Freelancers first Corp I ever seen. 1981, yes, I'm old! Been drum Corp fan since. Sad to see them go, but Mandarins doing it! Go sac, and go Mandarins!
@@freyravin9068Freelancers were the first drum corp a bunch of us band kids from Ponderosa high school in Shingle springs went to see . Totally blew our minds ! Hughes stadium and we were in such a damn hurry to get to the show that we locked our car keys in the car. Afterwards we started going to watch Blue devils and Santa Clara Van Guard rehearse every chance we got. Loved them all equally. Miss lying to our parents and hightailing it down to the bay area to get our fix . Miss Freelancers but these guys are totally awesome.
I came to the awesomeness of this corps watching them live in Denton, and sitting two rows in front of Key Poulan, listening to his commentary. Between his brass writing and Harmsen’s percussion chops, this corps is a serious contender. As for this specific show, I got to watch it live in Canyon last Tuesday, and was blown away by that insane hornline. Way to go, Mandarins!
So, so wildly proud of this group. Been loving the progress the drumline has steadily been making, but I can't believe the strides that the hornline has made! That entire last section in the ballad with the footwork and the contras just blasting, and then that crescendo at 9:30 with the weird head/breathing angles on the tarp; chef's kiss. And don't think I didn't see the homie at 3:57 hit that rifle toss perfectly with the fierce look at the end (also these color guard uniforms go so hard). And finally, to the far-side quad player who flubbed the front flip at 9:38 heading into the build before the final segment of the closer; know that I dropped my stick on my last performance ever on a left hand toss during WGI 2012. Whether it was your last performance or not, one tick or one mistake or anything less than a "perfect performance" does not at all dictate the impact of the show, the impact of what you brought to the table, and should never cloud what you took away from the entire summer. Bravo, Mandarins. Damn proud to be an alum these days.
HOW ….I mean like how the hell have I never heard of this corps??? I have been a DCI fan for years, I am so embarrassed that I have not heard of this corps. Wonderful show thank you so much and rest assured you now have at least one more fan 💕💗💙❤️💜
Dci corporate is the one that needs to clean it up. I don't see them being a thing much longer if current trends continue. Also, since when is 8th to 6th a huge jump? Some of the cores havent performed in what will be two years time next season. They'll get top 6.
DCI SoundSport does but SoundSport is really small. In the main sections of DCI (world & open class) they don't. I wish they did at least for like solos or whatever but they don't. (Edit: forgot to add something)
Think it's safe to say we will never see fast action moving drill formations like the 80s and 90s again. The last decade we have been seeing less and less . Sad
What??? Everyone’s drill is simpler this year due to the reduced rehearsal time. The complexity of what performers are doing now are far beyond what they were asked to do in the 80’s and 90’s, but you can’t objectively base your assessment off this year. Great job Mandarins!
DCI has pretty much turned into ballet on a football field OR a halftime Super Bowl show. Soon you'll see turntables (already have the microphones). Surprised we don't have drum machines, a guitar line, fireworks and lights. DCI has moved so far from its roots it is almost unrecognizable and the music certainly is NOT entertaining or rememberable.
waited for the giant red accordion props to expand....but they didn’t. am I tho only one that hates when they have vocals in these shows? idk maybe I’m just getting old but these shows are getting so corny and overly-dramatic I’m sitting here as a former band nerd watching and thinking....god they’re a bunch of nerds. lol
I keep thinking how much more genuinely impressive so many of these shows would be if they got ingenious with acoustic sound again, instead of letting electronics and amps generate effortless and empty effect. This feeling hasn’t diminished one bit since the day these easy crutches got let in to this formerly proud all-natural acoustic art. What’s so impressive about volume, if it isn’t the result of extraordinary lungs and tuning, but of unremarkable black boxes and a little knob that goes to “11”? What’s the point of special audible effects, if they aren’t a special technique, but a patch like any other patch on a keyboard? What is so hard to see about this? What would be so wrong with keeping it real for once, in this artificiality-obsessed world?
The white stage is aesthetically effective, but is it meaningful? Is a show alternating visually between drill and scatterdrill and musically between climax and transition the best dci can do? Is hallucination the best metaphor for a drumcorps show? The Mandarins are really excellent performers, but they embody everything inferior about the overwrought frenetics that struggles to be a powerful show nowadays but cannot possibly make it because it is so unmelodious, impatient, and disconnected. Something really great could have been done with the red shape that begins the show, and the effort is made to turn that into an analogy, but then what starts as insight goes random and splat. Nice try, Mandarins!
