skewerz

Looks like they might win the poster championship again, as well...

if not for the U.S. Open parade, I wouldn't have got the drum corps bug...

I was always partial to Blue Rondo A La Turk...

retreats and G bugles...

unfortunately, he doesn't, as he hasn't seen an "old time" show live...

probably more that just didn't try to get the show's concept, and simply appreciated it for the music. If it takes explanation to "get" a show concept, the show concept is too esoteric...period.

for a drum corps setting... would be awesome for a garage band/college band...(rock/pop)

that wasn't comedy...that was dramatic tragedy...

all they gotta do is turn up their amps and add a crapton of props...they'll be set!

omg..how do you breathe from up there? all I said was show her some SkyRyders...If the daughter liked shows with stories, she'd like those Skyryders shows. I wasn't trying to convert her to some neo-conservative cult. Sometimes when someone says they like something, and you suggest something that is in the same vein as what they like, it doesn't have to have an agenda. She likes the Harry Potter books...I say check out the Eragon books.....you say...OMG, quit trying to change her to your nefarious ideology. really?

Show your daughter SkyRyders '86, '87, and '88...

Most...BD...please. Least...Madison...yay.

you wouldn't say that for a 30th anniversary alumni corps...

George.....Zingali

Amp'd pits, to me, just don't sound right, and the higher the amp'd volume, the more wrong they sound. I know what a non-amplified pit instrument is supposed to sound like, and when they are mic'd and knob is turned, it just doesn't sound the same to me. There have been times in the last few years that the pit is way, WAY too loud, including in Indy last year.

People always give me weird looks as I walk through Walmart whistling Festive Overture...or Big Noise from Winnetka...or Peter Gunn...

and if it's not there, they can't get a +. Use of electronics is a win/win for corps scores. You can't lose points if you don't use it, but you can't gain any, either. If you use it, you can only gain.

that wouldn't be scientific as there would be no control. The corps would have to be judged with synth, then without...also, due to human fallibility, errors could skew both instances. there's a box on that scorecard for synth. If they don't have a synth, they can't get a little number put into that box...it's that simple.

Colts...riverboat uni's

2V G lines of the 80's were insane loud compared to anything you can dish out today. The only thing I've heard come even remotely close was a Crown encore song doing Madonna last year, and they were standing on the track, with 80 horns. BD's 86 finals encore was the loudest thing I've ever heard come out of a drum corps, and I can name many others that were louder than the loudest Bb thing I've heard, which was an encore on a track. I don't buy the out of tune rhetoric, either. You didn't win in the 80's or the 90's if you were out of tune.

hmmmm..... 3 best grounded pit (carrying tymps is silly) asymmetric drill uh....Boston's guard uniforms a couple years back 3 worst (well, more than 3...easier to think of ways they screwed up) electric use of any kind getting rid of retreat G to Bb Lucas Oil Stadium completely removing the tick system upping corps to 150 members visual over music slotting

1. G bugles sound awesome when they are played correctly, just like anything else 2. false, false, and false. corps today aren't as loud, period. any better balancing isn't due to horn key...it's just due to better balancing. the two aren't synonymous. if you don't like the overtones of G bugles, then I suppose you will think tone quality is better, but once again, tone quality is a product of playing, not what you are playing on.

I find this one to be quite relevant... My link

Music from "Rocky" !!!!!!

saying you don't like a piece usually gets you branded as a "hater"...