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Lancers at the 1980 Olympics gets my vote! I marched in 27th Lancers in 1981 and heard many veterans of 1980 talk about their performance at the 1980 Olympics. Including teflon mouthpieces and anti-freeze valve oil. It would be interesting to hear from those lancers that could recount the challenges of playing in those frigid temperatures. This would seem to be the hands-down winner of the coldest show performance!

I was watching Crossmen 1997 the other day, and I was thinking......no one really does shows like that anymore, and it's really unfortunate. It's not like jazz is low-brow music, there's certainly a lot of complexity in jazz music, but it doesn't even seem to be about that, no drum corps is truly doing a JAZZ show this year, or anything remotely groovy. The closest I can remember in recent history would be Bluecoats 2005 and 2006 (who doesn't love that 2nd movement in Bluecoats 06, with the trumpet feature and all that, oh it's great!) But not even the Blue Devils seem to really be playing jazz anymore, the last true show they did was 2004, and a bit in 2005, Dance Derby definitely had a lot of cookin moments in it, but overall everyone is just doing a lot of bland neo-tonal symphonic "drum corps music" (you know...I don't mean this as a bash, but it gets to a point where a lot of shows sound the same. The same approaches to tonality in every arranger, except for Wayne Downey and at times Bocook, but it gets tiresome. Every corps begins their shows with the same fanfare thing in Bb), and it's kind of disappointing. Not that I don't like classical music obviously from all eras, I love Phantom's show, and I LOVE BD's show this year, but I really don't see why there is a lack of delving into the world of jazz repertoire. It's kind of sad that corps have been playing 80s pop songs but not a lick of Duke Ellington or Charles Mingus. That's all I have to say, talk amongst ya selves :(

Just watched the 2019 Crown show again for the first time since nearly August 2019. Loved it musically and visually, but I never thought the props helped with the story. And after my recent viewing, I'm not sure that I've seen a show where the theme that was explained and the props that were used did less for a show than this one. I enjoyed it nonetheless.

I'm into music/performances like this. Loved how the musicians were pumped up after this fantastic performance. The BD, SCV, and CAV played bits of this piece in recent years. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EClOIrJpX08

What does ancient Greek Mythology (Homer) have to do with any of this?

I HATE THEMES. SCREW THEMES. NO MORE THEMES!!! Sorry - just had to get that off my chest, and for exactly the kind of reason you're talking about....

Devils doing Buddy Rich and Mangione was always good.