I am thrilled about the decision. The 05, 06 and 08 guards worked much better than I ever imagined. 07, 09, 10... a coed guard was not neccessary to convey the theme, so I'm excited to see a Regiment "tradition" return.
I rate the 08-09 PR mello lines, also 05, IMO right underneath the very best Cadet lines of 84,93,95,00,01 and the Cavie lines of 02, 03, 05. That's it.
I agree completely. We went through this kinda thing in 92, didn't we. Dan Farrell IS Phantom Regiment. What I still don't get are the music scores.... I don't buy any of them. There was a time when you could have low visual and be tops in music or vice-versa. I think horns, drums and ensemble were all way too low.
I asked Koji about them the other night in Murf and he said there was definitely some adjustments that had to be made earlier in the seaon, but most of those were made in the upper brass. I asked him if the members, esp. the vets, seemed happy with them and he said , generally, yes.
My question is why aren't Phantom's music scores higher than they are? It IS possible for a corps to have top 3 quality in music and be bottom 3 in visual. If Regiment can clean all those runs, I hope they get credit for them by Finals. That closer is a big ol' Finger Fest.
It needs epauletts. BAD. THe baldric needs to be a little wider. Cessario'd better not be planning on those squatty little gaunlets he seems to like on some of his bando stuff.
The uni, in that pic, looks too soft to me. Regiment has a tough guy image. I don't know that this uni maintains that.
Cadets 97 seems to be the popular answer and its hard to disagree.... the demand the y had visually really highlights how hard the book was. 93 Cadets still comes to mind, too. I really think 08 Phantom should get some love too for what they were asked to do from an exposure standpoint. "difficulty" is a relative term. If you were standing still, looking at the book, it's entirely different as opposed to what they're asked to do while playing it. Ex...93 BD was fantastic, but the hardest stuff was done by the brass ensemble standing in the pit.