fsubone
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Wait til you get older, then it's bathroom and 'OMG I gotta walk around before I get too stiff to get up' breaks.
Well, I have to take stand up and walk around breaks already at 24. DCI is bad for the joints. And tiny high school stands are not good for tall people.
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Although I am just starting to look at the schedule my first question is, why is BD skipping the Santa Clara show on June 22nd. It is the fourth show in NorCal and they are at the three shows prior. I also notice that they skipping the Oceanside show and after a 5 day break coming back at Glendora, Ca. As I recall they skipped some early shows last year too.
Have to get those free days in somewhere.
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Are we just not going to talk about SCV's Th3ee? Everything was done in multiples of three, including section make-ups. The corps even came onto the field and set up in the giant pyramid in 3s. Was pretty cool to see them all take different paths to the first set in their little pods.
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Do you mean SCV Backstage? Or is that something different?
Yes, I think that's what they re-named it. I just remember it being called SCV TV when it launched.
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Speaking of Crown 2011, the guitar didn't break at Finals, so the guard soloist tries to keep breaking it.
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I wish more corps would utilized a media box type item like BD has. It's incredible. Madison has a mobile app similar, but not quite the same level of content.
SCV has started a similar service in the last few years, SCV TV.
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I'm curious how it was scored. How does someone from the box judge visual if they can't see it? Hah!
I think they just said "screw it" and put it down as an exhibition. Pretty cool performance to see on video. Talking to members, they did mostly go with muscle memory, and their eyes did adjust a bit. But there were a bunch of collisions the video doesn't pick up. Amazing a big accident didn't happen. But drum corps members could probably perform their shows blindfolded if you put them in the first set.
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Studio recording?
Yeah, Devs do a stand-still studio-esque recording session every season. Should be on their MediaBox either now or soon. Usually top-quality, I've got a few of them.
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Wasn't there an incident involving doves at a drum corps show? Something about them not flying at night, and just wandering around the field?
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And there are times when composers/artists will pull the sync rights after the season is over. Look at Phantom 2008, the original DVDs came out with the full show, but the composer decided they didn't like what was done with their piece. They pulled the rights to it in October, so DCI had to cut it from the product. Same with Empire State of Mind from Madison. The people behind it pulled the rights after the season, so it got cut from the DVD. These things happen.
Wasn't the cut to the Blue Devils show last year only for foreign markets?
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ScoJo did win High Drums with both SCV and BD. 91 SCV took home High Drums, and of course BD has won it a bunch
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Most corps seem to be on 3Cs, or whatever the equivalent is from their mouthpiece supplier.
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SCV's 2011 was mostly based on piano music, specifically the Ligeti "Devil's Staircase"
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They're keeping the visual team pretty close to the same, so I am sure it will be close to what you saw last year.
Okay. Still not sure why they chose the hybrid technique. It hasn't really been done since the 80s, so maybe they wanted the throw-back. Wouldn't mind seeing them go for a full straight-leg with the white pants. Or at least trim down the pants to a more form-fitting look with the bent knee.
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With Pete joining Key Poulan who has been with Mandarin for several seasons, this previously SCV team is already in place for an interesting show on the other side of the Bay.
Hopefully so. They seem to have the organizational pieces in place to move up, just need the show for it. Pete and Key together could really help with that
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Is Madison going to keep the same marching technique from last year? The interesting bent-knee forward, straight-leg backwards hybrid technique was not one I'd seen in a long time. Seems like most corps decide on one or the other.
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Because he has a PhD?
He's also the director of the University of Michigan Marching Band.
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Lorenzo Medrano and Pete Weber on Mandarins Design Team
Pete Weber should be a great pickup for them. He does pretty beautiful work for SCV, hope they can handle his drill
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I'm thinking it was USC that marched over Ricardo Montalban in Naked Gun, but I could be wrong.
My father went the same way.
Probably right. It's almost always USC or RCC. USC has also appeared in a few music videos as well.
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And this is also assuming that all tapes are productive and worthwhile. They're not. Multiple tapes this season either didn't come through at all, or cut off halfway through, or were just a complete joke with no information on them. I wish they were all full of info and worthy of being posted somewhere, but it's not reality.
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Haha, yes the earlier material is a bit "raw" and in-your-face, but if you listen to it in context with the times there is some amazing stuff in there.
Especially when you consider that the technical playing was done on a piston-rotor horn, or maybe one with 2 valves if it's from the 80s. Playing runs with three valves is hard enough.
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Most of those featured in music videos/commercials are either RCC or USC. Location matters when an ad agency needs a band for a commercial.
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Cadets 1998 (well except for the riffle drops)
That foot timing in the company front. Never seen anything like it.
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Yes, perhaps it was petty of me to take the low-hanging fruit and make the synth joke.
But it is quite the contrary to your assertion that it forgets the 36-44 contributing low brass players. In fact, it is the exact opposite. My (and most likely others') aversion to the synth is specifically due to the impression (right or wrong is open to debate) that the the corps, by relying on synth bass, is the one telling the audience that those 36-44 players aren't good enough to make the musical impact they want the audience to hear. We (the anti-synth crowd if you like) are the ones that want to hear those 36-44 players on their own.
[PS - and I certainly don't need to say anymore on the subject. I'll refrain from commenting on synths, amplification, etc., for ... well, at least the rest of the month]
Fair enough. I guess I'm just one of those people that doesn't hear the synth on top of parts unless I'm actively listening for it, or there's a part exclusively in the synth. Seems like the writers are getting better at burying that stuff underneath the brass lines, so it's not apparent.
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Staff Performance Reactions at Finals
in DCI World Class Corps Discussions
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That seems to be the crux of it. It's not something you've experienced. Staff members still put in the long days in hot weather perfecting a product just as much as the kids do. Especially when they have to co-ordinate full sections or even full captions. So seeing the end product after 70~ days of hard work, they deserve to show that emotion and enjoy the final product. I'm sorry that it annoys you, but the staff should get to have emotions at Finals like everyone else.