CapRegTimp04

my best pit has to be the cadets, they were unreal...with phantom being a supremely close second. bluecoats were smoking as well a couple of pits that i thought flew under the radar were scv's pit and bd's pit. i think most people ignored them because either someone was saying "yowza" or their drumline was playing matched...both pits were fairly good in their own right. i remember seeing esperanza's pit at san antonio (i didn't know who they were without their jackets on at the time) and they were either rocking out or it was just a good day for them...

yea me too^^^ but the last two were alright...some of those looked like a mid-1700's british army uniform or something hahaha

alright, are you guys ready for this? here it goes... 1. capital regiment that's right, i said it. we are going to win dci!!! haha but seriously now 1. phantom 2. cavaliers 3. cadets 4. bd 5. bluecoats 6. madison 7. scv 8. crown 9. bk 10. crusaders 11. crossmen 12. capital regiment call me crazy, but i gotta feeling that i am 100% correct on this matter...

just a quick question for any of the other timpanists that may be reading this thread...did any of you use (or even have) gauges on your timpani? i had them, although i didn't stare at them for every single tuning. mainly just used them as reference points as i would be playing one drum and tuning another...foot memory played a major role in my...playing... another thing on tuning, don't you hate it when you run a rep, play the whole thing solid and hit that last note flat.....yarg..... and just one more thing to add....swriverstone, you've made a clear point that power was lacking in drumcorps timps...but have you thought about maybe drum corps timpani have a different approach for a reason? i'm certainly not trying to cause any unrest between you and i. because i got many comments on having a solid presence by the judges through the summer. just thinking maybe we're doing what's right for our activity. i play guitar. i'm very much a heavy metal guitar man. i don't understand jazz guitar one bit, i used to think everything they did was wrong, until i figured out that they were just different...

because only certain people can think at our level...everyone else is just way not cool enough to even understand what goes on in the pit... chillin dizzy bat chillin hardee's visits chillin practical jokes chillin

god i hope not....

well...being that i wore one for two years, and that i sat directly in front of the drum major, i would change cap reg's unis to all look like the black drum major uni, and somehow make the drum major's white... i think that would be sweet...or even a darker blue, i thought we looked like a kid's room or something.... phantom back in black scv back to 2004 unis, those were effin sweet

the most fabled myth ever of course 11. "free day" hahaha...

cap reg did have a fun hornline to sit in front of this year...and last year... but i don't know, it seems to me like everyone is missing the point of the word UNDERRATED...if you're hornline is making top 5 forever, they're probably not underrated...so this would count out your blue devils, cadets, scv, and cavaliers votes...how could you call a group underrated that finished so high in the rankings on a consistent basis? naming off underrated corps (to me anyways) means giving credit to corps that don't usually get the credit for what they did because everyone can't let go off their nuts while talking about the top 5 horns...so with that said... i thought blue knights this year sounded waaaay better than last year same with southwind this year too

cap reg didn't have any sort of medical personnel...or at least not one i was aware of

you waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay missed the joke man

pass what? b**bs

speaking of texas and drum corps...are there actually any drum corps from texas now? jeezus...if some crazy rich texas guy started a div. 1 texas corp, i would totally go to it...because it would be the biggest bunch of crazy mofo's to ever walk the face of the planet... except state of texas...

i'm really not trying to be an a-hole, but i can't believe crown's is getting favorite tabs...wow, i thought it was kind of silly although it was thematically fitting... cadets of course was amazing, i can't say anything that hasn't already been said about it...so i won't... i think it's funny that only cap reg people will say cap reg ballad, but i must admit, it was pretty sweet bluecoats were pretty solid

Hahaha, I got one... Back Story: Last year I got sick and my mom (who is slightly crazy) called my pit arranger to get me some medicine or I don't know what but whatever...Which was weird only because my mom didn't have her cell phone number. But alas, my mom, through some form of witchcraft or black magic got her number...again, whatever... Funny Part: So I show up kind of sick to one camp. Pit arranger informs new pit tech of past happenings. So being that the new pit tech has (as well as myself) quite the sarcastic attitude, took his chance to burn me. Which was funny. So I was like, "hey, I can't this crap off of the new guy"...So, with the arranger's help, I formulated a plan. This time, I got my mom to call the new dude during his lunch. So she did, and proceeding to completely annihilate him via phone. So he felt like crap, and went to talk to the arranger about the situation. So she calls me over to talk about it (much to the dismay of the tech). So she starts asking me questions about the summer blablablabla...I tried to sound pitiful, but whenever I looked at his face and it's absolutely slaughtered expression-I burst out laughing...He was then informed of the joke, and proceeded to bow to me. Everyday. And he got my lunch, and washed my clothes. And bought me all kinds of delicious resturant food all summer...okay I made that last part up, but he was absolutely stunned for about thirty minutes while we all laughed at the situation...and the dog behind the fence...