Bob P.

That's ancient history! BTW, the owners of the Canadiens back then were English speaking and so was the coach and nobody minded. Also, the riot was about the "Rocket" being suspended for the first games of the Stanley Cup series, which didn't go over big and had more to do with that than "friction" between French and English speaking groups.

Well summarized. I will contend that the level of expertise and creativity in arrangements in the '70s was at least if not greater than today, due to the "primitive" instrumentation then. It is amazing what some of the arrangers did. Creativity is best expressed when there are restrictions, not when there are no restrictions. The "music" today (and not just Drum Corps) is but a sound track to the visuals. Closer to the OP subject, while we can discuss if the scores would be the same yesterday or today, the relative merit of the corps would still hold and the best that year would still win.

Are you also walking away from watching movies, going to the theater, attending sporting events etc.? Remember "common sense" is not really that "common", but usually more myth than fact.

Doing a modified mid-west tour, so new to us will be Lisle, Minneapolis, Mankato, DesMoines and Dekalb. Repeats will be Whitewater and Dubuque, although at least 20 years ago! Leaving from Montreal.

That's not a ballad but a dentist's waiting room background sound. Come to think of it, some drum corps "music" is like hearing a dentist's drill!

78 LP is an oxymoron. What you really want is an Edison cylinder. That is closer to a valveless bugle.

I am overwhelmed by your cutting sarcasm and wit and will therefore stop the pendulum, since a pendulum needs outside energy to keep oscillating. I expect you to not be the "outside energy".

Trouble is that they would try to get the pedal notes using the synthesizer and the poor low bass capability of the loudspeakers. The equipment used now is good at playing mid bass loudly, but doesn't go much lower than 60 hz, when the pedal C is at about 16 hz. All we would be exposed to is very distorted woofers doubling try to reproduce 16-40 hz notes.

The Churchill retort although witty, is NOT Sarcastic, as he meant exactly what he said, not the opposite. Sarcasm always implies, sometimes more obviously than other times, the opposite meaning. Sarcasm in a type of irony and not usually funny, as I first stated. I never made any claim that my pun was witty, just a good example of a pun - nice to see that you got it!.

That is a well known retort and contains no pun, so I don't see the relevance. Puns are easy, wit, as illustrated above, much more difficult. A witty pun, now that is worth pundering.

One must not mistake Puns for Wit. Salut

It seems that you have a firm grasp of the obvious. I have never found sarcasm to be funny, just a poor substitute for true wit.

Huh?

The radical of x is always smaller, same as the square root of x. And V-V=0. So I don't get what we are getting at here?! Talk about pretentious symbolism.

Looks like a mid-west tour for us - Lisle, Whitewater, Minneapolis, Mankota, DesMoines, Dubuque and Dekalb. Luckily Chicago area has excellent gourmet restaurants. Plus Allentown, of course! We refuse to do indoor contests, so San Antonio and Indianapolis are out and have always been out.

A home battery backup system could easily run all the electronics for 30 minutes. The whole setup could easily be installed on a wheeled skid and be just like another piece of equipment wheeled out. They aren't that big, but they are heavy. But whatever solution used, there should not be any special treatment for corps if technical glitches come up Live by electronics, die by electronics and I don't mean by non grounded equipment.

Yes.

Only if you are deaf! Which I am definitely not. In fact, avoiding loud and percussive sounds, has helped me retain my still excellent hearing. While I love the sounds of yesterday's corps, I do not miss the over-blowing and distorted loud sounds of those "old" out of tune G bugles, especially indoors. Wailing FH, excepted, of course.

Just a bad joke. Indoor shows is the antithesis of what Drum Corps is (was) about. Park and blow (especially by Cabs) is especially painful indoors. Also, one can't really see if the guard is doing something, which, at least, more alumni are featuring.

I think that they already do that, but from a football game point of view and when the games are played. And, if the contest had started at a more civilized hour (maybe 7 PM) the sun wouldn't have been an issue for the crowd.

And we won't be able to call that "real drum corps"!

The VICS of Montreal Qc. From the Victoria Rifles in Montreal.

Something like the difference between a Bb and an A# on a violin - one comma!

Those were just remarks about competitors' music, not the quality, except, of course, the music of Stockhausen!