FTNK
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3 years in Div I/WC drum corps (tuba)
1 year college marching band (sousaphone I ####### HATE SOUSAPHONES)
4 years in HS marching band (clarinet)
Visual instructor at two HS bands in the summer of 2009
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7 hours ago, 27Socal said:
If a judge already has an opinion about a corps, they tend to keep that opinion unless there is a huge performance difference, which isn't very likely at this level.
Recalling when finals judge and DCI Hall of Famer John Phillips stopped by a band I was teaching and said he would never give Cadets good scores because he didn't like their visual style
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Boston second in brass let’s goooOOoooo
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3 hours ago, Sideways said:
And here Is why you are wrong…it’s highly likely that there would have been less of a disruption via Covid last than what we are currently seeing. Vaccines last year provided much better overall protection to the strains at the time. Omicron variants spread far more easily and produce breakthrough infections, although much milder, at a vastly increased rate. Hence the disruption we are seeing.
Also there was a much greater need to return to normalcy last year and instead they wrote it off. BOA, WGI, any number of smaller state and or regional circuits pulled it off. We can discuss if a shortened competitive season would have been more viable than a full blown tour…instead it was a completely missed opportunity.
Competition is incredibly unimportant
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Safety and inclusion… everything else is secondary. If they don’t protect members and get abusers out of the activity, it doesn’t matter how financially secure it is and definitely doesn’t matter how well balanced the competition is.
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The second part is so weird, it's my favorite drum corps thing since 2013 BD
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1 hour ago, Orwellian Wiress said:
That sucks.... except for the people sitting in the front row. Lucky folks are gonna get a wall of that Bluecoats sound
It's funny, the event that made me decide to march drum corps was actually a rain-out (tornado warning during Capital Regiment at 2003 Normal show). Standing at the focus of the horn arcs during standstills in the gym, I decided I had to become part of that sound.
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Anyone know what's up with MC?
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16 minutes ago, Barneveld said:
Perhaps you'll get a better answer if you ask your question in the Crown thread. 😉
Oh wow I learned a lot there!
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I have never reallly had much interest in Boston Crusaders, I found their post-2016 shows kinda cringey, like Goliath and the witch one.
This show tackles some rich stuff musically and they are doing it with such finesse. Listen to Boston and SCV back to back, the difference in dynamic contrast is striking. Love the clean abstractness of the visual - white brass, red color guard, black percussion. Some of the colorguard uniforms are so abstract and minimalist they don't have shirts.
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5 hours ago, Glenn426 said:
I appreciate the Corps what is best for the Kids their well-being and Health.
But, Corps these days have to realize that there is a MASSIVE Demand for "CONTENT" from them. Outside of just performing.
The professional Level Camera and Recording equipment could be getting put to use and Monetizing this demand for Pre-season and In-Season Content.
The First corps to figure out Twitch will make so much money from running a Daily stream during ensemble, Lot Warm-ups, BTS, Staff, Member Post-show Reactions. The Content is limitless.
I'm guessing Crown or Bluecoats will be the first. BTW what does the Crown app actually do when you have it on at a show??
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Typical boomers - constantly put down the younger generation and tell them the things they love are bad, ‘cause “they don’t make em like they used to.” Then get all sanctimonious about “respect” and lecture the youngs about how virtuous they are. Pathetic honestly.
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Just now, Terri Schehr said:
So have you done it? Volunteered?
We’re talking about old people ####### on current drum corps online, volunteering is not involved
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26 minutes ago, Terri Schehr said:
You do realize that most older people on here are very supportive of young members? With money, volunteering, and going to shows to support them. Have you looked at the age of volunteers? They aren’t young. My husband had no children in drum corps but he volunteered to drive a vehicle, using his vacation time. He was 62 at the time and he drove all night for 16 days.
So?
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Anybody see that FB video of Bluecoats reading “mean comments?”
No one in any of the corps membership or staff cares what old people say in their constant complaints. It’s literally a huge joke to them. Back in 2005, my seat partner’s dad would print out posts from DCP so we could read them out loud for amusement.
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5 minutes ago, Orwellian Wiress said:
For the record, I am totally cool with shows like that if done right. It would be nice, because all those patriotic American shows make me feel... uncomfortable to say the least😬
2014 Cadets ending was rough
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I just wanna say before this thing gets locked
This is one reason I'm partial to the old "music in motion" design concept. Let's be honest, everyone loves Spartacus, but heavily themed shows can be pretty cringey for a lot of reasons. I like the abstract - pick music, and march drill (or choreography etc) that captures the music. 1993 Star, early 2000s Cavies, SCV 2018
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scheherezadesghost as someone who was a big part of SCV 2004 and have written about it at length, I wonder what your thoughts are on the 2014 Scheherezade "update" show and how they did (or didn't!) handle ... you know a show adapted from a piece of music written in 1880s Russia (not the worlds' most respectful place in terms of racial views)
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Oh man, people are gonna get mad on this one
2008 Cavies' Samurai ... yikes
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25 minutes ago, scheherazadesghost said:
When I look at staff rosters, I don't see the skillsets needed to tackle this problem, period. I only see people who never left drum corps, trying to keep it exactly the way it's always been. Until they that changes, we have to assume the work isn't happening based on the outcomes.
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6 minutes ago, scheherazadesghost said:
What serendipity that we could enjoy that moment in space and time together!!!
And THAT'S why we do it.
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@scheherezadesghost, I have read your writing about what you went through, and everything wrong with SCV 2004. I just want to tell you that watching the 2004 quarterfinals performance in Denver, with my late mother who flew out to see me, is one of my favorite memories of 3 seasons of drum corps, and one of my favorite memories of her.
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No one wants to be outside in Hotlanta in late July
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SCV trilogy that never was
in DCI World Class Corps Discussions
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sounds like a ###### environment in a ###### activity
Reminds me of the Cadets alums who came out in 2006 to tell my section that we were “the worst section of the worst corps in Cadets’ history”