Eleran

You don't need equipment for ballet, modern dance and fresh, pop, hip-hop. You didn't think they were going to play brass instruments did you?!? That's so passé.

Scene: first informational meeting for the interested alumni Cadets: "If you love ballet, we have ballet. If you love modern dance, we have that. A little fresh, pop, hip-hop, we have that. We have everything that anybody could possibly like." sound of exit door slamming, then ... crickets

You had me until you said "sit in shirtsleeves on a perfect evening". Always feels north of 90/90 degrees/humidity to me.

There were a bunch of classless a-holes in that thread, if you ask me.

At Hattiesburg the Ballad had been modified a bit. Sung Lyrics introduced earlier on, and the "I will lay me down" at the end was gone. The stairs do like nice with the new "red carpet", though between the carpets and the corps in red, the Queen in her new red dress is harder to distinguish

I wouldn't count on it .... especially if they finish in double digits.

Given that I have marched said someone's content, I am very excited to see what changes the staff put in. My son was glad to see him return also. posted from the DrumScorps app

EDIT: Sorry it didn't post correctly. I've been mostly outside of cell service today. What I tried to post was that the person I had referred to above as being brought into Cadets was not Mr. Sylvester, of whom I have not heard anything.

FYI - they are working on at least one significant change/rewrite, and brought in someone with prior Cadet marching and Visual staff experience to write it

Sure am glad that I’m on vacation and not tempted to check in here more often and say what I’m really thinking. posted from the DrumScorps app

Drum Corpse Bride?

Every time one more heir p*%$%$ you off.

Well I “got” Statues Awakening. It didn’t help my enjoyment of the program. I’ll take 2016 over 2019 any day of the week. Twice on Sunday. And so will someone else I know. posted from the DrumScorps app

Yes? posted from the DrumScorps app

True about the design. The sky will be just fine with respect to Cadets placement. The focus right now IN MY OPINION is to maintain stability and members experience. Then they can get back to competing at the top levels again. But when people say to focus on members’ experience they tend to overlook that a huge portion of that experience is giving them a show they can be proud to have marched. posted from the DrumScorps app

Only if it's a woman, apparently. And not including Boston burning them. Or Phantom drum majors cutting their throats.

Well, I DID try to warn you back in March ...

What sort of communication are you guys expecting? They had months and months to plan the show design, and what they came up with made everybody cringe the moment they released the info. Literally, the buzz and postings were sky high as Cadets released the show name, then the show uniform, and then ... BAM ... crickets when they released the show description as everyone who didn't already know went all So what communication are you expecting now? That despite all those months which got them to this point, they suddenly in the past few weeks have a remedy to make the show design all better?

Aren't there enough bad smells in the buses and gyms of drum corps without adding the smell of smoke which smokers bring back with them after every smoke?

I have typed 3-4 times a variation on what I am really thinking about this music, but keep deleting it out of sense of manners. ☹️ [Edit: and my thoughts are not bad about the music played above....]

And maybe they can just hop on jets the next day to catch their next show, which normally takes them two overnight drives to get to.

Just got the same word. They will decide at 8:00 on whether the show is a go or not. I don’t see this clearing up until around 9:00. So probably just standstills if we’re lucky. Just standstills? And that’s different than so much of their shoes how, exactly? posted from the DrumScorps app

Don't ask HockeyDad that question ...

To be fair, he's merely offering a counterpoint to your analysis, and it's not unduly negative in tone, even though his predicted result is less favorable than yours. Personally, I would expect judges at a 4-corps event where the top corps is only 7th to err on the side of caution and not give the top corps much of a bump - not unlike what occurred in Iowa. Then again, I loathe DCI scoring in general, so it will be what it will be.