An_drew

Thank you for correcting my poor word choice, because you're right, they definitely ARE good enough. But I do hope that they can close that almost non-existent gap this year (or sometime in the near future). It's long overdue.

Would they be including All-Age in those numbers now too, then?

Is it too much to ask for 2024 to be the year that Bloo Brass is finally good enough to win the Ott?? Please, I'm literally begging. I've wanted to see them win high brass for years now. Their hornline is criminally underrated, and I know I'm not the first person to say that. While they haven't been the cleanest or most technically proficient on the field, they have had one of the most characteristically unique sounds in the activity for more than a decade at this point. That's what makes Bloo Brass so special, in my opinion. I recently came back to this video for the first time in a while, and my goodness it's getting me excited for 2024!

Alright, I guess I know how I'm spending my evening: listening to a TON of Son Lux. This is so hype.

2022 Blue Stars Of War and Peace. I was kinda meh on that show after watching it on Flo, but their brass sound in person completely caught me off guard. Something about it was just so sonically pleasing to the ears. I had to pick my jaw up off the ground multiple times throughout that show, but especially after the Rimsky-Korsakov impact.

I go back and forth on 2015 and 2019 all the time. On the one hand, I have nothing but love for BD and I genuinely want to respect the final decision of the judges. But on the other hand, sometimes it sucks to see your favorite corps on the brink of championship just to see it snatched away last minute. I just re-listened to Bloo19 as well, so I'm gonna let myself be upset about it for a minute. Again, nothing but love for BD. BD fans should be allowed to let themselves be upset about 2008 every once in a while too, and same for Cadets fans in regards to 2014. Being on the other side of an outcome like that really sucks.

https://bluecoats.com/news/2024/2/21/seasonannouncement This article is a BEAST, but it definitely highlights a lot of really cool stuff they're doing.

That book is fire, but I just hate that indoor lot recording. This is probably my favorite recording of Bloo16 drums:

Vanguard 2012 Music of the Starry Night. Love this show, and this percussion section!

Absolutely IMPECCABLE usage of this meme.

When was the last time someone other than SCV won back to back drum trophies?

Love to hear Anna Meredith is so supportive of the Bluecoats using her music. Her stuff is unique, interesting, weird, cool, and so many other adjectives that I can't think of right now. Currently sitting in my office on my lunch break listening to both the original version and Bloo's rendition of Nautilus. They're both just so good. Doug Thrower and Tom Rarick are geniuses. If only they could have gotten it a little cleaner...

Welcome to the Void was a really cool idea. If I remember right, they announced that show pretty early and I thought it sounded super interesting. Fast forward to the summer and saw it multiple times on Flo, and I was just never super impressed with it. They just needed to do more with the props and I feel like the show would have been 10 times better. I'll be the first to admit that I also wasn't the biggest fan of Goddess. I didn't hate it, but I also didn't love it. It was definitely a step in the right direction for them though, so I'm here for it.

I hope finals happens for Pacific Crest this year. 2019 was phenomenal for them, and I know it's been said before that if 2020 would have happened, there was a good chance we would have seen PC in finals. Then Covid derailed everything, and that "Void" show they did in 2022 didn't help matters. They've rebounded nicely since then, however. Is it time for yet another California corps to make finals?

No I've never seen them live, but I also agree it would go well in DCI. And Thrower/Rarick would really be the ones to do it justice. I was watching some TH music videos a while back, and all those weird little dances they do in some of them? Perfect choreo ideas. But I was also thinking, what if a Talking Heads show had the same style of narration as The Garden of Love? "Same as it ever was" could the be the new "A Chapel" lol.