Slow Adam
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Exactly...seems silly.
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So critique no longer exists?
"There were two other procedural changes that were approved by the voting membership after all the rules were voted upon. Post-show critiques, when corps staff members used to discuss their productions with the judging community on a periodic basis, have been replaced by more informal pre-show discussion opportunities with the judges."
Good.
Does this mean that corps staff need to be at the show site in advance of the show start time?
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My favourite pre-show of all time is F tuning + Ditty.
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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
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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.
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From what I read, the proposal only suggests allowing a corps representative in the press box....the sound engineer and mixing board must still be down at field level.
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."
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...or they could just get rid of the stupid things.
The simplest solution is often the best solution.
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I think the person who liked 2007 Cavaliers more than 2006 has a mild form of insanity
Giving 2007 as the best show following a championship does not necessarily mean the poster in question liked 2007 more than 2006.
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they had a similar quote on the ESPN telecast...in fact, I think it was the drum guy who complained about having to come up with x amount of counts of music to fit a visual thought
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.
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I can't believe I am the first to mention Cadets 2001.
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Tom Peashey had a GREAT reply to this question over in the DCP forums...I'll take a look.
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Ah...my favorite Cadet show ever!
Believe it or not mine too!
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Gee, I was trying to find something to defend GM, but I can't. Your analogy was spot on, IMO. And you're right, DCI isn't getting a bailout (sans Chase). But the analogy of the car companies doesn't overlay well on DC, IMO. Outsiders (gov't, enviro groups, beaurocrats, etc) tried to influence GM to build certain kinds of cars (we all wanted hot rods and trucks, remember?). At the same time these same people started to edumacate us about global warming
and why we should buy a Prius. When enough people got the global warming religion we stopped buying gas hogs and GM was caught flat-footed.In DC the FANS are the car buyers AND WE WANT HORSEPOWER! Problem is, the executive staff judges "quality" based on their own influence from the drum corps gods (judges) or whomever, and they forgot that the fans don't WANT to buy a Prius. We, buying customers, stop buying the company's product and move on to DCA or Fleetwood Mac or NASCAR, and DCI will be caught flat footed.
Jeesh, that sounds an awful lot like what you just said! Did I just have an argument with myself and end up agreeing with you?
Left to its own this WILL (not yet!) repeat GM's experience unless: 1) there are more Prius buyers out there than we gas-hogs think, willing to buy the new product, or 2)the executive staff hears the greater roar from the gas hogs and says to the member corps "Play to the fans. We'll figure out a way to judge how you do it."
Or we could just continue to have a bunch of whiny, old folks grousing about something they can't change because too many youngin's are drowning out their roar.
Uhh, good post, dustyboo.
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...
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"Generally accepted fact"?? Really?? I have a hard time believing that there have been any shows "harder" [sic] than Star 91 & 93, Cadets 92 & 93, SCV 99.
Don't forget Cadets 1997. IMO the hardest drum corps show ever. I think only Star 1991 could challenge.
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Me too- although I didn't like 08 almost at all, and 09 even less, so maybe that's not a fair comparison.
Haha, exactly.
I liked one extended phrase in BD 2009.
They should play more of those.
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Does anyone else feel that, of the last three BD shows, the one that came in second place was the best of them?
No. For me 2007 was tops out of their last three years.
edit - it was tops by a mile.
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The only time I want to hear loud synths is if a corps does AxelF or the synth part for The Final Countdown.
...or the Super Mario Brothers underground theme.
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I love synths under these condictions:
-) octave BELOW the contras (but still not overpowering them)
This is a really interesting idea...something that I don't think I've yet heard, but -- as long as they don't have the synths turned up to '11' -- I'd probably be OK with.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 
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Yeah. I seem to remember him saying in an interview that he was aware of drum corps and admired it, but that he had not marched.
I remember reading the same interview. Modern Drummer maybe?
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In 20 years from now the activity will be different, maybe not what I had originally fallen in love but things change and I wouldn't want to be stubborn and selfish to believe that an activity should change just so it pleases me. But I know that I'll always be a fan and frankly don't think I'd find myself dreaming of the good old drum corps days when blah blah was better and blah blah was louder.
Write that down, put is some place safe, and read it again in 20 years.
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don't forget there is so much more to the guard than the acutal guard caption. they can be half of a GE visual tape as well
...and 3/4 of the Music Effect tape, depending on the judge. True story.
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What if the arranger doesn't intend for a voice to be heard during a specific passage?
Then they won't write a part for that voice.
Or maybe heard but with the emphasis on another 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.
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I personally feel (notice, that indicates that this is my opinion here) that voting for the drum corps is a bit selfish of drum corps fans. Unless one of these corps is seriously on the brink of folding (which I have heard no news of) I think I'd rather donate to the american cancer society, national autism association, Breast cancer foundation..etc....
Don't get me wrong, I would LOVE for all the corps involved in this to win or be in the top 5. I just can't morally vote for them based on the other organizations in the running
Even if a corps was on the brink of folding, it's still a pretty selfish vote. IMO of course.
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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.
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