Let’s give it up for the band kids.

I saw a bunch of them over the weekend that blew people’s faces off (figuratively, of course). My family and I, along with more than 14,000 other band family members, crowded onto the home side of the Alamodome for the Drum Corps International (DCI) Southwestern Championships, the first regional competition of the top marching bands in the nation. They’re all on their way to the big national contest, which will culminate the summer season at Lucas Oil Sta...