Jessika
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Dublin, CA!!
My BD jacket is on tour with a member right now, so I'll probably be there in my Cascades jacket! Or my BDB tour shirt!
Anyone else going to Dublin Hacienda? I've never seen the broadcast before (always performing!). Any pointers, or anything I should expect?
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Thanks so much for your awesome commentary!! The live stream didn't work for me yesterday. This helps a lot!
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I like their rehearsal day version much better.
Because "cheetos" sounds enough like "Vito", right?
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I think stripes on the arms would better serve a corps like SCv who uses arm visuals a lot...
Wait until you see the show. There's some pretty cool movement in the first production from the hornline, and the stripes do a great job at accentuating it.
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Is the Blue Devils organization cool with you posting all this information? I mean....you are a current member of BDB right?
Um. To butt in with my $0.02. Family Day already happened. It's like sending the paparazzi to a Hollywood premiere and seeing all the photos the next day in the paper. If everyone wanted badly enough to see the new uniforms, all that would have had to happen is a trip to Concord to see what we were presenting to the public. Which is why I had no problem posting pictures on the BD forums, one of which has already been copy-posted into this thread.
Here are the other two pics I posted. You can see how the stripe on the jacket is supposed to connect with the stripe on the pants.
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I think I agree. Although it's important for the whole "coming across to the audience" aspect, I don't think it should be weighted so heavily. For exactly the reason stated, it's something the kids don't have control over.
The few who know what shows I've marched will know why I feel this way. 'Nuff said.
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Well yah. 'Nuff said is right. I figure I should include what I already had in mind. I was thinking 1991 Vanguard (Miss Saigon), 1988 Sky Ryders (Sound of Music, has anyone else done this?), 1999 Crown (Jekyll and Hyde), and 1999 Madison (Jesus Christ Superstar) because he's performed in productions of each of those musicals. And then there's the obvious choices, such as 1989 Vanguard (Phantom) and 1989 Cadets (Les Miserables).
Is there anything that I'm missing?
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Hey! I would greatly appreciate some advice, any input would help!!
I'm making a CD for a friend's birthday. He's a very talented vocalist and stage actor, and completely into theater, but knows nothing about this crazy thing that I obsess over, called drum corps. I thought a good way to expose him to drum corps is give him a CD or two of stuff he actually wouldn't mind listening to.
What are the best shows that are based off of the scores from musicals?
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I saw (indoor show too).
Me too! Heh.
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You have to decide whether it's worth it or not. I've travelled across the country to march before (like, east-west coast) and I worked my butt off at my part-time job to pay for plane tickets and tour fees and stuff. If you really want it, it's possible. Look into sponsorships as well.
As others have pointed out, though, you could always wait until later in the year and fill a hole. You'll go into complete and total corps withdrawal, yes, but it's better than not marching at all.
And as for my not-so-shameless plug, BDB will take ya and give you a home. Pinky swear. :)
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Heyyy I'm finally a vet too! Erm, kinda? Heh.
I wasn't thrilled with show announcements last year, and this time around it's a completely different story.
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Anyway. 2003 Blue Devils is my favorite BD show of all time.
I'll drink to that.
And John Meehan is my American Idol.
And BDB 2006 is going to rock the faces off all of y'alls.
That is all.
^_^
**edit for spelling**
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Haha really. I actually have a shirt that I bought from the Blue Knights booth in Denver during Finals week in '04.
"What happens on the horn bus stays on the horn bus."
**edited for spelling
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OMG! That was a moment of brilliance by our band there...lol!!
Haha, sorry I posted that pic without asking, I just thought it was always so classic!
And Matt... YES. Haha. Just kidding. We all know Fresno Band really isn't that great. But we DO know how to be so absolutely AWESOME and have a GREAT time doing it! LOL.
Large contingent of corps kids in that band too. Way cool. And way different to what I was used to in high school, heh.
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I can't think of any such moment off the top of my head, but reading these stories did, however, instantly make me think back to a picture I saw posted on Erika's Myspace:
I know I'm not brilliant, but she attends San Diego State University. Something's not right.
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Fundraising is a good idea, in my opinion, as long as it's handled in a logical, organized, and FAIR manner. I once heard a story about a corps introducing a fundraiser to the members in April, long after they had set their tour fee amount at the beginning of the season, and told them that if they didn't participate, the amount would be tacked on to their tour fee.
I think this is what Eddie is trying to get at, and I think it's just wrong. The corps has already told their members "you have to pay $X to participate", and then later decided to increase that amount. It's great that they found a way to fundraise money, but it's simply unethical to do this to kids so late in the season.
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and you can generally tell "That's someone from Seattle" because most corps jackets are black and have similar fonts and all that jazz.
Especially when your jacket is the color of astroturf.
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i just wish they'd turned off the camera microphones....
Agreed! That was just too weird.
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Don't forget Fresno State in the Liberty Bowl on Saturday!
You can't miss Scott Dean (BD) as he hit notes that only a Bulldog could hear!
Umm just so y'all know. Scott Dean isn't in the marching band anymore.
This year we had Greg Potter. Renegades lead sop extraordinare. Equally as awesome!
I was at the Liberty Bowl! Yay! I saw myself on TV in two of the 4 or 5 shots the Fresno band got. How cool!
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Uuum, I doubt it. Since it was original music.
http://jksmusic.com/mb/index.php?musicID=10
Kudos to BDB for putting out such a great recording from Husky Stadium. :P
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Bump. Only because I want to see pictures!
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I think he meant that it was bad###, because it really is. I think that's an amazing idea.
No tattoos for me yet, I want to be ABSOLUTELY sure before I get it. It will be corps related though.
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Ok, not to speak for the corps and not to rain on anyone's parade,
but if you read a little further down the page on their forums,
they state that although the staff was hyping the fact that they
could potentially have an all-vet hornline, they are still conducting
auditions the same as always. If you are a quality player,
you have the potential to get a spot.
Okay, not to rain on YOUR parade, but everyone knows that. Plus, tell me a division one corps that didn't have any ageouts in 2005. Of course they have to have auditions. And of course it's not possible to have an all-vet hornline, even IF none of them aged out.
People take things too seriously around here.
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A high vet return rate can't be anything but helpful for the corps. Especially after a hornline like Madison '05.
b**bs *droooool* b**bs
DCI At The Theater
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The closeups are nice, my only concern being when the camera pans across quickly, the picture gets really blurry, and I start to feel like I'm getting motion sickness. Anyone else? Probably due to the fact that the picture is already being blown up to a theater-sized screen.