mad_scotty Posted April 30, 2008 Share Posted April 30, 2008 Okay, my new game for today is an attempt to get everyone's top "what were they thinking when they decided to put THAT in a show?" moments of al time. I'll start us off.... The time? Fall of 1991. The place? Concord, California. The setting? The Blue Devils design team is meeting, trying to figure out next years show. The best idea so far is to do a show built around Stan Kenton's seminal Cuban Fire album, a flaming hot latin jazz album written to introduce the instrument invented to Stan's personal specs, the mellophomium, and featuring drum corps classic chart La Suerte de los Tontos (The Fortune of Fools). Someone pipes up, "Yeah, and we can have the color guard dance on big wooden dice, it will be a perfect fit!" "What???? Wooden dice? Incredible!!" "But wait?? How in the world can we top big wooden dice? Whatever can we do for a grand finale?" "Hey, I know. We'll have the whole hornline take off their jackets, unbotton their shirts, and vogue while playing a Michael Bolton song!!" "OMG!! That's Brilliant!! Of course we'll do it!!" If I could go back in time and smack one person in all of human history, that would have to be the moment. What about the rest of you guys? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MelloUno Posted April 30, 2008 Share Posted April 30, 2008 bet nobody will say hop Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rosski47 Posted April 30, 2008 Share Posted April 30, 2008 "And it'll be a dance derby!" "What? That'll never work." "Then we'll do it backwards!" "Brilliant!!!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keymodf Posted April 30, 2008 Share Posted April 30, 2008 Crown 2004 Midseason to Finals progression: "Hey, our show is too good right now." "How can we change that?" "Well, we've got these," <---pulls out a box of vocal mics "Great, can anyone in the corps sing?" "No." "What a great idea." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ApathyJones Posted April 30, 2008 Share Posted April 30, 2008 "Hey, I know. We'll have the whole hornline take off their jackets, unbotton their shirts, and vogue while playing a Michael Bolton song!!" When a Man Loves a Woman is a Percy Sledge song...just so you know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liebot Posted April 30, 2008 Share Posted April 30, 2008 When a Man Loves a Woman is a Percy Sledge song...just so you know. Yes, but as with all music, it sounds 1000x better when you sing it like you're having a hernia. Hence the Michael Bolton reference. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Ream Posted April 30, 2008 Share Posted April 30, 2008 "let's play Shave and a haircut in the drum solo while the brass and guard does all that crazy stuff...it's an easy lick, they can't tick it at finals" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
friceox Posted April 30, 2008 Share Posted April 30, 2008 When A Man Loves A Woman was ammmmmmmaaaaaaaazing though (although, I prefer their studio recording of it) Has anyone else done such a thing since then (take off their corps proper that is....I know guards have done it) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mad_scotty Posted April 30, 2008 Author Share Posted April 30, 2008 When a Man Loves a Woman is a Percy Sledge song...just so you know. there have been a lot of versions of that one, the blue devils in '92 used michael boltons arrangement, the most recently released version when they did that show. so yes, a michael bolton song, at least in this context. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frontline99 Posted April 30, 2008 Share Posted April 30, 2008 "Man, New World Symphony is so over done. We need to Jazz it up! But How?!" "I've got it!" "What?!" "RIDE CYMBAL!" "BRILLIANT!!!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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