talked to a friend today who still kinda follows drum corps, but isn' up on everything. he asked about Phantom and asked "if they are killing anyone this year"
yeah we had code words to alert all if youngins were around so nothing nasty would be said. same thing for if parents were around.
i think in my years in the drumline, the oldest were early 30's down to 15 year olds. we looked after the kids. i mean they saw us do stupid stuff, but we tried to make sure they didn't.
Society changed. Alumni didn’t follow with the passion previous generations did, especially as corps folded. Fewer shows to go to. And in some cases design turned people off.