Slow Adam

1080p is overrated IMO.

How do you get better at anything (music, sports, etc.) without pushing yourself beyond your capabilities? Was the snare line playing clean rolls at 160+ bpm in November? Probably not. Should they have stopped doing it because they weren't producing quality sound? Should a beginner trumpet player not practice upper and lower register because a bad sound was produced on first attempt?

Cheese supporters would be up in arms with BK. Sully should think twice before wearing the image of a known cheese destroyer.

This seems ridiculous. Sound quality should be the very LAST thing compromised at an event such as Finals. Give me hotels 50 miles away, bad traffic, bad neighbourhood, boring city, too hot, too cold, might rain, but for the love of god don't think for one second that any location is so superior in any other ways such that SOUND QUALITY can be compromised at the world championships of a MUSICAL ACTIVITY. Heads. You know where. Please remove.

I think it's the other way around. Toronto? Do I know you?

When do said clauses expire?

2 out of 3 are domes....

Any key brass is legal in DCA.

I am running FF 3.5.7 with no problem.

I always think of the beginning of the closer in '96 - "Go Regiment"

Been there. Done that. Got shut down.

I have heard Phantom, PR and Regiment, but never Phant or Phantom Reg.

Well there are plenty of people who have seen both eras live, and I don't believe it is entirely BITD sentiment.

Whether it was the horn, or the way they were taught to play, the lines of yesteryear were very loud. Today's lines of 80 are getting to where the line of 64 were in the 90's in terms of volume. True story, and I'm not that old.

Take Phantom 1996 as an example. No corps today would DARE invest that much time, being fairly faithful to the original without any "effect moments", to build to an impact like they did. Star 1993 is another one that comes to mind. The only recent example I can think of is Crown from this past year, but they used the pre-show time allotment to do it. Drum corps arranging today seems to have a case of ADD (SCV was a fantastic exception in 2009). Perhaps "mutilate" wasn't the right choice of word, but I just wish arranging wasn't so effect-transition-effect-transition oriented...it's getting to be like figure skating and gymnastics.

Yup. Right after the 20,000 comment he said something along the lines of "But seriously, we might need a few more horns, and maybe a quad" He was making fun of the post-camp hype you see on here.

My sarcasm detector isn't going off right now, so I am not sure if you took his comment seriously.

Trampoline?

Sopranos have WAY more tubing than trumpets, and the new mellophones are much more compact. Baritones and contras/tubas are harder to discern.

I am a drummer and I can pick out a G on sight.

Hmmmm. What if judges start calling out arrangers for the way some of them mutilate the source material?

The Statesmen family really is amazing.

I LOVED BK 2007. I hope this show can top it.

Ok lets talk about the music now?