ducttapedgerbil

no...what the poster said is perfectly valid and since he IS posting in the millenium then he is most like a FAN in the millenium

One thing I did notice this year .vs. last year from the stage......less echo. To me that means more people are in the room (people absorb reflections) so that was a good thing.

Again, I really think the performers are ok with a rowdy crowd. Moving the beer cart back a few yards and giving them somewhere to sit/lean (so they don't fall down) and a short announcement before each group I think would remind everyone and take care of most of the problems. I would hate to see admission charged just to have a separate facility, have a crowd half the size, and be able to hear a pin drop....if I wanted that I can just go to a DCI show (yes, I said that with my outside voice). And if everyone on here can police themselves a little I am sure we can keep it under control without messing with a good thing we have going. After our performance most of us stood way off to the side back near the bathrooms, we were talking and meeting people but tried to talk close and whisper during the quiet sections. I don't think I heard any of our guys doing any loud talking or yelling during a performance and I hope none of our people disrupted the show for any of the spectators. Let me know if we did and I will make sure we don't do it again.

I can play louder than you can talk :-)

I think I can speak for most of us from Freelancers ...we dig on the rowdy crowd. I think there is room to move the beer cart back another several yards. If you set up some tables and chairs over there I bet some of the talkers would gravitate towards that. You could also have a couple of ushers shoo people away from the area just behind the judges where I bet most of the noise you are concerned with is coming from. Get them off into the wings and I bet they would be a lot less noticeable.

We don't notice it on stage...maybe if the announcer could remind the crowd just before asking if the judges are ready that might be enough to keep it to a dull roar.

Ditto

It's sign language....I asked.

maybe all the corps can stay on the stadium property in the end zones and behind the back stands and do their thing after retreat

Is everyone forgetting 2007 when the top 3 Class A corps scored higher than the Kilties at Prelims (no offense intended to the Kilties)

you do realize that #1 on your "cheers" is #2 on your "jeers" don't you?

pick up a SPL meter and take a measurement and let us know...I took notes when I did my test several years ago so I will see if I can find them. However, I doubt anyone is as loud as the G horns (especially the 2-vavle G horns). Also, I did my measurements on the 40 about halfway up at Citrus College in Azusa, CA during a show....horn arcs don't coun't since I did not meaure that.

That's because you weren't there.... Drum Corps used to be so loud you could feel it on your face and it gave you goose bumps. You don't have that frame of reference and no amount of 2nd hand stories will replace actually being there. Just because you enjoy it does not mean you have the full appreciation of it that you can only get by being there.

No idea....never heard it from the front. Saw a lot of the other corps from the front that year but never my own....

that's probably not too far off the mark. I'll take my meter to DCA this year and get some numbers....

That's the problem with Drum Corps.....video does not do it justice. Unless you experienced those shows in person your frame of reference is not as valid as someone that was there when it comes to the audio aspect and somewhat the visual (depends on where the camera was pointing).

modern corps are NOT as loud as G hornlines were.... SPL meter does NOT lie.

Prelims in '06 would have been interesting.....

...a couple of the girls at the concession stand were pretty cute.

errrrr......

ummmm.....

Some things are just not knowable.

your words, not mine. I am simply stating that I have not been entertained over the last several years. The last time was probably 2003 Phantom.

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I understand that's exactly what he meant, but is he really trying to convince them that that will be why the audience might not clap when they are done with their show?