camel lips

Find a better town....oh wait... just return to that town two years later. That makes a lot of sense. SMDH

Book probably got burned about the same time they st a rted enforcing 10PM curfews at finals.

So 4 , 4 and and 4. Participation trophies for everyone. Does anyone sit out on Finals night?

Yet another DCA summer touring group goes inactive and more will be making the announcement in the coming weeks. The things that make you go hummm

Its funny you mention lawyers. I now remember the straw that broke the Camels Lips Back that made me put the block on him. It seems I was still involved with MCL and recruiting and he was either trying to get a Drum and Bugle corps established in Chattanooga or had one in the past and was trying to resurrect it and I just asked him a question that set him off . I think it was something along the lines of I had never heard of that group and can't find any information out about it. Well he proceeds to engage me in a most hostile manner and basically stalks me for days//maybe weeks on end on Social Media digging back into my background and then starts threatening to call a attorney and sue me. When I said something along the lines thats gonna be expensive on you because I have done nothing to you to leap to the level of a attorney or court he got even madder. So I just broke off the courtship right then and there. I guess he had had his fun with me and quit trying to stalk me. I never heard from him after that.

Is there a link I can follow? I am not sure which FB page you speaking of. And and where along the dialog you are talking about. IF you can provide me a link I can probably take it from there. Thanks

Can I get a couplemof screen shots for reference?,

It was always back and forth on RAMD back in the days and even on here back in the days and the two platforms could support that sort of banter back and forth. Once it bled over into social media and my friends and clients outside of drum and bugle corps started asking me about some of his post and his behavior it starting too close to home. He really started abusing Social Media to the point I just had to block him. Then he started a couple of Sub Forums that I joined that were private and I could watch his head explode from time to time and it was just like the good ole RAMD days. I am sure Jeff will see this and chime in shortly.

So I saw on Social media that a long standing forum member going back to the way back machine has died. Howdy AKA Dr. Michael E. Schmidt AKA the loudest trumpet player in the world AKA alot of other verbs, nouns and adjectives over the years. We had some interesting discussions over the years. Some pleasant some not so pleasant. He was certainly a spirited debater.

I rather enjoyed attending one show where one corps "played the game" by meeting the 35 rule head on. There they were. The same corps with its 11 or so "marching" members on the field. Parked on the sidelines were clearly Family members and even small children with Corps T-shirts snapping their fingers during partial segments of the show. Counted every one of them. Yep 36 "marching members" on the field. Way to stick it to the man...I mean meeting the 35 rule of course. 🙂

Or you can have no shows to host the following years because of lack of corps available to participate because they fold. Then those paying customers won't be attending. Like what happened over the following years. Pick your poison.

There were only a handful of corps at DCA finals I truly wanted to watch . Statesman was one of them . Im glad they stood ground and decided to leave the way they did . Definitely put DCA on a major decline after that .

When I needed help planning Cozy Baker Memorial he was the first to step up to the plate . great man down may he R.I.P.

CAnt get 2500 people to. Live event ? like this is gonna work ? and we know how fair fan favorite voting works right ? This is not a solution it’s a joke .

I think there was a time and a place for DCI to take DCA under their umbrella but that time has far past. DCI is going to have its hands full trying to put the pieces back together in 3-5 years from now and trying to get a NE Regional activity like DCA is going to be so low on the totem pole its not going to be funny.

Agreed .. perhaps the Alumni corps and mini corps will be the thing that keeps Drum corps Alive . Imagine that .

I doubt that DCA as you know it today will survive . it’s membership staff and supporters will find other things to occupy the time the next few years and when the time IS ripe to resume most everyone that was interested will have moved on . I could see some form of a mini corps organization gaining some ground and performing stage shows as rehearsals would be minimal and smaller facilities would be needed for rehearsals . DCA is dead

No School is going to allow a outside unit of any kind come into the school system. I was surprised they allowed voting in our schools. Figured they would have designated a "safe" place but voting went on as usual. There are schools already shutting down for weeks at a time whenever a kid or kids test positive for covid and going to a modified online schedule where they do everything from home and Zoom. Aint no way summer marching bands are coming back for a few years.

https://www.readingbuccaneers.org/2021?fbclid=IwAR1FyQHxz49IfjLvF9MhSbK219N6Y2Qf6yGngNbT3Vb-tNy8hgEu8hyTC9U of all things this showed up on Reddit

I agree. What they are doing by charging knowing there is a strong chance there is not a season is right down criminal. Its irresponsible at best.

Any corps that is charging kids for audition packs and camp fees should be ashamed of themselves . There is no way in heck the 2021 season is going to unfold and they know it .

Darn Skippy

Exactly this type of thinking is what is going to allow him back in the activity.. The discuting activity he has displayed by raping women should have him in prison for the rest of his life. Much less a lifetime ban from anything marching band or marching arts activity related.

How much you wanna lay down? Someone will hire him ,,rather its a drill writer or as a consultant. He clearly could work under some cloak and dagger company name and skate under the radar probably for a little while.

Exactly. Someone right now is sitting there thinking how they can figure out how to hire a PR firm to handle getting GH on board in some capacity. Rather its writing drill, being a consultant or something. Because you know. GH is good for summer marching bands. Rolls Eyes.