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Thanks, Alex. In my research I have been having trouble finding which speech it was. Now that I know this may help me in securing some audio. If not, I will have someone else record it and then I can garage band the file.

Jordan, stop being an idiot. No one cares about any political (or otherwise) statements you are trying to make here, and as far as I know, those are against guidelines anyway. I am inquiring about voice to use in my band's show. Since you have nothing to add in helping me achieve that, why are you here in this thread?

Goodness. . .drama. Chill people. I live in an Army community, and we are doing a show in honor/memory/tribute to them. Half of my band kids are army brats. Trust me, not that I care, but the inclusion of voice in the show will go over well with what we are planning. It is not a show about a specific war, or war in general, but about the sacrifice the soldiers and their families (specifically of my community here) have gone through to provide for our way of life. The show is called "Freedom Isn't Free". Not to be rude, but I don't care how some of you feel about the inclusion of voice. I never asked that, and it won't change my show design/concept. On another note, I have contacted the Blue Stars org through email and no answer yet. I also looked at ripping it from a recording. . .but with their background music in the background of the clip, figured it was not a good idea. Also, for MikeN, it is a clip from his total victory speech I am referring to.

Sure I did, and then I decided that was a bad idea. This is not my first rodeo.

I am doing a similar show with my group, and am curious about their use of voice, specifically where they found their clips. I have searched all over the net for the Truman clip and cannot find it. Any help would be appreciated.

It's an opinion. You disagree. Get over it.

Hard for me to believe. What do you consider moving?

LOL @ Jeff! Talk about going in one ear and out the other. . .many of us have not only stated we did not care for the show, and thought it was easier on the difficulty scale, and have expressed why. . .many times. Yet, we still get these dissertations on why we are wrong and closed minded and can't gauge difficulty unless we marched it.

It didn't go in one ear and out the other. Sarcasm is lost in the forums it seems. Believe it or not, some people didn't like the show, didn't think it was that difficult, and can still be objective and analytical about it. We don't all have to agree. Sheesh.

So unless people are in agreement with you they are not open-minded? I've seen the show, both live and online several times. . .and at Finals very up close. I think I'm right, and so do you. I guess this is where most people agree to disagree and move on.

The recycling this year I am guessing was a bit on purpose as an homage to the past. I've always thought he was one of the greatest of our time. He gets waaaay too little praise, imo. . . .and yeah, speaking of recycling both drill and music as of late. . .head northwest from Jersey a bit.

Ok, there it is. Surely this is not the movement being used to call the chair usage difficult, or not as easy as some of us are saying.

I would like to think people who have marched, written drill, and taught drill can gage pretty well how difficult the movement on a field is without having to lace up the dinkles and march the show. Count me in as one of those who it went in one ear and out the other. I don't buy the notion that you can't judge it without marching it, and also will not buy that BD marched as much or more than the others and had the difficulty. Keep selling it, but I won't buy it. They performed very well, but that is as much as I can give them. . .and the performers should be congratulated for that, and for winning.

Non-drummer here. . .I did not see the fall, and also never noticed a significant change in what I heard (and I have seen and heard this show all summer, so I did know the music). I am not saying the fall did not rattle them, but wouldn't it need to be extremely significant (which I am thinking I would have noticed musically) to warrant that kind of a drop in score?

I see it as two completely different approaches to Appalachian. With Cadets it was more in your face. It still had its very pretty and sophisticated moments, but aggressive in nature. SCV was sophisticated as well, but more minimal in its approach this year. I don't know if I have ever seen a corps do as much with the silences of music as I did this year with SCV. They made such great use of the softer nuances of the piece. Both shows will be in history as 2 of the greats. No reason for anyone to be appalled.