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- From: rwberry@hubcap.clemson.edu (Robert W Berry)
- Subject: Re: Madison music
- Message-ID: <1992Nov24.044523.27181@hubcap.clemson.edu>
- Organization: Clemson University
- References: <92321.133532MHUGHES@MIAMIU.BITNET><1992Nov18.195206.14725@stortek.com> <92325.130158MHUGHES@MIAMIU.BITNET><1ekm2eINNsph@bigboote.WPI.EDU> <92328.104716MHUGHES@MIAMIU.BITNET>
- Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 04:45:23 GMT
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- <MHUGHES@MIAMIU.BITNET> writes:
-
- < ... discussion about watching more than one caption deleted ... >
-
- >As an individual, no, I can't concentrate on all captions at once. But in the
- >group of friends I was with, there were 2 brass players. There was one guy
- >who writes and teaches drill. There were 2 guys (myself included) who write
- >and teach marching percussion. All of us had been drum corps fans since
- >about 1978, so we knew what to look for, and we did have a concensus of
- >opinion regarding the outcome.
-
- Same here. At least we did that night.
-
- >I think it is also worthwhile to point out that we did not just see the shows
- >at finals. We saw the top 12 three times in three days, from different
- >positions in the stadium. Most of us had also seen most or all of the top 12
- >in earlier-season shows.
-
- This is the key, I didn't really start to appreciate Madison's visual
- show until I got the video tapes. After a few dozen times you notice a
- lot of subtle effects that you don't catch the first few time. (We saw
- Madison 9 times in 1988 from various vantage points, but still that was
- not enough.)
-
- When I watch the other corps repeatedly, there just aren't as many tasy
- things happening visually.
-
- I definitely understand why they won, although had BD and SCV had
- little stronger shows, maybe things would have been different.
- BD was a little flat (IMHO) and SCV had a *horrendous* horn show.
- Madison was *electric* that night.
-
- Oh well, disagreeing about show placements is half the fun of drum
- corps.
-
- Later,
- Bob
-
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