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8 hours ago, N.E. Brigand said:

Yes, but that doesn't mean there's no value in making distinctions. All drum corps are marching bands. All marching bands are not drum corps.

and the general person on the street could give two #####

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7 hours ago, Mello Dude said:

You answered your own assertion.  Drum and Bugle corps used to be different because of instrumentation.  Yes, it was a type of marching band but different in a very unique way.  Just like a Drum and Fife Corps err marching band or bagpipes.  When there is NO difference WHY get butt hurt over calling it a marching band now?  Seriously, DCI is just a circuit of marching bands.  What used to be true is not any longer.  Word games do not change the facts.  Just like you could point to the Marine Drum and Bugle corps and SEE and HEAR a distinct difference.  This whole mindset that there are no differences and never have been is well...insane and lacks any real facts to support itself in realities.  I don't really care but the idea that we can't have subsets of criteria to differentiate sub-species of a greater whole IS asinine.  I can't even imagine living life where you couldn't do that...and have a firm grasp on reality.

 

baseball used to not have the designated hitter in both leagues, and it never had interleague play during the regular season.

tv used to be black and white

dci used to sell 8 tracks.

 

#### changes.

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6 hours ago, greg_orangecounty said:

Who is “we”? 

Bands were the minor league, Drum Corps was the major league.  The very fact I have to spell this out tells me the contagion has spread and it’s too late. 

to the majority of the planet drum corps was the minor leagues

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3 hours ago, HockeyDad said:

It’s weird how drum corps has to evolve over time, lest it disappear into the ether, yet marching bands do not.  For example, how much has the Texas Longhorn band changed since, oh, 1970?  Or USC?  Texas A&M?  Penn State Blue Band?  And on and on. Not much. 

Penn State has changed lots of things. Just not noticeable to those not truly involved. take it from someone married to an alumnus

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9 hours ago, HockeyDad said:

 I cannot imagine any of the bands I mentioned above, or Ohio State’s band, or Alabama, etc. etc.  using narration or singing or amps or the emoting or nonsensical body gyrations that drum corps use. They would be laughed out of the stadium.

 

I have to disagree with you a bit on OSU.

They have changed their style completely since Dr.Woods left.

No narration or signing.

But props (posters )

Special effects (fire extinguishers to simulate smoke)

Stick figure formations

One of my friends who saw the TBDBITL in person last year said it felt 

like a BOA show.

If you watch some of their recent shows,the band isn't what it used to be.

 

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The key to college bands is that they’re there for entertainment whether it’s PSU, Ohio, Western Carolina, A&M, they just have a a unique style that hasn’t evolved much from their formula. 

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17 hours ago, Spatzzz said:

Drum Corps has ALWAYS been marching band....just different instrumentation....stop trying to say otherwise.

You already said otherwise, in this very sentence.  Is drum corps marching band?  Or is it different instrumentation from marching band, and therefore NOT marching band?

I understand your confusion.  No one has ever really defined what "drum corps" is.  It has been left to common understanding, much like how that Supreme Court justice dodged the task of defining pornography with the infamous assertion, "I know it when I see it".  Nonetheless, the people who created drum corps (the military) had marching bands too, yet established drum corps and marching bands as two separate, distinct things.  The people who created the competitive drum corps activity (the veterans organizations) created both drum corps and marching band divisions from inception, because they were two separate, distinct things.

To claim, infer or pretend they never were two separate, distinct things would be in total denial and ignorance of history.

 

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On 10/22/2019 at 8:18 AM, Mello Dude said:

Why do you think it would be gone?  I mean it's said a lot but seriously..where is the proof?

It, at least, wouldn't be the same activity as it is today?  I like that answer LOL

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