No frills drum corps. Just raw power from the brass and precision from the drum line, while at the same time wearing traditional uniforms and head gear. And playing music that has a real melody. This is what attracted me to march drum corps.
I am what you consider a "newbie" to Drum Corps. Since I live in Madison, I search the archives to learn about the history, the prolific sound and knowing that I support the very best Corps EVER!!!! MYNWA my Corps!!!! YOU rock MY WORLD!!
I was in Phantom Regiment that year and we played at this show too. We traveled to many of the same shows with Madison. I remember giving half of my sandwich to the guy that played the big bass drum, those guys were so hungry. When the other Madison guys saw that sandwich they swarmed around like a bunch of seagulls. But yeah, they were awesome! That's when drums corps was best!! Thanks for posting.
I was so envious of you guys, I loved Phantom Regiment. I was a snare drummer for a Class A corps from Cedarburg, Wisconsin, The Thunderbolts. We folded in 1979...very sad day for all of us. I had a chance 5 yrs later to have all the uniforms and equipment for FREE if we wanted to form a new corps w/out the Thunderbolt name, but my friend Dave was stubborn and we lost out while I was finishing my time in the service overseas. Unfortunately, drum corps has changed to much, am not the NUT I used to be
It's funny I marched Scouts in the late 80s and we made an art of scavenging food from other corps too....we were a little behind in the food truck arms race.
We also had a hunger to win every sow we were in. It wasn't anything that needed to be talked about, we all just felt it in our bones. We hadn't finished what we started in 74. It had to be 1975. We had an incredible staff, but not like the kids have today. It's amazing how much we got done individually or just in our section. We didn't have the food the kids have today either. Drum Corps was a much leaner, meaner animal in the 70's than it is today. I still love REAL drum corps of today.
Wow, the power. That was my first year to march and it sucked the breath out of my lungs to hear them! Thank you for posting this; you have no idea how much I needed to hear and see this today!! Scouts are celebrating their 75th year and I saw them the other night and was mighty impressed, but the Scouts in 1975 just broke my heart, they were so good!
Now they write their own music to go with the marching routine. They don't take any recognizeable music and build a routine around it. I guess it's good if that's what you know now,but I liked it better the old way. Hear them start a tune I know, hear their rendition, and see they show they built around it.
I dunno how much Id want brought back considering it my primary section front ensemble exists now and isnt just an add on to battery. and the use of amplification allows for a more nuanced creation of parts, as well as a better way to convey these softer tender moments. but certainly bring back elements, get some bugles in for some features, play that style of music, chill the fuck out on some of the mics, definitely bring back someold school uniforms. I fucking love this era a lot, i just love being in front ensemble more and not having to hit an instrument so hard it gives me irreparable carpal tunnel
'75 & '76 were great years for DCI. I can only imagine how thrilling it must have been at Franklin Field for finals nights. Folks had to know they were seeing a new era in the activity.
One of my all-time favorite drum and bugle Corps, I used to play their records from the late 50s over and over again, at that time they had glockenspiels, in their ranks marching on the field. I never cared for them even back then, Scout house was the only other from court that use them at that time. I remember Madison Scouts not fully complying with DCI rules and regulations, consequently they were being penalized in their scores. I was at a competition where they were competing, and I was talking to a couple of their members and they told me how they would being penalized. I also purchased from one of the scouts my volume two of Drum Corps history book. I have both volumes 1 and 2. They were using it as a fundraiser I believe might cost was $85 After Time, let's stop that I was speaking to inform me that it was available volume to I immediately, ask him where can I get one he said we have them, I told him I'd like to purchase one and he went right to their, souvenir truck and brought one back to me . I don't remember the exact year, but the following year they started to conform and their scores continue to rise. In my opinion DCI is the reason for the demise of what was one of the greatest youth activities in North America. They have turned it into a marching band competition, superimposed on a three ring circus. Today July 1st 2023, we no longer have real drum and bugle Corps. May they all rest in peace.
that is who that guy looks like ! ! been wanting to ask but felt a little awkward, hopefully he is reading this AND not offended. . . . dude was (probably still) a monster player.
Wow... I needed this to deal with depression. I loved watching the Scouts and MF (live) when I lived in Madison til 73... and love this classic look and sound of that era. Now back in Madison again (my roots)... getting to see the Scouts again (and the 2006 alumni project). Very special... though different. A serendipitous encounter with their 75 director (Bill Howard) a couple years ago felt very fulfilling... a chance to honor someone who gave me so much.
