Jeff Ream

somehow i doubt that

she's so cute when she's feisty

and see above. why pay 5k to drive several hours to do a show if you dont have enough legal bodies when you can be home getting visibility and money for building the name in your home base?

so why do you need to spend the money going all over gods creation to get the word out? why cant you do a ton of gigs locally that may not involve judges to get your name out there? plus, think about this.....in todays society, do small drum corps get the attention from the crowd? no. they eat, talk or hand out in the lot. maybe not so much at a show like prelims where the true diehards are, but at many local shows, people hang out til the big guns come on.so, even if you go, you may be ignored by half of your potential audience. build your group in your local community, then worry about spending 5k to go to a show. odds are for the distance you travel to get that fuel bill, you wont get that many people interested in driving that distance to join you.

if that's what they wanted, i wonder why, because seeing it live was over powering, in a painful "oh i remember bands doing that badly in 1981" way

really? the ASD keeps claiming they can not afford it

i dont know what you were listening to, but based off of what I heard and the reactions I have seen others have, i'd say i'm close to accurate. given how many corps have not done it since, i'd say they agree too

i thought Blue did it well, as did Freelancers in the day and also Boston in 00

it isnt just because Phantom won, tho it helped. the programming in general helped. but the legacy fans keep being dismissed by many, and yet they are the core group that survived the mid 90's when things were tough. A successful business can not thrive if it keep turning over fans/customers, and it seems DCI thinks that is the way to go. At some point, there won't be enough of that next generation to become the next set of legacy fans.

actually DCA has to be up with more and more shows in newer areas, and the venue in Rochester holds more than Scranton could

both, but i wouldnt expect to have either done up to be something they aren't

somehow i doubt it, and here's why: the same designers the same judges. fans have complained about numbers of changes over the years, and let's be honest...it hasn't stopped DCI and to a lesser extent DCA. but having been at a major regional, i'll tell you this....the youth movement in recruiting didn't seem to be evident in the stands. the crowd looked distinctly 25 and up for over 70% of the audience. So I ask...are all these changes aimed at the kids really working? fewer corps to go to. i'd imagine given the prices for finals, it wasn't very young in the stands either

i agree. too much change too fast, and no evidence to support it's truly helping, especially as the economy tanks.

05 BD, 05, 06, 07, 08 cadets, 04 Boston and Crown, 01 BK, 02 Crown, 06 SW off the top of my head

thank you both for some of the most incedible stuff i have ever seen on the field. you will be missed

DCA only: watching: 80 Westshore and the birds 86 Bush 93 Bush prelims 00 Bucs finals performance 03 Cabs 05 Bucs marching: 89 retreat Frans announcement in 96 the entire 1995 season

thank you Sayre for asking him for solutions and not complaints. I did that once and got told off

here's a thought tho about tough decisions early in the year.......why go out and get no money to do shows under 35 members and run up bills or expenses for members? while it does suck doing nothing, it's also cheaper

and i applaud you for trying.

hey Ruth, saw your brother last week. looks like he is healing well

I miss Bob too, even if he did hate my dad for always yelling at him to stand up so we could see him play his solos

and yet there is still balance issues.

i will agree the sound at the theater isnt the best, but live, things sound much better balanced

it could probably use a few must nots