doctor john

For the college football fans here, firing Leon May would be analogous to Northwestern firing Pat Fitzgerald after a trip to the Rose Bowl because the Wildcats didn't win the national title.

Love the Cavaliers' gray "Standing Man" T. Also, the classic navy Troopers logo T holds a special place in my heart because it was the first corps shirt I ever owned.

Last time I checked, Camp Randall's still sitting pretty up north...

SCV: cresc/decresc at the 1 min mark. Gives me chills every time.

It's funny you say that because whenever I think about this issue, the one show that comes to my mind as a standard in drum corps recording is '89 SCV. I also think most of the 90's recordings were pretty nice. 1992 was rough, but otherwise I don't have any real complaints with DCI recordings until 2004, when big hornline hits started to seem muted...

Take it home, Santa Clara!

This is pretty cool, but the omissions are glaring: no 83/84/87 Garfield, no 95 Cavies, no 06 Cadets. Also, Time couldn't get the appropriate clips directly from DCI and had to resort to the site-that-will-not-be-named (STWNBN)? Really? Call me a conspiracy theorist, but almost seems as if Time relied on what drum corps clips were available on the STWNBN...

To me, it's interesting that many of the 1980/90s recording sound BETTER overall than the more recent ones. I've had a couple of unbiased (non-drum corps) audiophile friends confirm this. Does anyone know if/how DCI changed their recording setup to accomodate amplification?

win

As far as I'm concerned, video quality is a lower priority than audio quality. In the past few years (2004-on), I haven't been all that impressed with DCI's ability to manage the miked pits in their recordings. Hearing corps live, one still gets blasted by hornlines but yet can now hear more clarity from the perc via amplification. This is generally good. However, when one listens to recordings, oftentimes the pit overpowers the hornline! This is definitely a recording issue and will need to be addressed by DCI before I get too excited about Blu-ray discs or HD video.

I'm thinking Jaws and the Alice in Wonderland characters...with a "yowza, yowza, yowza" from the pit after the feeding frenzy.

...what would the definitive parody corps have made fun of?

Agreed. That dude was definitely playing. The crowd reaction was such, though, that it makes the point moot anyway (or should I say "mute?"). Ah, Garfield '87. Best. Show. Ever.

1984 by a mile. One of the top 5 drum corps shows of all time, in my opinion.

Summertrain is definitely the BD show that I listen to the most. Lots of creativity with sound (Doppler effect with megaphones, pit/perc simulating train to a "T", GREAT useage of non-amped vocals, etc), lots of great solos, but what I like about it the most is its clear concept, which was driven home in style with the exit. This show really has it all.