5 Breathtaking DCI Moments 

Sure. 1988/89 SCV: Angel of Music, Music of the Night by Andrew Lloyd Weber 1993 Star of Indiana: Adagio Piano Concerto No. 2 by Bartok, Dance of Vengeance by Samuel Barber 2012 Crossmen: Earth Song by Michael Jackson 2014 Bluecoats: Uffe’s Workshop, Platinum Rows by Tyondai Braxton

Also, pin of shame

@@TNG173 thats not what im referring too. Blue coats show. The average person in the stand doesnt know. However, Everyone knows the classic SCV show. Why? Cause its identifiable. When DCI was DCI you had music in most cases that stuck with you. For the longest time now these arrangers write shit that have u scratching your head. People clap cause they have to, not because anything drives them too Its Band corps now. DCI has been long gone. The best thing to happen to this activity was covid. You didnt see it

@@Mrtellitlikeitis bro what you mean? I've never heard these songs before but they sound amazing

@@Mrtellitlikeitis shut the fuck uppppp you sound so pretentious. seriously.

my mans

Bluecoats "Tilt" still giv es me goosebumps in 2019

@@MrPaulie1340 Bluecoats "Tilt" will give me goosebumps until 3019

What was Tilt about?

Hell ya

@@jesuspectre9883 nothing really but it slaps

Logan Benoist And the drill right after. Whew.

Logan Benoist it’s literally just a computer effect tho. Now if the corps actually bent that themselves I’d shit myself

Aaron Laughlin It’s not tho, they recorded the Corp playing the chord and bent the pitch. So your right in a sense that it was computer effects, but they also bent themselves in a way like you said so time to shit urself buddi 😬

@J Eric Vaughn Agreed, that effect gets cornier every time I hear it. Everything about that show is impressive, and then it ends on a cheapo keyboard effect.

which reminds me, seen Django Unchained? it features an old Italian song which has pitch bends in the strings, big time, called "I Giorni Dell’ira." It is also featured to excellent effect in this crazy short, about a man who put up his own sign on a major LA freeway interchange, which remained in place for years. it's amazing, check it out ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Clgl63CWOkM.html

luke snell have you watched any of GZ drills??

agree. the pitch bend was a game-changer and made you really say "WTF did I just experience?" absolute goose bump stuff.

@@walshnormandy1605 didn't even pitch to the chord they played, kinda "meh" to me to be honest.

Oh stop

Part of me says NO. And part of me says yes, you're right, the moment DCI died.

It has since been dethroned by the mello sustain, SCV 2018.

star '91

I'm sorry, but I don't see how you could feel they were robbed that year. The Blue Devils had what I STILL consider to be their best show of all time that year. To each their own though.

Soprano soloist from 2012 crossmen sounds like the 2000 lead solo guy for blue devils..

Spot on sir

8:45 look at the third trumpet from the front of the form. That’s why the cross men didn’t place higher. Not just that, but it’s indicative of the fact that the cross men just aren’t as clean as the other top corps. Yes this hit and soloist were absolutely fantastic, but you can’t deny dirty drill

LEGIT

Or if they had a better music score. But that's none of my business

YUP! Even as a new-generation DCI fan, I agree wholeheartedly. I'm tired of seeing the top 5 consist of the "best" (*COUGH* BD *COUGH*), albeit I have to make an exception for the Bluecoats, but even then, I'm not always happy with what they bring. As I said on another comment, despite being a newer World Class corps and not the top 12, Music City got a LOT of cheers and standing ovations this last season, when I was at the "home" show in Murfreesboro. Even during the performance. I attribute that mainly to being a show that everyone could love, even those that aren't into other corps except their one and only. MCDC is now getting a larger fanbase, mostly with moving from Open Class to World Class for the 2018 season, but also because their shows are enjoyable.

In your defense, 2017 in my opinion was a very awkward year for DCI, no show really blew me away either... but damn if 2018 didn't come back with vengeance. SVC, Crown, Bluecoats, Blue Knights, just blew me away with extremely high caliber shows.

Jameson2018 Rhodesian not a metamorph fan eh?

Metamorph one of the best shows of this era. Idk which show ur talking about but they got the whole place rocking

Perfectly said. A couple years ago I sat down to a show that left me bewildered. I saw 3823 contras ( uggg tubas) walk out. I said THIS is going to sound grand! I was solely disappointed in the lack of guts, risks and emotions that were front and center in the old days.

Marching Pioneer '93 was my first year in DCI/DCM, so likewise, I saw a lot of Star that Summer. That show was a paradigm shift for what was to come in DCI. But as they say, whoever leads the charge always gets bloody. Star got a lot of love and a lot of hate for that show from other corps, judges and fans. "Color guards can't just use sticks... Drumlines can't play their feature at 'mf' volume... You can just stand there and move your arms and legs and call that 'drill'..." Love it or hate it, that show was way ahead of its time and was performed at an extremely high level.

