From: MHUGHES@MIAMIU.BITNET
Newsgroups: alt.drumcorps
Subject: Re: BOA results
Date: 12 Nov 92 16:00:23 GMT
Organization: Miami University - Academic Computer Service

In article <9211091538.AA08159@quetzal.cis.ohio-state.edu>,
taylor@news.cis.ohio-state.edu (kurt alan taylor) says:
>
>This is my first posting so bare with me.
                             ^^^^
I beg your pardon???? >:)
 
>I went to both the prelims and the finals of BOA in Indianapolis
>this past weekend.  I had never been (my high school band never
>had enough money while I was there) so I found it was amazing.
>Some of these top twelve bands would give drum corps a good run
>for there money.  Anyway, the results as I remember them were:
>
>1st place      Centerville Jazz Band (Centerville, OH)
>2nd place      Marion Catholic (somewhere close to Chicago,IL)
>3rd place      Plymouth Centennial Educational Park (somewhere in MI)
>4th place      Westerville South (Westerville, OH)
>5th place      Lake Park (Roselle, IL)
>
>and I don't remember the placements of the other top twelve.
>
>If anyone else out there saw the show this weekend then please respond
>if you thought Plymouth was ripped off.  I thought they should have won and
>Centerville should have been second.  I would have put Marion Catholic about
>5th (BORING)!  What about that California band that played one of Garfield's
>old shows to the 'T'.  They did a decent job but if you saw Garfield do it
>like I did you would've laughed too.
 
It depends on your point of view.  Centerville's show was technically fairly
easy, but MAN, were they clean, and they had the feel DOWN!  I didn't see
Marian Catholic, but they usually exhibit some of the highest musicianship
at BOA, so 2nd place wouldn't surprise me.  The most technically difficult
show I saw was Westerville South....incredible for a high school band, and
the cleanliness of the production was top-notch.  I bet that one went over
everyone's head at their HS football games.
 
I was NOT impressed with Plymouth Centennial....THAT'S what I would call
boring.  Also, they are not exactly pushing the envelope, since they
essentially did the same show as last year, no?
 
WARNING: expletives follow
 
I went to the prelims Saturday, but will NEVER go to those finals because
of all the damned yakity-yak high school girl band members who didn't make
the cut.  I pledged to never go to those finals again for precisely that
reason, and let BOA know about it, too.  In the past, I have actually had
to stand up in the middle of a performance, turn around and, out loud, tell
some goddamn high school kids to SHUT UP. People sitting with me have ALWAYS
voiced their approval of my actions.
 
BOA's announcer tried to sugar coat the issue by occasionally announcing a
reminder that *people should respect the bands performances* and that *BOA
audiences were the best...let's prove it once again.*  If they were the
best, then why is an announcement necessary?  What horseshit!
 
I say let's give people what they pay for (and for a $12 ticket, you sure
as hell ought to get it)...bouncers.  Threaten to remove persons who are
inconsiderate of performances and then let's see what happens.
 
Flame: off.
 
Mike Hughes