Okay, if memory serves me right it WAS Michigan City! We had performed our show and we were on the sidelines watching 2-7 perform. At the end of their opener Crown Imperial the first sustained note by I’m guessing French horns and not mellophones, one of their spotlighted horn players hit anything BUT the note they were supposed to hit. Awkward! Someone in our drum line recorded (Thanks Liz) that performance which we played on the bus for a long part of that tour. We shared it with 2-7 along the tour which brought the two corps together for the rest of the tour. Hence the love affair of “Doris & Rex”
we forged a lot of love and respect for 27th that year…and to this day we hold that love and respect for our competition from the east coast!
I apologize for veering off topic.