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A little sneak peek of a video being released tomorrow 😉

102 pages quite the long goodbye

A simple request instantly hijacked into complaining (especially about BD). DCP in a nutshell

I can get my Lisle tickets.

BD has followed the same genius formula for years and nobody has tried to copy them so I don't think they have anything to worry about. Besides, any serious designer could simply study them to understand the nuances. I miss just hearing designer commentary like George Hopkins explaining how everything in the Jethro Tull show didn't work.

Just back from Neato Burrito and see they are hiring (12 weeks until I retire). They say you need “food experience” but not sure if they mean serving it or eating it. 😜

I’m not answering your question, and I’m sure you don’t need a snarky comment, but I can’t help myself. When “show designers” have to make YouTube videos to explain what we’re seeing......it sums up the state of modern drum corps.

Indianapolis is a Ticketmaster event. And those are on sale Monday, according to the article.

The myth that "cultural relevance" is essential. Drum corps did not become popular because it was culturally relevant - exactly the opposite. The military, veterans organizations and civic groups had already moved on to full-fledged bands. Drum corps became popular in the 1920s and 1930s while performing right alongside such marching bands, because people were amazed by the effects that could be produced with more limited, culturally irrelevant instrumentation.

That's what I figured, too. I think I have a reminder setup on my Ticketmaster account.

Mega Monday appears to be DCI Box Office. Atlanta is usually Ticketmaster.

Maybe for any corps that puts out a video(s) explaining the show.

On sale Monday: https://www.dci.org/news/mega-monday-tickets-to-20-events-available-dec-9-featuring-new-digital-delivery Arrgh! No ATL tix?

When I say trailer trash I am looking in the mirror and laughing at myself. Park I was at was pretty nice (at first the owner didn’t want 20 something me to buy) when I lived there. Being an anal IT type person I crunched the numbers and moving out of the apartment to a trailer worked better in saving for a house. Lived there six years including first year of marriage. No disrespect meant for fellow trailer/modular people. When I looked around saw some nice parks and some crap holes.

Regiment certainly seems to be generating the turnout as photos are from the Beloit, Wisc. audition. This is from the simultaneous Dallas audition. https://t.co/9zGREyREbm

Exactly. You and the Raricks go way back. Heck... I remember seeing Tom as a kid on stage at the Forum, playing a snare duet with his dad.

I think you miss the point or are willingly ignoring it: your statement above is not reality or even documentable as the rule and not the overwhelming exception. If there were corps beating the "top corps" that did it with substantially less A&E support (in either dollars or pieces of equipment) we wouldn't be having discussions about the "arms race". Re: what's bolded, isn't it reasonably plausible that tech improvement happen each year, and that those improvements add design options that a corps can use to take advantage of especially-high member talent? Would Bluecoat's use of the array of mics and field speakers even be an option for a corps that uses two sidelines speakers? Would those two speakers present the same array soundscape that 'Coats achieved and scored the same "usage" credit as they were? I don't think so. A&E is, was, and always will be a judging issue, not a material asset or talent issue.

In only six posts! That must be some sort of record.

Haven’t watched many of the videos corps put out. What are the chances the BD really want the judges to take a look to understand better the subtle things they have in most of their shows?

what you mean pits didn't shrink?

yeah i mean Rarick was only there since what.....02.....and the pit is the one place electronics would have benefitted from it...which he ran before he took total control? careful when you try to make certain arguments with people wtching that know names and dates

Agree with you for the most part, but I also really enjoy watching BD360 all summer. They really know how to dissect each BD show and explain exactly what each section of the corps is trying to do and what the show is all about.

He's instantly indentifiable. I think he and Berlioz are 2 of the most underappreciated composers of this century. Nearly every piece they wrote makes me want to get up and do...something? They just happen to both be French.

The Bluecoats didn't move placements with electronics until they hired new visual design staff, new percussion staff and expanded their brass staff. Doug also started writing more technically contending music. Not all of this happened at once. They were still pulling middle of the pack placements with their electronic innovations. It's all the other stuff that made the placement difference.

i would say every show in finals this year made sense to me. I just like getting a deeper look, and seeing things I missed

Could, say, the Blue Devils come out in 2020 with no electronics/narration/special audio effects in their show and contend, as they usually do, for a championship... if every other corps is still going full speed ahead with electronics? I'm not sure that's the case.

Modern Drum Corps? I remember way back in the 70s corps did hand outs into the audience. Cadets and PR come to mind

The allegro giocoso section (4:14-6:21) of the above video is spectacular. Poulenc has some of my favorite literature for solo winds, too. I love how he bounces back and forth between frenetic and lyrical over a 4-bar phrase, like in this piece, which I think could pretty easily be adapted for brass:

especially any constructive comments about how to construct the props for under $$$ if props be used in the future.

Do you expect someone recorded the call? Or will a transcript of the call suffice?

Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?!!!!!!