HappyMom8105
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Greetings,
The Joliet Kingsmen Drum and Bugle Corps has immediate openings for a guard instructor, a horn dude, and anyone else who wants to contribute their talents for the 2003 season.
The Kingsmen of Joliet, IL is a Div. III corps looking to improve their standings next year in DCM/DCI competition.
If your interested or know someone else who might be, please email me at swissbeats92@msn.com.
Thanks,
Fred King
Program Coordinator
Kingsmen Drum & Bugle Corps
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!
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Capital Sound. My biggest disappointment of the day is that they will not be playing tomorrow - missed by one place. This is truly one of my favorite shows of the year. The Gumby drill is much more refined now and appears to be a battle for control of the corps - they imitate the DM, then the horns, then they go after the guards with the poles. The drill is much better but is also somewhat distracting from what the rest of the corps is doing. Play was very consistent today. Their ballad, "On the Turning Away" is one of few this year that really conveys an emotion. The "turning away" by the corps at the start of the number is a nice touch. I hope this corps gets on a video this year, b/c I need to have this show.
Andrew
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!
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What about the beginning of their show in 2001? Those mellos are insane!
I love it!
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Click on the "journals", darlin'. His entire DCA weekend is in there.
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. :(
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great review Andy - now how about the Alumni show...
Click on the "journals", darlin'. His entire DCA weekend is in there.
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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
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I kinda went overboard Sunday night after the show
I was so good this weekend, someone asked me why I was nursing my beer so long at finals!
-Terri
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::::::enters...looking around closely at the competitors...gives a slight chuckle...spies contest master Chris...nears him....draws the cloak from his face, revealing the blue paint....draws his claymore, spins it about and forcibly plants it into the ground and announces...
To ye lads from the lowlands of the east....if any of ye think ye can out loud me self and me brother MacPooh of Bear....ye best think otherwise lest ye kiss the arse of me self and me brother........and be glad our brother MacMoon cannot be present for the festivities or ye arses would be trembling!! Why?? Because me brothers and me self just blow f****** LOUD!!!!!
::::turns to Chris and says.....
I'm in!!!!!!!
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.
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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.
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PEnnDot sucks...look at the roads. we are the state of construction
There are two seasons in the Chicago area: Winter and Construction.
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Capitol Sound: Definitely the home town favorites. A nice performance by the corps with some great takes on classic rock tunes. While the green gumbie things are cute…..I don’t quite get the meaning with the show.
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
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Don wrote:
We are not all 55, some of us are only in our late 40's!
Thank you so much for your review. We gave so much to try to live up to the past. And if you want to see a lot of crying, come to our final performance at DCA where our entire corps will be balling like babies when we have to say goodbye.
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.) :(
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Your post really explains the matter - especially when the Michigan City show is so well-organized. Any chance the Cavies will take this one back, or maybe go to a new venue?
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
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As someone who hasn't been to a drum corps show since 1967, I am one of those "oldtimers" who came to see the Royal Aires Reunion Corps last night. (I've seen the last 10 years of DCI on PBS). The Royal Aires were fantastic! 170 of "50+-something" members with straight lines and spectacular playing. That's the way I remember drum corps!!! What a walk down memory lane!!!
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
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Late Sunday night/Monday morning, so not too verbose at this hour...
Royal Airs Alumni next, showing the kids (hey, that would inlcude me, since they were LONG gone before I started marching) the general idea of what a big 1960s drum corps show was like. Was a total kick for the crowd to hear "on the starting line, from Chicago, Illinois, the Royal Airs" - the starting gun at the step off was a nice touch too. End zone entrance, company front going across the field to "My Kind of Town" , flag pre to "Battle Hymn", exit to "It Was a Very Good Year" and some RFL horn playing. Good for the soul. Before performance, Jackie Lurye publicly thanked Don Warren for the invitation and the comaraderie between the Old Man and Sie Lurye back in the day. Big Blue rocked the house, and it was as much fun watching the folks a bit older than myself getting excited as it was watching the new version of RA. Thanks folks!