I think you’re hoping for some kind of mature musical continuity, in an activity that has now long been sold out to a generation completely blind to anything beyond their own Attention Deficit Disorder. This diminished sense of building a good show musically is made all the more tragic by the obvious advances in visual design and movement, and the extraordinary chops of the young players. It could be truly thrilling. Instead, it’s mostly just frenetic and anonymous, like a highlights reel of too many fragments of unrelated movies.
These old head takes are tired and sad. Let the kids be daring - let them tell stories and craft narratives and artistic expression how they will. Abstract forms and expressionism or even purposefully challenging non-narratives are all valid and meaningful forms of expression, have been for centuries, and will continue to be long after anyone currently living is dead. Further, GE isn't everything. Never has been. No one cares if you don't like late-era Coltrane or Sun-Ra or if you believe Seven Samurai is objectively better than Rhapsody in August because it has a far cleaner narrative and character motivations - this show didn't speak to you. That's fine. But it clearly spoke to a lot of people, most importantly, the performers. Especially considering drum corps is an art form in which none of the actual people you're watching get to write the bones of the show (while I am sure there is plenty of input, especially nowadays), and definitely not the concept of it - this dismissiveness is actually offensive to those who put their heart and souls into this performance you choosing to chastise when you could have just been silent. Nice try, Brian - what could have been a great comment complimenting something you liked about the show was made a patronizing review that no one asked for, all to the detriment to those who put it on for you.
Saw this live, and one of the frisbees completely nailed one of the tubas in the head
Being a tuba, that’s actually fucking hilarious
It’s funny Bc that was me. LMAO
@@loganjohnson8010 I Fr heard the audience laugh😂
@@wyattstroth3217 yeah and I'm the CEO of the mandarins
Incredible
The Mandarins absolutely nailed this performance! I would love to see a high placement for them this year
Won’t get much higher anytime soon with all those stacked corps in the top 9
@@tredaviousbowser79312023 mandarins
@@tredaviousbowser7931 Well I've got news for you, pal.
@@tredaviousbowser7931this comment aged so beautifully
JW and team are building a powerhouse in Sacramento and this old Freelancer STRONGLY approves! Hey Mandarins... PLAY BALL!
LIVE FROM SACRAMENTO...!
Freelancers first Corp I ever seen. 1981, yes, I'm old! Been drum Corp fan since. Sad to see them go, but Mandarins doing it! Go sac, and go Mandarins!
@@freyravin9068Freelancers were the first drum corp a bunch of us band kids from Ponderosa high school in Shingle springs went to see . Totally blew our minds ! Hughes stadium and we were in such a damn hurry to get to the show that we locked our car keys in the car. Afterwards we started going to watch Blue devils and Santa Clara Van Guard rehearse every chance we got. Loved them all equally. Miss lying to our parents and hightailing it down to the bay area to get our fix . Miss Freelancers but these guys are totally awesome.
Most underrated show this year. So damn good this year
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6:42-7:58 The build up to when they put it all out on the field is absolutely crazy! I still think about it after 2 years, truly amazing
I came to the awesomeness of this corps watching them live in Denton, and sitting two rows in front of Key Poulan, listening to his commentary. Between his brass writing and Harmsen’s percussion chops, this corps is a serious contender.
As for this specific show, I got to watch it live in Canyon last Tuesday, and was blown away by that insane hornline. Way to go, Mandarins!
Duet into big brass hit 6:40 to 8:00 sounded awesome.
So, so wildly proud of this group.
Been loving the progress the drumline has steadily been making, but I can't believe the strides that the hornline has made! That entire last section in the ballad with the footwork and the contras just blasting, and then that crescendo at 9:30 with the weird head/breathing angles on the tarp; chef's kiss. And don't think I didn't see the homie at 3:57 hit that rifle toss perfectly with the fierce look at the end (also these color guard uniforms go so hard).
And finally, to the far-side quad player who flubbed the front flip at 9:38 heading into the build before the final segment of the closer; know that I dropped my stick on my last performance ever on a left hand toss during WGI 2012. Whether it was your last performance or not, one tick or one mistake or anything less than a "perfect performance" does not at all dictate the impact of the show, the impact of what you brought to the table, and should never cloud what you took away from the entire summer.
