TripleForteGuy

May I suggest going and watch 1978's shows on You Tube for therapy and just enjoy the fun? Don't leave though. You came in really late....go back and watch the changes that back then were just gold and soak it all in....because that will be 2020 to someone one day. I am amazed at how far the marching arts has come but love the old shows even more each year.

Goodness gracious do they realize after all these years the progression is SO PREDICTABLE? I mean Blue Devils and Santa Clara are at 68.5 right now without even stepping off the field.

After moving from a seventh chord endings to the age of dissonance in corps since the 80's, I have grown tired of the dissonance. The pieces like Academy's Bridge and Blue Knights second half piece are welcome. (Best BK group since 6th place) I just wish the brilliant people of staffs would move us away from all dissonance to another period of time of music that is not always the same. Robert W Smith began the move in 1985 with Suncoast Sound's show which is still one of my favorite shows and it has just become TO ME a place where staffs haven't figured out how to lead out of. There is so much good about drum corps and this years's shows but the dissonance has just become I think expected. Where as drum corps used to push the marching arts activity I think it still does but BOA has some bands in it that are just fantastic on their approach to the arts. Just my two cents.

David didn't wear armor to fight Goliath. Key point if you thinking of design of a uniform around him.

Oh goodness another Taking The Field........

I actually fell asleep watching their first streamed show on FloMarchingtv......I was ashamed....Fan for 40 years....

I use a Roku device and just want to say my audio and picture were solid this weekend. I was really impressed that there was multicam at both shows. Bought a new soundbar for the season and seeing SCV win live Saturday night made my weekend. Let's do it again this weekend.

Are Mandarins still talking about their reveal? I feel they are.......

Oh joy they really aren't going to post scores till July 1? Then everyone will just have fun posting their own - on social media. I mean since I have been following this since the 70's there is a regular projection tic system or today's system and it is so predictable it will be fun to watch social media and how close the fans are based on past seasons. I really hope there is someone that comes out of the gate below the usual suspects that just gets some fun going. It is so rare.

Boy, can this be brought back up again decade after decade? This was an issue when I first got into the activity in the 70's. Saw it in covering corps when I was a writer for Drum Corps World. Bias was totally left out of your thesis and that will come with both old and new judges and not change a thing and never will. There are judges judging shows today in corps and bands that when you see them they do have a reputation. One of if they will give you solid comments and ones that are in for ego and status too. Someone will always be biased. Change all you want and this year, from the moment Devils finished in Stanford I knew they would win having seen Crown and Blue Coats. The design, music and execution was already in position. It was just a wonderful classic show. As I have gotten older, I have learned to not be biased myself against corps but be thankful for a well executed, designed, taught and thought out show that connects. But there are some of you reading this that think Vanguard should have won. Well, I love SCV more than Devils, but I could never explain all that I have take in almost 40 years of watching shows, but Devils to me was just one better. 11. and I love this activity and all that make it happen and I miss dearly many corps that are not around today that brought me moments of great joy of this activity and never had a chance to win and please Cavaliers you have to do Santa Elsmerada from 79 and 80 again in the 70th show. Got to. It impacted so many people then and high school bands/guardwork for decades....two cents worth

Well, me thinks Phantom Regiment should be going out and hitting the trail looking for some trumpets. Madness....Madness.... Madison needs to decide who they are. Was their past just a nothing burger or are they now character actors placing 12th and fending off people for that spot for fun each year.

I was there in 1981 when Phantom Regiment passed out sheets explaining what the heck was going on in Spartacus. Heh. People were complaining before that they didn't understand the show.

They gotta get some trumpets for next season. Devils did it this season after last year. It's so noticeable it hurts.

Bluecoats show is music and design wise too close to last year and thus I compare them to 27th Lancers* in 1980. Their Ballad is not an Axiom moment either. It is Devils, SCV and Crown's to win *Can I say how much I miss them? Thank you.

I have way too many....fan since 1978. for example I am sitting here watching 1986 27th Lancers and I got tears because of all the other shows I remember. 1978 SCV when they do the Bottle Dance. High schools across America copied it for years. 1978 Crossmen RChristmas Music copied for years by bands after that Every show that first year of Top 12 impacted me because I don't remember a year since that had so many individual pieces in shows that High School Bands still do today....