There I said it!  If any of my drum corps friends happen to stumble accross this blog and are offended then that is your own fault.  If you don't know who I am and do drum corps and happen to stumble accross this article and are offended, it's your own fault too.  Now with that said...a rant...

 

For you DCI folks out there this isn't too big of a deal, but for you DCA folks it might be.  First and foremost STFU people!  I have heard enough whining and conspiracy theory stories that everyone is out to get your particualr corps for whatever reason.  For those that feel everyone is out to get you, here is a wake up call...EVERYONE IS!  The name of the game is prolonging the life of your particualr organization so that one day you can be the circuits World Champion and you can go brag to all of your drum corps buddies about how great you are.  That's it.  It really is that simple.  Championships have built corps up and torn them down just as quickly.  It just the name of the game.  You have to deal with it and move on.  The deck is stacked strongly in favor of a certain conglomerate of corps based in the NE.  GET USED TO IT!  It always has been and always will be.  Equally ironic is how that conglomerate of corps will do whatever it can to undermine the growth of the corps within the conglomerate.  If you think what goes on behind closed doors at DCA meeting is awful then you should see what happens between those meetings.  It is about as cut throat of an activity as you'll find out there.  A few of the younger organizations to the activity are just begining to experience that.  Welcome to the party, try to stay afloat, your evaluation period is over, now survive on your own.  If you stay the conglomerate wins...if you go the conglomerate wins.  You've already lost don't you see?  Yes it is sad that is has to come to this, but the politics of the DCA Uncle Tom Network will never change no matter who is in charge.  Look at how it's officer's are appointed...once you are in office you stay until you are dead.  Sorry folks reading this is a harsh and literal reality.  If you are offended, then it is your own fault.  But it is how the Good Old Boys have always and will always remain in charge of the circuit.

 

That's it...it's all I have to say...I honestly hope that someone stumbles upon it from DCA.

 

I may even leak it out...