My heavens they are just a beautiful corp. Such class

The echo made everything better.

Madison Scouts 1988 when they visited England, this clip, is fantastic❤🎉

It never gets old! ⚜️💜

I still miss Bill and orlando..... Studio one was a beautiful group of talented people..... They were magic to everyone that knew them .....thank you phil & lubna.....♥️

Nice compellation! I'll have to watch on larger screen. MHS Class of 76

Very nice 👍 Super

DCI for me has been dead for years. Last show I enjoyed was 2003 Cadets. Haven’t been to a show since. It’s band corp now. Give it the burial it deserves

Kim as by bff from OT school..I am Canadian, she told me about this, never heard of this before…wow..what talent!

Great job, remember messing around with this tune in 74.. scouts...

MHS, Class of 1970!

I was stationed in England and had been teaching and judging with DCUK since 1986. This tour was such am incredible opportunity to see a favorite of mine.

My earliest memories of "You'll Never Walk Alone" are from the Jerry Lewis Labor Day Telethon, where it was his finale every year, sung with such deep emotion ... after adopting Madison as my FAVORITE drum corps while viewing the 1980 PBS broadcast, it was pure synchronicity when I found out the corps song ... THEN, after adopting Liverpool FC as my favorite Premier League side (because I am a life long Beatles fan), I find out that it is the Liverpool anthem ... signs from above that I picked the right corps and the right team ... So -- when I taught marching to the Lejeune HS band at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune NC from 2002-2005, what else could I do but convince the band director that THIS JUST HAD TO become the song for the band (if only because Lejeune HS is known as the Devilpups, as offspring of United States Marines aka Devil Dogs [Teufel Hunden], a mascot completely unique in all of the world -- so once a Devilpup, Always a Devilpup) -- I also did it because one of my best friends in the world marched in the 1975 Madison Scouts snare line, and I figured that he would totally get it ... So, I taught the Lejeune HS band students to sing the song, and made sure to have the guys in the band do the 4-note descent in the final chord ... I hope it made an impact on those students (now all in their 30s) as much as it impacted me each time I found another connection ... Thank you for indulging my memories.

If only this had been in Liverpool

There is a part of me that TRULY believes that the 1988 season is what "ticked off" DCI against the Scouts (as well as the Scouts' continued "WOW THE CROWD" philosophy, as opposed to kowtow to the judges) -- Madison goes to Europe, doesn't participate in the "regular" DCI season, then burns down Arrowhead with a scorched earth performance where the crowd reaction to the Scouts at DCI '88 Finals rivaled the volume of the crowd at a Chiefs game ... if the Scouts had not won that night, the crowd would have rioted and the judges would have been marked for death ... after that night in KC, DCI just. kept. THUMPING. on Madison, finally resulting in the Scouts dropping out of top 12 in 2002 while the host corps. All those years, DCI became seduced by all the BS spouted by the Allentown Predator (Corps = Band, etc.) but the crowds ALWAYS reacted to Madison, year after year after year after year, as the judges turned their backs on the Scouts ... NOW that SCV has gone inactive for 2023, I now wonder how long before DCI drops below a dozen active units (last year, DCA ginned up a three-class structure, with only four units per, because all-age corps is VERY slow to recover from the pandemic lockdowns) ... It is the treatment of the LAST TRUE DRUM CORPS by DCI and the sycophants of the Allentown Predator that caused me to break with DCI after my nephew's final season with Magic of Orlando in 2003 ... Nothing connected with DCI has seen any financial support from me since, and given that I see DCI as the summer extension of WGI, where visual spectacle gets the points, and aural output has become second-banana to the visual gymnastics (since any sound you want to produce can be electronically generated -- Bluecoats "bend", anyone?!?), until DCI figures out how to once again legitimately reward marching musical prowess (as opposed to some playing while not moving while everyone else scurries about while NOT playing), I will continue to eschew what the activity has become ... in fact, maybe it is time for DCI to truthfully rebrand as Bands of America-Independent World Class, since there is truly no difference in instrumentation between these units and the most highly-bankrolled scholastic bands within BOA ... If you have an issue with my opinion, just remember that is IS just that -- MY opinion, and only DCI might change it, if they can ... so please don't waste your time trying to proselytize or denigrate me ... just let me continue to watch these videos of the golden years of the Madison Scouts, and enjoy the PURE crowd reactions ...

I would have liked to be there. I just want to see all of the old shows in person (almost feel them)

Madison is the reason that I now watch Japanese wind bands and some drum corps, and avoid DCI.

