FrankBeMe
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Class A
Best Drum Major - John Mayer, Govenaires
High Percussion - Carolina Gold
4. Govenairs - 81.013
3. Carolina Gold - 81.738
2. Kingston Grenadiers - 82.988
1. Fusion Core - 84.463
If anything else...Govies are consistant--same score both nights
Congrats Fusion Core!
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It sucks to be waiting here in California for the results.
(On the OTHER hand, I do have a nice Single Malt Scotch in my hand!)
Like you couldn't have that on the field??
Hey Kevin---do you know if Star United and Kilties will be on the finals DVD?
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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the 2010 Drum Corps Associates World Championships Finals competition! Fran Haring has started the festivities on the field and we're starting the festivities in the booth. In fact, Fran is hard to miss:
The weather is 64 degrees and mostly cloudy skies. The wind has died down, however, so color guards tonight will be much happier as a result.
The national anthems have played and Fran is introducing the officials and judges for tonight's competition. I'll post a schedule shortly.
Dang Fran...talk about loud!!
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Photos from the field: Empire Statesmen
Yikes!!!! !
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Great job DCP news crew!
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In the event that these aussies were to blow beyond the backfield boundary, would that be counted as a penalty?
Only if they were actual human Aussies
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Circus Maximus. Great Guard batman!
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nice yellow brick flags as we ease on down the road!
Those must be really heavy!
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Dorothy's getting spun around in her house.
Not liking the low brass sound so far. Sounds weak, upper brass is overpowering it so far.
That's because you're not there anymore
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Very nice score on MBI, hopefully that is for 1st. PLEASE be for 1st
would be nice....but you know that DCA will push Kidsgrove above that tomorow.
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With a low brass and pit sound like that, you don't need synth bass. Take that, DCI.
Now now..didn't you know that DCI is wiser than anything us mere mortals can comprehend?
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Yeah Kidsgrove! Goodonya, Lads and Lassies! Did I call that 5 point bounce they'd get or not on that doom and gloom thread from earlier in the week!?
yeah..you'd think DCA would have put them in striking distance of Bucs and then win tomorrow night
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Same here. I know why I'm not there...MONEY!
My parents said the temp dropped from the 90's the other day to 50's and 60's today. They live North of Buffalo.
62 with a windchill of 59 here by Madison right now
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This is where the judges have to earn their money. As you said.....they are way better than their seed score. Let's hope they put them where they should be.
Their "seed score" is from July 17.....of course they're going to be better than it.
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Stealthmen: classified
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The stock market dropped 376 points today...obviously as a reaction to this
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Buy from a scalper then, since according to some that 'hurts' dci.
The scalpers have to buy them from somewhere..eventually indirectly getting them from DCI.
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I just checked Drudge Report and they don't have anything on this.
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Oh baby.... Reduction in Force'd (yep long time gov't employee here)
Saw rif and thought of when where I worked was under BRAC (Base Re-Alignment and Closure Committee). Best defense when you think you might lose your job is to show to the public how important you and your employer is the community at large. Might be a lesson here for the non-G7 corps.
Terms I haven't heard in years! Thanks for bringing up many nights of nightmares!!
(I've actually been on my RDO for almost six years now)So, I'm not sure just how a corps at any level can show their community how important they are. Heck, the majority of the people in my neck of the woods have never heard of the Scouts. Fact is, despite what the die hards think, drum corps is pretty much at the bottom of the barrel when it comes to spending any extra money one may have.
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A great way to help all corps become self-sustaining is to grow the brand. Make drum corps a household concept, like basketball or baseball.
And just how do you do that? What makes you think that what hasn't happened since the end of World War I could suddenly happen now? Believe it or not, the vast majority of the population has never heard of drum corps. Most of those who have heard of it think of it as "oh nice band" or "ho hum." It's only a very small part of the population that is going to support it in any way. And with all the economic problems now and in the future, more people are going to stay away. If the G7 think that they'll automatically increase their riches, they're wrong. People spend money now on actual needs with maybe a movie or going out to eat thrown in every now and then.
Drum corps is never going to be a household concept, it never has been. And as people continue to necessarily spend less on entertainment and other non-essentials, not only won't there be increased revenue for most corps, it won't be there for the G7 either. In time, the whole thing fails. Believe it or not, DCI isn't too big to fail.
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All one has to do to see what will happen because of this is to look at what happened to DCM when the big corps pulled out.
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There would be the usual snobby nosed, high brow college music majors who still, for whatever reason, actually attended shows, who would say that Spirit and Madison sound crass and way out of tune from playing too loud.....in fact calling it unmusical!
There would have been a lot of people demanding to put Crossmen and Troopers both in finals, just like the IC Reveries in 66 during their end zone sit-in.
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Both Garfield and Anaheim played the (awful) Jimmy Webb tune "The Concert...er...Yard Goes on Forever" in 1969.
And boy did it ever!
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Madison first played Malaguena in 1963. The chart was by marching member Nick Venden, and like every other version that followed was based on the Bill Holman arrangement - recorded by the Kenton band in 1961.
Blue Stars did Malaguena in 1970.
Around 1969-1970 bunches of corps were playing "Sounds of Silence" and "Scarborough Fair" or both.
Several played "Russian Sailor Dance" in 1973--Black Knights, Commodores and Windjammers. Cavaliers held off until 1976 to play it.
"Hall of the Mountain King" was played by the Northernaires in 1967. They played it again in 1968 along with Cavaliers and Blue Stars.
"Crown Imperial" was done by both Black Knights and 27th Lancers in 1973. Both in finals
CapitolAires and Coachmen did "A League of Their Own" in 1994.
2010 Drum Corps Associates World Championships FINALS
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North Carolina is in the northeast now??