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I can be there in less than 3 minutes.

I think it is based on Prelim scores. Only thing Finals scores decide is Championship order.

It would appear the host corps has a very appropriate name.

This is a great way to reach out to fans that can't make it to Rochester, I've got a couple of questions about the broadcast. Perhaps, someone here can answer them. What software do we need to view the webcast? Will it be just a raw stream from the stadium with no commentators or will someone be hosting the show? Will they use Fran's shirt as a test pattern so we can get our computers all tuned in correctly?

Overall scoring after week 10.1 Corps in RED get scores in Reading Corps in BLUE get scores in Bridgeport Corps in BLACK are off until prelims Corps in GREEN are AWESOME. GO GOVIES 1. 94.250 - MBI 2. 93.000 - Buccaneers 3. 91.950 - Hurricanes 4. 89.700 - Empire Statesmen 5. 89.250 - Caballeros 6. 86.600 - Govenaires 7. 84.200 - Alliance 7. 84.200 - Fusion Core 9. 81.300 - CorpsVets 10. 79.050 - Carolina Gold 11. 77.650 - Kilties 12. 76.550 - Tampa Bay 12. 76.550 - Windsor Regiment 14. 76.350 - Renegades 15. 75.450 - Bushwackers 16. 70.650 - Sunrisers 17. 69.300 - High Country Brass 18. 68.800 - Shenandoah Sound 19. 68.300 - White Sabers 20. 63.200 - Cincinnati Tradition 21. 63.150 - Excelcior

I voted, I'm in. High schools and colleges are webcasting games all the time. The technical aspects of it should be easily overcome. The copyright issue will rear its ugly head at some point. Hopefully, the proper contracts are in place. As long as the license holders get their fair share of the gate it shouldn't be a problem. As Larry the Cable Guy says, "Git-R-Done".

Pictures on Facebook, looks like 10 horns, 2 pit, 5 bass drums, 5 guard & 1 DM. Sounds like they are actively recruiting, hope they can up the numbers to make that 35 minimum number. Not sure what happened to their website arkansasthunder.org. GoDaddy shows it valid til May 16, 2013, but it was edited today and has disappeared. Hope all is well in Arkansas. Stu

Sorry folks have to object to the political ad on the home page. Revenue may be revenue, but I don't think it belongs here.

Yes, It is TREMENDOUS!

Just found this online from the LaCrosse paper, sounds like Deja Vu All Over Again. To All friends and fans This is my first review, so please try to read though the lines and pick up what I'm trying to lay down. The day started as every good day should, the sun was shinning, and I got to see drum corps, so what could be better???? I had a good view of the street, and I was'nt to far from my cooler or the porta-john. Normally I would not get too excieted about a parade, but with all of the recent "HYPE" of the Tremendous Blast and the BSA I wanted to see what all the "guff" was about. First up was "The Tremendous Blast" and what a quality corps that is. All I keep thinking was what a class act. From the moment I saw the corps I was impressed with just the way they went down the street. I have been seeing coprs for some time, but nothing like this, they were so entertaining, so musical, so full of life, they made me wet my pants!! Then just when I thought it could not get any better, it did,,,and how!!!! It all started off with the drums and then came the chant. The chant of all chants, that truly proclaims the essence of what it must be like, when you are Tremendous!!! "Tremendous, Tremendous oh,oh Tremendous" and then, like the precision machine they are, all of the Blasters swirled and swelled up together with a big "Whoop-La" or something like that, I was personaly having another personal problem, but did not care. Then like a beacon in the night, the drum started shining though, with this new wave drum beat that got all of the "Local Festers" of their butts and joined in the fun. My mom, dad, 2 aunts,3 stangers, and my self, wet pants and all, could not contain ourselvs any more, we needed to be Tremendous!!!! We stared heading down the street like abunch of drunken rats . Dancing, laughing and having the time of my life, I felt like I was home when in fact I had never ever marched before. I had never performed before now, and there I was, in front of Oktoberfest, a ROCK STAR!!. Then, in Tremendous fashion, and how this happened I still have no clue, It Got BETTER!!!! The parade song was up, and I was clueless. What do I do??? Then I remebered the chant, and then also confirmed from a horn player "YOU ARE TREMENDOUS!!!!! LET IT OUT!!!!!" and I started Blasting. I Blasted like no one ever Blasted, and with That power, I truly became Tremendous!!! This moment in time is like non that I have ever experienced before. I felt the reason The Tremendous is in a class of their own. Class, quality,power, showmenship, precision all rolled up into one Fantastic drum corps, I now see why others consider this corps "The greatest...EVER!!!!" I wished it would never end, and like the Blasters they are, off they went into what looked like an endless party. I yelled "Party on Blasters" and one lone cymbal turned and said something I will never forget. "See you next year!!" and away they went. Later I found out The Tremendous scored a 199.745 "WOW" Next up the BSA. nice square block, loved the t-shirts Jane Doe LaCrosse Wis drum corps expert

