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  • Morgan Case marched tenors this year, when he taught our HS line, we had the coke visual as well as the bong visual, and heroin visual.

  • lol

  • Two things I can never stops seeing in this clip. The tenors little "cocaine" visual at :33 and the second snare hitting the rim on the back-sticking at :51. Other than that, this has always been my favorite DCI drum feature.

  • That tenor effect at :32 is called 'white lines' IIRC. Was taking private lessons back in the day from Mark Adams, who was on BD tenor line either this year or the year before (you can never tell with the hats!). Used to crack me up watching the tape of this performance and seeing that effect.

  • listen to the Rodney Goodheart tape I think of the last show before Nats week.(its out there somewhere). No commentary at all until the beginning of the drum solo; first words uttered were "Ooooooh Shit"!!!! one of the cleanest lines in the history of drum and bugle corps!

  • Does anyone have a list of names of the snares?

  • @PkmnYo Center stick Steve Campbell....he of the perfect 100 in I&E that year. Quiet guy, too...we worked together at the Concord McDonald's when we marched BD in 84 and I don't remember him saying more than a few words....hit sticks, tho, spoke volumes.

  • I was between the 40 and 45 yardlines for finals in 1986. All the talk was about Santa Clara winning but I said no the Devils got it, after the first note they all told me I was right.

  • This line had some serious talent. You have the only snare soloist to score a perfect score of 100 as the section leader. To the right of him is the previous year section leader for the santa clara vanguard. In the quad line you have the legend of quads who got second in Solo's the year before. The list goes on. Cool Vid man.

  • The BEST ever uniform they had !!!!!!!

  • @ZiegeGF And it was a great pleasure to wear it!

    

  • was this the year they got a perfect score? cause around 0:51 the 2nd to left snare hits his rim after back sticking.

  • @drumdude113 No...the perfect drum score was Garfield in 87...with a bit of pit/battery phasing....perfect score my ass

  • when the camera switches to the tri-toms at 0:20, the snares and cymbals do some sick-@ss visuals. I've been tryin to find the clip of it on here but can't. does anyone know where i can find it?

  • @epsig700 Blue Devils 1986 Drumline Snippet

  • Not dirty, mylar drum heads sound different than kevlar. My teacher marched Madison Scouts snare that year and said they were clean as a whistle! One of the all time great drumlines!

  • @cbfeeling Yeah, the finals recordings(video and audio) dont do them justice at all.

  • This solo pushes, it grooves, and flat-out kicks ass !!!

    P.S. I miss cymbals

  • what the hell are those things at 0:24

  • Tenors, They the old north drums with the built in scoops

  • Gotta love those North tenors!!!

  • does anyone have a full vid of this show?

  • They had it on youtube a couple years ago, but of course, they took it down. What a shame. It was a great show.

  • Tick at 0:52. 2nd snare from the left.

  • 1.) Not a "coke" visual @:33, but an electron microscope looking for ticks vis; none discovered. 2.) re: Vis tick @ :52, thanks, "Debbie Downer". More notable: see unphased, mature recovery and solid drumming under enormous Nats Night pressure. Ricky is an amazing drummer. He earned his '86 DCI ring & the High Drum Trophy.

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  • tenors with the coke vis at :33.....ha....

  • The tall guy playing snare 3rd from the left was my snare drum instructor in high school. HIs name is Jay Dold. I played at santa clara high school from 1996 to 2000. My junior year we played channel one suite and our drumline played this exact solo and we swept first place at every competition.

  • Jay was such a great guy - I marched with him in 1985

  • I know this is me being ignorant or dumb but what kind of drums are those at 0:20 ?

  • North drums. A tribute to their championship years of '76 or '77 when they used them as well.

  • Hey?! That was the year SCV's center snare -Dave Dillulo- made the switch and marched for BD that year! I tripped out when I found out. I was like, "do cross town rival corps allow that to happen?" LOL! Thinking about it.. I guess so. After BD's '89 soloist choked at Nat's he came over and marched with SCV in '90. Anyway, loved this drum solo.. one of my top three.

  • You are correct sir. How about Mike French going from red to blue in 92?

  • lol.. yeah.. I know.. after I aged out in '89 i thought I heard Mike going to BK? I think he followed Ralph?? But I just found out too a few weeks ago at a 20 year SCV reunion that one our common friends we all marched with told me Mike marched BD in '92. wow!

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  • Must've been a little uncomfortable at the first few shows with SCV, since Dave's brother was still playing mello for SCV.

    More people went red to blue than the other way around...I stood next to one in the 07 BD/SCV alum corps.

    In 84 we had over a dozen people come to BD from SCV following the 83 retreat debacle.

  • Paradox!!!!! This line, that year; WAS THE SHEEEEIT!!!

    LOL!! I remember the 80's. The snares were tuned so low then. Or high for those heads, really.

    Ahhh!!!! BD baby!!!

  • I REALLY miss that snare sound, actually. Kevlar sounds like a formica table, just obnoxious. Those original power strokes were the best snare heads ever, in my opinion.

