7:21 would have looked better with a top view with all the guard instead of this dude. Dudes skilled but hey it really didnt do the music justice with all the camera angels.
Arguably the BEST year of drum corps EVER. I know, it’s biased, but I’ve seen the last 20 years live at finals and this HANDS DOWN was the greatest most memorable and brilliant year! 2008 and the top 4 were MAGNIFICENT AND MAGICAL 🤩💥
Anyone requesting anything from Madison circa 95 or 96 is is truly a person after my own heart! To me…, those two shows embodied what drum corps was about for ME. I’m saying that as a personal opinion, not looking for a debate from any hyper enthusiastic dci fans…😉 “performing their show; a drum corp fans’ dream” gives me goose bumps just writing it
@giovanni4u117 Hell yeah man! Those were my formidable years. I graduated KP in 2000(the year we won gold in swc @ wgi). Had a lot of good friends that were in a bunch of great shows from those years.
I’d really like to know the specific drill moves at the end and their relation to other closers. Crab-step wedge, Phantom 93. Cadets’ Z-pull. Company front step over, many have done it. Cavies’ gradual spinning diamond, I saw another Cavies drill above the Z pull. Am I missing any?
DCI design in the 20s innovation has gone to integrating so many props that drill is obscured in the overall show design. I miss drill like this. I believe 2000 was the first year hornlines could use Bb horns.
I'm with your band members with my trombone singing, in my dreams its' 1974 Buckhannon Upshur Highschool again ,I played to the hilt and sometimes gentle: miss those times. 65 years old, how did I get this old? I want to march. Get down C.S.; what a high point in my life at WAMSB in my hometown 2023.
Great opener, great horn line, great drill. But the piece that clinched this show as one of my favorites is the attention to detail at the end when the corps formed an imperial crown using the IU logo as the jewel on top!
Could you imagine marching this era of crown. If you Marched 2006-2011. I could not even imagine how amazing of a run that would be. forget placements. Just talking about the evolution of the corps.
Wow! Very well designed and the drill moved so smoothly from form to form. It had you constantly engaged and enjoying the transition of forms as much as the forms themselves. The music was top notch too!
There are a small but vocal minority of drum corps pseudoboomers in this comments section (myself included), and I find that....interesting. I first became a drum corps pseudoboomer back in 2014, when I was a high school freshman. I, like so many other high school first yearers in marching band, fell in love with drum corps when I saw the theater broadcast of the 2014 DCI World Championships. A few months later at my last competition in November, I picked up a DVD titled "Inside the Blue Devils: 1996-1999." When I plugged the DVD into my DVD player once I got home, I REALLY fell in love with drum corps--from that era. Those shows made it hard for me to go back to watching 2014 and 2015 drum corps shows, and I even lamented the adoption of front ensemble amplification in marching band. While I'm surprised to see brand new drum corps boomers, I think about it again and realize that I'm even more of a drum corps boomer, so....screw it.
Something about this show, out of all other Crown's productions, displays the absolute essence of what drum corps is. I believe it contains all facets of our activivity. Including; the preservation of tradition, in that everything from uniforms to militaristic values of excellence, honor, blood, sweat, and tears, getting things done right when it counts. The style is all there, in the precision of the entire ensemble, working together to accomplish a mission. The mission was accomplished. The music is what pulls me in more than anything. "Finis", is an example of superior musical arrangement, as well as visual design and execution. Hands down, my go-to performance. I enjoy the experience every time I watch "Finis", and I seem to always discover something new. My favorite is the Claire de Lune segue into Leonard Bernstein's "Somewhere", then back. As though it was naturally that way.
If the preservation of tradition were to be done to its fullest extent, then there would be rope snare drums, no pit, soprano bugles with no valves or crooks, fifes, colorguard uniforms matching the horn uniforms, and Lee Enfelds being used as rifles.
