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HappyMom8105

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  1. I played one in 2000 in Kilties and it was not a huge problem but we weren't doing a drill like Cadets or Cavaliers either. I actually liked playing the mello this year. Was something different. Hopefully I'll be playing mello next year somewhere. in a blue uniform.
  2. Good Luck, Fred. You're my local corps. I live in Romeoville. It's always a pleasure to watch your kids having such a great time. You are doing noble work. Actually teaching, not just assigning spots. Thanks!
  3. I'm trying to figure out how I missed your great review of Cap Sound for nearly an entire month.... Well, I'm glad I saw it today since I miss seeing them so much and I'm in a funk about RA being done. Thanks for all the nice things you've said about them. They really are a great bunch of kids and with a limited rehearsal schedule, I think they and their extraordinary staff put a fine show together year after year. And the kids want to come back...... I think that speaks volumes for what happens at Capital Sound. Thanks, Andrew!
  4. What about the beginning of their show in 2001? Those mellos are insane! I love it!
  5. Thanks Terri (sometimes it helps to read the entire thread beforehand) LOL Andy (great kid and good drum corps genes) - great review of the entire weekend - you have done your parents and the entire drum corps community proud - keep up the good work!! Aw Pooh, always a gentleman. I told that boy he has drum corps pedigree! Mostly from Dad. Cya at the banquet. I miss all of you already. :(
  6. Click on the "journals", darlin'. His entire DCA weekend is in there.
  7. Nice job, Andy. It was great to have you as THE bus captain of the Camry this weekend. Isn't it funny how anxious we were to get back to our cornfields after all that mountain greenery? aka. MOM
  8. I was so good this weekend, someone asked me why I was nursing my beer so long at finals! -Terri
  9. Frank an Pooh...decibel meter..."Loud IS Good"!! :o Too bad Lothar is a Mellow player...what a 3some that would be. cya there Aldo (loud but controlled mellow) B) d### Aldo, that's what happens when you live in the freaking wilderness. Hahah.
  10. will be a busy Saturday evening for me depending on I've been practicing against the concrete wall in the basement for a couple of weeks now... The girls are about ready to throw me out of the house... BRING IT ON!!! Heh! Tell the girls it is worse to live with two drummers. Always hacking on those pads.
  11. There are two seasons in the Chicago area: Winter and Construction. :D
  12. I don't know if you don't understand what the green gumbies meant or the show in general meant. If it's the gumbies, that was in "Curious Carnival", a combination of a Pink Floyd tune (The Trial I think) and Danny Elfman's Beetlejuice. If you mean the show in general, I don't think it was meant to mean anything. At least that's what I picked up. Just played some classic rock. And I thought they did it very nicely. This corps just keeps getting better and better. They are quite the success story. Kids keep coming back year after year. And to me, that is success. JMHO. -Terri
  13. Heh! Yeah, some of us are as young as 44! Don't remind me. The miracle will be over soon. I know that the alumni corps spectators in Scranton are gonna love us tho and that will be a good memory to take back with us. (trying not to think about Sunday, Sept. 1.) :(
  14. I'm not sure where else in the near 'burbs they could host the show. I don't think it draws enough to justify Ryan (nee Dyche) Stadium at Northwestern (and who knows if the football staff would sign off on it if it did, though as I think of it, it'd be a much better location for DCI Midwest than the RCA Dome - sorry Indy folks...). Agree that the portapotty situation was a disaster (as I mentioned, I and a couple hundred other people missed PR because of it), but on the other hand, the grounds of the school and the stadium itself are quite nice, the food and drinks were reasonably priced and parking was a breeze. PLUS, there were restaurants with drive ups that were still open right next door when we got out of there just before midnight. If they'd added ten more portapotties and the winds had shifted enough to change the O'Hare take off flight patterns, the night would have been pretty much perfect. And it's 90 minutes closer than Michigan City, though I do miss the DQ across the street from Ames... Just to put a few positive spins on the Maine West sitch... Matt The Royal Airs had a wonderful time at RADISHES after the show! -Terri
  15. Thanks! We're having a blast! But we're not all fiftysomethings. There's some fortysomethings, thirtysomethings, even some twentysomethings doing the Royal Air gig. It's great to have such a variety of drum corps experience working together to do this thing right. BTW, I never feel old until I hear "3000 years of drum corps experience" in our speil! Haha! -Terri :D
  16. It's almost 3am and I can't sleep because I can't wipe the freaking grin off my face from doing that show tonight. In fact, as a great RA/Kiltie friend told me tonight, he'll be smiling all week. I concur, dude. I also would like to add that Jackie Lurye/Borrelli is one of the best people I've met in drum corps. Nice, but assertive and a "take-charge" kind of woman. A whirlwind and a wonder. Her Dad would be proud. -Terri
  17. SCV had something called a french horn last year. Didn't look like one to me and I couldn't really detect a french horn sound either. But maybe that's just me. :P Kilties and RA both marching mellos only. RA has 16, Kilties have 7. Never played mello in drum corps until this year. I like it. -Terri
  18. Heh! Sucks that I was 11 then and old enuf to remember the "real" Woodstock. -Terri
  19. I marched both. Smaller corps, finalist. I guess I am missing your point. Not to mention, why is it #####ing and moaning? Everyone is entitled to an opinion and as marching members, we need to be leathery enuf to take it. I had to take a little criticism about my corps from a relative last night. and he was right. It's June, there's a lot of dirt out there. And there should be. It's not suppose to be clean June 17th. If it was, where would you go? It's what happens in the next less than two months that counts. Maxing out your rehearsal time and taking the necessary steps to get better. Cleaning up and keeping your eye on the prize. JMHO, -Terri
  20. I get to finally see Regiment at Woodstock Sunday! I can't wait!!!!! :D -Terri
  21. I like the honesty Ipecac. It's refreshing. When we join a corps, we know what we're getting into. No need to sugarcoat it. -Terri
  22. And the 17 Renegades Mellos? Can we play, too? ^0^ h### yeah!!!!!!!! :D -Terri
  23. I'm pretty sure they'll be there. I don't know if you're gonna like their guard unis as much as you have the last two years! I didn't notice much cleavage! Hehehe! :D -Terri
  24. Ok, who the heck is writing over there??? My corps played Pink Floyd in 1991 and we used bags that sound exactly like you just described there. Ours were white, and the guard started the show inside them (actually, we carried the guard in, coffin-style), and then stretched them around and such. Very coincidental... :) They are body socks or something like that. They're stretchy. I think they're funny. Wait til ya see them this year. Very entertaining. -Terri
  25. Great review, Frank. I love "Curious Carnival" too but the ballad, "On the Turning away" is almost making me cry. I LOVE that song. BTW, it was WAY cool to meet you Andrew Wheeler and your wife Thursday! -Terri
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