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Not too surprising. Brennan marched and taught tenors with the Cavaliers, and of course Mac taught there. The Crossmen caption head is a Scout, but taught with the Cavaliers, and last I checked 5 of the techs are Cavaliers as well.

The videos would have to be compressed before being put online, and you might also lose some quality when burning to a Blu-ray disc. I have one of my PCs hooked up to my HDTV, and the quality is superb. It's nice not to have to burn them as well, especially considering I don't have a Blu-ray player. It would probably be cheaper, but there would be an added bandwidth cost. Depending on how they are packaged together, one full disc could be around 12-15 gigs or so.

Just a guess, but I think the last year may have been 2002.

Didn't Madison do this, too? If you're going to be doing extensive choreography, strengthening your core muscles is just about the best thing you can do for yourself. Of my years marching, the only time I had any knee pain was in the year we had a difficult maneuver that required a developed set of core muscles. When your core can't cut it, some other muscles are forced to take the blame, and it usually ain't pretty. If your knees are sore at the end of the day, ice them, but for no longer than 15-20 minutes. If possible, get the knee(s) above your heart—you're aiming to restrict the blood flow.

Duh. I must have been thinking super regionals.

You might also want to check into a corps' sleeping habits as well. A corps that gets more "floor time" is going to have healthier knees.

Texas doesn't send very many bands to Grand Nationals, and the bands that do go tend to rotate years. And as far as I know, the only BOA regional Texas bands attend is in San Antonio. BOA Grand Nationals are the de facto HS marching band national championships. It's really the only metric we have to compare bands across the country. Now let's move BOA GNs closer to Texas for a year and see how that shakes out.

Listen to the original Niagara Falls and you'll hear what was probably the basis for the 3rd Corner theme in Four Corners.

The four hottest states in the US are Arizona, Nevada, California, and Texas. The southeastern US is the rainiest part of the country, but Texas gets MUCH less rain than those states do. Currently, most of central Texas is in an intensely severe drought, and the rest of the state just in a severe drought. Unlike most of the south, our climate is a mix of the southeastern (humid subtropical) and southwestern (semi-arid) states, which basically means we get all of the humidity and none of the rain. Has Michigan had 30 straight days of 100+ degree temperatures? In your experience I'm sure you've had a summer where the days you spent in Texas were cooler than those you spent in other southern states, but how logical would it be to extrapolate that experience of yours into a statement that the other states you've visited are empirically hotter? Sources: http://www.currentresults.com/Weather-Extr...ties-summer.php http://www.drought.unl.edu/dm/monitor.html I don't like the Alamodome, either. I'm not sure why it was ever built. I'm not going to pretend we don't have our share of terrible facilities, but most of our schools are nice, most of our high school stadiums are turf, etc. The thing is, if you split up the three major metro areas of Texas into three states, each one would be considered exceptional, DFW and Houston especially. And contrary to your opinion that the really good ones getting all of the attention blow the numbers out of proportion, I would argue that there are so many other good bands that don't get attention because of the ones that do. Everyone knows of LD Bell, Reagan, Churchill, Marcus, etc., but there are a ton of other great programs that just can't afford to fly up to Indy. It would be neat if BOA GNs were held halfway between Texas and Indiana one year, or heck, in Texas for one year. Texans are a naturally proud people, and it tends to permeate everything we do well. I'm not sure how much Texas history is taught in other states, outside of maybe the Alamo, but Texas has a lot to be proud of. And at least while I was attending school, we were sort of indoctrinated into that proud Texan mentality. Maybe it wasn't jealousy that provoked your initial post, but I can't imagine that it was anything positive.

I've never felt the need to tell someone to go #### a state. It's just jealousy.

I hope the next move involves DCI selling individual shows online in 720p. Compressed properly (H.264/AVC), we could probably get shows at around 400 megs a pop. It might be too early for this to happen, but I already have a proper setup for this, and I know many others do as well.

Wasn't there a Midland show? I stopped going to San Antonio because I don't enjoy drum corps in a dome anymore. Having the Denton show around helped that out. So I'm pumped about being able to see all of the corps close by, in an outdoor setting. My only hope is that through this new arrangement DCI realizes what an awful venue Lake Highlands is for this type of event, and finds another stadium for next year.

Baritone: 99 SCV Trumpet: 2002 Cavaliers - The opening trio, especially the second guy; The solo sustain that leads into the ballad, followed by more trumpets that match the exact pitch; 2004 BD - the duet work

Which shows? In any case, the swastika is an ancient symbol, mostly having to do with well being, good luck, and success. The symbol itself is a pretty natural shape that is pleasing to the eye, so I'm not surprised to see it pop up in an activity that deals with attractive geometry. In 5th grade, I remember once being told to go wash my hands off, as I'd been drawing swastikas on my hand, in red pen no less. At the time, I had no idea what I'd done. Apparently I just thought the symbol was cool.

Why? I can't imagine playing on such a small mouthpiece in drum corps.

Nothing that serious, but one year our finals housing site had two sets of showers: one was scalding hot, the other ice cold. Both were completely beyond what any normal human could be expected to take for more than a second or two. And being the final housing site of tour, we were there for around 6 days or so. If you were lucky, you were able to acquire a large container of some kind, which you would use to gather water from one set of showers before heading to the other set—the shower you would actually "use". It was funny at first, hearing screams and seeing guys jump in and out real quick, but the humor wore quickly.

Not knowing any specifics about the Phantom situation, I'd say that anyone who manages to get cut after four years with an organization probably got cut for a really good reason, and one not necessarily related to their talent or performance level.

Yeah, Joni Perez, formerly brass caption head for the Blue Knights.

You mean kinda like what happened last year?

For a big fat symphonic brass sound, we need baritones? ... Gee, I hope someone tells all of the orchestras out there about this..

I think the two moving triangles with the low brass moving in half-time is the perfect punctuation mark to the sequence that begins with the short drum break and crazy drill. The drum and drill writing is great enough to build up tension, then you get teased by the hornline visually and musically, with a dissonant chord and a couple of visual gags, and then *BOOM* — I just tried to sum up the climax in words only to find out that describing music in words isn't possible. Lesson learned. The marcato punches leading into the last drill move of the opener are quite ridiculous as well. They aren't perfect, but it's just such a high level of achievement and unfortunately I think many people overlook these sorts of things when considering level of difficulty. And speaking of under appreciated difficulty, I wish more hornlines would attempt isolated unisons. That's where it becomes easy to separate the men from the boys.

I'd really like to know the answer to your first question. With Madison, I can only guess that it's just a reflection of the tumultuous times the corps was going through, and that they're still paying for it, but I really have no idea. Horns are a different story. There's a huge market for Bb/F marching instruments, so many corps sell the horns to marching bands or whoever else will buy them, and then buy a new set of horns. They're not making money on the deal, though—they're essentially paying a small fee each year to have top-quality horns in the hands of their members. My guess would be that the tubas stick around for much longer, though. Outside of DCI, DCA, and a select few high school groups, there's no market for them, unfortunately. /edit - and the euphoniums, too. I can't imagine Phantom's able to pawn off 24 euphs at a time. No specifics, but I think many World Class groups have yearly budgets of over $1,000,000.

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