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Yah I imagine they sent the trucks out to So Cal as a convoy and fly the members out. Rent busses from out there for the tour and just mosey their way back across the country on tour like Boston did.

[stares at you in Cavies 2024]

I actually liked the 2014 show most all season. The front stage would have worked better as much lower, perhaps with a split or side staged pit or something like Crossmen did this last season. It would have helped tremendously with field presence and GE. But the drill and music and various presidential quotes were great, and the narrator was pro. It was the additions of the Capital and "Oprah" and other people on the tarps at the end that made it not only lose steam as a show GE wise but colored the whole show as cheesy when it didn't strike me as cheesy prior to those additions.

This one reminds me of something that happened when my sister was in band. They were at an MBA show (BOA now) and the night show was rained out so everyone did standstills in a gym. Which was both awesomely loud and horribly unmusical at times. They did receive scores based on music though ... somehow. Our band had a number that got progressively softer and softer on a phrase then HIT IT BIG AT FFFF. Some judge has his whole face in a mellophone suspecting that this horn was not playing on the softer phrases. Apparently they weren't on the morning panel for us and didn't know the show. That mello player was a complete stick out on the big hit and NO ONE complained. The director said after the show, "I saw that guy going into your bell and thought...I hope you it that phrase with your complete lungs. And you did!" Dunno how he judged the bands after because...he had to be fairly deafened based on the recoil out of that horn.

@Iron Lips Can tell a story from the same parking lot of my story about a cherry picker and some wind. [no one was harmed in the end]

Do injuries to tubas count? Asking for a Phantom Regiment tuba friend.

Lot outside the school. Not camp. That story involved a field infested with wolf spiders...that jump.

Not corps but could have been given the circumstances. We had a piccolo player in band who got super bored during summer rehearsal on the lot when staff were trying to fix something with one of the brass sections' drill. The rest of us were instructed to practice our music by fingering only. She's on a pic so she decides to sit down, in her white nylon short shorts that were popular in the 80s... She gets up, and "oh ha ha, I must have sat in something! my shorts stuck." Nope...they melted onto the hot asphalt. She had to go to the doc because of fairly serious burns on her bum and legs that were in contact with the hot asphalt long enough.

Losing three in a row, with the trifecta being Northwestern in the Unhappy Valley will do that. Meanwhile my sister and I were trying to make sense of living in a timeline where IU is the football school and Purdue is the basketball school.

Yeah I mean. Get a bunch of mannequin legs for the guard to spin instead of rifles. Have a main character on a shopping spree ala Phantom's Paris show but make it a dramadey of trying to find a store that will sell just three shoes. The grand finale is a shoe box prop that opens and spills out hundreds of right shoes from the extra pair she had to buy to get two left shoes. As they march off, have them chant left. left. right. left. left. right. left. left. right. Instead of the usually left right left right. (this would take some practice to clean but the effect would be amazing.)

I like the comment about the possible theme that explains the prop. They should rewrite the guard work to go for that.

Also good. I was in high school and our director played an audio recording. We were like "How are they getting that to sound pretty much like strings?"

SCV, BD, and Bloo early season, multiple shows. Should be good.

Yeah I caught that too. We're getting a cymbal line then?

That was a good bit. I'm gonna have to pull that one up and watch it again now.

Can you imagine the smell of those if they're still around in storage somewhere? I read that and looked at the picture and was like, "I'll take Pictures You Can Smell for $1000, Alex."

Oh hey!

Pegula is surely footing the bill for the NIL to land the likes of McKenna for that team. That was the whole purpose of going that hard on a hockey facility anyway.

1990 or 1993. The Ellington and Gillipse shows were the highwater marks of the Bluecoats jazz idiom era. Yeah they had to change to climb, but those were just really well done shows.

It's a tax write off for a "donation to the University" for some alumni in big business who wants him gone.

Judge notes: "Inspection. Can still smell the breath from the Kingsmen drumline even though I've moved on to the low brass section. Minus 3 more tenths."

Indy doesn't have that many ambulances.

Also I believe cadence was judging the rhythmic of the drums for marching on/off etc. e.g. Cavaliers' Iowa that they still do.

I'm looking at Anaheim's inspection and going "dang, did someone's hat fall off?"