Jeff Ream

actually since amps went in, DCA HAS grown in number of corps. the last year DCI was unplugged, 17 corps attended DCA championships, and we know of a few corps that were out there but didnt come in..i'll guess roughly 21 overall. now, have 25 coming to DCA weekend, and probably a good 10 corps out there not coming in. thats 10 corps growth in 6 years. there are shows now in areas that NEVER had DCA sponsored competition. the upper midwest. Florida. Georgia. Tennessee. Texas. i can think of 6 shows DCi used to run locally not that long ago that are now gone because the current touring model basically killed them off. how many dci corps have gone away in that time?

guess what. the majority of legacy fans arent asking for a return to the 70s. we're asking for a return to drum corps with no plugs or wires of any type. thats the part so many gloss over. it isnt a return to 1970. it's a return to all acoustic drum and bugle corps.

every drum break looking like the build up to an ensemble moment from a wgi show with all kinds of forced body moves underneath for the sake of doing them

lewisburg, East, Rading, Rachacha

heal up! my mom just had a sudden trip to the hospital too!

agreed.

did not trash her? see this line: "BUT, there is no accounting for the logic and action of a 25 year old." the logic of a 25 year old to attend to a very ill family member is, IMO, AWESOME logic.

Mike the audience of 1975 is his classic dig at anyone opposed to the changes he pushes. because if you arent with his ideas, you're "old school" and here you have classic examples of 80s and 90s folks not liking what he wants to become

and the sum of changes over time til 2004 went over well.

well, i am glad he found it as my night was spent at the hospital attending to my mom. thanks audiobob

actually i do know. the first poster to mention the details was spot on. and moms surgery went well, thank you all. even better my boss told me to take all the time i needed if she's in for a while

i'll say this, then i'll go back to my moms hospital room. i know some stuff about this situation. the girl had family ill in England. to me, especially in an organization that preaches family, some understanding could have been shown. because at noon today when i found out my mother had cystemic (spelling?)mass and we were waiting to see what the next step is, my boss told me to go do what I had to do, family always comes first.

so a family member being very ill is not ok?

when i get home tonight i'll gladly dig up what I can, altho I know it was in releases dci put out and I think Hop himself used it. for now i must go attend to an ill family member, and the good news, i wont be fired or have a mass email sent out abut it by my boss

ok quick question to follow up something a few pages back. is it true that the person really left because a family member was ill? to me, that kind of love should be honored and respected

everything since amps was proposed has included passages about how allowing all of these wonderful new toys will help draw in more fans, and in some cases the phrase make drum corps more mainstream was used. so you saying that these new rules arent bringing in people just pokes one more hole in the balloon used to get this stuff passed.

hey whats DCP without drama? and for the record, i love mini corps, even if limited to 20 ( insert sarcasm here) hoping the real world cooperates and I can get to see them all this year

i know exactly what you were saying. i quoted what I did because that one sentence there kills part of the rationale DCI used to get it passed.

actually i believe a sanitized version went on the website

well, not the guard

attendance went down. oh and the styles of shows changed to a degree, but nothing as far as instrumentation

Spirit 1990. Star 90 as well

sometimes i think mini corps has more drama attached to it then the stuff on the field

and, for this reason and many others...people just see it now as entertainment. as i have said before, while everyone who goes to a show is wowed by the kids, i really dont think that much of the ticket buying population does it because of the need to support the kids. they go to be entertained. drum corps to the fans is entertainment.

that statement right there helps kill some of the logic used for it's passage