Quad Aces
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What happened to Poppycock? Honest question - I always enjoyed the witty posts.
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22 minutes ago, Boss Anova said:
I wasnt there in 2008 when Phantom Regiment pulled off the BD upset on Finals Night, but those that were there tell me their performance, then the score read ,was electrifying.
It was, and it was 😀.
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1 hour ago, Terri Schehr said:
Oops sold out. I’m going to try the Hilton Garden inn by the airport.
Any luck with this one?
This is the exact one that I was going to recommend, but you beat me to it 😀.
I’ve stayed there a couple of times, and it’s a good hotel. Very convenient - to downtown Canton (nice set of restaurants/bars), Akron, NFL Hall of Fame, and especially the airport if you need it.
I can provide some good restaurant recommendations in downtown Canton, if needed!
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13 minutes ago, kevingamin said:
Worth noting that The Woodlands show was arranged by Wayne Downey, hence how familiar the charts were, right down to the classic Wayne Downey Ending #7 ($1 to the Renegades).
That is AWESOME (and makes complete sense)!!
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3 hours ago, gbass598 said:
Mason had panels across the entire front of the field that people and guard equipment hid behind during the entire show.
That is a prop to me. Everyone had a "prop" of some sort. It doesn't matter to me. They are all fantastic performers.
Totally different than a band who wheels 32 ten foot towers around the field as a part of the performance.
IMHO, YMMV.
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3 hours ago, Jimmyjames said:
Unless we are counting the giant flyover fabric.
2 hours ago, Terri Schehr said:That would count as a prop to me.
Congratulations to Mason HS. That’s really close to where we’ll be for the summer.
Unless it stands upright, is at least a few feet tall, needs to be assembled/disassembled for each show, and takes up an excessive amount of space during transportation, it doesn’t get my vote as a prop - lol!
One could also argue that William Mason’s uniform capes were a prop. Certainly an integral part of the show (and used to great effect), but doesn’t fit my definition above - lol!
Legal Disclaimer: all said tongue-in-cheek of course 🙂
I really enjoyed William Mason’s show - they were fantastic as always! Their off-field woodwind ensemble (gasp!) was amazing, and really added a tremendous amount to the show (and now I will duck for cover on here - lol)!
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14 hours ago, CAtenhut said:
Vintage DCI? Maybe from a rep standpoint. But the park n play, movement, props... that is all DCI of today.
13 hours ago, Jeff Ream said:Carmel had none
As Jeff pointed out - Carmel (2nd) had no props, and William Mason from OH (6th) also had no props.
And, the reps from Carmel and The Woodlands were not only the same as 1985 Cadets and 1994 Blue Devils, they were also arranged in the same manner - long stretches of melody, no chop n bop, no snippets of source material only, etc. Arranged very similarly to their DCI show counterparts.
Yes, plenty of what you mentioned on display over the weekend too (of course), but these two shows - Carmel, The Woodlands - were pretty incredible in their own right.
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1 hour ago, denverjohn said:
I noticed Matt (drop the hammer) Harloff getting excited in front of his Avon H.S. to the left of the pit. Matt in a suit is a rarity.
Search the "tube".
Matt in a suit - lol!
Was very happy to see him become the head director at Avon (after all of the years as an assistant director). If they won BOA Grand Nationals with him taking the job at the beginning of the Summer when he was knee deep in Crown stuff, can’t wait to see what happens next with a full year of planning.
If you caught Matt in a suit, you may have also seen the interview Dan Potter did with him and his daughter (one of the Avon drum majors, I think) after their performance - nice moment for the two of them.
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As seen/heard over the weekend in Indy at BOA Grand Nationals:
Carmel H.S., IN (2nd place), show title “Prophecy”. They did Bernstein’s Jeremiah Symphony, as was used in Cadets 1985. Carmel’s entire show came from this symphony. As an interesting side note, Carmel had no props in their show.
