top 5 moments in drum corps history

[liebot]

1. Garfield 87 - Dissolving company front

2. Star 91 - Drill at the end

3. Cadets 00 - Company front

4. Madison 97 - "The" chord until the end

5. SCV 89 - Music of the Night

[tommytimp]

In no particular order:

1. SCV bottle dance 1979. What a crowd reaction.

2. End of Madison's show in 1988. Loudest I've ever heard.

3. Bridgemen's snare line bringing out the blindfolds in Cary, NC in 1983.

4. The all-night runoff in DeKalb, 1982. PR's second show that night may be the best performance I've ever seen.

5. Phantom's break from minor to major in their 96 opener. Compares favorably to the same moment in Ravel's 'Bolero.'

My own show:

Knights 1985. The hit in "Could We Start Again, Please." High point of the best small show ever done.

[Canadacorps]

1. 1988 Madison Scouts Championship

2. 1989 Santa Clara Vanguard's "Phantom of the Opera"

3. Cavaliers 2000

4. Star 1993

5. Sitting in the crowd before, during, and after the 99 Scouts JC Superstar on finals night.

Edited November 3, 2006 by Canadacorps

[Phantom&Phitch]

1>- Cadets threepeat "East, East, East...."

2<- SCV 97-03

3>- DCIs/Phantoms first tie/win

4<- Star 93s impact on body movement and expression in DCI

5>- Phantoms current resurgence

[Ryan H. Turner]

Knights 1985. The hit in "Could We Start Again, Please." High point of the best small show ever done.

Tom? When are you just going to admit that I'm right, and that the end of 83 show was the best? EVER.

Edited November 3, 2006 by Ryan H. Turner

[skewerz]

in no particular order...

Z Pull...

SCV going through the tunnels, and coming out with different colored pants...

skyriders 'west side story" in the grey, black, and white uni's

the first time I saw the troopers sunburst

the very first time I heard "conquest"

[jake_the_hydra]

For me, personally

1- last minute of 2000 Cavaliers

2- "Jupiter" chorale from 1995 Cavaliers

3- Last 30 seconds of Star 91

4- Cavaliers 2002 end of opener + ballad + fight club

5- Phantom 96 opener

[NeutralNovice]

GEEZ, all of this sounds amazing!!! I wish I got into DCI much earlier!

I have been only watching for a few years and have watched some classic shows. Here is my list...

SCV's final push in 1989

Bottle Dance

Cavies Drill in the past couple of years

don't know

don't know

Next conquest... get all of those DVD's of previous Championships! Save save save!

[TchMuzk]

The five drum corps moments that have impacted ME the most (in descending order):

5) Bottle Dance- 1982 SCV. Sure it fell apart and died, but it was the most EXCITING thing I'd ever seen live

4) Dissolving company front- 1987 Garfield Cadets

3) DOWNWARD chromatic run while the Z-pull RETURNS to a Z- 1990 Cadets of Bergen County

2) Into the tunnel and changing pants- 1985 Santa Clara Vanguard

1) Singing You'll Never Walk Alone with the combined Madison Scouts Alumni Corps and Competition Corps

[cat699]

for me has to be these in not any order

1, Star 1991 the bartone line! (Im a snare boy but those guys rocked)

2, Santa Clara 1989 (the whole show) the year I got in to dci and the show which made me want to march snare!

3, Cadets 1994 (nar not 84, the reason for 94 is near the end of the main drum break mid section of the show the tenners and whole percussion attack though to the end, there is a short clip of the judges tape of that year and the judge loses it, in one word amazing!)

4, cadet 1983 zpull

5, star 93 the closer best every!!! full of energy!