Weaklefthand4ever
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On 8/17/2023 at 7:45 PM, jjeffeory said:
Before Mandarins were Sacramento's darling, there was the Freelancers, and they played Danny Elfman's Batman...
Great to hear your take on the shows! Thank you for taking the time to contribute your thoughts!
I remember this show well. Please note Remo Drums.....the best reason to NOT play drums. This drum will self destruct in 30 seconds....
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On 8/15/2023 at 10:49 PM, PRomoter said:
Any hot takes on placement for 2024? LOL JK
have to get in my obligatory first post. Still riding the COVID bus. I predict next year I will also take vacation to go to Indy, get great seats for semis and finals and come down with hot dog fingers and Euromycitisis. Taking one for the team.
Honestly.....5th. Could be as high as 4th but it's going to be tough to bump 3 spots. It's going to depend on vet and staff retention really. I think PR's staff is smart enough to really dig into the sheets show by show and compare changes made vs score movement in GE, Content and Execution. I honestly don't know if that's been done much by PR. They've always just been PR doing PR style shows.
Battery has to get cleaner and the FE is probably ready for a bit tougher content. You can always tell lines that have a ton of folks who have never drummed together. It can take years to get comfortable playing together. Sometimes you catch lightning in a bottle but generally not.
I did notice something that I hadn't really thought about until this year. I had always in my mind, thought of props going more and more towards higher and higher vertical staging. But honestly, BD, Crown and even PR this year, had good solid staging but the props weren't super vertical. They were far more long and horizontal. I dunno...maybe I'm wrong.
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7 minutes ago, Mello Dude said:
Star Wars show. You got the storm troopers already and Darth Vader. Just have the horn line do a rifle (blaster) toss and miss catching every one.
Instead of screaming SUTA, can everyone yell "PEW! PEW! PEW!" at the company front? Would they have to pay rights to John Williams, Korngold AND Holst? Oh I'm sorry...that was supposed to be my inside my head jab at Williams.
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13 minutes ago, Orwellian Wiress said:
You. Go get on a corps design staff. Now. I'm getting chills just imagining Brandt Crocker say that. It would be awesome if they did some audio alterations for the announcer's voice (like Bloo did for Tilt and Kinetic Noise) and pitched/slowed his voice down
I just think it would be funny. You could put easter eggs all over the props from PR's previous "kills" (VK style)
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3 minutes ago, DFA1970 said:
I always thought if a corp tried to do a Game of Thrones type show PR would be good at that.
That's it...working title for 2024. "Death is Only the Beginning"
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On 8/16/2023 at 10:08 AM, kdaddy said:
A requirement these days is musical variety, and Regiment did a great job of this in 2023. Pop/rock/jazz + brass band + wind ensemble + classical, or some combination thereof.
A tremendously underused composer is Sibelius. I'd love to see some combo of Sibelius (e.g., the brass motif from Pohjola's Daughter would be cool throughout a show), Rautavaara, Raitio (e.g., some awesome themes in The Waterspout), and modern/film stuff by Johan Johansson. Bjork would be perfect, but Crown just used some of her stuff. Maybe a Norse or nature theme. Something based on stories from the Kallevala might be too niche.
Can you imagine if someone could somehow integrate Sibelius' Violin Concerto as part of the theme in a Sibelius based show? I can't figure out how it would work....but it's a wonderful piece. It doesn't build to resolution quickly enough for an opener in my head.
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On 8/16/2023 at 7:43 AM, jthomas666 said:
I mean PR WOULD be pretty &%^ good at some of the counterpoint stuff!
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4 minutes ago, Orwellian Wiress said:
Today I learned this is a thing! I love to learn about other people's niche hobbies.
Oh yes. I started doing repairs in 1993, tried to make my way in the world as a pro player in 95 through 97 and realized that much like being in a top 3 corps, there's pro level and then there's elite level. I started breaking down cues that people brought me that couldn't be repaired and 30 years later, I build cues for players and send them all over the US and a few overseas. It's good fun. Grounds me.
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On 8/14/2023 at 12:40 AM, mrk said:
Enjoyed hearing your impressions and loved the line, "Ive seen episodes of My Little Pony that were trippier than this."
