Mad Mello

I didn't care for 2022 at all when I first watched it online. In person I was blown away. The crowd reaction in Indy was great.

Too many to count for me, but I will always have a soft spot for the nostalgia show during the covid year. Brought back a lot of great memories and was really well done.

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.

Nice work. I loved playing Lupin with Scouts in '98, such a fun opener.

2008 Phantom is the easy answer for me. I turned down Finals tickets which was a mistake.

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.

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.

Horrifying. No words to do this justice.

Such sad news. Condolences to all.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Absolutely. I was a brass player who barely scraped by visually. I'd struggle today. So impressed with these corps.

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.

1 year DCI, 6 years HS marching band (7-12 school), 4 years college marching band.

I could watch this Troopers show on a loop. It would be fantastic if they made it to Saturday Night in Indy.

Late 90s Scout here who has to disagree. They are still the Scouts, just in a different package. Some Scouts of every era have said "this isn't the Scouts." They were and they are. I have plenty of concerns with the corps right now but they are doing a lot right. Time will tell if they can put it all back together competitively, but the member experience is largely one you or I would recognize. I respect your opinion though and plenty of guys I marched with would agree with you.

Madison Scout, guilty as charged. Enjoyed the video.

I'm a 90s Scout who loves the oldest of the old school and the most avant garde of the new school. I think everyone should enjoy the activity as they see fit and I can't imagine anything more controversial than that.

I'm on a Roku soundbar and it is usually fine, but gets out of sync about once per night. Leaving the app and restarting usually fixes it.

I am one proud Scout right now.

Don't be ridiculous; you know exactly what I mean. If you saw the corps in June you know they were a ton better by the end--quite frankly more so than I expected with how raw and shockingly unprepared they were that first week. I've worked as a music educator all of my adult life. Some years, I have ensembles that are supremely talented and for whom achieving anything less than near perfection is failure. Other groups I'm just proud that they are able to put on a semi-competent performance. All I ever ask of my kids is that they bust their tails and give max effort while maximizing rehearsal time. And that is all I ask of the Scouts on the field. Now, the adults running the corps? That is another discussion for another thread, and suffice it to say I don't feel the same about them. But that is another discussion for another thread, not the "hype" thread.

I have been so proud of the improvement towards the end of this season. Bring it a few more times, Scouts!