Chief Guns
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5 hours ago, NewArpege said:
I can see the field now. Let’s get ready for some prop cutouts of abstract saxophones, trumpets, and pianos that standup, turn around to reveal different colors, and then fold to the ground to be one a stage.
Since you apparently got it all figured out in April, no reason for us to see you here complaining in August.
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3 hours ago, Vuitton said:
it doesn't matter. If I had to sit behind the stage to see U2 or Bob Dylan, I would do it. People fill the cheaper seats behind the symphony at the San Francisco Symphony just to see the concert. The point is there should be enough fans that people are willing to get cheap tickets in the end zones and at the back stands just to be there. In the 80s and 90s as a poor college student I would have paid to sit in the back stands at finals rather than not be there. Now, that I have money, I won't even both to go to a drum corps show today. It's not worth it to see 1-2 shows that are actually good and entertaining. Much of the front sideline is full of the corps that performed earlier in the week and family members of all those corps. Joe Blow off the street just isn't walking into Lucas Oil to see the show.
So you are upset because.....
1. Joan from Accounting and John from Marketing isn't paying money to sit in the end zone at a drum corps show made up of a bunch of 18–21-year-old performers, but they would pay their money to see 22-time Grammy winning U2 who is in the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame.
2. The 22,000 that was packed into Lucas Oil is "allegedly" all family members who paid their own money to travel and support their kid in the final week of the drum corps season, even though we have no actual proof without the raw numbers and data of who attended Finals week and what was the reason they came.
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3 minutes ago, greg_orangecounty said:
Four is a foregone conclusion in my mind. They have the same staff and won in 2023 with a young corps. The only thing to wonder about in April 2024 is will they make it to five.
I think the biggest question coming into 2024 is can BAC/Bloo/Crown separate from the other two and challenge BD.
Last year, we saw the auto racing effect. Second place moves into position to challenge for first, but then here comes the third and fourth place car, so second now has to defend his spot, which allows first place to pull away.
Those three corps (All freaking phenomenal btw) canceled each other out. We saw pretty much the same thing as well in 2022.
Can one of them break away from the pack?
If not, then yes, another "DJ Slap" courtesy of BD is upon us.
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1 hour ago, theonlyfizzle said:
Bump!
We should be about a month out before the Final Boss blesses us with their show title.
Let the quest for the four-peat begin!!
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1 hour ago, IllianaLancerContra said:
There is another Corps in the area who you wouldn’t mind getting higher scores.
If they earned the higher score, absolutely. If not, you won't see me here crying and saying the judges are paid off, and bringing up instances from the 1920s etc, when said judge scored my corps lower than another corps in a competition.
They earn it, congrats. If not, go work harder.
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1 minute ago, KVG_DC said:
the Jojo's meledy was good but good lord, Tank! the year before was supreme. I still think a Seatbelts + Stan Kenton show would be amazing for this BD team to work with while they're on this idiom.
Tank.
That was BD straight up flexing on everyone.
It's like a football team being up 50-0 with two minutes left in the game, and they throw a 75 yd bomb for another TD..........because they can.
Moon River.......Tank...........Game Over.
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14 minutes ago, IllianaLancerContra said:
Thinking about it, I propose that what you are against is BD score inflation. There is another Corps in the area who you wouldn’t mind getting higher scores.
Brother I am just joking, poking fun at the people who cry inflation every June. Just jokes.
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10 minutes ago, Boss Anova said:
Yes. absurdity.. I don't what gets into us social media Drum Corps fans. Its seems like every preseason starting almost without fail on April 1st we're .. Constantly Risking Absurdity .😉
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2 minutes ago, Box5Opinion said:
AND with some type of Japanese anime music. 😜
After they killed it with Jojo last year, sign me up for more Japanese anime!!
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10 minutes ago, Vuitton said:
Someday, one who says that will be correct. If they say it every year they are bound to be right at some point,
And when those people eventually have their moment in the sun, and they boast about being right with BD finishing 4th, it's important that some of us pull the receipts we collected over the years to remind them how many times they were wrong lol.
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23 minutes ago, Vuitton said:
I would LOVE it if BD did an all classical show. I still love the '98 show - wasn't that the one with Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet mixed with West Side Story. Old man memory lapse here, perhaps.
Yeah, that was the year. Thought it was too West Side Story heavy and didn't like mixing those two pieces, but when they played the Tchaikovsky it was simply glorious.
Even though they won the Ott, BDs brass in 1998 is one of their most underrated hornlines ever.
Maybe because they were sandwiched between gold medal shows in 97 and 99. But 98 always seems to get "lost in the sauce."
But I loved that show too. And the hornline was phenomenal!
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7 minutes ago, KVG_DC said:
Oh! Let me play!
