Land_Surfer
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It’s likely that even if it could be fought and dismissed, it’s going to be a total drain on finances.
Best to completely: fold, distance, re-group, plan and start completely over.
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1 hour ago, Lance said:
That's the same thing as saying hopefully they don't make the semifinals, which would be a horrific outcome for a corps trying to compete again. Just the reality of what the A&E arms race has done to DCI for the past couple decades. Time to let go of that ghost. Actually, it was time about 15 years ago.
I guarantee you, the first top five corps that returns to 90’s style drum corps, focused on (unplugged, uncluttered) power, speed and precision will have everyone eating out of their hand.
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1 hour ago, DAYGO said:
From what I heard after the last camp, the staff is extremely excited about 2024. Several veterans across all sections have returned and the brass book is exciting/challenging. Word is they sounded incredible. I have a feeling they will be very competitive this summer. Can't wait to see/hear them.
Hopefully their budget has been limited enough this year that the sound system and electronic instruments had to be cut and props scaled way back. It’s time for today’s DCI fans to see and hear what Old School SCV can do in a new era.
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4 hours ago, Sutasaurus said:
https://dci.org/news/spotlight-of-the-week-1990-phantom-regiment
oh yum!Happy New Year everyone!
Jim Wren’s arranging is so powerful and just true enough to original score. The only arranger to make a brass line sound like the CSO… the Leopold Stokowski of DCI, and Dan Farrell made that horn line emotional and LOUD. Both made “dark, rich and soulful” a trademark I long to hear again.
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The 2022 Mormon Tabernacle Choir Christmas Concert featured an interesting version of the finale to Saint-Saens’ Symphony #3 “Organ Symphony, a “hymnified” version, and a bit of a challenge to follow given its variation on a theme but, an interesting rendition nonetheless.
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2 hours ago, regimentlvr said:
I think scv will be back strong
Not this year. Next year questionable.
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15 minutes ago, regimentlvr said:
I’m really hoping for a top 5 finish in 2024. Love to see all of the hard work pay off in the standings. Can’t wait to chat with you all daily again!
Well, with The Cadets and SCV missing, their odds have never been better.
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Stop trying to be all things to all people. It costs too much and results in compromise… becoming ordinary, just another commodity. Drum corps is a niche, the last great bastion of precision marching brass and percussion that never once got old or ordinary… always been a crowd favorite!
Leadership has led drum corps to the positions they are in today, as they endeavor to one up the competition with spending power over creativity.
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Moving their base of operations far away from their core region of supporters, with whom they have the most history and support from, was a terrible idea!!! You can’t expect folks, unfamiliar with any new-to-the-area organization, especially an arts & entertainment NPO, to automatically start donating. What have the Cadets done for Erie? Drum corps are actually more of a burden than a benefit, if you think about it. Always asking for money.
I know the modern drum corps community can’t stand “tradition and nostalgia” but, they have likely been the most significant keys to maintaining drum corps since their beginning and likely always will. Therefore, I am not surprised to hear about their hiatus. They have let down their supporters and are paying for it.
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On 9/13/2023 at 4:00 PM, Jeff Ream said:
so apparently the NFL players union wants all fields to go to grass....which would in turn bleed down to every level at some point.
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The majority of corps field rehearsals are conducted on grass fields. I don’t see an issue with performing on it too. Besides, the grass fields are in better condition than most of the practices fields.
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22 hours ago, Sutasaurus said:
No, but I can recommend a separate thread for Star folks to discuss their experiences.
I quite like the recent Star discussion taking place in this thread. Shows the influence it had and still has today.
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Agree!
This has been my main concern with using amplification and electronic instruments. The costs of a glitch / failure can be disastrous, especially during finals week, because the entire show is so reliant on this technology today. No one should have to deal with that risk.
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3 hours ago, gak27 said:
Someone mentioned opening LOS roof???
I must oblige them...
