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  1. I remember initially being drawn to DCI because it rewarded the “hard” way to do GE, with innovative drill and visuals. I got into the activity specifically because I found the BOA prop arms race to be lame. I wish DCI would go back to leading the charge instead of piggybacking off of high school bands. Getting high GE scores without props is hard, I get it. That’s what used to make drum corps special though.
    9 points
  2. If emoting to words and images on a computer screen is part of an "artistic education", then I get a top-notch artistic education every day that I log in and look at posts on DCP.
    5 points
  3. Well the show is geared to one or two venues both indoors. DCI can do the same thing. Do you think they would care if they had to run the show one in Kansas or somewhere without the screens? I don't agree with it but. Think they could reserve one screens off to the side so if the show bores you, we can have like Sports Center or something going with CC on?
    5 points
  4. Meh. Want to really impress me? Have a parent grab a bow and shoot a live arrow 120 yards end zone to end zone over the performance.
    5 points
  5. When kids are playing at the level Tarpon does, they have already done a fantastic job with the education part and are focused on performance. This actually has everything to do with music education, in fact, they've nailed it. Listen to their wind ensemble, their jazz band, and try to suggest they don't have music education absolutely locked. This is a program that is 100% about education.
    5 points
  6. Perhaps a drum corps could run ads on those screens to help pay for them. Good way to add vocal narrative, too. "We'll be right back with the second half of our show, after this message from Microsoft."
    4 points
  7. My first impression was that it needed more tarps. Then, use the screens to explain why there were more tarps. Win, win.
    3 points
  8. 3 points
  9. My opinion? I don’t think it added much.
    3 points
  10. But the obligatory rolling around on the ground and faux emoting, sure is super awesome.
    3 points
  11. Why spell out words without digital screens when you can spell out words with digital screens for 20X the price?
    3 points
  12. Think of this possibility, with the use of these video boards: A show that has the current band or corps performing their show, interspersed with video clips of the same band's or corps' show from, say, 20 years ago. Show theme: "We've Gotten Better"
    2 points
  13. Reagan is amazing this year (as usual). Good luck to you guys at San Antonio, hoping you come out on top.
    2 points
  14. Yes, they need to have more tarp on the field. 😎
    2 points
  15. 2 points
  16. We keep evaluating marching band and drum corps in terms of "music education". Technically speaking, the first time we took a step outside the "music education" was compromised. I choose to think in much broader terms, such "artistic education". So much of the arts are in hybrid forms, such as ballet, opera, etc., why should the marching arts be any different? Just as ballet is a hybrid of music and dance, why can't the marching arts be viewed the same?
    2 points
  17. Heck... if a corps wants to use me as the commercial narrator voice, sign me up!!!
    2 points
  18. Loved Tarpon's show. Would love to see them live sometime. I think DCI needs more of this...
    2 points
  19. It was 47, and then he advocated replacing brass with clarinets and drums with accordions.
    2 points
  20. Nothing more than moving more furniture around the field... More importantly...I'd really like to know how you have a NEGATIVE 1,159,040 REPUTATION.....lol
    2 points
  21. This is high school? Freakin' amazing. When they played. Digital screens? Meh. Pretty. Pretty expensive for, essentially BK "out there-ness". Maybe this is the first edition of the new event-horizon of the A&E arms race. I can't help wonder about the member experience, hauling all that gear around on the field. And, if (when) it transfers to the drum corps idiom, where band-Mom's and Dad's are relatively rare, most of the responsibility for hauling, staging, and placing all that crap will make up an increasing amount of the member's time on the field. And they're paying to be both performer and laborer. Tarpon, you have a very nice band. And Daniel Ray, for a different example of "nailed" music education from an org that puts music education first above props, and the kids only had to carry their instruments on and off the field (and they played the whole show!): The Lexington, OH show is the equivalent of June in drum corps terms. (Won't let me embed, if someone else has better luck, please help) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlA7zRP4KRo
    2 points
  22. All I was thinking, and I said this on my Facebook page, was how much did those cost?
    2 points
  23. I hate the arms race. What does it have to do with music education?
    2 points
  24. Cadets 87. Reprise the melody while playing backfield and the drill puts them into position to march off the field like a boss after the last note fades.
    2 points
  25. What a great show this year by Tarpon Springs. I wonder who in DCI will be first to bring this to the field in 2019.
    1 point
  26. If the technology was available and of good quality back then, it would have been used.
    1 point
  27. Those if us in Boston are not waiting until next year!
    1 point
  28. Being more of a literal person, I doubt your first sentence is accurate. I have no idea who did something like this first, could care less who first did it, and still hoping no D&BC does it. The D&BC coffin is running out of space for those nails.
