Your ten favorite moments in drum corps history

[TerriTroop]

Not to take the thread off topic, but reading all of these responses gave me an idea: What if DCP or DCW or DCI had a video contest with this same "your personal top 10" concept and the winner gets tickets to finals or something?

Then.... DCP or DCI or DCW could make those videos viral!

[Todd Tanji]

No way I could narrow it down to only 10:

1974 Muchachos Jeff Kievitt opener solos

1976 BD Channel One Suite drum feature

1978 Bridgemen Spanish Dreams sop solo

1979 Phantom Elsa's Procession

1980 BD Dindi sop duet

1982 BD TO sop feature

1982 BD One More Time Chuck Corea monster chord

1987 Cadets Appalachian Spring company front tear down and re-formation

1984 BD Bacchanalia

1993 Star Medea

1995 Madison entire show

2002 Cavies entire show

2005 Cadets Dancer in the Dark

2005 Phantom Rhapsody in Blue

2007 BD Pegasus Fantasy

2008 Phantom Spartacus entire show

2010 BD entire show

[actucker]

Man, this is a tough topic.

00 SCV - Adaggio for strings (this is just one of my favorite pieces of all time)

95 Cavaliers - Jupiter hymn

93 Star - all of the closer (the video of them playing the closer in front of the Cadets says it all)

89 SCV - xylo solo (people just don't write like that any more)

00 Cavaliers - Diamond Cutter

03 SCV - slow burn waiting until almost 2 minutes into the show before an impact

02 Glassmen - accelerando in percussion intro (unbelievable control in that snare line)

96 Blue Devils - that first note, good lord

83 Bridgemen - blind folds and roto toms

2010 Phantom - I just love the opening sequence

There are so many. Hard to choose. This is just what comes to mind right away.

[84BDsop]

1984 BD Bacchanalia

Wow....THAT'S new! Not La Fiesta?

Not that I mind, as Bacchanalia was a blast to play, it's just that most of the love for individual chart from 84 either go to the drum solo or concert.

[DreaminMello]

Hmm takes some thought, I don't know if I could come up with 10, but here is my list

1. 2008 Phantom: Best Drum and Bugle Corps show ever!

2. SCV and Phantom, I believe in '89, making the Phantom disappear, remarkable

3. SCV and their tunnel very cool

4. SCV and the Bottle dance

5. Bridgemen drum solo Black Market Juggler, in a word WOW

6. 27th Lancers and Danny Boy, you knew it was coming, but still...

7. 1978 Phantom, Firebird Suite is a most amazing piece of music

8. 1982 Garfield, gotta love Gershwin

9. Troopers still love their uniforms (well, until this year)

10. I will make this one a personal one, 1978 Marion open Cadets of Greece came in 4th in Prelims beating a lot of big name corps! All we heard that day was "Cadets of Who?"

[uncle z]

I'll just cover the years I was around:

1975--After the Columbus 4th of July show, Andy Jacquart (Roundhead) punched the Great Root Bear in the head.

1976--Kilts' drum solo was "Linus and Lucy." Need I say more?

1977--Our contra line stole a flag and tymp and set up a buffet during retreat at the Wausau or Merrill show.

1978--I couldn't hear Pioneer's hornline on the field at the Oshkosh show, 'cuz of Spirit's hornline warming up a block away.

1979--Jim Schultz turns from the hornline arc, expels the remains of Puker '79 onto the ground, turns back and continues playing. Hard Core.

1980--Wow, Santa Clara.....7th place?? For reals?

1981--Free day in Boston's "Combat Zone." Need I say more?

1982--At the end of PR's show the guard threw these yellow plastic chains off the field. I forget where the show site was, but I remember it being REALLY windy, and the chains being blown back onto grounded tympani, with an awesome resulting din. Pure Dada. They should have kept it in the show.

1983-- *sigh*

[Todd Tanji]

Wow....THAT'S new! Not La Fiesta?

Not that I mind, as Bacchanalia was a blast to play, it's just that most of the love for individual chart from 84 either go to the drum solo or concert.

Yep, I really dug the arrangement of Bacchanalia. Had that classic BD sound.

[The Other Mike]

10 1970 Troopers rifle line "clicks"

9 1970 Blue Stars opener

8 Hearing 27 play Danny Boy ( any and every time )

7 Madison's God Bless the Child

6 Watching an 8 track tape player / car battery /speakers / 8 track tapes slide out the blown out window on bus 2 somewhere on I-59 August 1972

5 Killing of a Field Conductor

4 watching Spirit 80 blow the shutters off the house next to school that always complained my 42 peice band was too loud

3 Having "GOLD" seats in B'ham 80

2 Jeff Kivet playing the call of the bulls behind the stadium in Philly

1 Performing at the 1st DCI in Whitewater 72, not being god enough for finals but could still get seats on the 40 FOR finals

[leif]

I'm not going to give ten.

My number one moment. The last note of 85 Phantom Regiment. It sounds like a freight train full of buicks all blowing their horns at the same time.

I giggle like a little girl every time I hear that note.

Oh yeah. Pure low brass joy. They sure don't play like that any more!

[DCISuperfan]

I think I can add one we can all agree with. It may not really be classified as history quite yet, but Phantom Regiment's 2010 chords in the corridors before taking the field was one of the coolest things I have seen in DCI in quite a while.