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  1. Hi fellow Virginians, Marylanders, DC'sers, I know there are two Soundsports in the Washington, D.C. area. Was looking to see if anyone wanted to create a 3rd. Chris M.
  2. Just for fun, if you could create a world-class drum corp... A. What would you name it? B. What logo would you assign it? C. What style of music would you have it play (classical or jazz)? D. All male corps or male and female? E. Would you be the brass tech, visual arranger, executive director...etc.? F. Where would your corp be located? G. Other
  3. While attending DCI Finals this year, I noticed a booth set up by an organization to help prevent hearing damage experienced by corps members of large World Class corps. How serious is the hearing damage to members in large, loud corps? Is it a systemic problem or just isolated? I was somewhat skeptical at first, because I know lawyers and "ambulance chasers" look for injuries in sports and elsewhere to line their pockets with lawsuit dollars. But, if it's a legit problem, what options are available to prevent it? Are corps embracing ear plugs? Is this a hot-button issue right now? How big are the risks to a drummer or brass member, respectively? Just curious to know more...
  4. Dear DCP Veteran, what do you mean by "DCI has turned the corner?" I'm not being negative...just a genuine question to know how things have changed.
  5. You said "Most mass shooters are young white males." Gang crime? Crime in Chicago? Crime by terrorists? It seems to me shootings aren't just limited to young, white males...but evil is colorblind. Lack of respect for human life is colorblind. One race does not own the practice of making bad choices. Certainly, we need more young men in activities which promote true masculinity. Drum corps can be that activity, but we can't pretend like activity like drum corps is the "answer" to fixing a problem of evil and mentally ill crazies that go on these mass sprees. The mentally ill person who committed this shooting in Oregon specifically targeted Christians. Why not stop the attacks of Christians and people of faith in our country?
  6. Hi everyone, I'm looking to get a hold of someone in Star United. Does anyone know someone in that mini-corps that I can reach out to? Thanks, Chris
  7. 1. The Academy 2. Phantom 3. Crown 4. Boston Crusaders 5. Music City
  8. I think the bigger question is...why did BD take first?
  9. I think this Fan Award is a fantastic idea. It would lessen a lot of the bickering and resentment (between corps, between fans and corps, and between fans and judges), plus make it more enjoyable for the fans knowing they have a voice and buy-in. A low cost option: Text 2345 to 800-XXX-XXX to vote for Blue Devils. Text 4567 to vote for SCV, and on and on. It would be pretty easy to collect counts for those texts.
  10. A drum major that conducts while moving around on the field on a roving platform (as a part of the show with the members)...outside the box, innovative. A fluid drum major.
  11. Bring back America the Beautiful all corps finale!!! And don't tell me someone is going to be "offended."
  12. And again, I admire the Blue Devils. Greatly. But let's pretend I recognize the Korean R&B, the tails on the characters, the "I wish" ending, without having to do loads of research on Google or ask show experts. It's still a show about story book characters that come to life -- Isn't that kind of cliche? Probably been done more than once. I'm just challenging us to think a little outside the box. Expand our horizons and think about shows with great and deep meaning.
  13. Have a paid "fan experience." So if your favorite corps is Blue Devils, and you pay for a "fan experience" package (the money of which would go to the corps of your choice and DCI), you get a series of experiences, that could include but not limited to: 1) being in the Blue Devils corps "locker room" before they head out onto the field. 2). Watching the Blue Devils march out onto the field from the tunnel 3) have your name listed on the Blue Devils page in the program as the "ultimate fan" 4) Meet the Blue Devils drum major and a couple of players for 5 minutes 5). etc. I would spend up to $200 for this for my favorite corps. But pricing would have to be higher so as to limit it to just 5 or 10 people.
  14. Well, then you could say that about anything. "All truth is relative" doesn't apply here. There is such thing as bad art. I could like and appreciate bad art, but it's still bad art.
