1992 PR semis

[@jaysummers3623]

An envisaging show for you! Love seeing these pop up. 🎲

[@scvanguard1]

Thanks for posting. Comparing this to finals, you can hear the drop from Semis to Finals. They just sounded worn out by the end. Love this ending.

[@busunit3824]

Thanks for your support and contribution to the future of 🥁&🎺 corps.

[@brown55061]

Drumline was WAY cleaner in semis, that makes me feel a little better cause the finals run was rough. Still miss these G-Bugles blaring those power chords.

[@jeffe_77]

No question the Drumline was cleaner in this run, than finals. Makes sense the drop from 6th to 8th, coupled with great finals run by SCV and XMen. Bear in mind the performance captions had way more weight back then, the perc score was 20% of the total score.

[@lorimerner6292]

Thanks for posting Jason! We were on fire that night!

[@k.coleman9317]

I was there for all three nights...it was hard to watch my PR heroes drop (I grew up on '78 PR)...but performance issues mounted each evening...

[@jeffe_77]

What do you think cause the performance issues to mount, typically corps improve each night? I agree based on scores and seeing/hearing this run, much better than finals.

[@JohnJohn-ir5hw]

​@@jeffe_77 One would have thought that the brass might wear down by finals night because, they were THROWING down for three months - AWESOME brass. The BATTERY: the performers were being asked to play a "book" that oftentimes didn't make sense (i.e. conceptually, it wasn't grooving) when juxtaposed with the rest of the music. Literally, War and Peace happening concurrently. It's HARD enough when, as a performer, you COMPETE against other performers at every performance. When you have to go to WAR against non-sensical (i.e. "un"musical) COMPOSITION and arranging then, YOU NEVER FIND a groove and EVERY PERFORMANCE is a CRAP SHOOT with regards to "lining up the notes" that CONCEPTUALLY do NOT LINE UP. Blue Devils drumline encountered some similar OBSTACLES in 1992... or, so it sounded. But, here, regarding Phantom Regiment: the drumline was probably 'young' enough that one TICK here, another there, etc. etc. etc. was enough to throw th SIMPLE and square LICKS off...over and over and over. Have I typed: it WASN'T (usually ISN'T) a PERFORMER problem. USUALLY, there's a lack of awareness on the part of the arranger(s) and technicians/teachers regarding what is giving the performers trouble. Month's of effort going UNREWARDED - meaning, not observing improvement - IS DRAINING and exhausting. Emotionally, performers (kids here) find themselves not focusing properly and losing sleep over word-of-mouth ("Phantom's drumline su--cks." hmm... do we? No way... I've been trying to making this line for 3 years and, now that Im here, we suck? Oooo... woah is me... ) Unless I'm mistaken, the percussion caption head existed after 1992. In 93, the drum line caught up to the hipsters of drum corps drum line arranging etc, etc, etc... it was, in fact, SORT of better BUT, concurrently, one might find oneself MISSING the quirky and, UNRELENTING 'wrong' writing from 1992's War and Peace simply because it was rather BOLD. I just hear a WHOLE lot of BRASS running the show in 1992. The drumline may have better served the cause simply by hiding for 3/4s of the show. AGAIN, I don't believe that the performance problems would have been solved if Crossmen's drumline was tasked with playing that book. idk... I'm genuinely attempting to share some thoughts because you asked, jeffe :)

[@jeffe_77]

@@JohnJohn-ir5hw Thank you for sharing your thoughts. I wondered? And no disrespect to Marty, if the percussion arrangement was different, or a different arranger in 1989, would Phantom Regiment would have won their first championship then?

[@AndyJestafie]

I.watched finals rehearsal, and the morale was very low. The corps looked as they just wanted to pack and go home before the show. Semis looks cleaner visually. Plus, tempos aren't dragging.