My son made Crossmen in 2016 as trumpet. He was 16. The boy that left was not recognizable when he came home. He said it was the best experience of his life.
alright, here's my proudest tour moment. Carolina Crown 2016. Morning of the San Antonio free day. We arrived at a laundromat to do laundry, but unfortunately the Bluecoats had gotten to the same laundromat right before us and took up every single washing machine. I was really stubborn and impatient, so I checked google maps to see what else was around. Right across the street there was a manual car wash, the kind where you put money into a machine and spray soapy water all over your car. In a "fuck it" moment, I took my laundry over to the car wash, put a couple quarters into the machine, put the nozzle into my mesh laundry bag, and absolutely let loose on all my dirty clothes. Once they were pretty thoroughly cleaned and scrubbed I switched the setting to rinse and then got all the soap off. I went back to the laundromat and was the first person of either drum corps to get my clothes into a dryer. also shoutout PAUL LOOS
@@TheLilmike248 he was my percussion director in high school. I didn't know he taught Southgate, I actually taught there some years back. I've heard numerous negative anecdotes about Paul but he definitely inspired me to keep pursuing music after high school.
I marched 2010 Bluecoats and our two corps were very competitive throughout the season. There was a show we were both at and Bluecoats were going on first. At the starting gate, we were waiting to go in and Crown’s pit had just pulled up. Our Horn Sargent turned to the corps to get us hyped before we walked on. He yelled, “THERE ARE NO SECOND CHANCES, LETS GO BLOOO” Really funny then, really funny now. Thanks for story time with sfz!
I remember sitting at the gas station across the park from Allentown and hearing the crown tubas from this show during the opening impact. One of those moments I'll never forget.
Dang I didn’t know you marched a year with Carolina Crown. I started watching your channel when I was like 12 as a young rudi-lad and was taught by Evan Worrell, leading to me watch this line on RUclips plenty, so it’s cool to realize this connection 14 years later.
I was there in the mellophone section and can confirm, the only sections that were originally planned were the preshow and the opening Khachaturian movement. However, Khachaturian was meant to be later in the show. Originally we were playing music from Bernsteins 2nd Symphony and the ballad was Rachmaninoff Symphony 2 mvt. 3
This story is almost EXACTLY the way it was when I marched Blue Star minus some of the injuries, etc. But, most of the story is pretty much the same. And YES, the show we started with was not what we ended up playing at the end by finals.
You marched with my best friend, Tony. He played snare on the end closest to the tenors. I have or had so much footage from the 2010 season from coming out and watching you guys perform.
Cool we aged out the same year. I marched 2003-2010 03,04 Marion Glory Cadets, 05-07 Glassmen (I'm the trumpet soloist in the 07 show), and finished out my career at. Bluecoats 08-10. I never had any idea about the rewrites y'all went through, but in 09 our drill writer apparently ghosted the admin staff and two of them ended up writing our drill 20 pages at a time during spring training. It was an interesting experience, and I really think it contributed to how well prepared/ how cohesive our design for 2010 was.
8:40 I marched Crossmen this past year, and I don't really buy that this was a rule. They told us this before the season, but in practice we hardly slept. I wore my smart watch all season that tracked my sleep and it said I averaged 5 ½ hours of sleep all summer. Also, google maps tracked everywhere I went at what times and it tracked about the same.
Also, my interesting tour story is that I was walking to a field house in Alabame and there was an open manhole with no cover.. It was dark and I fell in and fractured my shin. Took ibuprofen and Tylenol around the clock and finished my season 💪🏿
Never marched Corps but I was in the best shape of my life during Marching band… was blessed to have drum instructors that did March for Madison, Phantom, and Cavis. So we got treated they way they were just treated on Tour. No nonsense and very disciplined.
@@rifle2563 we were truly blessed and our head instructor never marched DCI… but all his friends did so he brought them on staff from UTA, (Arlington, Texas) 90s era DFW drumlines were solid! The 3 years we had them… we cleaned up in competition, best in class everywhere we went.
I didn't realize Lee was your caption in 2010. I marched snare for him 13 years before that. He always scared me, especially after that one time he called me a tree head and said to never play a roll that bad ever again....I didn't. He's absolutely the best, and I'm super thankful to have played his book!
