Jason
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King Louis XVI?
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Mason has the best advice to the G-7... " I have a professional group. Leave this ( DCI ) alone. "
There is " no compromise " with the G-7 vision. It's a selfish, self serving power grab to establish a permanent group slotting system within the World Class Division of DCI and kill off the Open Class Division while in the process. It would serve as a death panel to the Drum Corps activity as something separate and distinct from the Band activity. It's in keeping with the Hopkins long held vision of the morphing of the Drum Corps idiom into band in which the end result will be only..... band.
Either give up this arrogance, or leave and pursue your vision thingy on your own.
Those are the choices.
I would say, to all the corps that are out of the "G7"...
I think it's time you turned to the senior folks and started working to establish a new division at DCA. If the G7 corps want to do their own thing, let them. Soon it will be a G5, then a G3, and at some point it'll just beTThe Blue Devils Touring Ensemble".
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So color me confused...
Drum corps cant survive because it's too expensive....so the best thing we can do is INCEASE the expense by adding more kids. Which means higher transportation costs, higher equipment costs, more instructors, more uniforms, more food, more support staff.
Yes, that makes perfect sense. Why don't we reduce the cost of the activity by upping the cost of doing business.
And now..the "top 7" want to throw a tantrum and take their toys and play "over there". (Funny, I remember there was a time when there was a fight to make the top 21).
No wonder DCI corps cant make it. They're led by a pack of morons.
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Stu, may be a different idea, but have you checked into just buying team uniforms?
http://stores.all-sports-uniforms.com/Sear...th+Warm+Up+Tops
Wild stab at a solution, but normally something like this is in stock and you can have it within a week or two tops.
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WOW,
I just don't know what to say. I just...wow.
God speed you good sir. Godspeed.
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I'm confused...where in there did they announce a program? I'm not even seeing a concept in there. I just see a word with some generic hype attached to it.
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The original album was released to CD two years ago and can be picked up online as well.
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Well, it's not Jason Siebels...or at least if it is, I should really check my phone messages...
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A marching snare...
Why that will cost you....ONE MILLION DOLLARS!
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Godspeed sir,
It was a pleasure.
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Uh....WHERE did you see this at?
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I'm certain the top bands could knock out some of the lower 21. I mean, it's like having the top college football team play...say...the Minnesota Vikings.
Which is NOT to say that marching a "lower" placing corps is NOT a valuable experiance. I learned more from my months with Pioneer concerning performance, dedication, and my craft on my horn then I did in my years at college studying for my music education degree.
But then again, my college football team wouldn't stand a chance against the Minnesota Vikings.
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So, no one thinks their placement wasn't a statement on Wagner?
Given the shows that year? No.
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IN BEFORE THE LOCK!
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I think the show that always gave me a strange funny feeling was 97 Blue Coats. The middler had some rather...fun...dance work and interplay between the coed guard members.
Unfortunaly, it was all edited out during the DCI broadcast ...GRRRRR
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I thought the 1994 Cavaliers show was pretty sexually suggestive.
Leather studded cross sash. Guard showing "man nipple". One part of the show had a guard member ascending a big pole surrounded by the rest of the guard. Some sort of "right of passage" motif...
Oh and that big flesh colored rope thing they used as guard equipment with the knot at the end... Now what was that supposed to be alluding too?
And I totally agree with the 91 Regiment "Colorguard spread Eagle to trigger the horns to the box". That was completely inspired! Loved it!
Actually, I thought that part was the ascent of man...problly went to Jungia with it and should have gone more Freudian with it.
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Here I made one of these years ago and haven't used anything but for about 7 years now:
http://fmcorps.tripod.com/charts.pdf
It's marked off for an official NCAA Basketball court. And yes, it's set up in an 8X5 grid.
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My new single goal in life is to make a Renegades photo essay. I don't care if I have to kidnap Lee Rudnicki to make it happen.
Lee, if you require a bodyguard, my services are always available for a nominal fee.
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And perhaps the best moment NEVER to happen in the History of DCI Finals fades into the ether.
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They'll reveal that Carman is actually really a man and then play the last cord from the movie The Crying Game.
Curse you Somerville, get out of my head!!!!
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Carmen takes off her wig to reveal that there really was no female guest performer this year
that would be a shocker...to find out that Scouts weren't doing a Carmen show, but actually a "Crying Game" show...
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Doesn't the corps who WINS best personify what DCI stands for?
Or at least what the Judges stand for?
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"Hi, we're Jehovia's Witnesses, would you like a copy of 'The Watchtower'?"
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"LAAAAAAAAAAAAND SHARK!!!"
DCI story on CNN.com
in DCI World Class Corps Discussions
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The two, while similar on the surface, are DRASTICALLY different when examined in full.
The VFW/AL circuits provided little or no voice to the corps that participated in them. Corps weren't allowed to make the rules, and that was a major tiff back when the split came to pass. Corps were fed up being dictated by what they saw as a small minded minority who held all the cards. So they left to do their own thing. What they did (provide a structure for corps to determine what was best for themselves) made a lot of sense to a lot of corps, and the organization grew.
40 years later, we have a small group of individuals who RUN DCI who are saying "You know what, we want to do our own thing, forget you guys." The major difference is the G7 corps HAVE the ability to do whatever they want. THEY ARE THE BOD. They can make the rules, they can do whatever they want provided they can get the other corps to agree with it. The other corps are saying "NO, this isn't in our best interst," while the G7 are simply saying "Well, eff off then."
They're pulling the exact same stunt they pulled on DCM about 10 years back. The top corps said "Hey, you know what, we want to move control over to DCI." They got the DCM corps to agree with it, provided that after a year, if it didn't work out for the DCM corps they would return the DCM structure. After a year when the DCM corps said "You know what...we like the way things were running with DCM." The top five said "Well..screw you guys. We're taking our toys and leaving."
The VFW in the 70's gave the corps no representation. The G7 simply want to take their toys and pout that they cant have everything they want, even if everything they want will cost the existence of every corps except for them.