Keep DCI Unique Petition: Signature List Feed http://www.gopetition.com/signatures/keep-dci-unique.html Online petition signatures en-us Sun, 19 Apr 2026 12:49 UTC GoPetition RSS Feed Generator Copyright 2026 GoPetition Mr Stephen Hornr [Signature #5380] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23859839?utm_medium=rss Wed, 26 Aug 2020 09:58:08 UTC 23859839 Mr David O'Neill [Signature #5379] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/20430131?utm_medium=rss I'm old...Argonne Rebels 58-64, are you really intending to wait until 'old school' is 'new school', until you reawaken the pride that came with the distinction of being unique? Please don't!!!

]]> Mon, 26 Sep 2016 08:46:26 UTC 20430131 gary heiligman [Signature #5378] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/20256021?utm_medium=rss At some point when a "brand" loses its unique value proposition, it loses period.

]]> Sun, 28 Aug 2016 07:48:45 UTC 20256021 Mrs Barbara Brush [Signature #5377] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/18918671?utm_medium=rss Why in the world change something that is so beautiful as it is. My son and his friends all marched and it was a memory we will cherish as a family forever.

]]> Tue, 26 May 2015 03:55:52 UTC 18918671 Tim Sousa [Signature #5376] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/18915526?utm_medium=rss Tue, 26 May 2015 01:13:10 UTC 18915526 Mr Michael Brady [Signature #5375] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/18714143?utm_medium=rss Keep it old school

]]> Sun, 29 Mar 2015 06:56:38 UTC 18714143 Mr James Davis [Signature #5374] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/18192530?utm_medium=rss New Brass rule should not be allowed!!!!!!!!!!! The new brass rule is a bad rule..

]]> Sat, 22 Nov 2014 11:17:02 UTC 18192530 Mr Bruce Cosby [Signature #5373] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/18142110?utm_medium=rss Sat, 15 Nov 2014 11:01:50 UTC 18142110 Ryan Kelly [Signature #5372] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/18110101?utm_medium=rss Whats next saxophones?

]]> Wed, 5 Nov 2014 11:06:30 UTC 18110101 Anne Vimtrup [Signature #5371] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17861025?utm_medium=rss Tue, 16 Sep 2014 10:35:26 UTC 17861025 Sarah Wettemann [Signature #5370] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17840651?utm_medium=rss Sat, 13 Sep 2014 11:48:31 UTC 17840651 Ms Tiffany J. L. Alfonso [Signature #5369] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17839560?utm_medium=rss I watched Blast! on PBS years ago (look it up), and DCI is trying to make all their member corps look like Blast! - include even instruments that change pitches by slides (i. e., TROMBONES)! It's DRUM AND BUGLE CORPS, not DRUM AND BRASS CORPS! Excuse me while I reflect on childhood memories upon hear hearing the CT Hurricanes at a park within walking distance of my former home in Clifton, NJ. (Oh, the good old days!)

]]> Fri, 12 Sep 2014 11:26:03 UTC 17839560 Beth Swan [Signature #5368] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17813194?utm_medium=rss Thu, 4 Sep 2014 06:07:28 UTC 17813194 Mr Randy Kitano [Signature #5367] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17775799?utm_medium=rss Wed, 20 Aug 2014 10:17:46 UTC 17775799 Mr Stephen M. McKinley [Signature #5366] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17644164?utm_medium=rss I am very concerned on the direction DCI is going. As an alum and fan of the Drum & Bugle Corps activity a lot of the new rule changes is taking away from the activity. No amplification,narration,and non traditional instruments...has to stop please!

]]> Mon, 21 Jul 2014 07:38:12 UTC 17644164 Anonymous [Signature #5365] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17638571?utm_medium=rss Sat, 19 Jul 2014 03:08:50 UTC 17638571 Gene Hedden [Signature #5364] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17636698?utm_medium=rss Keep Drum & Bugle Corps unique in the marching musical activity. Don't destroy it. Get rid of the band instruments.

