On the Road – Indy 2007

// July 28th, 2007

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I just finished taking in the Cavaliers and the dome is still buzzing.  Granted, being this close to home for the boys from Rosemont have a largely partisan crowd but their performance was one of the best I’ve seen all year from a GE stand point.  Being in the press box here at the RCA dome gives me an excellent vantage point to view the wonderful drill design.  The new ending to the show has really gelled and the Cavaliers seem to have taken the performance up a notch again tonight.

 

The Blue Devils were, of course, their usual wonderful selves.  I still have a serious hang-up about the color pallets and staging but one would be a fool to state that they do not perform the book extremely well.  It was by far the cleanest show on the field tonight.

Phantom lifted the roof off this place and really pushed the ending of the show.  Firebird is ballsy and is quite an adrenaline rush that is only matched musically by the strong visual finish complete with the “Phantom” wedge (ala 1989 Dvorak).

Tonight was my first opportunity to see and hear the Scouts.  With all of the negative chatter I’ve read on the web boards, I couldn’t wait to get a chance to judge for myself.  I must say that I enjoyed it.  I know . . . I know . . . they have serious deficiencies in design and the show feels monochromatic both visually and musically.  Having said so, I really liked the energy that

Madison put out to the crowd tonight.  It was good to see that the problems are mostly design and not effort or talent.  I really believe that as this staff gets their legs underneath them going forward,

Madison will be strong again (he says with an eye toward Heaven). 
Other observations tonight come mostly in the fact that everyone is SO GOOD.  Blue Stars, though they appear to be fading, have a great show and still have a solid shot at making their first finals in recent memory.  Spirit has also fielded a really strong corps this year as have the Colts.  It will be exciting to see how things shake out over the next two weeks with the bubble corps like these. 


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