There was a show choir who also did a 9/11 show, the Carmel Ambassadors. They started out with New York, New York, then they blew up the towers with pyrotechnics. Then they put on filthy tattered versions of their previous costumes, by the end they were singing “Light ‘em up” in front of footage of the Navy raiding Bin Laden’s compound. I was a volunteer at my school’s show choir comp and I thought my friend was just joking when he said Carmel had a 9/11 show. It was awful. It’s been 7 years and I still can’t believe they did it. It felt like a 30 Rock joke, I don’t know how it got through so many levels and nobody said no. They’ve since been trying to wipe every trace of that show off the internet, but you can still see it.
I saw this show at the florida circuit premier and this regional, the collapse took everyones breath away every time. Honestly the quietest i've ever heard a gym full of people.
Impressively executed. Bold and creative. I suppose 23 years is “long enough” to wait before doing this for most but it’s such a complicated subject for a piece like this.
One of the best Madison Scouts shows (2011) was a 9/11 show. It is interesting to me how many people had this go right over their heads. I even remember someone on DCP commenting why do drum corps shows insist on having storylines and why can’t they just play good music like Madison. I pointed out their show had one of the most explicit storylines that year, including the collapsing towers done in drill. Just because a show doesn’t have narration doesn’t mean it doesn’t have a story.
That show was one of the most difficult, and important, shows I've been fortunate to perform in. The corps even visited the 9/11 memorial and museum, along with the 9/11 Tribute museum during the tour that summer. We sang the corps song at Ground Zero. Thank you for remembering it.
I think that this is partly what marching art shows should be about. Not only entertainment and display of musical virtuosity, but some shows should make people think deeply too. Afterall, it's art!! And this is what art is all about!
I have to say, I'm not a big follower of indoor percussion but there are shows that wow us, and shows that put us to sleep. There are themes about war, death, Greek tragedy, etc., etc. Overall this was actually a nice show and musically they brought it, especially for early in the season. Having said all that, the theme is a bit odd and of course not all will like it.
my school was "famous" for doing dark shows. ("famous" because noones famous in HS, but we were also 8 time TCGC PSW champion and 2 time WGI PSW Finalists) Our shows included "This Great Imbalance," about imbalance of power and other things in the world, "All is Vanity," I THINK is about people who are always unhappy, and all we need to "be happy" is more of what we already have. "Trafficked Innocence" WOAH. "Genocide." Just straight up genocide. "Restricted," basically the marching show concept, which was about oppression. People who like NSSH, however, forget that this was the OG show. "Year Zero" kinda confused on this one. Maybe it uses "Year Zero" by Ghost? That would make this a DARK dark show, so I don't know. "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" This has sound clips of Hitler, Trump, and the floor is literally a globe that's a red ocean and yellow land. "Only If For A Night" I don't think this was normal, dark show. Maybe F+TM? 2019's show title is probably lost to history I don't think they were champions 2018 or '19, so that sucks. 2020 and 2021 were the same show (thanks, COVID), and oh. my. gosh. "Desensitized" is probably my favorite indoor show that my school did. It's a show about a school shooting, and wow is it awesome writing. 2022 and forward, eh. We won 2022 with "Mirage" which was a show about a mirage... and the mirage was there being... a mirage. The building was real, and I'm upset I was tasked to build the prop they used, which was NOT constructed well. Gorilla tape on flag silks and a frame. Ew. "What About Us," was a show about inequality, which I actually really liked. This year was called "Awakening" and was well written, but after we went to PSO, it kinda went downhill for us.
100% not far enough. No explosions? Seriously, I like this and any attempt at “art”. Keep the bar high….. I love how these stories are like “hey, look at us, we’re serious! Plus we play loud drums!”.
In 2003 there was a central Ohio has a high school do a show about he space shuttle Columbia disaster as an exhibition show. It was interesting, I also doubt there’s any videos out there of it.
Hey EMC you should make a video building a drum set out of marching drums. You should use a marching snare drum, a marching, bass, drum, a set of marching tanner drums, and a variety of symbols.