]]> Sat, 19 Jul 2014 03:39:05 UTC 17636698 Ms. Joan Fitzsimons Sullivan [Signature #5363] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17635141?utm_medium=rss Fri, 18 Jul 2014 04:02:10 UTC 17635141 Lynn Hawkind [Signature #5362] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17625531?utm_medium=rss Wed, 16 Jul 2014 12:03:45 UTC 17625531 Ryan Wilkerson [Signature #5361] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17624151?utm_medium=rss Wed, 16 Jul 2014 04:11:45 UTC 17624151 Ms Romaine Daub [Signature #5360] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17581688?utm_medium=rss Sun, 6 Jul 2014 05:28:42 UTC 17581688 Mr. Donald Gatwood [Signature #5359] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17513806?utm_medium=rss Thu, 19 Jun 2014 02:20:40 UTC 17513806 Ms Helena Almaguer [Signature #5358] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17498305?utm_medium=rss The B flat instruments and putting microphones on everything was MORE than enough! keep DCI unique. it is drum corps, not brass band...

]]> Mon, 16 Jun 2014 08:37:50 UTC 17498305 Anonymous [Signature #5357] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17491033?utm_medium=rss Keep DCI unique

]]> Mon, 16 Jun 2014 03:15:37 UTC 17491033 Anonymous [Signature #5356] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17491027?utm_medium=rss Keep DCI unique

]]> Mon, 16 Jun 2014 03:14:40 UTC 17491027 Mr Daniel Barkley [Signature #5355] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17485070?utm_medium=rss Drum Corps over the years has changed and become better. This is too much change - no longer Drum Corps. I, for one, (or many) would abandon Drum Corps if they became "Bands" (shutter!)

]]> Sat, 14 Jun 2014 04:08:52 UTC 17485070 Jeffrey Town [Signature #5354] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17436265?utm_medium=rss Wed, 4 Jun 2014 10:14:37 UTC 17436265 Anonymous [Signature #5353] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17416798?utm_medium=rss Sun, 1 Jun 2014 06:52:44 UTC 17416798 Scott Jacobus [Signature #5352] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17410712?utm_medium=rss World Class Div.
Open Class Div.
Band Div.
If the Cadets, Blue Devils or whoever want to switch from world class drum corps to abandon division that's wonderful, but don't completely do away with drum and BUGLE corps

]]> Sat, 31 May 2014 01:55:13 UTC 17410712 Donna Keegan [Signature #5351] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17401160?utm_medium=rss Electronics...trumpets...now sousaphones. Didn't realize DCI could get further from its origins. You might as well allow clarinets and flutes and call this MBI (Marching Band International). Gotta say I haven't seen a show in a couple of years -- no desire to see this morphing.

]]> Thu, 29 May 2014 08:29:22 UTC 17401160 MR James Davis [Signature #5350] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17394572?utm_medium=rss Leave Drum Corp alone do not allow the new brass section. What are you trying to do turn Drum corps into High School Marching bands, Come on Really. What a stupid idea. That's one of the big things that set us a part.

Leave the brass sections for the high schools and colleges. Let the brass musicians learn a new instrument if they want to march in Drum Corps. Expand their horizons!!!!

]]> Wed, 28 May 2014 09:55:08 UTC 17394572 Alan Cecce [Signature #5349] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17392117?utm_medium=rss Wed, 28 May 2014 02:27:02 UTC 17392117 Mr. Richard Palmer [Signature #5348] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17386886?utm_medium=rss No Band

]]> Tue, 27 May 2014 10:45:58 UTC 17386886 Mr Rhys Henson [Signature #5347] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17376347?utm_medium=rss No trombones, no "standard" French horn, no sousaphones. Just Marching "style" brass.
And get rid of the pianos, synthesizers & guitars. And NO woodwinds EVER.
DRUM CORPS is NOT marching band and should NEVER BE!!!

