Gafoo’s Blog

It’s been a weird emotional ride at DCA championships this year. This whole season, I have been so optimistic that it’s gonna be a great year for the percussion section. And, based on the scores, it actually has been. We are getting our best scores ever in the corps short history. But for some reason, when we landed in New York, my optimistic attitude has been replaced with cynicism and anger and I have been riding the drum line (particularly the snare line) hard. We would hold rehearsal 2-3 hours longer than the rest of the corps in the hot sun in front of the hotel until I was satisfied with what we were doing. And at the end of these rehearsal I let them know that I was still not satisfied. It’s not up to the standard of what a drum corps should be.
After having a couple of drinks with my bass tech friday night, I finally let it go. He gave me some very sagely advice: have fun and stop worrying. Just enjoy it. Be selfish and do it all for you.
So I took his advice. Actually, I went a little overboard. I not only dropped the cynicism, but also the optimism, and the happiness and everything. Today at rehearsal I felt nothing at all and was just going through the motions…In all honesty, today was the day all the emotion was completely gone, I was at the end of my rope with these guys and even myself and I just didn’t want anymore…I was done….

to be continued…