For me in 2000 (Kiwanis Kavaliers) it was Diet Coke and snacks. 😅 also we had a snareline „gig“ for Good morning Boston at 6 right after we got there with the bus. We where slowed ablittle more sleep because of that afterwords, but that didn’t cut it. That evening we also went to see „miss saigon“ in the Boston theatre, because that was our show theme as well. I was so tired that I missed half of it. Just remembering my buddy next to me waking me every 5 minutes. If you get the chance to march. Do it. Best time of your life. 🥳
Our heat and humidity ain't no joke here in the Carolinas (I'm in South Carolina) and I remember my years of band and even as a MUCH younger dude, they were brutal. I honestly feel for the ones in the much more humid states who have to endure it! 💙🥁
@@ferretyluv I don't doubt that at all. I was a lineman before I had to stop working and wearing those thick rubber sleeves and gloves all day were brutal
I was AT FINALS in 2010 with my BlueStars Alumni roomates/buddies and I definitely saw the *Incident*... I was a fan of Lee Beddis for many years before that, and I marched Glassmen(and am great friends) with your Tenor tech Paul. Was a fan of Crown for years before that summer, but I'm a BIG FAN OF CROWN these days, for sure. Great story, love the old English "D" hats and CLEAN BEATS that show Paul's influence on your Quad Line that year. Good stuff once again, EMC! Keep kicking @$$ and HAVE A GREAT MORNING!
Cool breakdown of your tour with Crown. I'm a fellow Carolina Crown member but only got to march one year in 03' (I'm old, I know). While the corps as a whole wasn't the powerhouse that it became to be at that point, I was fortunate enough to be in during a time when Crown did allow I and E entries. I was part of the front ensemble that year and we took gold in the Ensemble competition. Basses took gold for their division that year too. They were fuckin' badass, no doubt. Good times but now seems nearly like a lifetime ago. Anyways, cheers to a fellow Crown member!
I was at semi and finals night in 2010. I remember the rush of people coming to help the mello player. I also saw him try hard to drag himself off the field. It was one of my favorite shows of the season!
I am a freshman going into marching band and band camp is so tiring here’s the schedule and tell me if it’s easy or hard compared to your high school. 7:15 Roll call. 7:30 be ready on grid/field (marching). 10:30 go inside for rehearsal. 11:00 - 12:30 P.M. lunch. 12:30 - 2:00 section rehearsal. 2:00 - 4:15 full band rehearsal. 4:15 - 4:30 reminders/questions. Leave at 4:30 (I live near Fort Worth in Texas)
for us it’s 9am-12pm morning rehearsal, 12pm-1pm lunch, 1pm-4pm afternoon rehearsal, 4pm-6pm dinner, then 6-9pm evening rehearsal, i think my schedule is longer but you guys have to wake up earlier
I was there at the '99 and '00 camp as a tenor. Great memories! Just reminded me my buddy Amp used to wait for everyone to be almost asleep on that awful basketball court floor before executing his legendary cricket imitation which caused the entire gym to bust out in laughter 😂
I enjoyed viewing this. I have often wondered what DCI life is like. As usual, I am simply amazed as to what these young people accomplish. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
I had no idea about the guy who busted his leg. Kudos to the editing of the video, I suppose. All those major changes and still finished fourth. Impressive. Hey Eric, hope you're in town for Bush's home show this weekend.
I marched Phantom this (2010) year. It was equally brutal, no broken legs though. Couple of mild ankle issues but we all got on. Actually that's a lie we had to fill a hole a couple of days going into final weeks. Hardest shit I've done in my life man
I joined 3 years after you and it was fun to think about what changed and what stayed the same after you aged out. Nice to hear your crown story, thanks for sharing #cmfc
i marched crown drums in 22. it was dci allentown and we rolled out to our housing site in nazareth, pa but no one woke me up so i woke up at like 5 am still on the bus alone and apparently we arrived at 2 am and freaked out. by the time i finally got all my stuff to the gym floor it was time to wake up.