Bravo, Mandarins. Damn proud to be an alum these days.
HOW ….I mean like how the hell have I never heard of this corps??? I have been a DCI fan for years, I am so embarrassed that I have not heard of this corps. Wonderful show thank you so much and rest assured you now have at least one more fan 💕💗💙❤️💜
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They're one of the most fastest improved corps imo
They have recently been a top 12 corps since 2018
@@mbmaccin555555 I am so happy to have stumbled on this video!
We’re glad to have you Patrick :) tell your friends, too, cause we’re here to stay!
So happy you enjoyed it! Loved performing it(:
Man, their shows are so f’n engaging and just phenomenal.
Major Props to the Audio Team!!
This show is so awesome. I can tell the members have worked extremely hard!! It shows
Nice job Mandarins! Congrats on a great show and performance!
Them Mandarins going places. I gotz feeling they could get top 6 next year. If Dci doesn't screw them over, as per habit over the years.
They need to clean up A LOT if they’re going to score higher. DCI has been very fair and consistent with their placement of the Mandarins.
Dci corporate is the one that needs to clean it up.
I don't see them being a thing much longer if current trends continue.
Also, since when is 8th to 6th a huge jump? Some of the cores havent performed in what will be two years time next season. They'll get top 6.
@@trap4dafu2k0fit a corps can be 80% different members one year to the next
Just like that they scored 6th in 2023
HELL YEAH!!! THIS SHOW IS SO GOOD, AND I AM SO HAPPY TO FINALLY SEE IT ALL PUT TOGETHER AT LUCAS!!!!
Saw this live and the frisbees definitely were a sight to see lol
Hallo aus Lübeck, Germany 🇩🇪
Tolle Show, absult Wahnsinn, großen Respekt. Nette Grüße an die gesamte Truppe!!!!
These guys have come a long way
Great show guys, 💯.
Amazing show!!! 1st place for the most man buns!! I LIKE IT!!
tubas with the pedal in the opening hit
very swag
The trombone feature was sick!
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does anybody know what song that is?
I love this and their performance is so powerful.
I saw this live and a frisbee hit a drummer but he didnt even flinch 😂
awesome show!
Bass 2!!!! You go Ethan
Sheesh those tenor shots. CLEAN
It’s the drill writer from my sophomore year entitled, Stretching the Canvas. Get the reference, and also. Yo
I know one of their snares there he’s also center at vessel he’s so good great show
I saw this live at Round Rock and boy, was it insane to watch! 😄
This is awesome, love it
Let’s go Ethan!!!!
THIS DRUM CORPS IS 🔥
*Very Nice performance* 😍🎶🎶🎶🎺
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This show deserves top 6 at least!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️🔥
Spectacular!
Great show
Is that Key's son on the Bone solo?
Sure is!!
este show está genial
2:37 kinda sounds like the tilt intro ngl
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Yes $!!!!!
two of my friends were in this😁
what is the song at 9:35 ? it sounds very familiar
Love this show! and don't they look great in their FRUHAUF UNIFORMS?!?! (I know, I am biased)
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yIKEs!
Was there suppose to be another roll out tarp on finals night?
Yes there was ): but it unfortunately broke the day of
Yess :((((
@@juliawickware3315 may or may not have been my fault
Yoooo old man tuba
can we get a cavies full show video?
There’s at least a couple of them up on UA-cam. Just searches Cavaliers 2021
Never forget, Snoop Dogg marched bass drum for them.
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I thought he only tried out but never made the line.
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What kind of trumpets they using?
Jupiter xo mostly i believe
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THE FRISBEE SHOW
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tenor got hit with a disc 10:03
One of the pit breaks is dangerously close to bluecoats 2014 tilt lol
Ender WeirdChamp
Up vote when the drum major took the mask off!
Imagine this announcing opener, but with the blue devils listing everything
Do they not use woodwinds in DCI
No, it’s drum and bugle corps, no woodwinds
@@michaelwenhold8117 who can say. 20 years ago I woukd never have believed electrics and amplifiers
DCI SoundSport does but SoundSport is really small. In the main sections of DCI (world & open class) they don't. I wish they did at least for like solos or whatever but they don't.
