BirdmanGamez Hahaha. What does that mean? - Spirit of Atlanta snare, 1877, no I mean, 1977. Lol

He’s an all around percussionist. He mains tenor drum tho

@@EMCproductions yep. hopkins said that all the time. i never listened to him anyway. he wasnt my tech or caption head so he was just a big ball of worthless words whenever he talked anyway.

@@brandtschaible8124 hopkins kinda super sucks

Hopkins left the Cadets and now they're getting more sleep

@@randompineapple3979 Hopkins didn't leave, he got fired and honestly should be in jail.

Same was true when I marched Cadets 25 years ago. We'd get 8.5 hours between the time the bus leaves the previous night's show until breakfast the next morning. Typically we'd leave after retreat around 11:00pm, get to the next housing site around 3am or 4am and breakfast would be at 7:30am with rehearsal at 8:30am. A few times a week I would not sleep when I arrived at the new housing site, especially if we got there late, and I would scout out the are around the school for places to buy drinks, junk food, and cigarettes because smoking and running around the field at 200 bpm really went well together. A "day off" was more or less just a regular reheaersal day but they would drive us to whatever cool city we were in or water park around 4pm instead of going to a show.

Although, I also know that that policy is change from when GH was in charge which was pretty much get off the bus and start rehearsing no matter the length of the bus ride

Kyle Korb dude say hi to Louis Kravits the baritone for me

Young Gangstah you know louis???

It was the same when I marched Cadets in the 90s but they would shave the time a little. Say we needed to be on the buses at 11 after a show but the buses didn’t leave until 11:30, we would still be up at 7am. Most nights we would arrive at the housing site around 4am and get about 3-4 hours on the floor. I was in the hornline but I know many nights the drum bus would continue rehearsing on their pads for a while after departure.

Rich Daley *Every* night, not most nights. They called it chopping out, as I recall. I guess it helps them unwind or something? I dont know I was hornline. After a while it just became like a gentle rain on a cabin roof. Except for that one pit guy who sat *right* behind me who wanted to be battery, so it was gentle rain plus this guy. My last year I switched to horn bus. Would have switched right the heck back if Id marched again. It was nice not having to listen to the radio, though, but I did crack up at our driver constantly cussing at the guy who drove (drives?) the drum bus, now knowing she had been doing that every night for *years*, but I had no idea because she *never* says a thing on the radio. I didnt march Cadets but we were affiliated with them at the time (blech) and I remember Hopkins saying "You can sleep when youre dead" and I was thinking yeah no thanks. Guy was so skeezy.

Joseph Cayse whatup joe!

@@Cbarnes256Sup Holy Bass?!

What boot camp did you go to where you got 8 hours of sleep a night lmao

@@cheath432 I was just thinking the same thing - if we ever got 5 hrs (okay it was 1970 so days were still 35 hrs long, before the change in 1976) it was an event. I don't believe I had 3 eight hour sleep nights in 4 years and 2 mos, although a lot of that was self-inflicted.

Raymond Fallon yeah I recently went through (comparatively) in 2012 and I maybe got on average 4 or 5 hours of sleep a night. Not to include fire guard or the drill sergeants playing their games in the middle of the night

Yeah because drum corps is so much harder than boot camp.

@@Inspadave it's called sarcasm.

@@Inspadave it's called sarcasm.

@@Inspadave it’s call sarcasm.

@@Inspadave It’s called sarcasm.

Was that a George Zingali drill?

@@williamdavanaria4727 No, that happened in 1992 so Marc Sylvester was writing the drill.

I ate about 3 peanut butter sandwiches (three separate slices for lunch AND dinner,) plus other food, there. Loved it. Greg was the cook, right? big tall nice guy. in 97 we um, had an accident, the food truck bumped one of those big yellow poles in a parking lot and it had to stay behind to get fixed. no food truck? Greg and co. rushed out and went to a store and bought like ALL the milk (and other things) they had, and we still had breakfast. food truck arrived a few hours later. Loved Greg. #rip

I marched Genesis in 2017. The bus ride counted to like 90% of our "sleep". By mid July we were all ridiculously exhausted. Towards the end of July, one of our brass caption heads asked us one day why we were so sluggish at music block, had to straight up tell him that Magonigal wasn't letting us sleep. Had pretty good floor time the last few weeks after that.

Do you all know Dillon Ingle, the drum tech

I had Chris M. as a brass tech when I marched. Super intense and passionate. He made some beast of baritone performers.

@@williamraleigh3172 re-audition. Mostly a formality

sounds like that's one thing that sucks about getting used to kicking ass and having high standards, others aren't necessarily on par and a chain is only as strong as it's weakest link.

@@highstimulation2497 pretty much. Went through basic at 24 as a college graduate with a bunch of kids right out of high school. 🙄

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@@keemez That's the one.

