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  1. Parade time was to have been bumped up this year to 8:30? CBS started at 9. It’s 9:25 and we’ve had two broadway numbers advertise their shows and a lot of chatter from the hosts about ones “journey to being a broadway star.” And our second commercial break. Zero parade. Aside from what you see in the background as the hosts talk about themselves
  2. So much for the “next year they’re doing white unis and a “good guys” cowboy show.”
  3. Oh daaang. I found one of the guys found a recording our whole set on youtube Its' a great opportunity for the kids who go. You do a set performace, you get to do a clinic with a muscian (we had Dennis DiBlasio) And watch some of the greatest other performances. Airmen of Note played ours for the main stage night and they were amazing.
  4. I had the pleasure of my high school jazz band being invited my senior year. We always had great jazz bands but that year and the one following we had ridiculously good bands. We blew the place down with this number to close our set. Our set was actually used in recordings of a number of the charts we did for the audio going out with marketing to school band directors by publishers. I was reminicing one time with someone who'd played one of the other numbers we did and "our director played this recording for us of that number and told us "thats a high school band. if they can do it we can." Those cats from ____ were great." I was like ....oh snap...that was us....
  5. It was 16 and a rabbit that made a bad choice to cross the road on a Sunday evening after youth group. I park the car and come into the house and I must have looked in shock or something because mom sees me and, "OH WHAT'S WRONG WHAT HAPPENED?" "I......I......I hit a rabbit." "oh thank god I thought it was something serious." "MOM, I KILLED IT"
  6. Phantom's social media team wins the internet for the offseason doing that one.
  7. Annapolis line up looks beefy again with the return of SCV to that lineup. But also pulling in the Troopers to that show now. I'm excited.
  8. Cadets, Boston, Troopers....well as the tune is incorporated into Lincoln Portrait that is. 😉 My HS band did Lincoln Portrait for our opener my senior year. The band director had long used 'Doo dah' in place of expletives he wasn't supposed to be saying in front of us. My senior year he quipped toward the end of the season, "All these years I've been saying doo dah and now we're playing it."
  9. Band being the 'it thing' was a thing at my school in the 80s. We were a 2500 student school that regularly marched about 260. We were, by far, better than the football team in bringing home wins and trophies. In my sister's time, it became policy the band had to stay the whole game because letting the band go after halftime on Friday night (due to an early Saturday call for travel to our shows) meant half the crowd disappeared with us. In my time, there was a year the football team decided they were gonna harass the band/guard girls in the band hall before school. We tried shooing them off but got the "Band F__" treatment out of them. The band director complained to the Football Coach, who by reports, just shrugged and smirked. The AD didn't back the band director either. So ... next game we had a double show schedule on Saturday. Early slot at one location then a late slot at another. Lots of travel. Band director said, "screw the policy, we're done after we come off at halftime. The AD might talk to me then." Our crappy football team jumped out to a surprise lead v. a state ranked opponent and we had the atmosphere pumped up. And then lost by like 28 points after the 2nd half was flat with no spirit from the crowd. The AD blew his stack, the principal of the school got involved and resolved it with a "no football players in the band hall" and "the band stays for the whole game" agreement again. We marched in for the next game with all the trophies we'd won that season thus far, we were sweeping captions at shows too, each had their own trophy. So like the Drum Majors and half the guard carrying trophies as we enter the stadium in full parade formation rather than just filtering in. Crowd going nuts with pride for us. Student body included. Football team got stomped...again. Point. Made. Don't f' with the band.
  10. I've come to enjoy these too. Getting the sound the performers are hearing is such a cool reveal. Also with this one, the clarity of not only this horn but those around him explains so much of Crown's brass excellence.
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  12. Yeah...my Occam's Razor comment didn't age well at all. I guess sometimes it really IS a big coverup of other issues. sigh.
  13. A fair few corps have used their social media youtube accounts for "official releases" of their shows too. In cases where they were proactive about getting all the rights in order themselves. I want that to be a growing trend actually. It drives people to the CORPS social media a thus puts eyeballs on them and ensuring their show will be releasable in this manner becomes a priority for their design teams because it reflects on their brand. That said, it'd be nice if DCI then makes a 'master playlist'
  14. So musicians aren't expected to be subjected to survivalist conditions but the chances of getting gassed are high enough you need to know how to use the mask. Sounds like a rough audience to play for!
  15. Mixed feelings are natural. You gave the family a gift to let them have goodbyes and some dignity to his passing. My mom and dad had been trained in CPR at a church event and had to use it with a neighbor across the street from them at one point. He too passed in the hospital a few days later but had the opportunity to do so after some goodbyes and somewhere other than in the midst of a crisis situation on their driveway. The favor was somewhat returned years later with the residents of that house across the street after them performed CPR on my mom. She too passed a week later and although she hadn't regained consciousness, it gave us a chance to gather and say our goodbyes. I think about that often when I refresh my CPR training.
  16. I'm a visual thinker. That one had me entirely reimagining my mind's eye of Terri. Well of all human anatomy for that matter
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