Back in the day when a 20 year old looked like a 49 year old father of 3. Also, this would have received a total score of 0.00 in 2021. Just kidding around; trumpets were insane and props all around…I was 3 then so I don’t recall. But when I was 5 years old, I was obsessed with the HS marching band at our local football games. Had to wait until the 7th grade; yes, thick glasses and pants that never fit, ultimate band geek. But who cares, it’s what I loved. We were a tiny band of like 35 instrumentals and 10 color guard; never placed in any competition…but we practiced like everyone else. Sorry, no climax to this story whatsoever.
To this day, Madison’s “MacArthur Park” remains a high-water-mark in DCI ❤! Totally unhinged wailing by soprano bugleist Chris Forbes (then known as Chris Metzger), who eventually became a band director himself, somewhere in Wisconsin, I believe. MYNWA! ❤️😁
well drum corps now still doesnt use woodwinds. and they did have marching xylo and bells, as well as marching timpani, and a cymbal line, which more or less fills the roll of pit close enough for the kind of music they were doing. granted that means pit had to slam the fuck out of their instruments, and brass had to fucking beam their sound to the press box. but it goes to show that some of our modern methods are a little overkill. Certainly not all of it, after all I'm in pit and my section exists the way it does for mics, and without amplification it makes it a lot harder to convey those soft tender moments and swells effectively. but theirs something about the raw unadulterated power of this early stuff that makes me kinda smile.
Thats a soprano, thats the way the valves used to be before they moved them to the top like today. Thats the type i started with when I stared in drum corps in 1979
One of the greatest moments in drum and bugle corps history.
This is one of Madison's greatest arrangements, and performed with passion, emotion and excellence.
No frills drum corps. Just raw power from the brass and
precision from the drum line, while at the same time
wearing traditional uniforms and head gear. And playing
music that has a real melody. This is what attracted me
to march drum corps.
I am what you consider a "newbie" to Drum Corps. Since I live in Madison, I search the archives to learn about the history, the prolific sound and knowing that I support the very best Corps EVER!!!! MYNWA my Corps!!!! YOU rock MY WORLD!!
I was in Phantom Regiment that year and we played at this show too. We traveled to many of the same shows with Madison. I remember giving half of my sandwich to the guy that played the big bass drum, those guys were so hungry. When the other Madison guys saw that sandwich they swarmed around like a bunch of seagulls. But yeah, they were awesome! That's when drums corps was best!! Thanks for posting.
That guy was Jim Yearous and he was a wild man. And Yes we were hungry
Drum corps was best in 1976
@@karenlivingston8416 True! I marched in 1980 but 1976 is the year I discovered drum corps
and my life (musical) was changed from that
day forward.
I was so envious of you guys, I loved Phantom Regiment. I was a snare drummer for a Class A corps from Cedarburg, Wisconsin, The Thunderbolts. We folded in 1979...very sad day for all of us. I had a chance 5 yrs later to have all the uniforms and equipment for FREE if we wanted to form a new corps w/out the Thunderbolt name, but my friend Dave was stubborn and we lost out while I was finishing my time in the service overseas. Unfortunately, drum corps has changed to much, am not the NUT I used to be
It's funny I marched Scouts in the late 80s and we made an art of scavenging food from other corps too....we were a little behind in the food truck arms race.
Never gets old!
We also had a hunger to win every sow we were in. It wasn't anything that needed to be talked about, we all just felt it in our bones. We hadn't finished what we started in 74. It had to be 1975. We had an incredible staff, but not like the kids have today. It's amazing how much we got done individually or just in our section. We didn't have the food the kids have today either. Drum Corps was a much leaner, meaner animal in the 70's than it is today. I still love REAL drum corps of today.
Who could argue with that? Sent chills up my spine!!!!
I remember watching this in person like it was yesterday
This is an EXCELLENT arrangement. WOW!! The screamers just nailed it. What a performance. Thanks for sharing.
Wow, the power. That was my first year to march and it sucked the breath out of my lungs to hear them! Thank you for posting this; you have no idea how much I needed to hear and see this today!! Scouts are celebrating their 75th year and I saw them the other night and was mighty impressed, but the Scouts in 1975 just broke my heart, they were so good!
Unbelievable soloist. back when corps played music everyone loved.
Back when corps played music everyone KNEW... You're right.
Now they write their own music to go with the marching routine. They don't take any recognizeable music and build a routine around it. I guess it's good if that's what you know now,but I liked it better the old way. Hear them start a tune I know, hear their rendition, and see they show they built around it.
the song that made me fall deeply in love with drumcorps so many years ago..... #bringoldskoolback
I dunno how much Id want brought back considering it my primary section front ensemble exists now and isnt just an add on to battery. and the use of amplification allows for a more nuanced creation of parts, as well as a better way to convey these softer tender moments. but certainly bring back elements, get some bugles in for some features, play that style of music, chill the fuck out on some of the mics, definitely bring back someold school uniforms. I fucking love this era a lot, i just love being in front ensemble more and not having to hit an instrument so hard it gives me irreparable carpal tunnel
1975 was my Freshman year in HS....FINALLY I got my opportunity to play in 1 of the best HS Bands in the State and even won National Competitions.
