alphabetmonkey

No longer drink only water, but use a little wine for the sake of your stomach and your frequent ailments. 1Timothy5:23

Ha! I have uttered the phrase "last chair in the pre school band" more than once in my life...

Was watching old YouTube videos from early 1990s concerts I attended (Jane's Addiction, Nine Inch Nails) and in the comments people are awestruck at how much fun people seem to be having at concerts then compared to now. Dancing, mosh pits, etc. Someone commented on how now, everyone stands in the audience with their phones up recording the thing rather than enjoying the event.

cymbal frisbees

Take up a collection, I will contribute to your power needs!

much better transition into Saro imo

I think God Bless the Child may have been her 44th session? And she did 44 sessions for the Columbia label?

I think 44 is referenced many places for them this year (someone should do a compilation).

Bluecoats posted on Twitter that today is anniversary of the death of Billie Holiday at age 44.

In jazz, you know, we play ALL the notes

CLOSER: Tour bus on field. Horn players emerge in fear as Bloo percussion chew them out with I’m up there workin’ my balls off tryin’ to do somebody a favor and you m****s are suckin’ all over this joint. What kind of trumpet section do you call this tonight? And mellos! You gotta f*****’ be kiddin’ me! a la Buddy Rich rants Gotta get those perc scores up! GE for days!

In a super weird coincidence, am in Minneapolis this weekend and randomly ran into former center snare Kyle Tsuchiya - accosted him (not sure he gets a lot of that) and told him to help out the current perc crew. He just laughed. What a random occurrence.

It is so great that they are taking acting instruction this year. Gotta sell it!

With the availability of various You Tube videos available soon after performances, and the different perspectives they provide as compared to official broadcasts, it seems like the perception of how a show should be judged is highly influenced by the perspective of the viewer. Reading some of the comments about the tour premiere, you get the sense that the same performance elicited vastly different opinions depending on if the viewer was in a theater or watching the show live. In the broadcast, you are so much at the mercy of the director calling for the cuts that your experience may be significantly different than the live viewer. But insta-media seems here to stay. And organizations even have media departments now offering their curated experience to the viewer. I wouldn't mind seeing an award at the end of the season to the best depiction of the show as edited together by the organization itself. That is, each corps gets to edit together the show however it likes and present a visual package made available to the judges that represents how they feel media best presents their show. And an award for the best such presentation. Sort of like the Grammys have the awards for liner notes / packaging, etc. From a perspective of pure selfishness, I as a viewer would enjoy such a product. It would be the corps' respective visions of their own programs, calling the shots on how the remote viewer should see it (rather than making suggestions of cuts / focus of shot / etc. to the broadcaster). Assuming they own the visual media, that is.

I like the fake out hit at the end, it sets the tone "this is not a typical show with the typical beats you might expect." That being said, it does require more of the viewer - similar to what I experience listening to a jazz show. I agree that the transitions may need more of a thematic hook or just more substance. My ears (and eyes) also kind of want Jaco Pastorius in the Mingus tune going crazy with 16th notes in front of everything. Maybe in Bizarro DCI.

Very excited for this. I am not a big fan of the original (heresy, I know) but hope Bloo find a way to express Billie Holiday's gurgly sound instrumentally. Have no idea how they are going to fit these music pieces together - maybe they don't and that is in itself part of the originality of the production.

Dealing with narcissism is an art form. Hope the powers that be have been clear with the accused about parameters for contacting the organization. People injured narcissistically tend to like to take the ship down with them. (am a shrink, deal with this too often sorry to say)

Not really music corps should do, but I would like to see some counter-traditional techniques used in percussion. Just off the wall stuff like the Buddy Rich New Orleans style rolls and other similar flourishes. Not sure if the judges would appreciate it, but if they fit with the theme of the show, I would toss babies!

If this is true, big congrats to Yuuka! First female making top five snare line (Bluecoats) in five years? I wonder if she is the snare who played so wonderfully for the Blue Stars last year?

I prefer to just rattle my jewelry

Bloo tipping hats on the "ding" - nice touch BK snare solo Seattle Cascades vocalist, hard to compete with SIA but she did it Next year...hoping for cowbell solo at the 50 yard line, someone please indulge

I wouldn't mind status quo system with the addition of each judge's ordinal ranking of performances at the end of the night, just a simple 1,2,3,4 etc. So you can see the minutia of the scoring but also a "big picture" from each judge. It may not even have to have weight on the final score, but it would be interesting to have the info to digest. Unless this already goes on an I am just being Jane you ignorant ---

For Crown, it is as if the Olympic gymnast performed a perfect 10 out of 10 routine, but halfway through, her leotard split open and she performed half naked throughout anyway. How do you score? Does the distraction detract enough?

I think that is a great idea. Has a rhythmic gymnastics visual flair. Would look great from up above. Where do I sign up for sewing committee?

The best revenge is buying a lot of merch