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  1. How about just letting the corps decide what’s too expensive for them.
    8 points
  2. Your screen name should be REO Speedwagon. "Heard it from a friend who... heard it from a friend who..."
    6 points
  3. My best friend’s sister’s boyfriend’s brother’s girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who’s going with a girl who saw Ferris pass-out at 31 Flavors last night. I guess it’s pretty serious.
    5 points
  4. Breaking: INT fires their entire staff, then in a gutsy move, hires them all back again.
    5 points
  5. Now question is whether Dan Potter will ask the 19 Winner the asterik question of whether their championship really rates since C2 is not there?
    5 points
  6. I'd always heard your entire life flashes in front of your eyes the second before you die. First of all that one second isn't a second at all. It stretches on forever like an ocean of time. For me it was lying on my back watching falling stars. And yellow leaves from the maple trees. Or my grandmother's hands and the way her skin seemed like paper. Sometimes I feel like I'm seeing it all at once and it's too much. My heart fills up like a balloon that's about to burst. And then I remember to relax and stop stop trying to hold onto it. And then it flows through me like rain. And I can't feel anything but gratitude for every single moment. You have no idea what I'm talking about I'm sure. But don't worry. You will someday. I couldn't find this written out anywhere online so I extrapolated it from the end scene of American Beauty- may not be 100% accurate to the show. I've watched and listened to it enough to say it's pretty close. It's amazing how BK took a profound moment from a movie I don't like at all and turned it into something so beautiful and powerful. I would argue that BK 14,16,17,19 have the best use of narration in all of DCI.
    5 points
  7. BK's ending, when they unveiled the dots and tears were rolling down members' faces. I've never felt so emotionally connected to a drum corps show in my life.
    5 points
  8. How about a show called "Screech: The Music of Yoko Ono"?
    4 points
  9. artistic differences is a catch-all phrase designers/instructors/techs often use in such situations. Let's wish the man and the corps well for future days.
    4 points
  10. Hell, I’ll listen. Change the 5 cents to $800 and start airing your grievances.
    3 points
  11. No, you just don't like the rumors coming out of your favorite organization so you're getting all butthurt about it.
    3 points
  12. That’s true. People are always looking for something sinister even when there probably isn’t anything much to it. Maybe it’s just a difference in opinion about the direction of the corps or something innocuous like that. We’re now conditioned to think the worst. Sad. I know people don’t mean to be that way.
    3 points
  13. Another who apparently doesn’t get it the corps get to announce their changes and staff when they want - spreading rumors and hearsay is very unsupportive for people who call themselves “fans” - particularly in the case of the Cadets who have been thru plenty the past 18 months
    3 points
  14. Heard it from another you been messin' around
    3 points
  15. You’re making me cry again. I cried every #### time.
    3 points
  16. A few of the moments from DCI 2019 that gave me chills: Blue Devils romantic ballad... those sonorous, sustained chords... those big, exposed guard moments... so much raw emotion. Carolina Crown's high velocity marching and playing in the closer, the sustained company front, and the crown set on the last note... such incredible dynamism and power. Cavaliers rifles firing off in all directions at the end of their show and the collapse onto the ground of the whole corps with the sound of the train passing... so intense and climactic. Blue Knights rotating battery circles at the beginning of their opener... just mesmerizing, and sets the mood so perfectly for their show.
    3 points
  17. my guess is they disagreed about something and decided to part ways. wording to make it sound amicable may have been used even if it wasn't amicable. There's always 3 sides to every story...theirs, yours and the truth is usually in the middle
