Michael Boo
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Well, I can guarantee you they would sell a hell of a lot more videos if they were at a lower price.
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.
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Not sure if you're talking about the wrong corps for this topic or you just really hate Michael Boo.
There's a lot of both going around.
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Mr. Boo, are your talking about yourself or is this a quote your attributing to Cesario? Interesting read. Just curious who this is about.
It's not a quote I'm attributing to Michael Cesario...it's his actual message to me regarding Cavaliers' new uniforms.
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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.
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Simple solution, don't buy Apple phones.
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.
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I'm admittedly old school, and politics don't belong out on the field...
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.
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Maybe they can replace it with a Mercedes-Benz advertisement.
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.
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Yea that could be done but I think the question was , does a perfect score mean perfect and the answer is no.
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."
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Email Dan Ackerman TODAY...!!
Dan Ackerman, the technology journalist?
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That's the problem for me. If I wanted to see a circus I'd go to the circus. If I wanted Cirque Du Soleil, I'd go see one of their shows (I have many times and they're fantastic) But to me, it's not drum corps. When I go to a drum corp show I want to see drill and hear great music, not this other BS.
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.
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Sorry Boo, but they aren't conspiracy theories when those inside the corps are admitting there is a reason the Hillary sign is larger than the other two....
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.
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Although I doubt there is any kind of aggressive agenda in play, they kind of bring that kind of reaction on themselves when their show references current political candidates in an election season.
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.
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I thought Cavs show was a little over the top - i also don't see what anything has to do with propoganda - it actually seems more like the show is actually leftist propaganda itself. Probably designed by Bernie supporters. I don't like political statements made in drum corps programs and this left-leaning strain the Cavs have been putting out on and off for a while is starting to irritate me.
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Step. Away. From. The. Conspiracy. Theories.
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We have woodwinds in drum corps, except we call them synthesizer patches.
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Bluecoats...one word. Thank you for spelling it as one word from now through eternity. (It's my pet peeve.)
Blue Coats Won Crown 2nd Cadets 3rd
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Thanks for the official clarification!
Well, I'm not "official," but I play one on the Internet.
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The estimable Mr. Boo has posted a story at the DCI website promising "the scoop" on the hidden recaps. Yet I am left more perplexed than before....
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.
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That's my takeaway.
Judges at Show A will give scores and have access to recaps for Show A. Judges at Show B will give scores and have access to recaps for Show B.
Show A judges will not see recaps from Show B.
That's the intent.
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It's an electric violin, so it gets in under the electronics rule, apparently.
Oregon Crusaders already established the a violin was legal. And a few years ago, Spirit utilized a cello in "Dust in the Wind."
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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!
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Michael Boo must be so disappointed that Hopkins referred to Lucas Oil as a dome.
I was just coming on here to pull George's chain about that. Really.
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Mike, if you're behind this...I love you, man.
Many people are behind this. I'm just the one that has a few connections to help them get some of the stuff they need.
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The Free Players were the direct inspiration for the creation of another group, one I'm especially interested in because the organization running it is the home of my only sibling, my deaf and blind brother. The following article just came out today.
http://www.saukvalley.com/2016/06/16/banding-together-meet-petunia-city-stix/arjt4q6/
There was quite an outpouring when I requested sticks for the new ensemble. I'm now working on getting them some drums and handheld percussion. (There are two groups; one a marching ensemble which is playing on utility buckets, and one an indoor drum circle-type African ensemble where anyone can join in playing something.)
We're looking for some old XL carriers from the 1990s, what you see in the article's photos. if anyone knows where some might be hiding. If so, please contact me at boomike@aol.com. Thank you.-
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Downloads starting to become available through DCI again!
in DCI World Class Corps Discussions
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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.