The part about I&E where the guy talks about how performers find time to practice during lunch, and there’s a long zoom in on a timpanist practicing way out past a baseball field? That was ME!! And I won timpani I&E that year. Fun memory, cuz I have no recollection of being in this part of the broadcast.
Whew, I barely made the cut!! That’s me doing the run on marimba at the very beginning. I remember calling my mom telling her “We made the Top 5, we’re going to be on the PBS broadcast!” And yes, Garfield was light years in front of everyone back then. Or as they used to say, “When they zigged, we zagged.”
I know that the Cavies have medaled and won a jillion times, but this 1985 show is my favorite of them. The purity of the product is evident as is the Holy Wow! factor of making the Top 5. 🙇♂️
I always thought it was a bit of a miracle that Cadets won that year considering that their original horn arranger bailed on them after what I've heard was a emotional breakdown.
1:17:30 the guard work is phenomenal. I always thought Garfield's CG was fine, but man, the amount of work they did in the amount of ground they covered...like the rest of the corps. Just way ahead of the rest of us.
Yes, and people who think modern drum corps has gone too far off the rails should listen to what Don Angelica says after Garfield's show. Today that show would be considered traditional, old school corps but in 1985 it was controversial, "not drum corps" according to some. It's fine to like shows of the past better than what they do today, but don't forget that it's all part of the evolution of the art form. And 30 years from now, somebody will be looking at a 2015 show and asking why nobody does "accessible" shows like that anymore.
@@tigerbandalumni My only response is that what was happening then was purely human...I marched DCI in 1989 and still love the idea that humans created every single moment of what we saw and loved...I just cannot accept the electronic element of today's shows (nor can I accept the show designs that are skewed towards the visual element as the most important). So be it. I voted with my feet and wallet a long time ago. I'm glad the kids still have a good time (and I'm happy for them), but I no longer contribute to what is happening now.
@@keithcoleman4537 My sentiments also. I loved DCI until 2009. I listen to DCI from 1982 thru 2008. Of course the music has changed but, I know it was created by acoustic means--except for a few shows. I like amplified music but just not in drum corps.
@@renorailfanning5465 I agree with both of the above statements. I'm glad for the kids that DCI is still active, and performance levels are off the charts, but somewhere it became 1)a total arms race for manufacturers (and now that amplified sound is part of the equation, even more), 2)annoyingly self-referential, with shows being designed with no headgear, leaving corps members free to bobblehead all over the place and with time in shows designed to draw attention to the individual performer and not the whole (every drum featurette which ends at fff and sticks high in the air), and 3)stories designed to fit a narrative, which is the opposite of storytelling.
The part about I&E where the guy talks about how performers find time to practice during lunch, and there’s a long zoom in on a timpanist practicing way out past a baseball field? That was ME!! And I won timpani I&E that year. Fun memory, cuz I have no recollection of being in this part of the broadcast.
Practice makes prefect. The best year in DCI history. It will never be the same
Whew, I barely made the cut!! That’s me doing the run on marimba at the very beginning. I remember calling my mom telling her “We made the Top 5, we’re going to be on the PBS broadcast!” And yes, Garfield was light years in front of everyone back then. Or as they used to say, “When they zigged, we zagged.”
I know that the Cavies have medaled and won a jillion times, but this 1985 show is my favorite of them. The purity of the product is evident as is the Holy Wow! factor of making the Top 5. 🙇♂️
@@ImVee10 I truly believe we (the 1985 version) were the catalyst of the Cavaliers you see today. It was a great way to end my DCI career!!
I always thought it was a bit of a miracle that Cadets won that year considering that their original horn arranger bailed on them after what I've heard was a emotional breakdown.
Michael Klesch started arranging this show in MARCH. It was his first book…and he won.
If you marched this year your AARP card is on its way
1:17:30 the guard work is phenomenal. I always thought Garfield's CG was fine, but man, the amount of work they did in the amount of ground they covered...like the rest of the corps. Just way ahead of the rest of us.
Hell. Yes. All great shows, but all through the eighties, Garfield was my corps, loved every show.
1:15:52 This is the only "version" that shows this much guard work here. Holy crap! They're so far away yet spin impossible work.
These performers are in their early to mid 50s today.
57, baby!!!!
Guilty!
24:28, just keep listening to the end for that golden Madison scouts sound.
34:23 GINOOOOOOOOO! BD, cadets now boston's horn numero uno instructor!
Gino seems to have run out of steam. Boston? Yeesh
20:37 watch the Madison cymbal line!
Madison's hornline :)
55:06 looks so uncomfortable
Garfield...so far ahead of the times back then.
Yes, and people who think modern drum corps has gone too far off the rails should listen to what Don Angelica says after Garfield's show. Today that show would be considered traditional, old school corps but in 1985 it was controversial, "not drum corps" according to some. It's fine to like shows of the past better than what they do today, but don't forget that it's all part of the evolution of the art form. And 30 years from now, somebody will be looking at a 2015 show and asking why nobody does "accessible" shows like that anymore.
@@tigerbandalumni My only response is that what was happening then was purely human...I marched DCI in 1989 and still love the idea that humans created every single moment of what we saw and loved...I just cannot accept the electronic element of today's shows (nor can I accept the show designs that are skewed towards the visual element as the most important). So be it. I voted with my feet and wallet a long time ago. I'm glad the kids still have a good time (and I'm happy for them), but I no longer contribute to what is happening now.
@@keithcoleman4537 My sentiments also. I loved DCI until 2009. I listen to DCI from 1982 thru 2008. Of course the music has changed but, I know it was created by acoustic means--except for a few shows. I like amplified music but just not in drum corps.
@@renorailfanning5465 I agree with both of the above statements. I'm glad for the kids that DCI is still active, and performance levels are off the charts, but somewhere it became 1)a total arms race for manufacturers (and now that amplified sound is part of the equation, even more), 2)annoyingly self-referential, with shows being designed with no headgear, leaving corps members free to bobblehead all over the place and with time in shows designed to draw attention to the individual performer and not the whole (every drum featurette which ends at fff and sticks high in the air), and 3)stories designed to fit a narrative, which is the opposite of storytelling.