    3 points
  18. find me. I'll be one of, oh, 1300
    3 points
  19. Countless numbers for me.... just countless. All of the corps were incredible!
    3 points
  20. How well or in what way I have a relationship with Dan A is completely unrelated to the discussion and, again, I don't think it's accurate or constructive to dismiss my opinions and facts as somehow biased because they differ from yours. It is you who are wrong in your assumptions here; let's just leave it as I have an "association" relationship with Dan A. Hopefully I've corrected your thinking about the board being just a bunch of old band directors, and now I'm going to agree with much in your second paragraph. But you don't understand that the fingers that pull the strings to solve the issues you raise are not attached to Dan A's hand. No matter how much you think it might be true, the BoD has and controls all the power to solve these problems. Dan A, to use his own words, is exactly what the Board wants him to be - the tour director. That's his first and official role. Run the tour and sell seats. I don't know if you were around during the G7 days almost a decade ago, but a base contention of the group was that they, the directors who (in their mind) the "Draw" had all of the talent, time, and ability to run and promote the tour, and that Dan A was unnecessary. They summarily fired him. Despite the fact that the rest of the directors reinstated him doesn't detract from the core principle that those directors, at that time, claimed as their task and responsibility, all of the job functions of the current ED. In short, they believe(d) that they had pared Dan's role down to the point that he was unnecessary. Keep that thought in your mind. For years prior and, some say, until very recently, Dan A's hands were bound tighter and tighter by directors who had become convinced that he was only worth ignoring. "Summarily rejected" is what was said when describing the response from "the entire activity" (of corps directors) to any edict or decision passed down from Dan's office. Have you actually BEEN to the DCI offices? Have you met the staff? The tech crew? The A/V crew? How about sat in on a board meeting to see how they work and how they apply (butcher) Robert's Rules of order (or disorder, depending on the subject)? Do you know the characters from whom the ED's office collects input? You act like this is high school band where a gray-haired band parent is making amateur decisions. They're not. I love the phrase "...with College accredited Business experience...". Don't you actually mean a recent grad with some book-learnin' and NO actual business experience? And you're going to throw THAT kid into the snake pit of drum corps directors to try to get something done? I'm sorry, you're deluding yourself with fantasy reminders of some stories you've been told. You're not living in the real world. Look, I don't disagree, and I think you'll find that the BoD of DCI doesn't disagree that "new blood" is useful and more important now. But I think you should give credit where credit is due and lay blame where it deserves to be laid, too. You're misguided about the roles and responsibilities of the people you presume are "running things" and I would encourage you to learn the facts before you start slinging mud. I've been plenty hard on Dan A and his office's actions (I've interacted directly with DCI in several roles), and he doesn't need me to defend him - although lots of people who work directly with him do - and after all these years of herding these cats, his skin is rhino-thick. But, when you sling mud, you'd better be throwing it in the right direction while being very careful not to presume you've known or know a better way when you, apparently, know so little about the way they've gotten here.
    3 points
  21. Same. When I first saw/heard it, at the Memorial Day show-and-tell, it sounded as if someone had lit a fuse on a stick of dynamite. Then, POW Others: The sight of Cavies' rifles flying through the air at the end of their show The supernova circle of Blue Stars hit in Frozen BD's trademark swirl Cadets' 10-minute tenor feature More BK: All the negative aural space and pure artistry of Hurt. The battery echoes from stage right were just enormously effective. And Daniel Belcher conducting Liquid; what a gas. The way Crown brought it, and brought it, and brought it through their entire closer. Hugely satisfying payoff. Bluecoats' long, long decrescendo off their first hit. Sooo musical. Scouts' tumbling blocks down to the sideline on stage left. Savannah Light taking charge of the Troopers. She's, like, 5 feet high, and Ten Feet Tall. The duet in Gabriel's Oboe.
    3 points
  22. Silly you. The souvie lady IS Mr. New!
    3 points
  23. There are pills now for the first one.
    3 points
  24. Why DCA didn't make one more corps go to Connecticut is beyond me. 5 in PA, 3 in CT. Not smart.
    2 points
  25. True story lol. I just wanna spot him from the feed.
    2 points
  26. Oh, you succeeded... in ways you will never know!!!
    2 points
  27. BK this year. Been giving that views and listens since finals night and it's impressively seamless.
    2 points
  28. 2 points
  29. Oh please. Stop infantilizing those who march in these top DCI corps. They do not require your or anyone else’s protection when it comes to rumors they’ve most likely been hearing about long before this thread was created, long before the season even ended.
    2 points
  30. Me too, I’ve loved their sound for the last five years, I hope they continue with that quality.
    2 points
  31. What’s interesting for me is while 7th place shows have impressed the adjucaters, they are less memorable than the 8th - 12th place performances to me.
    2 points
  32. first off, ditch communication. ambiguous as hell, mostly GE speak already covered on the GE sheet. Second, field visual needs to come back. yes people say Ensemble can catch things, and may, but the sheet is designed to be an upstairs sheet. the last few years some of the individual issues...at finals up into the top 3....has been horrific to defend.
    2 points
  33. Let's try it this way: He made public what he wanted public. Anyone other than Tommy or the BoD has no reason to know any more than that. In other words, anything other than what he chose to share is his business. It is not the function of any third party to make uneducated guesses, especially ones that could damage the reputation or image of either party involved. I will point out something I pointed out around this time last year when someone came after me on this forum, someone not involved, with no real information on the subject: These are real human beings you are talking about, with real lives. So the same respect you would want shown to you.
    2 points
  34. i'm not asking, i don't care one way or the other. they lost me with the associate member stuff. that to me was good old boy to the extreme.
