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Sorry, I saw someone already brought this up in the other thread...

Looks like DCI removed the show at Univ of Delaware from the schedule for this coming season...sad, because that venue was OUTSTANDING for a DCI show. Great seating, great sound, etc. Bummed to see it not there anymore...

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He is in the hall of fame…search YouTube for his acceptance speech. It’s pretty cool and funny. Well deserved for sure.

I believe the solo audio everyone is referencing is a recording from 87 semis that Tom Blair dubbed on to the finals video when he created the bluray…I think the recording was actually from Ken Kobold, and DCI used his audio for their high camera semis videos. If I am wrong in this I apologize, but I thought I read this somewhere when the bluray was released a while back…

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Agreed…and personally I thought finals audio from Indy was not as good this year. The pit and mic’d sounds were way up on Flo, and the horn line and on field drums were down…not the punch they usually have in the mix. So yeah, using that audio is not the best, but the only option. I feel like someone tried to normalize the mix and make it all balanced, which in the end doesn’t work for marching band and drum corps.

I’m sure the source is the Flo marching vids…screen record during the summer, then rip the audio off the video files.

Phantom has been releasing finals videos on YouTube since 2021…I think the corps have always been allowed to release their own videos as long as they assume the cost of the sync licensing rights. I would expect those corps that have done this in the past have paid those rights properly. I would be surprised if they were releasing their own individual videos on YT illegally. BD has also been doing this for years, and other corps like BK and Mandarins have released in past years. This whole video and audio problem is just a mess…FLO has tried, individual corps have tried, DCI used to try and gave up, and BOA is working with it by using Tresonas Spin Network. My issue is what was said by someone earlier…the fact that the members and their parents can’t get a high quality video, and now not even audio, of DCI finals as a keepsake is ridiculous. But it appears it will be a LONG time before anything changes. Sad

BOA has an on demand video streaming service thru the Spin Network…Video, not audio, but it is still something. Not many people know about it. It costs $50 a year, and you get LOTS of BOA performance videos on demand from various seasons. It’s basically a BOA Fan Network like DCI used to have before 2015 hit. I don’t understand why DCI doesn’t try to work out something like the Spin Network, especially since that network is owned by Tresona… Also, why not try a streaming DCI audio service? They charge a monthly fee just like any other streaming service, and you can stream audio of any DCI performance from various years. It would not be download friendly, just stream friendly. I know FLO has their FLO marching radio stream, but you can’t choose what to listen to. I’m sure there are reasons for their decisions that we will never be aware of, but for a fan of drum corps audio and video and a collector since my high school days back in the mid 80s, it’s just another sad chapter for me in the DCI audio/video historical saga. I’m bummed like everyone else…

Yes, definitely! Bad part of it was - if we had known any better, we would have gotten there much earlier and caught SCV, Cadets, Madison, etc. in prelims. There was no internet back then, and we were all so uninformed, we just arrived at that time to beat the traffic for finals, not really even knowing a schedule of the day. Rest assured, the next year in 88 we got there plenty early to catch all of prelims 🙂 But seeing Sky and then VK was really a perfect way to see DCI live for the first time.

1987 DCI East Prelims in Allentown…got up in the upper deck in time to see Sky Ryders and VK because seats were general admission. We didn’t even realize there was a prelims show till we got there. Then waited for finals to start and sat on the 15 yard line because we had purchased tickets very late and they were the best available (uninformed newbie back then) 🙂

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