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Pretty sure I saw a band catalog years ago (almost certainly Fred J Miller) that had the classic cavalier uniform in multiple colors including red. The princess Ann fabulous marching cavaliers is the closest real world example I could find. Generic red jacket with a sash and black Aussie. It’s my day off and I’m bored.

I keep hoping for a vintage steampunk machine-esque type of show

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https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=932875491834080&set=a.519193453202288&type=3 they just changed their Facebook photo. Curious…

Obscure fact of the day: my high school band may have been the first to march on the old RCA (Hoosier) Dome turf. It was so springing that a dropped rifle had a fair chance of bouncing high enough to catch it. show was a cadet style west side story opener with classic Santa Clara guard uniforms and a cavalier step over and a When You Wish Upon a Star closer arranged by Richard Saucedo. This was 1985 Star of Indiana’s first season but I’m sure it was just a coincidence (wink)

Any thoughts on this? Would like to here from those who marched on the different turfs if it makes that much a difference https://fox59.com/sports/turf-at-lucas-oil-stadium-to-be-replaced/#:~:text=The Indianapolis Colts' home dome,be completed by July 2024.

Yeah, I keep wanting to call it the meat grinder but pretty sure deli slicer is the “official” name for the move.

I love that they brought back the deli slicer but I don’t know if the will ever get it clean the way it is written this year. The original was a wide open full field formation. This one is compressed down to the front hashes and has the mellos and tenor drums right in the middle of the circle of rifles. Hopefully they will come up with a way to give it some more clarity cause it was an epic move back in 2003 and deserves so love and recognition

A lot of holes last night. At least one in the color guard and 5-6 in the brass. Really hurt the clarity on a lot of the visual. Lots of cleaning to do with the color guard but the writing is a huge improvement from the last couple of years. I loved the guard uniforms when they revealed them before the show but was afraid the bright pink and purple accents were a bit too garish and would look cartoonish on the field. It was actually quite the opposite (at least on video, couldn’t make it to the show this year) very subtle and had a more “formal” look of an actual jacket and pants rather than a spandex bodysuit lots of potential with this show both visually and musically. A lot going on at times, maybe too much, but show clean up nicely

Cavaliers 1992 always stands out for me. Most company fronts are about building up the tension as the front comes come together for the big resolution. But this one just pushes the tension and anxiety to a higher level Around the 8 minute mark. The second front about a minute later is pretty awesome as well

They also seem to be using a stylized version of the plume instead of an actual plume. It matches their show graphic and I believe they said that their props would be incorporating that same stylized plume.

Those photos are using their new uniforms as backdrops. The first set is of the brass and shows part of the main uniform, the second set is of the guard and their uniform, the last is of the percussion and uses the white Aussie ok the last set isn’t just the percussion, my bad

Now that we have an idea of at least the structure of the show, what other familiar tunes do you think we might hear? And what part of the Rutter Gloria will they use? My money is on the opening fanfare they created from mvt 2. along those same lines, what visuals do you think they will bring back? Diamond cutter? Dragon? Step over? Kaleidoscope geometric shapes? Whatever they called the gear fan thing from Machine and Secret Society? Or maybe the full field form compression?

Awesome! Way back when I was a junior in high school (1985) Our show that year featured a cadet style west side story medley where we high stepped over the color guard. we did not have much exposure to drum corps. We were a track show band (it’s an Indiana thing) so our season ran during the summer. I didn’t know the cavalier connection with the step over till much later. another cavalier connection to that show was our closer. It was When You Wish Upon a Star that morphed into a jazzy version of twinkle twinkle little star. Arranged especially for us, by Richard Saucedo.

I agree completely. The visual problems with the Cavaliers have been building for the last few competitive season. I think everything just imploded last season. 2022 was the first time since 2015 that they didn’t end the show by breaking formation and rushing the sideline. It was a pitch perfect end for the propaganda show, but after that it just seemed like lazy writing (although I didn’t mind it as much in 2019). The guard unfortunately made up for that last year by ending almost every section of the show by throwing down their equipment and posing dramatically. when I saw “Live from the Rose” I thought it was great for a shorten exhibition season. A show that seemed more about having fun and playing to the crowd than putting a well thought out, detailed concept on the field . It was extremely frustrating to see that lack of design carry over to 2022. The designers seemed like they just had a piece of music they wanted to use use (sign of the times) and just backwards engineered a show around it by throwing in some time references here and there and calling it a day. I agree that the brass was under scored all season and I think that goes back to the visual. GE is king in DCI, and a lack of GE visual can drag other captions down. The guard added almost nothing to the show visually. There were so many bad choices in the guard design. there is a lot more that can be said about what went wrong the last few years and last year specifically but I have always loved the Cavaliers and I don’t like being negative so I’m going to end it here with some more positive remarks. My issues are with the staff not the members and I think they performed last year at such a high level of achievement that they were able to elevate the show beyond what was designed for them. The guard in particular were able to take a poorly designed guard book and make it more than what they were given. I’m excited to see what the corps brings to the field this year. I have no concerns about the brass and percussion and I think visual has no where to go but up