Yamahadrummer

yah i was wondering the exact same thing.....what was everybody saying? vanguard?

I dont get it. Everyone is acting like this is Academy's first year of existence. Academy has been around for FOUR years! Sure this is the first year as an actual drum & bugle corps, but in their first few seasons they did exhibitions as a standstill brass and percussion ensemble, as well as fielded a winterguard/summer guard. Last year they performed in exhibition doing a full show (minus a colorguard) and this year they added in the guard. I dont mean to rain on Academy's parade or seem like i have a case of sour grapes or anything because Academy deserves all the success they will have, but they havent gotten this good overnight. well i've noticed atleast on drumline, that almost everybody is new....i've been on their site and looked at pictures then i saw them in the lot......how could they build up to this year when everybody is new, and im sure that everybody in the brass section wasn't there last year, so you can't really say that they've been building for 3 years. And also if you notice as its been said in many place....the drum and bugle corp, is many parts of a big organization. Arizona Academy of the Performing arts. Theres many things that deal with academy, so the winterguard/summer guard coulda have been for some other reason. So you can't actually go and hack on them and say that they've been building up for a long time. Cause if you do, then you gotta do it to every corp that has a B group and a C group. But in my opinion, I think this is the actual year that academy will be growing, and not any previous years.

hey brass boy, you got any more pics of academy?