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Breakfast Babble => The Chase => Over Exposure => Topic started by: davepeck on September 27, 2005, 09:18:48 pm
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last year\'s thread
can you believe it\'s been a year already?!
Adrian is again competing in the Guitar Center Drum-Off. his first test will be tomorrow night (Wednesday 09/28/05) at the Orange, CT store on the Boston Post Road.
competition begins at 7:00pm. come out and show your support for Adrian!!
Drum-Off Official Site (http://guitarcenter.com/drumoff/main.cfm)
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Holy Crap its been a year....
Looks like a great way to kick off a Wednesday night..
GO ANIMAL!!!!
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so is anyone doing this>richters? i was thinking about it, being in orange anyway.
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I am getting excited at the thought of headin back to The Guitar Center to support Adrian in his second quest for the title he should be holding.... He ripped faces off of people last year...... I also hope that young girl enters again. She was fucking nasty. I would love to hear what kind of difference a year makes.....
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guiter center>some bar>richters anybody down?
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guiter center>some bar>richters anybody down?
What other bar would you even consider going to at 8ish in the PM on a Wednesday night??????????
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anyone with booze dude!
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anyone with booze dude!
you don\'t get it do you???
Thats alright...
You will....someday.....maybe......
oh and it looks like its a no-go with those tickets.... I tried for ya....
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BAH what a sham....
fuck that stupid fucking contest...
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:mad:
bullshit indeed.
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huh? wha happen/
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ad lose ??????? AD LOOOOSE ??????????????!!!!!!!!!
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12 drummers (it\'s usually 9).. 3 minutes each.. randomly picked order, ad got 1, which he wasn\'t happy about (also got 1 in the regionals last year and lost)..
so he went first and played a great solo. 4 out of the next 5 drummers were AWFUL. seriously, sounded like any random person going up to a drum set, and just beating on them as hard as they could..
katelin (sp?), adrian\'s 12-year-old student, went 7th.. some of you may remember her from last year.. she\'s come a long way, and you could definitely tell she\'s been learning from adrian. this girl has a lot of heart and talent, and i hope she sticks with it. she was seriously better than two-thirds of the drummers before her. our little group was screaming for her...
so anyways, the judges took the top 2 to go onto the store finals.. 1st place was this guy, Omar.. i thought he deserved it.. he was very good - been playing 25 years, and he was a really disciplined, polished, well-rounded drummer.
2nd place went to Alani (g-spot tornado).. now, i think Alani is a great drummer, but i didn\'t think he played on Adrian\'s level last night.. actually, i thought he played a better solo in last year\'s competition.. i dunno though.. i\'m really not sure what more the judges wanted from adrian, but i thought for sure he had it..
meh.
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Alani beat Adrian? Oh man, that\'s some major ball-breaking material fo life. Well, I\'m happy for him, he\'s a cool dude and a good drummer.
I said it before and I\'ll say it again: I put no stock in these things at all.
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The judging in these things is random at best. Hard to believe this one though, damn!
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I think it would be really hardto judge musicians unless it was one on one. I can\'t imagine how any good judging could come out of a field of 12 contestants.
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an old classmate of mine at UNH told me he lost to adrian last year
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I think it would be really hardto judge musicians unless it was one on one. I can\'t imagine how any good judging could come out of a field of 12 contestants.
I think you\'re on to something here.
They should use the same 3-minutes-a-drummer format just to seed them, then put them in a bracketed one-on-one tourney. It would be much, much harder to argue against the winner in this format.
Even better, they could seed them and have round-robin head-to-head group play leading into a short bracketed tourney. This would guarantee every drummer at least 4 solos, eliminate time-slot bias, eliminate the bad-beat factor, and give everyone a fair shake.