No they did *not* go too far. This shouldn't even be a question. My high school's winterguard made a swastika form during a narrative excerpt of "The Dream Deferred" by Langston Hughes at the end of their show. This was in 1993 or 1994, I can't recall which. It didn't even raise a question or a single complaint! Some not-so-fun facts: 1) Just in the US, the CDC estimates that *over 1300 people die of tobacco-related illnesses EVER. SINGLE. DAY.* yet somehow 2) Altria, formerly known as Philip-Morris Cos., is still a publicly corporation with value. Unlike in Grisham's book "The Runaway Jury" they did not, repeat *not* get sued into insolvency. They're still trading! They're still selling a product we KNOW kills people! WHY?!? After 9/11/2001 we bombed the shit out of Iraq, which had nothing to do with the 9/11 attacks, and after tragically and needlessly losing God knows how many American soldiers' lives in the doing.... somehow we are still on good terms with Saudi Arabia, which very likely *orchestrated* those same attacks (AND much more recently Kashoggi's murder, but that's a whole other conversation). Let's hope fusion power and EVs (non-Musk) get us to a point where we can tell the Saudis to pound sand..... but DAMN. We need to get over 9/11 and move the fuck on. There. I said it.
First for the first time in a while! Also are you ever going to do another costume contest? Me and my friend got third place back during the first and only one haha
Hey EMC can you take a look at dci sound sport groups, being in one I'm curious to hear your thoughts on each sound sport group ( note sound sport is allowed to have woodwinds)
As a current firefighter who was in 5th grade on 9/11, my ptsd is flaring. This is giving me the 343 yard stare. As a drummer, those are some sweet beats but my ptsd is flaring and I now have the 911 yard stare. 🫠😅
Idk what to think of this, but I’ve definitely seen better performed art about that event. My example is Come From Away, which is a musical about the aftermath of that day. They never try to recreate the towers falling or anything that could come across as cheesy, since we all know what happened, and each time the topic is directly addressed it is addressed like a tragedy, with the music only helping that. It seems like this medium is much harder to convey those sorts of emotions through percussion and without dialogue, so this performance left me confused as to what they were trying to accomplish other than say “Do you remember this happening?”
Well, before watching the video and having no opinion, remember Madison Scouts did New York Morning, and that was a 9/11 show. But it was both classy and slammin' at the time.
Thought maybe they were going to form a plane ✈️ and fly into the tower. Musically is was hard to figure out what they were doing with the pattern. Have you ever judged high school competitions before?
Well done on the tenor feature, you play well as always! Is it just me, or did that feature just spend way more time on the lowest Tom than most tenor features?
I really really don't like the culture behind infinity. Just because they did mandatory training for it this past year doesn't change the fact it happened. With that said, I really wish this show had it's day in Dayton. I think they took a really sensitive subject and turned it into something really artistic and creative. I don't think it's offensive at all. I also love the black material coming out of the towers. A ferry nice touch. I just wish this group had more respect for long standing groups like McM.
This is what Stryke was doing that beat them. The vid is incomplete, but you'll get a good idea of the show. I forget what the theme was supposed to be offhand. Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, maybe? ruclips.net/video/03Xfa09RNJM/видео.htmlsi=dC-kew_suyG7s9mP
I feel like chops just don’t go with 9/11. I don’t understand why common core is talking about 9/11 like it’s something in the far past. We were never taught about Challenger exploding as if it was ancient history, like they’re teaching about 9/11 in schools nowadays. This just doesn’t seem appropriate as a way to demonstrate chops. Just like with the Holocaust one, I think some stage directors are a little confused about whether this is a dance show or a marching band. The throwing the “ashes” also looks a lot more like they’re playing with it, I’m not sure what they’re supposed to be representing with that. It also is treating 9/11 as if it was literally only about the towers collapsing and not the massive terrorist attack. The Holocaust one at least felt more sensitive to the victims and the history. This feels just like “buildings collapse, what a metaphor,” like a 20 year old who wasn’t even alive yet wrote this. It’s like they went too far and not far enough.
