Terri Schehr
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8 hours ago, JimF-LowBari said:
To go with jwillis35 when I read “corps don’t take in kids who can’t read music anymore”, my response is “corps take the most talented members. If they can fill the corps with people who can read music then no need to go further “.
I marched with people who couldn’t read a note of music as currently as 2003. When we’d get a change, the mellophones would gather around me and I’d play it for them three or four times. They were quick learners, though. I’m a slave to the page of music but they weren’t. I did teach one of my fellow members how to read though because I got tired of seeing fingerings all over the page. He could read after the season and proudly showed me his practically pristine music in 2004.
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8 hours ago, Jeff Ream said:
you walk that hill for a bathroom break? you'd never make it back for whoever was next!
I could run up that hill now with my bionic knee.
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8 hours ago, Jeff Ream said:
2012 or 13. i wasn't in Indy for that. 2010 was through a glass darkly or whatever it was called. I actually remember people laughing at Dada in Allentown
I didn’t laugh but it was my least favorite BD show. I’ve liked them every year since 2014.
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1 hour ago, Jeff Ream said:
the most ABBD crowd i've ever been a part of was in Indy in 2010. Literally people getting up and walking out when they performed.
What year was Dada?
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36 minutes ago, Brian Tuma said:
People either never knew or chose to forget Blue Stars were a DIII/A60 powerhouse.
They sure were. They were Div 3, then 2, the back into open class.
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18 minutes ago, HockeyDad said:
Well, actually, Blue Stars came back immediately, first as a cadet corps, then as an A60 corps. They were not inactive for decades, or even for years.
Their alumni and Boston’s never gave up. Admirable.
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8 minutes ago, Slingerland said:
Even if CAE prevails, there are other individuals who would probably be willing to go after them for misdoings of at least one person we can all think of for similar behavior (edit: depending on what PA's statute of limitations on civil cases is), so they'd be at this for years to come.
Any concept that could be seen as having any connection to any iteration of The Cadets is likely kaput.
Plus there is a lower standard of proof in civil cases.
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2 hours ago, Jeff Ream said:
no more like Bostons Animal Farm. Funny thing...that was a statement towards the whole G7 mess. and now who's a power broker?
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19 minutes ago, Chief Guns said:
Wouldn't shock me if Betsy the Cow and the rest of the herd stopped grazing to give BD a standing ovation lol.
That field was a trip. The crown may have been the highest point in central Illinois.
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Just now, keystone3ply said:
I'm sure he is one of the "John Does" named in the lawsuit. In the compliant statement #36, G Hopkins is named as an agent or employee who knew the abuse was about to take place & didn’t do anything to prevent. Not sure what his role was during that time, but I think he was an instructor or maybe assistant director?
I think he was director by 82.
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43 minutes ago, IllianaLancerContra said:
I would think so. And he who I will not speak name of is likely to be named as a defendant. I wonder if he is one of the John Does in the current case?
I couldn’t say but as we all know, their stories have been published in the Philadelphia inquirer. Seems like pretty strong footing but I don’t even play a lawyer on tv.
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2 hours ago, craiga said:
I believe so. Not only that, I've been told a New Year's Eve party in 1982...about as far away from a DCI event as you can get.
Here in Maine, one of the cases against a priest in the mid 80s was dismissed because the defendant was deceased, and the court held that it couldn't be prosecuted because that defendant was obviously unable to face his accuser. Interesting finding, but I'm not sure I've heard of this happening anyway else. (The Archdiocese was the codefendent and also had the case dismissed.)
Sounds like the other survivors have much stronger civil cases.
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5 minutes ago, IllianaLancerContra said:
What part of DFTK is so hard to understand?
🤷♀️
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4 minutes ago, HockeyDad said:
Time were different. Sure. Society was different. Sure. If by that you mean, people couldn’t imagine rampant sexual abuse by people in authority was going on, and thus stringent safeguards were not in place, yes I agree. But at the same time, the standard was exactly the same as it is today: DFTK!
I never thought it was a good idea for staff to date members but I saw it all the time way back when. I once had a staff member call and ask if I’d go to a party with him and I hung up the phone. I mean he was ancient to my twenty year old self. A thirty year old. I didn’t tell my mom what the call was about either because she would have 💩.
