cellopitmello

yeah but caviar wouldn't go well with the taco salad..... or would it?

who says 88=clean? there's 12 more points in there

The nacho cheese was a nice touch to the taco salad Lois

The guy that was my band director my freshman year was actually one of the guys that introduced me to DC, when the old-coot who had previously left to be an administrator returned my sophomore year he didn't really have a choice in influencing my participation as i had already started marching. He couldn't complain cause i was the best percussionist he had, and i was really a cellist that joined the band to broaden my horizons before being a music major. Luckily for me, my studio prof. is very supportive of doing ANYTHING musical outside of the University and has several students march high-end drumlines. However, i have a number of friends that are WW majors and play brass instruments in corps and keep it a secret as their profs claim it will "ruin their embesure" (spelling don't kount). But i guess a plus is that i go to a university that claims to have a "drum corps style" marching band and pushes out more band directors than any other type of teacher.

i don't know if anyone could recover form that last drop.....it's have to REALLY bounce.

well...Hop did bring up the subject of whether or not it was legal for Bluecoats to amplify a megaphone (what that electronic-could be considered a mic) as it was amplified amplification, but it was ruled as legal-which is ok. I couldn't imagine him not bringing up something that serious

I charged my ipod all summer on the bus (we had a power strip-very nice), finals week because we were in the same local for the whole week I made the stupid mistake of charging it during the day in the gym...it was gone, as was everything else plugged into that particular surge protector. But judging from the area, I'd guess the guy that stole it had probably already resorted to eating his dog so I wouldn't be suprised if they REALLY needed the $$. Doesn't mean it's right, but I should have known better.

On a laundry day go to a liquor store (depending on your corps don't get any funny ideas) and see if they have empty cardboard boxes. If you find the right size, they work wonderfully as bus seat storage. And at the end of the summer you can just throw it away instead of figuring our how to mail a perfectly good plastic box home or throwing it away.

i split my fulcrum playing crash cymbals during spring training-and it re-split all summer...any percussionist (especially pit) knows how much a ##### that can be

This isn't the first time this rule has been proposed. In fact, it was proposed last year as well (even that was not the first proposal) and lost in a tie. This year, it just happened to pass.

i don't know if i've ever heard of a pianist that could play as fast as a mallet player in a world class dc that wouldn't be able to make money professionally doing world tours. Something everyone is forgetting....the kind of stuff pianists are capable of and mallet players are capable of are completely different.

my only beef with electronics is where to load the synths on the truck....but we pit kids are talented and sure to find somewhere for it. as for not marching--wouldn't even dream of it. Back when i first started marching, we still had opening ceremonies. Those are long gone, but no matter what i wouldn't give up my age out year for a million dollars. I couldn't march past 2009 (conveniently my age out) since i'll be teaching a classroom by then...but i'll have loved every minute of my dc career, opening ceremonies, amplification, voice and all-when it comes down to it, anything they ask of you to do is just like your notes and your drill.

to say he hasn't thought of how it would be used AT ALL would just be idiotic. Sure, he's probably considered how it could be used in any show. But how many directors and corps think in terms of next year's show when right now they have to build the show for this season?

i blame the bananas....#### fruits....

tuning that could become a financial nightmare...but, i'm all good with creating new things! Empire statesmen had a cardboard/plywood piano on the field in their show in 2006 when they did a tribute to Ray Charles