Glad you got to see the #1 show in dci history. There is a reason the 90's were the height of the activity. btw back in 2001-2002 the activity switched from horns pitched in G to horns in Bb. The high pitched G bugle was called a soprano and once they switched to Bb it was called a trumpet (but they're still frequently called sopranos in the activity today). It's called "screaming" when a soprano has a solo where they play stupidly high and loud. The Madison Scouts have a long history of great "screamers."
Wow I’m so glad you actually know about the horns! I wanted to be in the scouts in 95 96, 97 98, 99, because of ‘A Day In The Life of A Bullfighter’ Also The Phantom Regiment’s ‘adventures under a darkened the sky’ sop in G And the entire Hornline forever!
Yep, even in the 70's when I marched, the soprano soloist rocked! I played soprano too, but did not have the high note range. Still, it was louder than my trumpet. Those bugles put out sound!!
Spanish, Latin-jazz based show. The official title of the show was “A Day In The Life Of A Bullfighter.” 25 years later, it’s still one of the greatest drum corps shows to grace a field.
@@supersop I just looked at the liner for my 1995 CDs and the the show was untitled. I think the 'Drum Corps Fan's Dream' title was given to the show ex post facto by the title of the 1996 show 'A Drum Corps Fan's Dream: Part Dos'.
I watched the DCI broadcast a thousand times. Steve Rondinaro introduces the show as “A day in the life as a bullfighter” while they did their on the field warmup “Bolero”, which made it into the show the following year. This! Place! Is! Electric!
@@JAlexandrian I always saw that as a description of the show's concept rather than a show title. Like I mentioned, the CD liner notes had no title for the show even though there were titles for the other corps. If it had an official title, then it probably would have been included as well.
The most incredible part of this show was the crowd. You had standing ovations after every movement, and this is the only show to have the crowd on their feet for the entire last 6 minutes. There’s a reason why they say the crowd was baby-throwing wild!
I was 15years old and in the audience when I saw this show. I’m a Green Machine fan from birth and loved seeing them win their second championship that season however, the 1995 Scouts show remains one of my top 3 favs of all time. “A day in the life of a bullfighter” was far and away a top fan favorite of all time, too!!!The stands almost never sat down and practically the entire closer, people were on their feet screaming their heads off for those kids!!!! Screamer sopranos, a kicking snare line, expressive color guard, marching and maneuvering, the music carrying that Latin flavor. I wish it would have shown them taking the field. They stretched from sideline to sideline on the goal line and marched out perfectly straight and once they hit the 35, shifted into the fleur de lis then went to the 50. The crowed was already screaming by then and they hadn’t even played a single note! The. Their warm up, Bolero. Which the crowed screamed for as well. I’ll never forget the 1995 Madison Scouts. I’d written you also begging you to review this show recently so I’m extremely glad you saw it. I oh so miss the days when you were guaranteed to get a show like this from Madison. It was maybe two or three years later they began dropping like crazy in the placings and the fans would boo constantly. 8th, 10th, even 12th place at finals and even began missing finals!!!! I miss THIS type of Madison Scouts corps.. if this doesn’t make you feel amazing and like a million bucks, nothing can.
And THIS my friend is why I fell in love with the Scouts so many years ago. This show, I also saw live... awesome does not begin to describe. And yes...I DEFINITELY recommend putting this on your phone to hear again. Such great stuff!
@Erik Marlin Oh hell yeah!!!! I've watched quite a number of her reactions, but never knew she'd started down the DCI rabbit hole. Holy shit, this is AWESOME!
The Madison Scouts of the 90's were all about entertainment at the highest level. '95, '96, '97, and '99 are all regularly counted as some of the most entertaining and fan favorite drum corps shows to date. Their other shows of the 90's are also just entertaining and in your face as well, but those 4 rise to the next level.
@@daveyboygee Right? There weren't really any off years for the scouts in the 90s. I still say it was the power of the sequins. Those uniforms were *chefs kiss*. Say what you will about the new direction of expression for the artistry and expression of the past 5 years or so, but there's just something visceral about seeing a recognizable silhouette in the distance. Being able to see a group coming and know EXACTLY who it is just by the outline or a color combination. Tall curved feather?-SCV. Red Jacket with Buttons and a tall plume-Boston White helmet and a sash?-Phantom And so on and so forth.
Also the brass playing in my opinion was better in the 90s. It doesn't seem like the focus is there anymore, w/ the exception of Crown. Sometimes the electronic stuff is neat (ie Kinetic Noise), but when you're using it to actually affect or "improve" the sound of the brass, yuck. I feel that the most important/beneficial part of this activity is teaching these kids how to play their horns better.
