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Workin' on that Wayback machine right now...

Thanks for the review Chris. (And fellow Buick!) I'm dying to hear this show-- sadly, may not get to catch it live, but I suppose I can make do with APDs. Still, it doesn't replace the thrill of getting planted into your seat by that brass line... SUTA

I wish I could make it to the Dallas show but I've got so much crap going on this summer--plus my wife is finishing up her Masters of Education and we have to trade off watching our toddlers-- I don't think I'll be able to make it. ^0^ Nearly just as maddening, I live just a few miles from the Denton show site and probably won't be able to make it either. Sucks. But I'll certainly be downloading APD's--can't wait to hear the Buicks tear into Firebird.

I heard stories about underwear runthroughs when I was at Sky (In particular, one of the backfield drum major salutes described sounded um...memorable.)

I happened to catch Clear and Present danger on TV last month and noticed that he used the music from the begining of Aliens in it as well.

Pretty good gig. Have your cake and eat it too. I heard that one of the reasons Desi Arnez and Lucille Ball were able to make Desilu into such a powerful production studio was the fact that they'd managed to set up a deal early on where they owned the negatives to I Love Lucy episodes. Which still get more syndicated play than a lot of new shows. Money in the bank. Again and again and again...

Who actually controls the rights to use these film scores--the composers or the studios who paid for them? (And who own copywrite of the films they're in.) I'd always thought the studios had sole ownership and controlled the rights but, judging by numerous comments I've read on the forum, it sounds like it's actually the latter.

C.H.Collins (site of the Denton show) did as well.

I think the weight was pretty much standard issue for the June hell week(s) in my day. Sucked. ^0^

That's the winner of the ugliest dog in the world (or is it USA?--can't remember...) contest. I'm not sure even a mother could love that face.

No doubt. It was a blast (figuritively and literally). Finals night was a bit of a bummer, but the crowd sure digged us and the season, on the whole, was fun for me.

Coincidentally, 89 was the year that piqued my interest in Regiment. This was my first year of drum corps exposure--no live performances, just a grainy, over-the-air VHS tape of the PBS broadcast that was played mercilessly over and over again, till it was nearly un-viewable. After my first summer of marching, I was pretty much resigned to hang up my drum corps career. I wasn't planning on marching again with Sky and the other corps that I was interested in (with Regiment being at the top of the list) seemed too far away to be feasible. However, as I mentioned on a previous thread, talking to you and Peter during that fall season of ETSU marching band helped reel me back in. (You even showed me the uniform you'd managed to hang on to! How'd you manage that?) Once he mentioned that the corps was playing 1812, the baritone player in me practically salivated at the idea of playing that tune in a Regiment uniform.

Ran into J.D. Shaw almost ten years ago in a specialty electric train shop in Dallas. He was with some other Boston Brass folks, killing time before a performance. I was shopping for props to be used on a TV show. About as cosmically random as they come... Runners up: Ran into someone from '91 Sky while shopping at the Denton Winn Dixie (around 94 or 95), saw a fellow '94 Buick--"Twinkie," for those who remember-- in 1997 while passing through the Grapevine Mills food court (spotted his jacket from afar) and was surprised one day to see Ray Vasquez running a UNT marching band rehearsal from a tower next to where I'd parked my car. (95 or 96, I think...) Oh... and when I was working for a auto finance company several years ago, I got a call from someone at Beef-a-roo regarding a vehicle they were leasing and was near the end of term. (Beef-a-roo is a long time Regiment sponser and frequent dinner stop for members during winter camps.) Offered them an extension, as I recall.

I'm not sure when the tradition of singing Rainbow started (86 would be my guess), but Brian Hildreth told me he wrote the vocal arrangement that we sung. I'm surprised to hear that you only sang it once all summer-- we sang it all the time. (I remember playing the retreat arrangement at the end of one of our all day rehearsals in Monterey CA, at sunset, facing the ocean. Very cool.)

92 Regiment. (Shocking, I know...)

It's tough to nail down just one time, but putting on a Regiment uniform for the first time certainly ranks up there...

It would be cool if DCI made a downloadable Gadget (or Widget for Mac) that receives RSS feeds of show scores.

Cowbell!

I wish there was a simulcast for Finals night as well. I can't attend and hitting "refresh" just isn't as exciting as seeing the results announced live. (I'd settle for live on TV, but I've been that's not happening again until shortly after Hell freezes over...)

Isn't the drumline here at UNT as well? Haven't had a chance to check em out yet, but probably will tomorrow.

I think it was viewed as being too "busy" looking and hard to read--supposedly made the forms look less clean. Just to make a point to the judges, we marched one show without any of the froo-froo flags, kites, baldrics etc. Felt like marching naked.

Yeah, I thought to myself, after making the post, that someone had probably done it before. One of the film profs I had at UNT would say that, no matter how original you think your story is, someone else has always done it before. Sure enough... When was it made and who did they follow?

Probably not. I would imagine they'll try to get it played in some festivals and maybe on the indie circuit, if they're lucky. I would imagine the most likely route would be DVD sales, marketed towards the DCI crowd, of course. (I'd buy it) I think it's a cool idea, and I've wanted to see, for some time now, a really well done documentary following a corps throughout the course of a season. Should be cool.

I didn't read all of the original thread (not even close), so I'm curious--did it link to illegal activity? Surely context would play into how the "reference" rule would apply. (Clearly the Virginia Tech thread also references illegal activity.) I can see how a parent or rookie might be curious to see what others on this board were saying on the subject.

When I was working on the production crew of ****** & Friends, the J.J Pierce High School band (Plano, Texas) was featured at the end of an episode about marching bands. I noticed it on TV last week, while my little boy was watching the PBS Sprout channel. As Assistant Props, my contribution was finding the instruments used by the characters-- one of the things they specifically asked for a fiberglass sousaphone (because of wieght, I think). I must have called over a dozen bands before I found somebody that actually had one and was willing to let us rent it.