Glad I ran across this and got to listen to the melophone solo. The acoustics of the castle made it pop out better than other video I have seen of their performance that year.

I was wondering if the crowd was going to jump to their feet at the end, but they made it. You just can't help it with those horns giving it all they've got on the last notes. Those folks don't know how lucky they were to see that show in that moment in time. What a great championship show.

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This is the gayest thing I ever seen.

Amazing! You’ve captured the backwards spin wedge build at the end of the Mello solo perfectly, much better than the DCI broadcast. One of my favorite “my god” visual builds of any corps any year.

I've watched this show so many times before, I never knew they added the cymbal flares later on.

Imagine walking up on that

Makes me want to get up and try do the dance

Awesome, did you know that this piece was originally called "the Bernardi quartet"?

I was part of the “Clariphone” (clarinet) section in 1987! Best part of that season, going to Bowling Green on THEIR homecoming, hitting that company front during Sousa’s Stars and Stripes, and getting a STANDING OVATION from THEIR fans! (And the Broncos won!)

Dear Steve, I miss you so much. I can hear your beautiful 😍 ✨ laugh like it was yesterday. Tried to find you on FB to no avail. Find me old friend and say Hello! 😘😘😘

I haven’t heard that in years wow it was nice to here.

Sounds like home

We were gods!!!

Scott, thank you for this. It's near and dear to my heart. I'm 50 now but in 1988 I tried out with many others for this show. With no dance training, decent rifle skills....I made the cut and learned saber and dance in one day. I was on the cover of the Flint Journal during try-outs. My beatiful rifle instructor Steve and best friend Cathy are highlighted in the show. Rural, white Michigan had a lot of fear back then and at the last minute my parents had me to quit. I was heartbroken. But because of you I can watch this a million times and see my friends and reminisce and show my children. (Karen and Nick were the most beautiful creatures I had seen at that age and Orlando laughed at me and called me a skunk at try-outs but I put on the thickest skin I ever had and made it!!) I can see MY SPOT open up in the drill at times lol... AND I can HEAR MYSELF CHEERING IN THE AUDIENCE AND still muscle memory remember the RIFLE AND SABRE ROUTINES! LOL...

I remember watching this even to this day still blows me away 😀

You came here for 4:36.

That's when the Madison Scouts Were Real Drum and bugle Corps

I remember that, really nice rendition. Not sure which mello was on the solo but they nailed it. Was that Dave Chapec? I ended up meeting two of the lovely young girls from Mayflower Corps and pen-paling one for several years afterward. Good times!

This touches my feels 😉

wow -- they were pretty clean for that early in the season!

kzbin.info/www/bejne/hoqxgmqpqbaqa7M Now go and watch this. I think it was better than their finals show. And faster!

Nice performance. Never saw it before. There was so much talent in the Flint area. I'm glad to see some stuck around and make their mark.

Does anyone have their Color performance from 1987?

This is great stuff. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks, Scott 💜

Great memories of freshman year. Thanks for uploading!

If only they had performed Never Walk at Anfield.

Still one of the all-time greatest moments in corps history...and such a great summer for those members!!

At 2:26 I am the trumpet player in the center of the shot. Watch my feet as we step off. I march backwards onto a flag pole and balance on it for a couple of steps. That takes skill!!

I saw the Scouts at the finals in KC that year. It is still my favorite drum corps performance of all time. It's interesting to see the changes made in the show from this early season performance to the finals, especially in the color guard, and no cymbals framing the soloist in the closer. Everything about the 80's was awesome, especially drum corp. Will someone PLEASE build a time machine!

DAMN...I immigrated to the UK, live IN Warwickshire County (had a foot op in the Warwickshire Hospital lol), just a 20 minute drive to Warwick (pronounced War....ick) from Rugby BUT, sad thing is I didn't move here until Feb 2003 lol. I'm a huge Scout (I was even an Infantry Scout...Motorized as we used turret mounted M60s) fan, ever since my Marching Band...Drum Major days in HS and College in late 70s early 80s. I was a Scout when the Scouts were here lol. I'm considering joining a Corps here, in DCUK. The Kidsgrove Scouts (whom are damn good) will participate in the DCI Finals Competition in 2020! There is another but I forgot who that is....maybe Beeches. I remember our HS Marching Band playing Malaguena......we had several Trumpet players who loved Maynard Ferguson lol....fortunately! Nice to hear the Brits in attendance giving the Scouts much deserved love.

Believe this was in Luton. I was marching TS Valiant in 88 and we had a BYBA show that day. How unlucky was that!