]]> Mon, 26 May 2014 03:29:11 UTC 17376347 Andrew Stirratt [Signature #5346] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17259703?utm_medium=rss Thu, 8 May 2014 11:41:55 UTC 17259703 paula green [Signature #5345] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17250016?utm_medium=rss Mon, 5 May 2014 03:19:21 UTC 17250016 Anonymous [Signature #5344] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17241669?utm_medium=rss Thu, 1 May 2014 11:19:56 UTC 17241669 mr jeff wernz (Worm) [Signature #5343] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17188813?utm_medium=rss There was always majic in being in a Drum and BUGLE corps, not a summer band!!

]]> Thu, 17 Apr 2014 06:09:43 UTC 17188813 Tanya Butterfield [Signature #5342] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17180472?utm_medium=rss Mon, 14 Apr 2014 11:19:29 UTC 17180472 Patrick McNeal [Signature #5341] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17156436?utm_medium=rss Wed, 9 Apr 2014 06:25:15 UTC 17156436 Ma Manon Bruneau [Signature #5340] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17153668?utm_medium=rss Tue, 8 Apr 2014 04:00:19 UTC 17153668 Barry Bilicki [Signature #5339] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17135847?utm_medium=rss You have changed it enough since the 70/80s

]]> Thu, 3 Apr 2014 11:22:34 UTC 17135847 mr jeffrey wernz [Signature #5338] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17135302?utm_medium=rss drumcotps IS NOT a damn band!!!

]]> Thu, 3 Apr 2014 08:05:38 UTC 17135302 Mr. Stephen Filippelli [Signature #5337] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17133854?utm_medium=rss You have got to be kidding me. . .!

]]> Wed, 2 Apr 2014 05:26:52 UTC 17133854 DENISE MACHAMER [Signature #5336] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17130908?utm_medium=rss Tue, 1 Apr 2014 03:50:40 UTC 17130908 Rogelio Cardenas Jr. [Signature #5335] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17127634?utm_medium=rss DCI, is something unique to what we know as bugles. This new rule will likely mess up what we have come to know as. Please keep the tradition of only bugles.

]]> Mon, 31 Mar 2014 12:43:51 UTC 17127634 Anonymous [Signature #5334] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17123353?utm_medium=rss Sun, 30 Mar 2014 01:23:54 UTC 17123353 Allison Bennett [Signature #5333] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17121347?utm_medium=rss Sat, 29 Mar 2014 10:50:21 UTC 17121347 Mr Anonymous [Signature #5332] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17110303?utm_medium=rss Keep DCI ...DCI!

]]> Thu, 27 Mar 2014 04:38:41 UTC 17110303 Anonymous [Signature #5331] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17095918?utm_medium=rss Tue, 25 Mar 2014 08:05:25 UTC 17095918 Frank Lynn [Signature #5330] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17088037?utm_medium=rss How will this differ from college marching bands? Nah, doesn't work for me.

]]> Mon, 24 Mar 2014 09:05:00 UTC 17088037 mr kevin Callanan [Signature #5329] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17071663?utm_medium=rss Fri, 21 Mar 2014 10:39:49 UTC 17071663 Anonymous [Signature #5328] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17055340?utm_medium=rss Wed, 19 Mar 2014 10:02:42 UTC 17055340 M. d. [Signature #5327] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17051744?utm_medium=rss Wed, 19 Mar 2014 01:27:32 UTC 17051744 cayetano Ramirez [Signature #5326] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17015151?utm_medium=rss Sun, 16 Mar 2014 05:17:07 UTC 17015151 Lauren Taylor [Signature #5325] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17012208?utm_medium=rss Sun, 16 Mar 2014 02:22:30 UTC 17012208 Anonymous [Signature #5324] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/16991504?utm_medium=rss Thu, 13 Mar 2014 10:29:58 UTC 16991504 Mr Randall Schiera [Signature #5323] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/16990901?utm_medium=rss As a past member, I really don't like the changes. Every major change seems to take things closer to a marching band.

