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  1. Going to be a far cry from the weather last year. That was pure hell for a San Francisco guy like me. I think I sweated off about 10 pounds at last year's DCA. Our summers here are in the mid 50s to low 60s with lots and lots of fog and cool weather (the tourists think it's going to be like LA here...wrong!). Hope there aren't any thunderstorms like last year. The rain delay was pretty long.
  2. There were only four mini corps? What the hell happened?
  3. Not really. When I marched, green feathers for age outs were not handed out until after DCI at the State Open contest. They did have them for retreat if it matters at all.
  4. Yes, it's an entirely new ending. We learned it last week and cleaned it this week. Set up to blow your face off. Look for me up front on the 50 in front of the ramps at the end of the show (lucky fluke). I've been in 'Gades since '09 and we've changed our ending almost every year.
  5. Renegades sitting at 12th right now, but we've been cleaning at Mars these past few weeks. Our show is really cool this year, and we've got a great corps. Hope ya'll enjoy our show at DCA. It's totally "twisted"!
  6. Actually, we have more CMM from SCV and SCVC over BD and BDB. However, our show this year has strong ties this year to BD. Our show is designed by Jay Murphy, music arranged by John Meehan, and David Glyde is doing percussion. David Watrous is our show visual caption head. Chris Nalls is our brass caption head. Kevin Murray is also working with percussion. All are legendary BD.
  7. I don't know about your theater, but at the one in San Francisco had the entire production out of audio/video sync. You saw a drum hit and then a split second later came the sound. Rondo's mouth kept moving after he talked so it was definitely a problem everywhere. I kept complaining but the manager said that is what was coming over the feed. I wanted a refund but no dice.
  8. What DCA fan wouldn't love a trip to the City By the Bay? We'd pack 'em in. Finals at Stanford stadium, hmmm? We have great food and entertainment out here, you'd love it! In the mean time, donate that $5. All ya'll!!
  9. Ah yes, Liverpool Lil's! Good choice! BTW, I think you mean the Presidio. Have fun and looking forward to seeing you!
  10. Yep. I saw a whole lot of that, but I also saw a gajillion actual opera fans there. Dressed up, etc. Opera and Symphony prices are insane here in SF and there are some rabid opera fans here. I thought is was rather odd to see so many like that. Perhaps it's different where you live. Of course! Wouldn't that be awesome if some companies would put up the cash? The general public does get a little dose of drum corps down in LA on July 4 at the Rose Bowl Fireworks display (the audience pays a small fee to sit inside the stadium). It's kind of sad that the "fireworks people" don't really get into it. The smaller number of drum corps fans chunk up around the 50 while the rest of crowd watches the corps shows from the side angle. They get a little stoked with the mass brass patriotic tunes, though.
  11. I was addressing the point of "appeal" rather than the price of tickets—sorry to confuse. All I was sayin' is that (free or not) I thought it was totally amazing to see that many people in one place watching opera (on TV). I was impressed and have never seen so many people in one place for a classical music event. Most of the people there seemed to be actual fans, but some like me were just checking it out. Maybe DCI could have some kind of free event in big cities? See you watching supertitles at the next "opera in the ballpark".
  12. No stage. It was a televised performance—not live. Just the Jumbotron. Smaller TVs everywhere around the stadium too.
  13. Oh, I'm sure it did. Think you could pack a stadium like this for a drum corps show if it was free? Perhaps that's what DCI needs. One big free show every year just to get some visibility. The closest thing to that is the Rose Bowl 4th of July show. Of course, the masses don't give a ####.
  14. Sure. Check this out. It was totally free. The circumstances getting that many people to attend? Opera. For free. At the ballpark. That's all. It was no fund raiser because it was free. It was announced in the Sunday Entertainment section of the SF Chronicle, on radio stations and news sites. Opera in the Park (Golden Gate Park) is even crazier because it is a live performance. Perhaps it could only happen in a place such as San Francisco? We have some rabid opera fans here. Here's a photo from last year's event, "Tosca". This year it was packed. The outfield and even the upper deck was filled.
  15. Who grabbed it from my facebook page! That's cool though, I went to Cupertino HS and marched SCV with the man.
  16. Canada never had a history of marching bands. Canadian High School marching band? Didn't exist from what I have heard. It used to have a history of very fine drum and bugle corps. No more though.
  17. Yes. Right. I witnessed about 30,000 opera fans watching "Aida" at ATT Park (SF Giants ballpark) on Friday night. To top that, the performance was merely a TV simulcast from the San Francisco Opera House. It wasn't even the actual live performance! So there you have it. 30,000 fans in one place all watching opera on TV.
  18. Hope you enjoyed the EVIL show this year. It was fun to play. I'm quite sure that we'll be back next year with something even more entertaining.
  19. If I were you, try out for BD. If you get cut, try out for SCV. Come prepared with iron chops, a knock-out audition piece, superior body control and dogged determination. Don't forget a nice chunk of cash. Anything less and you know what will happen.
  20. When I was in SCV we stayed at a Holiday Inn in '79 and '80, a welcome respite from the brutal heat in Birmingham. In '79, the meeting room was used to practice the "surprise" Bottle Dance. We also had a banquet in the hotel both years. One year, don't remember which, Maynard Ferguson attended. How cool is that?
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