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I will take the liberty here and mention that each year ( and for decades ) Craiga helps defrays the cost of financially needy members at the Boston Crusaders as designated by staff . He is not wealthy , but his generous donations to a designated marcher has usually been in the $1000 or more realm. I think such support entitles him to receive harmless periodic updates via texts from such recipients and fellow current marchers . His character is beyond reproach , and he has been a devoted marcher alum of the crusaders ( and a former staffer at Boston in the 1980’s ) for 40 years . As a current high school marching band director in Maine , he has sent several of his students to march the Crusaders over the decades , and they text him on occasion while there too. He knows well the current administration and all the current staff there , and they him . He is a recent retiree and there is nothing “ Ewwww” with any of his behaviors with the current Boston Crusaders . Far from it . Just wanted to be certain we squelch any hint of impropriety with Craiga and any marchers at the Boston Crusaders or that his behaviors texts are of a “ Ewww” variety as posted by poster Algernon here above .

Alot of alums become supportive adoptive parents during the season. Blue Stars have an adopt a member program this season to snail mail, send packages, meet up at shows, or message in any way. Bridges the gap and offers someone that you can talk to if needed.

Spring Training in Colorado is lovely, certainly a plus to marching BK. Nothing quite beats seeing the rockies from the field. Although if you're not careful the sun is deadly at altitude, I got sunburned just from learning drill at April camp lol. Onto matters about the season, I'm happy to offer my perspective as a member of BK 22 and BK 23. The staff this year, really know what they're doing, and and working overtime to make sure we have a successful summer. Design wise and Prep-wise (no pun intended), we are lightyears ahead of where we were at this point last season. Members had a fully fleshed out show concept in January, while last year we waited till April to get just the half baked concept. We have much more of the music, and have played most of our book at a camp so far. April Camp was spent learning drill, and we have the entire opener on the move with music. This is a drastic change from 22, when we were about 3 weeks into spring training before we had the opener down. We also have been covering dance fundamentals, as well as learning choreo and working with the wonderful people at Marching Health to strengthen our vis. I've been having so much more fun receiving more content and harder content to work on visually before the season. We also have something special cooking up in the battery that y'all won't want to miss this summer. Not only do we have some very talented members and a cooking book, courtesy of Jeff Ausdemore, but I dare say we'll be putting a percussion instrument on the field that no one has seen in drum corps before. Back in December I was very much on the fence about whether coming back to BK this year was the right choice, but seeing all the changes the admin and new staff have brought, I couldn't be more optimistic for our season. Vibe was certainly a disappointing show to say the least, but I think fans are really going to like what we have in store this yea

What this means is that we need VK back.

I know it's not north Jersey but we are doing a show in Glassboro, NJ before Allentown! I kinda got a taste of what was being discussed before and it was honestly the best thing for Cadets to move everything to Erie. Everything on one campus. A stable (and great) facility/facilities with plenty of room and storage. Also it being a sports complex allows for more community involvement, of which are already being planned. We're hosting a marching band clinic and community performance for the city of Erie. I know this wasn't the original point of thr conversation earlier but a big reason I came back and a reason a lot of people I know came back, was the modernizing of the organization. They're truly in a great spot. Ps hope everyone is liking what's been released of the show so far 🙂

Just watched my first full ensemble rehearsal of the season. I just don't have any adjectives left. This will be an historic season for BAC. Enjoy!

For those who don't know, today marks the beginning of move-in at Castleton College in Castleton, Vermont. The section leaders, drum majors, battery percussion and front ensemble should all be there by sometime tonight. The brass and guard arrive on Monday. It is an awesome facility, surrounded by the Green Mountains on all sides, and is enhanced by the fact that the members and staff eat three meals a day (all you can eat buffet style) in the campus dining hall, and the members sleep in the adjacent dorms. Staff sleeps in the faculty dorm. The kitchen truck is there and will provide the second dinner, usually at 10pm every night. One of the gyms is the home space for the guard and also provides space for corps meetings, sexual harassment training, etc and the other is taken up completely by the outgoing and incoming percussion equipment. Adjacent to the percussion Gym is the uniform room on one side and the medical room on the other, where Dr. Vivien and her team of medical interns set up. There also a large, windowed room with about a dozen folks sitting at a huge boardroom style table all with laptops. These are the admin folks, media team, merchandise team, and the rest of the corps office staff who essentially move from Hyde Park to Vermont for the duration of spring training. The stadium is quaint, but is artificial turf with nice aluminum seating and decent early season height for the staff. Within walking distance is "downtown" Castleton, with the famous Blue Cat Bistro and the really cool pizza "Third Place" and literally one gas station with two pumps. Boston's first shows are July 1st and 2nd in Lynn and Quincy, MA, and so it begins. I hope to visit for the first time 5/30-6/1. I am trying to thread the needle between my hs band's Memorial Day Parade on that Monday and our drum major auditions that Thursday. I am looking forward to being there with them, and will do my best to post daily updates in real time, which readers here can believe or not. 😉 I think this is our 8th or 9th year here, and the kids call this home. They even have named some of the nearby mountains. I am so glad the time has come.

