Field Pass: Your complete preview of 'The Countdown'
By Dan Potter | fieldpass@dci.org
Monday, May 11, 2009 - 8:06 AM
2008 Phantom Regiment drum major Will Pitts.
"The Countdown" will light up movie screens at more than 400 U.S. theaters this Wednesday, May 13. The 2009 edition of Drum Corps International's annual spring cinema event will showcase six favorite DCI corps performances from the past six seasons.
While drum corps fans could easily watch those same shows on DVD from home, they will come in droves to their neighborhood megaplexes on Wednesday to experience performances in high def and cinema-quality surround sound, and to see the "extras" – the cinema-only features that will preview what some select corps are fielding this summer.
In today's Field Pass, Dan Potter "previews the previews" with former Phantom Regiment drum major Will Pitts, who has a starring role as "The Countdown's" roving reporter.
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Dan Potter has been hooked on drum corps and competitive marching band for 30 years. He is the announcer for many Drum Corps International and marching band shows nationwide and is the host of DCI's "Field Pass" podcast which covers the best in marching music.
Drum major of the Geneseo Knights Drum and Bugle Corps from 1979-1981, Potter has experience on the staff of the Glassmen and has taught or consulted high school marching bands in Indiana and Texas.
At home in Tulsa, Okla., Potter is news director and assistant program director for AM 740 and FM 102.3 NewsTalk KRMG. His journalism has been honored by several broadcast organizations including the 2000 Edward R. Murrow award from the Radio-Television News Directors Association for best radio newscast in the U.S. and, in 2004, Dan was part of a team of radio reporters awarded broadcast journalism’s equivalent to the Pulitzer Prize, the Dupont-Columbia Silver Baton.
