Cadets Drumline on Letterman

[@AdamOsmianski]

I played quads on this! I've been looking for this video. It was November of 2001. Jeff Queen is the snare in the center and only about half the line was actually Cadets guys. There were some Crossmen guys, people from other corps (I marched Glassmen), and just some college friends. Jeff Queen pretty much led it and wrote the licks though we all pitched it. The whole thing was put together in a couple hours.

[@sammy135_]

Oh shit, thats cool

[@simplyvibinn5417]

epic 😎

[@tkvids1377]

Adam I was bass 3 and from Crossmen :)

[@jammasterjammurr6700]

I watched this episode at the time, right after "that day" in September. Powerful drums!! What a performance!! I have been looking for this for years!! (I forgot it was a "top ten" list haha) I will be watching this over, and over!!

[@AdamOsmianski]

@@tkvids1377 I just thought about this again. That was a fun afternoon.

[@ethanbates7734]

Prolly more dci fans here than Dave letterman fans

[@samsignorelli]

Was always kinda bummed that Dave never mentioned Al Chez -- the trumpet player in his band -- is a Cadet alum (aged out in 1982)

[@zanestackhouse8297]

I met Al Chez, he's a cool dude.

[@bjz5854]

sam signorelli my band director is huge friends with the guy, he comes and plays for us every year at our school, our director is even a member in his band

[@ckooooooooo975]

I know the mans a god! Helped out with the crossmen leads for the past few years. Awesome dude and totally kick ass.

[@a.m.creativ]

Al Chez was a consultant for the brass line in the drum corps I used to march with "back in the day" He's an awesome guy!

[@aydenkoyanagi1727]

I only wish he stayed one more year for that W.

[@samsignorelli]

Probably the first time any Cadets has marched with a left foot stepoff since 1984.

[@neilyvanneily]

Funny that Cadets are playing on YAMAHA *and* they have a cymbal line. (Cadets had a cymbal line for the last time in 1992, which they still marched Pearl.)

[@ajwebber]

neilyvanneily I'd guess it's just the pit members playing cymbals like they do for parades these days.

[@larrykriegshauser1916]

neilyvanneily the best drills of drum corps I'd like to see the best drum corps drill

[@tkvids1377]

Cadets marched Yamaha for the first time that year and still use Zildjian cymbals.

[@richbrass12]

My goodness time was coming from three different places at the end...(shivers)

[@CSRookie]

Some people on these comments need to lighten up....... it's a talk show not FINALS NIGHT!!!!!

[@theragingpepper6337]

wonder how the crowd wouldve reacted w/ Crown Brass in there

[@calebbenton367]

they wouldn't have. Kinda hard to make a facial expression when your face has been melted off.

[@repsforjesus6720]

MAKE IT BIG MORE BRASS

[@iAmNovaFilms]

Can’t react if you’re dead

[@bobtom8677]

Deaf

[@dwaterson21]

The crowd would have melted.

[@jacobtaylor9512]

I thought to myself how old is this when he said the most honored drum corps in the world.

[@samshoemaker7865]

OOF

[@simplyvibinn5417]

that's an oof

[@DevinEsleck]

They still are technically

[@heyitsbacon599]

Trying to keep the band in time as the line walks away haha. That must have been hell.

[@IanRigbyIMRP]

The clapping couldn't have helped

[@CRodsnare]

Heyitsbacon Gosh... there can’t be anything I hate more than people who have 0 sense of time/musicality. Like, how hard can it be to clap to a drumline of 20+ drummers?...

[@tkvids1377]

Also been on brass staff at Crossmen since 2000 I think

[@ckooooooooo975]

TKvids 13 al chez?

[@johnstone6764]

3:10 clearly poking fun at the devils

[@simplyvibinn5417]

Someone explain this to me please

[@auslander2]

Incon yeah I don’t get it either

[@scorroar1084]

Vibin there playing the devils thang

[@voiceofreason9238]

@@simplyvibinn5417 The Cadets snare line was more known for tight sticking in the traditional sense with hands close to the drum head. A main rival, the Blue Devils from Concord, CA had a high sticking style commonly called "monkey drumming." John Stone ^^^ offered the suggestion that by exaggerating the high sticking that the Cadets were making fun of the Blue Devils snare line. @sam signorelli (Blue Devils veteran soprano bugle and true expert on all things drum and bugle corps), did I get the explanation close to correct?

[@gunner-qf9eh]

I wonder how the crowd would have reacted if the Blue Devils did their 40 trumpet feature from the 2017 show?

[@hooviedoovie5220]

similar to The Raging Pepper's question, there wouldn't be a reaction, because they would all be cleaning up the mess in their pants. trust me, saw the show 7 times, needed new pants after every one.

