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I never had the privilege to march, I watch our kids on the field and am with them every step in spirit. Bus fumes always makes them remark about Drum Corps! Makes me think of it too with all the times I've gone to see them after shows in the parking lots. I hear certain pieces of music that make me either remember a show or go - that would be fantastic if "so and so" did it! LOL Eating a bowl of cereal standing up, actually eating anything standing up or sitting on a curb. LOL I'm sure there are plenty of others to be added. CorpsMom13

OMG - the orange!!!! I saw Southwind at a show in July and there was one guy in the guard front and center during the show, I have 2 words for him - DANCE BELT! For the love of all things good, staff needs to make sure these kids are wearing the proper "underthings"! :P CorpsMom13

Not sure who my favortie was. I liked PR, Cavies and a few others. Did not like Cadets. I don't even remember what the rest of the guard wore, but I kept waiting for the girl in the red teddie to fall out of the costume! b**bs CorpsMom13

After paying dues for 2 kids in DCI and all the various other things needed for tour and such we could not afford to go to Madison. Last year we did attend all the shows in Boston since it was only about a 2 1/2 hour drive for us. CorpsMom13

Our son and his fiance met in Teal Sound in '01. (He just proposed to her in Madison this summer) I don't know if it is still their Corps song, but the whole time our son and daughter were in Teal the Corps song was "Nothing Else Matters" in honor of their MeTEALica tour. I thought it might be fitting to play that at their reception when they finally get married. I agree that Fire of Eternal Glory is a good one - brings me to tears every time. It would be fitting since his fiance has been with PR the past 2 seasons, and the Corps our son has been with the past 2 years plays it as well. CorpsMom13

I have various t-shirts for Corps. My MIL has a scrapbook going for our kids with their time so far in DCI. They will have to go joint custoday on it when she passes them down. (she just had to start a second one because the first is too full) LOL She has our son's first year alone, then everything else is the two of them so far. Next year he ages out and then it will be only our daughter until she ages out. She has all sorts of programs from shows we've gone to, ticket stubs, articles from the internet, pictures and so forth. Maybe once they age out they will allow her to put some of their patches in it. :P CorpsMom13

Sorry about that Cutlass! I should only post when I've had enough sleep. LOL Still stand by what I said about the band/Drum Corps comparison though. CorpsMom13

I don't know where you are from Cutlass528, but the high school bands we have locally could not even come close to the Cavaliers. I think most small Div 2's and some of the Div 3's could "whoop" the local high school bands. Even when we lived in GA there were few bands we saw that could compete with many of the Div 1 Corps. CorpsMom13

I usually explain that there are no woodwinds. Guard uses equipment that some high schools do not use (rifle and saber, at least in GA they usually don't). Horns are in the shape of bugles, where it all came from. The kids pay to do this and are considered professionaly musicians in many circles. And it's just so much more than "band". I like to say it's a band on steroids. LOL CorpsMom13

Please don't take this the wrong way, but if this did happen Div 1 would get a small sampling of what Div 2-3 has had to put up with for several years. CorpsMom13

Well said Oldguard. Thank you for your input and wise words on this board. I look for the same things myself in the shows. I also look for that beauty in the music that just reaches into your chest and squeezes your heart. It's that way when I heard Spartans do Fire of Eternal Glory after a show. CorpsMom13

"And yes, he does have to be told to pay his bills, put gas in the car, and purchase that ticket for this show, or that trip to see his daughter." Wadep66 - I have worked as an executive assistant to a food broker. High level stuff, national rep, business trips, co-ordinating things for his food business as well as keeping an eye on several local businesses he owns. Never, I repeat never, have I needed to tell him to pay his bills, put gas in his car, purchase tickets for anything or remind him to spend time with his family. CorpsMom13

Back around May or so there was a thread here on DCP with the rumor that Teal Sound would join KK. CorpsMom13

If you turn 22 after June 1st of the season you get the bonus year and age out at 22. Our son gets the bonus year and will age out next summer at 22, our daughter does not get the bonus and will age out at 21. I will say money is a big factor with our kids. It's not easy to afford to put 2 kids through a season of DCI on what we make. We have to make a lot of sacrifices to give this experience to our kids. '07 will be harder with finals being in CA I'm sure dues will be more so we'll be doing some creative money saving around here! :P CorpsMom13

I feel both of the comments you mentioned as relevant today as they were when he made them. There needs to be some sort of connection between the show and the fans. There are pieces of music that just reach in and grab my heart - I'll always love a show using them, and using them well. There is a connection there between the music, the show design and drill and the effect it has on an audience. CorpsMom13