20 Great DCI Moments from the 1980s and 1990s 

2 piston horns should have never been replaced, also did i overlook '85 Suncoast or did it not make ? '90 Star ? Blue Devils ? . . . . maybe i just missed a couple of segments?

The 90s weren’t so bad neither, IMHO.

Nah the late 90s is the peak, drill in the 80s has nothing on the 90s corps

Drum corps was declared dead...in 1971.

Every corp had a unique sound!

Still my favorite color guard move of all time. It was sultry and appropriately suggestive for the Bacchanale without being inappropriate, and those girls had done the splits part of the routine all season and changed the spread afterwards just for finals night. Epic and artistic.

@@Nyssa337 I remember when I was in corps, at the end of the season we would tweek bits of the show that the judges had not seen before. I'm a big Phantom Phan since my corps folded many years ago, but I do love ALL corps!

@@Nyssa337interesting behind the scenes. That move was so visually suggestive. Probably wouldn’t fly in the 21st century…sigh.

Which year?

Shostakovich 5th does that. 😎

They don't march either. It's all body movement and interpretive dance.

Drum corps was declared dead...in 1971.

Troopers did it in 95, one reason I decided to march with them.

I'll settle for unplugging the electronics.

I think the g bugles put out more sound. These shows no amplification required! I'm not against all amplification, I like it to hear the soloists better. Since I marched in 70's, check out some soloists in that era!

Absolutely no electronics and no props whatsoever

If any corps could do G bugles and be successful it would be BD. Have them play their 78 show again. Still don’t see how that got 3rd.

​@waynestephens6505 , it's not the horn, coming from someone who marched 2 and 3 valve G and 3 valve Bb.

The Blue Devils have a block on all of their content. Only the official DCI channel and the official Blue Devils channel are allowed to post any material related to the Blue Devils. Anyone else who tries will have the video blocked and a copyright strike placed on their You Tube account. Blame them, not me.

@@Nyssa337 Oh, gotcha...there's (likely) one guy posting literally every top 12 corp through the years under Terry Tuba and Barry Baritone (might be others). He's still small potatoes for RU-vid though.

Good😂

It was amazing how loud small corps were! The big ones were unreal! The first hit 88 Star….jesus. The single loudest thing ever.

Imagine star 91 at Arrowhead!

Yes, Malaga almost made my cut but I didn't want the video to get too long. :)

I agree. Sorry, I don't have control over that. :(

It was a great year.

I’m not even sure if you can call it “marching” anymore. More like body shaping and interpretive dance with occasional running around while the electronic keyboards play something for ambience. 🙄

I agree with you 100% they destroyed the activity that was one of the greatest youth activities in North America for many many years they never encouraged kids to go on to a senior Corps once they aged out at the age of 21. I remember I was so excited when I was able to join the Long Island sunrises in 1964. Senior drama bugle Corps were much better than Juniors at one time only because their members primarily came from Junior course with all sorts of experience pause my encouraging kids to go on to senior, drum c o r p s it perpetuated the activity even that much further in the New York metropolitan area there were drumming people called competitions at least two or three every single weekend that you could drive through within an hour or two. You got to see the top drum and bugle Corps as well as the ones that were up and coming, it may for an exciting evening, and the stands were jam-packed, mini competitions standing room only

Plus it’s become prohibitively expensive. Corps are disappearing because no one can afford it anymore. I think Glassmen was 6 or 700 when I marched with them.

​@Iliketoboard , disappearing because it's too expensive to march? That's ass backward.

You need to read my comment in the video description regarding the absence of the Blue Devils.

Don't forget '86.

That's YT unfortunately. Nothing to do with me.

That pivot is so damn good

The Blue Devis do not allow anyone except the official DCI channel and the official Blue Devils channel to post clips on RU-vid. Anyone who does receives a copyright strike. Blame them, not me.

Yeah, they were great back then, but it's nice to see some other moments featured. Blue Devils won a lot, but they rarely captured my heart like many of these did. Although, I do remember their '86 show was smoking hot!

@@cartersayle4729 Interestingly my peak interest in DCI was from 1987-1993 (my high school and college years). In those seven years the Blue Devils won no titles and were usually 4th or 5th every year so although I liked their shows, I was much more of a Cadets, Star, Vanguard, or Phantom fan.

@@Nyssa337 Ha! We must be the same age! My college years were also '87-'93. It was delightfully competitively diverse back then!