The compressed audio on RU-vid does not do credit to the incredible power of this corps. You CAN NOT believe how loud the hit was during the company front. Louder than any other corps that night. Yes, I was there.
I think you can tell just how loud they were by how quiet the screams of the audience are. Given that the microphones were probably closer to those screams than anything on field really tells you something.
At DCI South, when they hit the first note of the show (Serenade for Strings) there was an audible gasp from the crowd at Grant Field. I imagine that happened quite a few times that season.
sadly, there is little to no chance that we will ever hear anything like this again. The talent in todays corps is supreme, but using a Marvel analogy, the hammer they are wielding is a Stanley. The guys in this video were wielding Mjolnir...man, I MISS G bugles.
I saw this at Iver Wynn Stadium in Hamilton, Ontario Canada and DCI Midwest in Whitewater, WI. I still think my socks that were blown off are still there clinging to the lights. It was an amazing show.
+Derek Schumaker That is awesome. I actually wondered if Phantom used euphonium or baritone bugles prior to 2000. I've asked a few people and they didn't know. Did you guys use a mix of euphs and baris? Or just euphs, like today?
I played euphonium in 78. It was the first year they were used. I recall only 4 of us baritone players were given euphoniums to play that year as an experiment, and it grew from there
Leif aged out with BD in '86, but was never a member of their drum staff. He was a member of the Cavaliers drum staff for quite a few years starting around 1987, but was never caption head.
UGH, I remember this year. Some poor fuck had to load all of those bells onto the truck every day that summer. But that was drum corps back then - big, loud, and tough.
they've made a small comeback in the last few years courtesy of Val Schaff. John Wooton has had several sets (Pearls this time) made for the Southern Miss drumline. interesting pairing with the split shells/kevlar heads
@Micah Lall-Trail Modern drill is because they assume people have no sense of attention. They have to OVERSTIMULATE the audience. Modern drill is like being on some psycho-drug and you feel depleted after watching it.
Modern drill is like watching a sociopath at work. The designers warp you into believing it's fantastic, but when you really look at it, much of it is sloppy, lacking basic rudiments. One is distracted with smoke and mirrors, and forget, wait...do we need MIKES to hear horns?!
