cixelsyd Posted January 13 Posted January 13 2 hours ago, perc2100 said: In 1999 Kiwanis Kavaliers went from Montreal to Bristol, RI 'overnight' (595 miles according to google maps) No, that is 595 kilometers. (Source - Google Maps.) Quote
drumcorpsfever Posted January 13 Posted January 13 Best ever show there was 2013 tie between Crown and BD heading just prior to Indy. Quote
Barneveld Posted January 13 Posted January 13 3 hours ago, cixelsyd said: No, that is 595 kilometers. (Source - Google Maps.) Converts to 369.716 miles Quote
ranintothedoor Posted January 13 Posted January 13 On 1/11/2026 at 10:31 PM, cage said: I just pulled up the itinerary for the 2017 Academy. These are all consecutive days. 7/2 - Riverside, CA to Mesa, AZ 351 miles. This was the night of Phantom's accident. Show day 7/3 - Mesa, AZ to Rio Rancho, NM 423 miles. Show day 7/4 - Rio Rancho to Chickasa, OK 547 miles. Rehearsal 7/5 - Chickasa to Columbia, MO 514 miles. Show 7/6 - Columbia to Woodstock, IL 410 miles. Rehearsal 7/7 - Rockford, IL to Minneapolis 345 miles. Show 7/8 show in Minneapolis 2590 miles not counting travel from housing to show sites. That was crazy Wow.... I'm exhausted just thinking about this. 1 Quote
IllianaLancerContra Posted January 13 Posted January 13 14 hours ago, KVG_DC said: That would include a border crossing everyone had to wake up for I presume. Ugh what a night. College band (Purdue) did a Canadian trip. On way back, at border, Gendarmerie realized that one of the snare drums weighed much more than the others. Drummer had put many bottles of Canadian whiskey in drum. He wasn’t in band any more after that. 1 2 Quote
keystone3ply Posted January 13 Posted January 13 (edited) 18 hours ago, IllianaLancerContra said: College band (Purdue) did a Canadian trip. On way back, at border, Gendarmerie realized that one of the snare drums weighed much more than the others. Drummer had put many bottles of Canadian whiskey in drum. He wasn’t in band any more after that. Guess the Purdue drummer was planning to make some 'boilermakers'? (See it, see it?) "Thank you & don't forget to tip your servers." (I'll see myself out...) Edited January 14 by keystone3ply c 3 1 Quote
perc2100 Posted January 13 Posted January 13 19 hours ago, cixelsyd said: No, that is 595 kilometers. (Source - Google Maps.) Ha you're right; I guess starting in Canada it just gave km instead of miles and I overlooked that (I thought that felt a little long for that type of commute but I've never driven around that area personally so 🤷♂️) Quote
perc2100 Posted January 13 Posted January 13 7 hours ago, IllianaLancerContra said: College band (Purdue) did a Canadian trip. On way back, at border, Gendarmerie realized that one of the snare drums weighed much more than the others. Drummer had put many bottles of Canadian whiskey in drum. He wasn’t in band any more after that. hahaha; I can tell you that's absolutely NOT what I experienced going to/from Canada-US via drum corps 😁 Quote
Bob Brady Posted January 15 Posted January 15 (edited) On 1/11/2026 at 1:29 PM, cixelsyd said: Seriously, when or who? Give me an example. I remember in the early 70s with the Glassmen, we had a show in Vassar MI ( thumb area) and left for Geneseo Ill as soon as retreat was over ( full retreat in those days). Distance of roughly 430 miles. What made it more interesting is that this was during the OPEC oil embargo and gas rationing so you could only get enough fuel at each stop to get you 100 miles or so. Basically had to stop at every turnpike service plaza along the way. Made it just in time for the mid-day parade before the show. In 81 we won Class A at Butler and had to haul ### after retreat to Hamilton Ont. for a 9 am prelim slot at DCI Canada. Only about 290 miles but a short time frame and the typical hold up crossing the border. Also lost our prize money from Butler because as Class a champs, we were supposed to do an exhibition at Open Class finals. Back in those days it wasn't uncommon to travel all night and part of the next day, jump off the busses, warm up and do a show. Keep in mind though, in those days DCI wasn't the "be all end all" of Drum Corps. It was still simply an organization designed to standardize the rule and give corps more design freedom than they had under the service orgs. There WERE many, many more shows then because there many more corps plus all the local circuits. DCI didn't really set corps schedules, only the dates of their regional and national competitions. It was up to the corps to decide if they were attending those shows because other competitions like the World Open, US Open, and other large multi day shows were still popular with the corps and the fans. They were actually still considered more prestigious than the fledgling DCI shows. For the most part corps set their own schedules and what shows they attend. Season was also much longer with most corps beginning on Memorial Day weekend and ending in late August or early September. There were still some smaller shows AFTER DCI finals. Many smaller corps would compete the entire season without ever being in a "DCI" show. Edited January 15 by Bob Brady 2 Quote
Jeff Ream Posted January 15 Posted January 15 in 2000 in all age, we did the Clifton show on Saturday, which as any DCA show will do ran way long...alumni corps kept throwing in encores...then hauled down the garden state parkway to toms river for a 1 or 2 pm show. not a ton of miles, but jersey late night driving....and the school wasn't open when we got there. as all age usually didn't do back to back stuff like this, we were wiped...and had to drive home. a lot of younger kids, so complaints about no busses were registered loudly. 1 Quote
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