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    PR '03
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    I showed a friend a clip from SCV – the famous bottle dance. It might have been '74; the guard was in full uniform with aussies still.

    The music dramatically swells. The tension is  brought to a peak as the guard slowly descends into their positions and raises their arms. They lift their heads high and suddenly, an explosion of sound from the percussion and horns. The guard lurches forward, slowly. The camera operator captures a close up on one performers face – she is utterly expressionless. Slick with sweat, she dutifully performs her routine alongside her peers. The crowd is losing their minds. 

    My friend remarked "I don't know how that made me feel". I sensed she wasn't expressing wasn't ambivalence, but astonishment.
    ​​​​​​​I often think about that performers face. It's as if she were in a trance. As was  I.

    But enough talk. Let's go hiking. 

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  1. valjean
    top zozzle. I love drum corps but headlines like these really put our cookies and milk operation into perspective.
  2. valjean
    Oh well I'd sure love it. But what song(s)? "Motherboard" could be nice if featured briefly, during a transitional moment. Perhaps "Aerodynamic" during a percussion feature.
  3. valjean
    Can anyone think of some contemporary pop that would be cool for a corps to do? I keep thinking about how fresh "one eyed sailor" must have been back in '76 for BD. Any ideas?
  4. valjean
    I never quite appreciated Turandot in its time but that was a great year for regiment. Medaled with a really classic, classy, and clean show. They made a big splash this past season. Maybe something refined could move them forward.
  5. valjean
    2 as a (spectating) nonfinalist, 2 as performing finalist, 2 as a pure (tickets bought) spectator.
  6. valjean
    Lore... just put it in the **** show!!
  7. valjean
    Someone said they heard it as early as '82. What a legend.
  8. valjean
    The absolute madman. Bravo!
  9. valjean
    Aaaaand there it is. No.
  10. valjean
    This raises the eternal question: where does it end? Undoubtedly folks can - and will - make cases for why all instrumentation should be allowed. There will be excuses about it being "for the kids" and "about the experience", and yadda yadda. For the "survival of the activity". To even acknowledge that there may in fact be a line, would be to admit all of the changes made over the years have possibly crossed it, and could, or should, be rolled back. I don't know if pandora's box can be closed at this point. When the arguments delve fully into the ideological, and not the practical, anything goes. And get off my lawn!!
  11. valjean
    Would it be possible for a corps to go full acoustic and still be competitive?
  12. valjean
    Are there any criticisms you would consider fair and not the product of generational salt?
  13. valjean
    I have no doubt they will field a great corps, it's their competition I worry about. I feel a lot of growth coming from the midwest. But I never was one to play the stock market 😅
  14. valjean
    What's the problem? Well-reasoned, informed, respectful.
  15. valjean
    If SCV returns it needs a bottle dance, people would lose their minds On a related note, sad as it may be that they will likely not return for '24 I am RELIEVED there will at least be no chance of Schethr3rezade happening.
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