Thanks for putting up my request Courtney! I must admit, it is partly to introduce the newer generation to what I grew up with that have not seen it before. This was the biggest crowd pleaser of the 90’s. Thanks for watching everyone!
Hey Stan, you beat me to it. I made a guaranteed request for this, but Courtney informed me that one had already been made for it so I chose another video and got a "two-fer", so to speak. I saw this show live that year, and I will never forget the sound of that horn line and how they blew out the stadium. The 90's were some good times for live drumcorps.
Jeff Gray You have good taste Jeff! It wasn’t a hard choice for my first submission. I originally wanted it to be posted during the week of finals of this year to celebrate the 25th anniversary of baddest show to ever grace the field. Unfortunately, there were too many request ahead of me :) I wonder what your requests are......haha. I will be making another request soon too.
Don't care what anyone thinks... greatest show ever. They floored it right off the bat and never let off until 11 minutes was done. Their shows in 94-97 is what got me into the activity. Had to be awesome to march in that show. But haaaard music!!
Stan Kenton arranged and conducted Malaga with his orchestra back in the 60's I think. We played Malaga and Malaguena in high school. I'm still a fan of Stan Kenton's music to this day. Scouts did a phenomenal presentation of his music (again).
Hey Courtney! I’m going to help you out a bit with some of your questions. So it’s a Latin Jazz show, and most of the music is Spanish (from Spain) in origin. The horns - top to bottom are as follows: Soprano (trumpet looking horn) Mellophone French Horn (I think Scouts had french horns back then) Baritone Euphonium Contra Bass (the shoulder mounted huge horns) The horns back then were considered “bugles” because they are pitched in the key of G, just like old style military bugles. Since 2000, there was a rule change, and drum corps have stopped using bugles and are playing on B flat (Bb) horns. The sopranos are now trumpets, and the contra basses are now tubas. The one small fix to your lexicon is that the plural of color guard is color guard. (No s at the end). Most people just say “guard” or “the guard”. I am SO happy you got to see this show. It’s one of my favorites, and I was in attendance for finals that year in Buffalo, NY, so it’s special for me!
What I love from your reactions is seeing ourselves in you when we were first were introduced to DCI. It's so fun to watch someone blown away by the sights and sounds.
95 was an INCREDIBLE year. 95 Scouts has been my favorite show for 25 years. If I can come up with a disposable $100, I'm going to request 95 Cadets. Some of the the best field show storytelling I've ever seen.
Thank you so much for doing these! My friend Martinelli was drum major of Star of Indiana one year and Blue Devils one year in the early 90s. I’ve just shown your channel to him and he asked me to suggest Madison Scouts ‘95 to you! He’ll be so happy you already did it!
I was way too young to see this show in person at all, but once time travel is perfected, I'm there in Buffalo for this 😊 1995 was such a great year for DCI
And the real travesty for those of you who weren't there in person is that the mics at DCI really sucked that year. They don't even give Justice to how loud that horn line was. Hearing this show at Rockford that year, it was one of the most intense and amazing experiences I've ever had at a drum corps show.
I love that show. I have it in my vhs tape collection. Have watched it many many times! The horns, drums, color guard all fantastic. I had about the same reaction as you when I first saw the video many years ago. This is one I would have loved to see live. What is not shown that is on my tape is the member with the cape just after the show ended, gasping for air and the intense look on his face. Real Drum Corps! Thanks for posting this. Enjoy your comments and enthusiasm!!
I remember seeing this show.. Still one of my favs. I love seeing people "go for it" and letting the emotion come through even if not perfect.. I still love it.
Oh boy, total classic! Loud, fast, and clean! I think the thing I miss most in modern drum corps is crowd reactions like this. I don’t know if Lucas Oil stadium just masks crowd noise well or what, but even in person at other shows, crowds just don’t act like this anymore. Lol.
I think part of it is because of the familiarity of the music. The music you hear is something that you could listen to on an album. This type of show was More accessible when watching it just the 1st or 2nd time. Nowadays with the complexity you have to see those shows a bunch of times before you can really get into it. This is neither good nor bad but it just means that those old shows the crowd could get into it right away. And actually for this particular show even the 10th time it's amazing!
