CapRegBari
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In '03, they spent most of the summer learning the show, then scrapping parts of it and re-learning it.
In '04, we didn't have the closer drill on the field until July 5.
In '05, we didn't have the closer drill on the field until late June.
So the fact that they got all the drill and music on the field.... AND have a week plus a few days to clean it.... makes me happy. And a little jealous.
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I answer the door in a sports bra.
I guess there's something in the water in Columbus.
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The baritone with the lavender tank top and grey shorts is me!!
What I wouldn't give for one more run-through like that. That was a great evening. :(
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Woot! I got mine too. Maybe we'll have them this coming week.
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Cap Reg *might* be getting new uniforms. The word was that it was something they wanted to do for 2006. If not this year, then definitely soon. Those jackets are old.
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The Doxology - CR '04..... also the corps song, with different lyrics.
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Philip Glass and Eric Whitacre. Rock.
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IMHO, show theme announcement without even an idea of the repertoire = <**>
Better to wait until you actually have something to announce, if you ask me.
it's not the official announcement..... i think they were just letting CR fans and members in on what's cooking. i think the show announcement will be on dci.org once the last couple of pieces are nailed down. but don't quote me on that. it won't be long - and it's worth the wait, anyway. :sshh:
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They'd get alot more floor time during rehearsal then they would otherwise if they used your idea.
lol..... amen to that.
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I'm with that guy. It's kind of like ending a run on broadway, and then doing regional theatre. It's not a cut on regional theatre..... it has its bright points. It's just not the pinnacle of the theatre world. I want to leave my marching memories on that age-out field. I just want to quit while I'm ahead. DCI is, in my opinion, the highest level of the marching arts. The demand is the highest, the end result is the highest, and the overall talent level is the highest. Yes, that is my opinion, and if you think 1974 was the highest, fine. But anyway, the exellence is part of the appeal.... to be the best. I'm sure seniors is fun, and you get to drink and relive your glory days and all that. It's good that people have the oppurtunity to do that. It's another facet of our activity. But people kind of jump down our throats around here when anyone says they're not interested. 100 alums pounce with questions, fully armed with answers as to why they should do it. It's not because we're ignorant to the activity (usually). It's because it does not appeal to us. It lacks what some people want. That is ok.
I have also bad experiences with members of these corps.... it's been everything from general pompous attitude at shows (snickering about the corps on the field because they weren't doing things the way they were done in "insert the year I marched"), to online tiffs. There's no need for rudeness like that at shows.... even rookies don't act that childish.
I have also had good experiences. When we were lined up and ready to take the field in a Chicago-area show.... Lisle, maybe..... the Royal-Aires were saying encouraging things to us and whatnot.
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But the ridiculousness of accusing drum corps of being marching band is, those BOA bands are the exception, not the standard. Most high school marching bands don't use amps and props and narration, simply because it's too costly, and because most band directors think it's cheesy. Most of my friends (all music majors) come from average-sized, pseudo-competitive bands. Some even come from schools that take a big-ten approach, and they'd just play a song, move a little, play another song, do a little dance, etc.... Now my experience could be different from someone in Texas or Indiana. There isn't much of a competitive band circuit in Downstate Illinois, and I have never even seen a BOA show live. I didn't even know what BOA was until college.
I think the majority of the people #####ing about corps becoming band don't really even know what the average marching band is.... We host a festival at my school, and I go to watch the bands when I'm not working the festival. I'd say most of the shows resemble 80's drum corps, in terms of design.
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You will also hear "YEAH, HAPPY MEXICAN!" at 5:57 of our show this year, compliments of the guard caption head.
Just before that, at 5:55, you get "UNLEASH THE HOUNDS!"
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I know what you mean by "cheap".... and I can't say I don't agree with you. I liked the way the sashes were before, too. All I'm saying is, I think it was a fair trade.
