skewerz
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if not for the U.S. Open parade, I wouldn't have got the drum corps bug...
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I was always partial to Blue Rondo A La Turk...
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retreats and G bugles...
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Not to worry, Charlie. I understood exactly what you were saying.
HH
unfortunately, he doesn't, as he hasn't seen an "old time" show live...
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Honestly, you're the first person I've ever heard say they didn't like that show. It did after all win the fan favorite award. I can say that there were probably a few people that didn't get the show's concept, but most can agree that the music was pretty awesome.
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.
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for a drum corps setting...would be awesome for a garage band/college band...(rock/pop)
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Did you not see the uniforms? (rimshot)
that wasn't comedy...that was dramatic tragedy...
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The issue is that the OC corps are judged on slightly different sheets than the WC corps and the open class corps write their shows to max out their sheets, so when they compete on world class sheets their shows are not written to effectively max out those sheets, thus the score drop from OC-WC competition. The only real exception was Magic in 2002 because they wrote their show to maximize effect on the WC sheets which in turn enabled them to really max out the OC sheets thus scoring a 99 something in Oc and then only droping 12 points in WC and not the normal 17-20 point drop you typically see from OC-WC.
all they gotta do is turn up their amps and add a crapton of props...they'll be set!
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He tells us his daughter likes modern drum corps. Y'all tell us she’s wrong.
Are you listening to yourselves? We get it – oh we get it – that you wish drum corps would revert to something, anything but the failure you see on the field today. You’ve made that point insistently and incessantly. Show her the great shows of the 80s, and she’ll see the light. She too can learn to hate modern drum corps as any sensible fan would if only you would educate her properly with Skyriders of blessed memory.
True drum corps fans ought not be displeased in the slightest if she prefers Triple Crown or Mad World over the blessed memories of someone else’s experience. If she likes Triple Crown of 2007 more than 80s Brand X show we should be pleased at the prospect of one more fan rather than disappointed by preference, especially from one from one so young.
We know this for sure. Young people won’t grow up loving corps the way we do if they don’t experience corps in the flesh. She’s never going to see Skyriders. She has chance to see Crown. We should be glad she might be excited by the prospect. And we ought to stifle our selfishness lest it ruin it for her forever.
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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?
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Show your daughter SkyRyders '86, '87, and '88...
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Most...BD...please.
Least...Madison...yay.
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A real drum corps would march naked
you wouldn't say that for a 30th anniversary alumni corps...
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They didn't win till George showed up...
George.....Zingali
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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.
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People always give me weird looks as I walk through Walmart whistling Festive Overture...or Big Noise from Winnetka...or Peter Gunn...
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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.
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Well, there's only one real way to test the theory. Someone call up Cavaliers of Cadets or SCV, and tell them to not use a synth this year, and see how their score goes. If they drop down to 20th, then synth really does boost your score. If they stay where they are or even move up, then the system doesn't work? Isn't the scientific method fun sometimes?
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.
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Colts...riverboat uni's
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No argument there. Past, present or future, good playing is good playing. Loved listening to it on G horns back in the day, love hearing in multi-key it now.
Sorry, I'm not buying it, period. The older horn lines favored (for want of better terminology, and with no disrespect intended) a more rough-hewn quality, as per the fashion of the day. But you gotta take off those rose-colored headphones and stop confusing coarseness with volume. The modern heavy hitters are no less potent than their ancestral counterparts. They just melt your face with a little more finesse.
Peace,
Fred O.
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.
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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
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1. No. G bugles sound awful.
2.Corps today are louder, better balanced, and have better tone quality then ever before...why would we want to go back?
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.
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I find this one to be quite relevant...
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Lol. Actually all the pix in my sig have a common theme which reflected the 2011 program (which -- since the title has been leaked -- is not very hard to figure out). It was lots of fun before the title leaked however.
Here's a few previous pix as a reminder...
Music from "Rocky" !!!!!!
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it's just not a piece i like, drinkinouttacups.
sorry if that makes anybody angry, though the internetz is just like that.
love a lot of the other dvorak pieces people suggested.
saying you don't like a piece usually gets you branded as a "hater"...
Bluecoats announce their show!
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Looks like they might win the poster championship again, as well...