rmurrey74
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I’ll support them and not overreact to enforcing a policy that’s easily accessible on their website.
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1 minute ago, Beckham said:
Maybe those instructors should consider that there are waaaaaaaaaaay more corps members who are injured because of excessively intense rehearsals, and being expected to tough it out when there is an abnormal pain that needs to be addressed, than there are because of unaware field judges.
Or they could focus on both like they are doing at these meetings!
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Unanimous vote by the instructors for this! More progress towards safety!
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1 hour ago, cixelsyd said:
Why? For someone who is not there anymore?
Still there.
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Can’t believe they are letting Roman stay involved. I hope they don’t get a penny in donations until he’s completely removed.
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Scott is no longer on their board.
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2 hours ago, cixelsyd said:
That is great to know that one of the 70 such corps we had back then found a way to make it work. Which corps are we talking about?
I’m not posting names and I’m done discussing. The instrumentation change helped many more corps than the average fan knows. It added a revenue stream throughout the activity that didn’t exist before.
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36 minutes ago, cixelsyd said:
I agree (subject to a couple of clarifications).
No, not just the top. I was highly involved with a non-top 12 corps at the time that made money annually on their investment 2 years after the switch. That additional revenue stream kept them afloat.
The manufacturers also have the incentive to get their equipment into more and more schools.
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40 minutes ago, cixelsyd said:
For the top corps, there were economic incentives to switch. For everyone else, pricing was cheaper for G brass.
"Any-key brass" was presented as "more options" that would supposedly co-exist with G brass, and perhaps even invite additional key choices. Instead, it became a competitive mandate that drove G horns out of DCI. Voices from the judging community said as much at off-season meetings, and later in their judging tapes.
(It is not my intent to wade off-topic with this... only to address the prior question about drum corps being "monolithic".)
I would rather not go off topic, but there are so many issues with this statement. Switching to any-key brass helped some corps continue to exist financially. Any Key brass has turned into a profit center for drum corps. After the initial investment, corps have been able to resell to schools and other organizations to MAKE money each year while also putting better instruments in the hands of the members. They were not getting that resell value with G Horns.
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56 minutes ago, Liahona said:
wow
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1 hour ago, Ghost said:
There's a reason why I spend very little time on this annual topic. I have no clue who 95% of these people are and what their specialty is.
www.google.com
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DCI needs to step in, but I think it’s time to close the doors.
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Hardin “retired”
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2 hours ago, mingusmonk said:
Drum corps world championship in Indy brings in $11M
I wonder how much of that is spent at Basey’s!
I think it’s great news. Was this the biggest crowd this year? It definitely looked like it.
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56 minutes ago, Gantang said:
Your assertion that people are attacking the members is inaccurate and doesn't need to be addressed. Moving on. Using your logic, no one should be able to critique the performance of anyone in any position lest the critiquer is willing to assume the role. We vote out bad politicians who have volunteered for the job. The current BOD and leadership in Madison volunteered for the job when they applied for a role within the organization. They put themselves in charge of an 80-year-old youth group that has thousands of former members who expect a certain level of excellence across the entire MS spectrum.
Just because someone is saying the show design is poor doesn't imply that they think they could do a better job. However, it is incumbent upon the leadership to hire the best designers available and either oversee the design process or trust that the person or people they hired will put a competitive product before the members. There are people who believe, perhaps incorrectly, that the philosophy of "scores don't matter" has been put on steroids as a way to justify being closer in scores to the Pioneer than SCV.
Just as sports' fans call for coaches to be fired, drum corps fans also have a particular passion about the way the corps they love or marched with, is run. This IS the forum for such talk. It's what social media is for. If everyone only posting positive and glowing tripe it would be disingenuous and useless. Some of the posters here are from a generation where they were taught to tell the truth, not something that sounds like the truth. If the Madison management team is spending time riding this they can take it or leave it.
It's my understanding from earlier Pages in this thread that a FB Alumni Page was archived in part because current leadership didn't like some of the content. Well, MS leadership can't shut DCP Pages down, and those who would have kept their thoughts in the family were kinda forced to shut up or post here.
If YOU OR I don't like what is being posted, we can simply stop reading. Don't scold the messengers, they are exercising a right and opinion.
Wow, the level of negativity and arrogance of some of the Madison alumni is just ridiculous...
I hope all the members and staff of Madison have an incredible final week and that this negativity stays away from them.
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22 minutes ago, Cappybara said:
I’m not understanding the comparisons to Bloo. Just because of the jazz and screamers?
Scouts alums would go equally as crazy if Madison dressed up in Bloo 2016-2017 type of uniforms
Bluecoats are staging masters, they don’t do any of the flashy things the Madison scouts used to do such as company fronts
If jazz and screamers is what people think is all it’s gonna take to get Madison competitive, they’re going to be disappointed.
Edit: forgot to add that one of the big appeals behind Bloo is their masterful use of technology and amplification. That kind of thing would not fly well with Scouts alums.
Company fronts are flashy?
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4 minutes ago, ShortAndFast said:
I didn't observe the DCI judges killing Bluecoats in 2016 for exactly that type of show.
And to think that both Jon Vanderkoff and Jim Moore were at Madison. They were given all the freedom they wanted when they moved to Bluecoats.
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7 minutes ago, tedrick said:
Um no - there are recorded segments - everything is not LIVE
Please don’t spread false information. Go to rehearsal. Speak to Olivia personally. Let her know that she is lying when she confirms that it is 100% live.
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11 minutes ago, DCIDADDIO said:
It isn’t live. There are clips. She can back off the mic and the volume doesn’t change but through repetition she has improved greatly. Think of it as singing with her own track.
Please don’t spread false information. That’s completely not true. She’s 100% live. The clips are Billie Holliday.
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On 7/22/2018 at 8:34 PM, tedrick said:
Bluecoats - the trombones were working at the beginning of closer and it sounded great - swung hard -
but then they added plunger mutes in Houston and it doesn't sound as good --
Listen to the original. Now they fit the intent of the music
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1 minute ago, BRASSO said:
.....and we have no idea how hard it must be to get all the FE equipment onto a deserted island either after being shipwrecked or whatever and lost at sea, and washed on on a deserted island.. I suppose it helps to use our imaginations here with some artistic license understood granted with all of these shows/ themes/ instrumentation/ attire/' props, etc utilized now. All these production performances are afterall, on a football field. lest we forget, regarding the venue.
Just looks cheap and not well thought out.
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The guard costume is great and fits the show perfectly! I just don't get the purple costumes. Looks like a late 90's guard uniform they picked out of a catalog. Is that what people on a deserted island look like now-a-days?
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3 hours ago, BlueStainGlass said:
Disappointed they closed rehearsal. I know so many that would love to cheer them on and hype it before the show.
Let them work out the kinks of trying the uniforms on for the very first time without being in the public eye. It's one closed rehearsal of the entire season! I guarantee the members don't mind.
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I hereby refuse to support DCI in 2019... who's in?
in DCI World Class Corps Discussions
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