Back in the early years of drum and bugle Corps. They were real drum course they play to the crowd loud and proud and the audience really appreciated it they were standing on their feet many times throughout a lot of the top from course at that time Standing Ovation after standing ovation today no longer a real drum and bugle Corps they are marching bands today it's like apples and oranges. That's why they no longer get large crowds in descendants people aboard with marching bands expecting to see a drum and bugle Corps. Nothing wrong with marching bands but don't call it a drum and bugle Corps it is not
I am bald to this day from my hair being blown off that night! You could literally feel it in your bones, the stadium in Buffalo vibrated and no one sat down the last several minutes. Amazing drumline, screamers energetic guard, still some 26 years later.
The show that made me a fan of DCI. I was in HS marching band at the time :) Saw my first live show in 97 and was blown away by that brass sound. Goodness. Now I want to hear Crown do this lol 😀
I am somewhat biased because The Madison Scouts are from my home state of Wisconsin. But they are consistently one of my favorite performances. Tight, crisp, clean, energetic and full of life! They are an absolute machine and a delight to watch!
This is the show that my dad saw live and this is his favorite show. The first time he showed me this video he said that it was so in your face watching this live. I would've loved to see this show live as well. His favorite part tho has to be that drum break (we wrote a drumline cadence called "El Loco Tambor". We put a part of the closer drum break in there. Go check it out on my channel!)
Again, before I watch your reaction, the other one I was waiting for. Probably the most "drum corps" of any show in the modern history of drum corps. When someone says they were "on fire" or "100% nailed that show", this is the example I most think about...because they were literally "on FIRE"!!!
Courtney, since you liked this so much, I absolutely, positively promise you that you will love 1988 Madison Scouts - Malagueña, 100%; not a doubt in my mind.
I think this was the most speechless I've seen her. Just an "on my god" every couple minutes and that's it. What a powerful show, all showmanship and cajones.
@@StanislavBD The whole show feels like it's full of, "Hey, let's add this, it'll rock!" The screamer sop duet near the end of the drum solo didn't exist earlier in the season, for example; and I'd expect that the cymbals kept adding visuals all season, too. And the guard guy breaking his flag over his knee at the very end...
L J yeah, I’ve watched that video and prefer the sop duet at the end of La Danza Pasillo. Slow mo of the color guard at the end is quite satisfying lol. I must admit, I watch/listen to this show religiously everyday for years. Multiple times even. It wasn’t hard deciding which show to send for the guaranteed request.
Check out the bass line at 7:41 right after the kick. My favorite vish of all time, blow out our mallets and wipe the heads. It’s been in every show I’ve ever marched on bass. Fun times. So glad you enjoyed the show. It was a blast performing it. - Bass 2
Always fun to watch the one guard guy breaking his pole on the last chord! Madison was very fortunate the crowd response during the rotating company front was as great as it was. There is rehearsal footage out there and with no crowd response, all the energy is just sucked out of the program because the corps is barely playing and not very loud. The crowd is really what brought that section into legendary status. One of the all-time great Scout programs.
Rehearsal and performances always have the same energy. If you don't have the energy during a run-through, how are you going to do it during a show? Send a link to rehearsal footage. I'd like to see it. It's the same performance for one person or 30,000 people. It makes no difference.
Courtney, Fun Fact: If you noticed the sound from the horns are different that's because they are!!! Before the year 2000 drum corps horns were played in a different key and had slightly bigger bores and bells. The metal was lighter and shinier. They were closer to what was called a bugle during the early days before DCI was founded, pre 1972. These "bugles"/horns were in the key of G instead of B-flat. This made the sound reach into the "stratosphere" or a higher pitch because they were!! Usually they were played with 1 or 2 valves and/or a rotary. I played on what was called a soprano, translated trumpet in concert horn (B-flat) terms. I played in drum corps, honors music and many other groups between 1989 & 1995. That was it for me, even though I still played in other forms afterwards. One of the soprano soloists went to school with ne at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio...Schipper (misp.). We both were soprano soloists. Our jobs were the high notes. 🎶🎵
Awesome review once again Courtney! I knew you’d flip out for the 95 Scouts! Love your visceral emotional reactions. I got to see that show live 6 or 7 times that summer and let’s just say they devastated every crowd!!
I went over there that year with a Drum Corps from the UK,I've never witnessed anything like that in my life,the sound they produced was immense and like someone said before me babies were being thrown from the crowd.The standing ovation didn't stop until the Pit had left the field.My favourite scouts show and my 2nd favourite show of all time.