Anyone who ever watched Fraggle Rock as an adult can pretty much lay claim that they have stared into the darkest, trippiest trip and that they're OK with it.
On another note, FANTASTIC reviews @Orwellian Wiress!!
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On 8/14/2023 at 4:07 PM, lawdn said:
Every year I go through withdrawal when the season ends. If you do too, what do you do for it?
One benefit of having paid for 2 months of Flo is I can listen to Flo Radio for a few weeks and it brings up nice memories of earlier seasons or I hear a show I never heard before. Just heard “Tilt”, “Avian”, and others. I heard the “The Great Event”. and wow it reminded me how much that middle 2010s Blue Knights era was special.
DCA, WGI and the like. Key in some listening and study of things drum corps wise that aren't in your wheelhouse. Right now I am watching a lot of guard stuff just trying to isolate the skillset from a watchers perspective. As a drummer I never really learned to appreciate guard work. As a drummer I never delved deep into brass. Learning things always settles my anxiety.
I also use this time to really start digging into some of my more difficult pool cue builds. Late summer is the best time to turn exotic woods over and start making bigger cuts.
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55 minutes ago, Sutasaurus said:
Not a child of the 70s huh?
What a unique take it was on Debussy. I don't honestly know if anyone could have taken a better approach to an electronic take on that piece. I don't think I got turned on to that album until the early 80s though.
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5 hours ago, IllianaLancerContra said:
Ok - Show called Stockholm Syndrome. Heavy metal fan hates Abba. His job transfers him to Sweden, where all the music is, of course, Abba. After a tortured night, with nightmares (Abba in a minor key), he embraces his destiny and decides he loves Abba.
Illiana....did you spend some time in the garden of love sampling it's mystical treats before you had this vision of hell?
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Anyone have an update on the MM who fell? I didn't see any other mentions once the finals run was over.
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1 minute ago, crumdorpslove said:
For many this will be the last note or step they ever perform. For some reason I’m in my feels tonight, I remember my last time and the feeling that I would give anything for just one more moment. If we can’t agree on anything, we can agree that when you realize it’s all over it is a heartbreaking moment. God love the marching arts!
That's why I went to DCA. Granted it was 25 years later but still....
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Finals retreat always brings a tear to my eye. So many memories....
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Thank you Madison. You'll Never Walk Alone is a fitting tribute to Dan. Thank you Thank you Thank you
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Thank you Madison. You'll Never Walk Alone is a fitting tribute to Dan. Thank you Thank you Thank you
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6 minutes ago, KVG_DC said:
Yah. Perhaps it was a tuning thing all season? I've not heard them this clean all season.
They're definitely sounding lower.
Yeah they are on tonight. The bass line was FILTHY good. I still think Cavies take drums though. They're just too consistent.
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5 minutes ago, KRtrumpet182 said:
"I whip my hair back and forth" - wins GE
Except Chumley who puts them in 7th just behind "Intermission"
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2 minutes ago, BlueStainGlass said:
YES SNARESSSSSSSSSSSSSS
Does it sound to you like they tuned them down a hair since last run? Maybe a dome adjustment?
And yeah that was the cleanest I've heard that snare moment.
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2 minutes ago, Jurassic Lancer said:
Anyone notice that the DNS sat down and didn’t conduct during ___45___?
They've been doing that since at least mid-season JL. It's one of the things to me that makes that balled so chill and special.
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1 minute ago, jthomas666 said:
What garden did this guy go to again?
Luuuuuuvvvvvvvvv
And I'm 98.7% sure I know what they grow in that garden too.
God I ❤️ this show!
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I've got it cranked so loud that my dog ran out of the room on Crowns final brass hit lol
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Best the battery has sounded in exposed moments of any of their shows I have seen. Good control and much better cold attack moments. Bass drums really played well tonight.
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Posted from Reddit
in DCI World Class Corps Discussions
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Does the timer stop if ANY section of the corps is not in motion? If we're saying the battery stops up front for their feature and that stops the timer because they aren't moving even though the rest of the corps is, then I can absolutely see these numbers.