  15. Like you, I love doing research and stretching my box to learn about new music, i.e. what I did with Cavaliers and Bluecoats. But there's a difference between stretching yourself to understand something outside of what you expected and stretching yourself to understand something incomprehensible and something with little to no meaning or redeeming value. All the best, Chris
  16. Kamarag, the Blue Devils show proves my point exactly. I understand your point about the hard core viewer, but linking K-Pop to Fairy Tails is a bit of a stretch in my opinion, and vague references of different fairy tails with no unifying theme. And what is the "I WISH" vocal at the end? I wish what? The show was not clear and besides the applause for the "park and blow" ending, left the audience confused. My larger point is that shows are too vague and ambiguous. What does numbers have to do with Shastokovich's music? The Power of 10 communicates nothing. Part of general effect is clarity and communicating/connecting with your audience. To put out a show with fairy tails, rap, and random electronic vocals is not communicating clearly with you audience.
  17. Haha. Fair enough. But should a Korean Pop Song be easy to recognize by an American audience?
  18. How many people in that audience would recognize it as a K-Pop song or a song called "I Like You?" I doubt many excluding young people would even know. Look, the Blue Devils's performance was stellar. I would give them a 10 out 10 for achievement. They did it well, I just didn't like the show. And that's my point...a show about "watching horses move." An entire show about watching horses that move?! What about a show about the crisis in Sudan? Or a show about the homeless, but then lifting them up out of poverty? Or a show about the physically disabled? But watching horses? I'm not saying it has be uber-political or perfectly serious...I'm just posting a challenge for better substance.
  19. I loved Blue Knights. It did both. I agree, the 2000s were pretty abstract. But I found there is still a lot of abstract/modern nothingness going on.
  20. Loved Finals and I love DCI. But I have a concern about what DCI shows are becoming. I don't like the pseudo "spirituality" and incomprehensible meaning in many of these shows. It seems as though we are valuing "nothingness" and afraid of anything with meaning (because we're afraid of offending someone). Vague, valueless, and relativistic are what some of these shows are becoming. For Example: a show about wild horses [not a substantive story about a horse(s) or a metaphor of individualism, freedom, the West, etc., just about "wild horses" in general]; a show about numbers [not the values behind numbers, but just numbers themselves...what does that mean?]; a show about "Ink" and the written word [but one that was so incomprehensible and so busy with randomness and irrelevant (in my opinion) hip hop, I had no idea what they were trying to communicate.]... Are show designers trying to outsmart everyone by coming up with these ambiguous shows? There aren't even metaphors in these shows...it's just nothingness. It's up to "the interpreter" to decide what the show means to him or her. Well, that leaves the audience more confused and dispirited. I'm not saying everything has to be Pollyanish entertainment. I loved the Bluecoats show. It was brilliant. But too many shows I see are devoid of any meaning whatsoever...and they play to the audience's head, not the heart. Some of the only corps that buck this trend are Madison Scouts, Phantom Regiment, The Academy, and a few others. I'm not saying it can't be abstract, but even abstract breaks down something that has value. It's like Jazz music, even though spontaneous, still follows distinct and recognizable patterns.
  21. Loved Finals last night. But I have a concern about what DCI shows are becoming. I don't like the pseudo "spirituality" and incomprehensible meaning in many of these shows. It seems as though we are valuing "nothingness" and afraid of anything with meaning (because we're afraid of offending someone). Vague, valueless, and relativistic are what these shows are becoming. For Example: a show about horses (not a story about a horse or a metaphor of individualism, freedom, etc., just about "horses" in general); a show about numbers (not the values behind numbers, but just numbers themselves...what the heck does that mean?); a show about "Ink" and the written word (but one that was incomprehensible and so busy with random nothingness and irrelevant hip hop, I had no idea what they were trying to communicate)... Are show designers trying to outsmart everyone by coming up with these strange shows? There aren't even metaphors in these shows...it's just nothingness. It's up to "the interpreter" to decide. Well, that leaves the audience more confused and less uplifted. Some of the only corps that buck this trend are Madison Scouts, Phantom Regiment, The Academy, and a few others. I'm not saying it can't be abstract, but even abstract breaks down something that has value. It's like Jazz music, even though spontaneous, still follows distinct and recognizable patterns.
  22. DCP Veteran. Do you have any more tix for Finals? ~ Chris
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