Red, White, & Boom 2005

[LocalGuy]

Red, White, & Boom 2005 was the least satisfying one I've been to yet. A stock soundtrack with a couple of token OSU edits for the second year in a row and, though pretty well synchronized, an apparently smaller, more confined fireworks show - WNCI didn't even seem to be able to get any complimentary phone calls. Unless the event is going to return to its previous level or go higher, I think I've gone to my last.

 

[DocFever]

> Red, White, & Boom 2005 was the least satisfying one I've
> been to yet. A stock soundtrack with a couple of token OSU
> edits for the second year in a row and, though pretty well
> synchronized, an apparently smaller, more confined fireworks
> show - WNCI didn't even seem to be able to get any
> complimentary phone calls. Unless the event is going to
> return to its previous level or go higher, I think I've gone
> to my last.


I'd agree. Red, White, and Same Old Same.

They have got to do something to change it up.

 

[Keith_Kennedy]

Folks- There isn’t a whole helluva lot you can do to improve fireworks shows. You fire off a few more shells, but in the end it's just gunpowder exploding in the air, and people go ahhh!

In 10 years of being involved with stations providing music for fireworks I've never heard a complaint from listeners. Not Once. Sometimes, the shooters in smaller cities provide their own soundtrack that is usually poorly edited, with bad song selections, and still not one complaint.

Who in their right mind in Columbus would complain about OSU music?

 

[DocFever]

> Folks- There isn’t a whole helluva lot you can do to improve
> fireworks shows. You fire off a few more shells, but in the
> end it's just gunpowder exploding in the air, and people go
> ahhh!
>
> In 10 years of being involved with stations providing music
> for fireworks I've never heard a complaint from listeners.
> Not Once. Sometimes, the shooters in smaller cities provide
> their own soundtrack that is usually poorly edited, with bad
> song selections, and still not one complaint.
>
> Who in their right mind in Columbus would complain about OSU
> music?
>

I'm not complaining about the fireworks. Those can't be topped. It's just the same old soundtrack year after year. Instead of having the same person's version of a song. Why not throw in someone else's version. Throw in some Hendrix Woodstock wake up. Take out the OSU fight song and make it just C. Grants carmen ohio. Little things man, just little things.

 

[LocalGuy]

> Folks- There isn’t a whole helluva lot you can do to improve
> fireworks shows.

Being up north, what you don't know is that the shows are getting noticeably worse -- smaller in size and with a generic soundtrack.


> Sometimes, the shooters in smaller cities provide
> their own soundtrack that is usually poorly edited, with bad
> song selections....
>
> Who in their right mind in Columbus would complain about OSU
> music?

No one, of course. However, what you don't know is that the soundtrack *was* nothing more than one of those stock soundtracks with the OSU music inserted. It was just some pop, some rock, some oldies, some marches, and some OSU music. In years past, the WNCI soundtrack, though not reaching the level of the WEBN soundtrack, was a good piece of work! It was a WNCI soundtrack...! If the past couple of years tell the trend, then that's no more.