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    What to bring for the summer? Give me some tips!

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    less is more.

    my first summer i brought tons of everything. i was prepared for anything and everything.

    6 summers later i barely bring a duffle bag.

    at 4 am when you're stumbling off the bus, you don't want a 50 pound bag to schlep.

    this is what i usually bring

    -clothes

    2 pairs of rehearsal shorts

    3 rehearsal shirts (button down 100% cotton shirts from goodwill do the trick)

    2 clean shirts (for after shows/ free days)

    a pair of clean shorts (same as above)

    2 pairs of boxers for use with above clean shorts (so they stay clean!)

    20 pairs of socks

    2 pairs of show socks

    2 show shirts

    that's about it.

    i mean you're with 149 other people. someone will have some of what ever you're looking for.

    DCI Championship Rings

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    Posted · Edited by L1STEN2311

    So, who makes the rings? Some of them look like school ring knockoffs from Jostens.

    Brad? If it's Jostens, call them and arrange to send it to them for repair. They do great restoration work on their products. They can fix the band and replace the stone.

    Garry in Vegas

    used to be done trough dci

    now it's done through the individual corps so i would assume it's where ever the corps can get them for the least expensive (at least i would imagine).

    At most places, the members actually have to buy the rings them selves now adays too... (not cheap either! upwards of $400)

    pay to march, bust your butt all summer...

    win...

    then pay to have a trophy...

    we are crazy.

    DCI Resume

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    Wow, you must be made of money. Or your parents really love you.

    actually... i paid with sponsorships every year.

    I'm just curious as to why you've wanted to change corps so many times. Were you genuinely unhappy at the other corps? Are you just trying to learn from as many different people as possible? Or are you just kind of corps-whoring around to see what the experiences are like at different places? Personally I could never do something like that, but I guess that's just me.

    It's a really long story with a bunch of weird circumstantial things that happened. Not once did i go somewhere thinking, "i'm doing this for a ring". For instance... You marched crossmen last year, TSRTS13?

    My dad was your tour director all summer. Just another weird piece of my drum corps career.

    BD using Pro-Mark!?

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    To me it's more a puzzle of why. With all the BD staff having their own line of Vic Sticks, why would this happen? Is there something up? Probably not, but for BD and Vic Firth to be so in love with each other for so long, then just have BD jump ship, strikes me as very odd. Did not expect it.

    {to be sung}money money moooooneeeeeeey... moneeeeey

    I am POSITIVE that BD went to Promark, not the other way around.

    i disagree.

    Phantom Regiment Switches To Dynasty Percussion!

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    yeah after marching dynasty, pearl, and yamaha... the only company i've had any good kind of "customer service" with is dynasty. yamaha and pearl both take for ever on fixing a problem. dynasty took days. dynasty's my new favorite. the pearls sound great, but what you have to go through (weight, putting the drums together, crappy randall may tube carriers, waiting 5 months to get your drums, broken lugs...) to me wouldn't be worth it if i were in charge of an organization.

    on topic.. paul has been given a lot of creative opportunities with dynasty over the past year or so. he works with dynasty equipment at UNT so he's very familiar with the equipment. i think it's a great opportunity to better dynasty's product. if nothing else, dynasty will get better creating more competition with yamaha and pearl thus hopefully making pearl and yamaha strive to make a difference in how they handel themselves.

    Tracking the individual judges

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    art is subjective. what we do (atleast kind of) is an art. there are different techniques (performance by the members and design by the staff) to achieve each end product. each judge likes somethings and doesn't like other things, and that kind of goes on and on...

    but some times there are clear cut "best" choices. i suppose clear cut doesn't quite work because it is all subjective...

    some judges will give more credit for demand than clenliness, others wont.

    look at three different brass styles, phantom, cadets, and blue devils... each one is so very, very differernt from the other. does that mean it's bad? not necissarily.

    i hope i'm atleast kind of getting my point across... it's 3 am, cut me some slack...

    Free day mischief

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    Posted · Edited by L1STEN2311

    not only am i surprised that this topic was started, but more shocked that it's still open. ha ha

    In reference to Sopchick 1, according to where you've marched, i would assume there's a lower age average vs. some other corps. when i marched div. 2 there was very very little to no drinking done at all so i can't say i'm quite surprised by your naivety to this subject. but to attack people for what they choose to do or discuss just doesn't really help your cause... just kinda makes you seem socially awkward...

    i hung out with my 4 year old neice on my free day this summer. we went to sea world. it was a lot of fun.

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