I marched in 07/08 on Contra then couldn't afford it coming from a lower middle class family, I had the ABSOLUTE Time of my life, would of aged out in 2013...
@@intitem while at Winter Camps and During Tour the Horns are supplied for you (In the Contra/Euph depatment) your Corps fee has all that included for the season as well, but as for practicing at home to make sure you get yourself a spot, that is self supplied/rented/school.
@@brendanlow586 Devastating every year I would watch my friends absolutely CRUSH it. Happy for all of them, and Super thankful for the experience I was able to have.
I went to Pennwood Middle School with Zack Slicker. Great percussionist since then. i learned a lot from him. was proud to see him march for the cadets. our band teacher Mr. McGary named his son after me too lol
3:59 I’m currently a new marcher at the Brownsburg Marching Band in the drum line, and Zach currently works with us. Really funny to see him here, but super chill guy.
Man 2010 was a roller coaster of a summer. One of the pieces that got cut I remember was Bernstein's Symphony No 2 "The Age of Anxiety" which was an incredible chart we learned in camps that never made it to the field. And also from that same Symphony was "The Masque", which I'm pretty sure was the one with all the fast paradiddles.
Not DCI, but I got to perform for BoA in Lucas Oil. The wall of sound thing is incredible. We ended up winning our class that year and went back next year, overall insane experience
Sitting (or trying to lay down) on a replacement bus that also broke down 25 miles from our next destination!!! OK, not a sentence, but it's 4 am and the driver is also sleeping waiting for a replacement? Or ??! And we need to cook for the kids, Crazy DCI stories! 😢
Arron spevak (the timpani player) runs a private percussion lessons business called Spevaks Percussion Concepts He talks about this show all the time! 😂
4:28 I got inspired to do the same thing for my drumline, three 8 count holds and on the second measure I would say ,” Who lives in a pinapppe under the sea?,” then the the whole drumline shouts,” SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS,” then proceed to have a insane bass feature to tenor feature
I came up around the same time, graduated high school in 2010, had a couple opportunities but it turns out I just really didn’t like drum corps compared to wgi. Anyway, all that to say, the best and most in depth conversations I ever had about drumlines and drum corps were with Zach
14:57 - everywhere i go, i see his face. I simply cannot escape the clutches of Nick Putnam. (maybe if he'd stop changing what corps he works for every season lmao)
You probably don’t remember me, but I was in the Perc bus that summer. One of like 8 tubas that were in the back of the bus! Lol. That summer was uhhh… interesting to say the least.
Some of that isn't really that different from my BD experience in 84....especially the heat (and cold at night. Ahhhhh....good old Mars. IYKYK)....except we always got sufficient flat time after hitting our housing site. Our staff never beat up on us that way.
I marched pioneer summer of ‘15. Honestly one of the best years of Pioneer. The only negative of the whole experience was transportation issues, which funny enough lead us to performing last in San Antonio. That was a hell of an experience
Marched with the Colts in 2011 and 2014, and I distinctly remember the 2011 San Antonio free day. I think it was the weekend before that was when Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 hit the movie theaters. So the theater at the mall in San Antonio was basically full of drum corps kids watching the last Harry Potter movie. There was that point in the movie where Voldemort breaks the shield around Hogwarts that had prevented a group of Death Eaters from advancing onto the grounds by the bridge. The Death Eater that took a step forward to check if the shield was truly broken did it with perfect straight leg technique and the entire theater erupted in cheers 😂
I got to see the Alamo when I was in the 2011 US Army high school All-American Marching band! I enlisted in the Marines the day after the army visited My school for the selection tour
2010 was my final season with my Open Class corps so I was there for World Finals that night when Ryan broke his leg. When it happened, the audience was both concerned and confused as Crown continued to perform the show while staff and even one of the judges attempted to get Ryan off the field. It was almost as if the audience forgot that the show was still going on as everyone was concerned for Ryan and watching him struggle to get off under his own power was difficult to watch.
Back in the 1980s Freelancers had a rookie shirt. Someone would buy a shirt from a rival corps (my year it was 27th Lancers) and on the first day of (what is now called "move in") a rookie would wear the shirt. At the end of the day s/he'd take it off and it would be put in a sealed plastic bag. The next day some other rookie would get it. Rinse/repeat until finals.