Hello… it's been a while. First thing's first - let's applaud BOA for doing what it needs to do. If you read their statement, they're basically saying "you're cheating, and we see you". Good on them. However, what we should do is dig into the subtlety of what's going on, and how for the marching arts we can move this forward. IMO, they've laid down a challenge, but have forgotten the Piano Principle. I'll get to that, but I'm going to write this stuff out and *anyone* feel free to use it. I've been arguing this position for about 18 years, so it's not a difficult one to regurgitate, but there are some subtleties that might not be evident at first read. REINFORCEMENT This concept is where an analog sound is made louder to achieve a different balance. Initially brought (en masse) for pit instruments, this allows your 4 marimbas to be trimmed down to 2, and still be the same in the ensemble texture. Why is this good? Logistics for dropping 2 marimbas might be an annual budget savings that's material, and the wear of hard mallets protects the longevity of the instrument. When the Blue Devils did this the first time, they had one small amp per keyboard, and it was excellent. Now it's all evolved to scenes and two large stacks of amps. It's debatable that this is ideal for a number of reasons -- particularly because when techs talk about scenes, they're actively changing the volumes of microphones. The original intent of instrumental reinforcement was to raise the overall amplitude of specific quiet percussive instruments. Altering the volume takes away some player responsibility. Adding effects is altering the original signature of the instrument, and should be avoided. More on that... Amplified voice has been a lightning rod since The Zone and The Cadets. In addition, it should be noted that the Blue Devils were also shown to have altered a voice amplification by taking "that laugh" down an octave but were not penalised -- and they won the title that year. Effects should 100% be off-limits, with some very light exceptions for equalisation that's set-and-forget, particularly with keyboards. Any digital signal processing that is intended to alter the timbre should be off limits. In this statement by BOA, they are effectively saying that the bands are cheating, and they're right. In olden times, we'd call someone marching a spot but not really playing a "plug". It happened for several reasons, usually injury or someone quitting. What BOA is describing here is effectively mic every instrument, and play the ones that are better. This means that a band can easily and effectively have lots of plugs all over the field and still give a more full sound. It's my opinion that if all reinforcement was limited to the Pit Box, this would not be a problem. You can also give the 12-15 feet behind the Pit Box a pass so you can set up a STATIONARY mic for soloists. Drum corps and brass solos basically don't need this (though some might debate), it's definitely more reasonable for a clarinet solo as an example. If you don't allow wireless mics, or more specifically microphones cannot be moved/carried during a show, it eliminates this cheating. SAMPLED vs PRE-RECORDED vs SEQUENCED If you've made it this far, you're into it. Simply waving these three words together is a blunt exercise. Let's define them: Sampled instrument - A set of recorded notes of an instrument that are intended to be played back to recreate a real instrument, often invoked through computer software and triggered by both analog and digital methods. Pre-recorded - A playing of multiple notes, sounds, or a combination to emulate an instrument playing a passage with the musicianship as part of what is recorded. The playback of a passage. Sequenced - The playing of a synthesiser or sampler with the automatic triggering of a digital ordering. It is the modern equivalent of a player-piano sheet. Invoking a sequence allows the playback of any passage without the need of memory or musicianship. So this is where we come to the Piano Principle. If you want to have a piano sound, do you bring a piano? No; it's unreasonable. Should you bring a keyboard that can create these sounds? If you want a piano, it's the only reasonable thing to do. Should you allow a piano sound with a marching ensemble? That's a creative rule decision. But what about a tympani, as was brought