Goose said:
wbt5845 said:
BTW - to those of you saying "it's just a different style" - that's like saying the Dallas Cowboys and the Consol Tigers are just "different styles". See how dumb that sounds?
I think what most folks are saying is that with musicians of that quality, and considering the tremendous amount of effort, and practice, and talent required to perform like that, it's a real shame they're putting it all towards what's basically a 75-man Liberace concert on a football field.
While the activity has gotten more like a broadway play on a football field with dancing than actual marching, why is it still a real "shame"? What would "most folk" rather have them do instead? Play seated down in a tux with a symphony orchestra in some concert hall? Play on a physically smaller stage at a concert backing up some B or A-list musician? Play by themselves or small group on the sidewalk or coffee bar?
If the very complicated DCI shows just don't appeal to you, then hopefully you can still appreciate and support them when they are performing in other ways when its not summer season.