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Where did the 1972 Anaheim Kingsmen place in Drums and Bugles?

Better check your stats.

Who said anything about a conspiracy but, YOU? Nice try hijacker. I simply said that the GOO gets too many points. Besides, I saw them in Round Rock and they were as dirty then as I'm sure they were in INDY. IMO, not deserving of the title as an overall drum and brass corps. It's an insult to the judging system. Now if you want to talk conspiracy, explain the 19.2 they got from Fugget in semis. P.S. Any synth is too much synth.

So much for drum and bugle, uh......er......brass corps. Way too much credit for GOO.

Took my nieces 11 and 13yr old to the Round Rock show last night, she's going to be playing tuba, and him drums and euphonium at their middle school. DC is not my cup of tea anymore, but it's their future so I wanted them so see what the best players aspire too. Hats off to SCV and Cadets for resembling drum corps. SVC show is really wonderful and IMO was the best production this year. Didn't expect to like Les Mis. Drum line is clearly the best on the field as the placement reflects. If anyone in the SCV camp is listening, please teach them how to cover down, straighten out the exposed lines, and I think it will instantly become a four horse race. I am anti Hopkins, but loved Cadets horn sound and drum line. The familiar music was enjoyable. PR, CAVs and BD came on before them, but Cadets clearly had a more powerful horn sound that the first three didn't. Best use of electronics, SCV and Cadets. Hardly noticed them which is probably why I heard and enjoyed the horn lines. Worst use of electronics, everybody else, especially BD miking the soloists, Crowns singing and narration(a huge distraction) and Coats LAYING on the bass synth the whole show YUK! I was booing in the end.

SCV beat BD in 99,02,04,07, Cadets in 11. It's easy to check on Corpreps.com

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If they follow previous year arrangements, I'm pretty sure it won't sound anything like Rites.IJS

Julian, It took balls to write your letter and hang it out there for everyone to see. I agree with your assessment completely, though for me it's not about one corps, rather the activity as a whole. I bailed out after 2003 for pretty much the same reasons, even though most of the turn offs(synths, etc.)weren't even being used yet, I could see that they were coming. The directors used very liberal wording when proposing their changes intentionally to allow the overuse of electronics, all the while pretending it was ONLY so the pit players could be heard without hurting their hands. We now know that it was just a ruse. I want to comment to one thing and that is your describing drum and bugle corps as DCI. What you call DCI was once known simply as drum and bugle corps. DCI has blurred that line ever since Don Pesceone retired and it ruined drum and bugle corps. Long live drum corps.............oh wait, never mind.

Bandos are Bandos, not the same. Oh wait, on second thought you are right, the DCINO have become Bandos.

Not much different than sitting through today's top 12 groups. And even that is borderline. It might even be down to 6-8 watchable shows and they are not necessarily the top three or four.

None of which have anything to do with the sound and excitement put on the field by those Corps that are being trashed. Everything being relative, they were the Avant Guard of their time.

They can trash all they want. Today's groups are DCINO's. They will never know the true joy.

Yes they did. I have a VCR Tape of the PBS Broadcast.

Is there any other kind?

Rocket it Renegades!

There's no doubt ALL of the fans(even the nays), miss The Star of Indiana and wish they never would have gone away. And now that I've listened to some more of the offerings on the Tube, I must say that the talent in the horn line is incredible

I wasn't there to see the show live and so far I've only seen Medea on You Tube. And it sounds awesome! I'm sure it was an incredible experience to be in front of a Drum Corps audience again. For those who have done a DCI Alumni performance, we know how much work and effort is involved and the fan appreciation will ring in your mind for a long time. Congratulations to the Star Alumni Corps As far as the volume, it just sounds to me like it is being played as a louder arrangement than 1993 and the fans noticed it with the standing O. Maybe it's the amount of horns? But as I remember it, and correct me if I'm wrong but musically the show was very reserved and only reached forte once. IMO, I didn't care for that and wished Star would have let it all hang out. To qualify that let me say that I was there in 1991 and 1992 and loved those shows. American Variations is one of my favorite patriotic musical pieces. Regarding the horns, I think I agree with Rollo. I can only imagine how much more intense this would have sounded in G. But it really sounds great and as a comparison, says to me it is what they are playing these days that is different.

Listening to the you tube recording of Medea. I was there in 1993 and I can say that if they had played the loud version like the Alumni Corps did, the fans would have enjoyed the 1993 show alot more, and the Corps would have been better received.

Only Amps and Electronics!

Anaheim's average age was 49 in 2007.

Yea shouldn't there be a topic, "who has the loudest bottom end synth to replace a Contra line".

DCI hates that. Congrats Star!

WHO DAT BABY! Super Bowl Champs. But Madison is way cool too.