rmurrey74

I was at the show tonight. The pre-show was actually pretty cool, although it took a loooong time. I liked the uniforms better than I thought I would. The brass performance was one of the worst performances I've heard in drum corps. It was embarrassing and I feel bad for the members. I hope they can get it together. Visual Performance was not very strong as well.

I'm not buying it either...it's definitely Pressure. The movement is even named "Pressure"

uniforms sound cool. Hope the dark combo is bright enough. hmmm....

What do you mean by hack job? Because of the uniform construction? The concept wasn't by Stanbury if you read the homepage. Who do they look like because there's many unique points to this uniform that no one else has. The small cuffs, the collar, the stripes down the front of the pants, the helmet, the helmet paint, the "badge", and the reflective striping. Does anyone else wear glossy shoes? That may be unique too. Do you mean they look like "everyone" else because they're blue/black? Because they have pants and sleeves?

It's an actual photo. The photographers name is on the right side of the page. edit: it's an actual photo of a person in the uniform, but with some lighting effects added.

Stanbury didn't design it.

I like most of it and I think it's definitely an upgrade, but what's up with that flap? I just looks out of place.

2001 Bluecoats

What about soloists, individual dance / spinning features, individual costuming on many drum corps color guards throughout the years? That's not drum corps?

Umm....wow. So, every drum corps in the past that that has had some focus on individualism is okay...it's just Cadets 2007 that contradicts the very virtue of drum corps? There is individualism in drum corps. All of these arguments are getting so old.

I agree. I love the direction they're going with this. I can't wait to see it live.

Thanks! I understand all of that. That's how I've always done it or taught it. Maybe I wasn't clear. I just can't understand how everyone at Star played with the drum majors hands no matter the position on the field and everything lined up.

So, the pit listens back then why wouldn't the horns near the front of the field listen back? If you line up 6 people on the field front to back and everyone throws those baseballs towards the audience, all 6 baseballs need to reach the audience at the same time. This means the people closer to the front have to throw (play) later than the people behind them. Obviously this is not always the drumline. It's the pulse pocket which changes from set to set depending on horizontal or vertical alignment to the pulse center.

That's how my corps currently does it. I can't understand how having everyone play with the hands actually works. Put a drummer 3 feet from the drum major and have him play with his/her hands. Then put him behind the back hash and do the same thing. It's a very noticeable difference. And everyone at Star did that and everything lined up? Really? That's certainly impressive if they were able to break the speed of sound rules. Did Star's pit play with the hands? I'm not trying to be critical, I just haven't seen any explanation of how that could work.

Wow, that's crazy. They need to count as members. A 20 horse dance feature would be amazing!

No, the show description came out yesterday.

Wow, this sounds cool. Can't wait to see it! I wonder if the new uniforms will be in the color scheme to this show write-up / new logo.

Here's another picture of the wreck. I'm not sure how the tractor trailer would burn from this. http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07123/783115-100.stm

Wow...that's bad. It looks....maybe immature? I'm not sure of the right word for it.

There's an article on dci.org explaining the new image. It was up last night.

It wasn't for lining the field. It was for marking dots. A lot of corps do it.

Come out to WGI this weekend....you'll see a bunch of examples.

At least one indoor percussion line this year I've seen in IW is moving 240 for about two minutes and 220 for another 2 minutes before that. It's incredibly clean. Once you're used to it, it's not that big of a deal.

WHAT! I loved scaffolding crew when I marched! We were quick, made it a good time. Got to know the guys in my section much closer than others. I would have been ###### if we weren't allowed to do it. I've heard of no other staff doing this. Maybe 1-2 line a field, but that's all.

I saw it. It was great. I would see it again. I'm not sure what the big deal is.