Privileged to say I got to see their shows from 2013-2017 live at least once, and even though I’m a hardcore Cavies fan, Crown holds a special place in my heart. Brass is their caption to loose every year imo.
Even a guy like me, who has never seen this before nor heard of Carolina Crown, no offense, can sit here and enjoy this video so much that he has to sit up and type into this box.... Excellant to see you guys work... just excellent! WOW!!! Now he will click on the "SUBSCRIBE" button above because he "REALLY" appreciated this video. LOL. THANKS!
I know I just posted, but listen guys. I really hope some of you guys reading this are members of this group. I just have to add that I appreciated the hard work you put into that show and just the enjoyment of watching this on UA-cam, that if I could drive somewhere and watch you guys perform it live again, I would really try to make that happen. Awesome work!
James Britt Medea is only one musical thread in this show's ending, not the plot. Medea is an entirely different revenge story about a woman battling society's male domination, not some random robber in a holdup. Remember that this show premiered days after the Pulse Nightclub shooting, and the show coordinator practically fainted in the interview in the live broadcast. It was the big pink elephant in the room. He knew their show was inexplicably violent and without depth without the final ending. Besides, simple revenge isn't enough story for a western, even classic Westerns. The revised ending made this show culturally relevant and that added depth of concept. Without the new ending, the plot of this western is worthy of only a reader-submitted short story in the back of NRA magazine-- simplistic Tom and Jerry cartoon revenge to appeal to provincial paranoids and neurotic city cops. A response like yours indicate that you will never succeed in the arts because you have no soul, no understanding of the understructure of story, no cultural awareness, no sense of humanity, no understanding of depth of concept. You have no awareness of a protagonist's inner battle, the arc of a character coming full circle from desperate rage, and his personal challenge to take the next step and change the world, entire. That's what a protagonist does. It's a component of classic storytelling. The storyteller's objective is to spin the character around 360 degrees so that we can see his full complexity of and his transformation. Not just blow somebody's head off. That's shallow and ignorant. That's what you'd do because you're a rural simpleton. Breaking the circle of violence is what the entire show is based around, not just the ending, if you were smart enough to see the clues. The cacti in the beginning are in the "don't' shoot" pose from Ferguson, a commentary on out of control police brutality and gun violence on unarmed citizens. One of the drill sets is the shape of a gun-- the focus of the entire piece-- the relevant cultural issue at hand. (How dumb are you?) The end has the hornline joining hands like the march on Ferguson. He meets the dancer who gives him the hat to remind him of his father's guidance. It becomes his "crown". (If the father wanted revenge he would have used his ghostly powers to hold the crook down while his son shot him-- that'd be ridiculous.) What's sad is that you're living your life for guns-- you're even unable to watch a simple drum corps show and understand it. That's what's sad about Trump loving gun owners. You're so dimwitted that you miss out on basic tenets of human understanding and meaning in your life and art. It's really a cancer that's affecting your brain. It makes normal people wonder if you even have running water, or if you even put your guns in a safe so your kids aren't harmed. Do you even have teeth? Do you own guns because you're afraid someone is going to steal your outhouse? Crown's muddled drill sets on the ending cost them. The drill seems sort of unnaturally compacted and shoved toward the front sideline. The ending drill lacked fluidity, and lacked integration with the final motion of the carriage, if anything.
