84BDsop Posted June 13, 2011 Share Posted June 13, 2011 All that...for a uniform? I was gonna say....disliking the uni is a pretty poor reason to not go to shows... Am I seeing 2 stripes on the legs?? Can't quite tell from the pic... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TallAZEuph Posted June 13, 2011 Share Posted June 13, 2011 Yes, there are 2 stripes on the leg. Also, the capes are in two pieces, and the back side is a solid blue which is different from previous years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skajerk Posted June 13, 2011 Share Posted June 13, 2011 Yes, there are two stripes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lance Posted June 13, 2011 Share Posted June 13, 2011 Yes, there are two stripes. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
corpsband Posted June 13, 2011 Share Posted June 13, 2011 The people in the background are as interesting as the foreground pic. Note the radical changes in perception between the 2nd person from the right edge and the 1st person (in uniform) from the left. Completely different looks (traditional drum corps vs. almost a dress ). The black vs. white stripes on the sleeves further accentuate the difference. To me they're definitely still trying to straddle the boundaries between traditional uniform and modern 'costume'. Whether that's a good thing or not is just a matter of taste. I was really expecting a much more radical change. They've just kind of exaggerated the previous design. Any changes with the shako? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
08ThunderBass5 Posted June 13, 2011 Share Posted June 13, 2011 First and foremost, I have to say, I am not a BD fan...I mean yes- There are BD shows over the years that I have enjoyed and a lot of times, they do put on quite the show. But overall, they are not my corps of choice However, regardless of whether I like them or not, I really do not care for their uniforms this year. They look sort of....tacky...to me. Maybe it's a bad picture but I just feel like there's a lot going on and I don't like a lot of it. However like someone else said- they are VERY good at designing their color schemes and perhaps when I see it on the field from a distance, my opinion will change. And just so you know that I'm not just hating on BD. I am a big phantom fan, but I don't like their new uniforms this year either :) Just my two cents 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrinkinOuttaCups Posted June 13, 2011 Share Posted June 13, 2011 Absolutely, without a doubt the worst looking things the Blue Devils have EVERY put on the field. Words cannot begin to describe how bad this is. Yes, I am old school. This is my 25th season following drum corps. No uniform, BD or any other corps, can come close to the classic open jackets. That look is BD. The 94-03 unis were tolerable and I came to live with them. 04-05 were pretty bad. 06-10, especially after they switched back to white plumes, were some stripes and a skirt away from being pretty decent. But now this. I am so demoralized by this uniform, my excitement over what was their most accessible and entertaining musical book in decades has largely been sapped tonight. Drum corps is not just the music - there is a visual element and the look can enhance or detract. Like I said...I realize I am in the realm now of old fogy, but as I noted, the most recent uniform was a few tweaks from being a nice modern allusion to the open jackets. But this...it looks like the whole corps will be wearing color guard uniforms. BD has the one of the richest and most storied histories and traditions in the activity. Why can this staff just not embrace that? Why must they be so bleeding edge for the sake of being bizarre? Retro is in in so many sports so why does a tradition-laden corps like BD thumb its nose at that very tradition? I am not just a naysayer. From what I heard on the pre-season recordings, they nailed the music this year. Absolutely nailed it. That show gave them every opportunity to come out of the gate in a modern take on the classic uniform given the era of the charts. One week ago I was so excited about 2011. I had planned to travel to DCI Minnesota in addition to my normal trip to Murfreesboro and DCI Southeastern in Atlanta, perhaps even Finals. Now, except for the fact that I was hoping to wrap a mini-vacation trip into the Minnesota show, I do not have a lot of interest in going to drum corps show right now. Hopefully, as when Georgia Tech dropped their traditional football uniforms in 2008, I will get over this change and focus on the very positive of the show. But I truly fear that see the corps march onto the field in these uniforms will be so distracting that it will make it hard to enjoy those positives. Am I ranting? Yes. But I really love drum corps and I love the Blue Devils, though I never marched anything more than high school band and one week in the Georgia Tech band when I was a freshman. That is why this matters to me because I see something that I have looked forward to every summer for a quarter century slipping away and turning into something that almost no longer interests me. Progress is one thing. But the changes in DCI in recent year have fundamentally detracted from what made it special and exciting to me as a huge fan. I wonder if the year that I have long dreaded has finally arrived - the year I stop caring and start counting down the days to football season now rather than the Sunday after Finals. We'll see how I feel in a week or so. :( tl;dr 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjeffeory Posted June 13, 2011 Share Posted June 13, 2011 Haha! Thanks Lance! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lunasparks Posted June 13, 2011 Share Posted June 13, 2011 Absolutely, without a doubt the worst looking things the Blue Devils have EVERY put on the field. Words cannot begin to describe how bad this is. Yes, I am old school. This is my 25th season following drum corps. No uniform, BD or any other corps, can come close to the classic open jackets. That look is BD. The 94-03 unis were tolerable and I came to live with them. 04-05 were pretty bad. 06-10, especially after they switched back to white plumes, were some stripes and a skirt away from being pretty decent. But now this. I am so demoralized by this uniform, my excitement over what was their most accessible and entertaining musical book in decades has largely been sapped tonight. Drum corps is not just the music - there is a visual element and the look can enhance or detract. Like I said...I realize I am in the realm now of old fogy, but as I noted, the most recent uniform was a few tweaks from being a nice modern allusion to the open jackets. But this...it looks like the whole corps will be wearing color guard uniforms. BD has the one of the richest and most storied histories and traditions in the activity. Why can this staff just not embrace that? Why must they be so bleeding edge for the sake of being bizarre? Retro is in in so many sports so why does a tradition-laden corps like BD thumb its nose at that very tradition? I am not just a naysayer. From what I heard on the pre-season recordings, they nailed the music this year. Absolutely nailed it. That show gave them every opportunity to come out of the gate in a modern take on the classic uniform given the era of the charts. One week ago I was so excited about 2011. I had planned to travel to DCI Minnesota in addition to my normal trip to Murfreesboro and DCI Southeastern in Atlanta, perhaps even Finals. Now, except for the fact that I was hoping to wrap a mini-vacation trip into the Minnesota show, I do not have a lot of interest in going to drum corps show right now. Hopefully, as when Georgia Tech dropped their traditional football uniforms in 2008, I will get over this change and focus on the very positive of the show. But I truly fear that see the corps march onto the field in these uniforms will be so distracting that it will make it hard to enjoy those positives. Am I ranting? Yes. But I really love drum corps and I love the Blue Devils, though I never marched anything more than high school band and one week in the Georgia Tech band when I was a freshman. That is why this matters to me because I see something that I have looked forward to every summer for a quarter century slipping away and turning into something that almost no longer interests me. Progress is one thing. But the changes in DCI in recent year have fundamentally detracted from what made it special and exciting to me as a huge fan. I wonder if the year that I have long dreaded has finally arrived - the year I stop caring and start counting down the days to football season now rather than the Sunday after Finals. We'll see how I feel in a week or so. :( I just saw the BD Family Day performance and those uniforms look really classy on the field. I can see how you would not like them up close in that picture, but on the field - they look amazing. The guard uniform is sheer genius this year as they are black in front with one white leg - some white legs are stripped with black and then they are two tone on the back with dark red bottoms & sparkly yellow gold tops. These four colors flash in & out during the show and it is gorgeous!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skajerk Posted June 13, 2011 Share Posted June 13, 2011 The people in the background are as interesting as the foreground pic. Note the radical changes in perception between the 2nd person from the right edge and the 1st person (in uniform) from the left. Completely different looks (traditional drum corps vs. almost a dress ). The black vs. white stripes on the sleeves further accentuate the difference. To me they're definitely still trying to straddle the boundaries between traditional uniform and modern 'costume'. Whether that's a good thing or not is just a matter of taste. I was really expecting a much more radical change. They've just kind of exaggerated the previous design. Any changes with the shako? Didn't look like any change to me. Black shako/white plume. Whether that changes in the future, I don't know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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