They should've had the towers collapse in the show, but did more to show that as a united country, we came back, we became strong again and didn't let it destroy who we were. They could've made it about coming back together after tragedy as a community. The ashes always on the floor, as it is something that is never to be forgotten Make it less about the incident and more about how it affected the country and how all of our differences were thrown aside
I don't much difference between this and The Cadets 2002 show. (Possibly my favorite DCI show of all time) Now if tbey had planes and actually pushed over the buildings that would have probably been too far.
I think if the season didn't end early the i think they could have done a little better with the visual give 8.6 out 10 for that considering what happened latter in the season but i think it was good i think they try too let people know never get no matter what 🙍 the day that changed America😢
Video number 109 of asking you to learn how to play ever long by the foo fighters on drumset. No where near as hard as your bleed and master of puppets videos but still a great song that for the average person is really hard to play. If it’s too easy for you being an experienced drummer try playing the hi-hat 16th notes with one hand like normal.
It always amazes me how quickly Americans are scandalized when someone brings up that topic, don't get me wrong, in the same wgi there are shows about other tragedies and don't cause the minimal problem, but someone says those three numbers and suddenly everyone loses their minds. Maybe it's because I'm not American, and we've been taught about the tragedies that Americans have caused elsewhere. Idk
Not what DRUM and Bugle Crops was meant to be ,compete on the field no electric equip no dancers no chimes bells. just drums and horns marching skills seems to have lost its flavor 😢
No. They did not take it too far. Played "Flight Of Valor" by James Swearingen a couple of years ago for Veterans Day Concert. It was about Flight 93. As long as the performance doesn't mock the tragedy (whatever it may be) I'm all right with it.
Thanks for the shoutout! A very bold yet captivating show for sure, glad I could capture it for history. Probably some of my favorite Infinity Quad Features in this book.
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Now I wanna see an indoor drumline show based on Pearl Harbor
Wild
Or the OJ Chase
Or Chernobyl.
Or what happened on June 4th, 1989, as if anything even happened
There actually was one at the TIA Atlantic Coast Championships this year
“There’s been a second marimba”
Underrated comment
The scene is just Eric whispering into Scojos ear. “Sir, there’s been a second marimba”.
THEY HIT THE FUCKING GOCK BLOCK
There was a show choir who also did a 9/11 show, the Carmel Ambassadors. They started out with New York, New York, then they blew up the towers with pyrotechnics. Then they put on filthy tattered versions of their previous costumes, by the end they were singing “Light ‘em up” in front of footage of the Navy raiding Bin Laden’s compound. I was a volunteer at my school’s show choir comp and I thought my friend was just joking when he said Carmel had a 9/11 show. It was awful. It’s been 7 years and I still can’t believe they did it. It felt like a 30 Rock joke, I don’t know how it got through so many levels and nobody said no. They’ve since been trying to wipe every trace of that show off the internet, but you can still see it.
There were several former members of the Bayonne Bridgemen and Garfield Cadets killed in the WTC collapse.
Oh 😭
how do you know that?
@@threydrey328 Was on RAMD about 2 weeks after
“Ok uhh back to 9/11 here”💀💀💀
I saw this show at the florida circuit premier and this regional, the collapse took everyones breath away every time. Honestly the quietest i've ever heard a gym full of people.
Impressively executed. Bold and creative. I suppose 23 years is “long enough” to wait before doing this for most but it’s such a complicated subject for a piece like this.
"Collapse" is crazy
the part where they explode😭 who writes this stuff
the writing staff... DUH
Out of touch theater people
What's wrong with it? People need to learn about it. They make movies about this all the time.
this is not the comment to read 30 seconds in
One of the best Madison Scouts shows (2011) was a 9/11 show. It is interesting to me how many people had this go right over their heads. I even remember someone on DCP commenting why do drum corps shows insist on having storylines and why can’t they just play good music like Madison. I pointed out their show had one of the most explicit storylines that year, including the collapsing towers done in drill. Just because a show doesn’t have narration doesn’t mean it doesn’t have a story.
That show was one of the most difficult, and important, shows I've been fortunate to perform in. The corps even visited the 9/11 memorial and museum, along with the 9/11 Tribute museum during the tour that summer. We sang the corps song at Ground Zero.