This probably isn't helpful in the slightest, but there is a big shared folder of a bunch of percussion parts, so there may be a trumpet folder somewhere
For smart audience members, here's an analysis of what makes the Relentless show design so brilliant and effective. By the way, show design isn't taught in drum corps, for a variety of reasons. 1) Defensive designers don't want criticism, so the fewer marchers know about theme, understructure, and cohesion, the better. 2) Change suggestions impact the show massively, so designers want to avoid them. 3) Defensive designers are rushed for time because they're working on designing multiple multiple shows at once in order to make a living. 4) Designers often don't want to explain what their artistic impetus was for the show subject or theme because it's often personally revealing 5) Show designers don't want to discuss their designs because sometimes there's no substance at all, and they're embarrassed. 6) Sometimes for 401-c3 tax-exemption reasons, designers don't want to talk about the political impetus behind shows, like Santa Clara's Babylon which dealt directly with Trump's vile, inhuman, racist handling of Mexican immigration issues. 7) Most instructors make their living at teaching execution, not the meaning or development behind the show, so execution becomes the supreme focus of the corps. 8) A hyper-focus on execution keeps designers safe-- there's no time to answer questions about the nature and purpose of the show subject and theme and whether it makes sense. 9) Badly designed shows are called "Concept Shows", an excuse used by rushed designers to describe a show that was ill-planned, incongruent, sloppy, wandering and without a meaningful ending, and without emotional resonance. Often weak designers hide behind abstraction as an excuse-- nothing needs to be explained. If your show has a million dollar annual budget, you better be able to explain it, even if the elements are random or subconsciously derived. The show design for Relentless was a brilliant social commentary on America's cycle of gun violence. The design process began as a simple Spaghetti Western-style movie, the plot of which ended up addressing the biggest social issue of our time-- the epidemic of gun violence that is besieging our nation. Just before the show premiered, the Pulse Nightclub shooting happened, killing scores of people in Miami. The live video production crew at the DCI premiere was instructed to avoid showing a closeup of the execution style murder at the beginning and end of the show, for obvious reasons. The show coordinator was white as a sheet as he introduced the show, fearing negative feedback about the show's intense gun violence. What elements of design made Relentless so brilliant? By the end of the season, planned in advance or not, the Relentless revised ending was modified to include an intervention by the girlfriend, convincing the young man not to kill his father's murderer. The young man breaks the cycle of violence, and saves the world entire. This new ending provided substance to an otherwise shallow tit-for-tat story, which wouldn't be complex enough for even a low budget Hollywood film. The new ending offered three dimension for its central character, a boy avenging his father's murder, and who recognizes the larger implications of his actions. Laughably, there were tons of audience members who cheered the original ending, applauding an ignorant retribution for the revenge killing-- a shocking state of our society and gun owners in America. The applause was at least muted, and at least there wasn't a standing ovation-- it was clear to most thinking audiences that a revenge killing isn't a whole plot-- it's just the beginning. The wider message was clear-- changing the story at the end of the season to break the cycle of violence suddenly vaulted the show's value and meaning. Planned or unplanned in the early season, the eventual revised ending was universal and profound. There are five attributes of well designed shows. None of them deal with execution. If you're a marcher, you've never heard these before. This is new information. This is the behind the scenes information no one will teach you about what you're performing and why. Use these attributes as a guideline to analyze why your show isn't doing well with GE judges. 1) Cohesion. Elements in the show should "belong". The color palette, the movement, the ending, the shapes, the forms, lines, the musical selections, the meaning underneath, the style, the choreography, the ending, the marketing, and every design choice should be explainable, even if it's abstract, intensely personal, or subconsciously derived. In a balanced production, every piece fits the theme, and the production has a clear point of focus. In Relentless, every element tied into the theme of ending the cycle of gun violence-- the gun drill set, the full guard spinning only rifles, the cactus "don't shoot" poses at the beginning, the joining of hands like the Ferguson march, the violence of Medea, all tied in. Everything ties in. 2) Universality. A show should have some accessible human truth underneath that we all share. That quest for freedom, or that playful love for storybook icons, or how we wish the fat lady singing would get eaten by the shark, or the "bloom" underneath Copland's Appalachian Spring. Something that is quintessentially human and shared and understood by all of us. This provides depth of concept and longevity. 3) Uniqueness. Your corp's take on this work belongs to your corps, alone. It's never been done this way. Your point of view on this work should be uniquely your own, which gives your work depth of character. When you break from convention, there's a profound reason underneath that supports and parallels why you're doing this production this way. Originality is key. 4) Authenticity. Performers need to own the material, and own the reason for performing it. Not just "these are my ride or die friends for life because we had sex in a sleeping bag on a gym floor." In the best productions, the content of the show comes from a place of personal need to get the story told, or to share an observation about life or the way we imagine it. The performer should genuinely be tied to the content, or grasp it in a convincing, integrated way. You own the material. 5) Emotion. A show needs to continually heighten in stakes, it needs to have an arc, and a satisfying ending with a reaction from the audience-- all aspects of professional productions. The designer needs to exhibit a range of expression, and draw bone deep reactions from the crowd in an intentional, shared experience that resolves in some way by the end. Music has a planned, architected emotional understructure, so should the visual production. This is what goes on behind the scenes of your show design. Learn it.
