BoBosco

I think you missed my point, I am not going on about back in the day...ask yourself this question...how loud is the crowd from 12th to 1st place during finals at ANY point in ANY corps show. You see, my point is that the shows are boring EVEN while they are technically outstanding, they are boring. artistic, yes, exciitng, no. How often does the crowd leap from their feat at something that truly dazzles them as opposed to sitting and saying, wow that is great interpretive dance. Oh, and if I was blah blah blah back in the day blah blah blah, I would have added about amps, equipment, uniforms, company fronts......and I didn't. You just see someone say something about the difference about crowd reaction and instantly categorized my post. So, here's the encapsulation for you.......Modern Drum Corps = Boredom while technically artistic and very well performed.

The activity has died a long painful slow death for me since the mid-90's. It's called artistic expression, I do beleive, and it has morphed into the elitism that defines a drum corps staff. I remember when finals used to be exciting from 12th place to 1st place performances, when the crowd would at leap from their seats for something in each and every show and when the shows had something that really made you WANT TO CLAP YOUR HANDS OFF! well, last year I sat on my hands and was bored to death through most of the shows, because it's art, not drum corps. Oh, yes, I say that again...it's art, not drum corps. So, I wish I heard the booing, I likely would have turned to the crowd and said -"where were you 15 years ago when all this started ferment?" I like how you said, weird, dark, depressing show designs. Yes, that is the best way I can think of describing it. I told my friends that I thought last years shows were a terrible waste of such good talent. The talent of the kids in the corps wasted by the idocy of staff's over creativeness. Someone force all the staff's to watch 1980-1990 finals vidoes and tell them why the crowd cheered for all the corps loudly! Oh, never mind, they don't care, they have creative expressions to waste good talent with. (sigh) If you want art, go to the musuem or the stage, if you want drum corps....thank god for the legacy collection.

A buyer has not gotten back to me for 3 days, I need to re-offer these tix. I have 2 tix on sale for finals week, all three nights. QTR/Semi-Finals - Sec 124 Row 34 Seat 3 & 4. $30 ea for Qtr finals & $ 40 ea for Semifinals Finals - Sec 106 row 34 seat 3 & 4. $75 ea Total for all three nights is $290. Please email or reply to this ad if interested in the tix, asking face value. Can send overnight if you send an extra $10. Bo

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Anyone want to buy my Mufreesboro Ticket? Club 3 Row 7 Seat 7 $40.00 Prime seat Bo

I have 2 tix on sale for finals week, all three nights. QTR/Semi-Finals - Sec 124 Row 34 Seat 3 & 4. $30 ea for Qtr finals & $ 40 ea for Semifinals Finals - Sec 106 row 34 seat 3 & 4. $75 ea Total for all three nights is $290. Please email me if interested in the tix, asking face value. Bo

Do you still need tickets? I have a pair for all three nights, ready to sell face value. Bo

2 SCV favorites...the older snareline shirt, with the green pants and white bucks. The bottle dance shirt....redone in 92. I have a rare "toy" shirt from the 82-83 season, it was a prototype done by Winterland for Ginny Koester, the souvie chair. The shirt was sold with the "toy" design on white, I have the only "prototype" printed on a golden color shirt, way cool, and in great condition. Phantom's drumline shirt from 93 is another favorite. Bo