I saw Crown in 2010 at Waldo Stadium in Kalamazoo. You guys were amazing! But I have always been curious: was it common for DCI to choose venues that are right next to train tracks? A train came through during the ballad and we couldn't hear anything for at least a full minute. I believe this happened to several other corps that night.
Good morning! This is video 375 of me asking for a drumline gym made out of various marching percussion instruments, such as the tenor barbell, and bass drumbbells.
First time hearing that the member who broke his leg was already dealing with a stress fracture. I was wondering how anyone could just straight up break their leg during a drill move without something else major happening. Ouch. I also really feel for the bus driver who broke his ankle. I broke my heel a couple years ago and it was the most painful thing I've ever experienced. Like I didn't know humans could feel that much pain without passing out. Unfortunately, they can. Don't break any bones, kids, it sucks big time.
Did you ever have people just catch a plane home in the middle of the night after a rehearsal day or show? Happened a couple of times when I marched in 2004. Guess some people just had enough!
"Family channel, guys, family channel"
60 seconds earlier: "I was really upset the 'poop sex' and 'grundle' audibles got cut"
hi noah
@@Eylixx wassup homie, hope all is good
Fr tho
"The bass line, they built a penis out of their drums"
Lets keep in mind he also has a 16 minute videoon the Po*nHub intro
My son made Crossmen in 2016 as trumpet. He was 16. The boy that left was not recognizable when he came home. He said it was the best experience of his life.
alright, here's my proudest tour moment.
Carolina Crown 2016. Morning of the San Antonio free day. We arrived at a laundromat to do laundry, but unfortunately the Bluecoats had gotten to the same laundromat right before us and took up every single washing machine. I was really stubborn and impatient, so I checked google maps to see what else was around. Right across the street there was a manual car wash, the kind where you put money into a machine and spray soapy water all over your car. In a "fuck it" moment, I took my laundry over to the car wash, put a couple quarters into the machine, put the nozzle into my mesh laundry bag, and absolutely let loose on all my dirty clothes. Once they were pretty thoroughly cleaned and scrubbed I switched the setting to rinse and then got all the soap off. I went back to the laundromat and was the first person of either drum corps to get my clothes into a dryer.
also shoutout PAUL LOOS
Bro... i wish I'd been there to see that! 😂
LOL
Paul was my percussion head at Southgate Anderson in Michigan for a few seasons. Great dude!
@@TheLilmike248 he was my percussion director in high school. I didn't know he taught Southgate, I actually taught there some years back. I've heard numerous negative anecdotes about Paul but he definitely inspired me to keep pursuing music after high school.
@@TheLilmike248 Haha wtf I did drumline at Wyandotte, and had a friend who played at Southgate, small world.
That 2010 Crown line is what exposed me to DCI. I watched those videos for years and tried my best to imitate you guys in my playing.
hi
I marched 2010 Bluecoats and our two corps were very competitive throughout the season.
There was a show we were both at and Bluecoats were going on first.
At the starting gate, we were waiting to go in and Crown’s pit had just pulled up.
Our Horn Sargent turned to the corps to get us hyped before we walked on. He yelled, “THERE ARE NO SECOND CHANCES, LETS GO BLOOO”
Really funny then, really funny now.
Thanks for story time with sfz!
You marched?! I always thought you were just some kid posting DCI content lmfao, glad you could share the story! Metropolis was a fantastic show :)
@@apollo1809
Lol, nope, I’m a family man!
I marched from 2007-2010 Bluecoats.
@@Sforzando_DCI Amazing! I plan on marching with Troopers next summer!
@@apollo1809 my brother marched there 2007-2009, snare
Good luck!
@@Sforzando_DCI My favorite High School BD marched 09-10 coats!
I marched Crown in 2023. Ryan is one of the best people we ever could have had on admin staff
I remember sitting at the gas station across the park from Allentown and hearing the crown tubas from this show during the opening impact. One of those moments I'll never forget.
Dang I didn’t know you marched a year with Carolina Crown. I started watching your channel when I was like 12 as a young rudi-lad and was taught by Evan Worrell, leading to me watch this line on RUclips plenty, so it’s cool to realize this connection 14 years later.
