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    Disappoited with Bluecoats

    in DCI World Class Corps Discussions

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    Nice job for picking that up.

    I chose the name for many reasons:

    1. I love pop culture references that most folks don't get.

    2. "The Shawshank Redemption" is perhaps my favorite movie.

    3. It was filmed about 35 minutes from where I used to live.

    4. I have a penchant for twitchy actors like Steve Buscemi, Gary Busey, Brad Dourif, and John Malkovich.

    Would you rather me change my username to Captain Howdy?

    Elmo Blatch (I used to have his picture in my avatar)

    The fact still remains: he killed two people. That was his only role in the movie, to be the guy who really killed two people. So what does this say about you, Elmo? Hmmm?

    Who would love the Cadets again?

    in DCI World Class Corps Discussions

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    Alright, I'm just going to throw the idea out there now. The Cadets achieved a stronger reaction because of many possible reasons: better design, better execution, etc. This proves that an audience will still react stronger to a better product even if it is not in the general definition of dci that the audience may have.

    Now, if The Cadets were to put on a show in 2007 that was not exactly drum corps, but created a strong audience compared to other top Div. 1 corps because of the design and execution. Would this be a bad thing?

    Who would love the Cadets again?

    in DCI World Class Corps Discussions

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    Obviously I can't speak for the entire audience. But there is a general consensus regarding how the audience accepts a drum corps show come finals night. Compare the audience response at the end of the Cadets show with that of Cavaliers, Phantom Regiment, or Crown. No comparison. Now compare it with 1984, or 2000, and you'll find that the audience reaction was a tiny sliver infinitessimally smaller than that of those two legendary shows.

    You're right, there are many audience members who enjoyed the 2006 show. But as a whole, audience reaction was at an all-time low for the Cadets. Even the members themselves have admitted this.

    Why was the crowd reaction stronger for The Cadets than for corps like The Racine Scouts, or Revolution, or Colt Cadets?

    Who would love the Cadets again?

    in DCI World Class Corps Discussions

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    :music::music::music::music::music::music::music::music::worthy::worthy::worthy::music:

    If I could have anything else in the world right now, it'd be what you just described.

    This exactly what the Cadets did throughout the '80s, '90s, and early 2000s, and it's the reason they are by far my favorite drum and bugle corps. They produced so many masterpieces that I've come to know and love

    What baffles me is that unfortunately, this is not the course the design team will take for 2007. They will find new ways to feature vocalists, new ways to emphasize amplified singing in drum corps, new ways to add English dialogue throughout the show, new ways to feature props and a set for the use of storytelling. But the one thing they will not due, if the 2007 show is in the same direction as 2006, is entertain the audience, which is the primary function of a drum and bugle corps show.

    Innovation is having an amazing, breathtaking, emotional, powerful, glorious, mature, epic show with incredible music and incredible drill, a stupendous performance in the hornline, drumline, pit, and guard, and nothing more. It's taking the formula of what is drum and bugle corps, keeping it the same, but representing it in a way never seen before, and bringing the audience to their feet while doing it. This is what the Cavaliers did this year, and it's what the Cadets used to do for so many years that garnered them such a huge (now declining) fanbase.

    Innovation is not using what high school marching bands have been using for years in order to produce an insipid, idiotic, cheesy, awkward, silly, stupid, insulting mockery of a drum and bugle corps performance, which is exactly what their 2006 show was.

    Please stop speaking for everyone. If it did not entertain you, then say that. You were not the entire audience.

    Thanks for your definition of innovation. It was very helpful.

    #### those Cadets!

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