Thank you for remembering it.
I think that this is partly what marching art shows should be about. Not only entertainment and display of musical virtuosity, but some shows should make people think deeply too. Afterall, it's art!! And this is what art is all about!
This and carolina thunder 1999 are aboslutely insane
I have to say, I'm not a big follower of indoor percussion but there are shows that wow us, and shows that put us to sleep. There are themes about war, death, Greek tragedy, etc., etc. Overall this was actually a nice show and musically they brought it, especially for early in the season. Having said all that, the theme is a bit odd and of course not all will like it.
Reviews show... just casually plays the whole damn feature😂🙌🏻 you rock man 🙏🏻
I remember participating in indoor percussion. We made it to state this year (2024) but we only placed 18/20 in scholastic open A or whatever we were.
“Sir, a second tenor has fallen on the field”
This is the type of show you'll never forget.
I see what you did there.
As long as there's bands covering other tragedies across the world, it should be fine.
my school was "famous" for doing dark shows. ("famous" because noones famous in HS, but we were also 8 time TCGC PSW champion and 2 time WGI PSW Finalists) Our shows included "This Great Imbalance," about imbalance of power and other things in the world, "All is Vanity," I THINK is about people who are always unhappy, and all we need to "be happy" is more of what we already have. "Trafficked Innocence" WOAH. "Genocide." Just straight up genocide. "Restricted," basically the marching show concept, which was about oppression. People who like NSSH, however, forget that this was the OG show. "Year Zero" kinda confused on this one. Maybe it uses "Year Zero" by Ghost? That would make this a DARK dark show, so I don't know. "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" This has sound clips of Hitler, Trump, and the floor is literally a globe that's a red ocean and yellow land. "Only If For A Night" I don't think this was normal, dark show. Maybe F+TM? 2019's show title is probably lost to history I don't think they were champions 2018 or '19, so that sucks. 2020 and 2021 were the same show (thanks, COVID), and oh. my. gosh. "Desensitized" is probably my favorite indoor show that my school did. It's a show about a school shooting, and wow is it awesome writing. 2022 and forward, eh. We won 2022 with "Mirage" which was a show about a mirage... and the mirage was there being... a mirage. The building was real, and I'm upset I was tasked to build the prop they used, which was NOT constructed well. Gorilla tape on flag silks and a frame. Ew. "What About Us," was a show about inequality, which I actually really liked. This year was called "Awakening" and was well written, but after we went to PSO, it kinda went downhill for us.
Another day, another angle
This got a little chuckle
THE MALLETS HIT THE 2ND MARIMBA
No shot this is real
Oh crap its real
I'm glad I'm watching this in my own home so no one can hear me laughing when the prop towers spew out black paper.
100% not far enough. No explosions? Seriously, I like this and any attempt at “art”. Keep the bar high….. I love how these stories are like “hey, look at us, we’re serious! Plus we play loud drums!”.
Dude you’re killing it man I love your vids so much keep it up. Also make more skit vids please I miss them
If there’s one thing I can count on it’s emcs transcription skills I could bet myself he could transcribe something so well it’s the exact rhythms
In 2003 there was a central Ohio has a high school do a show about he space shuttle Columbia disaster as an exhibition show. It was interesting, I also doubt there’s any videos out there of it.
My senior year show in 2006 was literally just called "Bipolar"... Yeah, I don't think you'd see that nowadays.
This show is hotter than the 82nd floor of the South Tower!
We NEED a new indoor show from EMC😭🙏🙏🙏
Hey EMC you should make a video building a drum set out of marching drums.
You should use a marching snare drum, a marching, bass, drum, a set of marching tanner drums, and a variety of symbols.
Ngl that trasition in the front ensemble at 8:30 to the dance macabre was amazing
No they did *not* go too far. This shouldn't even be a question.
My high school's winterguard made a swastika form during a narrative excerpt of "The Dream Deferred" by Langston Hughes at the end of their show. This was in 1993 or 1994, I can't recall which. It didn't even raise a question or a single complaint!
