Incognito365

I remember watching one of our saxophonists, who was notorious for locking her knees, sway during warmup arc. The next thing I knew she went down, twitched a little, and said "Ow, Ronald! Let go of my arm!" Mind you, Ronald was in the back arc across from her, nowhere near her. Her identical twin dropped her Trombone, which we had just gotten in that day (all brand new Trombones) and gasped. My director helped the girl up and a couple band moms took her into the band room so that the director could continue rehearsal, but not before he went over to the identical twin and, jokingly, asked her "How did it feel to watch yourself pass out?" We all laughed, including her, he sent her in to check on her sister, and then used that incident as lesson to never lock your knees.

The $25 a piece I used to pay for DCI NKY for Bluecoats, Carolina Crown, Cadets, and Boston is looking pretty good right now. Sprinkle in some Madison, Jersey Surf, Spirit, and Music City during the years too.

I remember our band moms making use of the home ec. room and it's sewing machines. The term "Sweat Shop" comes to mind. 4 women, 4 sewing machines, making 16 to 20 sets of around 4 or 5 flags in the matter of two weeks. It was impressive to watch.

I would say it's probably better financially, but then again missing out on the money from those missing shows, I'm not so sure. Might just break even. As for competitively, again, I'm not so sure. I would think more head-to-head with the competition would be better, but at the same time having more rest is beneficial as well. I think it's a give or take question, and it could really go either way. Honestly for the duration of Crowns performance I will probably stay here. Some peoples post I just don't need to read, and even with the ignore option I'm just too nosey of a person to not decide to read what they said. Plus being immobile currently has me being even more nosey trying to live vicariously through others right now. I've been out of the house twice since June 17th. My Facebook posts are riddled with Cabin Fever. Lol. I remember marching on our blacktop practice field in high school with the temperature being 101. I can't remember what the index was, let alone the temperature on the blacktop. I know the soles of my brand new tennis shoes that I had bought for comfort during band camp melted. Lol. That was a rough summer. I can kind of understand what they're going through out there. At least the air there is a little more dry compared to Kentucky. The saying "It's not hot, it's humid" comes to mind. Lol.

And be able to PERFORM!!! We need a quick rain shower to come through and cool it off about 15 degrees!

Well, now we know how DCI stayed afloat during Covid...all that money they hoarded from the Broken Arrow show over the years. 🤣

Completely agree. While 2007 BD is one of the shows I actually like from them, Cadets 2007 musically and visually was a spectacle to behold. So glad I got to see that show live that season. I still have my T-shirt somewhere. I argue with my friends all the time that that show was probably visually the dirtiest show to ever win a championship. "But the effect" BUT THE CLEANLINESS!!! I guess clean just doesn't win the bread anymore. Lol.

See, usually I prefer the funniest in the Sunday newspaper, but the Tuesday Crazies can sometimes be just has hysterical! And yeah, the hate before any of us even make a post or the corps performs is ridiculous.

I didn't even know that the limit was moved up...I guess that's how out of the loop I was the last 2 years.

I'll be watching from my bed, with my leg propped up, and DCP sitting open on my laptop so I can read the crazies.

Exactly. And why do that? Why make the same person have to watch all aspects of the show and possibly miss a good bit, when you could have that person focus solely on the music or visual aspect of the effect? It just makes zero sense to me. The local marching band circuit has kept GE separate into two different captions since 1986, and I really hope they continue to do so. No idea. I would assume it's because more emphasis was put into the visual design and less on music, so they combined them. I honestly have no idea.

It should still be GE Music and GE Visual, but when more emphasis is put on visual design these days you have to think, does GE Music still pull it's weight or should we give more emphasis to GE Visual on the score sheet? Just an overall GE is a better option than having one outweigh the other.

Out of the 3 shows Crown attended in Texas that year, they only beat Bluecoats at Denton. Crown was 2nd at San Antonio behind Bluecoats and ahead of Blue Devils, and was 2nd in Cypress behind Bluecoats. I've been on DCX all day. Not sure why.

Must have been 2003 because Cavies won in 2002.

Feels strange only having 20 shows this season, down from the average 30+ shows a season. I wish they had competed more up to this point.