Exactly lol. My friend, who marched 3 years, thought Star finished 1st that year. He was shocked when I told him they got 2nd

Star fans want to paint this picture of a pack of brilliant rebels in Star 93. But design wise, this show fell short. Star's '93 show was meaningless, thematically. Why perform the classic Greek tragedy Medea? The woman kills her children as an act of revenge against her husband. Is that suited to these performers? Is the juvenile nose thumbing at the judges' scores from the previous year an appropriate thing to teach young performers about the world and how to handle criticism? No, of course not. True performing artists believe in a broader message and aren't swayed by critics. AUTHENTICITY - ZERO Is the medium of the marching arts the right medium for dramatizing this Greek tragedy? Are marital abuse and infanticide great subject matters for kids who are under 21? Of course not. It's a completely inauthentic choice. This Greek tragedy had nothing to do with these performers other than their being brainwashed into believing that they should kill their baby "Star" to exact revenge on the previous year's judges, and then quit the activity. Other than that, the subject matter has little or nothing to do with these performers. COHESION If you're telling the story of Medea, or alluding to it, you have some obligation to the depict the story visually, or at least allude to some aspect of the play. Throw the audience a bone and let them know what the dramatic action is. Show us how two sticks relate to the story, for example. Show us how the changes in mood and the progression of the story are supported by the equipment, choreography and drill sets. Show us how the dramatic action changes by the end of the show. How is the angry ending different from the angry beginning? What's the symbolism in the flag design? How are the drill sets evocative of the Greek tragedy and how it resolves? EMOTION Anger is an essential emotion in any drama, Greek or contenporary . But twelve minutes of anger is a a cry for help. Worse no one wants to pay $40 to see twelve minutes of performer's sour grapes over unfair scoring from the previous year. That's puerile. Instead of portraying the emotional range of the original story , this disgruntled design team created twelve minutes of cacophonous rage. If you're going to perform a Greek tragedy in twelve minutes, which is never recommended, you must refer to some aspect of the drama-- the lead character, allude to symbolism using the elements in the show-- color, costume, dance, shape, dialogue (music), pattern, shape and line. In this show, we see no variance in mood or emotion. It's the same rage throughout. Drum corps audiences love to stand up and cheer. It's an upbeat, youthful activity for young adults-- what to play next? The theme from Schindler's List? Oy vey, too heavy! UNIVERSALITY Medea is the darkest of dark Greek tragedy about a woman taking a stand against male domination. That's a universal message that could resonate with audiences, but you must start with the likeability of the lead character, and her menacing husband. The designers are obligated in some way to allude to or evoke first the innocence, the abuse and then the angry retribution. But these designers had difficulty visually conveying this story, or any kind of pattern that illuminated the concept of unfair treatment and the ultimate revenge. Instead, the audience just watches the show scratching their collective had asking "When do I clap? When she kills the kids?" UNIQUENESS Sure, it was unusual for a corps to play twelve minutes of tedious anger, and to do a minimalist approach to a marching arts show, removing color, range of emotion, range of tone and dressing all in black. But, let's be honest. The black leotards are reminiscent of 1960's black box theaters where abstract premises looked so fresh. (30 years later, to still be wearing black leotards in an abstract, minimalist production, not so original.) . The only reason why this show should be called a "game changer" is maybe because it's the first time in DCI history that an entire show was designed to be an angry nose-thumbing at the DCI judges and their score from the previous year-- a completely immature and laughable venture. Why not focus on the dramatic action of this incredibly powerful Greek tragedy, instead?

Jesu Spectre sad boi

@@jesuspectre9883 We agree for once! I don't get this revisionist history with Star 91, 92, or 93. Their shows were boring visually and aurally. They were too esoteric.

@@jesuspectre9883 You are entitled to your opinion. Star represented the last time in DCI history when people played truly great music and marched drill to create moving abstract art. Still the most influential corps in history.

Joseph Melancon saw it live. The loudest thing I’ve ever heard when they crunk everything up! The entire stadium shook 😲

As a diehard SCV fan, I say putting both Phantoms is excessive. Would've just put 1988. It was better.

+Theodore Greanias Star was the only corporate-sponsored corps in DCI history... I'm pretty sure they were FINE financially. They just made the move to Brass Theatre, which then became BLAST!

Star's leadership had put a lot of money into DCI. They had a falling out with the way DCI was heading as well as they felt the judges were not fair to Star. So they moved to the brass theatre and broke ties with DCI.

AKA took their ball and went home. Star was boring EVERY year.

Theodore Greanias Bill Cook actually funded them with 1 million dollars when they started so I'd say they were fine financially. They left DCI because they wanted shows longer than 14 minutes, and they moved to brass theatre

Madison did City of Angels two years in a row, ‘91 and ‘92

Zakary Martens Huge F if he got stepped on but he’s probably fine

Not a frog. It was a beatle.

NJHank Thank you!

The Music of the Night is my favorite song, so I just love that closer.

Ok so how did they do the disappearing phantom?

star worst part and contribution to the overly intellectual totally not understandable drum corps that tragically became the norm instead of the scorned never to happen again.