    2 points
  35. Easy - Houdini was the reason I marched there. Also this ending
    2 points
  36. Keep thinking of this with seeing posts about DCI should show recordings and DCP concern about lawsuits over posts. Had a distant family member got caught up in a sting the state ran against businesses like his. Appears state wanted two biggies but sucked in 6 others (including family member) to make things less obvious. The biggies kept dragging things out and all 8 had to go to all the appeal hearing$. Finally the lesser 6 could see they would probably be found innocent but would be broke by then. Quick plea bargain for probation later and lesser 6 were done paying thru the nose for lawyers. Moral you can be innocent and still lose your ### if you go to court. Big reason why DCI doesn’t want to take the chance. yeah different from gh mindset but reminded me...
    2 points
  37. why isn't this rumor spammer banned yet?
    2 points
  38. I do get it. But then again I don’t think The Bluecoats is garbage. 😕
    2 points
  39. The end of FOEG, the entirety of BK's show but especially the beginning with the battery effects, Cavies' ballad, any time SCV's mellos played a note, and Eleanor Rigby.
    2 points
  40. Oh man... Drum Corps News!!! It was like the Wild West at times. LOL. Lots of strong opinions voiced there. Fun to read.
    2 points
  41. Yes - I saw that too. Court cased get postponed & rescheduled (the legal system calls it 'continued') quite often - sometimes for years. I am still on-track w/ my prediction we will know the 2020 DCI champion before any trial actually starts.
    2 points
  42. The simplest explanation is something like this: having reached Semifinals for the first time in a while, he asked the board to authorize a larger budget next year so they could build on their success, and they said no, and he decided it wasn't worth another season of trying to wring blood from a stone. But that's just a guess, taking him at his word that the split was amicable.
    2 points
  43. I believe the nomination process is on their website. A much more open procedure than it was back in the day, IMO, when it sure seemed to be an "old boys club." Whatever the issues are with GH and RB... the WDCHOF has a ton of big names from senior/all age, and DCI, in the ranks. I don't think you'll find any of them calling the Hall a farce, irrelevant, or any such thing. And I don't recall any of them rejecting the honor for any reasons. If a deserving person has slipped through the cracks... and the one name that's been mentioned is a huge "slip" for sure... then someone should step up and submit a nomination of that person. It's not the first time a Hall of Fame... anywhere, for anything... is late to the gate on inducting someone who should have been there years before. For instance, why did it take the DCI Hall of Fame so long to get around to Brandt Crocker?
    2 points
  44. I gave a possible answer based on knowing at least one DCHOC will not induct people without their permission. Which means “we’re missing someone” doesn’t mean squat. To paraphrase you, for some weird reason you keep accusing people of something (no idea what) and far as we know have never contacted WDCHOF to ask. And there is a Contact Us webpage.
    2 points
  45. First, I'm going to show you that you're wrong with evidence and understanding. First, here are the bios of the all but two members of the current BoD of DCI. I defy you to define this group as "Old band directors". The two I left out are board members currently directly involved with active drum corps. Jim Tabuchi, shown below, is currently connected with an active drum corps but his background in (ahem) business is so noteworthy that I'm "excusing" the fact that he's old and a current "band" director. When you're done, I think you'll agree that the current voting administration of DCI's BoD is not as you've convinced yourself they are. And I think you owe an apology here to the "Person from the Dept of Agriculture"; your diminishment of her CV is insulting. I'll address the next inaccuracy of your post next, in a much shorter form. Kathy Black enjoyed a long career in the high-tech industry in both technical and management positions before going to law school and becoming an attorney. She has been practicing law for the federal government since 2009. Black currently works as an attorney for Southwestern Power Administration’s Office of General Counsel. Southwestern is a Power Marketing Administration within the U.S. Department of Energy, responsible for marketing hydroelectric power generated by 24 federal dams across six states. Since 2011 she has served on the board of directors of Music for All. A native of Indianapolis, Black is an accomplished jazz, rock, and blues drummer and an alum of the Guardsmen Drum and Bugle Corps. Over the past two decades, Fran Kick has served as an educational consultant and leadership coordinator for the Bands of America/Music for All Summer Symposium. Having been involved as an instructor with the Glassmen Drum and Bugle Corps in the mid-1980s and a band director through the late 1980s to the early 1990s, Kick continues to advocate and evangelize for the power of participating in music across the country. He has spearheaded the "Kick Start Your Season With DCI" leadership workshops for students as part of the Drum Corps International Tour since 2012. Since taking an educational leave of absence from teaching in 1991, Kick developed his part-time speaking adventure into a full-time mission. He is an author, professional speaker and leadership consultant, inspiring people with presentations, programs and publishing for students, adults and associations. Currently a vice president at DXC Technology, a global IT services and solutions leader, James M. Doyle previously served as Vice President of HP's Enterprise Services. Prior