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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

well said :)

i believe that brittany said she was around the 5'4" area

I was getting ready to do a college marching band exhibition at a high school competition. As we're standing in the end zone waiting to go on, i'm talking to a friend of mine in the pit about DC. This guy nearby overhears and says...wait, where did you march-so i tell him-to which the guy replies... "Cool! I played snare for Cavaliers (named two years-i don't remember what they were) and Cadets 05" To which I replied "Oh, then you must know Katie!" (our section leader that was in Cadet's 05 pit), before i gaged the guys reaction i called Katie over to reunite them. He made up some lame excuse of not remembering her...An amazing feet as they would have lived together on a bus for 3 months.... lame lame lame lame lame.... ... as to lying about it on a resume--it actually looks really good for a music educator--outside/performing experience. I've heard of people loosing their jobs as band directors for lying on their resume about experience.

I actually was driving home from my grandmom's once and saw the Crossmen truck pass me on I-95

we were actually only allowed to take a mat/air mattress that would roll up inside our sleeping bag this summer because of the space foam/rubber/whatever mats take up in the bus bays. It posed a problem with breaking doors in the past-therefore i left my mat at home-i even dropped the air mattress idea because i was too lazy to carry it around all summer...Usually i was fine because i'm a stomach sleeper, but there were many nights when i wished i had one :)

ah yes...but you can only propose so many rules in a year and have them pass--some people would accuse you of wanting to create a giamongo super corps that will never age out.

how about the wave of heat that goes with the diesele smell when you walk between busses?

i don't know about your parents...but my parents loved me and wanted to hear from me once in a while-remember payphones are practically non-existent these days

Clogged ear cannal-i'm in the pit....hearing is vital!!

old news, they've been out for weeks-they've even got their own thread...get a life