deftguy Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 help me find a bucket I'm gonna puke! We are going to need two. Maybe we can puke in unison. Not no, but heck no on this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smj02 Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 Alrighty then... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldsoprano Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 What if... wow. Those battles of the bands do draw a crowd. Yes,they do draw a crowd, somewhere in the neighborhood of 50,000 to the Georgia Dome every January for the Honda Battle of the Bands. However, they get so much sponsorship money from Honda that they can pay the bands and cover all their expenses and still only charge $10 for tickets. Yep, it's a lot easier to fill up the dome at $10 a pop than what we pay to see the Atlanta regional in July. Of course, it certainly doesn't hurt that it is held in a city with a very large African-American population, since it involves HBCU bands. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drumcorpsfever Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 Everything has it's place. Drum corps is just fine staying far away from that kind of thing, and vice versa. Edit: Wow, a negative for that? dang! Gave it back to you. This DCP crowd can be tough!:tongue:/> 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MilesandCassius Posted January 15, 2013 Share Posted January 15, 2013 There's not any clip in this thread I don't love! The Mummers, the Accordion band, and the black college band, wow! Outstanding! Just the energy coming off each group. Fantastic! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fran Haring Posted January 15, 2013 Share Posted January 15, 2013 I love Mummers bands. They remind me of some combination of Bridgemen, Velvet Knights (from back in the day) and Empire Statesmen, fueled with LSD. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyler C. Posted January 15, 2013 Share Posted January 15, 2013 I don't think show style and corps style are mutually exclusive. I teach a high school group that marches corps-style competitive shows, but they play cadences similar to the ones in the OP's video in the stands, at pep rallies, in parades, etc., and I think it's good, clean fun. Their school and community hypes it, and because they write many of their cadences themselves, it gives them a great source of pride in their work. I spent my first fall teaching them to use that same kind of performance energy in a slightly different way for their halftime show, and I was pleasantly surprised at how smooth the transition was. I agree with Mr. Boo; show-style bands are their own unique arena with their own ways of being entertaining. However, don't write off students from show-style high school bands when it comes to drum corps. A few of the kids I teach are showing serious interest in drum corps- they definitely recognize and appreciate the level of talent and work shown by DCI lines. I would also love to see more drumline "battles" and hornline blowouts in drum corps. I saw a great video recently of the batteries from Blue Stars and Pacific Crest "battling" the morning of Finals this year. It doesn't have to be a drum/horn "battle," either- see Spirit and Crossmen. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N.E. Brigand Posted January 15, 2013 Share Posted January 15, 2013 ; ; Those Mummers costumes are fantastic. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
En929 Posted January 15, 2013 Author Share Posted January 15, 2013 (edited) Those are some nice links. They portray some very different styles of dance and music. Some of it reminds me of Beijing opera. Edited January 15, 2013 by En929 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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