  • I know... I miss those years myself. I would've loved just to be there. Let alone march that year. Ending with Chick Corea!!!! SERIOUS STUFF!!!

  • Yeah, that was back when they sounded like real drums instead of countertops. I hate the new kevlar sound. It's annoying as hell! Doesn't even sound like a snare.

  • Yeah, I've never understood the appeal of that sound. No tone, no resonance, no projection, nothing. It's the exact opposite of anything musical. In fact, a formica table probably has a more complex acoustic signature than those kev heads do. No kidding.

  • Ahhh...actually, Paradox was the 82-83 solo....this break didn't have a name (as it wasn't a stand-alone)

  • my highschool drum teacher was one of the snare drummers for this year

  • who...Rick Rodriquez? This is one of my all time favorite shows!

  • no mike adisol

  • Dude his name is Mike Atesalp and he never played snare. He is playing NorthDrums in this video and in 87 and 88 he played quads.

  • Mike Atesalp is a total douche. I met him in real life. Seriously, he is super full of himself and not a nice person.

  • Really? Well that's a shame. I heard he was really mean but he is better now. He is the drum inscructor at my high school and I like the guy. He also gives me tenor lessons so I guess he is just cool with me.

  • I saw this show at finals in Madison, and yes, BD truly blew my face off. BD 86 was one of the fiercest corps to ever hit the field. The hornline and drum line were just killer!

  • I was there, too. Lots of great shows that year! I was in about the 3rd row and I remember Madison being louder than hell, too. Man, that was a great year to be at finals.

  • davekrepp this is MONTOYA wassup homey get back at me homeboy

  • Haha, the quads do the coke snorting visual at 0:32.

  • The BD website says they swept all captions in 1986.

  • Dude. It's the quality of the recording. I heard a the field percussion tape of this show. It was piss clean my friend.

  • It wasn't dirty, it's a recording thing (the recording sounds terrible in 87 too, and that was FAR from dirty!).

    Yes they won drums. Cadets were second.

  • You obviously haven't heard the Drum judges tape. One of the best drumline ever.

  • Do you have a copy of this tape?  Would love to here...as 1986 BD is my favorite DCI show of all time.

  • I have the execution tape from Stillwater Mn. with Rodney Goodhart

  • I'm trying to post that '86 tape (week before Nat's with Rodney goodhart on the field) on snarespace. He says nothing 'til "Oh Shit" 4 min. in. I also have access to an '83 judges tape... have to get it from my friend that marched '90 LOL. I marched 87,88,89

  • Krepp!!!!!!! I have a tape from 86, stand still fr Allen town.........Holly bejezzuz!!! the crowd went so nutz when they were done that they played CH one AGAIN!!!! awesome!!

    --D'

  • Dave Krepp?!?! Do you ever talk to Mike Atesalp anymore?

  • All the time

  • please put that up on the page i was in the c corp those years and i miss great fucking drumming this shit now days moving around while your playing is fucking killing me please put that on this youtube please

  • Yeah, drum corps has really gone to hell, hasn't it? I can't watch it, all that clowning around and dancing and 'emoting'. It's a mockery of what it once was.

  • Im not alone! I agree!

  • ah-- that's good to know. would love to hear the execution tape--- I've got the one for 83-- pretty cool.

  • I was there in the 3rd row and recorded it w/my blaster (which I always had w/me at that time, recording everything I could). It was definitely tight, but the DCI recording is picking up the slapback from the stands so it sounds mushy and, frankly, awful. My recording didn't pick that stuff up so you can hear how clean it actually is.

  • @cajonezzz It's the video/audio recording. I've heard judges tapes and tapes from the stands from that year and all i can say is Damn! the judge even swears out loud hahaha "oh F**K" as the drum solo starts... and yes they won drums. Back then the recordings made everybody sound like they were a mess. Mic position/ phasing issues. Really a shame. you have to turn one speaker completely off/ pan left or right (depending on which side of the field the line was on) to hear how it actually sounded.

  • @cajonezzz that's what you get for thinking.

  • @cajonezzz mylar doesn't sound the same as kevlar. My former instructor toured with these guys' that year and said they were as clean as you get.

  • @cajonezzz it wasnt dirty dude. thats just how snares sounded back then.

  • @TheDragonmaster18 Agreed, Snares of today do not really sound good IMO

  • @cajonezzz Wasn't dirty at all....you don't get Ron Goodheart making almost NO comments on the take if you're dirty. It's the vid.  They swept all the captions, losing ONLY downstairs brass to Suncoast Sound. This was the 4th drum title in a row (83-86) for BD.

  • So you marched in 76? Just kidding. I don't think you can make a direct comparison between the two since the sound on this 20+ year old vid isn't all that great, and there were some serious notes in the '86 program. "Much, much tighter" might be a bit drastic.

  • I really thought the '76 version of this solo was much, much tighter. Don't hate me for thinking this.

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