Blue Devils '82 Summer Music Games

[carolynopenshaw]

Great Line....quality of sound is spectacular ! (and I don't mean the recording).

Todays kids are good...but because you can play 16th notes at 180 bpm doesn't mean you are a drummer....it just means you can play fast. And let's see how much 'chops' they have on "mylar". Completely different animal. However, each to their own !

[someperson79]

@carolynopenshaw most dci drumlines today only care about how they look and how they present themselves.when all is said and done the lines from 'back in the day' will be remembered more i guarantee.

[ardzzz1008]

@carolynopenshaw I was fortunate enough to have "played" on mylar, falams, and compos (look this one up). I would agree with you 100%.

[231drummerboy]

they were actually better thirty years ago

[THEGABALESeduardo]

the snares were the same tune that's why their snares sounds great !

[coolcooja]

This was a pioneer year for the pit!

[Drumlaw80]

1982 was a fantastic year for drum corps!!

[Es102794]

@Drumlaw80 that and '84

[tg112001]

Now this is a real drum solo!! I'm kind of disappointed that they are not dancing around like the color guard.... NOT!

[timbohoagie]

I wish Percussion breaks still sounded like this! A little funk, a little showy, not too difficult, but still impressive.

[ceaj00]

OMG I live in sheffield England and in 80 I got to hear the devils on a cranky old tape recorder 82 we saw them for the first time on a reel film it still sends chills through me go devils take it home fellas take it home !!!

[mallettube]

Hey! has anyone got the full show to post. i sure would like to see it. thanks

[cheftomco]

@mallettube you can go to dci.org to the media page and buy and download audio and video shows from the years past.

[shooster11]

Wasn't it great when DCI was DCI??

[mathproof]

I know. You hardly get a respectable solo these days. I don't understand it. Player have so much more opportunity to have exposure to the lines, expert instruction through DVD and Youtube. The lines should be crushing things.

Oh well, with all of those advantages, you still have to do the work hard. Perhaps, the kids today think that if you watch enough videos, you'll be good. Unfortunately, it doesn't work line that.

[Paralda]

No offense to this line or anything, but that's a damn easy solo. The only impressive part is the accelerando with 12 snares, and that's not even THAT difficult.

I dunno, old school solos kinda bore me.

[mathproof]

Well, twenty-eight years later and a solo is bound to lose some of its appeal. I agree that it isn't the hardest solo; however, compared to other corps at the time, it was special.

My only issue is that today's solos are almost nonexistent or not anymore appealing than the one posted here. The most exciting solo was the Bluecoats two years ago(the year PR won).

You shouldn't forget that the equipment today helps players seem like they can play better than previous generations.

[longfade]

You mean the part at .13 where they do flam-drags into tap flams at 140 BPM with completely clean with 12 fucking snares???? Come on man.

[shooster11]

Hey Paralda,

Please post an example of your abilities and then we can better gauge if you could actually handle playing the drum solo that you say is so damn easy.

I get the sense you are quite average but you have this need to give thumbs down because other musicians have greater talents and abilities than you do.

[longfade]

Yes, indeed. Before they started calling the World Championships the idiotic "Summer Music Games". That always drove me nuts and proved to be a harbinger of the dismal future of the activity.

[multibuddhaneo]

@shooster11 ---no shit!!! this kills most everything that has come since.

[gatorsbrianz]

@shooster11 When all you had to was stand and play? I prefer now, even though I would get rid of some things including any possibilty of woodwinds and using synth to boost volume.

[shooster11]

@gatorsbrianz - actually, when DCI focused more on collective and individual talent more than who can make the most lavish production and wear the funkiest costumes, and who can turn up the amplifiers the loudest.

[tophertube]

@shooster11 agreed. The playing is incredible these days, but it is difficult to watch sometime with everyone acting like they are in a david copperfield show

[TKGFILMS]

How do you get 12 snares clean? Amazing.

[mathproof]

You recruite the best and practice 12 hours a day.

[stevenjamesburks]

@TKGFILMS Answer - Tom Float.

[ardzzz1008]

@TKGFILMS the operative word is FLOAT.

[welder04]

12 snares, clean beats, awesome chops. Would have been one of the best tours to march in this Tom Float line.

[multibuddhaneo]

This still beats anything they've done in a long time!!!!

[chebert999]

I was in the audience during this show...It was amazing !!!

[thasnargoblin]

second smallest professional front ensemble ive ever seen! but still bad ass.

smallest ive seen was the marine corp front ensemble. 2 xylo players.

[jpfleaman]

Hey, do you have the rest of this show?

[louisec63]

i wish that DCI would call a Memory year so the different Drum Corps would have to use the old uniform but be creative as the new times allow...

[drumatic11]

damn!!!! 1:02-1:08...amazing

[ceaj00]

this is ceaj from the steel city over the pond and oh my days, tight, it gives me shivers to hear the BDs again good times only marched in england but we watch dci all the time in the 1980s if your out there dan lutz , peter firnary and scooter big up and thanks you showed us the light in a grim town

concord start to 1989

[wilsonkm]

Those snares are cleaner than Jesus after baptism.

[bigdrummerboi]

its so cool to see how much they have improved over all these years really i though that was boring compared to now but it was a long time ago so

[drumzac]

I marched mostly in the 90's, but I think the 80's Blue Devils were absolutely BADASS! More so than today. They might play more complex parts, but they are less musical. Also, a Blue Devils line hasn't been this clean in...well...I don't know since when.

[dcbandnerd]

Ten man snareline in the HOUSE!

You go, BD.

[BosPercussion]

12 snares

[dcbandnerd]

Even better! Ah, I love this corps.

[itsxdaxbreakeryo]

oldschoool dayum

[ryderdrumr]

I know the stuff they have drumlines do these days is mega hard, marching and playing. But. For my money nothing beats a line of drummers (go 12 snares!!) playing a difficult book, clean and SWEET. Plus Devils had the best uniforms EVER!!

[JeffoftheShout]

This is the solo that I saw 26 years ago (when I was 13) that inspired me to get serious about drumming, and loving drum corp, especially Blue Devils! Wow, 12 Snare drummers!! That's something you don't see today, and yet still clean as hell!

[adamsfall]

I would love to see a drumline come back out with mylar heads again. Even if it was just one show. As far as "Paradox" goes, right there with "juggler" for all time great percussion features.

[Linnehan13]

Glassmen '02 early season was Mylar until they decided changing heads every day was a waste of time.

[ryderdrumr]

I wish we could have gotten the rebound off mylar that they get off Kevlar stretched tight to near explosion. It sure was a sweet sound though. Ah the good ol days

[JefSnare]

That was cool, love the oldies

[mrk089]

Where's the brass? =(

[dcbandnerd]

That, my friends, is championship drum corps. That single stroke roll was cleaner than windex! More '82 Blue Devils, please :-)

[RBDrummer5]

I agree with the teqnique, that single stroke was sexy, but I do like the new age of DCI too, very cool things happening....

[resq51kmg365]

I agree, more early 80's BD, please