David Hill
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It wasn't power, nor precision, that popped into my head when I read the topic here: it was great, good humor, and superlative execution!
2008, Murphreesboro: ideal seats -- especially as this story unfolded. A great night for drum corps. Carolina Crown began the second half of "Finis." Several members of the corps' color guard staff rushed into seats a couple of rows in front of us, and just as the unit went all funkadelic, yelled "Tear the roof off the sucker!"
Of course the guard did just that, in what likely is the most spectacular comedy/parody in the history of the activity thus far! I was in performance heaven -- well, in between peals of laughter.
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The fact that needs to be faced, especially by the G7 corps directors, is that DCI drum corps is the big white elephant in the music education room.
No matter how much we love the activity, the cost can't be justified in terms of per capita cost of kids reached versus ability to generate revenues through performance. There just isn't a big enough fan base to support it.
Take it back down to a manageable level, like some of the corps in Southern California are doing, and the activity may stand a chance. Going the route of what the G7 propose may help them in the short term, but they will still not be able to sustain themselves over the long term.
It still comes down to drum corps as buggy whips. You can't make the finest buggy whips in the World, but overall there just isn't a big enough market for buggy whips in this day and age (unless you're Amish.)
There's just no viable future in big-money drum corps.
Your forum persona belies your knowledge; you are certainly no "has-been." Only dovetailing off what you reference here: calmer, more reasonable, and certainly more business-minded heads need to be at play in the activity right now.
Wonder if those buggy-whips might be applied to get everyone on the same page?
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i'd like to clarify my earlier comment. I wasn't judging the accused as guilty, i was judging how the press continues to hurt the marching activity.
seems like we see more and more of these, and while I know many places do have codes of conduct and require clearances at the state level, especially for scholastic programs, I think it's inherent all facets of the activity, even judging require not just clearances, but codes of conduct.
because sadly, I can name 10 people off the top of my head that were proven guilty, yet continue to remain in the activity in one form or another.
All the more reason, as you said, for pageantry leadership to set an ethical example.
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Maybe it's time that all pageantry set the ethical example.
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Great structure for the review; love the information "tree" approach, and the great good humor!
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Terrific review: could almost see and hear the shows from your writing!
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Next? Quell juvenile fervor? Maybe, just maybe, drum corps is at the end of the beginning.
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I've referred to the site so many times in my various writings for DCI that I feel I should put Chris in my will.
Me too, me too!
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Hardly part of the G7 proposal, but maybe it's time to set the ethical example.
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Not to interrupt the on-point, social commentary and great good humor of Mr. St. Jacque, but maybe it's time to consider setting the ethical example.
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Capture the American ideal: POST!
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It's hardly mid-morning, this July 4, 2010, and I've already "experienced" drum and bugle corps in print and on television. Of course not in reality: in reality drum and bugle corps is a summer extension of marching band competitions, just on a tee-tiny scale. But my mind's eye sees it larger, more nationalistic in scope. And this morning I've seen it in the pages of The New York Times and on CBS "Sunday Morning." Or should have.
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HAPPY JULY 4TH TO DRUM CORPS LOVERS EVERYHWERE.
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Wonderful interview with Rosie Queen in her role this year with the Scouts, from MyBandStaff.com.
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Inside the first judges' critique of 2010!
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High-jacking the topic only a bit: with Independence Day parades in review, how about the most patriotic moments in drum corps history?
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Uniforms? Really? What's a uniform got to do with it?
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Your 2010 winner in new uniform design.
It's classic, it's summer, but most importantly, it's the Scouts!
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Just who are the small people?
Might BP Chairman Henric Svanberg be onto something?
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More as a response to the *faux-mystery* surrounding all of these BIG REVEALS ... just what it is about leaks in pageantry?
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I knew that I had written something about the change that today is being framed as the G7, four years ago. I hope it is relevant thought and provocative reading now:
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I appreciate the intent of this thread a great deal. Mike, I hope that, even in this take, that it is appropriately serious.
So it's the big week
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... and it was "the week that was!"