Appleknocker

The first corps I can remember that actually had something cool to watch as a warm-up was SCV. The year 1969,....and I still hum it at times.

You win!!!!!!

I WIN,......This is smaller than a bus, and bigger than a breadbox...... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueVpCfPAog4...feature=related

We all live in a yellow.......

or then maybe, he meant "mute" ??

http://www.bluestars.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=7200

I love people who are "actually aware".

Blue Star of Indiana

Nationals,..... I had to laugh.

The Troopers have a long storied tradition of classy drum majors. Start with Pete Emmons,...he WAS the reason I joined drum corps(and not the Troopers) Jim McIntire,...another class act. Mike Depaumalare,.....carried it on. Those are the ones I knew personally,...I am sure there were many to follow,...but they set the standard demanded by Mr. Jones.

Very understandable answer to a hard question. It is probably harder to understand for someone who didn't march back then, or see what it was like. I do know that it was a nightmare for the drill writer,....he had to have everything just so, or there would be major penalties.

And of course,...you know who will be going here. http://www.bluestarbrewery.com/ Everyone is invited, a great place.

There are so many things wrong with this picture. American Flag not guarded. Improper respect for the flag. Not a historical retreat as in the days before DCI, when all corps had a guarded American Flag, and all corps trooped and saluted each and every flag that they paraded in front of.

I was at Allentown the other night and observed a guy wearing a "Royal Aire" jacket talking smack about " St.Vinnie's",....and I called him on it right then and there. Drop it already.......

She spent the entire day with the corps to do this piece,....and did an amazing job, not only for the Blue Stars, but for all drum and bugle corps. She and Channel 8 deserve a big thank you.

Electronic bassoons or electronic baffoons?

This is unbelievable,...arguing about cell phones. Many parents have responded to this perceived need for personal security by purchasing cell phones for their children, but this, too, has had some unintended consequences. One sociologist has noted that parents who do this are implicitly commenting on their own sense of security or insecurity in society. “Claiming to care about their children’s safety,” Chantal de Gournay writes, “parents develop a ‘paranoiac’ vision of the community, reflecting a lack of trust in social institutions and in any environment other than the family.” As a result, they choose surveillance technologies, such as cell phones, to monitor their children, rather than teaching them (and trusting them) to behave appropriately. James E. Katz, a communications professor at Rutgers who has written extensively about wireless communication, argues that parents who give children cell phones are actually weakening the traditional bonds of authority; “parents think they can reach kids any time they want, and thus are more indulgent of their children’s wanderings,” Katz notes. Not surprisingly, “my cell phone battery died” has become a popular excuse among teenagers for failure to check in with their parents. And I suspect nearly everyone, at some point, has suffered hours of panic when a loved one who was supposed to be “reachable” failed to answer the cell phone. Let the kids grow up as they choose,....if they are in a corps that prefers not to use cell phones, let them decide,...let them grow up.

Thank God they didn't say "Marching Banned",...... .........or someone would complain about that!!!!!!!

Come on people,...there wasn't a dry eye in the house when 27 turned and hit Danny Boy with the reunion corps !!!!

If you wanted to imagine a true Grand Slam, or Triple Crown, it would have to be one of these two, CYO or World Open,....along with American Legion and VFW Nationals.

Hands down,..... No contest,.... Kenosha Queensmen.

Haunting, Cirque de Soleil-ish. Not to start another topic here, but was my favorite ballad of 2006.

And you won't include this (without the vocals), still a beautiful ballad, and a wedding video to boot.

I'll shoot the next person that tells me to tuck my hair inside my shako!!!!!

I'll shoot the next person that tells me to tuck my hair inside my shako!!!!!