up? Maybe there should be some consideration to not having to bring tubs if you're only going to use it as an effect for a few seconds, etc. There is a correct method to interpret this, and a basic flow of questions would help put marching organisations back on the right path. Is the instrument analog? If yes, is it allowed? For example, many associations don't allow double-reed instruments to be marched for safety. Assuming it's conventional, you allow it on the field. Is your instrument in need of amplification/reinforcement? If it's a marched instrument, then it should only be allowed to have reinforcement by a solo-ing mic stand that is stationary. If it's a keyboard instrument, it should be reinforced, but the volumes should be maintained by the player, or should be set by a technician and left for the entirety of the show. No scenes. Technicians should only be given the option to turn a system off in case of malfunction. If the instrument is a sample, there are some guidelines that should make it fairly simple to maintain musicianship. Notes should be played by the student. Volume should be played by the student. The motion of triggering a sound is done by the student, and triggering must be restricted to a physical implementation. For example, a pedal can be used to imitate a piano pedal. Pressing any button/key should cause a representative note/volume, and one press should be one sound. A sampled instrument should also be fully licensed and allowed for the use of playback without copyright concerns. From this, an artistic question should be answered by the governing body - specifically where the sampling of instruments should be for a similar kind of trigger, and the instrument should not be equal to any other. You should not have a piano-style keyboard playing flute sounds when you have flutes on the field. You should not have a piano-style keyboard playing violin sounds. The implement should match, thus if someone was playing a tympani sample, it should be played in the manner a tympani would be played, and that's with a drum trigger. Sampled instruments vs Sampling Thus far, we've discussed sampled instruments, intending to be played back to represent its analog. Sampling can also be unrealistic. For example, sampling a car horn for an effect. The sound can be modulated, but it's not a traditional instrument. Ensembles should be encouraged to use the real thing when possible, and judged better when they do. Sometimes that's not realistic, so in the case where a sampled effect is used, **it should not be modulated**. This also applies for sampled instruments. If you sample a car horn that honks in F, it should not be used in other pitches, nor modulated or effected or signal-processed as part of a performance. Any non-analog instrument should not have effects used as part of the performance. As part of this requirement, any sampled/digital sound needs to be triggered by a student, in real time, in the Pit Box, and should not be altered or adjusted by a technician. Conclusion, for now The overriding principle behind all of these considerations is universal; the virtuosity of the student shall not be altered, hidden, or improved by the use of technology. There are some logistical and artistic wins to be had, but the Huygens-Frenzel Principle is undefeated, and there's no room for cheating. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huygens–Fresnel_principle) Electronic sounds, even sampled analog sounds, need to work within the ensemble, and you cannot hide kids or over-present your best. The ensemble sound is what makes marching so amazing in person, and to effectively cheat and remove what is the soul of marching is something that I'm glad is finally having a stand made. Think back to SCV doing Miss Saigon, and all the Foley work. That is the soul of marching arts. A quote that has always stuck with me is that "art is in the resistance of the materials". It's true; marching music isn't supposed to be push-button music box cranks. Moving forward intelligently can leave the soul of the art in a very good place, while providing artistic help and remove logistical nightmares. I listened to this evolution over my years with DCI in the capacity of audio recording, and it's never been different at any level. Leave the musicianship to all the kids. That's why we love this activity.

