Welcome back to the Meet The Bus Podcast!

This week, we decided to call a quick audible and change up the regularly scheduled program to talk about some new partnerships that have been created recently with DCI. There has been a lot of negative news for Drum Corps International in the last couple years whether it's COVID or multiple groups having to fold whether it's for a season or some have had to completely fold up, so I thought it would be a good opportunity to talk about the exciting future of this activity! I brought my good friend and first seat partner in DCI, Riley Fitzpatrick back on for this episode (you can also find him in episode 3 and 7 of this podcast for more stories and getting to know the boy) and we had a really fun time just taking a look at what drum corps is doing to keep the future bright.

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Welcome back to the Meet The Bus Podcast!

In this weeks episode, we continue introducing the members who we will be following for the 2024 DCI season in our summer series! This episode, we had Alberto Paulino on who's been a Mellophone player with Pacific Crest since 2022 and will be with them again this summer! We got to talk about so many awesome things within this activity that have happened the last two seasons along with all of the incredible things that PC has also accomplished in '22 and '23. Alberto also tells a DOPE story about the time he made a beat while he had Covid during the '22 season that ended up turning into a really sweet song from an artist who opened up for GZA in LA during the '23 season! I've really enjoyed getting to hear from the current members of the activity the last couple weeks because it's just so cool to hear that prospective of someone who's in the mix!!

Stay tuned! Summer Series is coming soon and if you've read this far...comment a cool name for the summer series down below because right now I think I want to call it "The Free Day Report"

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Medrano's track Champion$ prod. by ALBERTO PAULINO!!!: https://open.spotify.com/track/0UtKOWUeYpKF3EiR7S3p3C?si=dc5015dd1f7844fe

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- 0:00- Intro
- 1:20- Lets Get To Know Alberto
- 7:30- Rookie Year @ PC 2022
- 20:00- Pacific Crest 2022 Props
- 34:38- How Alberto Produced for Medrano Who Opened Up For GZA of Wu-Tang
- 49:40- PC’s Breakout Year in 2023
- 1:00:00- Placing 12th @ San Antonio
- 1:07:20- What Made PC23 Special
- 1:12:30- Putting The Current Members on Game for Tour
- 1:20:35- Reflection

Welcome back to the Meet The Bus Podcast!

This week, we are starting to introduce the people who will be apart of the performer summer series for this upcoming 2024 DCI Season. In this episode, I got the chance to meet and talk with Clark Fitzgerald who's been a trumpet player for the Spirit of Atlanta since 2020. This was the first episode where we had a member on who has not marched pre-covid years, so it was really interesting to see the perspective of someone who's only been apart of this new era of DCI. Clark has such an interesting story from not getting to do his first summer due to covid, his first season was the shortened 2021 season, can't do 2022 due to SOA folding and then finally gets to do a full season in 2023, but now he's the section leader and the only vet IN HIS SECTION. We got to get into some great conversation talking about ast summer, and it being such a special one for SOA.

Stay Tuned! Summer Series is coming soon and if you've read this far...comment a cool name for the summer series down below because right now I think I want to call it "The Free Day Report"

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I really hope you guys enjoy this episode! If you do, don't forget to like this episode, subscribe, comment down below what you enjoyed about the episode and follow the podcast on Instagram @meetthebus. #dci #drumcorps #band #marchingband

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- 0:00- intro
- 1:20- Let’s Get To Know Clark
- 5:58- First Year…COVID year
- 9:45- The REAL First Year in 2021
- 21:41- No SOA in 2022
- 28:15- Spirit Comes Back in 2023
- 53:10- Fun Questions + Looking Forward to 2024