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<I love how you picked "tubas," tx. ;) > You're welcome...I picked them because, usually a drill designer will say, 'hmmm...big ugly horns that no one can see around...I'll put them in the back, where they won't bother anyone'. And, VOILA - balance problems, all season long. Only the Bluecoats seemed to know how to stage tubas. And I don't think the Bluecoats drill people made the jump to SCV. Perhaps the new brass staff will be able to wield some clout and get the - in my opinion - most important section of the brass staged well. Then, when they turn the knobs to 11 on the pit, and all the new toys, people will still be able to hear the music.

<"WITHOUT THE NEED FOR ACCOUSTIC OR ELECTRIC AMPLIFICATION" (THEIR words....not mine).> Please...this thing...like all things in the pit...WILL be amplified. Someone is going to say, 'oh, but our new aloeveraphony can't be heard over the tubas...punch that up a smidge...' - and before long, the smidge has turned into an ear splitting squeal, and the tubas are lost. Let's hope that does not happen...and that I'm just having a dark moment here...

<They have to have THE show.> Everyone else has nailed it - and the quote sums up my view...though I'm just a fan, and not any kind of staff type person. Last year's Cadets show was the one that leapt off the field as the most creative and engaging work of art among the top 4 or so. I was a big fan of Crown's show last year...but there were draggy moments...and I don't mean tempo problems. I felt every top 4 show but Cadets had those moments where it seemed the designers were doing musical/visual/guard version of scatter drill.

Really...laserlemon...you should just embrace your hater status. It's ok - we may bash you for it, but it is your right. We all have the right to hate. So just come out...you'll feel much better! Life's too short to live someone else's life (thanks Steve Jobs...I stole your line...)

<because the entire Blue Devils organization does not strike me as having an ounce of class... > Well...I certainly hope that avatar picture you have is NOT you, and that you're not speaking as a member/veteran of the Bluecoats... I can easily believe you've run into classless moments with the Blue Devils, or classless members of the Blue Devils...just as I can easily believe that members of other corps have their classless moments. They are, after all, young. But to make such a blanket statement as you have....that is...well, hate.

<1) Take my daughter/future Blue Knight to her first show!!> Just remember...your daughter will have a lot to say about marching...or not...when the time comes! I speak from experience...sadly - <Whatever Wozniak has been doing with the hornline is working. > Ummm...there is 'another' guy there, too...I do believe HE (no religious reference...only emphasis) will have a great deal to do with their sound, style, and resurgence...along with George -

I can imagine a great brass line doing it. But I'm finding it hard to imagine any battery percussion there...or drill...or synthesizer...or the other synthesizer...or the 9 marimbas...or the 4 xylophones...or the gong...or the guy/gal playing all the doolydads that keep on ringing long after the phrase is over.

<Schubert's Unfinished Symphony.> I've thought many pieces drum corps' have played were poor choices, and been pleasantly surprised to be wrong. But the Schubert is, to me, such a string and woodwind piece...a work so completely of its orchestration, that it would seem (to me) to be a very poor choice for drum corps -

<Out of curiosity, when's the last time you heard a corps play anything in B or E major? > Ah...a challenge - Bruckner...HEY BRUCKNER! We need you down here...And like Batman, when we need help that only Bruckner can provide, we have to shine to Bruckner light symbol in the sky, and curiously, it looks JUST LIKE the moon. Of course, this makes perfect sense, because Bruckner is an old bald white dude... So - Bruckner - your symbol has been shone - and so the poor denizens of DCP City need to know: In what OTHER keys have corps played? Any B or E major out there? I believe the implication of the young upstart fresh out of the two year theory block is that Crown (and all drum corps) only play in the easy keys. Bring down the truth-o-meter, o diviner of harmonic truth!

To Xtreme0204 - you posted Shane sings 4 octaves...yeah - let's hear it for fans of Shane! Shane reminds me of some drum corps I've heard...but decorum dictates I not mention any names...

<"The Iron Stable: The Past is the Future" > Where is the 300 word paragraph full of adjectives, though saying nothing?

Korngold was a great composer...his output could get explored much more... Erich Wolfgang Korngold - if you don't know his music...find it - totally worth the listen!

DCI age-out...a LOOOOOOOONG time ago...

<Many many babies. This year may quiet many fans holding to old school drum corps. > Sounds like code for 'we're going whole hog...with a 15 synthesizer pit!' - and s/he's predicting we'll love it...

Said it many times...and here again... Blue Devils, 1991 - a beast of a horn line -