Michael Boo

Selfishly, I'm wondering what it's going to be like to go back to my room after San Antonio, Atlanta, Allentown, and Indy and not have the Recap Roundup to do. I think I might need to take up late night model building or something, because it will just seem too darned weird to get to bed before 4:00 a.m., or to leave Lucas Oil Stadium at 3:30 a.m. and walk to my car, the last one in the parking lot. I got so used to that, I kind of looked forward to the uniqueness of the situation. I don't know yet if there will be a Recap Roundup after Finals. Some of my most intense memories are writing it while watching the Zamboni-like machine erase our hash marks from the professional field and also view the goal posts being set up for what often was an exhibition game in just a few hours. Seriously, did no one think of the effect on DCI's resident Boo?

Quoted for truth.

Please see my response above. It's not DCI crying copyright infringement...it's the copyright holders. I hope no one believes DCI is in the business of honking off its fans.

DCI quite possibly would sell more videos, but not make more money. The current rights situation is intense. They aren't making the product available to make money, but to offer the fans something that is wanted. But there's a cost to that, and the cost keeps going up. And every video taken by a cell phone and put up on the Internet is hurting the corps as the licensing agencies are aware of these and are wondering what DCI will do about it. I know many might think putting up such videos is an innocent gesture, meant to share the joy we all love of drum corps. However, the risk to corps being able to get those rights in the future is not to be dismissed lightly.

There's a lot of both going around.

It's not a quote I'm attributing to Michael Cesario...it's his actual message to me regarding Cavaliers' new uniforms.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1387022771324909&set=p.1387022771324909&type=3&theater Photo of parade uniform.

I've been in touch with Michael Cesario and he offered the following about Cavaliers' new uniforms. I was born the same year the corps was founded...1948. My earliest memories of 1950's Drum Corps was waiting for the Cavaliers to come to town (Kenosha, WI) for the first show of the year. I was hooked on their look and sound. Years later, as the Corps was being refreshed and renewed, Steve Brubaker came to me (I am a professional Costume Designer with Broadway, TV, Opera, and Las Vegas credits) to give the corps a new look. What I did was codify all the elements of what they had worn, along with the Cavalier logo, cleaned it all up, to make the look taller and thinner, and created a visual identity of strength and power. We also were able to do variants to the uniform like black gauntlets and baldrics with "bullets," etc. That basic concept went through several permutations since 1983, and has served us well, setting trends and staying "ahead of the curve." But today, the Corps needed to be responsive to State-of-the Art flexibility for each show, while being able to appear at anytime in full-dress regalia as the Green Machine. Hence the new look, which really includes elements we have worn in the past, sometimes by the CG, sometimes by the 60's and 70's Corps. They needed to be immediately identifiable when the come through the tunnel. The applause must start at the first sighting of them. So now we have a modular suit (Gemini) that is part structure and part stretch. That can look as wild or colorful as we'd like, but can also appear to be the Cavaliers of national and historic acclaim. I think we've achieved that. And the Corps, with fresh artistic leadership is right where it should be, back in the hunt! Feel free to share with whomever.

If Apple does this, Samsung and others will be next as they wouldn't want to risk the liability that might then be focused on them.

Politics belongs on the field when we personally agree with the sentiments being expressed. Politics doesn't belong on the field when we personally disagree with the sentiments being expressed.

True story that can be verified by others from the early 1970s: Garfield Cadets' drill designer Bobby Hoffman told the American Legion officials that the peace in their 1972 "No More War" show was a Mercedes Benz symbol.

The score is perfect in the sense that no higher score can be given; the corps always has room for improvement. If a judge feels a performance is the best they've yet seen and deserves the highest score possible, then that score is justified. Here's my proposal: Let's stop calling a "perfect score" "perfect" and start calling it a "maximum score."

Dan Ackerman, the technology journalist? http://www.danackerman.com/#danackerman

Typically, corps fans who don't consider today's drum corps to be "drum corps" would like drum corps to be what it was when they first fell in love with the activity. I'm not saying that fits you, but it's something I've observed. I've asked people, "When was drum corps 'drum corps?'" I've gotten responses stating the 1960s, the 1970s, the 1980s, the 1990s, and around 2000. Personally, I prefer drum corps be what it is, no matter what year it currently is. Drum corps is whatever drum corps becomes.

I've spoken with corps people and that is a new one to me. But if someone really wants to go there, I'll add to the fire. Both Hillary and Cavaliers were from Park Ridge.

But they're offering up stuff from both political sides. If the creative was a bunch of "Bernie supporters" as the one poster stated, they would' have a lot of the stuff in there that they have.

Step. Away. From. The. Conspiracy. Theories.

We have woodwinds in drum corps, except we call them synthesizer patches.

Bluecoats...one word. Thank you for spelling it as one word from now through eternity. (It's my pet peeve.)

Well, I'm not "official," but I play one on the Internet.

There's a lot of that going around. As for being "estimable," I was shooting for "inestimable." I guess I've still got some work to do.

That's the intent.

Oregon Crusaders already established the a violin was legal. And a few years ago, Spirit utilized a cello in "Dust in the Wind."

Is anyone else getting a headache trying to watch the feed in full screen view? I didn't experience that with Cavaliers' video. The effect is like looking through heat waves radiating off pavement. But the sound is PHENOMENAL!

I was just coming on here to pull George's chain about that. Really.