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Mad Mello

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Mad Mello last won the day on October 16 2022

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  • Your Drum Corps Experience
    1998 Madison Scouts Mellophone
  • Your Favorite Corps
    Madison Scouts
  • Your Favorite All Time Corps Performance (Any)
    2022 Troopers
  • Your Favorite Drum Corps Season
    1995
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    Male
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    Cincinnati
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    Soccer, music, linguistics, travel and history.

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  1. Because of this thread my wife and I watched the show tonight and were blown away. I had had forgotten just how brilliant it really was.
  2. Nice work. I loved playing Lupin with Scouts in '98, such a fun opener.
  3. 2008 Phantom is the easy answer for me. I turned down Finals tickets which was a mistake.
  4. A little bit different for me because it wasn't my favorite show at the time: '98 Glassmen. We were standing backfield mingling with the Cavaliers waiting for retreat and the big hit near the beginning made the group I was with turn our heads in unison. I couldn't believe that sound was coming from the Glassmen.
  5. A coworker died of a heart attack at work this spring. In August the entire staff was trained in CPR and AED usage. I wish that had been the case before such a tragedy. It takes very little time (our training was 10 minutes) and can make a very big difference. We also did a stop the bleed training that was excellent.
  6. Madison needs a show that knows what it wants to be and communicates that to the audience--whatever the style may be. I love the old school Madison attitude as that's what I marched. But they don't need to do that succeed, they just need a well constructed product that the kids buy into and sell.
  7. We are starting a musical theater program at my elementary school. We have a ton of help from a national theater organization and even with said help getting the money and rights correct is hard. I can't imagine the expense and effort is worth it for DCI.
  8. I marched at the height of the scores don't matter era. I agree to an extent, but it was a lot easier to talk that game when 6th was the worst case scenario. This is hard to watch. The kids and teaching staff are doing a great job with what they've been given, and that's all I'll say about that.
  9. I'm excited to see what Boerma does this year. I've played his arrangements both with the Scouts and my college band. They were always a blast.
  10. I'm a Scouts alum and they are definitely still the Scouts to me. I feel the same pride now that I did when I marched. Time change, organizations change, attitudes evolve. Can't wait to see what the future holds.
  11. Absolutely. I was a brass player who barely scraped by visually. I'd struggle today. So impressed with these corps.
  12. We (Scouts) stayed in a hotel when finals were in Orlando in the late 90s. I thought it was fairly common at the time from talking to friends in other corps.
  13. 1 year DCI, 6 years HS marching band (7-12 school), 4 years college marching band.
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