No surprises at finale (though it was a LONG one....) Great victory concert by Cavies. Gathered with the alums to sing in the end zone, catch up with a few guys I hadnt seen in awhile.
And now it's 2, so time to crash...
Matt
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
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I think you'll find French Horns in some of the Senior lines. I can't think of any Juniors who are using them. I'll be interested to see if anyone comes up with an answer on this. They sure sound sweet when they're dead on.
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.
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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
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I couldn't resist. It's my favorite rockumentary.
Heh! Sucks that I was 11
then and old enuf to remember the "real" Woodstock.
-Terri
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the problem with the biatching and moaning is that most of it comes from people who marched a top 12 corps themselves. Those people are often times the most opinionated and biased people in the activity (next to the judges).
I truly miss marching in my first corps, the Union Pacific Rivercity Railmen, back when we only marched parades and did standstill performances as our show. Some of my favorites were the 64 count moves and park and blow the stands down for the next 128. The music was the show and it was good and it was fun to play and listen to. I know those shows were way more entertaining than some of the cookie cutter shows that are being produced by several top corps today...
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
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I get to finally see Regiment at Woodstock Sunday! I can't wait!!!!!
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-Terri
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Yes.. it was harsh, but I shan't make apologies.. I had surgery last week and couldn't even say hello to all my buds I only see in stadia (24 stitches in my big, fat mouf).
Really? It's June? Oh.. allow me to retract...
When I saw The Cadets at this show last year, I was harsher... granted ,my first "viewing" of them annually makes my knees weak. I cannot explain what the corps does to me emotionally.. but that repertoire was crap (I'm STILL stymied as to how they soared in GE in Buffalo!). I was thoroughly disappointed in the entire production and let it be known. Granted, I give 'em balls for doing what others don't: rather than watering it down, they added about 60,000 notes. hehe lost 'em a Brass award, but won some respect.
I realize that the kids---even the Scouts---read this stuff. Well? Put yourself in the public eye, and take your licks. Here's what one highly regarded NY Book reviewer had to say about my first published piece:
"It reads like a gigantic sloth, leaving trails of bodily waste up and down the tree."
Ouch!!! I laughed all the way to the deposit slip.. and Madison (etal) should rest assured that even if the color guard stands on the 50 and takes a noisy dump (which I'd prefer over the alleged flag-spinning), the crowds will shriek and want more.
By the way.. i omitted a positive: their show flies by.. seemed like about 7 minutes. WAY TO GO! YAYYYYYYYY! Short and (un)sweet. YAYYYYYYY! (who gets that high-larious reference?)
Seriously, I know it's June... I've seen June shows for decades (remember June 3rd shows?). Take heart in the fact that it only took about 2 minutes for me to become rabid about Phantom again:) B)
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
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what I'd LOVE to do is meet up the Sky mellos, seven Kiltie mellos and 16 RA mellos and we could all play something together in the parking lot at DCA.
Wouldn't that be way cool?
And the 17 Renegades Mellos? Can we play, too? ^0^
h### yeah!!!!!!!!
:D
-Terri
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You know I can't wait! ;)^
Just thought it was funny that they were using something similar. Wonder if one of the writers perhaps saw our show years ago, and the idea stcuk with them.
They are going to be at the Canadian Open again, right?
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
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The colorguard featured fluorescent green pillowcases (that's the best way that I can describe it) that some members step into and stretch around. It gives them a sort of Casper the friendly ghost look which was odd at the beginning but I felt worked well and won the audience over by the end of the second piece.
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
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Capital Sound
I love this show. The music of Elton John, Kansas, Pink Floyd is well designed and well performed. The Danny Elfman piece is the hit for me anyway, just love those minor keys.
The drumline is much better, the hornline very capable of pulling off some great things. It should be a good year for them.
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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