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I know right? I don't really understand it either but there have been pretty bad answers like "because it makes feet out of time" and "judges don't like it" which are both complete bs. The funny part is, most of these people have tought or played in jazz shows before. Not gonna drop names tho.

Was just thinking, anyone ever do a shoenberg show or anything like that? That would be messed up!

Well at least we seem to have gotten past the worst of the badly themed productions. It was horrible a few years ago. I mean seriously, if your show title is a word that is not in the english language, then...just... just no. (though bluecoats 06 was preeettty sweet.) But do you guys think thiat this might lead to nore original pieces composed for corps? They could just bypass putting snippets of songs in their shows and go straight to the drawing board. Idk, just a thought. And finally on topic, I know a lot of instructors who are completely and totally opposed to putting jazz on the field for various reasons. I don't agree, but there seem to be a lot. Just saying.

Where can you find out what judges judged finals and what years? Just wondering if you can.

We'll just have to wait until tomorrow night in Beverly to see how everythign shakes out then.

I love the fact that it prevents slotting, however I'm concerned with the effect that it will have on individual musicianship. With the sole focus for the first month being on GE, it might lead to a lack of focus on individual section sounds and technique. I'm no negative nancy though, I hate slotting more than anything else in the world (even narration).

They still need to go through a review period in the fall I believe because last year surf and/or spartans were not approved. They were only approved in a preliminary review in January.

I agree with the ArgonneRebel, I heard 11 in the hornline. And the source was not the forums.

I hope that the housing this year for Finals is better than last year. I know that this is a topic in the World Class forum, but last year two Open class corps had to stay in a motel and weren't given a field, or parking lot, or anything for that matter, to practice on and had to seek out for themselves a place to practice. On the bright side, it was between a Starbucks and a 7-11. Thanks DCI!

Is there anyway to publicly support Orwoll and the Colts in this instead of posting on a fairly niche website? Just was thinking that we should do our part to at least attempt to swing public sympathy for them. I'm not so sure about the host family and the parents though, as there just isn't enough information on them at this time, but the Colts have to be innocent.

that's really funny because my band director marched there that year.

So, I was discussing with my band director the other day about, well, the marching activity in general and I brought up the rule changes about electronic instruments and mic'd horns. . He's an old school drum Corps kind of guy who believes that there is no such thing is drum corp any more. His arguments are usually more illogical than people's arguments on this forum, always saying that drum corp ended when it got all "artsy fartsy," Yet always attributing the artsy fartsyness to a differant point in time, from when the first valves were used straight on up to narration. Most, more like all, of the time I disagree with him, but today he made a very interesting, and different, point. He stated that drum corp officially ended when the color guard began to do "all this artsy fartsy dance ########." So now to my point, many of the changes in drum corp have taken place in the hornline and percussion, and now once again, they are the focus. Much of the time, the colorguard is neglected as the sorry sister of the musical aspects of the activity. So now, I pose this question to you: How have changes in style of the colorguard affected the drum corps activity at large through out the years?

How epic would it be if you could get a picture of yourself from whatever year you marched in that format? That would be SO COOL!

Ya know, if you play the end credits music backwards, you can heard them say "It's still alive" IT'S CRAZZZZZZZZYYYY Oh, and I agree that it would sound great on the field.

First off, at prelims, we edged out HYPE by 0.45 but at semis we jumped 2.9 points. Just wanted to ay that as a member of citations, we're going to be better than ever this year. Why? Because we no longer have to soder together parts of broken horns to make working ones. YAY! So HYPE, Dutch Boy and the others better watch out. Oh, and thanks for the contras last year HYPE, ours kinda literally fell apart in our hands! :P