Slow Adam

Dear Sully, Blue Knights + Russia = Petrouchka Please?

Exactly...seems silly.

Does this mean that corps staff need to be at the show site in advance of the show start time?

My favourite pre-show of all time is F tuning + Ditty.

I+could+care+less =? I+couldn't+care+less I+could+care+less - (I+care+less) =? I+couldn't+care+less - (I+care+less) could =? couldn't couldn't = could+not = -(could) could =? -could could/could =? -could/could 1 =? -1 1 =/= -1 ∴ could + (I+care+less) =/= couldn't + (I+care+less) I+could+care+less =/= I+couldn't+care+less QED

The extra minute is needed to allow echoes more time to escape before the next corps starts playing. Did anyone watch the Colts game last weekend? I swear I could hear Simple Gifts bouncing around in there.

Music Ensemble Judge: "The marimbas are overpowering the corps at times." Sound guy sitting in press box: "Hey guy controlling board, the judge just said the marimbas are too loud."

The simplest solution is often the best solution.

Giving 2007 as the best show following a championship does not necessarily mean the poster in question liked 2007 more than 2006.

It was the 2005 broadcast. Bret Kuhn was complaining about having to write a longer drum break because the visual designer needed more time for a move.

I can't believe I am the first to mention Cadets 2001.

Tom Peashey had a GREAT reply to this question over in the DCP forums...I'll take a look.

Believe it or not mine too!

I don't think fuel efficiency has anything to do with the collapse, as GM's lineup wasn't entirely gas guzzlers. I think it has more to do with the fact that Japanese and Korean cars stopped falling apart. In the 1990's Toyota and Honda, and later Hyundai and Nissan, all upped their game, almost overnight (in production year terms) and blindsided the North American manufacturers...it just took this long to catch up to them. GM especially rested on their laurels thinking America will always buy American, and they'd always produce better quality than the Asians. Hmmm, I hear DCJ is pretty entertaining and getting better in quality every year...

Don't forget Cadets 1997. IMO the hardest drum corps show ever. I think only Star 1991 could challenge.

Haha, exactly. I liked one extended phrase in BD 2009. They should play more of those.

No. For me 2007 was tops out of their last three years. edit - it was tops by a mile.

...or the Super Mario Brothers underground theme.

The epic SCV company front from this past year...synth octave below contras, turned to 11. It kinda ruins the moment. At first I was then after seeing it live I was like

I remember reading the same interview. Modern Drummer maybe?

Write that down, put is some place safe, and read it again in 20 years.

...and 3/4 of the Music Effect tape, depending on the judge. True story.

Then they won't write a part for that voice. That's fine. What Bruckner was saying is, if a voice is meant to be heard, whether it is meant to be in a prominent or supporting manner, and it is being buried, then that is bad ensemble.

Even if a corps was on the brink of folding, it's still a pretty selfish vote. IMO of course.

Though the problem would be, any kid who is marching in one of these corps has already learned work ethic to get to that level. $1,000,000 to elite drum corps isn't going to put horns and drums in the hands of inner city kids.