DefinitelyNotTina, he was the "bad guy" he was the one in the beginning who shot the guy and who died in the end. When they actually wore their uniforms he wore a different outfit when he was playing the bad guy. It was just to make him more visible.
Tina Chan if it's the guy who seems to follow the drum line around that is a percussion instructor who was working with them. I do not remember his name but I was at the camp this was filmed at the I know he was working with percussion.
Sounds and looks a tad messy. Is it just the recording? Only time I’ve ever heard them this messy. Everything else sounds amazing. Tone, tuning, blending are amazing. Just a little off on clarity. Guess I could be crazy
carolina crown do be fire tho
Privileged to say I got to see their shows from 2013-2017 live at least once, and even though I’m a hardcore Cavies fan, Crown holds a special place in my heart. Brass is their caption to loose every year imo.
This was the LOUDEST live hit I've ever heard. Possibly the best impact in Crowns history
Even a guy like me, who has never seen this before nor heard of Carolina Crown, no offense, can sit here and enjoy this video so much that he has to sit up and type into this box.... Excellant to see you guys work... just excellent! WOW!!! Now he will click on the "SUBSCRIBE" button above because he "REALLY" appreciated this video. LOL. THANKS!
My favorite DCI program, hands down.
Same. 101%.
Saw this live. SOOOO amazing
bro sammme, saw it at Tennessee and honestly, my favorite DCI.
This is hands down the best opener for a show in the history of DCI. In terms of relation to theme, it is completely perfect.
Completely forgot how good that show was
My favorite crown show haha^_^
Nathan Nelson how
This show is one of their standouts. It is unforgettable.
I know I just posted, but listen guys. I really hope some of you guys reading this are members of this group. I just have to add that I appreciated the hard work you put into that show and just the enjoyment of watching this on UA-cam, that if I could drive somewhere and watch you guys perform it live again, I would really try to make that happen. Awesome work!
search Carolina crowns website and they’ll go on tour this upcoming summer and you’ll be able to go see them, 1000x better in person
@@itechhh7126 Well if they are still as awesome now as they were then, then this is amazing news. Thank You!!!
Who’s ever brilliant idea it was to add brake drum at the end of this show was 👌 *chef’s kiss*
I forgot how much better this closer was. By the time I saw it they had changed it in August, such a good show.
I liked this ending so much better
NoLimitsDude9876 same man
I liked the ending drill better in this old version, but clearly the story action on the right was changed for the better by the end of the season.
Yeah it was so much better
James Britt Medea is only one musical thread in this show's ending, not the plot. Medea is an entirely different revenge story about a woman battling society's male domination, not some random robber in a holdup.
Remember that this show premiered days after the Pulse Nightclub shooting, and the show coordinator practically fainted in the interview in the live broadcast. It was the big pink elephant in the room. He knew their show was inexplicably violent and without depth without the final ending. Besides, simple revenge isn't enough story for a western, even classic Westerns. The revised ending made this show culturally relevant and that added depth of concept. Without the new ending, the plot of this western is worthy of only a reader-submitted short story in the back of NRA magazine-- simplistic Tom and Jerry cartoon revenge to appeal to provincial paranoids and neurotic city cops.
A response like yours indicate that you will never succeed in the arts because you have no soul, no understanding of the understructure of story, no cultural awareness, no sense of humanity, no understanding of depth of concept. You have no awareness of a protagonist's inner battle, the arc of a character coming full circle from desperate rage, and his personal challenge to take the next step and change the world, entire. That's what a protagonist does. It's a component of classic storytelling. The storyteller's objective is to spin the character around 360 degrees so that we can see his full complexity of and his transformation. Not just blow somebody's head off. That's shallow and ignorant. That's what you'd do because you're a rural simpleton.
Breaking the circle of violence is what the entire show is based around, not just the ending, if you were smart enough to see the clues. The cacti in the beginning are in the "don't' shoot" pose from Ferguson, a commentary on out of control police brutality and gun violence on unarmed citizens. One of the drill sets is the shape of a gun-- the focus of the entire piece-- the relevant cultural issue at hand. (How dumb are you?) The end has the hornline joining hands like the march on Ferguson. He meets the dancer who gives him the hat to remind him of his father's guidance. It becomes his "crown". (If the father wanted revenge he would have used his ghostly powers to hold the crook down while his son shot him-- that'd be ridiculous.)