I actually requested you to watch this video a few weeks back! I’m so glad you watched it and enjoyed it! I am the mellophone soloist in the beginning of the second song (the calm/focused one) and yes, I was both, you nailed it! 😊
At about 8:50 in the performance, you saw a man in a green shirt right in front of the drum line. He was a judge. DCI is almost 100% American, though there have been some corps in Canada, Japan, etc. But, it's about as Americana as you can get. Malaga is a city in Spain, so I'd lean toward Spanish, rather than Mexican. In the old days, they called this Drum & Bugle Corps, so these are bugles. I've always been a fan of the Scouts.
Awesome show! You should check an indoor DCI show called Blast... it was on broadway and it won a Tony award. You should check out their version of Malagueña. You’d fall out of your chair.
So, this performance in particular was in a .wav file I somehow ended up getting, and it used to play in my random playlist rotation - it was absolutely part of my life in 1995, and every time I hear it, I can pound out those accented sixlets and triplets along with them 🙃 .. I wasn't aware of where this stood among all of the other DCI performances over the years, but blooking at the comments it's fun to see that it's universally seen as one of the best DCI performances ever .. it really is a great 11 minutes of sound...
I really like shows that you can follow and still keep you at the edge of your seat! Shows are getting so convoluted these days that they make me miss the good old days. But hey, that's just my opinion!
The drum major here was our Corps Director 2001&2002 at Southwind. Legend. The Scouts these years just has that double birds up we are just going ram this music in your face. And we loved it. Once in 2001 I saw one of the Scours tenors kick an orange cone out of the way as they were marching onto the field. It was so badass.
I marched Northern Aurora this year and got to see this show multiple times....and it killed every time. One night we rained out and all the Corps played their show INDOORS! People were plugging their ears because LOUD was an understatement!
I had 2 nephews and a niece playing horns and piccolo for DCI's *Black Gold (Tulsa, OK)....* one of the nephews was recruited by Vanguard to play with them for one season before he went back to college.. When our family was so involved with DCI, the Santa Clara Vanguard, Madison Scouts, Cadets and Blue Knights (not sure what cities they were from) were the big winning corps
This seems more like a show you'd see from a corp based in MY part of the country (south Texas) than one based in Wisconsin. This kind of music could be heard at just about every high school football game in my school days.
Part of it has to do with the fact that they Se were actually high school bands copying this show! I marched with the 1988 and 1989 Madison scouts. The years after we won DCI I heard so many bands playing Malaguena. I thought well maybe that's a fluke but the next year we played a sandi Patty gospel tune "Make his Praise Glorious." I saw no less than 3 or 4 marching bands play that song the next 2 seasons. Crazy being a marching rock star!
Hey Courtney! I really enjoy your reactions from your viewpoint. I'm also very pouf of how much you have grown in your music repertoire. I would love if you could react to Santa Clara's 1992 DCI show of Fiddler on the Roof. it inspired my freshman year's marching show of FIddler, back in 1994, EEK. Thank you being so genuine.
I saw this show live in Dallas. It was fantastic. They were so loud in person. This video and audio quality doesn't do it justice but that's what we had to work with back in the day.
This style show was the blueprint for winning corps up until the early 1980s when some of us really started to get serious about classical and theme based shows. The real change started in 83 when the Cadets won with the Rocky Point Holiday show. "The Garfield Cadets became the first corps from the East to win the DCI title in 1983, featuring a new style of drill by George Zingali that was akin to watching droplets of water move around, or watching the results of someone playing with one of those small chains that are attached to pens at a bank. Indeed, Zingali stated those were two methods he utilized to get ideas for his new type of “flex-drill.”" www.dci.org/news/spotlight-of-the-week-1983-garfield-cadets This truly was the season that changed Drum Corps forever.
aw man, you love it now......but once you see a live show, you'll hear it in a whole new way, even watching online you can start to imagine better the different nuances like when they're playing backfield vs turning around for an impact moment.
My high school borrowed this show in 96' for our fall season. Our junior drum major used one of the actual color guard outfits from this show. Some of the Madison scouts came out to watch us, including their color guard director. It was pretty cool. We used it to win the 1996 Washington State Marching Band championships. ruclips.net/video/s_t84-upSiE/видео.html
These older shows are my favorites because although they may not have all of the costuming that is popular today, they don't need to as they're so good anyway.
The first song is called El Toro Caliente, I wouldn't call it Mexican but more of Spanish deriving from Spain. Toro is Spanish for Bull and Bull Fighting originates in Spain. El Toro Caliente is The Raging Bull. One of my favorite DCI shows ever by the Madison Scouts
@@ProudPapaJD really? That's great! I have a bunch of friends in that show and a lot of them taught my drum corps when I marched and I never heard that. Again, that's awesome!
smd ftb The show was titled A Day in the Life of a Bullfighter. But everyone called it a drum corps fans dream. So in ‘96 the show title was A Drum Corps fans dream, part dos, to honor those fans!
