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Ankeny, IA - Wednesday, July 10, 2019


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26 minutes ago, queenanne_1536 said:

Yeah, Bloos book sacrifices music for technical demand. It’s like one big technical exercise. Hate to break to to you Bloo’s designers, but the Beatles were better writers and arrangers than you. I’m so sick of music being ruined for the sake of demand. Everyone does it, but I think Vanguard has the better musical book of the two.

Still, one of my favorite shows of the season, because I love the guard book so much, and I love how the blue and orange look together on the field, I love the drill (despite the fact that there are way too much props and they don’t do anything inventive or exciting with them. Not that anyone else, save BD, does either, but there’s just way too much crap on the field and it looks so cluttered.

I felt the same about 2011 Blue Devils.  The show was based on songs by Burt Bacharach.  They added so much extra stuff to the brass parts in order to get the demand up that the songs became almost unrecognizable.

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1 minute ago, Terri Schehr said:

We used to play some questionably-sourced music in the shows.  :peek:

“Have the record” = have the rights

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2 minutes ago, trumpetcam said:

Yep. Winning only brass and music analysis wont get you in the top 3 anymore.

Last I looked they were not winning Brass or Music Analysis, either.

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1 minute ago, tedrick said:

yeah! Star Wars movie music! Hi John Williams!!!

One of these days he will lift the rights to his music for the field.

Maybe then we'll finally get the Jurassic Park show we all deserve, complete with the drum majors in inflatable T-rex costumes.

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Interesting just found out that Jim Bouton died today.....RIP

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