Nothing touches this.

I still love this outstanding show and the mellophone soloist is still amazing.

Still gives me chills! So glad I got to see this show in person in 1984. It blew me away

I loved this show!!!!

The recordings were great during this time

´84 CADET HERE - CONTRABASE. OH YEAAAAA!

probably one of the greatest solo's in Drum Corps history.

12:46 What a maneuvah! RIP 😞

So saddened by today’s news of the Cadets folding. This remains the greatest drum corps show of all time, even now 40 years later.

What software did you use?

When discussing the GOAT DCI solos...conversation begins and ends with this show!

The Jim Prime orchestration of this horn book is the greatest in DCI history.

This show.... just yes!!!! Thats is all... the beginning of it all!

Had the pleasure of seeing this in Allentown that year.

Oh, Barb...❤

Still gives me chills after 39 years.

Very sad, thinking about this magical show, that 40 years later the corps is inactive for 2024.. I'll never forget Atlanta in '84.

i have watched these videos for years now. Just not all that convinced, getting rid of the 2 piston was necessary. . . . . this horn line was a prime example of good brass players know how to make such an instrument sound good.

I was here my Aunt April Marched for them These years

Barb solo!

Thank you Colin. It’s beautiful.

Truly groundbreaking, makes other corps of the time period seem like they have princess drill

My favorite all-time DCI show. Brings back so many memories

:48-:57 I saw this live...... it was during these 9 seconds that I knew somehow they'd be champs for a long long time

First time seeing this show. Amazing!

I still get thrills listening to this show while driving. So many others agree with me that this is a masterpiece of drum corps. Concept, design, charts, arrangements, performance - all of it came together to create this unforgettable drum corps show. I stand and salute EVERYONE who had a hand in this spectacular show. My favorite moment is at 12:24 when the music and drill build to the thrilling company front ( missed by the camera, the director was definitely NOT drum corp savvy) I remember it like it was just yesterday. Bravo!

I love this show. It was by far the best show of ‘84.

Garfield Cadets in 1983 may have put all the pieces together to win the DCI Championship (through innovative drill and beautiful composition), but in 1984 they perfected their new style and pushed the activity forward by leaps and bounds. Many consider this show THE GOLD STANDARD! There are certainly others worthy of such lofty praise, but the effect this show had on the entire marching activity -- drum corps, H.S. band, college band, European drum corps, Japanese bands, and so on. -- is the stuff of legends. Not until Star of Indiana 1993 do we see this kind of influence. Maybe to some degree we see it in Santa Clara's emotionally-charged Phantom of the Opera in 1988. The brass book in Garfield's WSS is insane and performed so well, so beautifully, so emotional, and powerful when needed. The nuance in dynamics and blends, the adaption to so many rhythms and styles, all while marching a George Zingali masterpiece is nothing short of electrifying! I still get goosebumps watching this on video, and this is such a nice conversion of this video to better quality. Some shows stand the test of time. Garfield Cadets 1984 is one of those shows. East East East!!!!!!!

Regarded by many as the top DCI show of all time. It has it all!

I marched in the Blue Devils that year. I sat next to Hopkins during Garfields prelims performance and they were amazing. I saw 84 Garfield Cadets a few times that summer. Excellent, excellent drum corps. I marched 5 years in the Blue Devils (81-85). 84 was by far my favorite year. By far. Great competition, epic shows.

Was in the process of moving to Atlanta in 1984. Saw this show.

Just been to see the Spielberg movie, which is incidentally amazing, and had to check into this afterwards, next the Bernstein, Carreras and Kitawana in NYC film…

I first saw this show on VHS in hi-cam in 1988 at the ripe old age of 16. It made me a drum corps fan for life.

As epic as it gets...If the staff had not split and went off to make other corps epic - JUST THINK what else could have come!

Can't believe I found this. I was in high school marching band at the time. Several of our staff were former Drum Corps members. Our fall 1985 show was inspired by this very show by Garfield (my senior year)....we did an entire West Side Story show. Every time I hear anything from "West Side Story", marching band still comes to mind....

One of the best conceived shows ever. West Side Story was meant for Drum Corps. Gotta love Bernstein

The trade off going to Bb/F was never worth it. So, it's more in tune - at the expense of the identifying sound of drum corps. It's like doing plastic surgery on Marisa Tomei...."there, she's more perfect, balanced, facial harmony is correct - but she looks like a lizard and nothing like Marisa Tomei". I'm waiting for drum corps to do an Apple and realize, yeah, we made a mistake and fix it. We hear Bb/F in every instrumental genre and it's like eating the exact same thing every day. No matter how technical and exacting "it" sounds, it can never replicate, deliver or come even remotely close to the experience that G bugles deliver. Fortunately, I toured with this group throughout 1984 and heard them nearly every day and night and I can relive it as I heard it. KZbin is a distant second.

And those two-valve G bugles, mellophones screaming, and real bell-front contras, kickin' out the jams.

One for the ages.

This performance changed the whole dynamic of drum corps, it became the gold standard of DCI and remains so to this day. It has not been replicated and cannot be. It made Leonard Bernstein and all of us so proud!

Absolutely one of the greatest DCI shows of all time.

This was voted number one DCI show of all time? I agree but man BD 86 and Garfield 87?

This is amazing

Love this show. HOWEVER...viewing this reminds me of how angry I used to get when they would continually show soloists and closeups of people marching, instead of the ever changing formations. They even came close to missing the famous "zig-zag"! I think the people choosing the camera shots were going for "artistic" instead of letting us see the best parts of the show. A few closeups here and there are okay, but not when you miss the amazing formations. The closeups of the siren, the tire rim, and the tympani player not playing.....SHOW ME THE FORMATIONS! I remember sending DCI yearly letters begging them to get people who knew drum corps and the shows to make the decisions on the camera shots . During the last 20 or so years the camera shot selection has improved immensely and you don't feel like you're missing important parts of the show.

best show i ever saw. being from Jersey they were my favourite corp. taught in WI; used to show this to my band every year before we started marching practice and would ask is they noticed anything about Barb [Maroney]. they didn't, until i pointed out how she was holding her horn with a prosthetic. she was the best! and a few years later was sitting at Finals in Madison and was talking about this show and her [didn't know her name] with a neighbour. person in front of me turned and said who it was and that she was a relative!

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Some shows are good. Some are great. This one is legendary.

Great upload. The funny thing is EVERYONE here knows the 3 thumbs down, comes from SCV 1987 drumline, who are forever mad at Garfield.

This must be from the George Zingalli era with the Cadets. He was an innovator, and a creator. When he exited drum corps, it was corps' loss. A marvelous corps director.

Thanks for sharing. It's one of the most revolutionary shows in DCI history. Unfortunately in '83 and '84 DCI a different company was used for the broadcast, which is why there's so many closeups that caused the viewer to miss some incredible George Zingali drill moments.