Hey, check out this adorable picture of a cat in a Bass Drum---^
Hello children + James
SO, obviously awesome job tonight. It would have been really easy, what with changes and last night's horrendous performance, to freak out and have a bad rep, but even in the lot, you could feel the intensity, focus and hype from everybody, and that inevitable nervousness (not from us, of course, but from those drumline's that watched us.) It was pretty freakin ridiculous. But, we're not a "only play clean in the lot because we have stands" drumline and pit . Way to carry the intensity all the way to the last down beat of the closer. Spot on.
That being said, I really wouldn't have cared if we had gotten the first place or fourth place spot tonight. Really, I know DR harps on it a lot, but who cares if a judge thinks we play to loud, or aggressive, or our snares are too wet or dry, or thinks that five snares is too much for a high school drumline, and takes off ten points on principle? (Okay, that last one was pushing it, but you get the idea). We all, as far I could tell, came out of that show feeling not only like complete bada**es, but also just proud of such a superior product.
I think at Wakefield, we were all still caught up in winning, starting the season out right, that we were playing to WIN, and not to perform. Okay, obviously we want to win, but tonight was a PERFORMANCE. We went out and laid down a ridiculous show, ridiculously well, and that's all we should ever strive to do.
PC Dline - 2 firsts, 0 seconds, 0 thirds.
Love,
Ewic
xoxoxo
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