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wow this guys pretty good i think he can march blue devils

Let's go Gold!!! Great clip! Keep up the great work! Keep pushing to the end and break that corps record!

Headed to DATS tonight. Hope you were able to stay cool today. I stopped by Scouts rehearsal, just in time for them to call-off full ensemble due to the temp on the turf.

Where was this housing site? Beautiful view!

What corps is this?

11:00 It’s still light outside at 6th place. Conditions at that time of day in August can make a difference to the performers. The scouts were largely absent from Midwest shows in ‘88 and finals were in KC. Whatever the justification is, performers always need to play through adversity and always perform their best. And if you have a show the crowd loves that itself can make the show even better.

10:10 it looks to me as if he was told to take the first card he touched.

7:40 awwww a little biased, are we? 😂

Merch and marketing is mid. I don't know who designs it, it's sad. Even at the corps level the merch is hit and miss.

Hey there, I have been enjoying your videos and wanted to make a (somewhat self serving) request for a video theme to help “older” drum corps folks (like myself) better understand where the activity is at today. But I can’t find any contact info, like an email address, on the channel page or in the video descriptions.

surprised that this iceberg didn't have Jackson '93 haha

I love my Maynard Ferguson Bb trumpet, and having played a 2 valve DEG sop and 3 valve Kanstul powerbore sop...i love the Kanstuls sound and feel, and the DEG was a breeze to play. I think why us old G bugle guys say we were better, is our projection of the sound. We may not have been as musically up front as DCI nowadays, but we could be heard. It's an airflow thing. More air in the g horns. You blow that much air through a trumpet, and it's easy to over play. BUT, on the g's, the tone and sound quality held up.

Did something happen in the mid-1990s that caused DCI performances to get so milk toast and bland? I'm an oldster who has only returned to DCI through the good fortune of CZcams and social media, but other than 2003, melodies have lost out to showiness. Am I right?

Did something happen in the mid-1990s that caused DCI performances to get so milk toast and bland? I'm an oldster who has only returned to DCI through the good fortune of CZcams and social media, but other than 2003, melodies have lost out to showiness. Am I right?

The civil suits against the Cadets organization, and the financial burden they put on the Cadets, is a huge contributor to their problems.

ayy i marched with sebastian at pioneer

Great background. Thanks for making this. Judging affects placement. Judges have bias, get tired, etc. It's all unpredictable. Though...it's more predictable lately, which is its own problem. I'd love some type of audience favorite caption award. I've seen way too many perfectly polished turds. :)

for all the hate that modern uniforms get, crowns 23 uniforms have always been super awesome

It was because of Malaguena. It brought the house down. That's why they won.

Please bring back traditional uniforms and headgear. I think the reason they got rid of the headgear and replaced uniforms with spandex nonsense is because there is so much acrobatics and jazz dancing incorporated in shows these days rather than actual marching - it's Drum Corps, not Dance Corps. lol I know, I know, I'm an old fuddy-dud.

I along with my best friend from HS were asked to audition for The Star of Indiana . Our HSband director was a member of the marching hundred at IU. Neither of us auditioned I went on to ISU and the marching Sycamores and he went on to DePauw and play baseball. I always wondered what if....

I marched in a VFW corp back in 1962, 1963 & 1964. Single valve French Horn. I also played a traditional three valve French Horn in our high school band. Without exaggerating, my single valve drum corp French horn was at least twice as loud as my three valve orchestra horn.

I hit my dot

As someone who marched at a high school with former BD as staff, back from 2014-2017 when the theatrics were transitioning to what you normally see in DCI, we implemented both. Dots for any boxes and lines. Form for any curves.

OH MY OH MY MY LOVELY BOISE GEMS!!!!!!

and THEN factor in the fact that you live in rural canada and would have to fly all the way to america AND you have no marching experience because your school doesn't have a marching band but dci is like your biggest dream ever AND you only play trombone and would have to get a marching baritone (for $3000) and learn the valves. edit: AND canada's school system doesn't line up with america you would miss the last month of school (june)

marched the Gems this '24 season, Austin has such a good head on his shoulders and the whole team is incredible, I see such a great strong future for this corps 🎉

These are not drum corps but bands with dancing shows.