I was at that show in Buffalo, NY.. they took 4th place and were amazing.. Cavaliers took 1st and Cadets 2nd.. those shows were all amazing in 1995.. blue devils have my favorite drumline though.. Madison best brass imo
my absolute favorite show from the 90's. and one of the best crowds ever. But now you have to do Madison Scouts '96 because it's basically a sequel and it is arguably even more intense in some spots.
Horns? Yes .... Trumpets? No. G bugles prior to the year 2000. The horns are named like voices of a choir because they are all G bugles in different sizes. Soprano (high) Alto (or mello's) Baritone (also Euphonium) and Contrabass. They're very similar in construction to their concert band counterparts but are much harder to play in tune. Some claim they are louder because of the conical bell construction. Some claim they are louder because all are in the pitch of G and the overtones stack easier. Meh.... regardless.... the Men of Madison did NOT disappoint in 1995. The crowd gave them well deserved standing ovations at multiple times during the show and felt they should have placed higher than 4th (regardless of visual dirt). MYNWA
If you've never seen this show live .. only seen the finals Video ... check this out. ruclips.net/video/EyYBSHt8PqA/видео.html July 1st in Cedar Rapids Iowa. TV Broadcast mid season. It's not as clean as finals (obviously) ... but you can actually hear the low brass and the pit isn't drowning you out (poor audio engineering at finals). This might give you a better appreciation for the show.
Now you gotta watch their 1996 show cuz "Part Dos" is part of the show title. As far as bullfighting and the dance style you saw on the yellow boxes originated from Spain but bullfighting and some elements of the dance were brought over to Mexico...also, I'm Mexican.
Probably those that only like shows within the last 10 years that make you think, 100 things going at the same time, with sophisticated storylines, blah, blah, blah, etc. People really just want in your face excitement with music that’s louder, faster and higher. Sit back, relax and easy to enjoy. That’s why this show has stood the test of time.
Glad you got to see the #1 show in dci history. There is a reason the 90's were the height of the activity. btw back in 2001-2002 the activity switched from horns pitched in G to horns in Bb. The high pitched G bugle was called a soprano and once they switched to Bb it was called a trumpet (but they're still frequently called sopranos in the activity today). It's called "screaming" when a soprano has a solo where they play stupidly high and loud. The Madison Scouts have a long history of great "screamers."
Wow I’m so glad you actually know about the horns! I wanted to be in the scouts in 95 96, 97 98, 99, because of ‘A Day In The Life of A Bullfighter’ Also The Phantom Regiment’s ‘adventures under a darkened the sky’ sop in G And the entire Hornline forever!
Yep, even in the 70's when I marched, the soprano soloist rocked! I played soprano too, but did not have the high note range. Still, it was louder than my trumpet. Those bugles put out sound!!
Spanish, Latin-jazz based show. The official title of the show was “A Day In The Life Of A Bullfighter.” 25 years later, it’s still one of the greatest drum corps shows to grace a field.
Interesting. I've only ever known it as "A DRUMCORPS FANS DREAM"
@@supersop I just looked at the liner for my 1995 CDs and the the show was untitled. I think the 'Drum Corps Fan's Dream' title was given to the show ex post facto by the title of the 1996 show 'A Drum Corps Fan's Dream: Part Dos'.
I watched the DCI broadcast a thousand times. Steve Rondinaro introduces the show as “A day in the life as a bullfighter” while they did their on the field warmup “Bolero”, which made it into the show the following year. This! Place! Is! Electric!
@@JAlexandrian I always saw that as a description of the show's concept rather than a show title. Like I mentioned, the CD liner notes had no title for the show even though there were titles for the other corps. If it had an official title, then it probably would have been included as well.
Justin... I could NOT agree more!!! This show is pure FIRE 🔥 Absolutely DYNAMITE!!!
The most incredible part of this show was the crowd. You had standing ovations after every movement, and this is the only show to have the crowd on their feet for the entire last 6 minutes. There’s a reason why they say the crowd was baby-throwing wild!
Michael Moon I was in the crowd that night, and yes, the crowd was insane and going bonkers.
Justin Newberry I wish I was there, unfortunately I was not born yet and time travel isn’t real 😥
I was in the last row of the stadium that night and it was STILL loud!! God I miss bugles.
Sometimes.
