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7 minutes ago, Terri Schehr said:

It kind of is.  Like those clogging followers.
 

 I was at a hotel with clogging competitors and their parents many years back and I thought they were even more nutty and obsessed than we are. 

That would, indeed, be frightening. It could be funny as well though. Makes me want to go back and watch Hot Fuzz again.

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5 minutes ago, greg_orangecounty said:

It’s all good. We all came in in different eras but we’re all still fans of drum corps. 
 

(until woodwinds are introduced) 

As several have said before, it's like a right of passage for drum corps people to complain about stuff. I latched on to props pretty hard last year. But I think we could all sit down together and have some beers and it would be a great time. 

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1 hour ago, Jeff Ream said:

hell the regular season DCA/Legion show in Scranton was more legion people than drum corps fans. and their spectator ettiquette was horrific. Especially finals night on 05 when those presenting at awards went loudly bounding down the stands during Bucs ballad. I was ###### I wrote letters to the local, regional and national HQ about it

That was my first Finals since 1985 (last one I was in) and remember that. Uh guys this ain’t the freaking convention and not sure how many go to the conventions anymore.

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2 hours ago, LabMaster said:

My son calls it a cult.  At a corps event all the alumni sang the corps song and he turned to my wife and said "see, it IS a cult".  I guess it kinda is.

My adult children know how to push my buttons. When the subject of Drum Corps comes up they roll their eyes and cough *bandgeek*
 

I cough back *reverse-mortgage* and that shuts them up quick.

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1 hour ago, Fran Haring said:

Oh man... I remember it well. That was rough.

Those '02 through '05 years, when it was the combined DCA/AL title show... holy mackerel, the awards ceremony on finals night was absolutely nuts.

All those DCA awards (way, way too many... awards for captions, subcaptions, drum major, honor guard, sections like best pit, contra line, etc.)... plus all the Legion awards, which did not always match up to the current DCA captions (the AL awards were the same ones that had been given out for decades).  LOL.

Plus, we had to basically babysit the AL people who were presenting the awards, to make sure they heard which award was being given out and which corps was going to receive it.  My wife Barbara, with help from a few other DCA folks... Bill Thorpe, Tom Peashey, others... would literally escort the Legion folks out to the drum majors with the correct award, after I announced the award/sponsor/presenter/winner. 

No offense to the AL people. I thank them for their service to our nation. But wow, those awards ceremonies might have taken a few years off my life. :tongue:

Looking back at the years I worked the DCA title show, or any show for that matter... I have to put that '05 DCA weekend at the top, in terms of my best work. (For whatever that's worth.  LOL.)  Not only the Kilties tragedy at prelims... but that hugely long awards ceremony at finals. Managed to get through it all.

that and the year with the Renegades DM are your best of any not announcing " and in 2nd place, with a score of 96.8......the Haw..." ( thats all i could hear over our yelling for joy and their yelling in ager)

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39 minutes ago, greg_orangecounty said:

It’s all good. We all came in in different eras but we’re all still fans of drum corps. 
 

(until woodwinds are introduced) 

and i'm pretty sure i am right there with you on woodwinds. I deal with them in HS marching band because i'm paid to deal with them. no $$ no me at a band show until my kid decides to join one

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18 minutes ago, Jeff Ream said:

that and the year with the Renegades DM are your best of any not announcing " and in 2nd place, with a score of 96.8......the Haw..." ( thats all i could hear over our yelling for joy and their yelling in ager)

Wow... almost forgot about the Renegades thing, in 2004!!!

Frontier Field in 1996.... as bad a venue as that was for a drum corps show, with the field a mile away from the stands... that was, hands down, the best PA system I've ever worked with.

So the second-place announcement was loud and clear, I'm sure. :tongue:

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29 minutes ago, greg_orangecounty said:

My adult children know how to push my buttons. When the subject of Drum Corps comes up they roll their eyes and cough *bandgeek*
 

I cough back *reverse-mortgage* and that shuts them up quick.

my daughter just says "drums". i taught her well

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Just now, Fran Haring said:

Wow... almost forgot about the Renegades thing, in 2004!!!

Frontier Field in 1996.... as bad a venue as that was for a drum corps show, with the field a mile away from the stands... that was, hands down, the best PA system I've ever worked with.

So the second-place announcement was loud and clear, I'm sure. :tongue:

I can still hear it in my head

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31 minutes ago, greg_orangecounty said:

My adult children know how to push my buttons. When the subject of Drum Corps comes up they roll their eyes and cough *bandgeek*
 

I cough back *reverse-mortgage* and that shuts them up quick.

I hit back with "How much money did you ask for?"  

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