What is drum corp!

[JohnMCooper]

What is drum corp?

Putting on my flame suit now!

[k001k47]

Watched 'til the NFL comparison.

Then I thought:
"cept you pay for durm crops"

[GC]

Well, while we're at it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xja3S5iz ... er&list=UL

[TUBAD83]

It just reminds me how fortunate I was to have been in school and graduated before "corps style" took over and turned the majority of HS (and college) bands in Texas into wannabe drum corps clones.

JJ

[Funcoot]

I aspire to march for Spirit, Boston, or the Troopers.

[Dean E]

DCI apparently involves tuba players forming a big circle; jerking, pumping, and squatting; and having a contest to determine something or other.
http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php ... 1&comments" target="_blank" target="_blank

[kegmcnabb]

...circle; jerking...

Says it all (IMHO)!

[TubaRay]

...circle; jerking...

Says it all (IMHO)!

Does this speak to something in your past, Craig?

[kegmcnabb]

...circle; jerking...

Says it all (IMHO)!

Does this speak to something in your past, Craig?

I'll never tell!

[bort]

I almost made it through a full minute before I had to turn it off. There could be some really interesting or funny stuff in there... but that stupid robotic voice and "opinion through a fake conversation" BS is just so passive-aggressive and annoying. Like "this is what I'd love to say in a conversation, if I ever have a conversation about it."

Ok, I feel better now. And I realize the irony...

[Mark]

Drum Corp is the type of marching band competition that I don't even want to think about getting involved with. They do stuff on the field that frightens me. If I ever have to march again, I prefer doing it in the seated position while riding on a float or trailer.

Growing up in the Texas panhandle, I learned to never put a coke bottle to my lips while riding across a field in the back of a pickup or on a trailer. Be very careful when you put that mouthpiece on your lips.

[OldsRecording]

This one might hit just a bit closer to home...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1SZxcsT0WQ" target="_blank

[bort]

I almost made it through a full minute before I had to turn it off. There could be some really interesting or funny stuff in there... but that stupid robotic voice and "opinion through a fake conversation" BS is just so passive-aggressive and annoying. Like "this is what I'd love to say in a conversation, if I ever have a conversation about it."

Ok, I feel better now. And I realize the irony...

Bort, We finaly aggree on somthing ! We totally, totally agree on somthing !! WOW!

Now if the videos were made inexpensively in China... kidding, kidding...

Glad we have some common ground (besides tubas, and [presumably] beer).

[MartyNeilan]

Watched 'til the NFL comparison.

Then I thought:
"cept you pay for durm crops"

BINGO.

When somebody first told me about drum corps in the 80's, I was mildly interested. I asked how much it paid. When I was told that I would have to pay $$$$ I balked at it. Still, it is good experience for anyone going into music education. When I got my ed degree in my 30's I was too old to even consider it as an option.

[contraddictions88]

[quote]
DCI apparently involves tuba players forming a big circle; jerking, pumping, and squatting; and having a contest to determine something or other.
http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php" target="_blank ... 1&comments" target="_blank
/quote]

this is not drum corps... this is the stupidity that goes on after the Collegiate Marching Band Festival held in Allentown every year. Most of the colleges allow their tubas to stay long enough to do this. I was told as a freshman how much fun it was, but coming from a corps style hs and then marching drum corps, i regard what happens in this video as a waste of someone's time. I did not participate my second year around, i packed up my tuba

[k001k47]

DCI apparently involves tuba players forming a big circle; jerking, pumping, and squatting; and having a contest to determine something or other.
http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php" target="_blank" target="_blank ... 1&comments" target="_blank
/quote]

this is not drum corps... this is the stupidity that goes on after the Collegiate Marching Band Festival held in Allentown every year. Most of the colleges allow their tubas to stay long enough to do this. I was told as a freshman how much fun it was, but coming from a corps style hs and then marching drum corps, i regard what happens in this video as a waste of someone's time. I did not participate my second year around, i packed up my tuba

A lot of the people I've met who were involved with >modern< drum corps were really narcissistic about the experience, but it was mostly the ones involved with lower level corps.

[k001k47]

That is how I feel about "TubaChristmas® Events" in most cases.

[k001k47]

http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/8013711/
I spelled ... christmas wrong.

[Kevin Hendrick]

Drum corps as an activity is dying.

"Drum Corpse"?

[OldsRecording]

Compared to the popularity as an activity (versus as a spectator event) it is damned near Drum Corpse. They have really latched onto the the things that make money, but have lost the activity in the process. Drum Corps International sucked up to George Hopkins so much that the activity has almost totally dumped or excluded the kids it was made for and become an elite college marching band production. The inner-city poor high schoolers who populated the activity for decades have disappeared almost completely. The purpose has been co-opted. And money is the goal. Drum Corps is dead.

Don't be too sure. There is a growing backlash to the Hopkins/G7 nonsense. Drum Corps North America. It's small right now, but in the future, I think you'll see most of the smaller local corps that have been left in the dust by the DCI machine become part of this new entity.