JamMan Posted October 28, 2009 Share Posted October 28, 2009 They never do parades: They simply stand still, and the crowd marches past them. Amazing Dr. Beat goes off the tempo the corps gives. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BRASSO Posted October 28, 2009 Share Posted October 28, 2009 (edited) The Corps brings everyone to it's feet in loud applause for their exciting show while simultaneously making every judge in the competition disappear one by one, until at the end of the show, the DM turns, smiles, and then bows to a full crowd with their standing ovation under an empty judging booth above. And up until then, we had thought that SCV had performed the best disappearing act in a show many years ago. Edited October 28, 2009 by BRASSO Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeN Posted October 28, 2009 Share Posted October 28, 2009 They have won contests that they have never even entered.They never do parades: They simply stand still, and the crowd marches past them. Their Drum Major intimidates every other one....Even the Troopers. Their back field conductor turned down the New York Philharmonic Orchestra to lead them. Funnily enough, with World Gone Mad I have found one of these to actually be true. On several occasions. Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Todd Tanji Posted October 28, 2009 Share Posted October 28, 2009 They are funded by a multi-billionaire, they win ALL the time, and the fans STILL loves them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BRASSO Posted October 28, 2009 Share Posted October 28, 2009 (edited) They are so good, Madonna herself claims that she marched in the Corps once. Edited October 28, 2009 by BRASSO Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamMan Posted October 29, 2009 Share Posted October 29, 2009 They use amps, not on their pit, but to hear the audience over the deafening brassline. Their amps go to eleven. They use synthesizers without plugging them in. They don't drive to shows, the audience and other corps come to them. They have 5 marching timpani, but only one timpanist. They play Malaguena ever year and nobody is sick of it. They play G bugles...in F#. Their pit's so loud they perform outside the stadium. They have marching vibraphones. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gentleman Marcher Posted October 29, 2009 Share Posted October 29, 2009 They turned me down to write their program books and assorted liner notes because their program books and assorted liner notes write themselves. I laughed hard at this one, Mike. Looking forward to reading this year's liner notes, by the way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baritone13 Posted October 29, 2009 Share Posted October 29, 2009 Star of Indiana is their B corps. Everything that you might think would make a cool show, they have already done. They shared a housing site with Crown and no one got swine flu. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TerriTroop Posted October 29, 2009 Share Posted October 29, 2009 They use amps, not on their pit, but to hear the audience over the deafening brassline.Their amps go to eleven. They use synthesizers without plugging them in. They don't drive to shows, the audience and other corps come to them. They have 5 marching timpani, but only one timpanist. They play Malaguena ever year and nobody is sick of it. They play G bugles...in F#. Their pit's so loud they perform outside the stadium. They have marching vibraphones. I've marched with a marching vibraphone. It's #### heavy. Marching marimba, too, for that matter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jedihunter80 Posted October 29, 2009 Share Posted October 29, 2009 Box 5 is not good enough for them...so the judges created box 12 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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