Luke!!
They did y'all so dirty with all the rewrites that year💀💀
Love hearing tour stories and everyone's experiences with the activity. Thanks Eric! I marched Oregon 2018 (rip), and will absolutely never forget it!
OC MENTIONED RIP
My old director marched OC in 2012!
I was there in the mellophone section and can confirm, the only sections that were originally planned were the preshow and the opening Khachaturian movement. However, Khachaturian was meant to be later in the show.
Originally we were playing music from Bernsteins 2nd Symphony and the ballad was Rachmaninoff Symphony 2 mvt. 3
I was a sophomore as a percussion, music major at Gardner Webb in 2010. Listening to Crown ebery Summer was always a highlight. Good memories.
This story is almost EXACTLY the way it was when I marched Blue Star minus some of the injuries, etc. But, most of the story is pretty much the same. And YES, the show we started with was not what we ended up playing at the end by finals.
Unfortunately I didn’t get to go to any more camps, but I’m the chunky tuba player in the camp video used at 1:20. That’s wild to see out of nowhere.
Did you get cut? If so did you march anywhere else?
@@ashowofhands9813 no I stayed home for personal reasons. I had marched the year prior at Capital Regiment
You marched with my best friend, Tony. He played snare on the end closest to the tenors. I have or had so much footage from the 2010 season from coming out and watching you guys perform.
Cool we aged out the same year. I marched 2003-2010 03,04 Marion Glory Cadets, 05-07 Glassmen (I'm the trumpet soloist in the 07 show), and finished out my career at. Bluecoats 08-10. I never had any idea about the rewrites y'all went through, but in 09 our drill writer apparently ghosted the admin staff and two of them ended up writing our drill 20 pages at a time during spring training. It was an interesting experience, and I really think it contributed to how well prepared/ how cohesive our design for 2010 was.
Tim fairbanks did that drill correct?
@rifle2563 yeah it was Tim and Michael Gray working together.
8:40 I marched Crossmen this past year, and I don't really buy that this was a rule. They told us this before the season, but in practice we hardly slept. I wore my smart watch all season that tracked my sleep and it said I averaged 5 ½ hours of sleep all summer. Also, google maps tracked everywhere I went at what times and it tracked about the same.
Also, my interesting tour story is that I was walking to a field house in Alabame and there was an open manhole with no cover.. It was dark and I fell in and fractured my shin. Took ibuprofen and Tylenol around the clock and finished my season 💪🏿
Never marched Corps but I was in the best shape of my life during Marching band… was blessed to have drum instructors that did March for Madison, Phantom, and Cavis. So we got treated they way they were just treated on Tour. No nonsense and very disciplined.
Sounds like a goated drum staff
@@rifle2563 we were truly blessed and our head instructor never marched DCI… but all his friends did so he brought them on staff from UTA, (Arlington, Texas) 90s era DFW drumlines were solid! The 3 years we had them… we cleaned up in competition, best in class everywhere we went.
Amazing how far Crown has come since I was in. 1990 at the park across from Memorial Stadium in Charlotte. Good times!
I did a year of corps and I miss it. Everything you said was right on the money. Good times.
I didn't realize Lee was your caption in 2010. I marched snare for him 13 years before that. He always scared me, especially after that one time he called me a tree head and said to never play a roll that bad ever again....I didn't. He's absolutely the best, and I'm super thankful to have played his book!
I’ve been watching some of your vids for years and never realized you marched crown. I was on the 2003 snare line… first year of the cream!
For me in 2000 (Kiwanis Kavaliers) it was Diet Coke and snacks. 😅 also we had a snareline „gig“ for Good morning Boston at 6 right after we got there with the bus. We where slowed ablittle more sleep because of that afterwords, but that didn’t cut it. That evening we also went to see „miss saigon“ in the Boston theatre, because that was our show theme as well. I was so tired that I missed half of it. Just remembering my buddy next to me waking me every 5 minutes.
