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Jeff Ream

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  1. i don't disagree visual sometimes gets too much emphasis, but it's not a universal thing. and winners have always had some captions lower than the top, and some caption winners have not been at the top. look at Cavies percussion. the issue is more a product of how the current system is set up for the numbers. the 3 performance captions for music and visual averaged together now, and GE still at 40% where it's been for a while. but without todays system, guard would still be an afterthought. but GE has been calling the show for a long time...in fact if not for music and music effect, BD wins in 2008. Bloo probably loses in 16. but performance pcations, not effect is what kept Crown in 15 and Bloo in 19 from winning.
  2. way too many small groups design like they're huge. that issue is not just a regional thing
  3. i never once called you old or dino, i compared your views of todays activity of how it was in the past. the game has changed. drum corps judging stayed stagnant for what it looked at for decades, and then boom...everything opened up. and because the rules changed and allowed more, visual had the most room to grow to where it became of equal importance. But even as visual changed, GE has always been about a marriage of visual and music. and it's never been a clap sheet. But the emphasis had to change because visual became more important. IMO visual was not enough of a scoring emphasis for too long, and this is a drummer stating that fact. because if it had the emphasis it deserved, 41 years ago you would have destroyed everyone. it wouldn't even have been close.
  4. the music chosen wasn't exactly stuff i'd choose to listen to, but it was presented in a more flowing way...like complete thoughts/passages than they had done since Godfather, and they did it in a way that got some old school BD vibe. but the whole building of the house led to a zillion Extreme Home makeover okes ( probably half by me) and it made everything look way too cluttered. and that Cadets that summer had Jeff's masterpiece visually and Crown channeled their inner ELP had shows more loved to the general populace. but i don't remember nearly as much dislike as for the 3 years prior and 2 after
  5. Ge has never been and never will be a what the fans want sheet. have you even seen recent versions of the sheet? the more you reply the more its apparent you feel effect is to match what you consider popular, and that isn't how GE has ever been. yes the activity has slowly moved away from music being the overhwelming focus because the activity has eveolved drastically visually. i'm sorry you want to compare scores from the days of color pre, squads, guideons etc to where the activity is today and your article is all abount IMO a false narrative trying to compare two things that are very different as if they're to be on the same level. they aren't drum corps today is very different from drum corps in 1972, and a large reason for that is how much the visual side of the game has changed. And quite frankly, elevator drill and matching pictures stopped being effective 40 years ago.
  6. it can be good or bad effect. theres a ton of factors that goes into it, so i can't just throw an opinion here based on that.
  7. some. but Cavies fatigue in the 00's and even Cadets fatigue in the 80's were tempered by the shows mostly well received. and no i dont think 2010 would have been better received in any shape or form as at that point, BD only had their 3rd in 4 years
  8. Amen! I was there, and the crowd was the proverbial Rondo quote. But they weren't top 5, and i too love this show and am looking forward to the social media barrage of videos that happens at this time of year
  9. exactly. the intellectual third of the triad is no longer dominating over the other 2/3's of the triad
  10. i do believe they are more than they were say 10 years ago. a lot of the things Cesario said on that day back in 09 i think was stuff he said when he started his project with DCI a decade ago. think about this....the year that whole initiative started, yeah BD won, but with their most loved show since probably 1996! And since that philosophy shift started, there's yet to be a yawner champion. Sure a few close shows that may be controversial, but in both cases effect didn't really call the show. visual performance captions did ( thinking of 15 and 19)
  11. engagement tho isn't as cut and dried as one thinks. geography can play a part. at say Crowns home show are the fans going to be more engaged for the hometown team? Sure! Should the judges solely feed off of applause? Nope. remember bringing the house down may not be universal at every stadium. Homerism is real
  12. i asked that at a cinic Cesario was running. his reply was "the judge needs to react like a fan"
  13. no i wasn't. the dome left me very displeased with the sound, plus we had a baby in 2012, so hopping off to finals wasn't a way to keep family tensions in check. thought about it during teething tho LOL! however my take in 13 seeing them in Allentown was more people pulling for Crown and honestly just wanting someone new. and i'm 90 BD cool.
  14. but i wasn't alone. I remember in 2010, more people than i ever remember leaving before the victory run. Sure, BD perfofmed great. But people didn't like the show. and you're pretty cool too!
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