[@TopDrumCorps]

Hoovie Doovie BHAHHAH also pretty sure it would be way to loud on the sound satge

[@americanspirit8932]

Love GARFIELD CADETS , SUNRISES 1964-1968

[@fr8fr6dr69]

"From Garfieldbergenhackensackallentownbergenfieldnewjerseyandpennsylvania"

[@mikeconklin1567]

fr8fr6dr that's a mouth full

[@Fredarm6]

Really hate how lame this makes drum corp look

[@KobaCrawls]

Lennon Pike I think any exposure is good exposure in this situation. I actually don't think it was that bad.

[@AllStater09]

I agree. DCI being invited on a top network show to be a part of one of the most popular skits is actually great exposure.

[@jck1794]

it's both. it's great exposure but in an incredibly lame way.

[@KobaCrawls]

jck1794 I don't see how this is lame? The crowd liked it, it's simple yet fun.

[@tkvids1377]

We actually played some decent notes, especially the bassline, even though they ended up cutting our feature :)

[@matthewpaluch777]

Dave ALWAYS gave drummers some love, just ask ringo (aka Anton)!

[@OwenTheDuck]

anybody else notice an evans sticker on top on the remo logo on one on the bottom basses as they marched out?

[@Aidan-Eames]

Somehow, they made the "Most honored drum corps" look like a ghetto high school drumline

[@megafonzie5541]

Snare feet placement and stick heights are kinda all over the place.

[@tkvids1377]

We had very little time to play together, parts were "written"right before taping

[@jonathanspray2362]

Rip the cadets.

[@shorty5gs]

Dawg they were crankin

[@VerticalPlanker]

Jonathan Watson Hey Jon

[@shorty5gs]

VerticalPlanker Yooooo

[@gunterheisler]

Number 9 and 2 had some riffs from 2003 so I'll put my money on that year. Maybe they made the tenors play cymbals

[@captainkiwi77]

Gunter Heisler you see the tenors in the back, so probably pit on cymbals

[@tkvids1377]

It was November of 2001

[@richbrass12]

Kinda doubt that. I'm sure they did not take from the future

[@bigmach56]

I'm pretty sure this was 2001. Believe it or not, there's a few Crossmen in this line. Right Tim and Rudy?

[@mikereeves6564]

2001 Champion line from the year they had the sickest Tenor solo EVER

[@mikereeves6564]

I meant 1999

[@tkvids1377]

Salvador Flores yup!

[@coreymakhoul6884]

Why was the center snare playing so much higher than the rest of the snare line

[@tikala1]

Apparently that was Jeff Queen. Got called in to play with them for the night I guess.

[@Wantonlon]

What year?

[@aubadoir.]

I think it's 2001

[@Wantonlon]

Thanks man!

[@willcochran5555]

Racine scouts are older though?

[@jacem2043]

Will Cochran yeah , but Racine is unfortunately folded now

[@michaelwest7217]

Which head were they using? Remo? Evans? (if you say "Evans," then I know this was released in 2002)

[@auslander2]

Remo white max. 2001

[@lawrencejohnson6797]

that tear tho...

[@iAmNovaFilms]

I feel like tenors should be up front

[@shawnbryan8177]

I was thinking the same thing. It's TV. What's more visual on a drumline than the tenor line???

[@ikarooz]

A great line, on a cool gig and all some the commenting "experts" could do, is judge. Give it a rest.

[@samshoemaker7865]

ikarooz I think people are just annoyed because dci never gets ANY press, so when it does, people want it to really convey what the marching arts is all about, and what makes us so passionate about it, and this was a pretty watered down and rushed. But I agree, to most people, this was probably pretty dope.

[@lindacefaratti1855]

ALAN WHY DIDN'T U SAY ANYTHING ?

[@alexbonahue3322]

The lowest point of the cadets drumline performances

[@nativeson756]

They seemed t FIT RRRRRIGHT IN W/DAVE///////GA DUN 'dut-dut-dut'-ISH'!!!!

[@hooviedoovie5220]

good ol' cadet rolls.

[@richbrass12]

Lotta dirt

[@tkvids1377]

The great one we literally had about an hour to put it together, most of the drummers in this group arent even Cadets

[@nickniehaus1763]

🤣

[@benjaminkenobi21]

Yeah this makes the Cadets line look bad

[@TopDrumCorps]

It does

[@berferd2]

The Cadets are finished. RIP.

[@indognito8448]

Why what happened?

[@BeardedTruth]

Dirty as fffffuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

[@TopDrumCorps]

Lol they put it together in a few hours, it’s a talk show, not finals night at Lucas oil stadium. Lighten up

[@kaymauer717]

Cadets technique really sucks. Typical bando style.

[@jonathantherose303]

You suck kid

[@RHG_Drums]

The fuck does this even mean

[@josephrosenbaum3343]

Ssssoooooooo dirty

[@TopDrumCorps]

Ur dirty jussie

[@shawnbryan8177]

Have you ever played in a TV studio? Polished hard floor, glass and steel walls, open steel beam ceilings, massively long but shallow rooms. You may as well be playing inside an underground cavern. Impossible to hear anything - because you hear everything that was ever played in the last 10 seconds. Horrific sound live.

[@darthvader9969]

They had very little time to rehearse and prepare for this