If you get the chance to march. Do it. Best time of your life. 🥳
Our heat and humidity ain't no joke here in the Carolinas (I'm in South Carolina) and I remember my years of band and even as a MUCH younger dude, they were brutal. I honestly feel for the ones in the much more humid states who have to endure it! 💙🥁
I used to volunteer at the National Zoo some summers and ended up with heat exhaustion on a code red day.
@@ferretyluv I don't doubt that at all. I was a lineman before I had to stop working and wearing those thick rubber sleeves and gloves all day were brutal
I marched under Lee at Crossmen and I totally understand the seriousness of his teaching style
I was AT FINALS in 2010 with my BlueStars Alumni roomates/buddies and I definitely saw the *Incident*... I was a fan of Lee Beddis for many years before that, and I marched Glassmen(and am great friends) with your Tenor tech Paul. Was a fan of Crown for years before that summer, but I'm a BIG FAN OF CROWN these days, for sure. Great story, love the old English "D" hats and CLEAN BEATS that show Paul's influence on your Quad Line that year. Good stuff once again, EMC! Keep kicking @$$ and HAVE A GREAT MORNING!
Cool breakdown of your tour with Crown. I'm a fellow Carolina Crown member but only got to march one year in 03' (I'm old, I know). While the corps as a whole wasn't the powerhouse that it became to be at that point, I was fortunate enough to be in during a time when Crown did allow I and E entries. I was part of the front ensemble that year and we took gold in the Ensemble competition. Basses took gold for their division that year too. They were fuckin' badass, no doubt. Good times but now seems nearly like a lifetime ago. Anyways, cheers to a fellow Crown member!
Had a San Antonio freeday 5 years in a row. Marched Mandarins 08,09 and devs 2010-2012. Really liked your tour experience.
I was at semi and finals night in 2010. I remember the rush of people coming to help the mello player. I also saw him try hard to drag himself off the field. It was one of my favorite shows of the season!
I marched 99. I marched Bari, but my friend and myself ended up on the drum bus. It was fun. Tour life was the same then.
I am a freshman going into marching band and band camp is so tiring here’s the schedule and tell me if it’s easy or hard compared to your high school. 7:15 Roll call. 7:30 be ready on grid/field (marching). 10:30 go inside for rehearsal. 11:00 - 12:30 P.M. lunch. 12:30 - 2:00 section rehearsal. 2:00 - 4:15 full band rehearsal. 4:15 - 4:30 reminders/questions. Leave at 4:30 (I live near Fort Worth in Texas)
for us it’s 9am-12pm morning rehearsal, 12pm-1pm lunch, 1pm-4pm afternoon rehearsal, 4pm-6pm dinner, then 6-9pm evening rehearsal, i think my schedule is longer but you guys have to wake up earlier
I was there at the '99 and '00 camp as a tenor. Great memories! Just reminded me my buddy Amp used to wait for everyone to be almost asleep on that awful basketball court floor before executing his legendary cricket imitation which caused the entire gym to bust out in laughter 😂
I enjoyed viewing this. I have often wondered what DCI life is like. As usual, I am simply amazed as to what these young people accomplish. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
I had no idea about the guy who busted his leg. Kudos to the editing of the video, I suppose. All those major changes and still finished fourth. Impressive. Hey Eric, hope you're in town for Bush's home show this weekend.
He will actually be in Downington and Indy but won't be watching all age finals due to soundsport performance with Phoenix
Hey fellow Crown alumni here, 14-16 on mellophone. Those Gardner Webb spring trainings were no joke!!
I marched Phantom this (2010) year. It was equally brutal, no broken legs though. Couple of mild ankle issues but we all got on. Actually that's a lie we had to fill a hole a couple of days going into final weeks. Hardest shit I've done in my life man
I joined 3 years after you and it was fun to think about what changed and what stayed the same after you aged out.
Nice to hear your crown story, thanks for sharing #cmfc
Bluecoats bassline “rook-out” here! 💙 Wonderful video…takes me back!
i marched crown drums in 22. it was dci allentown and we rolled out to our housing site in nazareth, pa but no one woke me up so i woke up at like 5 am still on the bus alone and apparently we arrived at 2 am and freaked out. by the time i finally got all my stuff to the gym floor it was time to wake up.
