gak27

Yes, yes and yes.

After watching the Mesa vid a second time (I refrained as much as possible from forming an opinion on the first viewing): The hornline is (again) amazing. I actually like that they're not flying around (as much) in the drill. However, as a lot of others have opined, they should heed their own narration "There was silence between them, so profound was their love for each other they needed no words to express it..." You have two guard members visually doing what the words are saying, quite effectively from what I can see. Let them do it and let the music support it. That part of the show feels like an off, off-Broadway performance art piece, IMO...

I think the corps proper would look MUCH better w/o the flowy, half-skirt thing... Really like the new Blue Stars unis and mods to Cavies...

...and boy do those plastrons get "funky" by the end of the fencing season!!

1982 DCI Finals after the Danny Boy wheel and I looked up and saw the crowd... :thumbup:/>/> :thumbup:/>/> :thumbup:/>/> Oh yeah...I was in the crowd for your '75 show (hadn't been called for retreat yet)

One year we made an appearance at a Pittsburgh Penguins game (for a nominal fee) - we provided musical entertainment from the nosebleed section at various stoppage points (coordinated with the rink organist). I think it was '77 b/c whenever there was a fight we would play the "angry/conflict" part of our opener (Prelude to Act III of Lohengrin"...

And I recall a TON of people NOT LOVING BD this past season. Just because you might have enjoyed it doesn't mean a majority did like it. In fact, the only people I found who did like it were the [insert fan type here], and they're the vast minority. ... Both statements have the same level of proof behind them

While I agree that vision is likely our primary sense when it comes to living our lives, I'm not so sure when it comes to our drum corps experience - if you had to choose, would you rather attend a show (or watch Fan Network, theater events, etc) and be able to experience ONLY the visual portion or ONLY the audible portion?

The very first time, regardless of when or where you marched, that the roar of the crowd washed over you at the end of your show... '92 SCV 'Bottle Dance' '10 Madison opening hit and build - saw them in Akron and called my parents just before they started. I held the phone up so that they could hear it and I know my Dad was getting choked up (he marched in the 50's with St. Vinny's in Bayonne)...

+1, especially if the PPV was an HD broadcast...i would probably watch Finals every year...

:thumbup:

Our stories are eerily similar :blink:/>/> although my Finals string ran from '74 to '82 then sporadically through '90... At Marion, do you remember the driveway between the field (to the right, facing the field) and the school? During the downpour, the water was flowing down that drive as deep as the curbs...my mom had aspirin in her purse in those waxed paper single dose packets and they were dissolved...when we got back to the Holiday Inn in Delaware, OH it hadn't rained there at all and we got the strangest looks :shutup:/>/>

I remember being/marching there... My first drum corps experience: I was 4 or so when my dad took me to a DCA show... My first DCI experience was probably the '72 or '73 U.S. Open... '73 for sure since that year it POURED POURED POURED on Finals night... First Finals experience: '74 in Ithaca. As was mentioned previously, both prelims and finals were exceptional shows - the crowd kept getting more and more energized as the night went on...

As long as this thread has been resurrected and we're putting precision pics up:

one could make the argument that this thread can be closed now, but what fun would that be? I offer: The Anaheim Kingsmen

Still have one of them there libretto thingies from Spartacus the First...

Did Black Gold then get counted twice? :tongue:/> :blink:/>

My wife did something similar - I used to have Dahlquist DQ20s, which she referred to as "the ironing boards in the living room" - and she asked if there were speaker manufacturers that had models that mounted on the wall in some fashion. Unbeknownst to her, i had discovered the Maggie MGMC1 speakers that "hinge" in and out (lie flat when not in use) and are designed to be on the wall.....she was the actual impetus to spend money on audio equipment!!! I have them paired with an Onix Rocket UFW10 sub and am thrilled with the sound and soundstage...

Yes and yes... :thumbup:/> You are old school if your original T-shirts are old enough to have T-shirt "kids" that are too old to march....and they all fit (sort of)... :ph34r:/>

- runners returning the judges' sheets to the tabulator table....along with the bag sliding down the cable from the press box - prelim scores being written in Magic Marker on placards and taped to a big board down at the far corner of the field - when souvenir tables were often a single table for many corps - when you learned how to play a horn in your corps and then went to H.S. and didn't know what that third valve was for (and what happened to the rotor)?

I'm wondering if part of this is due to the relative/perceived weight that "execution" plays in each of the categories. On the surface, the music caption(s) would tend to be affected more by "execution-type" evaluation (tics, difficulty, tangible stuff) whereas visual caption(s) would tend to be affected more by "choreographic-type" evaluation. Using gymnastics as an example :lookaround:/> I would venture to say that more markdowns/less buildups occur in the technical categories than the artistic ones.

I would SO do this! I'd even get Fan Network if I could purchase/download DVD/BluRay quality videos the same way...

Yes, that was my implication. I didn't know that the Fan Network streams were available in HD; I don't have a subscription.

1. What would you pay? $50, but I'd really like it to be an HD, pay-per-view broadcast... $18 for Quarters in the theater makes $50 for my computer screen seem steep...

These are from Prelims -- the night of Finals their show absolutely electrified the crowd: