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Occam's razor suggests that it looks cool. Or it's Dr Suess's Rite of Spring. Oh the rites you'll see!

Also IMO...That part just feels "off off". Let's not drag Broadway in to this ;) The irony of the statement that they "needed no words" is just so thick and delicious. The rest of the show is killer.

So profound was the sound quality in that horn line, they needed no words to express it....wait

I recognize everything. Goody goody goody. Can't wait to see it too

That Bari solo was the fantastic.

The 1996 version.

This argument reminds me of a couple of decades worth of arguments I have had about Alannis Morrisette and the song "Ironic", where nothing in the song is actually ironic. That then ironically renders the song itself ironic. Which, I guess accidentally makes her a genius. Devils attempted one thing and executed the opposite, and yet still managed to make achieve wonderful success. I don't know if I had the same comparison in my head to Waiting For Guffman or if your comparison strikes so naturally true to me that it just makes me THINK i thought out of it myself or not...but it is hilariously accurate to me. Last year's Blue Devils were great despite these conceptual flaws.

What Brasso said...nice one!

Was that the year the DM turned around and took a picture of the crowd?

I dunno? old english maybe?

The trombones thread reminded me of one of my first vivid memories of drum corps. My first year marching was 1988 Sky Ryders. At the end of my first Huntchinson camp we were sitting and eating a burger near the field at the famed "Bogey's" restaraunt. I don't know whether he wrote it or not, but Frank Troyka had the Sound of Music drill charts on the table in front of me. I was in the pit so all of that information was superfluous anyway. Anyway, I was looking at it and saw that it was the first set. The entire hornline was in a vertical line on the 50 yard line in very close intervals. The battery and color guard was around that forming a treble clef. Pretty cool I thought. I saw the close intervals and said....to a table full of staff and vets...out loud... "Where are the trombones? Aren't they going to be poking people in the head with their slides?" That was met with about 5 seconds of silence, darting eyes, and purse lips...followed by open laughter and mockery. I was a rookie in every sense of the word. totally clueless. I'll never forget that. That embarrasment has somehow become a treasured memory.

Batteries. Battery percussion.

The smart-arse in me was brought out by the pain meds they are giving after the ACL surgery I just had. Could not stop myself. I would like to see this music played with quick developing drill. The music is relatively slow and dark. Quick drill would be cool counterpoint. I look forward to this if they indeed announce this. I actually enjoy pre-pre-preseason speculation threads a lot. Great opportunities for exposure to new music. Thanks for the links.

I saw maybe 3 minutes of the parade, but what I did see happened to be this band while they had their feature time on TV. THEY WERE GREAT. I figured there was no need to watch any more after that. Nothing was gonna beat that.

I saw maybe 3 minutes of the parade, but what I did see happened to be this band while they had their feature time on TV. THEY WERE GREAT. I figured there was no need to watch any more after that. Nothing was gonna beat that.

Rocky Granite said this...and I quote... "No official announcement has been released, but I've been told that one piece of music in BK's upcoming show is This Bitter Earth."

Drum corps...has been beddy beddy goot...to me

See my Carolina link in a previous response.

darkest thing I ever saw marched at any level. Music for Prague set to a holocaust theme. If you are impatient, skip ahead to about 6:30 and watch to the end. I remember Suncoast '88 doing a pretty good job of shutting up a crowd with the darkness of their show. That was Candyland compared to this.

http://bluedevils.org/news/story.php?newsID=548 enjoy...

Caroline Thunder did that with Candide a number of years ago. WGI. First half forward. Second half. Same show backwards. Drill and all.

I marched 5 years of drum corps with 2 different corps. I was also an engineering student at Texas A&M (ironically ,not in the corps there) My summers up until I was 22 and had aged out were all about drum corps. Engineering class loads are brutal and I had to budget money and time for getting to Santa Clara monthly for camps. I was also a coop student eventually. At A&M this is normally a 3 semester proposition. 2 summers and 1 fall/spring. I had to talk my advisor into bending the rules to give me summers for my own personal drum corps purposes. I had to explain why spending a summer doing something entirely non engineering related was both useful and important. At the time, my argument was that I was only young once and that the rest of my life could wait. My advisor bought it and let me have summers off without blocking me from internship opportunities later. After graduating and building the typically thin resume of a college kid, I had references to drum corps on my resume to fill out the page. Without fail, the subject of drum corps came up during campus interviews. By that time, I was using the "learned work ethic" and "gained confidence" lines to make it sound important. Lots of interviews. Eventually a job offer from a guy whose brthoer was a band directory in Midland Texas. 4 years after graduation, I was interviewing for a new job so I could move to a new city and I still had the drum corps stuff on my resume. Once again, it came up in the interview. But, this time I had grown up to realize that that experience had absolutely impacted my ability to be an engineer. Not just the obvious ones of working hard and confidence but, rather applying myself to such a high level in something "artistic". I had exercised a chunk of my brain that would likely have been completely ignored with only traditional engineering college courses and friends. My interviewer actually had a son that was a trombone player in the band at University of Florida while studying computer engineering. He expressed concern and that he was hoping that his son would quit because it was taking up too much time. I bit my lip briefly and then decided to go back at him with guns blazing. I urged him vehemently to change his mind because the experience in music was going to eventually make him a more rounded and effective problem solver. (I did get hired there also) I am now 20 years removed from drum corps and I feel even more strongly that drum corps is a differentiator not a detractor from your professional education. Especially as music and arts programs get squeezed out. Problem solving is ultimately what an engineer's main duty is. Drum corps is going to equip you with a whole extra half of your brain that will be available as a tool for this purpose. An extra year in college is totally worth it.

The camera person actually knew Madison's show. I held my breath to see if the zoom was going to come off the bari solo at the end and show me the wedge spin that I have not really seen in 24 years. YES! They did it! I still say that drill move won the show for them. Just knowing it was coming made a great show up to that point even better. So exciting.

Ouch! ;);)

I hear of this block on Carmina a lot on this forum. I am out of the music industry so forgive my ignorance with the following question. I could google this I suposed, but this is more fun... Is this block new? I was in Shy Ryders in 1989 and Carmina was 80% of our show. And we were not the only corps that performed it that year. Limited Edition, as I recall, was one of the others. So, has this copyright issue come about some time after 1990? What's the story? And can I blame Obama? (just kidding) Or can I blame Hoppy? (kidding slightly less)