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2 hours ago, FlamMan said:

Hockey Dad is 100% correct. I would estimate that about 90% of the folks who I marched with and am still in contact with, have completely abandoned the drum corps activity. We go to maybe one show every few years and see very few old faces in the crowd and hardly any corps jackets. Mostly bandos and their Family.

Hell I could have said that 10 years after I quit marching... 1979 first time and 1985 the second....

And I didn’t do Junior corps

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12 hours ago, Terri Schehr said:

The audience here in the Midwest skews older.  In Indy, too.  I see very few 20 or 30 somethings at shows and I go to quite a few. 

So does Allentown and I’m still seeing the same faces 40 years later 

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10 hours ago, xandandl said:

what are you judging as "growth?"

128>135>150>154?  Certainly not the number of competing units?  Probably not the number of paid attendees at championships (vs. Buffalo, Boston, Montreal; ok, more than Florida.)

Growth in attendance from 2010, the low point 

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What Jeff, Fred, and others have said... we are mere bystanders here. 

"Mongo only pawn in game of life." 😁

Whatever gets approved... so be it. None of us here can stop it. 

So then each of us will have to make a decision: stay or go. 

Whatever. The Earth will continue to spin on its axis. 

 

 

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44 minutes ago, Fran Haring said:

What Jeff, Fred, and others have said... we are mere bystanders here. 

"Mongo only pawn in game of life." 😁

Whatever gets approved... so be it. None of us here can stop it. 

So then each of us will have to make a decision: stay or go. 

Whatever. The Earth will continue to spin on its axis. 

 

 

😉

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The proposal of allowing any instrument as presented by Kathy Black is pure BS.  It is an insult to anyone's intelligence who has given even as much time to it as it took to read it.  I have never read any document that makes so many sweeping generalities trying to justify the proposal.  And with so many stupid and ignorant assumptions.  I dare not take it apart piece by piece, less i be here til tomorrow.  Anyone who votes on the rule change based on this proposal is a pure fool, and i suspect there are a lot of fools who will vote to implement this change. 

Any instrument???  The most idiotic thing I've ever read.  SMFH.   GMAFB!!!!!!!!

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On 12/30/2019 at 10:29 AM, Jeff Ream said:

and if starting later, odds are spring training gets extended

not if it is not permitted?

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On 1/2/2020 at 10:22 PM, Jeff Ream said:

Fans can voice all they want, it won’t change a #### thing. Just like it didn’t with Bb, amps, electronics, any type of brass, etc. 

so true, until money dries up.

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On 1/3/2020 at 2:05 PM, Jeff Ream said:

really? has amplification been repealed? no, it led to electronics. has Bb been repealed? no, it led to any kind of brass. even the outcry about taking the drum judge to the 3 yard safe zone has stayed intact and in fact the push to remove field judges continues.

 

so what has fan outcry changed?

the amplification rule change does appear to address some issues anyway.  the operative word being "appear".

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On 1/3/2020 at 10:45 PM, Terri Schehr said:

The band kids have been brought there on the group rate by their director and most of them will never return again.  
 

This old hanger on is out if they pass woodwinds.  2020 will be my farewell tour.  👋

Terri I won't go that far yet, but I'm not far from it.  Last year I went to the theater and the sound was so horrific because of amplification that I left and asked for my money back.  Any instrument?  WTF?

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