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I’m taking a vacation day today because we got home really late from a Drup Corps show in Riverside last night. I mention this, of course, not only to explain why I’m posting in the morning on a Tuesday, but as introduction to my thoughts and observations on last night’s Drum Corps Show, the Western Corps ConnectionI’m sure many of my friends ( Read more... )

DCI has just announced their major events schedule. No, they haven’t moved championships back to California from Indianapolis. However, it does show that the Rose Bowl ( yuk on the venue) will be hosting a major competition on the 4th of July. I sense there will be tickets to be ordered...

[In other Rose Bowl news, USC may move to the Rose Bowl, ( Read more... )

Last night, we went out to the Rose Bowl for the DCI World Championship Finals. First, however, a digression, as not everyone is familiar with DCI or the sport of Drum Corps. I tend to describe it this way: Take a group of between 120 and 135 (soon to be 150) of young adults (aged 13-22). Break them into three units: marching brass, percussion, ( Read more... )

• I got a haircut this morning at my usual place. The discussion was what I expect: Football at Alabama, Football at UCLA, and who was getting them their next cup of coffee.
  
  
• Next Friday (our 23rd wedding anniversary) I’m taking a day off of work and taking the family to Universal Hollywood. This was about the only day I could do it before school ( Read more... )

Many years ago, there was a drum corps called the Velvet Knights out of the Anaheim area (you can see them perform here). VK, as this corps was known, had extremely entertaining shows that defined convention. They disappeared in the late 1990s, and their sense of humor was sorely missed. A quasi-similar corps started from the ashes of VK called ( Read more... )

Well, we ended up not going to the Drum Corps Show. We got as far as Sharky's in Thousand Oaks -- GFG then realized she had a migraine coming on, and perhaps the sound of massed drums and trumpets in the hot, smokey wouldn't be a good idea. So we meandered back through Thousand Oaks and Simi Valley, finding a quilt store in advance of Quilters Run ( Read more... )

This evening we went to see Corps at the Crest II in Newbury Park. This was our first (and possibly only) Drum Corps show of the season. The corps in the show were: Santa Clara Vanguard, Blue Knights, Blue Devils, Pacific Crest, Esperanza, Mystikal, Impulse, Hawthorne Gold. What is drum corps? The best way to describe it is to take up to 135 kids, ( Read more... )