The Woodlands H.S., TX (5th place), show title “Day Danse”. They had Chick Corea’s “Spanish Fantasy”, “Day Danse”, and “My Spanish Heart” as their rep, as was used in Blue Devils 1994. They were easily one of the crowd favorites and brought the house down every time with each of their three performances over the weekend.
Both of these bands were truly amazing, and were very faithful to the source material.
As soon as I saw that Carmel was doing the Jeremiah Symphony, I knew it was going to be incredible, and once I saw that “Day Danse” was The Woodlands’ show title, it immediately became the show that I was most looking forward to seeing.
It was great reminiscing about these old DCI shows while watching two of the best bands in the country this weekend.
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8 hours ago, karuna said:
Crown finally got around to updating their Staff Page.
Design team includes:
- Reid Atkinson, Program Coordinator
- Michael Klesch, Music Director, Brass Arranger
- Mike Martin, Brass Arranger
- Kevin Shah, Front Ensemble Arranger, Sound Design
- Mike Jackson, Batter Arranger, Choreographer
- Sean McElroy, Staff & Ensemble Coordinator
- Andy Ebert, Production Supervisor
- Jeff Sacktig, Visual Director, Drill Design
- Tyler Edrington, Color Guard, Visual Design
- Molly Favret-Edrington, Aesthetics, Visual Design
- Byron Valentine, Visual Design Consultant
- Marc Sylvester, Visual Design Consultant
- Greg Bimm, Music Consultant
Greg Bimm - nice!
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I have been great friends with an old brass instructor of mine for almost 40 years now. He also was a private instructor for me (trumpet). Phenomenal musician, and an even better friend. He asked me to stand up in his wedding, and to this day, was the only DCI Finals that I have missed since 1989 (if that tells you anything).
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I’ve been to Finals every year since 1989, except for one - 2001. So 34 total for me.
Missed 2001 because I was standing up in a good friend’s (an old trumpet teacher of mine) wedding. Being a band director himself, you would have thought that he would have avoided that weekend for the wedding, since not only was the wedding on the same day as Finals that year, but periodically, future anniversaries would be too, but anyway… 😀.
There were a number of musicians besides me, including a Cavalier alum, that were all following the scores during the reception that year. However, it was before the scores were readily available via the Internet, and we were relying on phone calls from a friend of the Cavalier alum who was in attendance to keep us updated. For the record, my friend that got married is now divorced, but is very happily remarried since - and their anniversary is NOT in August at all.
As far as my favorite Finals - there are a lot of great memories from the trips we had with our group of family and friends (some that we marched with together) that would go with when Finals were at a different location every year. We would piggyback a vacation onto the competition back then.
If I absolutely had to pick my favorite Finals, I would say my first one in 1989. After seeing it on PBS for the prior four years, it was really exciting to finally see it in person. Either that one or 1997, when I was still in graduate school, and my Master’s Exam (culminating exam that I needed to pass at the end of my course work to officially receive my Master’s degree) fell during the Finals trip. At this time, the exam was only offered twice a year, and you had to take it with pencil and paper in-person at the school, no online possibilities existed. I didn’t want to miss the test, nor the Finals trip. I am fortunate that one of my really good friends in our group that would go every year was an airline employee that would accrue free flight passes as work benefits. He told me that if I bought my original plane ticket, he could give me one of the free passes to fly back home after Finals to take the exam and then fly back after taking it to rejoin our group in Orlando/Disney for the rest of our vacation. Good times 😀.
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8 hours ago, Jeff Ream said:
I had heard on the cinecast it was explained the harmonica is technically a wind instrument and they had to do things to run it through the synth. I haven’t seen this anywhere so does anyone have the technical breakdown on how this actually worked?
Don’t have a lot of insight in how it works, but I did hear that too. Also was mentioned that it was done the same way that the cello in Troppers 2022 was done.