Some not-so-fun facts:
1) Just in the US, the CDC estimates that *over 1300 people die of tobacco-related illnesses EVER. SINGLE. DAY.*
yet somehow
2) Altria, formerly known as Philip-Morris Cos., is still a publicly corporation with value. Unlike in Grisham's book "The Runaway Jury" they did not, repeat *not* get sued into insolvency. They're still trading! They're still selling a product we KNOW kills people! WHY?!?
After 9/11/2001 we bombed the shit out of Iraq, which had nothing to do with the 9/11 attacks, and after tragically and needlessly losing God knows how many American soldiers' lives in the doing.... somehow we are still on good terms with Saudi Arabia, which very likely *orchestrated* those same attacks (AND much more recently Kashoggi's murder, but that's a whole other conversation). Let's hope fusion power and EVs (non-Musk) get us to a point where we can tell the Saudis to pound sand..... but DAMN.
We need to get over 9/11 and move the fuck on.
There. I said it.
This leaves me with a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach.
Thanks for not clickbaiting us.
next time you do a fundraiser thing can you do it in north Carolina, more specifically west Johnston?
Nice to see u growing out ur beard after ACC's in Wildwood
First for the first time in a while!
Also are you ever going to do another costume contest? Me and my friend got third place back during the first and only one haha
Congrats on first comment! I might do that again in October.
@@EMCproductionssweet!
Why did that genuinely make me emotional?
“collapse” is wild
can you put marching snare wires on a drumset snare drum? it's been something i've wondered since middle school
Can you do match grip on the snare drum, traditional grip on the tenor drums, and somehow traditional grip on the bass drums
Deeply disappointed the snareline didn't form the shape of a plane
Hey EMC can you take a look at dci sound sport groups, being in one I'm curious to hear your thoughts on each sound sport group ( note sound sport is allowed to have woodwinds)
As a current firefighter who was in 5th grade on 9/11, my ptsd is flaring. This is giving me the 343 yard stare. As a drummer, those are some sweet beats but my ptsd is flaring and I now have the 911 yard stare. 🫠😅
Idk what to think of this, but I’ve definitely seen better performed art about that event. My example is Come From Away, which is a musical about the aftermath of that day. They never try to recreate the towers falling or anything that could come across as cheesy, since we all know what happened, and each time the topic is directly addressed it is addressed like a tragedy, with the music only helping that.
It seems like this medium is much harder to convey those sorts of emotions through percussion and without dialogue, so this performance left me confused as to what they were trying to accomplish other than say “Do you remember this happening?”
This is kinda how I felt as well.
What marching snare should I get I have no budget
Can you react to strykes show this year? I mostly just want you to transcribe the tenor feature towards the end
Video 3 of asking you for a marching snare drum
Well, before watching the video and having no opinion, remember Madison Scouts did New York Morning, and that was a 9/11 show. But it was both classy and slammin' at the time.
I love your videos so much and im so sad i cant come to your record breakings because that is the very last day of school 😥
Honestly feels really well done
Thought maybe they were going to form a plane ✈️ and fly into the tower. Musically is was hard to figure out what they were doing with the pattern. Have you ever judged high school competitions before?
I remember watching this show in 2020 on YT and i would have never figured this was about 9/11
ONLY " TOO SOON" SUBJECTS FOR SHOWS NEXT YEAR! LETS SEE THAT CREATIVITY GUYS
I really hope DCI approves my pulse night club show!!!( I live in Orlando too!)
Well done on the tenor feature, you play well as always!
Is it just me, or did that feature just spend way more time on the lowest Tom than most tenor features?
I want to see an indoor drumline show based on slavery
you should make bongo tenor drums
We love you Eric ❤
....bruh it goes so hard tho
I won’t be able to make it to said event. Sounds fun though!
Love the thumbnail
What in the Testament
I really really don't like the culture behind infinity. Just because they did mandatory training for it this past year doesn't change the fact it happened.
With that said, I really wish this show had it's day in Dayton. I think they took a really sensitive subject and turned it into something really artistic and creative. I don't think it's offensive at all. I also love the black material coming out of the towers. A ferry nice touch. I just wish this group had more respect for long standing groups like McM.
