i REMEMBER being in the audience and literally everyone there was holding their breaths when they almost ran over that cymbal and i remember cheering when he picked it back up god that was amAzing
Up until 2015 all shows would have been posted by WGI so you could watch pretty much every show. However around the start of the 2016 season that's when the Contract with Flomarching started and they deleted all of the shows and started striking down any shows people posted. The only reason Pulse, POW, and Chino Hills HS are always posted is due to Box 6 owning the shows and have copyright protection to their shows.
Fisher Goodwin I don’t know if it works the same way with WGI but I marched DCI, and I got a link to a video of our show that wasn’t on RU-vid. Also: we constantly got vids of our show throughout the season for educational reasons. I guess it just depends on the group.
I remember in wind ensemble a cymbal strap broke when I went for a big hit. Cymbal flew in the air and I caught it and did the hit 😂. Luckiest ever, I just used a mallet rest of the time and did a suspended type thing. Cymbal straps always break at the most in inopportune time. Nice save!
Damn ive seen this show so many times and I never even knew a cym was dropped. I cant imagine dropping a cym for finals and not having it for the cym feature
Does anyone know what the show looks like after 2:35? I literally can't watch anything other than the guy that dropped the cymbal. Absolutely incredible performance!
My marching band used it in a show one time entitled "War"--it was our highest scoring show in school history and got 1st in the state. One of the judges said on tape that he'd "never seen a song create such an emotional effect over a show before." Emotional song, emotional movements--it was a great pick in all three cases in my mind.
Does anyone know who sings the vocal parts? It sounds a lot like Jon Licht's voice to me right after the snare solo and i'm really curious who that is.
How’d the cymbal drop did his hand come out the strap or did the strap slip off the cymbal I’m guessing the strap came off since he didn’t do the rest of the show with it after he picked it up
Bruh. How did this show get second under Broken City? I understand WGI isn't all about the music but broken city spent two minutes hardly playing anything and these guys within the first 2 minutes have already played a show I'd deem to be first. What happened to WGI being about music? I hate that shows where the books hardly have notes in them can win nowadays. It's so boring. You get invested in a group with fantastic music and body to see another group do a bunch of body and no music win.
marimbalick well... the musicality within that smaller amount of playing was superior, you must be one of those people who have yet to learn that the space and dynamics of a piece are equally important, further one group had a huge mess up, good recovery sure but a mess up nonetheless that effected musicality and visual things happening. Also broken cities show was in a GE sense a little more high concept and loaded with meaning (not to say this isn’t a master piece either, everything in this is amazing) but overall broken city just had harder stuff when they played, a better concept and execution visually of said concept, and a better run on the day. And it’s not like DCI where you can make a reasonable argument that “BD places higher than they should a lot of times just cause they’re BD” or anything like that because the environment and dynamics surrounding these two groups aren’t there for that, broken city has consistently put out quality products and not placed first when in my opinion they had the ability to do so (cough cough spine cough). These groups both had fantastic shows just one in my opinion edges out the other in multiple areas. Pulse has consistently put out products that I love but this was definitely the second place show, and you know what I’m not mad about that cause I don’t love the groups I love for how they place, I’ve loved broken city for a while but they haven’t been able to hack a first place in a bit, I love Atlanta quest and GMU and Equinox but we see how that turns out for them, and MCM are inconsistent in their scoring as well, with the jump from 17 to 18 being the most notable.
