Ok I forgive the Cadets
Gary Duguay
Sis
Hehehe. Enjoy the year! I'm SURE it's not a life-changer for The
Cadets. They watched the drum corps with all the fans force its way to
a win last year and they want the win for their 75th.
Have a great year!
Jackie
Sis
and G bugles! Hehehe.
Jackie
Gary Duguay
"Sis" <sist...@comcast.net> wrote in message
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We have given them a good spanking over the past five years
because of thier past nonsense.
If they want to make it up to us with a crowd friendly 2009
production, I am perfectly happy with that.
P.S.THERE IS NO NARRATION. Yahooooo:)
Sis
enjoyed their spanking. Now all they have to do is remove all
non-acoustic sound AND put all those notes together so they actually
make a song instead of phrases. Most of those phrases are boring to me.
Still looking for my "corps of the year".
Jackie
Charlie Groh
Alot of that first production is "Prologue" from the album...wow, I
wanted to play that looooooong ago ('course, we couldn't have done
it!)...I can pretty much follow it...ass kickin' stuff!
cg
ns787980
wrote:
> It seems they are redeeming themselves for 2009.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vS6AVpl0cUg
> Enjoy:)
I see... MESS.
Sharon
PS: Man... do I remember the CADETS. And most of the people here
wouldn't even get IT or KNOW.
flu...@msn.com
Get what? or know what? Please enlighten us "Omnipotent one"
Jim Blansett
I agree with Mr. G's assessment. I find their show to be very true to
the original score - the one I carry in my head, that is.
Big Rich Soprano
>enjoyed their spanking. Now all they have to do is remove all
>non-acoustic sound AND put all those notes together so they actually
>make a song instead of phrases. Most of those phrases are boring to me.
>Still looking for my "corps of the year".
Here Hear What She Said!..
Big Rich Soprano
>and G bugles! Hehehe.
You've been playing your "country and western" music sdrawkcab again
haven't you hehehe...
Jazzycat1
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> On Fri, 26 Jun 2009 20:35:57 -0700, Charlie Groh
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> <chasg...@dslextremerage.com> wrote:
> >On Fri, 26 Jun 2009 21:30:26 -0400, "Gary Duguay"
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> >>"Sis" <siste...@comcast.net> wrote in message
> >>news:h23sdc$ccg$1...@news.eternal-september.org...
> >>> Gary Duguay wrote:
> >>>> It seems they are redeeming themselves for 2009.
> >>>>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vS6AVpl0cUg
> >>>> Enjoy:)
> >>> Boy, you sure don't know when you're being played, do you?
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> >>> Hehehe. Enjoy the year! I'm SURE it's not a life-changer for The Cadets.
> >>> They watched the drum corps with all the fans force its way to a win last
> >>> year and they want the win for their 75th.
>
> >>> Have a great year!
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> >>> Jackie
> >>How can I blame them for wanting to win back the old fans??
> >>We have given them a good spanking over the past five years
> >>because of thier past nonsense.
> >>If they want to make it up to us with a crowd friendly 2009
> >>production, I am perfectly happy with that.
> >>P.S.THERE IS NO NARRATION. Yahooooo:)
>
> >Alot of that first production is "Prologue" from the album...wow, I
> >wanted to play that looooooong ago ('course, we couldn't have done
> >it!)...I can pretty much follow it...ass kickin' stuff!
>
> >cg
>
> I agree with Mr. G's assessment. I find their show to be very true to
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I hear they are experimenting with sampled voice in the show now. It
was inevitable!
Stu
Stuart E. Rice
www.marchingresearch.com
the OTHER Mike
> I miss the days when a good show was original.
>
> Stuart E. Ricewww.marchingresearch.com
I take it you don't like Battle Hymn ?
I miss the days of local corps that did the best they could do with
what they had, soon, DCI will have a draft.
Charge every kid $200 to audition then have all the 6 super corps
draft who they want. but I guess there would be no tuition cap
Gary Duguay
using these un-natural sounds. The cadets are doing it a little less
than the rest of the dci pack so I am cool with that.