I was on the field (bass 2), it was glorious. Still the highlight of my life. (Just don’t tell my wife and kids.)
I was there too.... ON the field with PPJD. It's really disheartening to see where things have gone these days.
Unfortunately there's nothing this exciting in DCI anymore. Glad you liked it!
I was 15years old and in the audience when I saw this show. I’m a Green Machine fan from birth and loved seeing them win their second championship that season however, the 1995 Scouts show remains one of my top 3 favs of all time. “A day in the life of a bullfighter” was far and away a top fan favorite of all time, too!!!The stands almost never sat down and practically the entire closer, people were on their feet screaming their heads off for those kids!!!! Screamer sopranos, a kicking snare line, expressive color guard, marching and maneuvering, the music carrying that Latin flavor. I wish it would have shown them taking the field. They stretched from sideline to sideline on the goal line and marched out perfectly straight and once they hit the 35, shifted into the fleur de lis then went to the 50. The crowed was already screaming by then and they hadn’t even played a single note! The. Their warm up, Bolero. Which the crowed screamed for as well. I’ll never forget the 1995 Madison Scouts. I’d written you also begging you to review this show recently so I’m extremely glad you saw it. I oh so miss the days when you were guaranteed to get a show like this from Madison. It was maybe two or three years later they began dropping like crazy in the placings and the fans would boo constantly. 8th, 10th, even 12th place at finals and even began missing finals!!!! I miss THIS type of Madison Scouts corps.. if this doesn’t make you feel amazing and like a million bucks, nothing can.
And THIS my friend is why I fell in love with the Scouts so many years ago. This show, I also saw live... awesome does not begin to describe. And yes...I DEFINITELY recommend putting this on your phone to hear again. Such great stuff!
I have absolutely LOVED watching you turn into a DCI fan. Really hope you can make it to the states one year for finals!
P.S. start watching some WGI videos! It's like DCI but just percussion and in a gym
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It really has been fun watching that. I think it's about time to make Courtney an honorary "Band Geek". She would fit in with us very well.
@Erik Marlin Oh hell yeah!!!! I've watched quite a number of her reactions, but never knew she'd started down the DCI rabbit hole. Holy shit, this is AWESOME!
The Madison Scouts of the 90's were all about entertainment at the highest level. '95, '96, '97, and '99 are all regularly counted as some of the most entertaining and fan favorite drum corps shows to date. Their other shows of the 90's are also just entertaining and in your face as well, but those 4 rise to the next level.
91 and 92 city of angels was off the hook also.
@@daveyboygee Right? There weren't really any off years for the scouts in the 90s. I still say it was the power of the sequins. Those uniforms were *chefs kiss*. Say what you will about the new direction of expression for the artistry and expression of the past 5 years or so, but there's just something visceral about seeing a recognizable silhouette in the distance. Being able to see a group coming and know EXACTLY who it is just by the outline or a color combination.
Tall curved feather?-SCV.
Red Jacket with Buttons and a tall plume-Boston
White helmet and a sash?-Phantom
And so on and so forth.
Also the brass playing in my opinion was better in the 90s. It doesn't seem like the focus is there anymore, w/ the exception of Crown. Sometimes the electronic stuff is neat (ie Kinetic Noise), but when you're using it to actually affect or "improve" the sound of the brass, yuck. I feel that the most important/beneficial part of this activity is teaching these kids how to play their horns better.
Thanks for putting up my request Courtney! I must admit, it is partly to introduce the newer generation to what I grew up with that have not seen it before. This was the biggest crowd pleaser of the 90’s. Thanks for watching everyone!
Hey Stan, you beat me to it. I made a guaranteed request for this, but Courtney informed me that one had already been made for it so I chose another video and got a "two-fer", so to speak. I saw this show live that year, and I will never forget the sound of that horn line and how they blew out the stadium. The 90's were some good times for live drumcorps.
Jeff Gray You have good taste Jeff! It wasn’t a hard choice for my first submission. I originally wanted it to be posted during the week of finals of this year to celebrate the 25th anniversary of baddest show to ever grace the field. Unfortunately, there were too many request ahead of me :) I wonder what your requests are......haha. I will be making another request soon too.
It was fun watching someone get introduced to the best show in the history of drum corp. Of course, I’m a little biased. I was on the field.
ProudPapaJD it is absolutely the best show! What did you play?
@@StanislavBD I was Bass 2 this year, marched 94-96 Scouts on bass 4 then 2 and 2 again. This show was the best summer of my life!
Finally! I was in that crowd. I'll never forget it.
