similar rules to DCA Open and Class A, except for some modifications. For example (and I'm just throwing out random thoughts here), no tempos over 150 bpm unless at a standstill. Box scores that had plus points for actual straight lines. Maybe even bring back the starting and finishing lines, and/or colour presentation! No original compositions in the music book. It wouldn't be a complete return to 60-70's drum corps, but rather an effort to retain some of the more traditional features. There could be some good things for DCA out of this too. If DCA is losing some of its audience because some people don't like the DCI model and think DCA is moving in that direction, having a couple of "masters" corps competing in the show line-up would keep the dinosaurs around. By the way, I'm a big fan of all drum corps styles (although I do admit to often tuning out when a corps' whole book is original compositions) so I'm not anti DCI or the current trend in DCA. I enjoy them all, but I'd also like to see more of the old style drum corps and as good as alumni corps are, making a competitive circuit could add some excitement. Just thinking out of the box, so to speak!!
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