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11 hours ago, Rocketman said:
Unfortunately, the sad reality is, BD will likely break 90, possibly 91 with the other 3 corps a point or more behind, leaving a potential gap of 5 points or more between 4th and Regiment at 5th. It's just what we have all come to expect from DCI!
Pretty much nailed it…sadly.
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2 hours ago, DFA1970 said:
It’s so weird. Who would think a show in the Midwest would be canceled because of smoke from forest fires. This just might not be the first this year. These fires will go on until winter. What’s next.,. The Stanford show canceled because of severe thunderstorms….in CA?
It appears that the show tonight is still on (but Cavaliers pulled out).
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On 6/20/2023 at 1:24 PM, An_drew said:
Interesting...
https://www.instagram.com/p/CtuB5KVu1f_/
Not any kind of show announcement, just some goofy thing that their trumpet section is doing. Sounds fun!
Nice - this looks like it will be really cool!
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That is some fantastic rep (and a great theme) - can’t wait to see this show!
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10 hours ago, craiga said:
Look at the geography....this has been mostly Midwestern corps to begin with. Why should a corps like Boston have to pull up stakes and drive two full days there and back WITHOUT any other shows along the way? The last couple years, BAC would leave its rehearsal site in Quincy, MA to head to Dearborn and then return to Quincy 4 days later to prepare for its home show. The four nights of housing NOT covered by the show host, along with the diesel costs made this their most expensive trip of the summer. I know they viewed this as supporting DCI, but it made no financial sense.
And yes, I think one could argue that they will be "good enough".
I would think that DCI’s planning for the season schedule and this event in the past would have included shows after in the area (or along the way to get back home) so a corps like BAC could have a more efficient trip.
When a corps from the Midwest or the East would go out to California every year (who knows if that will ever happen again), DCI didn’t plan their route in such a way where they would go to California for a couple of shows and then head back to the Midwest or East with no shows along the way.
Sounds like this wasn’t the case for BAC. Not sure why.
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Does anyone know if the Tour Premiere Fathom event is happening in the movie theaters this year?
I tried searching here and Googling, but I didn’t see anything. It’s very possible that I missed the memo 😀.
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3 hours ago, Lance said:
Got an email from DCI saying the Cavies announced their 2023 production. Unfortunately, it's blocked at work, and I can't find anything on the actual Cavies website.
I figured out that it's titled "…where you’ll find me" but I was wondering if anybody can clue me in on the music selections? Is the Deja song part of the rep?
They haven’t revealed the rep yet. They were vague in the show announcement - intentionally, I’m sure.
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4 hours ago, KVG_DC said:
I sorta liked the black uniforms to be honest.
The one they killed at the end of the season for me was 2014.I agree on the black uniforms. And 2014 was my runner up in this category (show additions that went in the opposite direction).
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How about the opposite? Shows where adding later in the season worked against a particular corps/show?
2015 Cadets (“The Power of 10”) comes to mind. Things seemed to take a turn for Cadets that year after switching to the black uniforms. I’m sure there were other design issues with the show, but as was mentioned above, Cadets seemed to be in the conversation that year, up until the switch. That uniform switch was hyped so much, and then just seemed to fall flat with the judges.
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I was pretty surprised (and sad) to see that DCI decided not to sell printed souvenir programs any more, especially for the 50th anniversary season. The one that I’m talking about is the full-color, yearbook type of program, that’s about 100 or so pages.
Although I have no insight into what it takes to get that program out, perhaps they could have waited on that decision until next year?
Been going to finals for 35 or so years straight, and I probably have every single one of those programs still - somewhere.
The DCI Info booth in LOS said that starting this year they would be doing digital programs from now on.
They pointed me to DCI’s website for the digital program, but I couldn’t find anything.
I really hope they weren’t talking about “info on each corps can be found on DCI’s website”.
Does anyone know where the digital program that they were referring to might be found?
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Got in line at 3:15 p.m. (gate(s) opened at 3:30 p.m.). About 1000 people already in line.
Entered stadium at about 4:15 p.m.
Just out of curiosity...
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