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I just texted my mom to ask her if she remembered that show and she was like "yeah, Union High School. We were sitting next to Marie Cziapinsky during the storm and talked to her the whole time." Her memory is better than mine lol

Apparently he's still on the staff, though

I marched with The Cavaliers in '96. Was Tulsa the show with the tornado warning? My mom was volunteering on tour with us that summer and I remember at some show in Oklahoma sitting in a concrete hallway next to her waiting for the storm to pass over.

Since '92 I've been to 29 (six as a performer). I've only missed Boston in 2005 and Pasadena in 2007. My favorite is still 1992, favorite locations are Madison and Bloomington.

Ok, weird. Haven't heard anything about it on the alumni page, just here.

What corps?

Where is this info coming from?

Cavaliers had 50, more than half of them were rookies.

Once they got it cleaned up I really enjoyed this years visual program. It would be great to get Michael Gaines back.. he is a genius, although I wasn't a huge fan of his work at SCV. Especially '19 and '22.

Crown could have used a complete mid season uniform overhaul, ala Cadets 2015 but in the opposite direction. Brighten the colors, brighten the silks. They were incredible but the visual was so muted and for me the show never really popped because if it.

Agree. The members never look comfortable performing their shows because they are asked to do so much. It needs to come off smooth and they always look frenetic.

With the way they average the three nights The Cavaliers have already won the percussion trophy

Time for Spinnerman

Just switch between hi cam and multi and you won't have to watch the initial ads

Some of Phantom's baritones trying to play hero tonight

Haha same here

The only food I will buy at Lucas Oil is Ben's Pretzels. It's located on the street level concourse right on the 50. We've sat in the upper deck for semis most years and it's worth the fifteen minute walk down there to get them.

This is the first time I'm seeing Crossmen. Very impressed so far

I was pleasantly shocked at the improvement between Centerville and Allentown. Percussion has been killing it for weeks but the drill, horns and guard were so much crisper Friday than just a few nights earlier. As an alum I find this show really emotional from a nostalgia standpoint but also exciting and just flat out entertaining. So pumped to see what they are able to accomplish in this last stretch and am counting the days til I head to Indy to see them live.

Too early to say but it could be 5-8, not 5-7..

As a performer I always had kind of a love/hate relationship with performing at J. Birney Crum. The warm up area for the brass is a gorgeous park just a couple hundred feet away from the stadium. It was always fun to see families having barbecues while we warmed up, but the smell of hamburgers and hot dogs was borderline torture. The crowd was always big but also typically one of the least receptive. The grass was absolutely awful to march on, but I think they have turf now? Also, the parking is pretty insane. All the busses and trucks park on a street right behind the stadium, which made it difficult to relax and hang out after the show, but we would usually just wander around and talk to people in other corps since we were parked so close to each other. Most of the shows and stadiums on tour are pretty forgettable but Allentown is a really unique experience and I can't imagine DCI without it. Also: funnel cakes 🙂

That's what the sidelines are for 🙂 I'm not dogging on the corps. Props are obvs here to stay but it seems a lot of corps have them now because they feel like they have to, not because they need them.

Since props became the norm there's been very few shows that use them in effective ways or enhance what these corps are trying to portray... I've learned to pretty much ignore them tbh. Cavaliers this year are no exception.

They sounded great!

They may feel well enough to do a standstill but marching a full show right after having a stomach bug is a different story.