KeyboardGuy Posted August 15, 2010 Share Posted August 15, 2010 ... and the dismantling of DCI can now begin... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gold_Bond Posted August 15, 2010 Share Posted August 15, 2010 I am not directing this at the OP unless he fits the demographic, but those of you that laughed at us in 2003 with the DCM fiasco, WE TOLD YOU SO! I hate being right. I just wonder who the G7 will start feeding on when this new-and-improved model falters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RBarron10 Posted August 15, 2010 Share Posted August 15, 2010 Judging by the overwhelming response I've read here on DCP ... if those show's are the best that the G7 can offer, I don't thnk too many people will actually be buying tickets. Maybe the guys in the green shirts might go and see them. Oh wait, they get in free. I want to be entertained ... IMO the following corps suceeded in doing just that Cadets, Blue Star, and Madison with Madison being the most entertaining. The rest I would not be interested in. Just like buying a record ... some times the critic's have it wrong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris ncsu Posted August 15, 2010 Share Posted August 15, 2010 There's a whole separate forum for this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hrothgar15 Posted August 15, 2010 Share Posted August 15, 2010 Judging by the overwhelming response I've read here on DCP ... if those show's are the best that the G7 can offer, I don't thnk too many people will actually be buying tickets. Maybe the guys in the green shirts might go and see them. Oh wait, they get in free. I want to be entertained ... IMO the following corps suceeded in doing just that Cadets, Blue Star, and Madison with Madison being the most entertaining. The rest I would not be interested in. Just like buying a record ... some times the critic's have it wrong. You left out Crown. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmFlag61 Posted August 15, 2010 Share Posted August 15, 2010 ... and the dismantling of DCI can now begin... Or perhaps the rebuilding, Jim Jones/Troopers & Don Warren/Cavaliers are usually credited with the creation of "The Combine" (soon to become DCI) for the betterment of ALL Corps subject, at that time, to the dictates of the AL & VFW. How or if they succeeded, I leave to you. Perhaps I don't understand the motivation for this G7 move. And while I understand that my ignorance is no excuse. I have an INTENSE gut reaction to some of the Greatest Corps in history abandoning their "less accomplished" Comrades. In my day, it was all about competing and hopefully WINNING! Now it seems to be all about the Bucks. I'm old, but still willing to be educated. Help me get over this "Sgt. Hopkins Lowly Woodwinds Band" prejudice & show me how this situation improves and grows the Drum Corps experience. BTW, Congratulations, Blue Devils! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeyboardGuy Posted August 16, 2010 Author Share Posted August 16, 2010 Or perhaps the rebuilding, Jim Jones/Troopers & Don Warren/Cavaliers are usually credited with the creation of "The Combine" (soon to become DCI) for the betterment of ALL Corps subject, at that time, to the dictates of the AL & VFW. How or if they succeeded, I leave to you.Perhaps I don't understand the motivation for this G7 move. And while I understand that my ignorance is no excuse. I have an INTENSE gut reaction to some of the Greatest Corps in history abandoning their "less accomplished" Comrades. In my day, it was all about competing and hopefully WINNING! Now it seems to be all about the Bucks. I'm old, but still willing to be educated. Help me get over this "Sgt. Hopkins Lowly Woodwinds Band" prejudice & show me how this situation improves and grows the Drum Corps experience. BTW, Congratulations, Blue Devils! In the "olden days", corps also banded together to assist the less-fortunate corps in their organizations. If the G-7 goes through, there won't be any less-fortunate corps, thus no reason to help... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hup234 Posted August 17, 2010 Share Posted August 17, 2010 Jim Jones/Troopers & Don Warren/Cavaliers are usually credited with the creation of "The Combine" (soon to become DCI) for the betterment of ALL Corps subject, at that time, to the dictates of the AL & VFW. How or if they succeeded, I leave to you. The word credited as used in discussing the creation of the Combine is also subject to discussion. As to the Combine: it never pretended to be interested in the betterment of all corps. That was an invitation-only in-group club from which emanated the term crap corps, a phrase used to describe every D&BC that wasn't to be invited into their elitist little cluster-flock of backslappers. (Have you heard the story of where and how the Combine idea first came up? It wasn't at a formal banquet or a panelled boardroom, but somehow in retrospect it seems most appropriate.) That was indeed The Year Drum Corps Died - not so much because of the cavorting clowns and cartoon figures out there, but that the lesson of George Orwell's Animal Farm had hit home: if all drum corps were to be considered equal and to be judged on their merits, some were now by their own definition more equal. As you put it so succinctly: I have an INTENSE gut reaction to some of the Greatest Corps in history abandoning their "less accomplished" Comrades. In my day, it was all about competing and hopefully WINNING! Now it seems to be all about the Bucks. Yes. It was then, too. We sure could have used you in 1971. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimbreDeBrass Posted August 27, 2010 Share Posted August 27, 2010 (edited) Yeah, sure the G-7 is intact.... by One TENTH of a point if anyone doesn't obviously see the politics involved in this, please please please let me know there are a few names I would like to mention but won't.... Edited August 27, 2010 by TimbreDeBrass Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thirdcoast Posted October 2, 2010 Share Posted October 2, 2010 I am not directing this at the OP unless he fits the demographic, but those of you that laughed at us in 2003 with the DCM fiasco, WE TOLD YOU SO!I hate being right. I just wonder who the G7 will start feeding on when this new-and-improved model falters. The blue stars. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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