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You would tell us but then you would have to kill us?

Not to sound smug, but maybe there are so many holes because this actually is necessary.

Good catch. If we add Esperanza, Impulse, Blue Devils B, and Santa Clara Vanguard into the mix, the total investment from CA becomes even more significant.

It's very common in the non-profit world for people to solicit "great" ideas with the expectation that other people will execute those ideas. I am certain that any drum corps will gladly accept your offer to financially underwrite their participation at Indy and/or offer your time to organize such a performance. As you said, it would take very little investment of your time, effort, and expense to make that happen.

In 28 of DCI's 48 years, the championship has been won by one of two corps from California. In 1 of DCI's 48 years, the championship has been hosted in the same state as one of the two corps referenced above. They have already invested more of their fair share of financial and logistical resources to the activity.

If someone can't find that information by the time they reach page 30 of this thread, then that's on them.

I will agree with you. Satire and irony are doing well. It's quality journalism that has died.

Kind of off topic, but there is a group of airlines owned by Richard Branson that I refuse to fly because they don't go all the way. To the topic at hand, there is just too much that needs to been seen and heard live in order to effectively evaluate a performance. Live judges should be here to stay.

Stop: The current pre-show process as a corps takes the field. I miss the days of hearing BD do F tuning. Start: Promoting SoundSport more. Change: Have every corps start at the exact same time. Full contact drum corps. Last one standing wins.

This has a chance to be very bad for the activity: http://www.philly.com/philly/news/drum-and-bugle-corps-sexual-assault-harassment-george-hopkins-share-story-20180409.html While it's good to give victims the chance to share their stories and begin the process of healing, it is also good to let the world know that predators do not define drum corps. Almost everyone has a personal story about how drum corps has had a tremendous impact on their lives. Let's try to share those stories as well, and also let any victims of abuse know what we also stand for them.

It appears we are talking about different groups of people here. I see YEA to include alumni, current performers, sponsors, donors, etc. They are all victims of the lack of professionalism as well. Like many others on this forum, I am a past performer and staff member of multiple drum corps. I think we can all admit that while this particular situation is extreme, it is reflects a deeper cultural issue within the activity.

I agree. To be fair, though, YEA actually is a victim in all of this as well.

I'd actually go with Samuel L. Jackson. To make the activity more popular, DCI could go from "Marching Music's Major League" to "Bands on a Mother F%#$#@$ Field."

No matter how good a performance might be, I immediately lose interest when a section or the entire hornline will have one foot crossed over the other during a feature. Yes, I get the attempted message is that they are doing something really hard so they can stand in a cool way that makes it seem easy. I just think it's laziness on the part of the designers and they throw it in because they can't think of anything original.

Ummm......people were freaking on media in 2000? My chat room on AOL may have been going crazy while playing Snake on their Nokia phones, but I'm not sure about the social media bit.

While you are at it, you can also mention decibel levels and exposure to toxins via diesel fumes.

Flip it around. Require those corps with fewer resources to spend at the same level as the upper echelon corps. Essentially force them to work their fundraising model to generate a higher level of cash.

Sounds about right to me. I actually find it interesting when the words family and brotherhood/sisterhood are thrown out to describe a group activity as a way to get people to stop fighting. Family doesn't exist without conflict and sibling rivalry. Similarly, it's also crazy to me when people, especially trained musicians, talk about living in harmony with others. Most of time studying harmony was spent learning about dissonance and not consonance, and I am pretty sure that is not what people really mean.

I say do two weeks on the East Coast then two weeks on the West Coast, then flip-flop the next year. Skip the flyover states entirely.

Corps would be better suited to expanding he size of their on field cymbal sections. If you are going to add members that most audience members wouldn't even notice, you should at least make them play instruments that cost a lot less to maintain. This means those extra tour fees are much more profitable for the corps.

With only a few exceptions, I see props as a waste of time and money. I usually think the corps would be better off investing all those resources in instruction to get the members performing at a higher level.

I think that this is somewhat directed at me. To be clear, in my statement about demand being subjective, I was conversing with George Dixon. If the definition of demand is "playing intricate music at 230 BPM while moving" that is your call, and I will also agree that is MIGHT be very challenging. If the step sizes are small and there are few, if any, direction changes, then the demand becomes much less. I also wonder what the definition of intricate music would be. Is it rapid technical passages? How about submit dynamic changes? Modulations? Changes of mode that create "intricate" tuning responsibilities? If the primary definition of effect is velocity, then any show you design would be hammered due to limited vocabulary.

Like you, I not entirely sure what he is questioning. In the first post, he simply mentioned that the Cadets should have medaled. I have to share a story that might not translate entirely well on the internet. I have a friend who can't watch the end of the Superbowl because she feels so sorry to see the faces of the losing team, and I have to remind her that the only way to lose the Superbowl is to actually be in the Superbowl. Finishing behind the top 3 this year is no disgrace. Also like you, I am not sure where demand sits on the current sheets. Back when I was teaching, it wasn't. The key terms were coordination and integration. Demand is also pretty subjective. Many people think moving at 220 bpm is pretty demanding. I always felt that marching backwards at 60 bpm was the hardest thing ever, but most people here on DCP would disagree with that.

The first caption on the recaps is General Effect, not General Demand.

I think it's great that DCI recognizes the need to come together as an activity to ensure financial integrity for it members. With that being said, however, this concept is very amateur and is the equivalent of holding a car wash or bake sale or asking for spare change at the gas station. It wasn't announced until the 10th and ends on the 17th. Most people who would like to donate are already doing so. Plus, think about how many people are on vacation right now and aren't in a position to give to a campaign like this. The site says that results will be updated daily. I haven't seen anything yet.