Madison’s 1988 show was the “winner” and was, without a doubt, the loudest show of the season. It could never have been played in an enclosed stadium with the same emotion, none of the corps of the 80’s, 90’s and early 2000’s could. Today’s DCI championship crowd and members will never know the awesome sound and power of a DCI finals week hornline in an open stadium. The top 5 or 6 corps back then could play as precise at deafening decibels (ffff) as they could at mf / f. Combine all that sound with the speeds at which many marched and played, it was unreal. 1990 Star of Indiana instantly comes to mind. There was no need for props then. The marching members were the props!
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1 minute ago, billj said:
They do with the newer ways soloists are playing during big brass hits. Crown last year and Cavaliers this year come to mind first, but I'm sure there are others.
What exactly are “the newer ways soloists are playing”?
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16 hours ago, BlueStainGlass said:
IMO soloist is the only thing that should get a mic. It's so easy to mic your best players and mix that over the others to judges in the stands
A DCI soloist does not need a microphone to be properly heard throughout a stadium.
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40 minutes ago, RebelGTP said:
Those vents are usually emergency egress ONLY and certain types cannot be propped open. And if they can be propped open, the temperature difference still will only be a few degrees.
Several years of experience driving seated coaches speaking here.
Every coach I’ve been in, those hatches can be open. Oh well, I still don’t buy bus temp as issue.
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22 hours ago, TOC said:
Since you said it was not a long trip, they wouldn't have been the first corps to spread one bus of mm throughout the other available vehicles. Let's just hope it wasn't anything serious.
How would you get that from riding on a bus without a/c? There are hatches in the roof that open from the inside that will vent the entire bus with rushing air. No bus a/c can’t be the reason. They get much hotter practicing during the heat of the day.
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1 hour ago, Rocketman said:
Agreed. I like WGI. I just don't like that it has infected DCI. If I were a brass player today, I'd be a little miffed that my brass playing expertise has taken a backseat to things unrelated to my ability to play said instrument.
I have to wonder what the 2026 alumni corps production will look like.I also feel the same about electronic instruments and amplification… it’s a punch in the gut to a brass player. I’m still waiting to hear how electronic instruments & amplification compliment a DCI world class horn line.
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2 hours ago, Rocketman said:
Well then, get your lazy butts down on the field like the 'good old days' and risk getting trampled. As far as the number of percussion breaks goes, I for one find them to be a distraction more than a compliment. It seems (to this dino) percussion breaks are used as a time for the brass players to, 1. move props 2. emote 3. bug stomp 4. whatever. I'd rather hear a musical phrase carried out than interrupted by percussion. (I did say I was a dino, didn't I?)
WGI’s influence is progressing. It’s not enough for the percussion to compliment the home book and theme of the show, and have a couple features of their own. Before long brass instruments will be seen and not heard.
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2 hours ago, year1buick said:
In ‘92 we did a standstill in a gym and made insulation start falling from the ceiling.
Same happened in the practice room of the old Roosevelt school building, in Rockford, during the ‘91 pre-season. Structure damage!
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54 minutes ago, KVG_DC said:
Oh and
“i march with Phantom 'cause i blow things up!”
What’s wrong with that? They were once known for causing “structure damage.”
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7 minutes ago, NewArpege said:
Question. Do they allow lighting in DCI? Wonder if anyone will ever add lights into a tarp or props.
Pyrotechnics! Let’s do 1812 right.
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Better get that natural “dark, rich and soulful” sound back!
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2 hours ago, Phantombari1 said:
It just seems like yesterday when I suggested Phantom move to more modern classical. I got a little bit of flack for that, but I am pleased to see Phantom decided to go a step above. I believe this is the gateway to a massive increase in available musical options compared to the rehashed classical of the past. This will rejuvenate the corp to Championship caliber.
This is all that comes to mind when I hear someone say modern classical music.
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my favorite Cadets shows
in DCI World Class Corps Discussions
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Every second of 1987 Appalachian Spring. That show plus SCV’s Russian Christmas Music (in the same year), especially the low brass at 2:26, hooked me on drum & bugle corps.