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Yeah guard work has changed so much since then. But that's still impressive for the precision. Each rifle popping in that line seems to hover at the exact same spot as the one before it. It'd be fun to have a throwback call worked in. And then let the designers figure out what a 'modernized Rockford file' might look like to follow it later in the show.

DId someone mention Phantom Regiment and Dinos? https://thephanshop.com/products/drummer-dino-in-space-tee

Loved that show. Did you freeze fram when they show the DM and find yourself in the crowd?

Marching Music's Pub League. Ok there's a slogan for the Couchmen to use.

Wow. I'd heard of this incident but never seen/heard video. That's 100% "Marching Music's Major League channels their inner middle school band."

The Genesis AI joke gag is still funny to me.

No bohdran was used.

Listening through the lovely lossless format now. I will say this, I've not gone back much to the Cavies show on my late seasons rips from Allentown captures. But that show sparkles musically

You need to return their call. They want your pasture field for it.

This is true. I was struck by Tracy's absolute comfort in singing that song and being on stage now. Her younger years didn't have that comfort. That it came while sharing that stage and song with another made it even more awesome.

Yeah Avon and Carmel are of similar cultures inasmuch as they're that rivals in the same city. The intensity of what they do in the Fall for band season + their scholastic WGI demands are a LOT on those bodies, adding a summer season is a physical ask that some students might throw themselves into with youthful exuberance without realizing the cost its going to have 10 years later. Dunno if they'd open that policy to DCI, ISSMA and BOA, WGI scholastic, WGI independent....pick any two that don't happen concurrently sort of thing. Cause that doesn't contain their talent pool to their programs primarily heh.

Yah. Carmel guard on the field has always been S tier design and execution as well. If Phantom can get a pipeline from Carmel to a summer with Phantom going, things will get interesting!

Also. Tracey Chapman came on to perform Fast Car with Luke Combs. That was another iconic Grammys moment for me.

Yah. Th easing has been used in so many contexts in movies and such. And of course bands and corps have used it a lot. BD’s arrangement though really brought out both the pathos and delicacy of the song for me. Seeing it live in Annapolis was a highlight

My cousins are Lions fans. I told them, "I feel for you, after all its only once every 20 years or so you get to have hope." It's somewhat tempered by the fact that they're also U of M alums and went to both games.

Well it was a valley, but after the 4th lift, it starts to show as a hill.

So far so good https://www.drumcorpsplanet.com/forums/index.php?/leaderboard/&time=today 8 points was enough to carry recent days too so. Yeah, this is likely to happen. haha @cixelsyd OH and the other posters chasing are for posts responding to that...so yeah. Definitely winner.

Yah. I've been listening to the 2023 season again as my brain wants drum corps again. This show is so musically well designed. And while I get the eyebrows at the visual design choices, they performed the snot out of it and it was bold and consistent. The score stalling puzzles me still too

yay! I have my something i did with the Allentown stream but i liked the cleaned up versions they make.

There was a Vanguard yell for Force of Nature in 2016 that started sort of organically. I remember people posting videos of 'do it here or do it there?' once the spot was decided, it caught on fairly quick. The other organic thing recently I recall is when Bloo added the Hey Jude tag and it went from a jam to a singalong that lingered in the crowd as they left the field by finals night. I was at BLL in the theater that year for quarters and there were some of us singing along too.

It's a classic Theory of Justice question. What does justice look like for someone who was victimized not only by an individual's actions but a system that enabled and protected the individual who did it? Restorative justice theories would point toward listening to the victim and letting their needs for healing guide the process of what is required of perpetrators. But that's really often not an option under our laws. While legal mediation efforts are a thing, they're often re-traumatizing to the point they are not restorative. The only other options in our legal system are punitive. The closure a victim might feel from a punitive verdict and sentence may not be entirely restorative for them either. And consideration of that is a fairly 'newish' rationale for things like the death penalty and rape charges. For a very long time the victim and their family wouldn't even know the verdict or be involved in the case as the state brought the charges, not the victim. The point was the state's interest in punitive action to deter others from doing that. In this. case its a civil case so the victim is typically involved, but the dynamics of restorative v. punitive frameworks (nd other theories) are still in play largely because its how we are culturally constructing the idea of justice around the question that opens my post here.

The idea behind punitive damages from a legal perspective (which differ from the compensatory damages) is to send a message to others, "don't let this be you, it WILL end you." So in this case the message is to the other corps (and youth non-profits in some regard) "DTFK. Seriously. This is real business. Stop it or you'll be stopped." Whether its actually a deterrent or not...

Oh I know! Something with a bodhran! [marks calendar for 2037]

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I'd go for whatever Thrower wants to do with Angelique Kidjo's cover of their Listening Winds! Some polyrhythmic stuff going on in that. Now that Bloo has shown with Bump that some deep polyrhythmic stuff can be done on the field, read coherently by fans, and rewarded by judges....lets go!