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I have a banana.

Do you how much that would cost and how much paperwork you need to go through? Besides, no one checks that kind of stuff. It's simply not practical. How many high school bands out there don't pay composers to use material on the field or arrangers of corps to arrange music that copies corps arrangements? Rubbish.

Id say non of it is. Pop music is not rock. Rock music translates very well to the field. Pop and hip hop do not. Rock has elements of jazz and some interesting harmonic choices. Pop is I-ii-IV(vi)-V-I and rap just hangs out on the tonic.

All I know is ball good... and rape...

Two words for you Mike... budget cuts. Schools will not be able to afford hosting BOA and even mid-level competitive bands in the near future, as this depression deepens. Independent organizations will remain the only valid alternative.

Funny thing was, the first thing I said when I heard WCU's show concept last year was: This sounds like a Troopers show. They probably heard about it or saw BOA. Very possible. Most corps steal general concepts at some point or another from the thousands of bands that perform them each year.

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To quote another thread- Star bananas become Madison bananas, with bugle bananas of Mason's bugles. Jim Mason's bugles are banana bugles, while Scott Stewart's bugles were bugle bananas. Bill Cook was a banana. There we go. That basically makes more sense then the last 5 pages.

BS! Why do you think that what appears on a judge's sheet is the measure of their ability to perform and excel. Dirt is dirt. Perceived dirt is the fault of the judges, not the fault of the members, whose technique and work ethic would be the same regardless of headwear.

Ok, I had a weird friggin' dream last night. Now, to preface this, I never have been to Concord, or California, at all or ever want to go. Dream- I drove out to California on a road trip from New Jersey. When I arrived in Concord, I noticed a car following me. I got out and went into a store. When I got back out to the car, I noticed the other car had left. I sat down in the car and started to turn the key in the ignition. Boom. I was victim of a car bomb. What the hell dream was that? Concord, California? Car bomb? Anyone a dream analyst? Does this mean I'll get run over by a Blue Devils bus in a parking lot or something?

If the insane hypothethical drum corps apocalypse were to happen, and DCI and most of its corps became flat out bands, don't you think drum corps would come back, grow back, return to its roots, become a youth activity focused on family, etc. again?

Yes he is. But what I was saying earlier is that a mellophone to contra is still a bugle, because its original purpose was for corps to play on that instrument in G in the 1960s. Therefore it is a banana bugle, even if it is in Bb/F (Banana).

I didnt like the show. I just thought it was musically boring. It was the same lick played over and over again. PegaSUS!!! Dana,Dana,Dana! PEG-A-SUS!!! tigAtigAtigAtigA! Space chord.... whan!... whan!.... whan!!!!.... RESolution... hahahaha (evil laugh into mic)

A corps bus made of biceps.

My thoughts on 2009... (somebody is bound to pick on something I say) DVDs/CDs- Audio is wonderful. Whoever DCI paid to do the engineering for the CD/DVD was professional grade. First of all, the LOS itself presented so many difficulties, that they must have paid him/her a lot to do this. I'll assume that this was the reasoning behind keeping the price, why its two discs, and why there is a lack of judges audio and various past camera angles. I would have to say that even if DCI moves from Luk Oil, to keep the engineer. There is always background noise at every stadium and various issues as well. That, and most professional ensembles have an audio engineer check and adjust the quality of audio for release to consumers and, well, fans. Favorite shows- Blue Devils, (yeah, I changed. best BD show of the decade. 07 sucked. this show was great music. im not found of the visual element of their show, but i noticed that bd did move around quite a lot, and their were plenty of exposed individual timing elements that couldve gone horribly wrong with the chairs. however, music design-wise, wayne downey, i love you.) Cadets, (killer visuals, awesome music, good use of piano and movie vocals from wss. exciting ride. i wish that they found a new ending for their shows though. they've ended 07-09 with the same Mm7(i think) arpegiation/company front-unfolding-refolding-company front-forward march loud chord) Santa Clara Vanguard, (Awesome show, especially the trumpet/baritone duet on simple gifts in the middle into the drum feature, and the company front/vanguard toast impact) Boston Crusaders, (I loved it, except for the apple-biting patch they used. couldve been handled better if they mic'd a pit member eating an apple, im dead serious. electronics dont always equal realistic sound. this is the biggest hurdle that drum corps must face. other than that, i loved the guard uniforms ) Troopers (YAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAY, back in finals!!! awesome show. loved the guard, they really added to the presence of the corps and helped add a lot to the understanding of the show itself.) Some thoughts- 1.) Stop playing WEST SIDE STORY!!! 3 finalist corps used music from West Side Story this year. Crown used Maria. Why? You played music from WSS last year too, Crown. Jeesh. 2.) Electronics... I think that its a good thing. This is coming from a hardcore drum corps nut. I think that, when you look at it, nothings really changed. pianos are percussion instruments, right? well, keyboards are percussion, look at mallets. the only real change this decade has been the elimination of G and the adding of an electrical current through equipment that we've already been using. vocals have been in DCI since the cadets stunt in the 70s. now, they are amplified like everything else. DCI has come into the age of electricity. well, i loved the shows, so it seems cool to me. 3.) Don't add woodwind lines to my solid brass sound. I was just imagining what DCI would sound/look like with woodwinds integrated into drill. yet, even with the addition of woodwinds to the pit, my imagination went to star of indiana 1991, when a mallet player from the pit joined the drill and regiment 2006, when trumpet players picked up baritones. the temptation would be there. but, in the setting of the outdoor arena, you could never get the sound balanced properly, even if you mic'd the woodwinds, because you would be trying to emulate a balance of an orchestra or wind ensemble, that you wouldn't be able to do properly, with a primarily humongous brass and percussion choir. DONT DO IT, DONT TRY IT, STOP THINKING ABOUT IT. Keep it illegal.

could be worse. could be talking about mananas. but i guess thats for the cavaliers forum.

X-Men, play some jazz already! I'm sick of classical. Give me some powerful, full on, Crossmen-style jazz. I want to be blown away. I want to hear Metheny. I don't want to hear techno electronica to Holst's Planets or Symphonic Metamorphosis. Just reclaim your identity. PLEASE!

As much as I would like to say yes, this was something that grew out of the 70s and 80s drum corps, not the 50s and 60s one. My uncle was in a corps in the 50s as a kid. He said they used to call it a marching band. No one cared. Some people just respected it a little better, but most corps members were equally treated as geeks next to band members of the day.

I was blasting 90 and 91 Crossmen out of my car today in West Chester. My car was literaly shaking and my ear drums were bleeding. It was a good pain. Would've loved to have been there back in the day, when hornlines could push an entire stadium back 5 feet. Baroque Samba anyone?

I think this explains it all.

Banana soda would be awesome.

The point, which you missed, was that people, not just me, consider bugles to have carried over into different voices and keys. This includes marching tuba that is not convertible in any key. It is a contra! However, in answer to your remark on my usage of the internet: Yeah, let me run down to my local library to check out a book on contemporary marching horns. Then I'll copy the pages that I find from looking through the stockpile, if they're there. You want those references faxed or xeroxed? Welcome to the 21st Century. I suggest you learn how to "use the nets" as Dubya once said, or you may find yourself dispensable in the job market soon. Have a nice life, because I'm done arguing with you over this very simple historical concept.

####!!! I was hoping Indy was a bad dream. Oh well, here we go, down the yellow brick road to chocolate woodwind streams and vanilla bankruptcy filing.

I heard he rides with the guard.