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Songs you associate with drum corps
FTNK replied to Orwellian Wiress's topic in DCI World Class Corps Discussions
Even I enjoy 1975 Madison... Meeeemories.... bwah bwah bwahbwah, bwah bwah bwaaah... -
Songs you associate with drum corps
FTNK replied to Orwellian Wiress's topic in DCI World Class Corps Discussions
Blue Devils 2000 show - all Bernard Herrmann film music. Man, what a god Herrmann was. I have the complete film scores for Psycho and Vertigo on CD. BD 2000 is a HIGHLY underrated show. Finished 4th, which is pretty unthinkable for BD. "Night Piece for Orchestra" from Taxi Driver "North by Northwest" Anyone remember the "State of the Art II" CD, studio recordings of 2000 SCV and BD? Am I dating myself? -
Songs you associate with drum corps
FTNK replied to Orwellian Wiress's topic in DCI World Class Corps Discussions
@Orwellian Wiress I know you're pretty young but you should check out 1996 Phantom Regiment. "It's a classic!" although the whole "Shostakovich as a dissident" thing is mostly BS https://www.nytimes.com/1998/10/17/books/sly-dissident-soviet-tool-musical-war-new-evidence-memoirs-splits-shostakovich.html -
Trigger warning, though considering the thread you're probably expecting it: I've written about this before, but grooming/sexual assault to me is the original sin of "the marching arts." When I was a freshman in HS, I was in a bad band that just started competing. I idolized Norwin HS, a local band who dominated competitively and was 1982 BOA Grand Nationals champion. Norwin was famous for the very athletic drum majors salute they had. Me, as an innocent 14 year old, posted on the BOA forums, asking why Norwin always had a male drum major. I was contacted anonymously by a former DM at Norwin. He described how the director, LJ Hancock, was also a wrestling coach, and his drum majors joined the wrestling team. There, they would be sexually assaulted regularly. Classic grooming. About a year later, someone went public, and Hancock was placed on leave. https://old.post-gazette.com/neigh_westmoreland/20010718hancock0718p2.asp A few months later, he died. At the BOA summer symposium I attended a year later, the opening ceremony had a huge tribute to him and his "great contributions to the activity." It was at that moment I knew the activity was irredemable. Music for All/BOA still has him listed in their hall of fame: https://education.musicforall.org/person/l-j-hancock/ Burn it all down.
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Marching experience of DCP members
FTNK replied to IllianaLancerContra's topic in DCI World Class Corps Discussions
womp womp -
Marching experience of DCP members
FTNK replied to IllianaLancerContra's topic in DCI World Class Corps Discussions
how come you hated marching band? HS or college? I despised college band -
Santa Clara Vanguard 2022
FTNK replied to SaturdayNightLights's topic in DCI World Class Corps Discussions
I marched with one of the plaintiffs and another victim was my assistant director -
Hey, I'm giving away my Flomarching subscription. If you wanted to use Flo but not pay for it, DM me and I'll hook you up with the login info. I will deactivate the account after finals.
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Santa Clara Vanguard 2022
FTNK replied to SaturdayNightLights's topic in DCI World Class Corps Discussions
Giving George Hopkins VIP passes - I hope this corps folds. -
The video about Ryan the keytar soloist shows just what a high - truly professional - level of skill and experience the top corps have these days. Studying jazz piano at Berklee and playing mellophone on the side! Wow. Kudos to the Bluecoats' design team for letting him make it his own. Extraordinary
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Salem was the site of the most messed up thing I saw in drum corps - kids ganged up after lights out to assault a guy in my section, because “he had a bad attitude.” All that happened was that the next day, the whole corps got a lecture from some old guy who paracuted in a couple of times a season to consult on visual. His quote, which will live in my mind forever as an encapsulation of everything wrong with the activity, was “If this were the real world, you’d be in jail.” Capital Regiment was some wild ####
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The hypothetical "perfect show"
FTNK replied to Orwellian Wiress's topic in DCI World Class Corps Discussions
trying to make a 2011 Blue Devils joke, but you can’t get much of a house with $125k in today’s market -
The hypothetical "perfect show"
FTNK replied to Orwellian Wiress's topic in DCI World Class Corps Discussions
Punishing wrongdoing? doesn’t sound like DCI to me -
I can’t recall the 2007 SCV show to save my life. I liked that 2008 show with the minimalism 2009 was magnificent too.