ranintothedoor
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With a new board and new director, what kinds of things are they going to have to tackle aside from the PR stuff?
For instance, I've seen on DCP the mention of big outstanding debt. Do banks and debtors tend to give organizations in turmoil/flux like this a chance to right the ship if it looks like they're taking steps to fix the problem?
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56 minutes ago, N.E. Brigand said:
I look forward to a time when this discussion has more pages than the other one.
Amen.
Make Cadets 2018 Thread Great Again.
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Next question... are you going to connect all of those flags with strings to show which stop follows what show???
Copyright those images quickly... this is so cool, I'd bet DCI, or someone, would be interested in using it as a marketing thingy! :-)
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Thank you for this.
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2 minutes ago, Jeff Ream said:
Fat fingers on a phone waiting for church. Sorry!!
lol :-D it's cool... we've all been there.
Now, off to church!
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6 minutes ago, HockeyDad said:
Hopkins - the man who took down DCI? This is bad. Real bad. For the entire activity. As in, defining moment big. Teetering on the brink big. Wow.
It feels like that now, yes.
I do believe it will be very difficult... but there is too much history, too much passion wrapped up into this activity for a handful (implied from this thread) of bad actors to bring down drum corps. I cite the last post by YEA as evidence for this. I also cite my own high school that I teach at... our basketball team was on ESPN, the situation was so bad. And yet, here we are, two years later, playing basketball again and supporting the team with just as much, if not more energy and determination.
The Cadets will survive; they might even thrive this year.
And if all of DCI has to clean house of all those bad actors to do the same, I'm sure they will.
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17 minutes ago, DrumManTx said:
Additional response from YEA:
https://yea.org/news/2005-healing-and-the-futureThis one was a good one.
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1 hour ago, Jeff Ream said:
You need both
I've always wondered what FTKs meant... now I get it... ugh...
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11 minutes ago, IllianaLancerContra said:
Am I the only one who, seeing the title of the blog, & with Jesus Christ Superstar (thx NBC) on the brain thought "What then to do about this Georgie Hop-i-kins, YEA Di-rec-tor, a-ccu-sed rapist?...."
nope!
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2 hours ago, N.E. Brigand said:
Unless the show is very explicitly about sexual harassment and the failure to report--and I see no point in holding that wound open--the title must change. And probably the should take "The Sounds of Silence" out of this year's repertoire. Two corps did a nice job with that song last summer it doesn't need to be done now. Pick something else.
I agree... the optics would improve. I just read the lyrics of the Sounds of Silence... yeah, there's no hope there. It would be a good idea to change it out.
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2 hours ago, barigirl78 said:
There's much discussion here and elsewhere about the Board of YEA resigning and a clean sweep of the YEA organization.
There's another option for the Cadets, though, that I haven't seen discussed.
I'll call it the "Crossmen Option".
In 2006, the Crossmen left YEA after being acquired by totally new management--Fred Morrison and Mark Chambers--and started anew as an independent organization.
So, why do the Cadets even need to be in YEA? Doesn't the option exist to dissolve it and spin the Cadets assets off--as the Crossmen assets were--and start as a new organization? It would be a reboot...and a true clean sweep.
Thoughts?
I was thinking about this today. I say yes... separate the performing ensembles from the parent organization. I wonder if the Dance Troop, Cadets 2, Indoor Cadets will be picked up by other parent organizations in PA. Or anywhere else across the country. Back to Bergen County?
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My attempt to work through all this on my blog. Comment if you'd like. Thanks guys.
https://yhwhjanitor.wordpress.com/2018/04/07/what-to-do-about-george-hopkins/
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Now that Mr. Hopkins has stepped down, I was thinking about their show theme this year.
In the other thread, it was mentioned that this show theme is terribly inappropriate considering what was going on...
But, the more I think about, the emotional weight of the situation coupled with a resounding conscious rejection of the concept explored in the title... this show could be the vehicle that the organization uses to heal and move on from this.
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As I try to fight back tears, since my students are in the room right now as I read all this, all I can say right now is...
Thank God for DCP.
Reading here and seeing this conversation take place and knowing I have this outlet to share any future musings I might have about this is cathartic.
I love you guys and I'm thankful for you.
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On 3/26/2018 at 7:47 PM, HockeyDad said:
"Communications meader." Lol. Maybe do a spellcheck next time?
This is why they need a ramped up team. :-)
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Yay 2018 Cadets! :-D
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Shoot... can't remember the year... they did a ballad that was my absolute favorite of that year... it was 2014-2016... rrrr... wish I could remember... I'll scour youtube later.
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3 hours ago, Ghost said:
In through the nose, out through the mouth. That's the way 2C.
Is that the same as breathe Dah? I find that very relaxing. :-D
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On 3/7/2018 at 3:46 PM, Guardguy89 said:
My question is - how does this type of theme even come across visually ????
Side A - the corps is acting like babies.
Side B - the corps is acting like old people.
50 yard line - guard with diaper flags and rifles painted like tubes of butt paste.
Considering how positively I reacted to the Cavaliers' joke segment last year, I think I'd actually really enjoy this visual!.
Seriously, though, I'm looking forward to this. The theme actually has a lot of possibilities.
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I think the average Cadets show title is perfect. Combine all the long ones with the ones like "10" and "Angels and Demons" and you're good.
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It was at the Westchester show... it was dark, and there were woods at the end of the stadium, so the black-painted door just kind of disappeared. I was sliding left, trying to look through the contra/tuba on my shoulder to find the door when *WHAM*! I bounced off of it, quickly decided to try and run to catch up with the form, and ran blind, relying on muscle memory. I made it, and finished the show, but it was super scary!
It took 10 years as a band director before I allowed props on the field in our shows! :-D
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On 3/2/2018 at 9:23 PM, Brass34 said:
What about 2005...
The Zone: Dreamscapes in Four Parts with a Door
you know, just in case you didn't see the large door on the 50 yard line
I ran into that door once....
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What if the entire drum corps got in there!??!?
FINALLY!! 3 DIMENSIONAL DRILL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YES!
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Ugh... I hate excessive DOMINAAAANT-percussion break*rimshot* rest - RESOOOLVE thing. This is great if you've built and earned the tension, but if you didn't it's pretentious and meh. One of my favorite uses of this technique done tastefully is Cadets '92. (This one was, in my opinion, earned... the tension had been building for 3 minutes! Plus it was used in a Coda... they'd already delivered on the tonic chord right before this part, so the audience's ear was satisfied... the Coda was basically just candy for the ear afterward.
Love the writing and pacing of this show. )
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YEA board resigns
in DCI World Class Corps Discussions
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That's why I was asking! I didn't have time to go searching... just going off a rusty memory.
lol