Go Profs!
I love a good story in a show
This is what Stryke was doing that beat them. The vid is incomplete, but you'll get a good idea of the show. I forget what the theme was supposed to be offhand. Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, maybe?
ruclips.net/video/03Xfa09RNJM/видео.htmlsi=dC-kew_suyG7s9mP
glad you decided to keep the bearded look Eric, it suits you
Can you react to the Kennesaw Mountain drum line 2023 season
The weird thing is that probably none of the kids in the ensemble were alive on 9/11/01
twin towers on stage left*
Damn you beat me to it
I feel like chops just don’t go with 9/11. I don’t understand why common core is talking about 9/11 like it’s something in the far past. We were never taught about Challenger exploding as if it was ancient history, like they’re teaching about 9/11 in schools nowadays. This just doesn’t seem appropriate as a way to demonstrate chops. Just like with the Holocaust one, I think some stage directors are a little confused about whether this is a dance show or a marching band. The throwing the “ashes” also looks a lot more like they’re playing with it, I’m not sure what they’re supposed to be representing with that. It also is treating 9/11 as if it was literally only about the towers collapsing and not the massive terrorist attack. The Holocaust one at least felt more sensitive to the victims and the history. This feels just like “buildings collapse, what a metaphor,” like a 20 year old who wasn’t even alive yet wrote this. It’s like they went too far and not far enough.
They should've had the towers collapse in the show, but did more to show that as a united country, we came back, we became strong again and didn't let it destroy who we were. They could've made it about coming back together after tragedy as a community. The ashes always on the floor, as it is something that is never to be forgotten
Make it less about the incident and more about how it affected the country and how all of our differences were thrown aside
love your vids eric
At least I'm close
Can this man react to american fork drumline in utah?
I don't much difference between this and The Cadets 2002 show. (Possibly my favorite DCI show of all time) Now if tbey had planes and actually pushed over the buildings that would have probably been too far.
If u like dark shows there fj reitz hs they were in open class concert
Can you make a video where you play one of my schools cadences
I think if the season didn't end early the i think they could have done a little better with the visual give 8.6 out 10 for that considering what happened latter in the season but i think it was good i think they try too let people know never get no matter what 🙍 the day that changed America😢
Video 418 of asking for a Video of you playing exactly 69420 Notes
2 to go
drumline show on world war 2 when?
Imma write it right now
Please do a reaction to Veritas 2024! Would love to see your input on it!
Are Stephen and Linda still together?
Watch EQX THE harvest 2018 show
Only the real ones remember NC state
Video number 109 of asking you to learn how to play ever long by the foo fighters on drumset. No where near as hard as your bleed and master of puppets videos but still a great song that for the average person is really hard to play. If it’s too easy for you being an experienced drummer try playing the hi-hat 16th notes with one hand like normal.
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It always amazes me how quickly Americans are scandalized when someone brings up that topic, don't get me wrong, in the same wgi there are shows about other tragedies and don't cause the minimal problem, but someone says those three numbers and suddenly everyone loses their minds. Maybe it's because I'm not American, and we've been taught about the tragedies that Americans have caused elsewhere. Idk
oh. its real.
Not what DRUM and Bugle Crops was meant to be ,compete on the field no electric equip no dancers no chimes bells. just drums and horns marching skills seems to have lost its flavor 😢
hey...
Next up: Ted Bundy show
I swear to god I started to hear Minecraft music
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17th!
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I was the 69th like >:)
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No. They did not take it too far. Played "Flight Of Valor" by James Swearingen a couple of years ago for Veterans Day Concert. It was about Flight 93. As long as the performance doesn't mock the tragedy (whatever it may be) I'm all right with it.
We played that for our spring concert this year! Beautiful piece and fun to play.
@@ALC0890 I also enjoyed playing that piece. It had a lot of sonic imagery.
Thanks for the shoutout! A very bold yet captivating show for sure, glad I could capture it for history. Probably some of my favorite Infinity Quad Features in this book.
Nah, Carolina thunder 1999 thunder did tho, but I do gotta admit the the explosion part was absolutely WILD
Was that the holocaust show?