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    IMO BILL COOK

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    When I came to Star as a young staff member in 1985, after winning DCi as a member in 1984, I can tell you this.

    The hornline and guard were made up of vastly Indiana/Midwestern band kids and a few people from Pride of Cincinnati, I think 1 or 2 from Phantom Regiment, 1 Trooper, 1 Lancer, and a couple of Bridgemen horn players. The battery followed Dennis Delucia, Bob Dubinski, and Jay Webb to Star. The pit was 50/50 of Bridgemen and new people. Following an instructor to a new corps had been going on for decades and long before Star. 

    This corps was so young and green that the last few days before we left on tour, we put the corp on buses and drove around southern Indiana for a few hours, to come back to Star Hall and unload and go to bed, just to give them that experience before we hit the road.

    The corps was far from recruited from other corps. Geez, I wish it was. It would have made our lives that much easier.

    That first year was more about teaching everyone how to be a corps, then it was about teaching and cleaning. 

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    Let's Have Some Fun.

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    55 minutes ago, rpbobcat said:

    For those who didn't march or just want another go round:

    First Stadium you saw a show in: ___________

    Last Stadium you saw a show in : __________

     Best Stadium you saw a show in : ___________

    Worst stadium you saw a show in:____________

    Stadium with best refreshments: _____________

    Stadium with worst refreshments:____________

     

     

    start another thread. 

     

    Tresóna loses big copyright case

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    30 minutes ago, wolfgang said:

    One factor that may work against the majority of bands and corps is that the Tresona ruling was about pop tunes with many different hands in the pot.

    I'd venture the majority of music performed by corps and competitive bands is from the concert band or symphonic realm. Only one composer.

    How many symphonic and concert band works have the layers of rights holders that a pop tune might? There is probably one publisher for that composition.

    This ruling may work in favor of bands who play pop music to the detriment of those who play symphonic or concert band literature.

    One way around this may be to shoehorn a show concept having nothing to do with the source material (commonplace these days) and cite fair use, but if a band wanted to do a show of Shostakovich 5th with no underlying unrelated theme, I'm not certain if they could claim fair use. Thoughts?

    I agree with 100% of what you said.

    Here are some other thoughts:

    1) Lots of HBCU bands play current music almost the week it comes out. I love it!

    2) The Bernstein Foundation stopped giving rights after a few drum corps "mashed up" and "snipped and clipped" West Side Story back in 2008 and 2009. A group I was associated in 2010 was denied to play Age of Anxiety because we didn't have Eb tubas in our instrumentation. The foundation also wanted to hear/see the score to make sure we were playing longer thoughts. 

    3) I don't think Tresona is going to go away. I think they will get better at getting 100% of the rights for the music from all parties and they will develop a new strategy how they go after people not legally obtaining rights. 

    4) The cheerleading world goes through the same thing with their mixed and mashed up musical shows. They also go through the process of obtaining rights. 

     

    Cadets 2020

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    FRIENDS ... I have 8 (1 has been sold) of these that were made by Stanbury Uniforms recently (the company I work for) for the wine tasting that has since been postponed.

    You could receive one of these for a $500 donation at the gofundme link below and 100% of the proceeds will go directly to The Cadets (I will pay the shipping and handling personally). I will transfer the gofundme account to Denise and Justin when the campaign is finished.

    They were styled after the last maroon and gold uniforms that were worn by the corps.

    This is a great gift for any Cadet's home or office and a wonderful way of supporting the corps.

    DONATE HERE - gf.me/u/xtn4vh

    MAKE SURE you email me at ericsabach@gmail.com after you make your donation or PM me on FB, so I can get your address/shipping info.

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    CADETS 2021

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    FRIENDS ... I have 8 (1 has been sold) of these that were made by Stanbury Uniforms recently (the company I work for) for the wine tasting that has since been postponed.

    You could receive one of these for a $500 donation at the gofundme link below and 100% of the proceeds will go directly to The Cadets (I will pay the shipping and handling personally). I will transfer the gofundme account to Denise and Justin when the campaign is finished.

    They were styled after the last maroon and gold uniforms that were worn by the corps.

    This is a great gift for any Cadet's home or office and a wonderful way of supporting the corps.

    DONATE HERE - gf.me/u/xtn4vh

    MAKE SURE you email me at ericsabach@gmail.com after you make your donation or PM me on FB, so I can get your address/shipping info.

     

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