]]> Thu, 13 Mar 2014 09:21:48 UTC 16990901 Mr. Peter C. McCusker [Signature #5322] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/16979106?utm_medium=rss Wed, 12 Mar 2014 11:23:53 UTC 16979106 Mr Phil Grierson [Signature #5321] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/16976441?utm_medium=rss Some changes are always needed but this is way too much. Let's at least keep this looking drum & bugle corps, not band. PLEASE!

]]> Tue, 11 Mar 2014 02:27:00 UTC 16976441 Anonymous [Signature #5320] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/16974274?utm_medium=rss Keep it the way it is... I love it! so simple but sounds outstanding

]]> Mon, 10 Mar 2014 09:04:29 UTC 16974274 Anonymous [Signature #5319] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/16968278?utm_medium=rss Sun, 9 Mar 2014 10:04:22 UTC 16968278 Linda ODonnell [Signature #5318] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/16966528?utm_medium=rss We need to move forward as a Drum Corp. not a band. Please keep Drum Corp unique.

]]> Sat, 8 Mar 2014 10:34:49 UTC 16966528 Mrs. Anonymous [Signature #5317] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/16966351?utm_medium=rss Sat, 8 Mar 2014 09:33:46 UTC 16966351 Kristi Brells [Signature #5316] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/16965073?utm_medium=rss Sat, 8 Mar 2014 03:11:13 UTC 16965073 Mr. David Buehler [Signature #5315] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/16964778?utm_medium=rss Drum and BUGLE Corps! Let's keep it that way! Unique and original!

]]> Sat, 8 Mar 2014 01:46:24 UTC 16964778 Vicki Brockert [Signature #5314] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/16964445?utm_medium=rss Sat, 8 Mar 2014 12:16:22 UTC 16964445 Mr Robert J. Barry [Signature #5313] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/16964015?utm_medium=rss Hopkins is ruining our beloved activity! Keep bands out of drum and bugle corps!

]]> Sat, 8 Mar 2014 10:04:02 UTC 16964015 Tony Vergiels [Signature #5312] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/16961641?utm_medium=rss I believe that some changes are necessary, but this one is NOT the way I hoped DCI to go. This is very drastic and unneeded.

]]> Fri, 7 Mar 2014 09:01:07 UTC 16961641 Ted Baur [Signature #5311] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/16960093?utm_medium=rss Some lines should not be crossed. Wasn't eliminating bugles from drum & bugle corps and amplification enough?

]]> Fri, 7 Mar 2014 04:41:45 UTC 16960093 Mr Anonymous [Signature #5310] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/16957563?utm_medium=rss If you change the name, that would satisfy me. DCI represents drum AND BUGLE corps. Or, have a band division and a bugle corps division. Additionally, change the way the organization runs. You are losing corps. It shouldn't cost 3000-5000 to join a corps. Structure local and regional shows, more start up corps. CELEBRATE YOUR DIFFERENCE and UNIQUENESS by playing on G bugles. IT'S AN ADDITION TO, NOT a REPLACEMENT OF marching band. It's a supplement, not a counterfeit copy of. How DCI which was a leader decided to follow the follower (BOA) - where in life does that happen. Only when the blind follow the blind. Like the seeing eye dog following his blind owner. At some point, you're going to have to take a look in the mirror and face your ego and realize that you're screwing up - and if you don't - when it is realized the board is going to start eliminating those who were responsible as a fall guy - and that will be you DCI leadership. Ego check yourselves and start listening and FOLLOWING the consensus of the consumer.

