84 Devils wasn't Steve Lenane. He had solo at the end of "Latin Implosion". The solo here was the blind haired guy.

Thanks!!!!❤

I'm in the picture! 1968. We had tympany in the performance? Cool!

Bayonne was my corp

I was one of the baritone players ❤

This is very interesting and thanks for the time and effort. I can't help but wonder who might be 11th on this list---maybe Dmitri Shostakovich ??

I sure love the way that they tuned those snares back in the day.

😊I played Contra Bass with Argonauts D&B corp 1975,1976,and 1977❤.

Played bass horn in Argonauts Drum corps 75,76,and 77😊❤

Great lifelong memories of my first year in DCI Spirit of Atlanta!

Cavaliers may have won, had it not been for that hornline

Well the 27th lancers score was a joke......

Kivet was in another league

Amazing brass books in 85. My personal fave was Spirit. Was so great to have Baumgardt back in the mix.

REPRESENT...

Very surprised at how hornlines placed in ‘73.

I played contra bass three years 1975, 1976,and 1977!!!! 😊

Good times ❤ I played contra bass in Drum corps 😊the Argonauts ‘75, 76,and 77!!!! I was blessed 😇

No Muchachos!:(

Holy smokes. Blue Devils in ‘76 and ‘77 just blew me away then, and still do.

Muchachos! I was there!

Picture of VK is from 85, when they got Yamahas.

Bridgemen

SCV won drums in '91 actually.

Jeff Kievit of Muchachos starts it off! Then the Bridgemen! What a great tribute to these guys and Corps!

Best drumline that year IMO ..

Guardsmen...wow....

Man did you see 74 SCV put their hands on the guy next to them? Why did they have to do all that dancing around? Back in my day we just drummed and didn’t have to do all that showy nonsense.

You didn't even mention Blue Rock, one of the all time greats, they won the 1968 US Open and the1971 National Dream Contest in Jersey City.

Blessed Sacrament's victories total were all pre DCI competition, with the exception of 1972 when they competed in DCI's inaugural year.

EAT 'EM UP B O S T O N !!!!!

Sone god choices here Ben but you obviously had an oversight on serval viable Crossmen soloist from that era.

going from B'men to Spirit is such a contrast, from the very first roll

I had just got back home from overseas, (Spain) off active duty to USNR Seabees, and started to attend shows again and saw the first 4 shows on this video ! Used the GI Bill, went back in the Army and made it a great career and excellent retirement benefits $$$ and VA ! My brother and I played with the Kenosha, WI Kingsmen for many years, one of the first all age corps.

Do you have high horn caption winners?

Being there live, I still think the 87 SCV drumline should have won and the corps performance in finals was better than Cadets!

Badass

Rock star

Man those G horns just sound so great.

oaklands were the only drumline that had a 19.2 in execution from 1 judge j.blair next closest execution scores were 18.3 freelancers and blue devils !!

cleanest snareline oakland crusaders !!

and in 1977 oakland crusaders won drums period !! blue devils nor freelancers even beat our prelims score in nightshow !! the drum corps community knows oakland crusaders were the cream of the crop in drums 1977 !! just in case you don"t no the facts !!

oakland crusaders came 3rd in drums at finals with a score of 18.80 not 6th place chip !!

i marched 1975 oaklands bass line !! we came in 3rd place on drums with and 18.55 !! put that in your pipe and smoke it !! royal crusaders never ever beat oakland crusadrers on drums or even in a percussion sub caption !!

Such an Iconic Line! Such an Iconic arrangement!

Russian Christmas music no doubt one of the best openers ever played in any show, boy you contras rock really powerful!!!

My bro marched Blue Stars in 1980. Loved that show. Hate they dropped to 13th

RIP, Tom Float

I went to a PR camp with a buddy before the '94 season and feel blessed that I got to play this and The Fire of Eternal Glory with everyone at that camp. It was amazing!! I went back to age out with Crown while my buddy aged out with Phantom.

Muchachos!!!