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  1. Other than Kara Hoeflinger from Phantom Regiment in 2004 - has any female won the Jim Jones Award for best DM???
  2. It will be interesting to see how this new style of brass playing will be remembered in 10/20 years by drum corps fans. A lot of people remember Cadets '93 because it was visually clean. People remember SCV '89 and Madison '95 because those shows moved them. Cadets '83 will be remembered because it totally changed drum corps visually. How will people remember the shows from '03? Will people remember Cavies '02 because it changed brass playing for forever? I think you can make an argument that the shows that excite, move, and shake the audience are the shows that will be remembered the most. But also you can make an argument that the shows that are the cleanest will be remembered by everyone also. It's all apples and oranges - but if everyone played with the same style, then it would be SO boring! So Phantom should play like Phantom, the Cavies should play like the Cavies. Then the people who like the Cavies style will come to shows and buy hotdogs while Regiment plays and the people who like Regiment will go take a waz while the Cavies are on the feild. You sell more tickets that way. haha. Apples! :P
  3. When I listen to drum corps the thing I like the most about them is that I can hear the excitement and the intensity in the sound. Almost all of great recordings we all listen from the mid to early 90's and love are amazing shows - but have a few minor flaws in them. Intonation problems, or a baritone player who just ate a few too many Wheaties. However, I would not trade the intensity of these shows for "perfect" brass performence. I would not give up "almost" offensive sounds for BD 96 or PR 93. It is excitement and pure adrenaline, crecendos that seem to be as loud as they can be, and then somehow get louder, screaming trumpets, and contra hits that almost knock you over, sound that you can FEEL - THAT's why I love drum corps. Perfectly clean mello licks, and chords that sound more like organs than bugles, 10 snares that sound like 1, and perfection makes me come back for more also. However, I would never ever trade a perfectly clean and boring show for an exciting and entertaining show with flaws. So - perhaps the contras were "almost" offensive in the hit in cannon. But I wouldn't trade that in a second for the energy in the Lords Prayer, or the intensity in the closer. That energy and intensity is what made PR's brassline so good - that is why they made people cry. Not because the contras played perfectly in tune C's.
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