What's sad is that you're living your life for guns-- you're even unable to watch a simple drum corps show and understand it. That's what's sad about Trump loving gun owners. You're so dimwitted that you miss out on basic tenets of human understanding and meaning in your life and art. It's really a cancer that's affecting your brain. It makes normal people wonder if you even have running water, or if you even put your guns in a safe so your kids aren't harmed. Do you even have teeth? Do you own guns because you're afraid someone is going to steal your outhouse?
Crown's muddled drill sets on the ending cost them. The drill seems sort of unnaturally compacted and shoved toward the front sideline. The ending drill lacked fluidity, and lacked integration with the final motion of the carriage, if anything.
Do you have a gun in your house? Yes or no. Simple question. If so, we know where your bias and ignorance are coming from.
This was the show that got me to love DCI
damn that battery can move
My favorite DCI show ever.
anybody notice the small motif from the Dies Irea at 7:58 ?
Things of Me that single motif seems to be so popular in the marching world. It's so crazy
Things of Me I can’t hear it 🥺
Well really the whole part of that is dies irea just augmented in rhythm which is even cooler
Tactical bandgasm inbound
Daniel Johnson this is the kind of gem I'm looking to find in the comment section
My favorite blue devils show
IKR! Just so cool to see the infamous Devil Crown
Micah Lall-Trail lmao you dumbbbb
That was sensational 👏
Especially loved the guard this year
16 tubas, er I mean contras. Fantastic.
9:45-9:54 gives me chills
7:14 someone throws a trumpet?
between the 50 and 45 yd line
carolina crown classic. happens in a lot of more recent shows
That's so CURSED hahahaha
10:14 felt like the longest breath ever
iTechhh do you know where I could get sheet music for trumpet for these songs
maybe you can Google or search on UA-cam
This probably isn't helpful in the slightest, but there is a big shared folder of a bunch of percussion parts, so there may be a trumpet folder somewhere
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For smart audience members, here's an analysis of what makes the Relentless show design so brilliant and effective.
By the way, show design isn't taught in drum corps, for a variety of reasons.
1) Defensive designers don't want criticism, so the fewer marchers know about theme, understructure, and cohesion, the better.
2) Change suggestions impact the show massively, so designers want to avoid them.
3) Defensive designers are rushed for time because they're working on designing multiple multiple shows at once in order to make a living.
4) Designers often don't want to explain what their artistic impetus was for the show subject or theme because it's often personally revealing
5) Show designers don't want to discuss their designs because sometimes there's no substance at all, and they're embarrassed.
6) Sometimes for 401-c3 tax-exemption reasons, designers don't want to talk about the political impetus behind shows, like Santa Clara's Babylon which dealt directly with Trump's vile, inhuman, racist handling of Mexican immigration issues.
7) Most instructors make their living at teaching execution, not the meaning or development behind the show, so execution becomes the supreme focus of the corps.
8) A hyper-focus on execution keeps designers safe-- there's no time to answer questions about the nature and purpose of the show subject and theme and whether it makes sense.
9) Badly designed shows are called "Concept Shows", an excuse used by rushed designers to describe a show that was ill-planned, incongruent, sloppy, wandering and without a meaningful ending, and without emotional resonance. Often weak designers hide behind abstraction as an excuse-- nothing needs to be explained. If your show has a million dollar annual budget, you better be able to explain it, even if the elements are random or subconsciously derived.
The show design for Relentless was a brilliant social commentary on America's cycle of gun violence. The design process began as a simple Spaghetti Western-style movie, the plot of which ended up addressing the biggest social issue of our time-- the epidemic of gun violence that is besieging our nation. Just before the show premiered, the Pulse Nightclub shooting happened, killing scores of people in Miami. The live video production crew at the DCI premiere was instructed to avoid showing a closeup of the execution style murder at the beginning and end of the show, for obvious reasons. The show coordinator was white as a sheet as he introduced the show, fearing negative feedback about the show's intense gun violence.
What elements of design made Relentless so brilliant?
