1999 Blue Devils - Precision West - Lights Out Performance

[@careyterhune4001]

It amazes me that people were able to get to their cars and turn on their headlights for us in just a few minutes. Such great, loyal, and thoughtful supporters we had that night!

[@decisivedecision]

🤩🥁😇🎺🤩

[@africanhustler05]

You're watching this because drum corps can play in the dark but professional football players can't.

[@decisivedecision]

🙄🤔🙃🤣🥁😎🎺🤣🙃🤔🙄

[@javonmorissette907]

Dude. They can't see the ball😂😂😂😂😂 Brown and black mixes very well

[@dfa3366]

I was there. I still remember it today. Nobody knew at first what was going on. Some thought it was part of the show. Then you can see the staff try to light up the front part of the field. But the corp just kept going. The crowd just went NUTS...

[@Maka1993]

Putting the old saying "You should be able to march this show with your eyes closed!" to an extreme test.

[@a53mp]

It's a mindset. You go out and do everything in your life as a champion. Doesn't matter what it is. At the end of the day/season are you going to say "if only I practiced a little harder" or are you going to say "there was absolutely NOTHING I could have done more than what I already did?" It's a lesson that isn't about drum corps, it's about life. If you apply it to corps, you can apply it to everything you do. Even if you don't walk away with a ring, you are going to walk away being successful

[@decisivedecision]

💖💯💖

[@Atechet]

I would have loved to hear the judges tapes to this

[@benmay1932]

Same

[@DaveCurrieDesigns]

Wow they made so many changes to the music from this show to finals. Pretty cool to watch!

[@a53mp]

The judges stopped when the lights went out and our performance and SCV who went on before us became an exhibition show.

[@jeffe_77]

Happened tonight!

[@johnmello6837]

I was there! Unforgettable.

[@martinvillarreal9035]

Man I miss haven't been in bd. For so long van still remember any song I ever learned the best experience I ever did in my life thank you blue devils

[@chrispettus2532]

I'm grateful for this upload and I'm glad I got to hear this performance. The principal soprano bugle screamer sounded better this night than he did on any other recording out there of the remainder of this season. He was pretty much spot on with the double high Cs here. The rest of the season, he usually played double high Cs under pitch, lipping up the pitch of the B natural harmonic below double C rather than actually playing on the double high C harmonic. 5:18 was his strongest double high C of this show and of this season.

[@lukasgncz4042]

damn I wish that I was alive back then so I could watch it live, once in a lifetime opportunity

[@mpd1967]

That was one awesome show"NIGHT" you had to have been there!!!

[@a53mp]

The same reason the corps kept marching and the guard kept spinning and tossing. The same reason that every single member cares about attention to detail with their individual posture and movement. It's a way of thinking and what we are taught "To be a Champion you must do EVERYTHING in life like a champion, eat, sleep, shit, practice and perform like a Champion. Do everything like 30k people are watching just you". It's a big reason why the corps is so successful & has won more than anyone else

[@dmbdrummer21]

This is true professionalism.

[@decisivedecision]

🥁💖🎺

[@Rika19771002]

I was here!!!!

[@decisivedecision]

🥁😎🎺

[@cloudweaving]

Sickest performance of my all time favorite show. :)

[@a53mp]

now just imagine, how much better could YOU be as an individual and person if you applied that mindset to EVERYTHING you did in life? Now imagine what it would be like if every member in your corps did the same thing. There would be NOTHING stopping you from achieving your goals and being successful. This is why BD wins and is so successful. It is a mindset the members have about winning.. not "to win DCI" but to live their life with the attitude of a champion, and that they WILL win.

[@decisivedecision]

🥁💖😎🤩😇🤩😎💖🎺

[@careyterhune4001]

Aaahhhh...Family night! So much fun!!!

[@betaomega04]

Props to the person who illegally recorded this epic part of Drum Corps History!

[@bcbandie4ever]

They were just so awesome the lights couldn't handle it!

[@decisivedecision]

!Straight to the point bro 💯%!

