Tom Brace Posted March 11, 2009 Share Posted March 11, 2009 Drum Corps Collectors and Historical Society! This is a great first step and I urge everyone to support this effort and for those of you who can contribute...this is IMPORTANT! Steve Vickers and Bob Jacobs are both involved. I don't know many details but I would hope the southern region and the western region would also be represented. I know, I wish we'd have done this a long time ago, but it's never too late to start preserving one's past and the historical artifacts associated with the past. I'm very stoked about this effort and have spoken about it before on DCP. Hopefully, someday...an actual Hall of Fame and Drum Corps Museum. Hey, this new President ran on hope, right? So, I guess I can hope as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bawker Posted March 11, 2009 Share Posted March 11, 2009 Cool stuff. Be nice to see some historical DVD's come out of this eventually . . .kind of like "Brass Roots" except for something that could encompass the entireity of the activity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimF-LowBari Posted March 12, 2009 Share Posted March 12, 2009 Just emailed Bob Jacobs... LOL few years ago I bought two of the three Drum Corps Manuals shown in the top picture on the left. Both are from the 1930s and have some other historic DC related stuff that I've been trying to figure how to use. If this group can set up a website with scanned pages, pics, etc it would help before this stuff gets trashed as the original owners pass on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
corpsvalues Posted March 12, 2009 Share Posted March 12, 2009 Drum Corps Collectors and Historical Society!This is a great first step and I urge everyone to support this effort and for those of you who can contribute...this is IMPORTANT! Steve Vickers and Bob Jacobs are both involved. I don't know many details but I would hope the southern region and the western region would also be represented. I know, I wish we'd have done this a long time ago, but it's never too late to start preserving one's past and the historical artifacts associated with the past. I'm very stoked about this effort and have spoken about it before on DCP. Hopefully, someday...an actual Hall of Fame and Drum Corps Museum. Hey, this new President ran on hope, right? So, I guess I can hope as well. The fact that DCI and DCA are both supporting this, along with Drum Corps World, is pretty monumental. Who woulda thunk it? Someone has actually woken up and realized that it's time to pay some respect to the history of "this thing we do." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Brace Posted March 12, 2009 Author Share Posted March 12, 2009 Again, this may be the best story out so far from DCI/DCA/DCW etc. in this early part of the year. I don't have that much of a historic nature myself but I have friends who have tons of stuff and my wife works in an archive here in AZ and knows tons about collecting and maintaining collections. This is uber cool!!!! UBER COOL! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EndzoneEric Posted March 12, 2009 Share Posted March 12, 2009 For all of those who love to point out all of the "Sad Days for Drum Corps," here is a GREAT day for drum corps. Kudos to DCA, DCI and DCWorld. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmroth1 Posted March 12, 2009 Share Posted March 12, 2009 EXCELLENT!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4181jay Posted March 12, 2009 Share Posted March 12, 2009 this sounds so good! Hope they have a European arm. Cant wait for someone to spout, 'stop looking at the past, INNOVATION is the key' Go on, I dares ya!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mayormccheese Posted March 12, 2009 Share Posted March 12, 2009 I hope my wife never sees this. There's probably a museum's worth of stuff between the garage, the basement and the attic. Her finding out about this would probably be one of the greatest things that's happened to her (other than marrying ME of course!). I guess I should start inventorying my stuff... it sounds like this could actually turn into something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Brace Posted March 12, 2009 Author Share Posted March 12, 2009 I hope my wife never sees this. There's probably a museum's worth of stuff between the garage, the basement and the attic. Her finding out about this would probably be one of the greatest things that's happened to her (other than marrying ME of course!). I guess I should start inventorying my stuff... it sounds like this could actually turn into something. Just seeing Jacobs and Vickers names associated with this gives me a good sense of excitement that something very real and tangible will come out of this. Think of a downtown attraction in a city centrally located in the country with a history of hosting marching band and drum corps competitions...with large downtown convention facilities. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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