Originally Posted By Mr X Dar, when I was younger I was in a drum corps out of Concord, CA called the Blue Devils. Great experience, and the teacher was amazing...taught me everything I know today!
Originally Posted By sun-n-fun My husband is a "self taught" drummer, Was in a local corp when he was younger and got me into watching drum corps. We are huge fans of DCI (He's a cadets man) Were you a part of THE DCI blue devils at one time? Awesome group, winners this past Aug, if I remember correctly.
Originally Posted By Mr X Yup, they won again this year (12th title, best record in drum corps!). I was in the Blue Devils, yes. I like the Cadets too, very good group. I went to school with a lot of their drummers.
Originally Posted By sun-n-fun Cool, The first DCI show I was at was the finals in Aug 95 in Buffalo (I was also 8 months pregnant) We actually went to Orlando for the finals in 03 as it was also the weekend of our 10th anniversay. Can't get much better than a 2 days od DCI together with a day in EPCOT without children!!! We wanted to get to Wisconsin but WDW always won out!
Originally Posted By chickendumpling Nice! Thanks for sharing that with us. Very cool. I am always so impressed with all the talent on LP.
Originally Posted By Mr X Thanks Chicken! Sun, interestingly you attended two of the FEW championships I missed! In fact, the 95 season was the first championship I'd missed since I first got "on the scene" in 1984! After that I was teaching some groups and was at the Orlando finals in 96 and 97...have been overseas ever since. *sniff* 2003 was a great year! I love the Blue Devils show from that year (I've seen the video!). I agree, drum corps and Disney is a lot of fun. When the championships were in Orlando, it was great to go to Epcot and see all the corps performing all around the park all day! Very "high energy" entertainment for sure. Now, it's Indiana (ugh) forever for some reason. I guess because they have a dome. But I really have ZERO interest in going to Indiana, so I guess I'll miss the championships for another 10 years unless I'm teaching some group.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros Hey sun-n-fun, I was at the finals in Orlando as well (lovely weather, huh?). I wonder if we ever saw each other. I got one of the drum sticks that a tenor player threw into the crowd after the awards ceremony, and my brother got his other one. It was pretty neat. As for the move to Indiana, I'm actually very excited about it, since my parents live there, and I think I could probably make the trip over every now and then. The new stadium is supposed to be really nice (it's not quite done yet, but it should be in time for the Colts to play next season), so that's a plus. I believe that DCI is headquartered in Indiana, as it BOA, but I doubt that really matters (NCAA too, but that matters even less0.
Originally Posted By Mr X Meh...I liked when finals was different every year, made it exciting to have a new place to see every year. I wouldn't mind a year or two in Indiana (or anyplace else for that matter). At this point, Indiana is booked for 10. Ugh. Oh well.
Originally Posted By Mr X The BOA/DCI connection IS very important though, I think. There's a lot of talk of merging the two organizations. I don't like the idea, of course, but it could be an issue of survival (in which case I'm fine with it lol).
Originally Posted By sun-n-fun We could drive to Indiana in less than a day so we may give it a try. But who wants to see DCI in a dome. Orlando's rain is 2003 was great. We wore our Disney ponchos. Kind of like watching a snowfall football game. It adds a little extra. hee hee.
Originally Posted By Mr X Apparently the dome is retractable, and they'll only use it as a last resort. Better than canceling finals, which has almost happened a couple of times in my experience. Hope you can make it! If so, have fun.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros It is retractable, and it's not even really a dome. It looks kind of like a big old warehouse. It should be nice, but it will be weird to be in a place where everybody is so close to the field, but it is still 2/3 empty. It will be interesting to see what the capacity of it is like for these events compared to other stadiums, since I think it's one of the few places they've done finals that has had seats all the way around. Hopefully they can still get a ton of people in there with decent seats though... <a href="http://tinyurl.com/297fcm" target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/297fcm</a>
Originally Posted By sun-n-fun I know when the finals were in Buffalo - Orchard Park, really, where the Bills play - they only sold tickets to seats on one side of the field from end zone to end zone, all the way up. Since the whole stadium holds over 75,000- that's still a lot of available seating. BTW that's the same place the Sabres and Pens played the Ice Bowl on Jan 1. -if that helps to picture it.
Originally Posted By Lady Starlight OMG that was terriffic! Nice to see the face behind the name as well MrX.
