Bluecoats Sing Sing Sing 1989

[@endcensorship874]

No amplification, no electronics, two valves, no massive props that take up the whole field. Just a damn drum corps playing lights out. Love this era of corps.

[@LandonLaCross]

Cry about it

[@johns3106]

@@LandonLaCross Why are you even here?!

[@Ghostwithbones]

@@johns3106 you can appreciate and respect both old school drum corps and modern, it's not a choose a side kind of thing. I love old school drum corps, but I also really love modern drum corps. Just because they're different doesn't mean we have to shit on either one.

[@stephensmith6790]

Agree!

[@stephensmith6790]

​@@johns3106they're here to watch what used to be drum corp.

[@jeffl.304]

The Bluecoats, wearing … blue coats. Imagine that.

[@chance4luv]

Yes, although I do like the Bluecoats 2024 show, the popcorn boxes they wear currently, yikes. You used to know what corps you were looking at by their sharp looking unis.

[@jakobbarr4216]

Bass 5 is my dad.

[@jacobvasquez_9]

Damn that's pretty badass

[@ethanb_5276]

That's actually pretty cool. My dad was a quint player from 87-91 so they played together.

[@DCMiles-so2ev]

@@jacobvasquez_9 don't you mean that's pretty bass

[@jacobvasquez_9]

@@DCMiles-so2ev don't mind if I do

[@jeremyg.3027]

I'm snare 4

[@James-ru5pn]

How am I just experiencing this show in 2022? Amazing…

[@neccrown]

8:07 still one of my favorites after all these years.

[@Yrryllian]

I’m the little soprano player that rises up on my tiptoes when Dave Brown “measures me up” 😅 (just after 8:07 during the sop feature)

[@sailinon1969]

One of the 4 upper-lead Baris here, by far the most enjoyable book I played with the Corps. Fun show.

[@alanhigham6509]

I was there in 89 for the whole week. Loved it.

[@the1aj39]

Wait...so you guys saw the BD mess up live??

[@charpnatl]

I first saw this performance on my local PBS station one thanksgiving. I was flipping out because I’d been in Canton Ohio visiting family that summer! And I’d attended their Go Cart Derby fund raiser. I love how they have they always maintain the sonic energy of their horn line from season to season. BLUUUUUUUUE!!!!!!!💙💙💙💙💙

[@H3rcu1es69]

9:01 TIMBALE SOLOOOOOO!!!!!! YES! hahaha I effing LOVE CORPS!!!!

[@americanspirit8932]

Listen to the Long Island sun rises in 1965 at Mission drums in Boston Sing Sing Sing you'll hear drumming from Billy Cobham one of the top jazz drummers ever in the world Billy Hightower on baritone you'll hear him as well as Frank died already and Frank diliberto playing soprano solos then listen to the crowd about 35-40 50,000 I don't remember it was a great year it was the best I think it was the best Sing Sing Sing played by any Drum Corps in the activity in history

[@johnw1954]

Thank you!

[@johns3106]

9:45-10:00 THAT'S drum corps baby!!!

[@sanderschat]

It reminds me more of these massive college or university marching bands. Just FFF it and if it is not loud enough, then just go even more louder. No "skills", just as loud as possible...

[@johns3106]

@Skatje Well....I certainly wouldn't call this a lack of "skills"...there are plenty of examples of a good dynamic range and subtle playing in this show...but, there is nothing like a good G bugle line to blow your face off when necessary!

[@CJ-222]

What the hell is up with all the toxic crybabies on here? Just shut up and enjoy the vid or go somewhere else. It's not that hard.

[@deanking6405]

Say what you will about today's drum corps, but this era of DCI was lacking in its own ways too. Visual technique is basically non-existent here. Tempos are VERY slow compared to today's DCI. And the visual demands you see today aren't present here either. That being said this is a pretty clean show and the brass sounds great. Change is not always bad, and its not always good either. But change is destined to happen with or without you

[@stephensmith6790]

Today DCI should just drop DCI from their name. It's no longer drum corp.

[@taflhols278]

Shows of that era are much more visually appealing than the cheese on the field now. As for tempos...it's not a race. I watch a few shows a year these days and am always disappointed with the shows.

[@Encyclopedist]

So in the opening number alone, Bluecoats' brass play and move simultaneously more than the Bluecoats' brass of 2019 does in their entire show.

[@gghb5090]

DCI changes and evolves. It's just how things work.

[@neilpalmer5577]

@@gghb5090 So it hasnt evolved if there marching less than 1989. Some might say its gone backwards like the 70s and early 80s where there was alot of static moments within a show. Just putting it out there!

[@Encyclopedist]

@ZG2303 Never. But I can tell time, which is all it takes to see what I wrote is correct. That said, I think I wrote this before they added the "Hey Jude" ending, so it's possible that the 2019 show did have more simultaneous marching and playing that the opening of the 1989 show (but still nowhere near as much as the whole 1989 show).

[@markhutchinson6348]

and your point is ???????? How about just say, wow that was cool!

[@Encyclopedist]

@@markhutchinson6348 It was cool. I said so in 1989 when I saw this show live. But since then I've thought more about *why* it was cool, and one reason was that simultaneous marching and playing is cool. And corps used to do that more than they do now.

[@wm8673]

They have truly transfooormed!!

[@ReedMunson]

8th place that night!

[@taflhols278]

No marching band cheese....

[@christianbaughman]

Those are quite a lot of bent knees I see

[@neilpalmer5577]

Bluecoats are not known for good marching technique

[@neilpalmer5577]

Also, they did beat Cadets hornline this year, some how!

[@samsignorelli]

"Stick up the ass" technique hadn't been developed in 89.