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Daave

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  1. 28 minutes ago, Jeff Ream said:

    i think it was said non member status for the year?

    I read that as DCI's decision regarding their competitive status only for 2024.  I can't find anywhere that the other corps voted on the membership issue.  I thought it was two separate issues/processes.  IDK

  2. Just now, 2muchcoffeeman said:

    I still think they've got something more in mind for that rope, and that sun, and maybe that DM, before it's all over

    They should at least try to be historically correct. The picture is I saw had a Confederate yellow sash on the Union "uniform ".  The 11th Ohio cavalry was Union. Yes?  Anyways, I guess it's just a little thing, but they tout the ties to Fort Caspar, just pay historical accuracy. I guess.  Or not.... I dunno.

  3. 7 minutes ago, Rylan said:

    At first this part annoyed me too until I looked into it some more. That was the speech Charles de Gaulle gave when surrendering the French army during WWII. This part of the show is supposed to be chaotic with sounds of sirens, bombs, and with the battery playing sounds of artillery. This was a moment in Matisse’s life where he had a lot of internal conflict, not only with France’s surrender, as he was very patriotic, but also his decreasing ability to create art the way he always had due to his illness. This segues into the ballad “Both Sides Now” which is staged so that there are two sides to his life at this point - his old life of being a famous painter in peaceful France versus his new life of being a bed-ridden artist in wartime France. 

    With all those things considered, I think BD does an absolutely beautiful job of representing this through both of those movements. After doing the research, the Charles de Gaulle speech/battery feature has now become one of my favorite parts of the show! 

    Some might say that if the creators and the consumers of a product that goes that deep to convey the message makes it harder to appreciate the product on many levels.  As opposed to say... Troopers who stated up front, 'Hey by finals week, we're gonna lasso that MF'er.'

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