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Browck to you by scientists and bong r Ignacio youtube
Think it's safe to say we will never see fast action moving drill formations like the 80s and 90s again. The last decade we have been seeing less and less . Sad
What??? Everyone’s drill is simpler this year due to the reduced rehearsal time. The complexity of what performers are doing now are far beyond what they were asked to do in the 80’s and 90’s, but you can’t objectively base your assessment off this year. Great job Mandarins!
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DCI has pretty much turned into ballet on a football field OR a halftime Super Bowl show. Soon you'll see turntables (already have the microphones). Surprised we don't have drum machines, a guitar line, fireworks and lights. DCI has moved so far from its roots it is almost unrecognizable and the music certainly is NOT entertaining or rememberable.
@@JohnSmith-zi9or hyperbole much lol?
@@JohnSmith-zi9or damn that’s crazy dude
Can we please stop the Broadway Shows and just freaking march and play music!
No.
If they aren’t marching and playing music then what are they doing my dude
is that not what theyre doing?
They are marching, playing music, and spinning quite well.
waited for the giant red accordion props to expand....but they didn’t. am I tho only one that hates when they have vocals in these shows? idk maybe I’m just getting old but these shows are getting so corny and overly-dramatic I’m sitting here as a former band nerd watching and thinking....god they’re a bunch of nerds. lol
I keep thinking how much more genuinely impressive so many of these shows would be if they got ingenious with acoustic sound again, instead of letting electronics and amps generate effortless and empty effect. This feeling hasn’t diminished one bit since the day these easy crutches got let in to this formerly proud all-natural acoustic art.
What’s so impressive about volume, if it isn’t the result of extraordinary lungs and tuning, but of unremarkable black boxes and a little knob that goes to “11”? What’s the point of special audible effects, if they aren’t a special technique, but a patch like any other patch on a keyboard?
What is so hard to see about this? What would be so wrong with keeping it real for once, in this artificiality-obsessed world?
old man energy
only soloists and pit had mics... they were one of the only high up corps that didn't mic the hornline
@@gabrielmichelss - Then apparently only “old men” get real.
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The white stage is aesthetically effective, but is it meaningful? Is a show alternating visually between drill and scatterdrill and musically between climax and transition the best dci can do? Is hallucination the best metaphor for a drumcorps show? The Mandarins are really excellent performers, but they embody everything inferior about the overwrought frenetics that struggles to be a powerful show nowadays but cannot possibly make it because it is so unmelodious, impatient, and disconnected. Something really great could have been done with the red shape that begins the show, and the effort is made to turn that into an analogy, but then what starts as insight goes random and splat. Nice try, Mandarins!
I think you’re hoping for some kind of mature musical continuity, in an activity that has now long been sold out to a generation completely blind to anything beyond their own Attention Deficit Disorder.
This diminished sense of building a good show musically is made all the more tragic by the obvious advances in visual design and movement, and the extraordinary chops of the young players. It could be truly thrilling. Instead, it’s mostly just frenetic and anonymous, like a highlights reel of too many fragments of unrelated movies.
The show is based off of Yayoi Kusama and her artwork. The ending dance phrase is a quote from her
These old head takes are tired and sad. Let the kids be daring - let them tell stories and craft narratives and artistic expression how they will. Abstract forms and expressionism or even purposefully challenging non-narratives are all valid and meaningful forms of expression, have been for centuries, and will continue to be long after anyone currently living is dead.
Further, GE isn't everything. Never has been. No one cares if you don't like late-era Coltrane or Sun-Ra or if you believe Seven Samurai is objectively better than Rhapsody in August because it has a far cleaner narrative and character motivations - this show didn't speak to you. That's fine. But it clearly spoke to a lot of people, most importantly, the performers.
Especially considering drum corps is an art form in which none of the actual people you're watching get to write the bones of the show (while I am sure there is plenty of input, especially nowadays), and definitely not the concept of it - this dismissiveness is actually offensive to those who put their heart and souls into this performance you choosing to chastise when you could have just been silent.
Nice try, Brian - what could have been a great comment complimenting something you liked about the show was made a patronizing review that no one asked for, all to the detriment to those who put it on for you.
Can there be a stupider salute?
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What in the name of Drum Major salutes was THAT????? Horrible. Show was AWESOME though
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