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    2019 Show Ideas

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    Boston or Crossmen could pull off 'The Handmaid's Tale' 

    I can just see the guard marching out in two rows wearing the flowing red robes and over-sized bonnets.  

    Some guard could be dressed as Marthas, Wives, Aunts

    Brassline & battery could represent the guardians...

    Talk about a dark show!

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    2018 Corps Reviews

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    On 8/18/2018 at 8:12 AM, njthundrrd said:



    Regiment without helmets some how seems odd to me. Such an iconic look that was missing this summer. 
     

    Loved your review and I COULD NOT AGREE MORE about the helmets.  I miss them on the Bluecoats too.  Many corps have dropped their shakos... their aussies.  I was happy that Bones kept theirs.  Pac Crest and a handful of others wore shakos.  Headwear is becoming a thing of the past.   Hopefully this is a trend that reverses at some point.  How far away from traditional drum corps will the activity get before things swing back the other way?  Or will they ever?

    Pioneer Member Rant

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    2 hours ago, Ghost said:

    So you're saying this isn't the case currently?  

     

    DCI should be the last ones to investigate anything to do with their baby.  Their investigation track record, from what I've been told, is not very good. 

    Well if it is the case, then clearly there are violations if any of this 'rant' is to be believed.  I simply don't know.  

    Your 2018 Top 6

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    Posted · Edited by luv4corps

    I love threads like this - when we get to just say what WE loved the most about the season.  I'm also in including why.

    My favorites:

       Pacific Crest/Here's To The Ones Who Dream      I loved, loved, LOVED this show.  Maybe because as a kid I was obsessed with show business and dreamed of being a star myself.  I don't know.  I just connected to this production from the very beginning.  There were many subtleties with choreography that I appreciated and the corps sounded FANTASTIC.  This was a growth year for PC.

        Mandarins/Life Rite After      Since last year, if there were one word that I could use to describe this corps it would be "fresh".  They come off fresh as a clean and powdered babies' bottom to me.  I have always loved their visual programs and now the music has caught up.  I especially enjoy the creative brass arranging.  This show also gets my vote for best guard outfitting.  How cool were those jester hats?  The Mandies are firing on all cylinders now.

        Santa Clara Vanguard/Babylon      For me, this show was about intensity.  It never let up.  It grabbed me and never let go in exactly the same way that Downside Up did.  

        Blue Devils/Dreams And Nighthawks       I surprise myself by saying this about the perennial champs - but I felt kinda bad for BD this year.  They had a brilliant show that easily would have won in another year.  The way the painting came together was dazzling.  I loved it.  The Devils'  'in-your-face' style of performance never disappoints.  

       Cadets/The Unity Project      The Cadets could not have put on a more apropos show this year for obvious reasons.  No one uses a vocal ensemble quite the way the Cadets do.  The voices were the emotion of that show.  The MM uniforms always made me hungry because they looked like decorated cordials!

        Bluecoats/Session 44     This was another fully integrative use of a vocal.  The way the singer was woven into the storyline was very effective.  Oh yeah and I wanted to be her, lol.  The show had a great look to it, with the MM unis being all so similar yet different.  I never really got the giant scaffolding chairs though...other than looking 'studio-ey'

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    HM:        Crown/Beast      I have never seen a Crown show that I didn't like.  Period.

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    SCV's show was an epic musical fail.

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    Posted · Edited by luv4corps

    On 8/14/2018 at 8:42 AM, SWriverstone said:

    But the emotional underpinnings of any show are the music. You aren't going to be swept to emotional highs by a single high rifle toss or a big two-handed rimshot. The music matters—a lot. 

     

    Of course the title of this thread caught my eye - and obviously a lot of people's eyes based on the pages and pages of responses. (which I am still reading).

    The above part of OP's post is all I agree with.  The rest of it just sounds like sour grapes to me.

    Considering OP's opinion, it is rather ironic that Vanguard's rendering of 'My Body Is a Cage' affected me emotionally more deeply than any other!.  It is the earworm that is the most lasting.  

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    Scv - a new era?

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    On 8/13/2018 at 3:09 PM, KVG_DC said:

    How much does VC feed into the World Class corps?  I remember when BD did a two-fer in 2014 people were talking about that and someone mentioned that a good number of BDB marchers don't go into the A corps, or at least not directly.  

    Actually when I made the comment about VC, I was referring more to the dynasty factor... meaning great quality from top to bottom, not so much that VC MMs would transition into the A corps.  Clearly, SCV can get whoever they want at this point!

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    Genesis 2018

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    Posted · Edited by luv4corps

    6 minutes ago, Jake W. said:

    They draw from an enormous talent pool and have carefully curated a educational, positive summer experience

    OC and likely several other corps do heavy recruiting in Texas.  It is a GREAT talent pool, and there is enough to go around.  I appreciate your defense of what will end up being a mere hiccup in Genesis' development.

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    DCI World Champs Finals - Aug 11, 2018

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    Posted · Edited by luv4corps

    Wow I went to bed last night, excited about Vanguard's title and how great the Mandarins and Boston did.  But today, after checking out a few threads here on DCP, I am finding some testiness.  (Maybe I just happened to click on two especially testy threads?).

    I wish we could all just get along!  This was another amazing season.

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    The future is here

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    6 hours ago, queenanne_1536 said:

    What? As in actually in attendance at the Bluecoats home show? Are you sure they weren't "bloooooing?" I took a friend a long time ago to a show and when the Bluecoats entered the field she was shocked at all the booing. I had to explain it to her.

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    This has probably already been said but the person who posted that is in Camp Blue Devils.  I guess he just figures everyone should know that when he posts.

    Sound crew should be considered members and should be under 21.

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    1 hour ago, Corps_Efan said:

    Some corps have 4 person audio engineers controlling the sound - shouldn’t they be corps members? Shouldn’t they be under 21? Especially since sound is such a big part of the show. 

    I have actually thought about this, but don't have a strong opinion one way or another.  It is true that sound mixing has become quite integral to a show, and the engineers could probably be considered part of the design team.

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