Didn't take long for Mr."I need a life" to resurface on DCP. Hey Jeff, I thought you said you had better things to do? How long was that self imposed retirement anyway, two weeks maybe?
100031 posts, man you are pathetic
Wednesday, January 31, 2007
Tuesday, January 30, 2007
I thought so!
I thought they had been awfully quiet after their last kamp.....
"The Kilties will hold their next full corps rehearsal camp on February 10th & 11th!!
Positions are open in all captions (Color guard, Percussion, Brass, Honor Guard, Support staff),"
Now on to other matters - Horlick Field
The field was built during the Great Depression by the CCC and WPA. One of thousands of make work projects across the country.
It hosted a girls professional baseball team, The Racine Belles, during the WW2 years. They used a 10 inch ball.
The field was THE BEST venue for drum corps in the area until the eighties when the city let the park go to hell and the area around it transitioned from lower middle class to slum.
Some of the factories in the area have been torn down, some only partially torn down, some still stand.
Parking in the area is good but not exactly safe at night.
DeMark's bar is just that, a bar that served food primarily to the now non-existent factory workers. I would hardly call it a restraunt. Of course neither is Chubby's, or Rojo's or George's Pub or any of the other bozo bistros.
"The Kilties will hold their next full corps rehearsal camp on February 10th & 11th!!
Positions are open in all captions (Color guard, Percussion, Brass, Honor Guard, Support staff),"
Now on to other matters - Horlick Field
The field was built during the Great Depression by the CCC and WPA. One of thousands of make work projects across the country.
It hosted a girls professional baseball team, The Racine Belles, during the WW2 years. They used a 10 inch ball.
The field was THE BEST venue for drum corps in the area until the eighties when the city let the park go to hell and the area around it transitioned from lower middle class to slum.
Some of the factories in the area have been torn down, some only partially torn down, some still stand.
Parking in the area is good but not exactly safe at night.
DeMark's bar is just that, a bar that served food primarily to the now non-existent factory workers. I would hardly call it a restraunt. Of course neither is Chubby's, or Rojo's or George's Pub or any of the other bozo bistros.
Friday, January 26, 2007
We love a band boy _NOT
Looks like I'm going to be drawn into a pissing contest with mr fourth bass.
You are and always will be a band boy, just the kind of geek all the real drum corp people used to make fun of.
Anyone who would equate (look the word up dummy) the Lighthouse Brigade with a championship caliber unit must think the WWE Intercontinental Wrestling Belt actually means something.
You attempt to play fourth bass drum in a third rate "all age " corp. That means you are one notch above the worst "musician" in the group. Yah, I'm going to value your opinion - NOT!
Unless you are an alumni of or a director of the Racine Scouts, don't try to tell anyone how they are run. You don't know!
I will be watching you this summer, try not to trip over your own klown feet.
You are and always will be a band boy, just the kind of geek all the real drum corp people used to make fun of.
Anyone who would equate (look the word up dummy) the Lighthouse Brigade with a championship caliber unit must think the WWE Intercontinental Wrestling Belt actually means something.
You attempt to play fourth bass drum in a third rate "all age " corp. That means you are one notch above the worst "musician" in the group. Yah, I'm going to value your opinion - NOT!
Unless you are an alumni of or a director of the Racine Scouts, don't try to tell anyone how they are run. You don't know!
I will be watching you this summer, try not to trip over your own klown feet.
Sunday, January 21, 2007
Bears in a blow out
Maybe now we can stop hearing all the whining about that damned hurricane. Get off your lazy asses and clean up your own garbage.
Saturday, January 20, 2007
I (used to) love a parade
Something I read and responded to on another blog brought this to mind.
When I was a kid my grandparents took me to the Fourth of July parade. It was the largest in the midwest with well over a hundred and twenty units. Now, while they claim 140 units, I don't go. Why? I'll tell you. Because it is 95% crap.
Years ago we had large manufacturing firms who would sponsor large and elaborate floats. Those firms are gone and so are the floats. Years ago the parade would include over a dozen bands and drum corps and they would play every block or two. Now you get maybe two bands and a crap corp and they play one or twice in the whole parade.
