Watch This Space

As the drum corps season approaches, I am forming a vision of this blog's future. I am aspiring to bring the drum corps world a website they can come to for full season coverage and analysis. When I look for drum crops content on the web, I see some authoritative drum corps sites from the various organizations and individual corps, the general forums sites that serve the larger community and some personal sites that reflect one person's drum corps experiences. Or, I see sites that deal with marching arts or music and only tangentially or occasionally cover drum corps directly. I do not see much fan level content aimed at keeping things up to date and interesting. As such, this will be modeled to some degree off of the numerous sports blogs I have seen. These sports blogs can represent what is best about outsider journalism. They provide observations and opinions from people who may not have the direct access of participants or institutional journalists, but who do bring the level of passion, dedication, and insight you would expect from a devoted fan. So, I will state the following right out in the open, so no one can later say I didn't or claim that I tried to present this blog as anything other than what it is.

1. I am not a participant in any drum corps, junior, senior, alumni, or otherwise, nor have I ever marched with a drum corps. My perspective is that of a dedicated drum and bugle corps fan and a believer in the marching arts nothing more and nothing less.

2. I am neither a professional nor an aspiring journalist. I am not using this blog as a launching pad for a career. I am only interested in providing the best portal for drum corps information and insight I can. I want to create a website that will provide the drum corps fanbase with the sort of attention that sports fans can receive from countless websites. I want to give you the kind of website I would visit daily if I were a drum corps fan.

3. I do have a rooting interest in the world of DCI. It is for the only drum corps I have had any involvement in whatsoever The Glassmen of Toledo. When I am writing something that shows bias for this corps or shows me pulling for them in any way, know in advance that I am not entirely neutral. That having been said I have nothing for or against any of the other drum and bugle corps in the world. This is not a zero sum game, I can hope for the success of all corps. If your corps is doing well, I am glad for it. If your corps is doing poorly, I am sympathetic for it. I want to see the marching arts be as successful as they possibly can be and am mostly interested in seeing good shows and a good experience for the people involved.

4. I am not on expert on much so I will do my best to bring in others who know more than me about the ins and outs of a drum corps or about life on the road to share that information with you. I am never hiding behind anyone else or trying to duck out of doing something myself if I include any guest blogging. These people will be here to provide you with the best drum corps content you can find on the web.

5. If anyone is worried about this blog being as bloated and sluggish as my other blogs let me assure you I will try to be as concise and informative in my posts as possible.

6. If you are reading this I appreciate the time and attention you are showing. I know there are plenty of other things you could be spending your time on so I thank you for choosing me. I never want to forget that the only purpose this site has is to please the drum corps fans who visit it.