Don't forget 1989 where phantom should have beat Santa Clara

Neither of those things should've happened and didn't.

they should have, but didn't*

my band director marched in that show

1049berkeley: 93 Star's design was ground breaking, but 93 Cadets had a far more demanding and better executed show at finals. Star's GE and music were killer, but their marching execution was somewhat poor at finals. Repeated spacing and form errors at finals, especially in Medea. Whereas Cadets ran 200 + bpm nearly their entire show (not just the last 3 minutes) and were clean, clean, clean beginning to end. One of the best marching performances ever, and one of the hardest drills ever. Cadets' brass was nearly as good as Star and Cadets' percussion and guard were better (Cadets' percussion got dumped at finals...won quarters and semis but somehow lost finals?). To this day 93 Cadets is one of the most demanding and best executed shows ever to hit the field. And that takes nothing away from Star. Star 93 is and always will be legendary. But they were properly in 2nd place at finals, and were lucky to have only been .01 behind. That's the problem with judging art...scores don't always equate to impact on the activity. For example, 1980 SCV and 2014 Bluecoats.

Logan Benoist crown 13

Regiment 1993

Thank you! Thanks for watching!

No problem! Thanks for watching!

George McCormick no offense taken but as someone who was in the audience that night- Madison took it with their power and Uber clean footwork. There was no question to us. 😊 but I loved SCV too.

Enzo Espinosa wasn’t a rob tho

I think someone asked the judges who do you award first place? And they said Phantom, and some idiot thought they meant Phantom of the Opera. But by then it was too late. That’s my theory.

Another dumb armchair judge who has no idea what he’s talking about. Typical clueless drum corps fan.

@@totesgene jeez bro, its not that serious. just a joke.

@@enzoespinosa7629 sorry. It’s hard to tell with DCI fans.

Landon Garrison ...phantom regiment isn't in this video...

Desiderio Díaz Canseco crown did a tribute, yes. I think harloff was drum major this year?

You would be correct!

You mean Fairhope high school 2017 closer

I've heard years of feuding between which show was better; I included both closers so they were easy to compare. I have other videos with other shows; this isn't my only one. But I understand your point.

'89 is way more difficult and way cleaner (beyond the battery, which was excellent both years). '88 has 100x the emotional content.

That was santa clara

Brian Rector

Wtf scv deserves every sport on this list, but that's just my opinion. I'm a diehard vanguard fan

I can't submit the whole show due to copyright, but any specific excerpt your favorite?

Haha, will do next time! Thanks for watching!

Twice

Jaiden Barrett Thanks for watching!

Thanks for watching!

clark bolding betcha is was fun to do though!

One of the directors at my school is the Baritone solo in the beginning

Dog885 same.

ThatsNOTaTHING i’m pretty sure it’s a timbre thing especially if only part of the ensemble is using them also where can you even get those puppies nowadays

KennyDreadfuls the closest thing to that is phantom regiments intro in 2008

I thank you for your comment. I simply appreciate Crossmen 2012 as a trumpet player myself, and the outstanding range by the soloist. I made a second moments video, and had seriously considered 96' Phantom, but ended up not including it just yet. And I wholeheartedly agree, Tilt's closer was breathtaking. As a younger DCI fan and marcher, I have been exposed to more modern DCI, hence my appreciation for the newer shows.

+Theodore Greanias I don't have any issues was using Crossmen... Actually marched for them in 99. great organization and provided me with some of the best experience of my life.

Chris Hickie Crossmen had the best opener in my opinion

1993, thanks for watching!

Get involved my friend! Star 88, 89, 90, 91 especially are great!

What's the difference ? :)

A Getzen/DEG/Dynasty baritone (2-valve, too); the euphoniums were fatter (the bell and outer bows were more like a standard concert euph). I don't see a good closeup on a euph in this video to help show the difference. There's a decent shot at the end of the '87 SCV Finals video (ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-W_2FIRs8F7U.htmlm46s ), and Scouts '88 had a bari-euph duet for the mini-ballad before Malaguena.

Trying a different version, it was so good last year let's hit it again, etc etc. SCV did Russian-influenced shows for three years prior to this (closing with Great Gate of Kiev in both '86 and '87). Some corps played "signature" songs several years in a row -- Boston Crusaders famously played Conquest as their closer for decades, and 27th Lancers had Danny Boy. There's also this thing about putting your stamp on a piece of music and doing it better than anyone else. SCV has pretty much owned Phantom Of The Opera in the DCI world ever since 88-89. Nobody else has attempted it since, and probably never will again (we did it in Empire Statesmen at DCA in 2000, and we did pretty good, but comparisons to SCV were inevitable).

@@LJ-wo1wf People attempted, but didn't do so well. I know Bluecoats 2012, and possibly Phantasm show by Phantom Regiment (?). I'm not too sure, but they definitely aren't well known.

I have some in other videos!

Dr.Thearoy 1988 & 89... Which they won in 89. MEGA Scout fan here, but hands down the best show ever. Wrote an Enlish paper on 89 show... got a 95!

Justin Vargas best show ever? That’s some high praise...

im tryna figure that out too lol. i need to find the version without the camera shifting away from it to observe it

Lhotps789 they did the show twice. In 1988 which they placed second AND 1989 which they placed first

They did it both years. That's why 89 was so good.

I've never understood the fascination with synth either. Takes away from a great show.

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