I'd have to take issue with this, I think some of these classical composers have a few works around that are classified as unfinished and people pay good money to go here them. Do Laker fans get a discount when Kobe sits out a game? I imagine the next new thread will be someone wanting their money back when a soloist cracks a note or two.

Wow!! What a Tremendous review of the 2007 Octoberfest Parade, I expect great things to happen again this year. Perhaps, those that are TREMENDOUS will break 200. To All friends and fans This is my first review, so please try to read though the lines and pick up what I'm trying to lay down. The day started as every good day should, the sun was shinning, and I got to see drum corps, so what could be better???? I had a good view of the street, and I was'nt to far from my cooler or the porta-john. Normally I would not get too excieted about a parade, but with all of the recent "HYPE" of the Tremendous Blast and the BSA I wanted to see what all the "guff" was about. First up was "The Tremendous Blast" and what a quality corps that is. All I keep thinking was what a class act. From the moment I saw the corps I was impressed with just the way they went down the street. I have been seeing coprs for some time, but nothing like this, they were so entertaining, so musical, so full of life, they made me wet my pants!! Then just when I thought it could not get any better, it did,,,and how!!!! It all started off with the drums and then came the chant. The chant of all chants, that truly proclaims the essence of what it must be like, when you are Tremendous!!! "Tremendous, Tremendous oh,oh Tremendous" and then, like the precision machine they are, all of the Blasters swirled and swelled up together with a big "Whoop-La" or something like that, I was personaly having another personal problem, but did not care. Then like a beacon in the night, the drum started shining though, with this new wave drum beat that got all of the "Local Festers" of their butts and joined in the fun. My mom, dad, 2 aunts,3 stangers, and my self, wet pants and all, could not contain ourselvs any more, we needed to be Tremendous!!!! We stared heading down the street like abunch of drunken rats . Dancing, laughing and having the time of my life, I felt like I was home when in fact I had never ever marched before. I had never performed before now, and there I was, in front of Oktoberfest, a ROCK STAR!!. Then, in Tremendous fashion, and how this happened I still have no clue, It Got BETTER!!!! The parade song was up, and I was clueless. What do I do??? Then I remebered the chant, and then also confirmed from a horn player "YOU ARE TREMENDOUS!!!!! LET IT OUT!!!!!" and I started Blasting. I Blasted like no one ever Blasted, and with That power, I truly became Tremendous!!! This moment in time is like non that I have ever experienced before. I felt the reason The Tremendous is in a class of their own. Class, quality,power, showmenship, precision all rolled up into one Fantastic drum corps, I now see why others consider this corps "The greatest...EVER!!!!" I wished it would never end, and like the Blasters they are, off they went into what looked like an endless party. I yelled "Party on Blasters" and one lone cymbal turned and said something I will never forget. "See you next year!!" and away they went. Later I found out The Tremendous scored a 199.745 "WOW" Next up the BSA. nice square block, loved the t-shirts Jane Doe LaCrosse Wis drum corps expert

Yes, It is the Richard Cheese version. If you are a ska fan you should recognize "Lust" by 3 Minute Hero, great ska band out of the Fargo area, they recently played at Patrick's. The Encore number better known from Monty Python is actually "Sing As We Go" from a musical of the same title by Harry Parr Davies . Yes! there will be a big Welcome Home Party for the Class A Champion GOVENAIRES at Patrick's, see you all there.

