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i reject your reality and substitute my own! crown plays 32nd notes 100% of the time with perfect tone quality. this is absolute fact.

Wait, Star did a Philip Glass show?

just watched the show for the first time in maybe 3 weeks... the show still isn't doing anything for me, but my goodness... no one should be beating them in marching.

, said pretty much everyone exactly one year ago.

If the BOD is even remotely concerned about competitive success, the BOD is focused on exactly the wrong thing.

cadets visual numbers upside down... danger will robinson

World Class1The Cadets83.9002Carolina Crown83.4503Bluecoats83.2004Boston Crusaders73.9505Spirit of Atlanta72.650Open Class17th Regiment64.4002Spartans62.400

there are fewer corps on the west coast, therefore there are fewer shows. qed

that hornline is the real deal, but guys in military uniforms doing "movement" still looks ridiculous. i don't like that it's basically compulsory now.

i don't care about "easy." i care about pushing out the walls of the activity. this show was state of the art, like... 15 years ago.

this show is the epitome of "safe," which is the exact opposite of the cadet credo. it kind of bums me out.

the elephant in the room is that before the metronome was common, corps simply didn't play as well together as they do now. a lot of it was very sloppy, and dare i say not musical?

I'm not naive or wrong. Nowhere on the sheets is "effect" defined, yet "effect" is used as an adjective ("How effectively does...") and a noun ("Variety of Effects"). Therefore, there is no "explicit criteria" for "effect." Similarly, can you actually, honestly, intellectually argue that "programmatic interpretation" means exactly the same thing to every judge? No way! "I know it when I see it." I LOVE the Bluecoats' show... but its clear that whatever "top tier" effect is comprised of... this TILT doesn't seem to have it.

they can say that the GE sheet is changing, but until someone can actually describe GE in the first place, it'll just be judges saying "i know effective when i see effective."

this is also my assessment... a corps doesn't simply ADD ge and have the score come along. a show needs to be "accepted" by the judging community as "effective"or you're toast in the upper tier... these numbers (from "real" judges, who will certainly judge regionals and one night at indy) say to bluecoats, "pretty good, but not title-quality."

the board shouldn't even discuss competitive success. it should only make sure that the organization is fulfilling its mission.

bluecoats just ate their lunch, designwise.

did i miss the part where they reach a dynamic level greater than mf? the whole show just kind of sat there.

no. the drum parts can't easily be sped up or slowed down. maybe a click or two, but what you see is what you get, and we get long stretches at 144-152, which is death for visual effect.

the entire middle is incredibly forgettable

if you just accept that crown (key staff comprised extensively of "golden age" cadets) is the new cadets, it makes it easier to root for crown!

sorry, man. i didn't realize that opinions needed supporting context. i'm not trying to prove a thesis here. BUT i joined the corps because it wasn't afraid to try new things... to push the walls out... to play a zillion notes at 208 bpm because "F YOU that's why." i watch this vanilla retread of a disney world attraction and it makes me sad. when i marched, we had a t-shirt that said: “Faster, Faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death.” -Hunter S. Thompson what happened to THAT corps?

thinking about this more... how did the corps devolve from this, 22 years ago, to "Hall of Presidents: The Drum Corps Show" today?:

second-tier design as an alum i am shocked that the cadets are putting out something this vanilla. even in tough years, they at least TRY something... not this year ugh

UGH I can't stand when people get simple history things wrong 44 men HAVE NOT stood on the steps of the capital and recited the oath. The capital wasn't even built until 1800, and some have taken the oath elsewhere, like LBJ who did it in Air Force One.