If i found out that my 12 year old daughter was dating a 18 year old man, by the time they let me out of prison, Elroy Jetsons' grandkids would be aging out of drum corps.

Why can't my kid go to college and do drum corps at age 20-21? Why does it have to be one or the other? What works for one might not work for someone else.

Chasing rings has never limited the BD creative output. They've had great success in doing both.

Boston, you've piqued my interests...

This. I got to meet dozens of new members last week, and I do have to say anecdotally, it is clear now that Boston has become a destination drum corps. To my knowledge, there is now but one drum corps who has not seen any of its members join Boston, and that is probably not surprising....looking at YOU, Chief Guns.. lol! In any event, I always avoid asking new members to compare their prior experience with their new home at BAC, but most offer up their very positive reactions to the quality of instruction, corps organization, and, interestingly, food quality. Despite the recent cool temps, the kids and staff seem to love Castleton, where we have been for 9 years. Quote from one of the Texans, "Vermont is so GREEN!" When I'm not there (as is the case this week) I happily receive texts and msgs from several members and staff. Morale continues to be high. Looks like they got Part 4 on the field yesterday and uniform fittings are ongoing. As happened last year at this time, word is permeating throughout the BAC alumni base that the corps has raised its game yet again, and lots of New England-based folks are making plans to head to Castleton a week from this weekend for the Community Performance. Unlike some corps, Boston does not charge any kind of admission fee for this performance, either to fans or the people of Castleton. I'm counting down the days until next weekend! The first show weekend is comprised of the first two BAC home shows in Lynn and Quincy on July 1st and 2nd. Devorate Eos, Bostonia!

https://bostoncrusaders.org/2023/05/thom-hannum/?fbclid=IwAR050-iYkib4VNoOCHWcxUoTznyLVQy70MUq_TK_rgJvs8zU9c6wMydBtX8

The Blue Devils 2023 Full Playlist in the order the songs are listed on the official show announcement (with a surprise bonus at the end 😉) THE RISE — Dave Glyde CAVES — Cody Fry JOJO’S BIZARRE ADVENTURE — Tominaga, Fujibayashi, Tanaka STARDUST CRUSADERS “JOTARO’S THEME" — Yugo Kanno RESISTENCE — Dave Glyde BOTH SIDES NOW — Joni Mitchell OF ENERGY — TesseracT INCIDENT IN JAZZ — Bob Graettinger GRAND CANYON FANFARE — James Newton Howard

Oh we are! We fly into Indy Wednesday evening, flying out Sunday afternoon. Going to be our first world class finals. Super excited.

We should also remember that it's the CADETS that have the most championships when you combine the championships since before the inception of DCI. BD has been the most successful corps in DCI, but the Cadets have been the most celebrated drumcorps in history. Both are great accomplishments!

Respectfully … Isn’t it a little early in the season to be letting this stuff get to you so much? No one on this thread has really talked out of turn about Crown so far this season, but the prevailing attitude from your end has felt a bit negative. Crown is a great corps. They can survive the occasional snide remark on the internet. But that hasn’t even really happened in this space. You really gotta lighten up.

I don't know. I get what you are trying to say but this sounds like coming up with your own definition of what the "right way" is. Who gets to determine the "right way?" If DCI was cancelled in 2020 and only held a few exhibition shows in 2021 then Blue Devils winning in 2019, 2022, and potentially 2023 would be a three-peat. If this happens they will have won the last 3 competitive years. They do not have to be consecutive years unless a competitive year was skipped by the corps. It is not the fault of Blue Devils, or any corps, that DCI had to scrap 2020 and go exhibition only in 2021. So to me if Blue Devils do win in 2023 I would absolutely call that a 3-peat.

Well of course I gotta root for the Mandarins to win it all LMAO But in all seriousness, if my beloved Blue Devils don't win it, I am rooting for Boston/Bluecoats/Cadets to win it all. I would be thrilled with any of the three. Last year @LabMaster and I also believe @Liahona gave me a history lesson between BD/BAC. I never knew the love and respect the corps had for each other, and over the years the two corps have looked for each other as well. And this goes back decades. Freaking awesome.

It seems like everyone gives that subject a wide berth.

It’s the operator. Not the machine. Yesterday, I was listening to Jeff Kievet and Muchachos on that old junk we played. You’d never know it hearing him play.

Well, according to their alumni social media pages, they're doing a pretty good job of reaching out to Alumni so there are many people who are quite happy with them as of late. The new staff there is doing everything in their power to rectify the "self inflicted wounds" that were caused before many of them were even there. As I implied earlier. Everyone cannot be pleased if they don't want to be pleased. If some people refuse to acknowledge the hardships the organization was in, and the staff there now have been trying to fix, then I don't think that's a Cadets problem. They're doing the best they can with what they have, with what's going on with the current times, and given the state of DCI as a whole.

