Phantom Regiment 2023

[Sutasaurus]

2 hours ago, rcawth said:

Yes it would! I love artwork with neon added. Had that made for my office. Replaced with with this one of Sitting Bull.

Awesome!

[Rocketman]

A ballad for 2023, I don't care what the rest of the show is. Just for Gods sake do not over write the percussion parts. If fact, don't have any percussion parts, just keyboard and no electronic goo.

 

 

Edited November 18, 2022 by Rocketman

[Land_Surfer]

The “Softly As I Leave You” era is never coming back. 

[Rocketman]

Disagree. There have been several nice ballads played in recent years, even by our beloved PR. Since they don't seem to want to 'play the game', they might as well at least be entertaining.  

[Weaklefthand4ever]

6 minutes ago, Rocketman said:

Disagree. There have been several nice ballads played in recent years, even by our beloved PR. Since they don't seem to want to 'play the game', they might as well at least be entertaining.  

So honest question. And this goes out to all the PR vets as you know the inside tracks that the rest of us don't. Do you think it's that PR doesn't want to play the game or is it that maybe they thought the game as it was / is being played was a "passing fad?"

[PRomoter]

1 hour ago, Weaklefthand4ever said:

So honest question. And this goes out to all the PR vets as you know the inside tracks that the rest of us don't. Do you think it's that PR doesn't want to play the game or is it that maybe they thought the game as it was / is being played was a "passing fad?"

As someone who has been a volunteer on tour with them in the past, I have heard lots of conversations that would lead me to believe the leadership feels their music and style are what people really want, and the props and heady show themes are belittling to the audience. Let the music and marching speak for itself. If you think about it, there have been quite a few fads that came and went while PR stood fast with their specific style. I think what happened though is that many of those fads led to some very good progress in the sport that are now commonplace, and PR always found itself behind in adopting those new components. There always, to me, seemed to be a little self righteousness in leadership that novelty was below them, and I heard some bad-mouthing of those ideas - and the corps that used them - in front of the members. When some of those novelties became considered innovative and were standardized, the same leaders had to not only learn how to merge those ideas into PR’s shows, but had to eat crow after having thumbed their noses at those ideas for years. It was easier to keep on doing what had been done. Phantom’s prior tradition of hiring from within also exacerbated that thinking and made it that much harder to break free from tradition. 

[Sutasaurus]

Let the music and marching speak for itself.

This.

[Sutasaurus]

Call me a Dino..I’ve answered to it before, yawn….but I still maintain the premise that “The music captures peoples’ hearts.” That’s not a bad thing.
 

Edited November 20, 2022 by Sutasaurus

[PRomoter]

17 minutes ago, Sutasaurus said:

Call me a Dino..I’ve answered to it before, yawn….but I still maintain the premise that “The music captures peoples’ hearts.” That’s not a bad thing.
 

If by dinosaur you mean you think the music is most important, then, you are just remembering a time when…

Edited November 20, 2022 by PRomoter

[Jeff Ream]

7 hours ago, Sutasaurus said:

Let the music and marching speak for itself.

This.

funny thing tho....06 and 08 are two of the best story telling shows in DCI history, and the corps did quite well with them. Granted neither were prop fests, but truly Phantom took story telling to the next level