Tristan

Unfortunately, the redirects are so aggressive I can only give you a screenshot of what I get redirected to, which probably doesn't help all that much. Good to still see familiar faces here :-)

Mobile browsers are being redirected to scammy pages frequently unless I disable Javascript while browsing dcp. Just a heads up

I did that once. Discovered it took me seven years to come back.

Glassmen: i admit it, i am biased, but i really liked this show. it developed a bit slowly in the beginning, but the end was nice. wish i could have played this show myself

Spirit: good show. clear concept. good sound. pit was a but overbalanced in soft spots, but arguably one of the best spirit corps in a while

dude. you must be sitting right next to me

ledgends battery was late to the field. interesting show--pretty dark. good visuals. hornline doesn't have the power that forte and mc had. pit had a prominent sound, especially considering they weren't amped. show had some flat moments but executed decently well.

Music City: big sound, good drumline. Pit played a lot of notes but even amped, i couldn't really hear them. Show was entertaining but very medley-of-tunes.

Just saw forte. Small corps, but really big sound! Congratulations on a great first EVER performance. I look forward to seeing what you guys will do in the coming years.

I like it in that show as well, but my problem is that I hear it EVERYWHERE, especially in the last couple of years.

Offhand, I can't point to one specifically (no recordings in front of me right now), though I believe there is one in Phantom 03 right before the first pit/tenor feature in the closer. I've also encountered it in several marching band scores.

One of the chord progressions I think is getting a bit overused is exemplified as follows: Bar 1: High brass F Major chord, A on top, low brass silent Bar 2: High brass continue from Bar 1, low brass Gb major chord, Bb on top Bar 3: High brass continue from Bar 2, low brass resolves down half step It has some interest, but everyfreakingbody does it, and many shows have it several times throughout. It's just getting old.

I didn't say the case would win, but the corps doesn't really need to even have a suit filed against them. Bad for publicity, bad for finances, bad for everybody.

Unfortunately, there are two sides to every story, and if this were actually the case, we'd know about it already. I am very curious to hear the other side of the story.

I have several reasons for not giving my own opinion here. First and foremost, I have already communicated my opinion to Marie O'Rourke and George Hopkins, and I did so as soon as I received the email. Had I received a reply---of any sort---in the nearly three weeks since, I would have let this go. The lack of a reply indicates to me a general indifference toward this matter, which troubles me greatly, especially since YEA has now opened itself up to liability in a slander lawsuit, and this activity cannot afford to have its corps in legal trouble. Secondly, I did not give my personal opinion, as I am a staff member on this board, and I do not wish to even give the appearance of speaking on behalf of DCP on this matter. I have privately discussed this with a few individuals on this board, and after much thought, I decided that the lack of response (or even acknowledgment) from YEA warranted this posting. As such, my OP was nothing more than a statement of fact in an effort to elicit discussion and to hopefully bring the matter to YEA's attention in a more visible manner. I do not apologize for posting this, as YEA felt it appropriate to send to its mailing list. I only hope that YEA notices this and addresses it quickly and appropriately.

I got this email a few weeks ago, and I've been sitting on it, as I was rather troubled trying to figure out what I want to do with it. I sent an email to Marie O'Rourke and George Hopkins asking about it, but I received no response. I will reserve my comments on this at the moment, but since a somewhat different version of the same announcement appeared on the yea.org website at approximately the same time, I thought it important that people see this version as well. Comments?

I don't think I've ever worn a bass drum that I could see over when it was worn at the proper height. A higher drum will be easier on your back anyway.

Reading this just reminds me how little people know about copyright law. To those complaining: there is some good advice given in this thread--read it, and read up on copyright law.

And we were going to have shirts made about that!

You won't need more than three or four shirts for rehearsals. Take lots of sunscreen--and make sure you reapply it every break, especially at the beginning of the season. I recommend liquid soap and a loofah. Bar soap and washcloths just dont' dry out enough. Get some of the combined shampoo-conditioner stuff too. For guys who have to have their hair styled (pit, guard, glassmen brass, etc) I recommend Got2b Glued. I've never had a hair gel hold as well as that, and one bottle should last you multiple seasons. Other things you might not think of....(from three seasons of personal experience) Take a pack of baby wipes or wet wipes. If you get your hands dirty on the bus or just before getting on the bus, these are absolute lifesavers so you don't have to wait until the next rest stop. They're really handy for pit, since loading the truck can get your hands really nasty. Skip the shoe polish. Use Armor-All wipes (the yellow box) to shine your shoes. One wipe will do four shoes, so one box should be enough for two people for the season. Glassmen pit in 2004 just kept the shoes on the truck and used this stuff to shine them after we unloaded at shows. Save at least one or two of your empty gatorade bottles. You never know when they'll come in handy. I'm not talking just about the obvious "can't make it to the next rest stop" handy--In 2004 the lid to my body wash bottle broke off, so rather than bum off people until the next wal-mart run, I just dumped the contents into a rinsed-out gatorade bottle and closed it up. Perfect. Gatorade bottles also come in handy when you get to that one school on tour where the water is just scalding-hot. Fill up the bottle halfway in the shower, then fill the rest in the sink or water fountain. Voila--perfect temperature. While everyone else is cowering near the floor trying to let the water cool off as much as possible on its way down, you're in good shape. Get some of those Oral-B Brush-ups (I can't find anything on them on the web right now). They're basically little mint-flavored textured wipes that you mount on your finger and use to do a quick-and-dirty brushing. Works great for on the bus when you just can't stand to wait until the next stop, and you can just throw them away when you're done (apparently they're discontinued? if you can find them, they're great) Pringles cans make good temporary trash bins. Wheat thins and EZ-Cheez are the best bus snack ever. Wear clean socks on the bus. Put your show socks away. The bus will smell awful anyway, but don't let it be your fault. Keep a blanket on the bus. If your air conditioning works at all, it will probably get absolutely frigid on the bus at night. Along those lines, try to get a seat partner you can lean on/use as a pillow, and try to be one yourself. Sleeping on the bus can be terrible if you have a territorial seat partner. If you take an air mattress (take a thermarest pad!), get a small patch repair kit and take it along. Your air mattress probably will get a leak at some point, and you don't want to wake up on the floor. It happened to me, and fortunately someone else had a patch kit.

Sorry, I'll get off your lawn already! Geez! (all in good fun)

The slash is a diddle--basically one stick's worth of an open roll.

Quite simply, a third, fourth, and even fifth chance were generous enough as it is. No more.

It's pretty typical for offseason talk, really. Once camp season gears up more and corps start announcing their shows, it will swing back the other way.

If you tune the basses too low these days, you'll get nailed by the judges. It's better to cover a wide range of pitches--perfect fourths between the drums is popular, or if your show is pretty much in the same key the whole way through, tune the basses to a chord in that key. The line I taught this fall did a show that is mostly in C, and we tuned the basses accordingly: our 18-20-22-26-30 line was tuned g-e-C-G-CC, which matched up perfectly with the low brass parts at the very beginning. It was a nice effect to have the drumline in tune with the hornline.