It is possible that this show was the BEST conceived drum corps show EVER -- WOW :)
This and Blue Devils in 1976, the next year.
Cavaliers 2002
The Hawthorne muchachos was pretty good. Even though they were disqualified.
27th lancers had the most inovative show that year
This is all out awesome, no holds barred victory!
that's the real deal.. Awesome
This and legend of one eyed sailor *perf*
Joel Zapata ---- THANK YOU! I could not agree more!
+2 !!
'75 & '76 were great years for DCI. I can only imagine how thrilling it must have been at Franklin Field for finals nights. Folks had to know they were seeing a new era in the activity.
Man...Maynard Ferguson would be smiling!!!!
Not sure what year. But I think Maynard was a guest announcer at DCI
I think it was 1979
IIRC, he was unimpressed. That's not right, he was vehemently opposed to the concept of musical competition
@@b2pi damn thats crazy, but i dont recall asking
@@flammenwerfer8048 no one asked for your input
Marching with these guys who inspired me through the years in the 2006 Alumni Reunion Project was a great honor!
OH MY GOD. How am I just now seeing this? Amaaaaaaaazing!!!!
The neckerchiefs are a sharp touch!
One of my all-time favorite drum and bugle Corps, I used to play their records from the late 50s over and over again, at that time they had glockenspiels, in their ranks marching on the field. I never cared for them even back then, Scout house was the only other from court that use them at that time. I remember Madison Scouts not fully complying with DCI rules and regulations, consequently they were being penalized in their scores. I was at a competition where they were competing, and I was talking to a couple of their members and they told me how they would being penalized. I also purchased from one of the scouts my volume two of Drum Corps history book. I have both volumes 1 and 2. They were using it as a fundraiser I believe might cost was $85 After Time, let's stop that I was speaking to inform me that it was available volume to I immediately, ask him where can I get one he said we have them, I told him I'd like to purchase one and he went right to their, souvenir truck and brought one back to me . I don't remember the exact year, but the following year they started to conform and their scores continue to rise. In my opinion DCI is the reason for the demise of what was one of the greatest youth activities in North America. They have turned it into a marching band competition, superimposed on a three ring circus. Today July 1st 2023, we no longer have real drum and bugle Corps. May they all rest in peace.
Fantastic! My favorite from back in the day. Marvelous arrangement, ensemble, and solo performance.
my dad is on that field ❤
MUCHACHOS SHOULD HAVE WON....... TOO MANY RULES IN DCI THESE DAYS.......... MISS THE GOOD OLD DAYS OF CLASSIC DRUM CORPS!
Yup. Scouts were good, but benefited big time from Chachos DQ
Daaaaaaammnn!!! This SO made my morning and makes me look forward to marching again! (Atlanta Corpsvets are the closest) Thank you for posting!!!!!
Best time of my life... French horns rule
Dave Sparka on the trumpet is OUTSTANDING!
How about Beckman, Baierl, Forbes Metzger??
tone of those toms in the intro, class
thanks for the upload Alan, best rendition of this song that i've heard so far....great solo too!
I'm still a bit amazed at how much we just stood around and wandered over to our spot back in the day.
what we have lost.
Never knew John Lennon was such a screamer
that is who that guy looks like ! ! been wanting to ask but felt a little awkward, hopefully he is reading this AND not offended. . . . dude was (probably still) a monster player.
Yep...after the Beatles split up, John went to Madison!
@@jeffkoehncomedy2370he must have paid dci off to let him march in his mid 30s lol
My old high school band director played snare in Scouts that year. He's the one that got me turned on to drum corps.
A few corps did this arrangement in the mid 70s but Madison won a world title with it
They had help
Awesome! Wow!
Saw a similar performance by them at the US Open that year. Amazing corps.
Wow... I needed this to deal with depression.
I loved watching the Scouts and MF (live) when I lived in Madison til 73...
and love this classic look and sound of that era.
Now back in Madison again (my roots)...
getting to see the Scouts again (and the 2006 alumni project).
Very special... though different.
A serendipitous encounter with their 75 director (Bill Howard) a couple years ago felt very fulfilling... a chance to honor someone who gave me so much.
Rips, trills, slurs, and screamers! 👍
I was at this show the 70s were the best. Dutchmen, Dutchboys, KW Northstars Alumini.
