BRASSO Posted January 25, 2012 Posted January 25, 2012 (edited) This is what we are putting on TV? Yikes. What's the point of marching drill that no one can see? Why would anyone want to see middle-aged dudes marching it? Is anyone going to not-crack a high note? I'd say we'd be better off putting a bunch of kids on stage with drums and dramatic lighting and letting them go for it. IF ONLY this had been tried once before... Huh ? If a DCI unit goes out onto the competition field with a few percussionists alone,is this a DCI Drum Corps ? I fail to see how that small group of drummers in jeans on stage in this video compares favorably to what " The Edge " will potentially be like once production is complete. Edited January 25, 2012 by BRASSO Quote
KeithHall Posted January 25, 2012 Posted January 25, 2012 So Mr. Negative, have you seen the show? Think of all the things that can be done as well as the use of huge screens. Maybe use of ramps, scaffolding, etc. The lighting happens when you get on the live show. Lots of possibilities. Hey, this is an attempt that NO ONE else has done. Instead of being negative, show your support. These people are NOT amateurs and have been around drum corps for a LONG time! I have known Dave Bruni since 1982 and he knows what he's doing, trust me. He comes from a good drum corps lineage. This is what we are putting on TV? Yikes. What's the point of marching drill that no one can see? Why would anyone want to see middle-aged dudes marching it? Is anyone going to not-crack a high note? I'd say we'd be better off putting a bunch of kids on stage with drums and dramatic lighting and letting them go for it. IF ONLY this had been tried once before... 3 Quote
whitedawn Posted January 25, 2012 Posted January 25, 2012 Huh ? If a DCI unit goes out onto the competition field with a few percussionists alone,is this a DCI Drum Corps ? I fail to see how that small group of drummers in jeans on stage in this video compares favorably to what " The Edge " will potentially be like once production is complete. My perception is that marching percussion is distinctive, memorable, and definitely produces WOW moments among even the non-familiar. People think that it is cool. This Edge seriously looks and sounds like dudes playing rehashed tunes on trumpets. There is nothing unique or interesting about the performance that one can't hear from the Letterman band. OK -- there are flags, but... why? 3 Quote
whitedawn Posted January 25, 2012 Posted January 25, 2012 Hey, this is an attempt that NO ONE else has done. Instead of being negative, show your support. These people are NOT amateurs and have been around drum corps for a LONG time! I have known Dave Bruni since 1982 and he knows what he's doing, trust me. He comes from a good drum corps lineage. No, I'm not going to support a decidedly sub-par product. If this is what they are putting out, I don't want to have anything to do with it. The thing that makes drum corps cool for me is the virtuosity and other-worldly quality that the top groups are able to generate that makes it far more than just marching band. This performance was very... meh. The problem is that these guys are "not amateurs." This looks and feels just like a senior corps show, and that's not a good thing in my opinion. 4 Quote
BRASSO Posted January 25, 2012 Posted January 25, 2012 (edited) So Mr. Negative, have you seen the show? Think of all the things that can be done as well as the use of huge screens. Maybe use of ramps, scaffolding, etc. The lighting happens when you get on the live show. Lots of possibilities. Hey, this is an attempt that NO ONE else has done. Instead of being negative, show your support. These people are NOT amateurs and have been around drum corps for a LONG time! I have known Dave Bruni since 1982 and he knows what he's doing, trust me. He comes from a good drum corps lineage. " It is not the critic that counts... not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who actually strives to do the deeds, and who knows best the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; Who, at best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat. " Theodore Roosevelt, Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April,1910 Edited January 25, 2012 by BRASSO 4 Quote
Stradivarius Posted January 25, 2012 Posted January 25, 2012 This is what we are putting on TV? Yikes. What's the point of marching drill that no one can see? Why would anyone want to see middle-aged dudes marching it? Is anyone going to not-crack a high note? I'd say we'd be better off putting a bunch of kids on stage with drums and dramatic lighting and letting them go for it. IF ONLY this had been tried once before... David Bruni and Joey Pero are NOT just putting a bunch of middle age men on stage. I am 15 and there is another girl who is only a couple years older than I am. We also have several guys from DCI who have only just aged out after being leads. They have hand picked everyone in the group, so if they picked someone who is middle aged, they had very good reason to. 3 Quote
BRASSO Posted January 25, 2012 Posted January 25, 2012 (edited) If this is what they are putting out, I don't want to have anything to do with it. Who knows, this just might be one of the best things about this emsemble group too. Edited January 25, 2012 by BRASSO 5 Quote
Cron Posted January 25, 2012 Posted January 25, 2012 Well, it has caused DCP to argue vehemently already. Must mean that the judges will LOVE IT! 3 Quote
glory Posted January 25, 2012 Posted January 25, 2012 Just checking... Everyone does understand, don't they, that most people who see this will experience the Edge through their television sets? That the television in between means most people won't feel the thrill of the live brass and drums? That instead they'll hear the compressed and constrained subset of the super sound we know? Or that the small screens two dimensions won't reveal the depth of drill or guard? Or ... Don't misunderstand me. I wish them the best. I wish that we could break through prejudice to reveal that marching band isn't just marching band. I just doubt that television ever will be the means. Because television filters from drum corps many of its best overtones. HH 2 Quote
whitedawn Posted January 25, 2012 Posted January 25, 2012 Just checking... Everyone does understand, don't they, that most people who see this will experience the Edge through their television sets? That the television in between means most people won't feel the thrill of the live brass and drums? That instead they'll hear the compressed and constrained subset of the super sound we know? Or that the small screens two dimensions won't reveal the depth of drill or guard? Or ... Don't misunderstand me. I wish them the best. I wish that we could break through prejudice to reveal that marching band isn't just marching band. I just doubt that television ever will be the means. Because television filters from drum corps many of its best overtones. HH Bingo, hence my (unpopular) comparison above to the Letterman band. 2 Quote
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