to joining HP, Doyle was Global Vice President of sales for Unisys Global Managed Services business and was the Vice President of Sales for Xerox/ACS Information Technology Business. Prior to joining Xerox/ACS, Doyle was the Vice President of CSC's Americas outsourcing mid-size business group. Previous assignments at CSC include vice president in America's business development, vice president of the Healthcare Group's global life sciences division, and managing director of the national life sciences practice with CSC Consulting. In addition to his strong development background, he also held positions with CSC in the areas of operational management, client management and technology consulting services. Doyle started his career with Peat, Marwick and Mitchell as a senior consultant before joining the General Electric Company (GE). At GE, he was responsible for technology assessment and integration in support of the corporation's M&A activities and held management positions in GE's Information Services business unit. Doyle's education includes Business Administration from Widener University, Strategic Planning and Scenario Planning, Cornell University and GE Leadership Development Program. He is an alum of the Crossmen Drum and Bugle Corps, where he marched in the contrabass line from 1975-1977. Doyle was instrumental in assisting the Crossmen during the corps' relocation from the Delaware Valley to San Antonio, Texas. John Masterson graduated with a bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan in 1983, and from the University of Wyoming College of Law in 1986. During more than 30 years as an attorney, he has been a public defender, a state prosecutor, an Assistant United States Attorney, counsel to one Wyoming governor, and an advisor and legislative liaison to the current governor. He is now a partner in a western regional law firm, with a practice focusing on litigation, contract and transactional matters, corporate and non-profit work, and governmental relations. Masterson is heavily involved in the administration and management of non-profits through active service on boards, and by providing them with training and pro-bono legal services. He currently sits on the boards of, among others, the Natrona County Public Library Foundation, the Troopers Drum & Bugle Corps, Court Appointed Special Advocates, the Tate Foundation and the Wyoming Medical Center. He is also the Chairman of the Wyoming Board of Law Examiners and the Vice President of the Wyoming State Bar. Masterson's drum corps experience comes from the Troopers, and consists of three years as a marching member, three years as drum major, and three years as a marching instructor. On the retirement of Jim Jones in 1987, he became director of the Troopers for the next four years. Masterson has several years of service on the DCI Board of Directors. Jim Tabuchi is a semi-retired executive from Hewlett-Packard and Agilent Technologies. Throughout his career he has held numerous positions in the areas of technical marketing, sales, consulting services, customer support, corporate development, strategic planning and international business. While at Hewlett-Packard and Agilent Technologies, Tabuchi was the Worldwide Marketing and Services Senior Manager for the EEsof Division of electronic design solutions. Prior to that, he was based in Hong Kong as the Asia-Pacific Region Manager, responsible for developing HP’s business in China, Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore, India, Malaysia and Australia and other Asian countries. Tabuchi is a native Northern Californian, who received his Bachelors of Science in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California (CAL) at Berkeley. He went on to receive his MBA in International Marketing at the University of Washington (UW) in Seattle. He has also done post-graduate studies at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and at the International Institute for Studies and Training (IIST) in Japan. He is proud to be a Senior Fellow and Board Member of the American Leadership Forum. Chris Komnick is an innovative business strategist with more than 20 years of experience and a track record of success with technology and marketing companies. His skill at identifying and building market value for products and services led to many senior level assignments directing activities including executive strategy, business development, product management, operations, and software engineering. Komnick has a Bachelor of Science, Technology from Purdue University, a Masters of Business Administration, Marketing from Miami University, and a Post Graduate Studies – University of Chicago – Certification in E-Business Strategy. He held senior management roles in the strategic positioning, divestiture, definition and implementation of operational strategies for several highly successful businesses and business units. Additionally, Komnick has been an analyst on technology acquisition opportunities in order to simultaneously expand a product portfolio and increase top-line revenues. Komnick joined the Madison Scouts Board of Directors in 2007 and assumed the position of Executive Director of the organization in the fall of 2008. He has served on the DCI Board of Directors since 2012 and also served on the Finance and Business Development committees.
    2 points
  46. But DCI doesn't have that "unique" "Communication" caption that is so distinctively DCA.
    2 points
  47. It tells us there were a lot of poorly run drum corps back in the 80's. Mike
    2 points
  48. End of Gabriel's Oboe on finals night. Crown REALLY got that piece working.
    2 points
  49. Can we delete this thread and start a new one? With actual posts about staff comings and goings? This is now 21 pages of off-topic rubbish.
    2 points
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