I think All is Full of Love may become a candidate for the fans choice, ballad of the year. Of any piece being played this year by a corps, hearing this one is what I am most anticipating. We have heard Hunter, the overture to Dancer in the Dark, 107 Steps, and a few others from Bjork on the field over the years. ( Of course with Crown this year, add Bachelorette to that list too). But All is full of Love has been on my list of “ the music corps should do” for quite some time. (This piece, and many of her songs from the album Vespertine, would be my choices to note in Lances’ thread). Bjork may be known for a genre of music that is uniquely her own. Her weird lyrics, odd time signatures, and unique polyrhythmic layers and beats in her music, are things to admire and love about her. But this piece is just beautiful and emotional, perhaps different from many of her other songs. It showcases her incredible vocal range, perhaps the best of any of her songs. The “small, yet mighty Valkyrie”- as Rza from Wu Tang once called her, after doing a collaboration. I am sure Crown is going to play this with all the power and emotion each and every night that you see here. Very much looking forward to hearing it this year.

Made the trip this afternoon to Phantom's Spring Training site at Eastern Illinois University. Caught the four hour rehearsal block with the entire ensemble. Concert side stands are high enough that everyone was in the shade the entire rehearsal which was nice since is has been sunny and hot since the corps arrived. All sections appear to be strong and putting in the work. One tuba sitting out probably due to injury otherwise corps full. Killer battery and brass as good as expected. At the end if the day it comes done to has the Design Team given the members the right show? Ten more days in Charleston IL the a few days in Evansville then home to Rockford for Music in The Park and then the season starts.

I HAVE been to Castleton and seen (and touched) the props. There are 12 pieces, all light weight aluminum, on rubber tires and are very easy to move, any they apparently don't all connect until late in the show.

Oh. My. Gosh. Definitely looking forward to THIS SHOW!

It all comes down to show design. it's time for another gold medal.

given she was working with a high level BOA program and they got raves the other year, i'm sure she has the skills and knowledge to teach well and safe. and you can pick your nose, but not your family...so unless she was involved in the actions that led to litigation, leave her alone

This sounds DOPE.

Tomorrow is Cadets move in day!

But, you could have put instructors & support staff in these bus seats, perhaps removing a vehicle from the convoy, which would cost less $ overall. break- Here is a proposed solution- Part 1 -Don’t limit props, amps, etc. Instead, limit convoy size. 3 busses. 2 semi trucks. One food truck. One van for souvenirs, and one runner van. That is it. Any vehicle in excess is a 10-point penalty (per vehicle). Creative side- design and whatever you want, but it has to fit in above convoy. Part 2 - Corps are limited to 3 in-person camps (including auditions) from Nov-May. Online camps are unlimited. Spring training is limited to 20 days (10 min show means 30 seconds of new material per day. People in Marching Music’s Major League should be able to handle that.). Part 3 - Tour redesign. Break country into regions: Pacific Region- Arizona, California, Oregon, Washington. Mountain/West Region - Texas, Oklahoma, Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, Idaho Midwest Region - Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Tennessee East - Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Ohio, Carolinas, Georgia, Florida Other states w/ Corps will be fit in as appropriate First 2-2.5 weeks everyone stays within region All Corps host home shows and other Corps in region attend. End with some sort of regional championship. Second 1.5 weeks Pacific & Mtn/West Corps work way to San Antonio; Midwest & East work way to Atlanta. Seeding at SA/A based on ordinals from regional championships (winners draw to see who goes on last, then 2nd place Corps for next 2 slots, and so forth). Next, Corps work way to Indy, but stay as East tour & West Tour. No crossover. First time everyone meets is quarterfinals in Indy. Seeding is based on ordinals from San Antonio & Atlanta (top 2 in each group draw for last 4 slots, then next 2 from each, etc). Edit - note that I have intentionally spread out the pain between the design side (limit volume of stuff, plus rehearsal time), and the tour size (impacts fans; i.e., no more BD at Allentown, etc.), yet keeps some traditional venues. Competition would be enhanced because no one really knows how they stack up until late Thursday in Indy. And by spreading the pain, everyone has a stake in making this work.

100% correct. In the Navy we call it "Active Communication." Alot of times the junior guys will have ideas and thoughts, and even if their ideas aren't implemented, in the end they just want to know they have a voice, and that they are apart of the team, regardless of rank and/or position of authority. And that goes a long way to building a healthy cohesive unit. As a Senior Enlisted Leader, I will be the first to say that some of the best ideas I ever heard, came from my young Sailors and Marines, not my fellow Chiefs and Officers.

