Lincoln Posted October 16, 2014 Share Posted October 16, 2014 Didn't care for '99. I loved '99. It has been mentioned on here that the summer was challenging for The Cadets that year, but I thought the show was incredible. The ballad they played that year is still one of the most beautiful they've ever performed. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d1358531 Posted October 16, 2014 Share Posted October 16, 2014 I loved On The Waterfront. The first 2/3 of the show at least. The last 1/3, not so much. I have to agree. The first part of that show kicked some serious butt! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2000Cadet Posted October 16, 2014 Share Posted October 16, 2014 Upon reflection, I love pretty much every show from 87-98. Didn't care for '99. Except for the insane tenor solo. (Seriously - it was like each year they had a contest to see how many more notes they could add to it.) Mike That was my rookie year and I almost didn't go back because of it. It was close to being my worst year of ever marching drum corps. I graduated high school really late in the year because of snow days, and to add insult to injury, I missed most of spring training and the drill was almost too hard for me to march in the start of tour. yes, Hockey Dad, '86 was during Michael Cesario's dark period (he was still consulting when not running his Phantom phantasies.) After the corps members realized what he had done to them at Governor's Island with Christopher Street during a national broadcast, there was definitely a sour mood..on the field, in the stands, and in the judging box. So much for learning Shenandoah and National Emblem for the occasion... For you young un's, 1986 was also the show where Hopkins and Cesario experimented with clarinets, had the hornline double as the color guard, and the corps did the rededication of the Statue of Liberty. This included Mrs. Reagan releasing the 50 doves (actually pigeons) who were suppose to circle the statue and fly away into the heavens. Instead, while the corps did the concert in front of the statue (on TV of course,) the pigeons pooped constantly (who isn't nervous in front of the national media) onto the corps below completely destroying a set of uniforms which were never able to be totally clean again. Most Cadet alums, somewhat cough at '86 remembering the broken cycle of '83.'84,'85 and...'87. from one who was there for all of them. This has to be the funniest story I've ever read. I loved '99. It has been mentioned on here that the summer was challenging for The Cadets that year, but I thought the show was incredible. The ballad they played that year is still one of the most beautiful they've ever performed. See my above comments. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xandandl Posted October 16, 2014 Share Posted October 16, 2014 Tekk, Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrumManTx Posted October 16, 2014 Share Posted October 16, 2014 I loved '99. It has been mentioned on here that the summer was challenging for The Cadets that year, but I thought the show was incredible. The ballad they played that year is still one of the most beautiful they've ever performed. Love love LOVE that ballad! One of my favorites. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skevinp Posted October 17, 2014 Share Posted October 17, 2014 I loved '99. It has been mentioned on here that the summer was challenging for The Cadets that year, but I thought the show was incredible. The ballad they played that year is still one of the most beautiful they've ever performed. I get goosebumps just remembering it. They have had some great ballads over the years, but that era seemed special. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjeffeory Posted October 17, 2014 Share Posted October 17, 2014 (edited) Waaaay OT (ish), but that was where I first saw drum corps, marched in that stadium 4 years in marching band State competition, and marched there my age-out year of drum corps. While that stadium is absolutely awful for drum corps on so many different level (weird side note: the parking lot is next to a cemetery), I will always have fond memories of that stadium & drum corps show. The sideline was not flush with the stands, and instead was at an odd angle so if a member found themselves lined up with the bleachers they were likely facing the wrong way. Also, I saw Don Mattingly play there. As well as Derek Jeter and other Yankee HoF'ers when The Clippers were the Yankee AAA affiliate Same, thing here, except I did NOT march my age out year in Cooper's Stadium. I did march 5 years of HS marching band there for state finals. Frankly I thought that stadium was GREAT for marching shows from an audience perspective. I remember that the sidelines were close to the stands ( check my senior year plaque).... The mounds on the field were pretty bad for marching though. I saw a few corps members bite the dust.... Not only is Greenlawn cemetery creepy, but Central Point wasn't a very good area of town even back then... Edited October 17, 2014 by jjeffeory Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeD Posted October 17, 2014 Share Posted October 17, 2014 OMFG DUDE! You're missing out! 1996, 1997, 1998 for example (all three are my favorites!). 1997 might be my all-time favorite Cadet show (besides the ones I marched in 70, 71 and 72, of course! ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perc2100 Posted October 17, 2014 Share Posted October 17, 2014 DUM DUM DUM! ...I also hope they have a guard like 1996. I don't know much about guard, but that guard line was fantastic. Which is why I believe if they stick with this program and don't muck it up, this should be a program worth talking about (hopefully). I agree: I"m really excited to hear Cadets tackle this show, and it kind of feels like it may be in the vane of some of Cadets' greatest musical programs of the 80's and 90's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perc2100 Posted October 17, 2014 Share Posted October 17, 2014 Same, thing here, except I did NOT march my age out year in Cooper's Stadium. I did march 5 years of HS marching band there for state finals. Frankly I thought that stadium was GREAT for marching shows from an audience perspective. I remember that the sidelines were close to the stands ( check my senior year plaque).... The mounds on the field were pretty bad for marching though. I saw a few corps members bite the dust.... Not only is Greenlawn cemetery creepy, but Central Point wasn't a very good area of town even back then... Favorite story about that: one that I tell all my students annually in regards to recovering after a mishap during a show Cadets 1995 had a plethora of props throughout the field, and at times members had to back into sets blindly. At one point in the opener (John Williams' "The Rievers," tempo around 200), the tenor line was coming around and one of the tenors tripped over the park bench and face-planted on the turf. IIRC he tripped over one of the covered mounds. He popped up right before a pseudo-feature, and the tenor was off one of the j-bars (the two hooks that used to attach drum to carrier) and the tenors were on a severe tilt because of the fall. When the member popped up right before the halt/solo he bent his upper body significantly so the drums would visually look straight, played the solo (pretty cleanly), and when he stepped off for the next phrase he fixed the drum and put it back on the j-hook properly. It was one of, if not THE, most impressive recoveries I'd ever seen! IIRC I think you're right about being in one of the 'box seats' you were pretty close to the field, but I was never a fan performing in that stadium: it did, however, mean a lot to me to perform there in drum corps as that was the stadium I saw my first live drum corps show and it meant a lot to me to be able to march my home show and kind of bring my drum corps career full circle 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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