FTNK
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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?
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@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
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Hop is going to get attention no matter what
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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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21 minutes ago, henry7184 said:
HS. Because it was boring, we sucked and the music we played was lame. I rarely ever played.
womp womp
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1 hour ago, henry7184 said:
6 years DCI marching experience.
4 years marching band experience (although I did the absolute bear minimum and wasn't in the least bit interested. If one would get an A for effort, I would have gotten an F). Hated it is an understatement.
how come you hated marching band? HS or college? I despised college band
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4 hours ago, scheherazadesghost said:
I've not yet been given evidence that this was the case. Appreciating your fire about GH though.
I marched with one of the plaintiffs and another victim was my assistant director
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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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If people in the corps (staff, admin) were bothered by his presence, they would confront him in person. The fact that he feels comfortable going to multiple shows, suggests that plenty of people in power are not very bothered by him hanging around.
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Giving George Hopkins VIP passes - I hope this corps folds.
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6 minutes ago, scheherazadesghost said:
They were before my time... but ####, nonetheless, I sorely miss them. They are needed in times like these.
I'd love a well-programmed show that used humor and satire to take some of the self-seriousness out of drum corps. Humor is hard though
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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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7 minutes ago, saxfreq1128 said:
Where’s a witch when you need one? This situation calls for a hex.
or something
He blogged about hanging out and talking with some old friends in the activity. Wonder who those people are...
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Does anyone running things at DCI understand how much letting this continue is putting a noose around their own neck?
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6 minutes ago, Terri Schehr said:
It would really take some stones to show up at Allentown.
This is pretty much guaranteed, right?
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Maybe going to some shows in person would be a worthwhile investment
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Does this field still have a huge crown - aka seriously higher in the middle and sloping toward the sidelines?
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the next year our rehearsal day got rained out, so the hornline ran through the show in the housing site auditorium, then we ate ice cream, which was nice.
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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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4 minutes ago, Triple Forte said:
Is step 2. 35k?
if so you are not even close lol
a top 12 corps in 2019 paid 125K for prop design construction and tour transportation 😁
trying to make a 2011 Blue Devils joke, but you can’t get much of a house with $125k in today’s market
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4 minutes ago, George Dixon said:
everyone should give me a dollar, I coined "Backflip Jesus!" lol I'd be rich!! (Jesus never actually back flipped, man that would have been something!)
you defended all those terrible show designs like crazy
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On 7/31/2022 at 5:48 PM, Ashontheinternet said:
Step 1. be The Blue Devils (opt. write a show about dreams)
Step 2. buy $35000 worth of props and electronics
Step 3. slip the judges a hefty bribe
Step 4. win with a perfect score
Step 5. get disqualified
Punishing wrongdoing? doesn’t sound like DCI to me
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I can’t recall the 2007 SCV show to save my life.
I liked that 2008 show with the minimalism
2009 was magnificent too.
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4 hours ago, George Dixon said:
oh, the horrors! 🙄
america aka the great satan
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