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dark-helmet

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  1. Do we really have to lie to ourselves to feel better about the fact that it is different. It doesn't mean better or worse. It's also not the source of the Scouts problems of the last 5 years. But it is different.
  2. So about the staff.....J/K. I like the show, keep reminding everyone that playing a horn and marching can be pretty effective. Go Scouts.
  3. I agree with both of these. There was some drill this year, but honestly staging isn't what I loved dci for. By the time M & M becomes a thing again, dci will be dead or on broadway and someone else will organize a circuit that scores such things and we'll be so long gone no one will remember that it was done before.
  4. Because the talent of the performer is what should be on display, not the creative recording done in someones basement. It may be brilliant, but it's not live and quite frankly it's what a lot of us miss from the old days. Hell, it was early so they may have changed it, but there was what felt like three minutes that one corps parked the hornline out of sight and did whatever it is that went on. Honestly if I was a member and I parked out of sight for that length of time, I would wonder why I joined. I wanted to play my horn as much as I could because that's what I was best at. I can understand staging and props (not a fan) but for music people the acoustic production of sound is what we are impressed with, not some sample played on time. Overtones......I want overtones.
  5. I can't tell you how disappointed I was when I saw the bluecoats hornline lean in on the 50 and more sound was coming from the 30. To have the hornlines some of the corps have and misuse the amps the way they do is offensive. Honestly it might be time to retire the brass altogether and have 154 dancers. (kidding)
  6. I like these better than some of the other "outfits" I've seen this year. A little class goes a long way. Keep it up.
  7. Ah, the money behind the politics. No one wants it to be true, but more often then not it runs the show. But since this a Scouts thread, anyone see the unis?
  8. I'm excited to see what they do. I hope it works. Can we please wait and see how this thing looks on the field before we blow everything up? Go Scouts!
  9. If you win the crowd, you've won. Sometimes I think show designers forget that. It doesn't have to be in your face old school. I just want people to see the show and no matter where it places think "i want to be part of that".
  10. I think there is a theme. Its just not some abstract story.
  11. From what I saw on FB, I hope they start a trend.
  12. Perhaps it has something to do with the time it takes to get the rights to use the music? I would also like to hear something, guess I'll have to sneak up to indy.
  13. Yoko Kanno Show! YES! That has old school Scouts written all over it
  14. I think they'll get it together, there's a lot of changes happening and I think it will pay off in the long run.
  15. Madison goes on a tear and reclaims their title of best sixth place corps ever.
  16. I really like the rotating square to start and end the show for 97 (I think) BD for some reason.
  17. I hate the way people read into this, thank you for setting them straight. You may not like the way Scott sees the world, but he did everything he could to take care of his members in Madison, in addition to helping other corps survive.
  18. It's obvious that DCI needs to restructure, but at this point can from corps as a large circuit be saved? It's already cost prohibitive, with less sponsors, sites and housing where does it go? Welcome back DCM and DCE?
  19. And finger pointing with no viable solutions. No one is defending what happened, we are asking how to fix it in a meaningful way that has a chance of getting voted on favorably by the membership. I don't see a good answer. Dftk, that's easy. However for any meaningful oversight the corps would have to become part of the DCI organization. If not, see blast! DCI had no control of star other than field competition. If DCI was truly the umbrella, cook wouldn't have been able to just leave. DCI is toothless other than suspending corps from competing in DCI. So, show me a viable way to change it that would pass with the corps. Otherwise we're just trolling each other to sound important.
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