Backstrom Posted August 16, 2013 Share Posted August 16, 2013 I'm curious to know how popular or well-known drum corps is outside the drum corps world. If you were to ask your classmates/co-workers, would they know about it? I'd imagine this varies regionally, but every time I see video of a corps doing a parade somewhere, I wonder how many in the audience know they're not actually watching a marching band. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frachel Posted August 16, 2013 Share Posted August 16, 2013 Nobody I've mentioned it to at work ever heard of it, and about 5 of my FB friends that weren't in HS band or marched Corps ever heard of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobchilds Posted August 16, 2013 Share Posted August 16, 2013 I'm curious to know how popular or well-known drum corps is outside the drum corps world. If you were to ask your classmates/co-workers, would they know about it? I'd imagine this varies regionally, but every time I see video of a corps doing a parade somewhere, I wonder how many in the audience know they're not actually watching a marching band. Actually, they are. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeD Posted August 16, 2013 Share Posted August 16, 2013 I'm curious to know how popular or well-known drum corps is outside the drum corps world. If you were to ask your classmates/co-workers, would they know about it? I'd imagine this varies regionally, but every time I see video of a corps doing a parade somewhere, I wonder how many in the audience know they're not actually watching a marching band. Well, they are watching a marching band; they always have been, despite the chest thumping about how drum corps is not marching band....that it is so much different and better. Even pre DCI, the kids in my town had no idea what the "band thing:" I did was. This despite the fact that my small town actually had two corps for a while. Today...IMO nobody really knows about drum corps outside of our little world. My company has an office in Concord, CA, for instance, and not one person I have spoken to has heard of the Blue Devils. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freedom Posted August 16, 2013 Share Posted August 16, 2013 O 1376626865[/url]' post='3313100']I'm curious to know how popular or well-known drum corps is outside the drum corps world. If you were to ask your classmates/co-workers, would they know about it? I'd imagine this varies regionally, but every time I see video of a corps doing a parade somewhere, I wonder how many in the audience know they're not actually watching a marching band. Nobody. Ever. Reality. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charlie1223 Posted August 16, 2013 Share Posted August 16, 2013 (edited) Could it be that sport stacking is more known than DCI? http://www.speedstacks.com/ I mean... really!?!? Edited August 16, 2013 by charlie1223 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
c.l. Posted August 16, 2013 Share Posted August 16, 2013 Well, BD practices at Mars. Does that count? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BRASSO Posted August 16, 2013 Share Posted August 16, 2013 (edited) I'm curious to know how popular or well-known drum corps is outside the drum corps world. If you were to ask your classmates/co-workers, would they know about it? I'd imagine this varies regionally, but every time I see video of a corps doing a parade somewhere, I wonder how many in the audience know they're not actually watching a marching band. If you grew up in the Greater Boston region and are over 55 years of age, then its almost impossible for you not to have known or heard about Drum & Bugle Corps. You'd have had to be living under a rock during much of your childhood and into your young adult life..... literally. Edited August 16, 2013 by BRASSO 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCIroxx Posted August 16, 2013 Share Posted August 16, 2013 (edited) Frankly, today's audience mainly consists of ex-drum corps people, High school bandos & parents. It's just not a mainstream entertainment activity. When I show drum corps vids to friends there are a lot of glassy-eyed stares & folks start checking their watches about 6-7 minutes into a show. Ironically, the most interested these folks got was when they watched the 2007 Championships video from ESPN. They weren't subjected to 12 minutes from every corps, there were some background vignettes that gave them a taste of the behind the scenes stuff, and the way that they presented the scores and replays/highlights during the broadcast, also made it more familiar and tangible to a mainstream audience that watches sports competitions. A couple of "outsiders" were actually convinced to go to a live competition after seeing the ESPN vid, and were subsequently hooked. I still think this is a better way to bring it to the mainstream, than movie theaters. Edited August 16, 2013 by DCIroxx 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
troon8 Posted August 16, 2013 Share Posted August 16, 2013 Forget your marching band facebook friends...Try going up to 10 strangers on the street and asking them what Drum Corps is. Sadly, maybe about three will say, "Is that like that movie Drum Line?" Maybe one will say "Isn't that like marching band?" Maybe it wasn't always this way in parts of the country, but it's a niche of a niche activity. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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