1. BD is finishing fourth this year! That show is so weak!
2. Judges are ALREADY slotting BD in first because of last year's performance.
3. We should kick BD out of DCI, they're already basically professionals.1. BD is finishing fourth this year! That show is so weak!
The annual predictions thread lol.
2. Judges are ALREADY slotting BD in first because of last year's performance.ABBD crowd might get their wish and get a fourth-place finish from BD since one of the alleged BD payroll judges is with Phantom this year.
3. We should kick BD out of DCI, they're already basically professionals.Professionals that are so good, that they COULDN'T march "Insert Corps" show, but "Insert Corps" could totally march BDs show lol. How many times have we heard that one over the years lol.
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10 minutes ago, craiga said:
Chief, you know by now, no whining and crying from me! Personally, I think they have a 60% chance of getting a "fourpeat". But there are several teams who will also bring their A game this summer, so we'll see what happens!
Oh I wasn't referring to you brother. We know who they are lol.
They'll be here in about a month or so, spew their nonsense, then if BD wins in August, they'll say they are done with DCI and never supporting the activity ever again..............only to show back up next June regurgitating the same crap from previous years lol.
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55 minutes ago, IllianaLancerContra said:
And so it begins for 2024.
I was just trying to get the whining and crying started early. Lol.
But now that I think of it, I screwed up and went out of order.
First thing that is supposed to happen is to overreact to BDs Community Performance in Wyoming, when the show is literally bare bones and nothing of substance has been added yet.
THEN I am supposed to cry West Coast Inflation after the first show.
And I think the third thing is then make threads about performers sitting out like five years if they change corps to keep them from going to BD.
Sigh, maybe I will get it right next year.
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West Coast Inflation!
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14 minutes ago, ftwdrummer said:
To be fair, probably less amusing in the actual military than in a drum corps inspection. What with one of them being the military and the other being band.
I get that. And you are right.
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24 minutes ago, keystone3ply said:
"Built like a Winnebago"! Adding that to my repertoire 😂
Lol. Bro, this guy was massive! When he came around the temperature dropped 20 degrees, because he blocked out the sun lol.
He wasn't a Drill Instructor, but he was one of the Cadre that "Greets" you when you first arrive at boot camp on the bus.
My bus pulled up, and immediately the Cadre start yelling and screaming for us to get off the bus and causing mass chaos, the Winnebago Chief started rocking the bus from the outside, almost tipped it over......by himself.
You weren't laughing in his face. I don't care how rebellious of a teenager you were LMAO.
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6 minutes ago, OldSnareDrummer said:
It took every bit of effort I could muster when I was 14 or 15 years old to not just bust out laughing when one of those old timer, probably an ex-Marine DI VFW inspectors would stand right in front of me and stare me up and down.
When I was in high school, I thought and said the same thing, that I would laugh if some "military dude" yelled at me.
Until I went to boot camp and this Chief who was built like a Winnebago got in my face.
I did a lot of stuff......laughing wasn't one of them.
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On 4/3/2024 at 9:33 PM, Jeff Ream said:
hell people are tired of Dallas and they haven't won #### since 1996!
Last time the Cowboys were relevant, Microsoft was launching Windows 95.............in 1995.
LMAO.
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11 hours ago, Cadet Guardy said:
perfect 10's at finals.
I thought there was no such thing as perfect scores in DCI, only the maximum score.
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30 minutes ago, scheherazadesghost said:
Also, the age of consent in California became 18 in checks watch 1920. The law was the law, even BITD.
The worst I ever saw was when I was stationed in Sasebo Japan back in 1999.
A 36 year old Marine stationed in Iwakuni Japan was dating a 15 year old Japanese girl.
Sad part was nothing could be done. Japan's legal age of consent was 13 years old at that time (I think it's 16 now)..........and also back in 1999, US citizens weren't prosecuted for crimes against minors in foreign countries. That law didn't pass until 2003.
The frightening part was they got married and had kids.
Absolutely disgusting.
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On 4/3/2024 at 9:35 PM, Jeff Ream said:
funny though the years where BD had the most hatred were the first years in the recent dominance.....09, 10, and 12. yeah 15 and 19 were tight, but the hatred wasn't at the level of those 3 years
True. 2019 I was happy either way with BD or Bloo. Both were deserving. Fans were the ultimate winner in 2019 with two gold medal winning shows.
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1 hour ago, cixelsyd said:
Surprised they are not dragging Blue Devils into it just for taking over the band circuit.
Members of the ABBD crowd currently sitting in their living rooms........
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1 hour ago, KVG_DC said:
To be fair. Buffalo and Toledo are both armpits on the end of Lake Erie…
Lol I'll take your word for it. Being a SoCal kid from birth, anything east of Las Vegas was a foreign country to me LMAO.
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The Romantics - Blue Devils 2024
in DCI World Class Corps Discussions
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What would be considered romantic era classical that you think BD could pull off?
I am interested to check it out.
Thanks in advance brother!