jjeffeory Posted August 17, 2023 Share Posted August 17, 2023 19 hours ago, Chief Guns said: 91 BD has been mentioned. So I will say 93 BD. Two of THE classic BD shows! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chief Guns Posted August 17, 2023 Share Posted August 17, 2023 3 minutes ago, jjeffeory said: Two of THE classic BD shows! To this day, those 91 and 93 BD hornlines are two of the best I have ever heard live. Hands down, no debate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjeffeory Posted August 17, 2023 Share Posted August 17, 2023 3 minutes ago, Chief Guns said: To this day, those 91 and 93 BD hornlines are two of the best I have ever heard live. Hands down, no debate. Totally agree, and 91 has some KILLER visual technique. I think THAT year is when BD started their visual dominance in technique and T. Ryan's contribution to that is why. ...and '92 was right there. When a Man Loves a Woman was the talk of the season! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chief Guns Posted August 18, 2023 Share Posted August 18, 2023 31 minutes ago, jjeffeory said: Totally agree, and 91 has some KILLER visual technique. I think THAT year is when BD started their visual dominance in technique and T. Ryan's contribution to that is why. ...and '92 was right there. When a Man Loves a Woman was the talk of the season! When a Man Loves a Woman was awesome! But for me when it comes to 92 BD............La Suerte de los Tontos. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greg_orangecounty Posted August 18, 2023 Share Posted August 18, 2023 3 hours ago, Tony L. said: Hahaha. Lighten up Francis! Noone is saying do a complete remake. This is simply asking a very simple question. What show had great potential, but for whatever reason did not deliver. And Yes, you should move on! You just wasted seconds of both our lives. I hope you are happy now. 😊 You'll have to excuse me. I have PTSD from Westside Story. 🙂 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony L. Posted August 18, 2023 Author Share Posted August 18, 2023 4 hours ago, greg_orangecounty said: You'll have to excuse me. I have PTSD from Westside Story. 🙂 Of course you are forgiven. No more WSS. Ever! Cavaliers pushed it this year, but I forgive them because it was not too much. LOL. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orwellian Wiress Posted August 18, 2023 Share Posted August 18, 2023 22 hours ago, Sutasaurus said: Ima gonna go waaay back to 1985. Would love to se a redo of Symphonie Fantastique. That was a killer show. That's a great piece of music. I've heard quite a few school/college marching bands play it but have yet to see anyone do visuals that actually match Berlioz' story. I'm not saying there has to be an actual guillotine but GE scores would be pretty wild😏 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CAtenhut Posted August 18, 2023 Share Posted August 18, 2023 On 8/16/2023 at 8:18 PM, Tony L. said: So, I know we should be focused on the future, but I was wondering what show concept or music would you want to see a corps try again with. Something that was good, but could have been great. That one show to redo. For me: Blue Devils 1990 or 1991 and the crazy Cadets Mass show (please no backflip Jesus!!!). Thoughts? If any. Star 1993... I think Mandarins could pull it off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim K Posted August 18, 2023 Share Posted August 18, 2023 I don’t think you can recreate too many shows. For one thing, the skills of yesteryear are not the skills taught today. This is not to say yesterday is better than today or today is better than yesterday. It’s different. You also don’t have the same staff and marching members which often made a show a show. We’re also different and we see shows differently today when we look back than how we viewed shows back in the day. In high school (1978-81) I always admired corps that were precise and took drum corps seriously. Favorites would have been 27th, BAC, Cadets, Defenders, North Star. Bridgemen in my opinion at the time did not take drum corps seriously. Now I watch my DVD’s and can’t believe how seriously Bridgemen took their performances, the talent level, and creativity. Maybe I had no sense of humor at the time, most likely they were too competitive with corps I liked better. I do not think we can recreate shows, but I am a strong supporter of returning to classic pieces, but exploring them in a new way. A favorite Phantom “off the line” number was 1977’s 4th movement of Dvorak’s Symphony #9. Returning to that became 1989’s “New World Symphony.” They reimagined a classic. So yes, we could do a show on Elgar’s “The Planets” or Bizet’s “Carmen,” but do it differently. Include some of the popular portions, but include deep cuts too. There are great portions of popular classics that have never been arranged for drum corps. There are lots of times I look up source music and am surprised at who wrote it and where it came from, so do the familiar but dig deeper. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DFA1970 Posted August 18, 2023 Share Posted August 18, 2023 We all like to reminisce about the old days of g-bugles sound. And we should. Brass sounds without mic's is pure drumcorp sound. But it's not today sound. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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