]]> Fri, 7 Mar 2014 09:02:55 UTC 16957563 Nick Yaworski [Signature #5309] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/16952186?utm_medium=rss Thu, 6 Mar 2014 07:14:38 UTC 16952186 Tim Morrison [Signature #5308] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/16951339?utm_medium=rss Stop ruining this once wonderful activity

]]> Thu, 6 Mar 2014 05:28:28 UTC 16951339 Amber Hancock [Signature #5307] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/16949943?utm_medium=rss Thu, 6 Mar 2014 03:15:05 UTC 16949943 Mr Jeff Clements [Signature #5306] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/16949770?utm_medium=rss Keep the two seperate. Drum Corps was always on a different level than marching bands. Can only imagine someone is making money off of this idiotic change

]]> Thu, 6 Mar 2014 02:55:05 UTC 16949770 Mr Chris Fletcher [Signature #5305] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/16949504?utm_medium=rss Drum corps is evolving into summer band. Is this really the direction we want to go?

]]> Thu, 6 Mar 2014 02:15:27 UTC 16949504 Mr Rick Allen [Signature #5304] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/16948197?utm_medium=rss The Drum and Bugle Corps activity needs to " man up" and say " enough is enough"
Trombones sousaphones et all are NOT Drum Corps instrumentation as we know it. Keep the current instruments as the are, they have worked fine so far.What would adding the above instruments really prove? There are already FH bugles why use a sousaphone when you have contras? There are many mid voice bugles that could be used alto mello flugel why add a trombone. Is it pressure from the instrument company's ? Who knows. But please keep the Drum and Bugle Corps activity separate from BAND!

There are outlets for Marching Bands to compete and perform. Leave the Drum Corps idiom to the Drum Corps people !

]]> Thu, 6 Mar 2014 10:24:18 UTC 16948197 Julie Dumulong [Signature #5303] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/16947946?utm_medium=rss Thu, 6 Mar 2014 09:24:29 UTC 16947946 Mr. Brien Caldwell [Signature #5302] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/16947813?utm_medium=rss If this rule is put into play? My affiliation, of many years, will cease. I pay to see Drum Corps in the summer. I go to see Marching Bands in the Fall. DCI, IMHO, is set out to destroy this art form and I will not contribute to that end. Get the Music snobs out and bring in some real Drum Corp People.

]]> Thu, 6 Mar 2014 08:57:32 UTC 16947813 Ms Cheryle Fitts [Signature #5301] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/16946302?utm_medium=rss Go back old school you might enjoy the large crowds you once did.
The music that is out there now is so far removed from what the core of what Drum Corps was about.
Thanks for listening, stop fixing what was not broken ``````````````

]]> Thu, 6 Mar 2014 05:21:30 UTC 16946302 Mark Young [Signature #5300] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/16944604?utm_medium=rss Thu, 6 Mar 2014 12:33:53 UTC 16944604 Gail Mixdorf hes [Signature #5299] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/16944509?utm_medium=rss Thu, 6 Mar 2014 12:13:57 UTC 16944509 Ms. Beth Freels [Signature #5298] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/16944054?utm_medium=rss DCI is unique, leave it alone. That is why all musicians love this, as well as spectators.

]]> Wed, 5 Mar 2014 10:43:48 UTC 16944054 Anonymous [Signature #5297] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/16943866?utm_medium=rss Drum Corp not Band Corp !! The changes you have made in the past are bad enough !! Time to stop or change the name of the competitions to Band !! Boo !! I personally marched for 8 years and I love DRUM CORP !!

]]> Wed, 5 Mar 2014 10:08:57 UTC 16943866 Anonymous [Signature #5296] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/16943590?utm_medium=rss Wed, 5 Mar 2014 09:13:38 UTC 16943590 Dean Dukes [Signature #5295] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/16943525?utm_medium=rss Wed, 5 Mar 2014 09:00:10 UTC 16943525 Ms Véronique Banaszkiewicz [Signature #5294] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/16943405?utm_medium=rss Wed, 5 Mar 2014 08:39:04 UTC 16943405 Dan Sullivan [Signature #5293] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/16943371?utm_medium=rss don't put the last nail in the coffin

]]> Wed, 5 Mar 2014 08:30:33 UTC 16943371 Ms Wendy Slabodnick [Signature #5292] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/16943069?utm_medium=rss Wed, 5 Mar 2014 07:27:40 UTC 16943069 Don Lang [Signature #5291] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/16942837?utm_medium=rss Keep it bugles!