I accidentally got too excited and too into the show in 2017 that I yelled out "I KNOW YOU" during Crowns closer when she yelled it during the show...oops.

I'm not letting them get to me, it's just funny how they bring us up when none of us have commented there. Some of them have a chip on their shoulder for some reason, and I'm just going to let CrownBRASS blow it off.

Man, nobody has said anything about Crown in the San Antonio thread and they're already talking about us making comments on performance order if we don't place well at Broken Arrow. Lord, they just don't know when to stop, do they? 🤦

The only good thing visually about that show was the teeter totter, but it was so underutilized and sat there for 95% of the show. So much potential gone to waste with that show. I thought they were going to go with a "The Beast Within" design but boy was I wrong...

Beast, musically, was a masterpiece in my opinion, and one that I listen to frequently. It's just hard to get those uniforms out of my mind. I thought they were so cool at the time, but hindsight is 20/20...it's like looking back through your pictures and finding an outfit you loved 20 years ago that you wouldn't be caught dead in today.

Touche. I preferred their identity from that era.

Okay my good sir. Clearly you need to visit my profile and educate yourself on which corps I like, but since you won't and claim to know me so much, I'll educate you anyways. Sure, Crown is my favorite. Everyone knows that. Funnily enough, there are others on here that express more outlandish stuff than I do for their corps, but you decided to come after me. SCV was one of my first loves. Discovering their shows from the late 80s and early 90s, I fell instantly in love with classics such as Russian Christmas Music, Phantom of the Opera, Miss Saigon, Fiddler on the Roof, and Inventions for a New Millennium. 1987 SCV is a very close 2nd favorite of mine still to this day, and was my favorite for several years until Crown caught my attention in 2007 with Triple Crown. In that time between SCV being my favorite and Crown catching my attention, I went through several love affairs with The Cavaliers and The Cadets in the early to mid 2000s, loving shows like Niagra Falls, Frameworks, Spin Cycle, 007, and The Machine from the Cavaliers and shows like Our Time is Now, An American Revival (Bugle Boy was everything that season), Our Favorite Things, The Zone, and This I Believe. Since 2007 I have been a Crownie. They grabbed me with Triple Crown, and while there have been shows I didn't particularly care for (2010 being a major flop in my opinion, 2018 visual design, 2017s cluttered field design), for the most part I have loved every single show they've come with since their inception into the top 6. If you have really been keeping up, I have been quick to point out design flaws in their shows. 2018 would be a prime example. I'm more harsh on "my team" than any other corps. This year truly being an exception because I truly believe they can take home their second gold. In 2019 I was vocal about SCV v Crown. I truly believed Crown could have passed them, and that was proven right when scoring came out on finals night. They truly could have. I think they should have still. SCVs design felt like a copy/paste of 2018, and this year's feels the same from 2019. Bluecoats did the same exact thing up until Downside Up, and I have been vocal about that as well. Several corps do this, and there are a handful I've been vocal about. SCV, Bluecoats, and Blue Stars just to name a few. As for the tarp discussion at hand, everyone #####ed about those tarps in 2019. I wasn't the only one, and I'm still not the only one. For some reason my comment grabbed your attention, and hey, that's cool. It could have created a fun discussion, but instead you decided to go for the low blow with a personal attack, claiming to know what I've posted just as someone else did earlier this season about the exact same thing. This is the one and only time I will entertain this discussion, just like I did for the last person. I want nothing more than for SCV, Cavies, Cadets, and Crown to be successful and fight it out every year. What I don't want is for these corps to find a formula and stick with it, becoming stale. Understand now? If you made it this far, congrats. You're a trooper and really wanted to get to know me better so that maybe next time you see a comment from me you'll understand more about where it's coming from. I truly hope you have an amazing day today and the corps you pull for finds success this season.

They're hard for a lot of folks around here...

The reflection of the lights off the tarp all season (once they implemented them) until Indy. If the reflection was bad on Flo, it was going to be bad for the judges. I meant it as a joke, but clearly you're the funny man around here.

I guess you missed Crown double tonguing while marching tonight? 🤣