Yes it is the Richard Cheese arrangement, You should check out the SKA band "3 Minute Hero" Lust is theirs, check it out here [url="http://www.myspace.com/3minuteheroska"/[/url]

Now Roger, you know very well that no one does drum corps better than St. Peter. See you on Sunday, if you're nice, I may let you buy me a beer at Patrick's.

Pat, I was surprised to see you posting here, I didn't know you could type. Had my hands on a 1952 album of the Sleepy Eye Drum Corps last year I was able to rip down to mp3 actually sounds pretty good. It's about 28mb total get me your address I'll mail you a copy. Stu

I have a hard time getting serious about Hurricane Dove, I think the people who pick these names left the covers off their markers a little too long. I can see the headlines in 2009 "Hurricane Odette Slams into Florida, Peters out at Sea

Started in Drum Corps as a tenor horn player with the Black Knights or PeeWees as we were called from St. Peter area, most of us were from 7-13 years old playing single piston horns and hand me down drums from the Govenaires. I moved to baritone for a year or two and in the early 60's got one of those new Contra Bass Bugles and played it for the next 30+ years. I guess it could be called the Baby Boomer Corps now, cause as we aged the St. Peter Crusaders were formed for the now 14-21 year olds. Most of us moved on to the Govenaires after we got out of high school. The really great thing about the program was the musical director for all three corps and Govenaires Drum Major was the high school band director Earl Erickson. The only marching band that existed was for the football season, the rest of the year everyone was in one corps or the other. If you marched corps you were expected to be in the high school concert band and pep bands for winter sports. He would rearrange the music for band so a lot of what you played was the same stuff you were going to play the next summer in corps. As I look back at it now the only bad thing was we had some really great female musicians in band that didn't get an opportunity to march corps other than guard. It wasn't politically correct as the time to allow them on the field with instruments. The great thing about what started in the 50's & 60's is that it still goes on today, ya the two jr corps are long gone, the high school band director isn't in the corps or really work with it other than to facilitate rehearsal space and the like, but his son marched Phantom last year and has been with Chops (the alter Mayer ego corps) for many years. There have been dozens of kids over the past decades that have marched Madison, Phantom, Star, Bluecoats, Blue Devils, Vanguard, Colts, Sky Ryders, VK and others. We have been fortunate here to have good people in the school programs that recognize it really doesn't/didn't make a difference what key you were in, as long as you were learning and making music that is all that mattered.

Post on the Govie Board says: Gold Medal finishers included: Sarah Houle - bari solo Tuba quartet Govies Guard ensemble... Mini Corps results are up on the DCA page here

I dunno Dik, last I knew Doug Dennison was still in Florida. Maybe you could say, Oldest contrabass from Minnesota.

Agreed, I think you should throw in the rest of the staff that watch the show from the sidelines. They are representing the corps, they are part of the team, dress like it.

Dik B. Good to see you are still kicking, are you going to make the trip to the Govie's show on Aug. 16th. Gustavus has a brand new football stadium that is going to be a great site for a show. Big happening at Patrick's after the show.

Actually, it's just John's poor keyboarding skills. He meant to type "Holy Crap" one time, reversed the r and a, we have never let him live it down. It has become the official Govenaire exclamation statement.

Matt, If you have the DCI scores hop over to the Stillwater Saloon thread in the World class, nothing posted on DCI yet, pretty large crowd waiting to hear the outcome.

Thread on all-age has the senior scores. 1-72.7501 Minnesota Brass (Stillwater, MN DCI 6/22) 2-64.6251 Govenaires (Stillwater, MN DCI 6/22) 3-61.1251 Chops, Inc. (Stillwater, MN DCI 6/22)