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The next Jacob Collier maybe? (7) Miles Music Kid - YouTube

Any of the top corps could tackle the music just fine imo. They're all just groups of highly talented, mostly college-aged musicians who can all play (or should be able to) any style they need for the performance.

Knowing what the show is "about" has not once made a show "better" for me. I also couldn't tell you what 90% of the shows I've seen were about with just 1 viewing and no research. I still enjoy the activity, and find things to like in almost every show, but I simply don't find it an adequate forum to do more than tell a basic story (like Crown's Relentless, for example). For example, this year - I didn't know anything about Matisse. I saw BD at Allentown and thought it was a great show, but even after learning after-the-fact some details, it didn't change anything for me to know what the props represented, or that the uniforms contained cut-outs from prior year uniforms (talk about an inside-baseball thing.. great for the members, hopefully meaningless to the judges).

Personally, I'd like to next year's show to have a little less percussion-only time.

Just when I thought the synth goo maxed out with Phantom, in comes Crown.

I want to break free of this narration.

Same here in fort myers, ears close to bleeding lol.

Quick straw poll of the folks around me. Nobody liked the narration, and it was too loud and sometimes ear piercing when it first enters out of nowhere.

Warm up sounds are much worse than usual imo. Not only percussion but numerous “full corps yells” happening out there somewhere. Very annoying.

It’s actually quite cool. Nice breeze and not humid, surprisingly.

I've never had an issue with parking since I've been going to Allentown in the late 80's. I always come down Hamilton and go up one of the steep streets across from the park (up by Youell's Oyster House) and have never had an issue in all those years. Is it because of the steepness of the roads and it not being "super close" that people say the parking is bad? I am literally parking within a block of the same spot every single year with no issues ever.

Since 3 can be a harder # to find, I'll also take 4 if someone has that many.

As subject says, looking for 3 tickets for the Friday night show in Allentown (Aug 4th)

Even though I went to a tiny HS in the late 80's, the directors and instructors were almost all drum corps members/instructors (Garfield, Bridgemen, Caballeros, Buccaneers) that you would recognize today still. They definitely encouraged doing it, but there were only about 3 of us in the 6 years that I was affiliated with the band and its members that ever marched drum corps.