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3 minutes ago, Terri Schehr said:

No ####.  It looks like the circus has pulled into town. 

Not the good circus either LOL. More like the ones that pop up at the mall parking lot. All I can think of now is the whole "Carnies smell like cabbage" thing LOL. 

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and there comes a point when change is good, or change must happen to keep fans interested needs to be re-examined.  if change is the only thing that will keep fans interested, then maybe the activity should take a closer look at the talent of the designers.  I have often found it curious how some design trends seem to happen not to a particular group but to several the same year..  apparently someone or group is getting together and determines what corps should do next.  I've always felt Michael Cesario was of this mindset. 

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47 minutes ago, Poppycock said:

Can hear it now! Crowns flutes just killed it. BD bass saxophone section is amazing. SCV oboe soloist is the best in bandcorps. Bluecoats use of the Roland AE-10G Digital Wind really fits their production. 

And someone actually had unamped horns.... somewhere... now who was that... uhhhh...

Fell in love with the horn/perc sound and never a fan of MB shows unless Alma mater. If this is what it takes to have the activity continue more power to it but please don’t say it’s the same as it ever was in the past....

 

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1 hour ago, JimF-LowBari said:

If this is what it takes to have the activity continue more power to it but please don’t say it’s the same as it ever was in the past....

 

It would make no difference to the sustainability of the activity (if anything, it'd put more financial strain on corps).

The biggest threats are licensing, changes in consumer spending on hard media (Video and CD sales are a fraction of what they were ten years ago), and continued difficulty in finding housing for corps at the big shows. Adding saxophones fixes none of those problems, but changing the tour model and putting rules in place that put a little more reward in execution (the members) and less in design (the individuals making $15 to 25k for designing shows) could.

No one is proposing anything that would fix that.

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20 minutes ago, Slingerland said:

It would make no difference to the sustainability of the activity (if anything, it'd put more financial strain on corps).

The biggest threats are licensing, changes in consumer spending on hard media (Video and CD sales are a fraction of what they were ten years ago), and continued difficulty in finding housing for corps at the big shows. Adding saxophones fixes none of those problems, but changing the tour model and putting rules in place that put a little more reward in execution (the members) and less in design (the individuals making $15 to 25k for designing shows) could.

No one is proposing anything that would fix that.

Yep ever get the idea DCI only worries about what is on the field until it hits them in the face (eg Pioneer, Cadets)

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11 hours ago, Weaklefthand4ever said:

Oh I can absolutely see that. I think we sometimes see our experience through the color of our own lens. I came up in the mid 80's so it was somewhat removed from the days which you speak of already. I'm glad that there are folks to remind us of the history that was there before the history we ourselves made. 

There were many in the pre-DCI era who participated in scholastic programs as well. I started in what would be a div III corps, and over half of that little corps were also in the school music programs. Even in my Garfield era, a good percentage came from high school bands. The commonly written view that the old days of drum corps were all inner city kids with no music background is far from the whole story. Of course some kids fit that model, but it was by no means all. My second corps, what would be div II, was about half band kids and half not. 

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10 hours ago, EricS said:

So why doesn't DCI hook up with BOA and that would obviously make a lot of people happy.  Then a new Drum Corps organization could be formed that is built on great music and great marching principles.  No props, no electronics, no woodwinds, no tarps and no silly and often annoying body movements.   And built on a whole new business model that assures an ongoing financial success. 

The shows that I like best are always the ones before any of the these current trends were introduced. 

If DCI "hooked up" with BOA, there would be no organization to do what you are suggesting. There is no real interest in such an organization, else it would already exist today.  

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