KungFuCharlie

Bill, I'm sorry to hear about Todd. I don't know about the financial issues, but even before all days were done we lost some staff members and we pretty much ended up having a rotating cast for the rest of the season. I do appreciate those who stayed with us until the end because I'm sure they had better things to do than lose their sanity with us. Our show design seemed a bit flat too, I liked the music but it was a bit difficult for our young hornline. Still, we always had food to eat, I met some great people, I got to see some cool places, and for a short time I was thin and tanned . I'm just now going back and scanning the pics I took and it's bringing back all the memories of that long strange trip. PS. Sorry to dig up and old thread, I just logged on for the first time in a long time and was going back to see what I missed.

Pretty sure Phantom didn't switch over until 2003.

The show I downloaded from DCI does not have the frack in there. For some reason, I do feel the downloaded show is a cut & paste version. I know at that point in the season corps are very consistent, but some there are sounds from the crowd that sound exactly the same as the CD version of the Finals show I have. If I had to guess, the cut is either at the beginning of If We Were In Love or where the corps stops and then the soloist plays (bugle pitch) F E E F F--- and then repeats that an octave higher. He's aiming for a double C (or around there) and didn't make it.

A guy I know had the quarters or semis recording and the sop soloist did fine then. I first saw that show on a crappy tape of the PBS broadcast. They showed some clips from I&E and there was a Phantom sop guy playing variation 3 of Fantasy Brillante.

Easiest during sectionals or easiest during ensemble?

This can be of some use. It has cross section views of mouthpieces from the more popular manufactures.

I believe the Maggio book has been out of print for some time so it can be hard to find. A guy I hung out with in college used that method with great success. He said when he had braces in high school, it really hurt him to play, so his band director let him borrow that book. A few years later and endurance, range and flexibility weren't issues for him anymore. This guy could play for hours and hours and not miss a beat.

Some of those guard/horn visuals were, well... b**bs Great show, the dude tossing his horn on Finals night was amusing. :P

Robert Shaw conducting the Atlanta Symphony and Chorus. The CD has some Bartok and Ralph Vaughan Williams pieces on it too. Pretty big dynamic range on the Barber recording. The highs are high and the lows are low. The part SCV played is actually the ending to the whole piece. I've been looking for that CD as I seemed to have misplaced it. <_<

Samuel Barber's music. Everyone probably heard Adagio for Strings before drum corps, but I went out and bought Prayers of Kierkegaard and Symphonies 1&2 after hearing SCV play excerpts from those pieces. Same thing with Song Without Words and Dargason from '89 Star. When I first heard A Mis Abuelos from Dazon, I pretty much...

1. '87 SCV 2. '80 27 3. '95 Cadets

I've never played a 1C, but I have played a 1 1/2C and a 1 1/4C and I could tell a difference between those two pieces. Even slight differences in cup depth, cup diameter, rim contour, rim thickness, throat and backbore can change your sound and feel.

I believe the snare, guard, and sop at the end of '88 only applies to one person.

Are you counting the end of the '88 show for the "played soprano" part? :P

I'm pretty sure you can put the Benge 65-B up there along with the Silver Flair and Connstellation. Back when those companies were independent, those were different horns, but alas, they're now just copies. :( Kanstul has recreated some of the old pre-UMI Benge and Conn designs.

Was anyone else worried that Dennis was going to make comments during the shows?

If your chops are inefficient, practicing will only take you so far.

Especially after reading those Brass Advantage articles by Wayne Downey.

How BD ever played Channel One with those horns is beyond me.

Back around the mid 90s, (I think) Middle Tennessee State, did a Michael Jackson show. The pit was dressed as the zombies from Thriller and the band had a laid back look with baseball caps. The opening hit of Thriller was b**bs . They had amps that they used for a bass and a guitar. The closer was Beat It and the guitar player did an excellent job with the Van Halen solo. I enjoyed that show much more than the stuff we were doing at UTK.

It was 1977. I'm glad DCI put that show on the Legacy DVD as a bonus. That sop soloist was sick.

"The Zone Part 3: Back to Reality"

They just got new uniforms in '04.

Agreed

A question with lots of possible answers. I'm very happy with my 1960s HN White King trumpets. :)