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Having individual vis techs for each section helps clean drill considerably... then you can have visual sectionals, and clean individual drill problems. The mellos can clean their weakest spot, the baritones can clean their weakest spot, and the trumpets can work on slides, etc.... all in one hour. Then you can put it all together for the remaining time in visual block, and the techs keep an eye on their own section, and give them fixes.
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If you showed both uniforms to the average joe, they would not see much of a difference. Because there isn't much of one. Usually when corps redesign uniforms, they completely revamp them. I think the Cadets did a fine job of making them more contemporary and functional, and still keeping them as close to West Point as possible. Every change they made served some purpose. They didn't just say "Hey, let's just add gauntlets for fun!" I agree that they look cheaper, but why does it matter how expensive they look? They're made out of washable material, of course it's going to look cheaper. That is a fair trade-off as far as I'm concerned... my marching band has old-school military-esque uniforms. They have cords and piping and all sorts of little details. They're also ill-fitting, smelly, expensive to dry clean, and difficult to get in and out of. We also have spats, but don't get my started on those....
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Its Capital (not an o) and you're wrong. :P
No one can get past the sundial. If you actually listen to the show and watch the drill, they were smokin'. The drumline and hornline were fantastic and the drill was good. I saw Seattle 5 or 6 times this season and I'd say they placed about right...well, I might have put them over Southwind...but not by much.
Thank you, Brandon. :)
I didn't get to see the 'Scades this summer.... that will have to wait until the DVD comes in. Keep in mind that we were getting pounded by S-Dub and Scades all summer.... it was only in the last couple of weeks that we began to pull ahead. I don't know why. Maybe the people above us plateaued. Maybe we started to get stronger. I don't know. Everyone in our general area got so much better from 2004, especially the Colts. Talk about the dark horse.... we never saw them coming. It was a bloodbath in the 17-14 range this year. I'm sure we were all pretty much on the same level... at least, that's how the scores seemed. Placements flip-flopped a lot more often than in '04.
Let the sundial be. Hopefully it's lying at the bottom of the ocean, after having been burned and thrown off a cliff. There is no "sundial" judge. Sure, it can hurt effect and drill, but we were hurting in other captions as well. There was more to our show than the ###### sundial.
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what is this "free day" you speak of? B)
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everyone i watched it with - all music majors or people who are involved in music - really loved the cadets drumspeak. they all said "wow, that was really cool!" even though they agreed that narration is usually cheesy. honestly, i love it too.... whenever i listen to that show, i rewind that part a few times.
and i have a hard time believing that anyone going to a sports bar would A ) loudly admit to having seen drumline, or B ) scream (as you implied) about amps and microphones.
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if you can't keep up because of an injury, you get cut.
i thought that was an accepted idea..... that's drum corps. i had a problem with asthma this year. i had to sit out a lot. i almost had to go home. i understood that. people march on fractures, with asthma, with tendon injuries..... they either learn to cope, deal with the pain (and the possibility of permanent injury), or they go home. we're athletes, and this is a sport. if you're limping around on the field with your feet out of time, you're letting the team down. sad, but true. it's understandable - if 100+ people are repping death-defying drill at 180+ bpm in 100+ degree heat all day, every day, someone is bound to get hurt. but if someone ticks consistently at every single show, or misses a lot of rehearsal because their groin pull is causing them too much pain, everyone will understand, but they'll also start wishing you'd go home. because it's just understood. it's not some horrible secret... it happens a lot.
edit: and it IS in the best interest of the members..... health is more important than drum corps. if the injury is so bad that they can't keep up, they should probably go home and seek medical attention.