25 years after conducting this night, still love seeing people’s reaction to an incredible summer. Thanks for for sharing your reaction. ❤️ MYNWA
Don't care what anyone thinks... greatest show ever. They floored it right off the bat and never let off until 11 minutes was done. Their shows in 94-97 is what got me into the activity. Had to be awesome to march in that show. But haaaard music!!
Stan Kenton arranged and conducted Malaga with his orchestra back in the 60's I think. We played Malaga and Malaguena in high school. I'm still a fan of Stan Kenton's music to this day. Scouts did a phenomenal presentation of his music (again).
Hey Courtney! I’m going to help you out a bit with some of your questions. So it’s a Latin Jazz show, and most of the music is Spanish (from Spain) in origin.
The horns - top to bottom are as follows:
Soprano (trumpet looking horn)
Mellophone
French Horn (I think Scouts had french horns back then)
Baritone
Euphonium
Contra Bass (the shoulder mounted huge horns)
The horns back then were considered “bugles” because they are pitched in the key of G, just like old style military bugles.
Since 2000, there was a rule change, and drum corps have stopped using bugles and are playing on B flat (Bb) horns. The sopranos are now trumpets, and the contra basses are now tubas.
The one small fix to your lexicon is that the plural of color guard is color guard. (No s at the end). Most people just say “guard” or “the guard”.
I am SO happy you got to see this show. It’s one of my favorites, and I was in attendance for finals that year in Buffalo, NY, so it’s special for me!
The top 4 in 1995 was spectacular. Every show was completely different from the other and they were all performed impeccably.
Yeah if I remember right there was a 3 way tie for high brass and cavies weren’t one of them…shows how good those top 4 were!
Her reactions are the reason I joined drum corps in the first place! Proud to have been a Scout, just a handful of years before this one!
mynwa ⚜️💚
What I love from your reactions is seeing ourselves in you when we were first were introduced to DCI. It's so fun to watch someone blown away by the sights and sounds.
"Madison Scouts! They don't need a concept, They ARE the concept!"
95 was an INCREDIBLE year. 95 Scouts has been my favorite show for 25 years. If I can come up with a disposable $100, I'm going to request 95 Cadets. Some of the the best field show storytelling I've ever seen.
I've listened to this show hundreds of times, but it never gets old. Thanks for doing this video...Now you have to watch the 1996 sequel show!
Thank you so much for doing these! My friend Martinelli was drum major of Star of Indiana one year and Blue Devils one year in the early 90s. I’ve just shown your channel to him and he asked me to suggest Madison Scouts ‘95 to you! He’ll be so happy you already did it!
I was way too young to see this show in person at all, but once time travel is perfected, I'm there in Buffalo for this 😊 1995 was such a great year for DCI
This was the year I quit going to finals for a period. Worst mistake of my life.
And the real travesty for those of you who weren't there in person is that the mics at DCI really sucked that year. They don't even give Justice to how loud that horn line was. Hearing this show at Rockford that year, it was one of the most intense and amazing experiences I've ever had at a drum corps show.
@@daveyboygee Yeah, I saw them live in Tulsa that year and man, it was amazing. SO glad I got to see this show live, at least once.
Scouts are always a powerhouse. This girl is reintroducing me to DCI again. I marched in '91 division 3 at the age of 15. Thank you New Zealand girl!
I love that show. I have it in my vhs tape collection. Have watched it many many times! The horns, drums, color guard all fantastic. I had about the same reaction as you when I first saw the video many years ago. This is one I would have loved to see live. What is not shown that is on my tape is the member with the cape just after the show ended, gasping for air and the intense look on his face. Real Drum Corps! Thanks for posting this. Enjoy your comments and enthusiasm!!
I remember seeing this show.. Still one of my favs. I love seeing people "go for it" and letting the emotion come through even if not perfect.. I still love it.
Oh boy, total classic! Loud, fast, and clean!
I think the thing I miss most in modern drum corps is crowd reactions like this.
I don’t know if Lucas Oil stadium just masks crowd noise well or what, but even in person at other shows, crowds just don’t act like this anymore. Lol.
I think part of it is because of the familiarity of the music. The music you hear is something that you could listen to on an album. This type of show was More accessible when watching it just the 1st or 2nd time. Nowadays with the complexity you have to see those shows a bunch of times before you can really get into it. This is neither good nor bad but it just means that those old shows the crowd could get into it right away. And actually for this particular show even the 10th time it's amazing!
The crowds are the same, the shows have changed. The horns cannot blow your brains out like these bugles could.
