betadsnip Posted July 27, 2004 Share Posted July 27, 2004 I am going to try to be honest and well, honest. Every year I go to a corps show and each year I come away saying that the corps are not judged on talent, presentation, technique and cleanliness. This year was no exception to this conspiracy in the drum corps community. 1. Pioneer-- This corps was fun to watch. The intro was well done. I leaned over to my friend and told him that ten years ago, this would have been a top 10 show. The most memorable moment of the night was when they played for the audience when exiting the field. This was so classy, not just the boring cadences we now hear. 2. Southwind-- This show was decent. They play pretty well and march that way too. The show just does not grab me. The upper sopranos had some major intonation problems tonight. I did like the percussion feature when the basses played with the quints b**bs . 3. Colts-- Nice opener, seemed to miss a little on the style in stacatto sections. The gaurd showed moments of excellence. The drill is not too challenging and the music didn't seem to grab me, but they play it pretty well. Personally, I did not like the dissonance in the last song. Glassmen-- Who in the h*ll said this show was boring. This show is performed well and done cleanly. The opener with the gaurd is sweet. They used the whole field well. They are playing and marching with confidence, because the show is honestly not challenging enough for them. With this confidence, they will break back into the top twelve again, Glassmen are on the rise. Boston Crusader-- Oh God I can't believe I'm going to say this, forgive me Bloooo! Nice show. It was the best opener of the night, they grab you from the start. The ending however leaves me with a feeling of emptiness, I wanted to see the props blow over personally. The Crusaders are performing a quality show right now and doing it well. I don't think they will get much better though because they are doing it so well right now. I would have put them in first tonight, Oh God what is that taste in my mouth. Phantom Regiment-- This show rocks!!! They have a great brass sound and don't push the sound to appease the hearing impared. The drill and music books have much work to do. With that, I predict that they will surpass Boston and maybe more at finals. This corps is underated and deserve to be on the tour of champions because they can march and play more than screaching whole notes (sorry Blue Devils you never could march). I wouldn't be suprised to see them 3rd at finals. Great Job!!! Cadets-- Tonight one would have thought that the gaurd used Crisco instead of hand cream. What a terrible night for the gaurd, they couldn't have caught a cold. The music in this show stinks and the drill doesn't match the music. Which one would think would affect the GE score, but hold on, this is the Cadets were talking about. They could s**t on the 50 and outscore Boston, Phantom and Blooo. They are way overated and overscored. I had them in fourth tonight with an 88.5. I usually enjoy their shows and had to laugh during their performance because my wife (a Cadet fan her whole life) had the shock of her life. She stood their in total disgust with this show. It was, like mastercard says "priceless". Bluecoats-- This show is the best overall package Bloo has ever done. The brass plays so well, even better than Phantom. This is because they don't overplay which in turn helps what we musicians call intonation. The drill in this show was the most demanding of the night. The have much cleaning to do, in my opinion. The are unfortunately lacking desperately in the GE category. The gaurd outperformed Cadets and Phantom. I would have had them behing Boston though (there's that taste again). They have the potential to finish fourth to fifth this year, ahead of Boston and behind Phantom. My placements: 1. Boston 2. Phantom 3. Bluecoats 4. Cadets 5. Glassmen 6. Southwind 7. Colts 8. Pioneer Closing thoughts. Cadets show stinks, sorry but it does. They should finish in the 6-8 placement at finals. Oh my God, that show stinks. Boston will finish anywhere from 6-8. Bluecoats could finish anywhere from 4-7 depending upon how much they want it, and I know they want it bad. Phantom could finish anywhere from 3-5, they have so much room to grow and a great show concept. It would be nice to see corps put into their honest placements at finals. If the judges keep rewarding only the top for BD, Cavies, SCV, Cadets they will slowly kill the drum corps community. People will only take so much oppression before they slowly turn themselves away from this artform. Let's hope the judges can figure this out. This was my first review, but please state your honest opinion, it's yours, not the judges. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VanguardDevil2569 Posted July 27, 2004 Share Posted July 27, 2004 (edited) This corps is underated and deserve to be on the tour of champions because they can march and play more than screaching whole notes (sorry Blue Devils you never could march). I wouldn't be suprised to see them 3rd at finals. Great Job!!! Phantom is on the TOC because they won a title before.... Oh yeah, I forgot, it's cool to hate BD, because they're horrible. Oh, AND they can't march!? I agree, that is some of the most god aweful individual technique anyone has ever seen. Edited July 27, 2004 by VanguardDevil2569 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeneralTsoChicken Posted July 27, 2004 Share Posted July 27, 2004 They're on the TOC because they won a title before....Oh yeah, I forgot, it's cool to hate BD, because they're horrible. Oh, AND they can't march!? I agree, that is some of the most god aweful individual technique anyone has ever seen. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> well in all honesty...the cocky not good marchers from the corps i was in all went to bd...lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VanguardDevil2569 Posted July 27, 2004 Share Posted July 27, 2004 Okay, then BD completely sucks then. They should get last place, with a score of negative 50 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeneralTsoChicken Posted July 27, 2004 Share Posted July 27, 2004 (edited) Okay, then BD completely sucks then. They should get last place, with a score of negative 50 <{POST_SNAPBACK}> um no... don't think so... try again... but they should trying wearing something other than black pants, and do something besides follow the leader.... :P woops... sorry... you defended that too in a different post b**bs i hope you realize i'm being sarcastic just like you... even though you are a "newbie" to the activity doesn't mean you have to be so sarcastic... silly! :-P some of us do have fun around here Edited July 27, 2004 by GeneralTsoChicken Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
93Bluecoat Posted July 27, 2004 Share Posted July 27, 2004 Although you may not like the Cadets show (that's fine, you aren't the first!) you have to be realistic in the assessment of the performance. To say they should be 6-8th place is just incorrect. They may not fit your particular tastes, but they are clean in many aspects, making them easily a top 4 corps. However, if you want to create your own scale to rate the corps on your criteria, just for your purposes....then you're right on :P DW Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phan Doris Posted July 27, 2004 Share Posted July 27, 2004 Betadsnip said he had tried to be honest, so let's cut him some slack and allow his honesty to show through. :) Doris always appreciates honesty. :P Thanks for your honest review. Keep up the good writing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevingamin Posted July 27, 2004 Share Posted July 27, 2004 Betadsnip said he had tried to be honest, so let's cut him some slack and allow his honesty to show through. :) Doris always appreciates honesty. :P Thanks for your honest review. Keep up the good writing. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> So Doris is a TALKING Doris? :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
big phan Posted July 27, 2004 Share Posted July 27, 2004 I couldn't agree more about the Cadets show. Doesn't make any sense. Bach and Jethro Tull? How do those fit together? In all seriousness where is the link? What are they trying to piece together? It's beyond me. As for BD. . . well, now we know that there are two trumpets who can play high and loud. What else do we know? Ummmm. . .they can march, sort of, I guess. Help? GO SCV! Bring it on! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevingamin Posted July 27, 2004 Share Posted July 27, 2004 I couldn't agree more about the Cadets show. Doesn't make any sense. Bach and Jethro Tull? How do those fit together? In all seriousness where is the link? What are they trying to piece together? It's beyond me. As for BD. . . well, now we know that there are two trumpets who can play high and loud. What else do we know? Ummmm. . .they can march, sort of, I guess. Help? GO SCV! Bring it on! <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Bouree was an interpretation by Jethro Tull of a Bach piece, hence the connection. BD's entire trumpet line can play. I sat in front of them during the Allentown victory concert. BD is also one of the top marching corps this year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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