the hammer Posted April 22, 2009 Share Posted April 22, 2009 Much as in pains me to say 1987 Garfield WOW! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Puppet Posted April 22, 2009 Share Posted April 22, 2009 (edited) Amen Brother! Seems like some little corps (Aneheim Kingsmen, Troopers, Mighty Saint Joe's, etc. etc.) could really march.BTW, I believe that was Phantom. Uh-huh! Troopers patented it. Early sixties - a 50 yard company front (the entire corps!) from the one to the fifty and a pinwheel to face the stands! Virtually every drill instructor who saw that said: "Well we can do that!" Many in the east emulated but never perfected that move. Let me add to the list: The Crusaders, Blessed Sac, St. Lucy's Cadets, St. Joseph Patron Cadets, Trumbull Troubadors to name just a few more - all in the late sixties early seventies. There are pictures posted on the > Historical Junior Corps Discussions - some old corps photos topic. I'd estimate there are well over a 1,000 photos of Drum Corps BITD on that thread - and with well over a million views (1,338,315) easily the single best historic compilation of our history just about anywhere on the planet. And yeah, Garfield '87 did a great job, too (the Copland Tune?) - course they go back to the sixties, too! Puppet Edited April 22, 2009 by Puppet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NR_Ohiobando Posted April 22, 2009 Share Posted April 22, 2009 Can't decide between these 4. Madison 75 (Slaughter on 10th Av.) Garfield 87 (App. Spring) 27th Alumni 1994 (Danny Boy) Madison 95 (rotating El Toro reprise) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lance Posted April 22, 2009 Share Posted April 22, 2009 Yeah, I'd have to go with the ones in Star 90 and 91 that come out of nowhere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lance Posted April 22, 2009 Share Posted April 22, 2009 Time began before 1980, I swear - ask anyone. And on the same token, good stuff came after 1972, I swear-ask anyone (well, almost). It's even possible that opinions people have posted about company fronts after 1980 are at least somewhat valid and stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fsubone Posted April 22, 2009 Share Posted April 22, 2009 I have to say that the Cadets have to be the masters of the company front, hands down. The older folks can say what they will about it being the corps from BITD, but you can't top the Cadets. 1987, 1995, 1998, 2000, 2007, all perfect. '87 is the classic, '95 had the company front with the Iwo Jima flagraising, 00' just had the amazingness of that ending, 2007 was so intense with the way they were playing and held those intervals. So I have to go for '98 for pure perfection. I don't think you can find better foot timing across an ensemble at one moment than during that move. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
84BDsop Posted April 22, 2009 Share Posted April 22, 2009 But what the Cadets did in 07, hitting that line at a one-step interval at that speed while playing never ceases to amaze me. I have never, NEVER, seen feet that clean at that speed in bright pants...say what you will about the narration (and I hated it), but that front and the closing of the show was vintage Cadet awesomeness! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PacMaN Posted April 22, 2009 Share Posted April 22, 2009 Vanguard's swerving company front in 2004's Scheherazade certainly comes to mind. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
84BDsop Posted April 22, 2009 Share Posted April 22, 2009 Vanguard's swerving company front in 2004's Scheherazade certainly comes to mind. Yeah....the way the form waved as the 2 guard people ran in front it was brilliant! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pooh bear Posted April 22, 2009 Share Posted April 22, 2009 without a doubt...1975 Madison Scouts that company front sent shivers down my spine every time....and I saw it a lot in 1975....pb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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