A Taste of Madison

[gellio]

Sly - They had the crushed velvet gauntlets and hat bands

in both 83 and 84 (85 is when they switched to the shiny red)

I don't know the name of the bari soloist from 83, but he

didn't play in the ballad duet of 88...that was Dave Teroller on

lead baritone (he was a "rook-out") and Brian Gregg on Euphonium

(and Brian's first year was 86)

As far as visual ticks...there were ALMOST none. If you go to

the very end of the drum feature in Malaguena, right before the horns

come back in, look in the very right corner of your screen, toward

the back of the curvelinear form, you'll see a lone contra player

(name deleted to protect the "innocent") step into the form 2 counts early! He recovered very quickly though...to the point where most people never

notice it at all!

Well, we didn't have the best brassline in 1988, but we placed 3rd. That's not too shabby. SCV placed 5th in brass and that is ultimately what cost them the title. As far as visual goes - it was amazing. HOWEVER, we threw down our best performance in Semis. I wish they could have gotten that on tape, or rather that it was our finals performance, but I can't complain. Actually, from what the staff said of our pre-finals run-through, that was our best performance. That was the only time that they did not say anything constructive after a run-through. It was perfect. Even-so, we were marching Gods.

[scout9193]

The two things that made me want to become a Scout...

watching the visual performance from 88 on TV and being completely floored...

and

watching the hornline warmup in 90 at Allentown finals...what a great underrated hornline...

MYNWA

CM

[mrshowfan]

I agree about 90. I remember the vets from my day talking about that low brass line from 90.