I marched in 07/08 on Contra then couldn't afford it coming from a lower middle class family, I had the ABSOLUTE Time of my life, would of aged out in 2013...
*would HAVE
Quick question, as a younger tuba/Sousa player did you get loaned a contra or did you have to rent or buy one?
I don’t think I could’ve imagined aging out during Crown 13 but not being able to participate.
@@intitem while at Winter Camps and During Tour the Horns are supplied for you (In the Contra/Euph depatment) your Corps fee has all that included for the season as well, but as for practicing at home to make sure you get yourself a spot, that is self supplied/rented/school.
@@brendanlow586 Devastating every year I would watch my friends absolutely CRUSH it. Happy for all of them, and Super thankful for the experience I was able to have.
Great video🤗 just finished my 3rd season in the Boston Crusaders color guard. I love hearing other people’s experiences in DCI !
As a later Crown Alumni, I love this perspective of the experience! So cool! #CMFC
This was the video I had been waiting for. I was always curious about your DCI experience. Thanks for sharing.
Looks like an extremely stressful season. Also shoutout to M Rayner in the baritone section
I went to Pennwood Middle School with Zack Slicker. Great percussionist since then. i learned a lot from him. was proud to see him march for the cadets. our band teacher Mr. McGary named his son after me too lol
3:59 I’m currently a new marcher at the Brownsburg Marching Band in the drum line, and Zach currently works with us. Really funny to see him here, but super chill guy.
Man 2010 was a roller coaster of a summer. One of the pieces that got cut I remember was Bernstein's Symphony No 2 "The Age of Anxiety" which was an incredible chart we learned in camps that never made it to the field. And also from that same Symphony was "The Masque", which I'm pretty sure was the one with all the fast paradiddles.
Not DCI, but I got to perform for BoA in Lucas Oil. The wall of sound thing is incredible. We ended up winning our class that year and went back next year, overall insane experience
Sitting (or trying to lay down) on a replacement bus that also broke down 25 miles from our next destination!!! OK, not a sentence, but it's 4 am and the driver is also sleeping waiting for a replacement? Or ??! And we need to cook for the kids, Crazy DCI stories! 😢
Arron spevak
(the timpani player)
runs a private percussion lessons business called Spevaks Percussion Concepts
He talks about this show all the time! 😂
Good Morning! This is video number two of me asking for an updated practice pad list.
Glad to see more of the journey
I just picked up your "Baseball" hoodie. Thanks for the entertainment.
4:28 I got inspired to do the same thing for my drumline, three 8 count holds and on the second measure I would say ,” Who lives in a pinapppe under the sea?,” then the the whole drumline shouts,” SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS,” then proceed to have a insane bass feature to tenor feature
had a ton of fun in san antonio! super chill day for the cascades 😌
Those gold horns were 🔥
I came up around the same time, graduated high school in 2010, had a couple opportunities but it turns out I just really didn’t like drum corps compared to wgi. Anyway, all that to say, the best and most in depth conversations I ever had about drumlines and drum corps were with Zach
14:57 - everywhere i go, i see his face. I simply cannot escape the clutches of Nick Putnam. (maybe if he'd stop changing what corps he works for every season lmao)
My band director also marched crown 10 and that was also his age out year he was a contra
Ryan is incredible!!! ❤❤
You probably don’t remember me, but I was in the Perc bus that summer. One of like 8 tubas that were in the back of the bus! Lol. That summer was uhhh… interesting to say the least.
4:25 this is amazing because my high school is performing the spongebob theme as a part of our show
I am going Monday to Canton DCI show. This will be my daughters first show along with her first year in marching band.
Some of that isn't really that different from my BD experience in 84....especially the heat (and cold at night. Ahhhhh....good old Mars. IYKYK)....except we always got sufficient flat time after hitting our housing site. Our staff never beat up on us that way.
Dev's has always gotten the most floor time it seems
we have pink plooms every october!! they get glitter EVERYWHERE
The REALNESS of this video 🤣🤣
I aged out at Coats in 2010
My goodness what a journey {I} just experienced. 🏆
In '18 the prop crew named one of the bone props "Ryan's Leg" because it kept breaking all summer. #CMFC
Absolutely loved the insight to your experience!
