Tenoris4Jazz

VANGUARD!!! Ahhhhhh...

Last part of Cavies show was just a bit too... how do I put this... unfocused.

Guy gets cute girl into bed while her friend holds a lamp so they can see each other while they do it. There!

Had to put the kiddos to bed... that overly loud synth bass from the stream is just ratcheted up on my new headphones. Those loud hits are actually making my skull vibrate!

Ever read the gospels of the Bible? Like that, but with trumpet solos.

Colts have a really good show, but whoever came after Academy tonight was going to suffer by comparison.

Academy reminds me a lot of what Bridgemen did with West Side Story in 1981, only better.

I literally got chills on the back of my neck at that ending! That show HAS to make Finals.

One of the Bluecoats staff members has already said on reddit that he doesn't care about the leaks because he thinks the recaps should be available. If there's one, there's probably a dozen or more.

Are they doubling up the french horn parts with synth again, like they did last year? I was highly disappointed that most of what I heard in Atlanta was electronic instead of the actual horns.

Maybe the judges reacted the same way I did. My first reaction when I saw the picture was "YUCK!"

There are a couple of people on here who know far more than I do, but I went to high school with their financial director Kenn Lamson. They could not be in better hands financially. Kenn has a long and distinguished career in financial management, and is currently the head of Vanguard's Non-profit management group. He won't put up with the kind of crap they'd been doing the last couple of years that got them in this mess.

Are the kids possibly getting down because the staff feels the show was so bad it had to be redone over and over? I can see a lack of momentum coming from a lack of confidence in the show design, if that were the case. Somebody from '87 Cavies said on here that getting blown off the field midway through the season by Vanguard permanently damaged their collective psyche for the rest of the year.

Same here! I took it the same way they did Pagliacci in '91... if it was good enough for Maynard, it's good enough for me.

I realize that, they just do it too much. Once or twice for 5-10 seconds works, but they're doing a bit of overkill.

I love the fact that both BD and Bloo remembered that the horns can be played above the staff. First time in 2 years I can remember hearing actual high notes being played. That said, there's still too much dancing and percussion and not enough marching and playing. I know, I'm an old fart and they quit designing shows the way I like them years ago, but ######, I like keeping DCI and WGI as different activities! Side note: BD used the trombones as a gimmick WAY too much. We know they have slides guys... you don't have to keep reminding us the entire first half of the show.

I'm listening with headphones, on my desktop, and it's still not anywhere close to loud enough. I thought BD and Bloo both had anemic horn lines, then I figured out there just is not enough volume on this broadcast.

It's like the compulsories in ice skating, where everybody has to do the same list of tricks. DCI has gotten to the point where they might as well all do the same show and just see who does it best.

I figured as much. I'll have to get a hdmi cable long enough to reach... bleah.

anyone having trouble with the stream? My tv keeps freezing after 10-12 seconds. Wonder if the browser on the tv is the problem.

You can go back in the forum archives for 1989 and find lots of references. Safe to say, turning that part of the music into a rock feel did not go over well with a lot of people.

The ride cymbal in '89 Phantom was only a few seconds and there are scores of people that only remember that from the show. The soprano gack from '89 Devils was only a few seconds and that became legendary. It only takes a few seconds to ruin a show.

Let's not forget that while Cadets were competing for championships in the early 80's, they were also barely able to pay the bills. Because Hoppy and some other folks focused on the financial side of things, they were able to assure that future Cadets corps would be around to compete for years to come. That is what happened with Spirit over the last 10 months. They put the financial side in order to guarantee that there would be a Spirit of Atlanta marching for years to come. I personally don't give a hoot what scores they get this year or what placement they make, because the fact that they're even on tour is amazing. I'm not interested in how this show is judged, I'm interested in seeing this organization, and the kids who chose to be a part of it, put all the dark clouds behind them and just PERFORM!

Sheesh, chill! I'm not handing out financial advice to a retired couple from Skokie! We're talking about the bleepin' lottery! I did, however, work for 2 years at a broker/dealer office that handled over $1 billion in assets. I personally worked with their #1 investment advisor who handled over $8 million in new investments every year (that's 1995 dollars btw). I can tell you, without qualification, that the only guaranteed investment instruments are government backed bonds, which currently yield less than 5%. I can find you 25 mutual funds today that have returned 10% over a 5 year, 10 year, 15 year, and 20 year span. The lottery's ROI, based on the time value of money stream, returns less than 5%, which is the equivalent of 8.25% in taxable instruments such as mutual funds. I have managed to invest my own retirement funds to the tune of a 15% annual return. A life insurance salesman, who I know personally through the Knights of Columbus, just did an assessment of our finances and told me we're better off than 99% of his clients. I think I'm covered here. I can also tell you that buying more than 1 lottery ticket is a waste of money, but that's a post for another thread...

No, not at all. A MM can tell good/bad, but only a judge can tell them how good or bad, and why it was good or bad. I love watching snare drummers after a percussion feature nod their head vigorously and repeat "YES!!!!" over and over to themselves. They know they nailed it. Then they listen to the judge's tape and find out that, while they nailed "this", they completely hosed "that." Being strictly a horn player, I've never understood the details of drumming... until now. I want to thank all the drummers in this thread for pointing out what's involved. What I understand now is that I would prefer a field judge for both brass and battery, plus one for the pit, and then a judge in the box to assess the entire ensemble. I want to know how the individual horns/drums/pit performers play, plus what they all sound like together as an ensemble. I guess I look at it this way: if it's art, just look at the whole thing taken altogether, but if it's competition, you have to judge the MM's of one group versus another.