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1 minute ago, IllianaLancerContra said:
I wish that instead of softball Dan Potter questions some real journalist could ask some real hard questions & get real answers from Nick B.
I also that until all the legal process is complete (Inc SoA & anything else that might pop up between now & then) that DCI’s lawyers will strongly advise that no public comments should happen. Again- sound legal strategy & optics/doing the right thing are at odds with one another.
You mean Nate but I knew who you meant. I wasn’t expecting much and it delivered what I expected. Don’t forget that Dan refused to speak to Tricia Nadolny several times.
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14 hours ago, TOC said:
As long as pre DCI Cavies are included.
DCI posted audio from 1971 today. They sounded pretty darn good on that old plumbing. I forgot that they played a snippet of Greensleeves before I ever did. https://fb.watch/qSRM0zEc7i/?
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2 hours ago, IllianaLancerContra said:
Agreed. But I don’t think we’ll see them do the ‘squat’, the ‘pelvic thrust’, the ‘side-squat’, the ‘ballerina’ hand posing, etc
So there’s still hope for jazz hands?
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3 minutes ago, IllianaLancerContra said:
I don’t disagree. Legal response & optics are often at odds with one another.
This is ugly no matter what the outcome. Luckily, hardly anyone knows or cares about the niche drum corps activity outside of a tiny segment of the population.
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On 3/15/2024 at 1:34 PM, Chief Guns said:
Can't believe it's been a decade already, but here's to the greatest on field performance I have ever seen live. Felliniesque is an absolute masterpiece. To quote the fan sitting near me at the Glendora show in SoCal that year............"I hope DCI has an Alien Drum Corps from outer space competing at Finals this year, because nothing on this planet is beating that!"
I first saw it on a cow pasture that they held the show at in Metamora, Illinois. I told Jim that no one is beating that.
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8 hours ago, Chief Guns said:
Guess I will be rooting for George Jetson and Orbit City Drum Corps to win it all in 2044.
I remember when I used to figure out how old I’d be in the year 2000 when I was a teenager. I’m not even going to think about 2044.
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18 hours ago, Lance said:
This is why I love Crown and Bloo in particular. I can almost always count on a musical product that's just as important to them as visual. It's simply not the case for the majority of corps anymore, and I don't blame them with the scoring being so heavily skewed towards visual.
The fact that people with zero musical background are scoring music is yet another reason why scores are really a joke in the activity. It's always been kind of a joke, though, lol.
I’m out of the loop about judging but you’re saying that people with no music cred are judging music? Yikes. 😳
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5 hours ago, greg_orangecounty said:
I trust your research, I just don't remember that there were that many judges (10?) in the first half of the first decade of DCI, especially the first year.
I can’t remember at all. I do remember that Briske and Rick Maass were chief judges. I marched with Rick’s son in Guardsmen. He looked very gruff but he was a very nice man. He truly cared about the kids and I think it said something that he trusted the Guardsmen enough for his son to march there.
Ten judges seems like a lot to me, too, but maybe there were. I remember the ones who would walk down the line looking at feet in concert. lol 😂
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25 minutes ago, OhioBoy_99 said:
The people have spoken and we our down to our final 4 corps:
2016 Blue Devils
1985 Santa Clara Vanguard
1989 Phantom Regiment
1998 Santa Clara Vanguard
Check out the bracket in the original post and voting link is below or at the top as well!
Voting:
Have at it!
I’ll vote but I’m pouting.
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41 minutes ago, cixelsyd said:
I think that is why nearly all the socioeconomic diversity we see from drum corps non-profits comes in the form of alternate program offerings. They cannot (or will not) make the DCI drum corps format financially accessible.
This same cost blindness then ripples through the related scholastic pageantry arts. Then corps staff increasingly rely on these same scholastic groups, disproportionately from affluent areas, to provide experienced auditionees.
Jim had a certain corps director tell him that it was important that they had the ability to pay, stay, and play. That was the three major criteria.
Ten Year Anniversary Of Felliniesque
in DCI World Class Corps Discussions
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I sat with people in 2014 who had been going for decades. OP like me.