jamesjones0611

Did you hear Slalom this past year? After listening to that piece, how can you even begin to say that their brass book doesn't have the meat of those other corps. There were more runs and double tonguing in Slalom than in the Cadets and Blue Devils shows put together last year.

doughnuts in the tubas, yeah, for sure. But if you suggest that Crown has had anything but the hardest overall brass music the past 2-3 years..I'd have to question your musical integrity.

The Blue Devils' tuba section is "The Line". Crown's tuba section recently has been nicknamed "Sweet 16" Oh, my favorite joke off a composer's name? Brohannes Jahms.

Well, you're entitled to your opinion. I have mine. Mine is that the best arrangers keep the composer's intent in mind when writing. Could Crown's tubas have played something cooler in 2008 during Candide? Sure. But thats not what Bernstein wrote.

The worst part is that they'll permanently ban you, and then when you message or email them asking why, they never respond, or give you any reason as to why they did it.

I'd give the nod to Crown. Not only does Klesch write parts for the horns that truly balance the hornline well, but he also stays almost exactly true to the original tuba parts. Klesch is more of a straight transcription kind of guy, and I definitely prefer that to the "drum corps" arrangements that are present nowadays.

You have no idea what you're talking about. George doesn't want woodwinds in DCI. He only proposes those radical changes so that the less-radical ones don't seem so crazy. Heard it from his own mouth.

Well, Bluecoats are in world class, not open. And who's better? Blue Devils and Crown both have better tuba lines, IMO.

QFT.

Nah. Not really.

Drum corps is important?

"And make sure to listen for our bad tone quality!!!"

Maybe in 2007. Recently though...ehhhhh.

This is probably the most ridiculous statement I've ever heard. In fact, I don't know of a SINGLE drum corps that doesn't have the fans in mind when designing a show.

You're probably most guilty of this. You, FANOFNIGHT/LOUIELOUIE/DCIFAN2002...and all the other names you used to post on that got banned. This place is full of people like you that make awful comments about the kids that THEY have to read during the summer when they're trying to put on a show for YOU...its pretty sad. In other news, this place still doesn't mean anything.

Hell no it doesn't matter what I think. Its just drum corps guys.

DCP doesn't matter. It has never mattered. Half the crap on here is just b.s. brought up by idiotic fans with the intention of pissing other people off. I come here to get my laughs.

I don't know about you, but I think can think of a certain corps from Fort Mill and a certain corps from Concord that you could hear the tubas pretty darn well, and they used the synths extensively.

ditto.

I don't like the age proposal. I know there are many corps that don't look too fondly on not aging out at that specific corps, and there's no way most people are gonna march and extra season...they have to get on with their lives. Crown for example...if you march 4 years with the corps, but don't march your ageout, then you're not allowed to sit in their brass circle, simply because you didn't age out with the corps. This would screw over a lot of people.

They're on strike, so I don't think so. Er...WERE on strike.

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=...5127&ref=nf Crown just posted a "thank you" video on the Chase page thanking everyone for voting so far. Its a preview of their 2010 encore version of the end of the 2007 show "Triple Crown" which they WILL be playing this summer. I think it sounds really great. Although I REALLY wish they'd post some of the show stuff. Hopefully that will come soon. And is that a BATON I see Crown's DM using? Awesome! *Edited because the link was wrong.

This is a sad statement, and is the reason that drum corps will NEVER be respected by the true musicians in the likes of the NY Phil and such. People of that caliber that respect drum corps as a musical activity are few and far between.

*Double post*

Good tuning really has nothing to do with musicality. Just because a tuner can play pitches perfectly tuned doesn't mean that the sound itself is musical. It takes ebb and flow, rise and fall, precise phrasing that doesn't disrupt the melody, proper display of melodic content, and a huge number of other factors to be musical. I'm not trolling. I'm giving my opinion that the modern day Cadets aren't musical. Two former Cadets members of the modern era have already come on here and stated in this thread that there is no room for musicality in drum corps. I rest my case.