Woodburn Review

[rogerbaby2001]

b**bs HERE IS A REPRINT OF MY REVIEW FROM RAMD GOOD TO SEE SO MANY INTERESTED OREGONIANS....HI GOLD SMITH!

I Was lucky enough to see BD and SCV and Seattle in both Woodburn and Kelso

Washington. The BD snare and Quads line only switched out and replaced 3

people this past year due to age. Do you think those guys sounded good and

clean? Yes they did! Someone has spent alot of time working with the snare

line on visuals already and they had them al. I don't know if Ive ever heard

a quad line sound this tight and clean at this point in the season man were

they on with more visuals than they ended the season on last year musically

they weren't quite an 80 plus corp yet but the new show has all the right

elements they need to repeat: Called "The Summertime Train Blues Mix" you

were to get on the train with BD and the ghoats of Blues musicioans past you

got Gershwins Summertime and others as the train moved you from Missipssippi

to Kansas City and Memphis and finally Chicago getting a little flavor of

that cities blues from each stop ...great soprano parts that only dogs and

cats can hear and the awesome drumline that I think is wekll enough written

to finally get these guys the high percussion that the last few years just

wasn't to be. If anyone wants Ive got a video of the whole show (sorry dci)

as well as some parking lot film that shows the drums up close and

personal~! SCV has a good show and as always it sounded drum heavy ...and I

like drums ! but these guys ticked standing still in the parking lot

however their show which gopt them good solid scores in the high seventies

at both stops was great. Their show was called ATTRACTION: The Music of

Scheherazade from Koraskov's Scheherazade. (In case you don't know the

music or the story it is about a jealous Sultan who executes his ever

changing stable of wives when he tires of them...he gets put under a spell

by the executioners daughter who weaves a fantastic set of intricate stories

to maintain the Sultans interest through the "One Thousand and One Nights"

upon which he removes her appointment with the executioner) great music good

show very gray! they just need more polish than they have and alot more

polish to challenge for the top 3. Seattle has a good show "Nature's

Confession" with the music taking you thu all four seasons and is very

indicative of what life in Seattle is like throughout the year Seattle 's

drumline was ridiculously dirty (snares and quads..mostly snares) their bass

line was not as good as the division three Portland Crusaders (great bass

line Portland!) Seattles strenght this year appears to be their horns WOW!

very powerful and very raw in spots can't wait to see them later in the

season... The Portland Crusdaers were good! I mean not BD/Cavies good but I

predict that they will be in the hunt in Division 3 this year during the

finals...finally! Thier show was called something like "Metro Metal" with

the corp testing the characteristics of three different metals it needs some

serious polish but for the first time I can say that they have the bodies

and talent in place to and actually have something to polish. All in all

it's easy for you east coasters to sit back and debate "oh will it be the

Cavies or the Cadets this year" (and for my money I would rather watch "the

peoples champions" the Crossmen any day ....GO BONES!!) but don't forget

while we may not have alot of Corps out west here ...but we make up for it

in quality!! ... and wev'e got the Iron to show for it... Don't start giving

away the title until the West Coast weighs into the decision because who

ever wins the title this year you can bet their going to have to go through

Concord to get it!.............Roger

[DrBeat1269]

I just wanted to Chime in and mention that all of the Spokane Thunder's music was arranged By Terry Lack from Mead High School.