Jurassic Lancer Posted March 6, 2023 Share Posted March 6, 2023 6 hours ago, BrassTeacher said: Ah yes, my rookie year at Suncoast. Reactions at each show were quite mixed, and seemed to progress throughout each individual performance. People generally liked the drum solo (a mash up of parts of "The Wall" by Pink Floyd, and "YYZ" by Rush), most everyone loved "Aquarius", up until the jarring ending of it, then usually shocked silence as the fabric wall rose slowly from the ground. Reaction to "Requiem" varied, but no matter what was felt, it was felt strongly. Depending upon how an individual reacted to "Requiem", "I Can't Get No Satisfaction" was either that it was cool, or confusing, or induced differing degrees of irritation or anger. "America the Beautiful" was almost universally well-received. How did I know all this when I was on the field? You guys all know that you can read the crowd as the show progresses. In addition, many people would come up and make comments if they saw us walking around between our show and retreat. I will mention that the show was emotionally draining for those of us performing it. In fact, towards the end of the season, we would never do a full run-through at the end of rehearsal on a show day. The staff learned that we could only perform the entire thing once per day, mentally speaking. So, end of rehearsal run-throughs would always leave something out, sometimes we would just skip a movement, or do a movement visual only, or "bop" one movement, or even just arc up and play part of the show, anything the staff could think of that would keep us from mentally "completing" a show. I’m not ashamed to say, I cried when the wall went up. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Ream Posted March 6, 2023 Share Posted March 6, 2023 On 3/4/2023 at 1:35 PM, fighterkit said: In 19 when we threw in the beheading so many posts on fb and here were mad about it and complained constantly. I’d consider that somewhat controversial i thought it was done cheesy. other than that i didnt care. Boston 85 with the synth for Axel F 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Ream Posted March 6, 2023 Share Posted March 6, 2023 On 3/4/2023 at 1:58 PM, TOC said: Did PR in 08, take a lot of flak for their four "killings"? no they get flak when they don't kill someone 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Ream Posted March 6, 2023 Share Posted March 6, 2023 On 3/4/2023 at 5:09 PM, Hook'emCavies said: You nailed it right there Jeff. I'm obviously I'm Cavies fan (I know, it's shocking) and I was so dang upset that Cavies placed 3rd in 2008. I was totally fine with Regiment winning (obviously, that show is incredible) but I was dang ticked off. When my finals DVD came in I analyzed the heck out of Cavies and BD. Still till this day... I firmly believe Cavies were cheated out of 2nd. HOWEVER, BD's show grew on me. Them marching off the field and playing LOUD is freaking amazing. But Caviea 2008, to me, had a more complete package. That's even putting my biased off to the side. Oh gosh... remember 2010? Goodness, the BD hate was obvious that season. the BD YOWZA show too 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Ream Posted March 6, 2023 Share Posted March 6, 2023 17 hours ago, kdaddy said: The exception wasn't to the patriotic nature of the show but the "pandering" nature of direct 9/11 imagery and the firehouse sirens directly across from the stadium. One guy behind me (my first finals!) was a radio show host on the east coast (anybody know who I'm talking about?) who said in a very NY accent "I wanna stick my foot up Hopkins's @$$!" As for controversial, I'd say 05-08 Cadets were highly controversial for various reasons, mostly narration related. At least as controversial was Hopkins himself, who seemed to relish the controversy. 07 Cadets for sure. i have a trumpet, but when i touch it magical things don't happen 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Ream Posted March 6, 2023 Share Posted March 6, 2023 11 hours ago, IllianaLancerContra said: See for yourself. sultry stuff 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fighterkit Posted March 6, 2023 Share Posted March 6, 2023 25 minutes ago, Jeff Ream said: i thought it was done cheesy. other than that i didnt care. Boston 85 with the synth for Axel F I can agree it was a little cheesy. Football pads and wooden sticks to hide his head Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kdaddy Posted March 6, 2023 Share Posted March 6, 2023 6 hours ago, ykw said: Didn't Crown staff change the Relentless ending in response to the aftermath from the Pulse shooting? Honestly, I don't remember that at all - the shooting happened in June, the change wouldn't have happened until shortly before finals - but that sounds like a good reason to make the change. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TOC Posted March 6, 2023 Share Posted March 6, 2023 7 hours ago, kdaddy said: Honestly, I don't remember that at all - the shooting happened in June, the change wouldn't have happened until shortly before finals - but that sounds like a good reason to make the change. For me, it wasn't a good reason. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terri Schehr Posted March 6, 2023 Share Posted March 6, 2023 8 hours ago, Jurassic Lancer said: I’m not ashamed to say, I cried when the wall went up. Jim is a Vietnam veteran and he thought the show was well done. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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