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I knew it - someone's finally doing a Flash Gordon show! Mike
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Blue Devils 2024 right before the storm
MikeN replied to theonlyfizzle's topic in DCI World Class Corps Discussions
Funny enough for me, I felt the show was way better without the tag on the end. I like when it just ... ended. Boom. Mike -
Anime on the Drum Corps Field
MikeN replied to kevingamin's topic in DCI World Class Corps Discussions
My kiddo has been trying to get me to watch through JoJo. Absolutely bonkers anime. Good theme, though! -Mike -
Source music you discovered from DCI shows
MikeN replied to frank4now's topic in DCI World Class Corps Discussions
I have a coworker who's going to see an touring version of Carmen. He was looking up source music - it took all of my control not to fire up Santa Clara's show. -mike -
Shows that surprised you and glad you saw live
MikeN replied to HockeyDad's topic in DCI World Class Corps Discussions
Cadets' encore in San Antonio in 2000. Only major show I've been on the upper deck for, and when they started playing the closer/drum solos practically everyone up there ran down to the front and crushed in by the rail to see. Never seen that happen before or since at a DCI show. Very "rock concert" vibes, and man if ever a battery *earned* that treatment... Mike -
Working my way down a backlog of official DCI audio that I never got a chance to listen to - 2019 Crown is probably the best music book of the entire year. Funny enough, it's also probably one of the most "old school" in structure too. That closer is amazing. For that matter, the 2021 Right Here Right Now book is just as good - but man oh man I wish they hadn't hammered that phrase into us the entire show. Their closer that year was absolutely explosive, and they had the crowd in an uproar by the end - it was very, very cool. Anyways, just dropping some 🙂 thoughts into the thread as I catch up. -Mike
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Much like member fees, it's only a relative value if you have the absolute cash to spend on it. I'm totally sympathetic to that. Mike
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Been working through my back catalog of audio downloads I hadn't listened to, and realized I haven't listened to the 2019 ones since they first came out. Bluecoats' show I will argue to the death might be the greatest production ever put on the field. It's just *big* both visually and musically in a way that I don't know anyone's ever pulled off. (Yes, I think they should have won, and it shouldn't even have been close.) Mike
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Shows you regret NOT seeing "Live"?
MikeN replied to frank4now's topic in DCI World Class Corps Discussions
I'm working through the audio on those literally right now. Phantom, Cadets and Cavaliers were amazing. Cavies, of all corps, just decided to spit fire and rain destruction on the stadium. Such a great show. -Mike -
Late to the party, but I just got to hear Sinnerman for the first time. OMG. I don't know what I was expecting, but they blew me away. Incredible integration of the singing into the show, and that kind of blues in drum corps is a very rare thing. Anyways, back to 2024, but wow that was awesome. Mike
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Big. 1 is the top bass. Mike
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He did a presentation to us at the Januals in 2019 - he made weather interesting and fun. Absolutely love the guy. Mike
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Blue Devils 2024 right before the storm
MikeN replied to theonlyfizzle's topic in DCI World Class Corps Discussions
Mea culpa - I was not as appreciative of BD's 2022 and 2023 shows as I probably should have been, for a myriad of reasons. Finally got to listen to the CDs/downloads and not Flo audio, and I have to say - for exactly 3 minutes of each show, they go full on Classic BD Jazz Sound and absolutely blow everyone else away. (The guitar and Cowboy Bebop sections after the ballad in 2022, the JoJo opener in 2023.) Fantastic, awesome, incredible... I don't have enough superlatives for those segments. And they manage to work in extra layers of sound (whether it be brass, drums, pit or electronic) that it feels like a lot of corps don't even recognize can be missing - BD just puts it all in the car and stomps on the gas pedal. (And their set drummer, whoever he or she is, deserves extra championship rings each time - absolutely amazing.) Holy cow. Mike -
A Great Article on The Cadets
MikeN replied to Terri Schehr's topic in DCI World Class Corps Discussions
Sooo… Memphis Cadets doesn’t have The Cadets uniforms. Easy litmus test for this one next summer. -Mike -
A Great Article on The Cadets
MikeN replied to Terri Schehr's topic in DCI World Class Corps Discussions
Thanks - I found the FB discussion. Didn't know they are bringing in the Cadets board; if so, that actually *might* increase their legal jeopardy. Using an homage name and their unis really doesn't. That's a decision for them and their lawyers, I suppose. Mike