Of course they count as a unit every jackass local and state polititian out hawking for votes plus the assorted beauty (oops can't call it that) talent contest winner. Most are so ugly a coyote caught in a trap would chew off it's own leg to get away.
No body comes to this thing anymore. When I was young the parade would draw over 100,00 people, now I doubt if it's half that but nobody seems to give a shit.
Neither do I, I just gave up.
When I was a kid my grandparents took me to the Fourth of July parade. It was the largest in the midwest with well over a hundred and twenty units. Now, while they claim 140 units, I don't go. Why? I'll tell you. Because it is 95% crap.
Years ago we had large manufacturing firms who would sponsor large and elaborate floats. Those firms are gone and so are the floats. Years ago the parade would include over a dozen bands and drum corps and they would play every block or two. Now you get maybe two bands and a crap corp and they play one or twice in the whole parade.
Of course they count as a unit every jackass local and state polititian out hawking for votes plus the assorted beauty (oops can't call it that) talent contest winner. Most are so ugly a coyote caught in a trap would chew off it's own leg to get away.
No body comes to this thing anymore. When I was young the parade would draw over 100,00 people, now I doubt if it's half that but nobody seems to give a shit.
Neither do I, I just gave up.
Wednesday, January 17, 2007
Nothing from Camp?
Well from my sources the results are.
Numerically smaller
Physically larger
Emotionally less stable
Talent deminished
Cullinary no change
Numerically smaller
Physically larger
Emotionally less stable
Talent deminished
Cullinary no change
Get a life
On a forum that I read a guy has 100,000 posts. Now he posts a long diatribe stating that he loves this one and that one, tells others who disagree with him to **** off, yada, yada, yada.
Now here is a guy who needs to get a life. Figure it takes an average of five minutes to read a forum and post a reply or to start a new thread, this BOZO wannabe has spent 347 days of his useless life wasted on just this one forum. How many more he posts on, I could not guess.
Now here is a guy who needs to get a life. Figure it takes an average of five minutes to read a forum and post a reply or to start a new thread, this BOZO wannabe has spent 347 days of his useless life wasted on just this one forum. How many more he posts on, I could not guess.
Sunday, January 14, 2007
Tough choice
Hard to root for Da Bears when you are a cheese head however it's even harder to root for that disloyal jerk Holmgren. So all in all I was pleased with the outcome.
Thursday, January 11, 2007
My answer to Bill
I have recieved an invitation from "bill" of the Kilties to come to their camp and play bari. I am going to decline this invite for the following reasons.
1. I have not played a brass instrument in many years since a mouth injury impared my "chops".
2. I doubt my knees would stand the strain of a competative drum corps season.
3. I do not have the time required to make the commitment.
4. I do not believe in the "all age" concept.
5. Drum corps today is not what I remember and loved. My time has past, it is not coming back.
6. Who ever heard of a Bohemien wearing a skirt?
1. I have not played a brass instrument in many years since a mouth injury impared my "chops".
2. I doubt my knees would stand the strain of a competative drum corps season.
3. I do not have the time required to make the commitment.
4. I do not believe in the "all age" concept.
5. Drum corps today is not what I remember and loved. My time has past, it is not coming back.
6. Who ever heard of a Bohemien wearing a skirt?
Tuesday, January 9, 2007
Shitty sound
It's just my opinion but the field / marching drums of today sound like shit when compared with the percusion lines of the 60's-70's era. I'm not talking technique here, just the plain old sound of the drum/head/snare combination.
Wednesday, January 3, 2007
Camp Time, part two
It's just about time for all the "all age" corps to have their second camp/recruiting drive. Within a few weeks we will be deluged with claims of 750 horns, 300 in the pit and a guard from the Russian Ballet! Then in June they hit the field with 20 horns, 8 percussion and a guard that keeps the local Krispy Kreme in business. No wonder no one believes the claims anymore.
Emergency Rooms
What a joke. If they could ever manage to see and actually treat someone in under5 hours it would be a miracle. Too many people walking around doing nothing. And do those idiots know how annoying it is to a sick person to have to listen to the staff laugh and giggle about the latest party and such crap. It's a wonder more people don't go postal in those places.
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