jthomas666

Crotales--the tuned metal discs? Rain chimes?

I was at finals myself--such a strong set of finalists. And as good as the other were, Garfield was just on another level. ETA I happened to be sitting next to two band directors, and we were all slack-jawed at every aspect of Garfield's show. We knew we were watching something truly revolutionary when the contras basically ran backwards single file while playing a ridiculous 16th note riff.

Those unis are gorgeous--particularly the guard. 😍

Ah, yes, the orange luggage trolleys... PR did some nice stuff with that front area, but as noted, the music was underwhelming.

The pandemic artificially held prices down for the past year; that effect is wearing off. Also, OPEC has reduced production. But the biggest driver of supply right now is a lack of drivers. You have to have a special certification to drive a tanker; they were in short supply before the pandemic, but a lot of them retired during the pandemic.

Yeah. The Snyder cut is a more coherent movie, but not necessarily better.

That's the one aspect of the situation that was most disturbing--asking the guard captain to address the situation is not only incredibly unfair to the guard captain, but it sends the message that the situation wasn't considered a serious issue.

PR could so a show titled Dumpster Fire of Eternal Glory...

A great all-around guy, who never lost his passion for the activity. RIP.

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2019 is a good show, but 2018 is absolutely stellar.

I don't care how many titles you have...if your audience has to do research to understand your show, you're doing something wrong.

More to the point, MMs are not employees.

Rach Star really epitomized Crown's design philosophy in the 2000s--come up with a central conceit that, on paper, looks silly or twee, but then they utterly commit to it, and somehow make it work like gangbusters.

It's a little ragged, and the transition to Canon sounds like they're on the verge of collapse, but yeah, it's one of the great high-energy closers.

A great reminder of 1. What an incredible show this was 2. The insane degree to which multi-angle choices mangle the presentation of a show.

Would love to hear the brass tape for 2018...

I had forgotten how inhumanly clean their brassline was.

I had forgotten how much I liked this show...

That might be pushing it a bit. Vanguard definitely had a lush arrangement of Copland, but the Cadet's performance of "Make Our Garden Grow" is one of my all time favorites.

Right there with you. It's sublime. Crazy enough that he didn't get an Oscar for it, but Morricone finally winning for The Hateful Eight is like Bob Newhart not winning an Emmy until he guest starred on The Big Bang Theory.

These days, can ANYONE understand the subtleties of a show from a single viewing? More importantly, does it really matter? She's promoting the activity.

One of my all-time favorite shows. I saw them at DCI South in Bham--they started filing out while the previous corps was finishing up; one look at the all-white unis and the entire crowd went "OOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHhhhhhhhh". A magical, hypnotic show; They lost DCI South by .1; a .1 penalty dropped them behind BD. Don't know if they peaked too soon or just had a really bad night, but that show had the chops to be a contender.

Wasn't one of the arguments for amplification that it would allow corps to reduce the size of the pits?

1980 should have been 27th BD Spirit Bridgemen