Hilarious story............. Last year at the Yucaipa Ca Open Class show. My son was marching for Gold, and BDC had this tiny little guy playing trumpet, kid was barely 3 ft tall, but he was a rockstar, and he knew it! Anyhow, so later in the evening the BDC kids walked past the Gold truck, and the Gold kids starts giving them high fives and praises. My son in his excitement accidently gives little guy a "Grown Man" high five, sends the kid flying like ten feet LMAO. My son felt so bad. I had to remind him that he was nearly 250lbs, while little guy was like 250 grams LMAO.

Welcome to DCP.

I’m also excited about the 2026 Alumni Corps announcement. Just enough time for me to figure out how to play again. (The last notes I played were the parking lot run through in Foxboro stadium after 94 Finsls.)

2023 Phantom Regiment - Exogenesis - Show Repertoire: Isolated System by Muse Supremacy by Muse As If A Voice Were In Them by Oliver Waespi to wALk Or ruN in wEst harlem by Andy Ahiko Piano Concerto No. 2 by Sergei Rachmaninoff For I Have Fought the Good Fight by Stephen Melillo

A while back, Jon Bilby had posted a video short of what the drill was supposed to look like for that show if they had performed it back in 2020 before the Pandemic hit. Let me just say, I hope the drill in this year's show looks somewhat close to what he posted in that video.

I think that may be unpossible.

Suppose BD did field a show in 2021. Would that change the fact that there was no championship to win? I’m not sure why we’re making this about who “helped maintain interest in the activity” or not. But FWIW: You’re mistaken that BD didn’t do anything in 2021, as they actually hosted a BD experience camp for MMs in 2021. Which still doesn’t make 2021 (a non-competitive season) relevant in a conversation about championships. Anyway — the semantics game is pretty silly here, I think. Ultimately, no corps won between 2019 and 2022, so whether or not you call that a streak, BD gets to say that they won the only 2 championships that were available to win, and if they win in 2023, they’d get to say they won the only 3.

Yes there is a HUGE difference from a Boston accent to a say, coastal Maine fisherman. And, another big difference from Boston to Rhode Island.

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Unfortunately not brother 😞. My wife and I will be at Mandarins Family Day June 24th, then all the SoCal shows. And we will be in Indy for Finals week. But that's it I am afraid. My son is keeping a tight lid on the show. All he told me is.................."The world isn't ready." While I haven't seen or heard anything.......I am getting the feeling that the Mandarins have had enough of being the gatekeeper to the top ten.

I don't understand some of the comments on this thread....things like "Cadets did this or that or promised this or that ten years ago..." Did you guys not get the memo that the chief (sole) decision maker for this drum corps is long gone and has zero influence on the 2023 corps and organization? Many of my Boston friends and I are hoping for the Cadets to not only survive, but to thrive. We are scratching our heads at some of the attitudes and negativity on here. I don't have a dog in this hunt, but I can say that BAC would NOT be in the position it is currently in, both on and off the field, if our alumni cohort acted like this when we found ourselves in 12th place just 6 years ago.

Crown 2023 is looking great! https://fb.watch/knUixb-5cu/?mibextid=YCRy0i

See your point, but I don’t think it’s fair to boil this theme down to chasing the ring. Don’t overlook the reasons why Moby Dick is a great fit for a swaggering corps from Massachusetts (with a scrappy underdog history, to boot). The Pequod sets sail from Nantucket, after all. Even if Boston weren’t hungry for a ring (which is their right, either way), this show would make complete sense for this specific corps, its interests and style of late, its aggression, the personality of the guard, etc. It works because it suits them. Any corps could do a Moby Dick show. The highly theatrical and art-loving Blue Devils, for example, could essily leap from The Tempest and a show about the color blue to a show about Moby Dick. But you have to admit that for Boston, the idea is uniquely apt, championship hunger or no.

Boston cracks me up. I love it. Boston’s elusive white whale is the championship: so the allegory is very clear. And it will get the MMs (and the audience) very hype. Imagine them finally winning with a show about this, of all things. Plus: Whaling? Dropkick Murphys? This is going to be the most M*sshole show of all time LOL. My favorite book, so of course I’m excited. And “On the Waterfront”! Poignant for mega-fans of SCV ‘97 (like me). It’s an “old story,” sure, but I think the better word is timeless — its a story that recurs, in many forms, for good reason. I predict something swarthy, aggressive, adventurous, exactly what sets Boston’s style apart. Can’t wait.