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while it is true that this has become an activity for music majors (and future music majors), you don't have to be a prodigy to get in..... i taught myself baritone a month before my first camp. i had never played brass before. i kept going to camps, and eventually i got a contract, not because i was a good player, but because i showed improvement and dedication. and (let's be honest here) because i could pay the fees. granted, when i auditioned we were an 18th place drum corps, but still division I.
part of it was because i was 20 at that time. corps will take age into consideration when you're auditioning. they are probably not going to accept a 16 year old kid unless they have killer chops, because they want people with mental maturity (obviously this isn't the case for the lower-placing D1 corps). i can certainly attest that the overall age of the drum corps significantly affects how they rehearse and perform. this summer i was a 22 year-old in a drum corps full of people much younger than myself, and, while there are exceptions, most of the younger kids acted (and rehearsed and performed) like teenagers. which is not conducive to a sucessful competitive season in most cases.
the purpose of DCI's Div.1 is not solely to provide a musical education, nor is it to keep kids off the streets. its purpose is not to teach you your instrument. it's to provide an experience. and - i can attest - the experience is WAY better when you're winning. i'm not saying it sucks when you're not.... i'm sure everyone, from pio to cavaliers, has a fantastic summer. but when you're beating the pants off your competitors, it's even more fantastic.
Div.I can't be anything BUT competitive.... there is a lot of interest in the activity. they can't accept every kid that walks through the door. Div.II/III can, though, and most corps DO pass their cut lists on to other corps.
and the average neighborhood kid wouldn't even want to be involved in drum corps, so i don't know why it's even an issue. no one over the age of 14 would voluntarily slap the "bando" stereotype on their heads by joining a drum corps.... it's social suicide at an age where social acceptance seems like the most important thing. yes, i know, being in a corps is different than being in band, but their peers don't know that.
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we're all with you, man. we all had pretty much the same summer.
but this isn't the place.
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Dorectors have figured that the new style of retreat adds nearly a week's worth of rehearsal time on to the season since they are able to move on to their housing sites sooner, get more rest and get rehearsing the next day sooner.
it didn't save much time at all.... it only gave us a few more hours on the floor. if you get in to a housing site anytime before 5 or 6, you're probably going to be getting up at seven, regardless. having no retreat brought us into housing sites a little earlier, giving us more floor time. the only time it gave us more rehearsal time was when we would have a long drive ahead of us, because we would be arriving at the housing site after 7 a.m. i don't even feel like we got out of show sites THAT much earlier this year.... we only left before scores once. so we always had to wait for the DM to get back anyway, and wait for the food truck to pack....
if i had to pick between a little more floor time, and retreat, i'd pick retreat. it was awful not seeing shows..... in '04 i had all the shows memorized by mid-season. i didn't even get to see them all this year, because after we performed we hiked back to the busses to load the truck and change. chilling in uniform in the stands with my friends and being a spectator was one of the perks.... it was a way to relax. plus, the retreat hijinx that used to go on made for good stories. this year, if there were enough corps on after us, we could try to go catch the cavies and buy some pizza, but a lot of the time we just sat around at the busses, ate the corps food, and waited for scores. boooring.
blah. i can sleep in september. it was one of the worst parts of the season.
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like i said..... they wouldn't even let us leave anything there. no shoes, no letters, no nothing. and a handful did anyway, but they snatched it up as soon as we put it down. isn't the whole point of it to kind of leave something there as a "goodbye"? thanks, stadium security! the video was pretty cool, but yeah.... no one knew what was going on, and standing at the gate for over an hour while they did the I&E stuff was VERY anti-climactic. although it did give us ample time to mingle with other corps (since we didn't get the chance this year to do it before retreat) and ##### about the situation. :)
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how about how the age-outs weren't allowed to set foot on the field, or leave anything on it during the ceremony? a few did anyway - myself included - but seriously. it was kind of a let-down that we didn't get to do what those before us have done. people were standing guard and eyeballing us to make SURE no one set foot on a field, and if you moved onto the field, you got herded rudely. i realize they were just trying to comply with stadium policy, but seriously. no need to be a ##### about it. if we tried to leave anything out there, one of those people swooped over and threw it in a trash bag.
Here we go!
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Mine too. I was sadly excited to hear the scores.
I have not felt this lame in a long, long time. I feel like such a bando.