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Weaklefthand4ever

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  1. Tim, I know that you know that If you're a drummer, this movie is as horrible as Howard the Duck and as depressing as the first 15 minutes of Saving Private Ryan....lol. That being said, I agree with everything here. I went to school to be a music educator and ended up working in the corporate world as an instructional designer. It's been lucrative, but not my dream. As a wise man once said...."Just do the #### thing!"
  2. Agreed. I've been one of the folks saying "calm down and let the kids and staff do their thing" from the very beginning. As I said after the tour debut, they'll make finals and the show is better than the last few years. The potential of this specific show isn't overwhelming but the potential moving forward shows great signs of improvement. I still don't like the non-use of props but I'll get over it. As far as old classics, once every 10 or so years MAYBE. But watching a corps redo the old things that made them great or at least made for great moments, is like watching all 257 sequals to Rocky (and yes...I'm fully aware there arent 257..but I like that number.) You're never going to change what you are by trying to relive what you were.
  3. Yeah...wiping out with 40 lbs of tubs strapped to me falls somewhere in the "NOPE" section on my bucket list. I did lose my snare once in rehearsal when my Ludwig fibervest broke but that was minor. I had a shell collapse during warmups once too. I guess that creaking noise when we were torquing it should have been a clue.
  4. From what I could see and hear (the live video was very pixelated,) CV has a pretty strong show. It's going to be pretty tight for 1st through 3rd I believe. As it has been for the last 2 year's, CV brass is quite good and percussion is right at the door. Percussion execution was a little low this show. I still want to see a good run through. I guess it'll wait until the DCI show in Atlanta.
  5. DRS is a real thing Terri! With real symptons and...stuff.....😂
  6. And I would agree with this as long as we understand the inclusion of the word "IF." IF a member is unable to keep up physically or mentally then there should be consequences just as there would be for anyone else. But the bar cannot be higher for them then it is for anyone else. And IF the people who smoke are doing so in a designated area, the only ones effected should be those who are also in that area, presumably for the same purpose. The arguments on both sides are mostly sound. Some of us simply disagree with the opppsosing side of the argument. You aren't wrong....but neither am I. /shrug
  7. Lol. I like Jeff though. And just remember, much like Spartacus, when one drummer falls, another one of us will rise to take his or her place. Meanwhile as I type this I'm watching Bluecoats and thinking "Oh hey look! Props! And unlike Phantom they're actually using them! Someone should send this video to Will!" See....99% drummers are sarcastic, soul sucking heathens deep down inside. 😊
  8. Perhaps everyone in the category can have their very own PR-esque "I am Jeff Ream!" battle cry moment
  9. Strong showing from CV only 1.250 behind the Bucs. The feed last night was really, REALLY fuzzy so I can't make a lot of comments. The sound (when I could hear) seemed to be pretty strong.
  10. This is a much more reasonable statement and one I can absolutely come to an agreement on.
  11. I would tend to agree as a general rule but not as an absolute one. I've smoked for the majority of my adult life. I'm not proud of it, but I'm also not apologetic for it. That being said, I have no issues at all keeping up with people half my age walking, hiking, kayaking, rafting etc. I don't run because quite frankly, drum corps destroyed my back. I don't have an issue if DCI wants to ban smoking. If that's what it is, then that's what it is. I marched my time. But I find it very judgmental to bulk anyone who smokes into a category of people who are unfit physically and mentally (poor judgement after all.) If you want to judge, then that's your choice. I just don't like rhetoric pushed on people without consideration for any other view.
  12. Contentious subject LOL. I would agree that being accepted into drum corps is a privilege. I was proud to march in both DCI and DCA. That being said, I don't see how it being a privilege should have anything to do with smoking per sey. If the corps itself has a ban on it, then you as a member make a choice to either 1) choose another corps or 2) stop doing whatever it is that's banned. That's your choice to make and between you and the corps. Where I would strongly disagree is to say that smokers be auto-banned from the activity as a whole because someone has made the decision from the outside looking in that it is a sign of poor judgement/decision making, poor fitness and poor health. You are posting judgement from a horse that's awfully #### tall to fall off of. I smoke. I make no bones about it and no apologies. I smoked when I marched. If I suffer ill effects, then that's my personal choice. If you suffer ill effects from eating fast food, that's your choice. They will both eventually kill you one way or another. So how did we come to the decision that drum corps and smoking should somehow be mutually exclusive? Again, if the CORPS has a rule that says no smoking then that's fine. We have a certain very, VERY large insurance company in town who demands that all of their employees have a nicotine test every 3 months. Guess what? They're getting sued because what someone does on their own time, away from the working campus which is not illegal, is not their business. I understand where you cats are coming from. I truly do. But be it a privilege or not, someone who smokes can be just as appreciative as someone who doesn't. Smoking is not banned among athletes. If you smoke and you can't keep up mentally or physically then that's a hitch in the giddyup and you'll have to make a decision. Why should corps be any different unless the corps itself establishes a rule? Just sayin'
  13. Yeah they won't get scores on DCA until tonight at the Atlanta Brass Classic. They only got feedback yesterday. According to some of those there, CV had an excellent run and will stream tonight. WHAT they will stream is probably up for debate since they haven't been very hip in the last few years on anyone seeing the show until friends and family day it seems.
  14. Wasn't sure if this was asked of me or not, but DCI in the late 80s, college at UA and then DCA in the mid 2000s.
  15. I may use that in Atlanta but I'll have to take off any alumni stuff first so as not to embarrass any of my former corps lol
  16. You know it's interesting that you say that. BD in the Scott Johnson era is pretty famous for visual trickery like running rolls straight into double paradiddles. It makes it APPEAR that the lines has this sudden burst of speed when it's really just a trick.
  17. You forgot all the drummers (like me) screaming "wooooooooo" Rick Flair style everytime a battery lays down some super tasty ram. Or saying "#### that's hot!" I personally think drummers deserve their own category as posters. We tend to be a little....peculiar.
  18. There are some great people on DCP. And there are some who are less then stellar who just enjoy seeing their typed text on a screen no matter what it says. If you want to get to the wheat, you're gonna have to deal with some chaff.
  19. Oh and I have to ask Terri. We're the band kida wearing their "tour style" marching band t-shirt from last year?
  20. It's the annoying marching parents who kill me. You can always tell the ones who have never seen a corps show in any format. They'll be the ones to instantly compare their kids marching band to "insert top 12 corps here" while the corps is on the field and declare that their childs band is equal to, if not better. They're also absolutely OBCESSED with props.
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