Stu
> On Jun 27, 1:57 pm, Stu <choreoma...@juno.com> wrote:
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> > I miss the days when a good show was original.
>
> > Stuart E. Ricewww.marchingresearch.com
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> I take it you don't like Battle Hymn ?
I get chills every time I perform it. No doubt my great grandpa hated
it (he was a reb soldier). Played it in junior high band and
orchestra. Played it in Carnegie Hall and throughout Europe in high
school. Heard it in a civil war documentary last weekend. Sang it in
our church hymnal not too long ago. I'll sing it with a chorus
Saturday at the local July 4th fireworks shin-dig. It becomes more
relevant every year.
Apparently I'm not alone. It is regularly performed by bands,
orchestras, choirs, and congregations. It is a compositional standard
to which lyricists, arrangers, transcribers, and performers have made
pilgrimage, Peter Wilhousky most famously, who prefaced it with a drum
and bugle quote, and later added a dash of yankee fife. It is a
marching song through and through. It is musical accompaniment for
our most defining and noble act - marching.
The tune was first a camp song for voice, "written" (paperless,
perhaps), or more likely collected, by William Steffe. It bears the
earmarks of a march, and was likely given birth in the act. It took
on a few different sets of lyrics before gaining popular esteem as a
marching song referring to John Brown. It's famous final lyrics
("Battle Hymn of the Republic") were assigned by Julia Ward Howe after
seeing it sung by a marching regiment.
So I find it ironic that drum and bugle corps have so infrequent
interest in it. It is perhaps the most relevant song for marching
ever written. But we are too busy exploring music to explore the
songs written for our medium, let alone explore the medium itself.
> I miss the days of local corps that did the best they could do with
> what they had, soon, DCI will have a draft.
Drafting staff might be productive. Unfortunately, DCI takes hype
more seriously than their own medium. They wouldn't inconvenience
themselves for such a cause.
> Charge every kid $200 to audition then have all the 6 super corps
> draft who they want. but I guess there would be no tuition cap
Not that DCI couldn't benefit from reorganization and uniform
standards, but the activity can only grow and prosper through
participation. The only reason sports still inspire and draw big
bucks (even from couch potatos) is because the audience aren't just
spectators. Many are doing or have done these sports, and they
appreciate the original and creative developments that take place
within established rules that transcend time and space. These sports
are developed and preserved by people who understand them. They have
public and higher education to thank for this.
Drum corps has public and higher education music (band directors, and
the administrators of music education they answer to) to thank for
turning this fixture of American community involvement and medium of
fundamental beauty into a bumbling Frankenstein - once third greatest
outdoor activity in America, and watched by 8 million TV viewers in
1976. Think of it. They have sold their birthright for a mess of
musical pottage.
DCI is thoroughly inbred now and getting dumber every year. It is run
by the self-centered and self-serving. They will not lift a finger to
save, let alone promote, the activity. Every innovation they have
have developed since 1972 has gone to promote marching band. They
refused to identify and study their own indigenous medium in any
inimmitable way which will set apart and prosper drum and bugle corps
from any other musical organization, let alone marching art.
Drum corps is dying at the hands of opportunistic DCI-sanctioned and
funded salesmen, managers, and musicians. DCI will die in obscurity
accordingly. The process is already 90% complete. The remaining 10%
of corps DCI began serving in 1972 will soon grow impatient with being
a "big fish in a little pond," and sharing their glory with
organizations they have increasingly little in common beyond
competitions within a medium DCI cannot understand, let alone judge
objectively.
And when drum corps' musical guests, celebrities, and profiteers have
eaten all but the bone and left the table, when every politician,
warmonger, and performer has wrung every drop of sweat and blood from
its maligned uniforms to quench their thirst for visibility, we can
begin to restore this medium to its rightful place among the marching
arts.
Stuart E. Rice
www.marchingresearch.com
the OTHER Mike
So, we agree.