By the end of the season, planned in advance or not, the Relentless revised ending was modified to include an intervention by the girlfriend, convincing the young man not to kill his father's murderer. The young man breaks the cycle of violence, and saves the world entire. This new ending provided substance to an otherwise shallow tit-for-tat story, which wouldn't be complex enough for even a low budget Hollywood film. The new ending offered three dimension for its central character, a boy avenging his father's murder, and who recognizes the larger implications of his actions. Laughably, there were tons of audience members who cheered the original ending, applauding an ignorant retribution for the revenge killing-- a shocking state of our society and gun owners in America. The applause was at least muted, and at least there wasn't a standing ovation-- it was clear to most thinking audiences that a revenge killing isn't a whole plot-- it's just the beginning. The wider message was clear-- changing the story at the end of the season to break the cycle of violence suddenly vaulted the show's value and meaning. Planned or unplanned in the early season, the eventual revised ending was universal and profound.
There are five attributes of well designed shows. None of them deal with execution. If you're a marcher, you've never heard these before. This is new information. This is the behind the scenes information no one will teach you about what you're performing and why. Use these attributes as a guideline to analyze why your show isn't doing well with GE judges.
1) Cohesion. Elements in the show should "belong". The color palette, the movement, the ending, the shapes, the forms, lines, the musical selections, the meaning underneath, the style, the choreography, the ending, the marketing, and every design choice should be explainable, even if it's abstract, intensely personal, or subconsciously derived. In a balanced production, every piece fits the theme, and the production has a clear point of focus. In Relentless, every element tied into the theme of ending the cycle of gun violence-- the gun drill set, the full guard spinning only rifles, the cactus "don't shoot" poses at the beginning, the joining of hands like the Ferguson march, the violence of Medea, all tied in. Everything ties in.
2) Universality. A show should have some accessible human truth underneath that we all share. That quest for freedom, or that playful love for storybook icons, or how we wish the fat lady singing would get eaten by the shark, or the "bloom" underneath Copland's Appalachian Spring. Something that is quintessentially human and shared and understood by all of us. This provides depth of concept and longevity.
3) Uniqueness. Your corp's take on this work belongs to your corps, alone. It's never been done this way. Your point of view on this work should be uniquely your own, which gives your work depth of character. When you break from convention, there's a profound reason underneath that supports and parallels why you're doing this production this way. Originality is key.
4) Authenticity. Performers need to own the material, and own the reason for performing it. Not just "these are my ride or die friends for life because we had sex in a sleeping bag on a gym floor." In the best productions, the content of the show comes from a place of personal need to get the story told, or to share an observation about life or the way we imagine it. The performer should genuinely be tied to the content, or grasp it in a convincing, integrated way. You own the material.
5) Emotion. A show needs to continually heighten in stakes, it needs to have an arc, and a satisfying ending with a reaction from the audience-- all aspects of professional productions. The designer needs to exhibit a range of expression, and draw bone deep reactions from the crowd in an intentional, shared experience that resolves in some way by the end. Music has a planned, architected emotional understructure, so should the visual production.
This is what goes on behind the scenes of your show design. Learn it.
@@alexfishh6094 Why are you performing? What are you performing? What's the meaning behind it?
@Elliot Wlasiuk Okay, Ill delete it.
@Elliot Wlasiuk It's neurolinguistic programming. I want you to follow me. :)
I honestly was interested, but when i pressed 'read more', my penis literally shrunk and my balls exploded.
Yoda replies: "Full of yourself, you are." Your Marxist indoctrination is very apparent.
ay i was there it was liT
Yes it was!
i was in group v
I was W :)
sweet!
Why was there a man wearing red hurt walking about??
DefinitelyNotTina, he was the "bad guy" he was the one in the beginning who shot the guy and who died in the end. When they actually wore their uniforms he wore a different outfit when he was playing the bad guy. It was just to make him more visible.
Joey Gones ok thanks
Tina Chan if it's the guy who seems to follow the drum line around that is a percussion instructor who was working with them. I do not remember his name but I was at the camp this was filmed at the I know he was working with percussion.
why do drum corps kill off their colour guard so much?
imagine them with g horns.
So slightly out of tune but with the power equivalent to a 1 gigaton bomb going off in your face. Love it.
why?
Because it would be awsome.
Wym crown would be in tune on anything.
Sounds and looks a tad messy. Is it just the recording? Only time I’ve ever heard them this messy. Everything else sounds amazing. Tone, tuning, blending are amazing. Just a little off on clarity. Guess I could be crazy
NovaInc. Yea it was a little earlier in the season lol
I was there. Shit was disgusting
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