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backfield boundry penalty. 3 of em.

I was die hard against amplification when it first came out, but I have to tell you I have seen some things that are slightly changing my mind about some of it. I don't like the idea of woodwinds on a field...period. They weren't designed to project well outside and the brass instruments drum corps use (bflat and g) are. That said, I love the musicality added to a drum corps show by today's front ensembles. But these concert marimbas and vibraphones weren't designed to project well outside either. I started changing my mind about amplifying them when I saw the Blue Devils at the Jax State show a few years back. These performers could focus more on muscality and performance rather than whacking the crap out of their keyboards with hard mallets just to get the sound to project to the box. It really added to the performance - it wasn't the focus of it, but it made it better. I don't like narration. I think it's a cop-out to tell the audience what's going on on the field rather than getting the point across through the performance. I'm not an opera fan, but you can understand what the storyline is in an opera even though the words are in a language you don't understand. Now THAT is performing. Santa Clara did an awesome job when they did Russian Christmas Music back in the 80's. Statesmen did a great job with their Phantom of the Opera show a few years back. It can be done, but no one said it was easy...That's what makes it cool to me. Regarding the plasma screens...I think that would be kinda cool. B)

Hear Hear! Well said.

This makes perfect sense in this case. As it is, it doesn't make much difference as long as the two were properly ranked, and ranking doesn't seem to be the issue here.

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Well, yes they would only be allowed to field 65 members. But the main point being they cannot do that at the last minute at finals week. If I'm not mistaken, a corps has to declare itself as Class A somewhere around July or so...

I think the poster was referring to an open class corps with smaller numbers not being able to "drop down" and declare themselves Class A competitors. You have to declare your corps as Class A earlier in the season. That doesn't mean that a Class A corps cannot compete in finals as open class; they can if they choose to and if they had high enough prelims scores to get them into the night show on Sunday.

This guy competely read my mind. All-Age corps and the DCA community have to look at this situation from a pure marketing standpoint. Don't alienate the biggest segment you want to recruit from. DCA corps would love to have DCI ageouts. Granted, DCA is an excellent starting point for young people who want to get formal training before going on tour with a Jr Corps, but it's pretty safe to assume DCA would be getting the bulk of the benefit regarding marching time from well trained, good musicians after they age out....years and years worth. I see finger pointing from DCA and DCI people and it seems a bit silly......Phrases like "You started it...No YOU started it.." and "Neener Neener we're better than you" come to mind on both sides. The simple fact is regardless of who is right, who is wrong, what is better, blah blah blah....., DCA has tons more to gain by having a good relationship with DCI. It's difficult to express dislike of DCI shows, amplification, Hoppy, etc., without jr. corps members taking offense, even if it is said repeatedly that no one is talking about the members themselves. Of course DCI Staff members are going to fight back when members talk to them about what they hear DCA people saying about DCI. It is only natural for them to do so. The best thing for DCA and DCA supporters to do is to follow the old adage: "If you can't say anything good, don't say anything at all". DCA people need to take the high road and simply continue to extend the open invitation for jr. members to join the DCA ranks when they age out. We'll be like Motel 6 and leave the light on for them.

w/Stp: sans stupid

I'd like to see it. Listening back to line up with horns and drums 30 yards backfield aint easy. Its quite different from having monitors at your feet. I'm sure he can do it, but I'm just sayin it aint easy. Besides, if a corps was going to do something like that, they'd have to basically design the show, or at least a part of the show around him in order for it to make much of an impact.

Ahhh...Grasshopper.....but you still have much to learn....You cannot ###### the pinto bean from my hand. b**bs

George there is no "bridge" left to burn... The only thing remaining is a smoking pile of rubble, and DCA is not the group standing there holding the torch.

We do not use roto toms. These are custom built tenors. They do have a shell, but it is shallow. We compared the resonance and sound to the Yamaha tenors we have used in the past, and there was virtually no difference in them. We have been toying with the tuning on the tenors, going from higher to lower pitches. That is possibly what the reviewer did not like.

Barbara Maroney from Garfield in 83-84 had a sound like that. This guy is in good company. Hats off to him. BTW G-men's percussion was off the hook also from opener to closer....My favorite book of the year.

Same thing happened to us in our section. We were sitting right in the middle of a group of freshman band students who seemed more interested in squirming, giggling and talking about their upcoming band camp than watching the show. Their director was a few feet away and never said a word to them; it was dissappointing.