A Fun Friday

KAphy and Recitiative and my pops and me went to the DCI show last night. I can hear some of you now "you took a 2 year old to a drum corps show?!?". Yes I did. And she LOVED it. She was really quiet and well behaved and clapped at all the right times and everything. She also made friends with this Boston parent sitting next to us. All night she kept saying "this bands are really FUN!!!". I think The Cadets show made more sense to her than me...

Any way- we had a great time and I got some cool insight from my old man. Dad and I would go all over the place in the early 90s to see shows- AL, MS, TN, you name it, but he hasn't seen much since then. I asked him "what's different from then to now?" He said (his words) these shows today seem heavier. I asked what he thought about that. He said HE LIKED IT. Please keep in mind my dad is not an intellectual or a musician, so I was shocked that he actually liked it more. Food for thought since he didn't recognize a single song that was played all night.

Here's a brief recap. Phantom still sounds the best. Boston still puts too much shit on the field. Hop and Sully did way to much blo in the 80s- their show was way out their. I actually liked the singing for the most part, I dug the uniforms, hated the characters on the field, and didn't like the pink tables they used for props. I can fill you in more in person.

I leave tomorrow for BOA. Wu Tang! I hope to learn something and also to see some of, um, my and Alan's old friends...

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