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- From: ddm@wpi.WPI.EDU (David D Marshall)
- Newsgroups: alt.drumcorps
- Subject: Re: Madison 93 show
- Date: 19 Nov 1992 16:11:30 GMT
- Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
- Lines: 32
- Message-ID: <1egebiINNkhm@bigboote.WPI.EDU>
- References: <1992Nov17.154618.3599@medtron.medtronic.com> <92323.111159MHUGHES@MIAMIU.BITNET>
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- In article <92323.111159MHUGHES@MIAMIU.BITNET> <MHUGHES@MIAMIU.BITNET> writes:
- >
- >>Boy, those Blue Devils have sure been innovators haven't they?!
- >>Same style year after year. I love it, don't get me wrong, but it seems
- >>to me that their staff has a formula that works and they are comfortable
- >>with, and even though they do different songs, they can sound remarkably
- >>similar year after year after year after year after .....
- >
- >IMHO, the Blue Devils are nearly as guilty of the practice of pulling out old
- >charts as is Madison. Understand me, the last thing I'm suggesting is that
- >Madison change their style....there is only one Madsion Scouts, and there is
- >a style of drum corps which is uniquely identified as Madison. I'm
- >just saying....enough already! WE'VE HEARD THIS ALL BEFORE. DO SOME NEW
- >MUSIC.
-
- Why has no one flamed BD for pulling out charts from the past. Their '86 show
- was all old. Off hand I can't think of too many years when they didn't have
- at least part of an old chart in their show. I generally enjoy a Scouts show
- (as well as a BD show) whether or not it was a repeat. What really gets me
- is when corps do the same show back to back (read '88 & '89 SCV, '86 & '87
- SCV, Madison '91 & '92, etc.). Usually there is a lot of similar drill
- moves, similar music, and similar weaknesses in the players. I still like
- '87 SCV and '92 Scouts, but it does disappoint me some.
-
- >Respectfully, Mike Hughes
-
- --David
-
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