OMGYES. So much this.
If kids in my hs marching band cared even a fraction of that amount, we would be so much better
Back in the day when a 20 year old looked like a 49 year old father of 3. Also, this would have received a total score of 0.00 in 2021. Just kidding around; trumpets were insane and props all around…I was 3 then so I don’t recall. But when I was 5 years old, I was obsessed with the HS marching band at our local football games. Had to wait until the 7th grade; yes, thick glasses and pants that never fit, ultimate band geek. But who cares, it’s what I loved. We were a tiny band of like 35 instrumentals and 10 color guard; never placed in any competition…but we practiced like everyone else. Sorry, no climax to this story whatsoever.
yer so funny , score of 0 haha, the really funny part is absolutely nobody gives a tiny fuck about what it would score now
Corps "bugles" were actually always trumpets, going back to the US Army's original M1892 Field Trumpet in G.
What are you talking about?
@@TerryMcclure-ri7os I’m still figuring that out myself
Ah, I remember the concert standstill, Sure cut down on those M&M tics.
that's a great story!
To this day, Madison’s “MacArthur Park” remains a high-water-mark in DCI ❤! Totally unhinged wailing by soprano bugleist Chris Forbes (then known as Chris Metzger), who eventually became a band director himself, somewhere in Wisconsin, I believe.
MYNWA! ❤️😁
Trumpeter. Playing in that upper register is challenging ain't it ??? Yesir !
wow.......................
I miss the park and bark numbers
I was with the Blue Devils and competing against them was fun but dang talk about power houses!!!
10 people left their cake out in the rain.
And now they are gone. :(
PURE. UNADULTERATED. POWER.
That tone, no pit, no band instruments
How did they sound so good without pitted percussion, amplifiers, woodwinds, and single-piston & rotary G-bugles??!?
well drum corps now still doesnt use woodwinds. and they did have marching xylo and bells, as well as marching timpani, and a cymbal line, which more or less fills the roll of pit close enough for the kind of music they were doing. granted that means pit had to slam the fuck out of their instruments, and brass had to fucking beam their sound to the press box. but it goes to show that some of our modern methods are a little overkill. Certainly not all of it, after all I'm in pit and my section exists the way it does for mics, and without amplification it makes it a lot harder to convey those soft tender moments and swells effectively. but theirs something about the raw unadulterated power of this early stuff that makes me kinda smile.
Does anyone have sheet music for that soprano solo?
xylophone !!! cooool!!!!!!
P.S. Those sops at the end were FIERCE!
They were walking on water that year.
Real drummers still strap-up.
As do real front ensemble members lol
haha the drumline drummers are not real drummers,
Slide Whistle Central agreed
I miss drum corps.
ikr
Sorry, every, SHOW we were in.
what horn is that soloist playing?
Thats a soprano, thats the way the valves used to be before they moved them to the top like today. Thats the type i started with when I stared in drum corps in 1979
HM2 retired all trumpets are soprano
that's a soprano "Bugle" keyed in "G" .
Valve & rotor Soprano. That's what I started with in late 75
So, its more easy play higher?
I own 22 of these bugles.
2 words WOW OMG
Need some Brigdeman shuffle 1980 show
@splungeman stoge, you mean The mainheart Furgison?
I think it's kinda sad that they ditched the neckerchiefs. Made them look more unique.
does anyone know the baritone soloists name?
Chris Tomsa who is now a instructor with Madison
hard to believe we are approaching the half century mark
I'm a huge fan of THIS DCI......more face melting soprano solos, less ballet.....
Can anyone tell me why Madison put their podium 2.5 yards off the 50 for so many years? Is there a significance in that number?
tommytimp probably so soloists can stand off the 50 and be seen by the high cam
It doesn't look like most of their soloists are on the 50. But I haven't heard any other explanations.
Who is the soloist?
Sop soloist is Chris Metzger, who continued to teach the hornline throughout the 80s.
The poor guy on the right end of the snare line having to
shake the tambourine for the entire song. Why?
How to play a piston rotary
with baumgardt charts
Yeah, wow, Ray was THE MAN.
Ray was an amazing guy played for him and admired his musical abilities
elvordisms
There's 25 yr old men in that corps😂😂😂
Browk to you by Madison scaut and bong diancarol sangcap bong r Ignacio UA-cam to day is fevrary 15 2024
So when are they marching!? Jk
Lots of standing.
Sounds so freaking stupid with the Bells and xylophone just ruins a
Drum Corps sound
gotta disagree, couple guys whalin on some keyboards,
Ken R. Back then it did. There’s some great arranging now.
If this would have been amplified it would have blown out the speakers.
The mac artur song in madisonscaut in dci