And now Boston and Coats are a top 7 corps and Cavies and Phantom fell far below that, (until recently with Phantom) not to mention Cadets disbanding. The problem with G7 is that no one is top 7 forever

The scouts were on fire that night. After all these years, it is still one of my top 3 dci performances ever. The crowd went totally crazy, and I cried. It was so pure. It was a night that I will never forget. It was orgastic 😅

This is why I absolutely loved this show. I had read 'Animal Farm' the year before, and because of this, I was able completely understood the show on the first read. That was a first for me. However, once I got filled in by other nearby audience members of what was going on BTS in DCI, it became real clear that BAC was using this show to speak their minds about what was going on in the circuit at the time. It's in my personal top 5 shows for a reason.

Alumni '62 placed 5th in Nationals. "88" looked e3xcellent, however I wonder about the "slotting." Reminds me of manipulating placement and ballots. BTW, C. H. Beebe wasn't a golden god. As a 14 year old I saw some very concerning interactions between pretty scouts and line staff, all under Beebe's nose. Everything was kept quiet.

I have an old trumpet ,and it doesn't have laquer on it, I want to make it scratch brush finished like you're cornet ,but I'm not sure if I do as you have done in the video,will my trumpet be ruined. You said you will do an update video on your cornet. I want to see your cornet's current state,so if I like it, I'll do it.

Consider the Olympics gymnast. It is random order and it doesn't affect the results. The judges call it as it is.

I guess you are very Blue Devils bias

Probably the most awkward demo of separation of upper/lower body I've ever seen, hope they got the gist anyway

HOLY SHIT I'M IN THE PICTURE AT 47:44!! for somewhat of the preservation of my identity i will not same where or what corps but that's so fucking crazy. Was 100% not expecting that! Mom, I did it im famous now

The absolute shock and AWE on my face when i'm watching this video and the screen scrolls down to about halfway down the iceberg and i simply see "SHAWN NAGPAL" I busted out laughing! I think i vaguely know why he's on here, but I never actually got to know the full story. I was just super surprised to see his name here because he was one of my baritone techs when i marched for crossmen in 2022! I do know he's somewhat of a cryptid in the drum corps community somehow? something like that. When i auditioned for Bloo the following season (and didnt make it lol) i remember we were doing casual icebreakers during some down time at that camp and when i said i marched with Crossmen last year", 2 kids immediately were like "OMG SO YOU KNOW SHAWN NAGPAL?!?"

Hornlines used to be loud enough to COVER the drumline. Without mics. From the hash or further, not in front of the sideline.

Bluecoats zigzag, that was the ultimate prop.

The 1 valve bugle was also called a G/D bugle and the "tuba" is a contrabass. I played a valve/rotar and 2 valve baritone when I started marching in the last years of the G bugle and the first year DCA allowed the Bb horns. I honestly prefer the ease of playing the G bugles, but it was much easier to tune the Bb horns.

I would like you to have a decibel meter and monitor the corps with and without amplification… Then jump in a time machine and go back to the ‘70’s, ‘80’s & ‘90’s and test it out on G bugle Hornlines. Well at least the first part would be interesting. Keep up the great work. - Nick

Bro I'm just a kid working at fucking panera bread trying to march next year. the cost just really fucking hurts. I want to march, I want to do well in school school, I want to do high school marching band, and go to college. it's so fucking enraging. It's what stopped me this year and as someone who loves the activity sometimes I just ask why we can't say fuck the props, new instruments, new uniforms like what can we do to make this more affordable to us. It's just fucked. It's absolutely wild that my techs marched winter and summer seasons that cost less combined then what it takes to march drum corp today.

Can someone please explain fhnsab?

Blue Devils 1994 show is how it should be.

My brother and I played with the Kenosha, WI Kingsmen for many years The GREAT 60's Era ! Maybe ? one of the first All Age Corps. A bunch of us use to get together for corps shows, but stopped going to this DCI thing many years ago !!!!!!!

Dude I love your content, and Hunter is the man! I’ll never forget the night the staff revealed the full-extent of the show to us in 2018. The energy in that gymnasium was electric as they explained the theme and showed off the flags, props and guard uniforms, then they showed the corps’ proper uniforms and that place deflated like a balloon 😂 I just had to accept when I marched Boston in 2018 that I wasn’t going to get the opportunity to wear an amazing traditional uniform. Fortunately, that show will forever be a BAC classic and full disclosure, the uniform was very comfortable. It allowed crazy good movement and ventilation. But damn…

Bluecoats '16, pretty sure the pants are stock baseball uniform pants 😂

nicely done, any updates?

This video is on point! I was in Star from 89-92. George is the best drill writer ever. The day it was announced that he had passed, we were all grieving, but we knew he would want us to get it done right!