I am from the future and you are correct

nick and I am from further in the future

@@joedaddy1424 I am from even further in the future and you are correct

@@EMCproductions Here's a funny thing - I had orders for the band, too. During basic I messed up and did well on a language aptitude test - they red-lined the orders and sent me to language school. Life turns on a dime. I don't regret a day - okay - a couple of days here and there - maybe a month or two - but life happens while you're making plans. I've raised 3 music teachers, a dance teacher, a banker (trumpet), and a nutritionist. Life is good. BTW, service is service - the military needs music, too. Gotta march, dude - out of step it doesn't work. Just don't do right foot first, Cadet style - no bueno for the military.

@@EMCproductions We could tell some stories. Keep the LRLL RLRR going. You've served the world well doing DCI - every service member serves, whether it's with mallets, or an M16 (is it an M4, now? I know you jarheads, including musicians, sleep with them for basic and AIT. I needed the guy next to me to shoot my target for me to qualify. We didn't do assault weapons on Long Island during the 60s - they may now. Hang in there - keep the videos coming.

@@EMCproductions throw it on full auto, and open up and it sounds like 12 college snares playing singles.

I did come up with one parallel - when we would fly RC135s down to the Gulf of Tonkin from Okinawa, the sleep policy was very similar to bus sleep (a concept I never really understood - I always thought BD had it right - give the corps as close to 8 hrs on the floor as possible - you're asking the kids to absorb an awful lot of material in a rehearsal - having a functional brain always seemed like a good idea) but we were alloted 2 hrs in a bunk for a 30 hr mission, plus 3 hrs down and back sitting in a rigid upright chair. Bus sleep to the N'th power. Oh to be 21 years old again! Not a lot of sleep in basic either, between scrubbing latrines at 1am and getting up at 5am.

@@EMCproductions How on Earth did he do that accidentally? (As you know) it's not that easy...

Bass fives can relate.

On the dime😂

7:30 BOUSE OFF THE BODY

Being trans, being able to shower around other people and like everyone else was comfortable around me naked was absolutely fantastic and really helped me feel more comfortable with myself it was amazing

EMCproductions yeah I suppose your right, it’s designed to get people of all backgrounds on the same page but I’d like to see it go back to the older traditions and challenge people the way it used to.

I mean, it's Navy Boot Camp sooooo... Sounds about right :)

Wasn’t the marine corps though, it’s called 13 weeks of misery for a reason. I’ve lived it, and it sucked

Yea but that's navy. Its always ben like that. Marine Corps boot camp has never changed, its still 13 weeks of hell

I did 68750 push ups in 91, I was 15 years old riding a bmx bike thirty two miles across state lines to all days. Then ride back home at 9 o clock. The fat bodies making it through the depot now days wouldn't have a prayer in hell doing that. I'm not bitchin it was a great time.

@@EMCproductions Soprano. The last guy from my era was Buckles. It's strange not knowing anyone in the corps anymore.

@@EMCproductions Oh, I thought he had already retired. Is there anyone left from the Truman Crawford era?

You were a snare in 2008? Did you by chance know a Zack (or Zach?) Bernard? He was our tech at BA my senior year of outdoor and indoor for 2017-2018 and he talked about when he marched Bluecoats 2008 snareline a few times

*PAPI CHULO* Yeah dude I knew zac, that drum line had one hell of a wild one that season. You should ask him about rookie talent night.

did you ever end up doing it?

dci members arent like band kids; you get ridiculed for being a bando. It's a lot like a seasoned marine vs a boot. Certain corps have more of a bando culture though, like crown.

EMCproductions I would watch a video about anything if you talk about it🤷🏻‍♂️

I wouldn't say the food was particularly good but everything tastes amazing when you're hungry. It hit the spot

ah yeah, i guess you're right

Because feeding your members good food would make too much sense...

Greyson Griffey hi greyson

I ate very good at BD in 84....we never had to go the "loser's lunch" or bag of popcorn route.

It’s more of a “No air mattress” rule now. People do it anyways, but they just can’t have the loud electric pump

Yuuuup, I just used a camping mat

Kristopher Ring bluecoats let us have full air mattresses, we just had a rule that it had to be full size or smaller, and you couldn’t pump in the sleeping area past lights out

My DEP was a summer with SCV. left for Basic 3 days after getting back from finals. Basic was much easier than tour was.

@@mikeapplegate3303 Heh....same for me! I was 84...when did you march (and what? I was a soprano)

And the worst part is when it’s your first season ever in a marching band and BAM! You get hit with those babies when you’re super skinny and can barely lift 30 pounds 😂

What's MC count? I only know standard (1-up-2-up-3-up) and Air Force (down is 1, up is 2, down again is 3, up . . .)

@@chrisnguyen1186 oh man... that's cold. Not a USAF guy, huh?

EMCproductions so I’m curious when did you march crown? I am looking to audition for them in the future, and honestly I have no idea what I’m doing lol. Also great video!

@@dcafd1297 He marched Crown in 2010.

EMCproductions thanks for the advice! I guess it helps that I’m so close to all the audition camps and stuff lol