MrVinegar

Personally, when I see shows from the 70s and early 80s I wonder how drum corps survived. I understand the quality of the recordings is much lower but I personally find the shows unpalatable. People seemed to jump to their feet for company fronts. Company fronts aren't very exciting. I guess people in the 70s were easily entertained. The sacrifice of intonation for volume. I don't get that. Yes the corps were loud but they also had terribly off pitch lazertone. Maybe some people miss that. And the color guard routines, yikes. Those poor girls, how did they stay awake on the field? Because they were hardly doing anything even remotely visually interesting. But hey, old-timers still like that. For the life of me I can't figure out why but they do. A horribly off pitch and loud "Johnny Comes Marching Home" gets them all excited for some reason. I guess that is passion. Who knew. Actually what I think a lot of this old-timerism is about is the amount of time spent with the corps. When we marched we were immersed in the corps shows 24/7. We saw them, listened to them, heard them warming up, we would witness the daily progression each corps made. We saw and heard those shows so much they became part of our consciousness. Now, if you only see a show 2 or 3 times it will never sink in the same way so of course it will never grab you like the shows of your youth.

That was supposed to be a Lisa Gerrard song? So what you meant to say was she butchered a Lisa Gerrard song.

The Bluecoats of course! I am biased but doing my best to look at the two shows objectively I felt that the Bluecoats should have been 1.5-2 points ahead, heck, even the SCV fan next to me felt the same way. Bluecoats music really grabbed me and pulled me in which surprised me because I thought a boxing theme would be cheesy. I am glad they proved me wrong. SCV's music while very good, and I enjoyed the show, just didn't hit me on an emotional level. SCV had better designed drill overall but both corps had the same level of dirtyness in their drill. I really feel that Bluecoats had a superior show. Also, you can tell from the posts that many, certainly not all, voted for SCV out of nostalgia as if to say, "they're SCV, so they should win."

I don't get it either. Live the crowd was electric with Bluecoats and the only crowd reaction with SCVwas when the crowd yelled Vanguard for them...

I agree, there is no way they should be behind Santa Clara and Cadets. I swear the judges have something against the Bluecoats. They were the first and only corps to give me goosebumps tonight. Phantom, Cavies and Blue Devils almost did.

Can't the Bluecoats get a little love around here?? Early 90s Blooo could swing sumpin' fierce while other corps that played "jazz" either swung like bricks (95 Cadets swung like a big fat white chick) or had to play the straightest jazz possible (usually something with a latin beat, BD and Madison).

Han Zimmer's Gladiator score would be nice (if it hasn't been done already). I wouldn't mind a mic'd voice if someone could actually sing like Lisa Gerrard!

I'll be there buying souvies from the Bluecoats!

I really really hope so.

I usually just read without posting, but this pulled the heart strings. I made a small donation, seeing as I am barely getting by myself, but I had to give a little. Best of luck Teal Sound!