[@wonvalerius5956]

I marched in a Corps style high school marching band. I think these 15-16 year olds that are saying "we've played in the dark and it was easy" don't realize back in 94, there are no street lights on every corner. Did you know if you shut the lights off at a football field (which I have done a couple times after night rehearsals) you can't see anything. I think these people played under street lights at least and don't realize. When you walk your neighborhood at night, you only think you see well in the night because of street lights

[@ez8308]

True, but this was in 99.. the power to the entire city went out so there was no residual light anywhere.

[@RussellKasem]

I wish the NFL players had these kinda balls then I'd still be watching the Super Bowl right now! DCI > NFL

[@decisivedecision]

💖

[@Ch1k3n112233]

the front ensemble must have had an especially hard part after 10:15 WOWWWWW that's pretty beast of them and the rest of the corps.

[@Aguiar412]

My school was performing at a football game and the school the football team was playing was having the “blackout” student section theme. No one in the schools cares much about the band (even though we are the only somewhat good thing our school has) and they turned out the lights in the middle of the bands performance. My friend was in Guard at the time, the band just kept going! Show never stops

[@Corrections101]

Badass Eric!

[@a53mp]

@SHOTiRiGHTi 1. This was about 9:30 and pitch black, yes you see city lights in the background, but there was nothing behind the front sideline after the stadium. 2. This was a performance 3. This was the first performance of the year. 4. This is not high school band 5. If your high school band is practicing in complete darkness on purpose, it wasting it's time, putting its members at risk, has poor time management and probably not very good.

[@homfencing]

Awesome.....flat out awesome!

[@a53mp]

@VerySnowy no.. we pretty much couldn't see much the entire time. The only time it really adjust was once the power came back on, not long after the show was finished... but yes, your eyes do adjust however we were half way through the show when the lights were out.. there was only a couple minutes left, not really time to adjust.

[@a53mp]

@betaomega04 A lot of people had camcorders back then at shows.. if it was illegal I never heard of it being enforced

[@leroyjenkins6106]

Imagine being that kind of judge that gets in there and just like oh shit

[@johnboymaine]

All I remember is hearing my guard captain screaming don't you dare toss those fucking Sabres !!!!!

[@gamertooth17]

haha wow that's pretty sweet. I played bells last year for marching band, but i don't think i could do that. I can do it for quads this year, but that's 4 drums and not 30 bars.

[@tjw889]

Now... how in the world did they judge any of the visual captions? O_o

[@a53mp]

My point was that back then nobody cared about it, especially at smaller shows.

[@drksdofthmoon]

extra points added to the judges cards!

[@Maka1993]

Yeah!

[@jenniestevens7899]

For an encore: "Now we'll do it with our eyes closed".

[@motherhorsefucker]

they didnt even blink.....they gods amongst men

[@a53mp]

lol my gf said during the game "didn't your drum corps play in the dark while marching and playing music?"

[@decisivedecision]

🤣🙃🤯🙄🤔🤩🥁😎😇😎🎺🤩🤔🙄🤯🙃🤣

[@mattgeorge5721]

In all seriousness, how do you shit like a champion? I am auditioning for a corps this year, and I am just curious, never heard of that before.

[@leroyjenkins6106]

It gets drilled into you so much that you just know it like the back of your hand and you use your ears and adjust

[@dfa3366]

But this was the first show in 1999.

[@tlkshowhst]

How in the world did they not have a ton of injures?!

[@a53mp]

Just so you know, there is a difference in completing a show vs performing a show.

[@ZachAshcraft]

Lol. Recording any copyrighted musical performance of anykind is illegal. That doesn't stop people from doing it of course. It was a lot more lax back then before the internet took off

[@cnetninja]

so...why did the drum major keep conducting when nobody could see him?

[@jacobtrull4208]

Marcato cause that's his job... This is drum corps we're talking about

[@lukasgncz4042]

which songs are they playing though? never heard them before

[@ZachAshcraft]

RIGHT

[@gamertooth17]

Those mallet players must of had a hell of a time...

[@okey7261]

Ikr

[@jenniestevens7899]

Good reason for conductors to wear white gloves :-)

[@Hired]

How so you compare a high school performance to a dcutts show ......marching a dci show is hard...marching that show in the dark makes it even harder...nothing to compare to a high school show

[@ez8308]

@SHOTiRiGHTi your high school marching band is not as hard or as complex than BD... sorry

[@Amendous]

Judges scoring must of been in their favor.