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Kieren

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  • Your Drum Corps Experience
    1999-2002. Division I. Could have marched longer, but got injured. Regret not being able to age out.
  • Your Favorite Corps
    Cavaliers, SCV, Blue Knights.
  • Your Favorite All Time Corps Performance (Any)
    Cavaliers 2004.
  • Your Favorite Drum Corps Season
    2002
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    Male
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    Politics, music, food, futbol (you call it soccer), drum corps, foreign languages, the National Symphony Orchestra, too many more.

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  1. The story did seem a little forced, but...I think with better guard and drill design, they could have told it effectively. I don't think you can give the drill writer and the guard designer a free pass here.
  2. Good lord...how many posts are you going to make trying to defend _________ in roundabout ways? Deal with it and move on.
  3. That is very odd. You'd expect that sort of thing after a rough season. But I guess it does happen...I remember reading someone's diary of PR 1993 and it said that a lot of PR members went to march Blue Devils after 1993, which was pretty successful for Phantom. And at the time, there was no way of knowing BD would have the year it had in 1994, since they were in their driest stretch of no championships.
  4. I don't think I can take the World Drum Corps Hall of Fame seriously if it doesn't have the Cadets as the corps of the 1980s. Cadets won 4 titles in the 80s, as compared to Blue Devils' 3, SCV's 2, and Madison's 1. They also had the first threepeat and revolutionized the activity. On the flip side, I don't see how the Blue Devils are not the corps of the 1990s. They won 4 titles compared to Cadets' 3, Cavaliers' 2, and Star, PR, and SCV with one. They likewise caused a paradigm shift for the activity heading into the late 1990s. Those two decades are completely reversed. That being said, I don't see how the Cavaliers can NOT be the corps of the 2000s. 5 titles and a completely different mindset toward the designing of a show.
  5. It doesn't upset me...it just makes me think your opinion is wrong and mine is right. I'm a Cavaliers fan, but I felt midway through last season that PR should have been beating them. When I saw them early, though, that was not the case. Cavaliers were definitely ahead by a nice margin...it was until PR started cleaning up that they became a better program, I thought. As for BD...maybe it's because I am a Cavaliers fan, but they do nothing for me. They did nothing for me last year...I thought they should have been 3rd.
  6. Most of what Phantom Regiment played last year was not a "classic." They used some of Spartacus, true, but there was a lot that was new to drum corps. Same could be said about 2006 Phantom Regiment, 2005 Cadets, and much of what Crown played this year. I don't think we're in danger of running out of music...I think we're in danger of allowing visual concerns and needs dictate what music we can program and HOW it is to be arranged. Music isn't ADD (as you put it) because we didn't think audiences would "get it" if we used full phrases, but because the full phrases were not conducive to fast 8-count moves that would look cool. I think it is harder to program a show these days because of THOSE concerns, not necessarily because they are trying to come up with something new each year.
  7. If drum corps had undergone some huge, HUGE change in philosophy this year, then i could understand such a statement. However, drum corps did not undergo a change. Phantom Regiment simply put out an inferior product. To deduct from this that the activity has passed them by is just silly. This wasn't like some of the shows of the late 90s and early 00s, drill full of 24- and 32-count moves, easy transitions, and lots of stand stills. There was a lot of velocity in this show (and in last year's as well). It wasn't very effective, I will grant you, and there were not many nice-looking transitions, but there was velocity and an attempt at keeping up with the joneses. They just, unfortunately, designed a poor drill book and this was compounded by having a poorly designed guard product. It has nothing to do with drum corps passing them by, and everything to do with bad decisions along the way. I am sure the organization will take note of those bad decisions, fix them, and plan to be back in the top 5 next year.
  8. Could they? Of course. It will all depend on the show vehicle they are given. I thought they were great this year! They should be very proud of their accomplishment. First new corps in the top three since Star 1990, I think. Wow.
  9. Jamey Thompson. Johnny Sanchez. Tony Hall. Brian Hildreth. Garrett Decker, I believe. Close...his brother Greg. Because it was high school drill? Really good high school drill, but hs drill nonetheless. Brazale, not Brazzalle.
  10. I remember it because I got on a Star kick in the winter...that 1990 show blew me away, so I started to watch all their shows (thanks Fan Network!). 1985-1987: Newbie shlock. 1988: Too much pink, but at least the music is serious... 1989: Getting there. Drill was disappointing (though I was told they changed a lot of it midseason). 1990: Great googly moogly! They've arrived. 1991-1993 : Awesomeness. Wish I were old enough to have seen them live.
  11. I don't know if these guys were the first ones, but corps marched 16 contras/tubas as far back as 1992 Star of Indiana.
  12. Dear GOD! What in the heckfiretarnations IS THAT?????? What happened to Madison? Are the color guard supposed to be blue Spidermen?
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