I marched pioneer summer of ‘15. Honestly one of the best years of Pioneer. The only negative of the whole experience was transportation issues, which funny enough lead us to performing last in San Antonio. That was a hell of an experience
Marched with the Colts in 2011 and 2014, and I distinctly remember the 2011 San Antonio free day. I think it was the weekend before that was when Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 hit the movie theaters.
So the theater at the mall in San Antonio was basically full of drum corps kids watching the last Harry Potter movie. There was that point in the movie where Voldemort breaks the shield around Hogwarts that had prevented a group of Death Eaters from advancing onto the grounds by the bridge. The Death Eater that took a step forward to check if the shield was truly broken did it with perfect straight leg technique and the entire theater erupted in cheers 😂
I got to see the Alamo when I was in the 2011 US Army high school All-American Marching band! I enlisted in the Marines the day after the army visited My school for the selection tour
Saw y’all in Jersey! Great show!
6:07 bro said he was a family channel but just a minute ago they said poop sex
One of the years I matched Colts, our timpani player played Chameleon for I & E. Bass and melody at the same time.
I remember my dad talking about that timpani fur elise thing at NightBeat when he went. That was really cool
I had some friends that marched for Crown in the 90s
Change is everything, that's for sure! 😉 😆 🤣
My tour moment was just the entirety of 2018 Pioneer
2010 was my final season with my Open Class corps so I was there for World Finals that night when Ryan broke his leg. When it happened, the audience was both concerned and confused as Crown continued to perform the show while staff and even one of the judges attempted to get Ryan off the field. It was almost as if the audience forgot that the show was still going on as everyone was concerned for Ryan and watching him struggle to get off under his own power was difficult to watch.
Back in the 1980s Freelancers had a rookie shirt. Someone would buy a shirt from a rival corps (my year it was 27th Lancers) and on the first day of (what is now called "move in") a rookie would wear the shirt. At the end of the day s/he'd take it off and it would be put in a sealed plastic bag. The next day some other rookie would get it. Rinse/repeat until finals.
One of my directors marched in 2009 and 2010! He was on mello
I’m about to hit Open class finals wish me luck guys also love your videos
You should make one of these for your experiences at Jersey Surf and United Percussion
I saw Crown in 2010 at Waldo Stadium in Kalamazoo. You guys were amazing! But I have always been curious: was it common for DCI to choose venues that are right next to train tracks? A train came through during the ballad and we couldn't hear anything for at least a full minute. I believe this happened to several other corps that night.
Very cool insight. I marched with Frankie Cummings at Bucs who was in the snare line.
BUCS
No shot, Paul taught my high school band. He talked about this season all the time.
I arch coats in 10. Quads.
Had know you were just a couple of busses over bro I would have hung out with yall more often!
I was at night beat in Winston Salem the other day! It was awesome
I saw that in the theater I miss them too.
My pal Aaron-wicked timpani player
Was that Chris Ahman that injured his knee ..? From Richmond, VA.
PLEASE WE NEED AN AGED OUT PODCAST COLLAB
This also describes my open class dci experience
I thought it was a family channel 😭
“They built a p3n!s out of the drums”
Good morning! This is video 375 of me asking for a drumline gym made out of various marching percussion instruments, such as the tenor barbell, and bass drumbbells.
Is that Vic Firth video with the Fur Elise timpani solo public anywhere? I would love to hear the full thing
First time hearing that the member who broke his leg was already dealing with a stress fracture. I was wondering how anyone could just straight up break their leg during a drill move without something else major happening. Ouch. I also really feel for the bus driver who broke his ankle. I broke my heel a couple years ago and it was the most painful thing I've ever experienced. Like I didn't know humans could feel that much pain without passing out. Unfortunately, they can. Don't break any bones, kids, it sucks big time.
It is very unfortunate that dci isn’t broadcasting in theaters anymore. The marching band I’m in goes to see it in theaters but not this year…
Did you ever have people just catch a plane home in the middle of the night after a rehearsal day or show? Happened a couple of times when I marched in 2004. Guess some people just had enough!