    1 point
  29. All of you are acting as if what Tarpon Springs is doing is brand-new. It isn’t. I’ve seen TV screens used several times before in the marching arts, starting with Ayala HS’s indoor percussion, then spreading to that same school’s band, Blue Springs HS’s Grand National Finals debut show in 2015... The list goes on. It’s actually pretty surprising that no DCI corps have touched it yet. By the way, a couple of the masterminds behind this band’s designs over the years are Kevin Ford and Michael Shapiro, which is why I like to nickname the TSOPE “Blue Stars South.”
    1 point
  30. You'll have to wait until next year T.
    1 point
  31. I’m gonna need a remote so I can flip over to the Cubs game.
    1 point
  32. I didn't watch but if you mean flashing that could be harmful to those with seizure conditions it should not be allowed. Not like the affected people can get up and leave quick. Even if a seizure does not occur it can still make one physically sick.
    1 point
  33. The show announcer... at first I thought it was David Letterman. LOL
    1 point
  34. Marching Band! Remember when the band would March and Play music we all recognized? Don't get me wrong, I like it but in my older age I keep asking myself....what is it good for?
    1 point
  35. Watching that video is like seeing Sputnik go up.
    1 point
  36. Some people on here...it could happen.
    1 point
  37. Tarpon is one of the reasons I choose to be in LOS next month. These MM are actively sought by corps throughout the country. Top of the activity and musicality at the highest level. We see...$$$, Trophy... perhaps... Don't hate the players, we made the game... We see... only what we want.
    1 point
  38. Possibly more points garnered by an adult. Then there's the extremely distraction factor.
    1 point
  39. One advantage of delivering information via screen rather than via narration is that it doesn't cover up the music. (Naturally I expect bands and corps will do both, thus rendering that point moot.)
    1 point
  40. in 3.5 minutes, 45 seconds of horn line and maybe 1 set of marching and playing. impressive. edit: and I don't think the screens really add anything to the show, but I bet the judges love them.
    1 point
  41. 1 point
  42. Almost forgot this one, and maybe someone mentioned it earlier, but Blue Devils in 1988 doing their "Happy Days" reprise with all the trumpet soloists up front while the corps marched off the field. This actually my be my fav. Close call between this and Phantom 2003.
    1 point
  43. All these recommendations are excellent. I'd say watch some shows from each decade from the 70s on. If you can find anything of the old Chicago Royal Airs from the 60s definitely watch and listen. 1970s Santa Clara 1973 (their first title) or 74 Madison Scouts 1975 (as bold and powerful of a show you will ever hear) Blue Devils 1976 and 1979 (real jazz on the football field and it was amazing) 27th Lancers 1979 (drill and color guard with A+ music arranging and you have a classic show) Spirit of Atlanta 1979 (one of the loudest brass lines ever) Bridgemen 1979 Civil War Suite (the South wins in Birmingham) Absolutely awesome show that would put people on their feet today 1980s Blue Devils 1980 (professional grade soloists), 82, 86, 88 (more amazing soloists and a great reprise) 27th Lancers 1980 (many feel they should have won the title, no slight to BD who was excellent as well, but 27 had one of the best visual and guard presentations I had ever seen to that point with great music) Garfield Cadets 1982 (an extension visually of what 27th Lancers and SCV had been doing, but to the next degree), 83 (Garfield's first title and the famous Z-Pulll), 84 (west side story, and perhaps the best interpretation of it that I have ever seen on the field. I consider this show one of the BEST SHOWS OF ALL TIME by any standard. It remains in my top 5 of ALL TIME shows), 85 (wicked hard for the time), 87 (ballet and grace) SCV 1980 (one of the first asymmetrical drill moves, 1984, 85, 87, 88, 89 Suncoast Sound 1984, 85, 86, 88 (Florida Suite is one of my fav shows) Madison Scouts 1983, 84, 88 Star of Indiana 1985 (Disney show), 86 (Space show), 87 (Circus show) Spirit of Atlanta 1980, 84, 87 (high guard) Bridgemen 1980, 81 Bluecoats 1987 (first Finals top 12), 1988, and 1989 Of course, they are all fun to watch. Many others to see too. Colts of Iowa were always great and still are. The Quad City Knights had some amazing shows back in the day, and I think 1984 or 85 really stands out. The recommendations for the 90s and 2000s are all excellent, but I wanted to chime in on a few highlights from the 70s and 80s that had some historical significance.
    1 point
  44. One good one recently was the Medea reprise in Crown's 2016 closer.
    1 point
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