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  1. History will prove all the naysayers wrong about 2015. It was a great injustice to place that monster of a show in fourth because of a lack of MMs straining towards the heavens with pained expressions on their faces to portray the design team's farcical "meaning" on the ignorant masses.
    3 points
  2. On the other hand, I thought the voice over speaking numbers was kinda goofy and did nothing, IMHO, to enhance the Cadets' performance.
    2 points
  3. Lynbrook High School (San Jose, CA) is using SCV's Telsa coils in their show this year.
    1 point
  4. Isn't this thread supposed to be about Cadets 2016 ? Sounds like re-treds of old gripes.
    1 point
  5. Mods, This again is a circular link. If one hits the link, one is back to the OP. Too bad because Joe is worth the notice. Great guy, great teacher, great results.
    1 point
  6. When the Alumni Spectacular began, corps were not getting paid but I thought that changed a while back and they get a percentage of the gate for it now...perhaps someone "in the know" can confirm or dispel this? One big reason that hasn't been mentioned as a possible reason for the small attendance at AS...many of the competing units, and their staffs, companions, etc. are somewhere rehearsing and preparing for their championship performances, or for those that didn't make it to the big show are on their way home so they don't have to pay an extra day's fee for their buses.
    1 point
  7. When Shost's Tenth is performed in symphony halls, orchestras don't "put on a show" for the audience. They just play the heck outta that thing! Nobody says "Hey! You know what that performance needed. People in rags with clenched fists cursing Stalin for bread lines." Cadets 2015 didn't need it, and it's a shame the judges were too myopic to understand that point. Meaning isn't paramount to performance, and perform it they did!
    1 point
  8. One last observation. DCA attendance continues to dwindle to a few thou. Attendance at the AS is even less. Fine - but how many of the Alumni guys/gals/support staff fill seats at the DCA Finals ? I tend to think it could be a BUNCH. Tell the Alumni to take a hike and you will have even far fewer butts in seats for Prelims and Finals. my apolopgies, the quote feature didn't work right for the above,.... there is a lot to consider here, and quite possibly the double edged sword,.............the origins of the alumni show was just that, getting more people in town and butts in seats for prelims and finals,..............many alumni corps/members and travel companions do not go to prelims and finals, but on the other hand, the ones that do, don't buy tickets to the alumni show, because they are in it,............
    1 point
  9. If you can't sound good on Pearl, Yamaha, Dynasty or Mapex percussion, then sorry to inform you that the problem isn't the instruments.
    1 point
  10. Is it more disrespectful to put them in an EMPTY stadium? or in a place where people will watch them? I didn't say put them in a parking lot. I said to put them in a festival atmosphere where people will show up. With only two groups actually having a field show instead of playing in an arc, the field is superfluous at this point.
    1 point
  11. I sure do however. If there is no more football, even if the Marching Band is totally self funded, why would they then perform exhibitions on their School's football field ? What would be the point of even being on that football field then ? And who would come out to the football field at that College or University to watch the Band march and down that field ? My guess, in that scenario, not enough people to fit in a bus. And if there is essentially noone there watching, why do the marching exhibition up and down on that empty football stadium on a Friday nite, or a Saturday afternoon to begin with ?
    1 point
  12. Well if that's not totally dominating a caption! Wow!!
    1 point
  13. He likes me, 2K really likes me!
    1 point
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