]]> Wed, 5 Mar 2014 06:42:03 UTC 16942837 Walter Lore [Signature #5290] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/16942462?utm_medium=rss Wed, 5 Mar 2014 05:46:19 UTC 16942462 Mr Gregory Connor [Signature #5289] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/16942280?utm_medium=rss Drum Corp and Marching Band needs to be separate. The tradition is BUGLE. Very Sad.

]]> Wed, 5 Mar 2014 05:22:39 UTC 16942280 Mr Santy Manzano [Signature #5288] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/16942011?utm_medium=rss Wed, 5 Mar 2014 04:52:27 UTC 16942011 william grinham [Signature #5287] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/16941986?utm_medium=rss Wed, 5 Mar 2014 04:50:21 UTC 16941986 Jon Kegerise [Signature #5286] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/16941918?utm_medium=rss PLEASE STOP trying to turn the drum corps activity into marching band! You have already tainted the activity with the change to concert Bflat horns (to match marching bands) and the addition of amplification. Now you're allowing all brass instrumentation! DCI is NOT marching band.....it IS DRM CORPS!! Return the drum corps activity to what WE, the fans, want & enjoy! If DCI continues down this path, this will be the last year I will attend any shows or support DCI in any capacity. I'd stop this year but unfortunately I've already purchased tickets to regional shows. I know I'm not alone in this decision.

]]> Wed, 5 Mar 2014 04:43:09 UTC 16941918 Mr Donald (Jay) Matott [Signature #5285] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/16941637?utm_medium=rss Wed, 5 Mar 2014 04:14:59 UTC 16941637 Mr THOMAS FRANK [Signature #5284] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/16940290?utm_medium=rss Please keep the Drum Corp Tradition

]]> Wed, 5 Mar 2014 02:03:31 UTC 16940290 Bob Tamilio [Signature #5283] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/16940189?utm_medium=rss Let the bands start their own DCI.......keep the drum corp tradition.

]]> Wed, 5 Mar 2014 01:42:34 UTC 16940189 Mr Samuel McGee III [Signature #5282] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/16939965?utm_medium=rss At first when the head of Garfield Cadets made so many non-drum corps changes too many people were led by the pied piper. Now, drum corps has come to this! The amplification, the voice-overs, the switching to B-flat instruments, etc. were moves in the wrong direction. I marched drum corps with G bugles and know the feel of pushing the stands back. You never saw drum corps trying to push up on band competitions. Let band compete in their own categories; not in drum corps. If there is someone who can't arrange music for a G bugle than that's too bad. They weren't made for drum corps that's all. Let's get back to the fundamentals of drum corps and how/why it was formed. A true musician will play more than one instrument and will have the ability to play treble and bass clef charts. DCI needs to stop now with adding band instruments!

]]> Wed, 5 Mar 2014 12:49:59 UTC 16939965 Mr. Paul Gargan [Signature #5281] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/16939913?utm_medium=rss I have nothing against Marching Bands I think they are Great. However Drum Corp is Drum Corp always was and should always BE DRUM CORP!!!! Please do not DESTROY what many of us over the years have GROWN TO LOVE EVERY SUMMER!!!! I started marching DRUM CORP in 1957 and still MARCH to this day in the CRUSADERS SENIOR CORP , BOSTON , MA. I support the ACTIVITY because I LOVE THE ACTIVITY!!!! STOP DESTROYING IT!!!! I GUARANTEE HIGH SCHOOL AND COLLEGE BRASS PLAYERS LOVE THIS AS AN ALTERNATIVE EDUCATION IN MUSIC FOR THE SUMMER!!!!!!!! Leave as it is!!!! DRUM CORP AT IT'S BEST!!!! This argument is getting old fast with a certain group of people who want to DESTROY DRUM CORP!!!! IF THE PEOPLE IN DCI DO NOT LIKE DRUM CORP than move out and on and start a separate touring Band Circuit!!!!

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