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  1. My favorite video of today's Dome implosion was from The Weather Channel...
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  2. No, that's too simple, I think. The system is broken. I think everyone participating in this discussion is willing to pay rights holders a reasonable fee for complete drum corps recordings but the system won't let us do that. Basically #6 on Stu's list is wrong. I buy the DVDs and CDs, I use to pay for a Fan Network subscription, I subscribe to Flo.
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  3. Last summer, we saw the "Mad Max" uniforms up close when we walked past some Scouts in the park in Allentown. That changed my mind about those unis, which I first thought were... well... weird. LOL. But up close... they looked awesome. The attention to detail was really cool. Looking forward to what the Scouts put on the field in '18!!!
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  4. I'm sure Crown is continuing to attract great talent, even with some of their most significant former staff members now in Boston. Right now, IMO it's all coming down to what their show design will be. I think anything better than the disaster that was 2017 will put them into discussion for the Top 2, or at the very least keep them in the Top 3 or 4.
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  5. A drill move that really tied in with the shows theme.
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  6. The other side of that is that if the synch licensing wasn't such an issue, there wouldn't be a NEED for piracy...respect for the end consumer is just as important as respect for the rights holders
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  7. First show I ever saw in mid-September 1963 was at Livingston, NJ, sponsored by the Livingston Hilltoppers junior corps. I was 10, and in the feeder corps. I was a judge runner, and I sat on the sldeline during the show to go out and pick up my assigned judges's sheet after each corps. The Boonton show noted above was sponsored by the Harmony senior corps, a pretty good parade corps that wore all black Cadet-style unis. In a foreshadowing kind of way, they used band brass instruments, not corps brass.they also had a glock section. A log of corps looked like swiss cheese due to missing members by that time of year. There was also the Wildwood NJ American Legion States that happened in early September. Always loved that show, as that is when the ocean was at its warmest.
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  8. Nah, the building went down due to the vacuum caused by taking the big breath before playing. Just saying!
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  9. Then wouldn't the Dome have blown outwards? Just sayin'.
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  10. In the 50's, 60's ( before DCI ) the acknowledged Drum Corps National Championships were the VFW and American Legion National Championships. Corps, both Junior and Senior, would compete in these National Championships where and when these Veteran Groups decided to hold their National Convention. So if it was Miami.. in October... well then, thats where and when the Corps would go. But of course, not all the top Corps in any given year could go. When the Championships were, in a few years, on the West Coast, most of the East ( and midwest ) Corps opted not to go as it was too expensive for them to make the trip out there for just Prelims, Finals. Same with many of the west coast Corps too when the Nationals that season would be held back east.
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  11. The rumor that an 80 member brass line equipped with the " G" Bugles were secretly assembled and then utilized to assist in the demolition implosion this morning is NOT accurate, I've been told.
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  12. "Drum Corps International adheres to copyright law and respects the intellectual property rights of artists whose works are performed by its member organizations." Respect: a word that is trashed by those of you who subscribe to piracy, theft, and other unlawful behavior concerning Copyighted material for your own personal gratification.
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  13. http://www.dci.org/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=965782&SPID=166025&DB_LANG=C&DB_OEM_ID=33500&ATCLID=211685375
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  14. Back in the day, drum corps competitive season used to run until Labor Day and sometimes after. (For instance EMass and Boston CYO circuits' championships were after school started the first week of September and the Cardinal of Boston used to write excuse notes to get mms back from colleges, novitiates, and service academies; Boonton "Nationals" in NJ were the first weekend after Labor Day, etc.) Even VFW and Am Leg. Nationals were later in August. In 1972 when DCI started, that was the calendar that DCI had to consider in deciding first Whitewater Championships. For a long time, DCIs were always the third weekend in August. Then along came ESPN and everything changed. ESPN offered the NCAA TV more football weekends if the seasons started earlier which meant college band camps started earlier. We have been stuck with that ever since. Midwestern, Southern and Texan football idolaters soon followed. Most corps then were from urban area (excepting the Troopers) and they didn't have to consider Midwestern and Southern harvest cycles. As the drum corps map broadened, heat, humidity, and planting/harvest cycles came into play as their schools defined summer vacations differently from how the West Coast, Pacific Northwest,, and Northeast did the Memorial Day to Labor Day cycle and do so even now. The advent of computer technology, the popularization of air conditioning, and the expansion of drum corps touring into Florida, Texas, Sunbelt, and Gulf Coast States moved the championships from the third to the second weekend of August, even earlier if you consider the miscalculation of Denver's stadium and the one time Tour of Champions on the West Coast in 2004. Even today the drum corps championships in Europe are always in September, but before Michaelmas when schools open. Odd educational experiments such as Indiana's starting school July 31st have done away with summer vacations as most have known them. The way you experienced life is not always the way it has been in DCI.
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  15. The video at the beginning of the article shows two of the alumni corps At one of the first times the corps marched in the parade, while waiting for the parade to start, Sac was asked by the home owners to take shelter in their home/front porch because of some lousy weather. Each year after that, whenever Sac attended, they would play for the family.
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  16. Given the photos, vids, and gossip of the various corps camps this weekend, was there any band kid in America and others who didn't audition for drum corps this weekend?
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  17. What the F does this have to do with Cadets 2018? Some of your guys' obsession with Hop is pitiful. Something happened THIRTY YEARS AGO and you still have a grudge. Reveals a lot about you. If you want to start a Hop bashing thread, by all means go ahead. However, I'm more interested in what is happening this year, right now. Glad to hear camps are going well
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  18. SmART Performances is pleased to announce that the Bushwackers Drum and Bugle Corps is expanding its performance schedule this coming season to include DCI SoundSport and DrumLine Battle competitions in Indianapolis, Indiana. The six-time Drum Corps Associates (DCA) champion Bushwackers Drum and Bugle Corps, based in Princeton, New Jersey, will be traveling to Indianapolis in […] View the full article
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  19. Auditions start this weekend. To every young man out there, we have a structure set up. A very good thought that no matter your means, you can be blue, you can be different, you can be... we want you to try. We have hundreds of alumni just waiting to meet and help if needed. The 2018 MADISON SCOUTS are going to be Epic! Tickets are on sale soon for shows all over the country, heck you may just see me playing at Whitewater again, hint hint. See you all soon, I look Forward to it. Peace
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  20. i thought this thread was entitled Cadets 2018 speaking of now and of the future.
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  21. Literally one of the very few fantastic uses of a vocalist ever in the marching arts... How dare they...
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  22. Happy Seventieth, Cavies -- long storied and competitive Corps/organization. Have a great '18-Season ahead and continue to make "Hook'emCavies" a very proud boostah.
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  23. From DCI website today, edits are listed. Over 2 minutes of Blue Knights, Cavies, and Boston shows are cut, and over 3 minutes from Blue Stars...42 seconds of BD as well. We can discuss the licensing issues ad nauseum, but honestly, this all just stinks. Something has got to be done to fix this so that everyone gets paid appropriately and the shows still stay intact. Probably will never happen, but it just seems wrong to not see full shows after the kids and staffs work so hard. So frustrating...
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