Back in the early years of drum and bugle Corps. They were real drum course they play to the crowd loud and proud and the audience really appreciated it they were standing on their feet many times throughout a lot of the top from course at that time Standing Ovation after standing ovation today no longer a real drum and bugle Corps they are marching bands today it's like apples and oranges. That's why they no longer get large crowds in descendants people aboard with marching bands expecting to see a drum and bugle Corps. Nothing wrong with marching bands but don't call it a drum and bugle Corps it is not
I am bald to this day from my hair being blown off that night! You could literally feel it in your bones, the stadium in Buffalo vibrated and no one sat down the last several minutes. Amazing drumline, screamers energetic guard, still some 26 years later.
I used to listen to this so much in high school 2006! I had a cd 💕 thanks for sharing
The show that made me a fan of DCI. I was in HS marching band at the time :) Saw my first live show in 97 and was blown away by that brass sound. Goodness.
Now I want to hear Crown do this lol 😀
This is the show and year that got me to march drum corps myself! I was also blessed to get to march the Madison Scouts too! ⚜💛💚❤⚜ MYNWA
I am somewhat biased because The Madison Scouts are from my home state of Wisconsin. But they are consistently one of my favorite performances. Tight, crisp, clean, energetic and full of life! They are an absolute machine and a delight to watch!
Now you have to watch 1996 Madison because it’s called A Drum Corps Fans Dream: Part Dos
ABSOLUTELY
96 was just trying to recapture the spark of a perfect show in 95, and falling short.
97 on the other hand, was fucking magic in a bottle.
Jason Siebels idk, if you took away the audience as a factor in the feel of the show, I would say 96 did a fantastic job capturing it.
Jeff Gray That triangle zipper move 😩
This is the show that my dad saw live and this is his favorite show. The first time he showed me this video he said that it was so in your face watching this live. I would've loved to see this show live as well. His favorite part tho has to be that drum break (we wrote a drumline cadence called "El Loco Tambor". We put a part of the closer drum break in there. Go check it out on my channel!)
Again, before I watch your reaction, the other one I was waiting for. Probably the most "drum corps" of any show in the modern history of drum corps. When someone says they were "on fire" or "100% nailed that show", this is the example I most think about...because they were literally "on FIRE"!!!
Thanks!
Courtney, since you liked this so much, I absolutely, positively promise you that you will love 1988 Madison Scouts - Malagueña, 100%; not a doubt in my mind.
Another show I have not sen before, and holy crap, that just didn't let up, it didn't let up at all!!! Wow what a show
"I feel like you don't see that kind of intensity until the end of they show..." They keep it up the whole show!
You're "right on" Courtney. Madison's shows were insane!.
This show is widely regarded as one of the best DCI shows ever. Thanks for reacting to it!
I think this was the most speechless I've seen her. Just an "on my god" every couple minutes and that's it. What a powerful show, all showmanship and cajones.
Yea, I’ve never seen her tremble after a DCI reaction vid before. This is the power of drum corps of the 90’s.
@@StanislavBD The whole show feels like it's full of, "Hey, let's add this, it'll rock!" The screamer sop duet near the end of the drum solo didn't exist earlier in the season, for example; and I'd expect that the cymbals kept adding visuals all season, too. And the guard guy breaking his flag over his knee at the very end...
L J yeah, I’ve watched that video and prefer the sop duet at the end of La Danza Pasillo. Slow mo of the color guard at the end is quite satisfying lol. I must admit, I watch/listen to this show religiously everyday for years. Multiple times even. It wasn’t hard deciding which show to send for the guaranteed request.
That is real Drum Corps. It needs to come back. G Bugles. Sapranos. It has a very specific sound.
Told you 1995 Madison Scouts was an awesome show! :-)
Check out the bass line at 7:41 right after the kick. My favorite vish of all time, blow out our mallets and wipe the heads. It’s been in every show I’ve ever marched on bass. Fun times. So glad you enjoyed the show. It was a blast performing it. - Bass 2
One of my all time top 3 shows. Forgot how much I love that show.
Always fun to watch the one guard guy breaking his pole on the last chord!
Madison was very fortunate the crowd response during the rotating company front was as great as it was. There is rehearsal footage out there and with no crowd response, all the energy is just sucked out of the program because the corps is barely playing and not very loud. The crowd is really what brought that section into legendary status.
One of the all-time great Scout programs.
Rehearsal and performances always have the same energy. If you don't have the energy during a run-through, how are you going to do it during a show? Send a link to rehearsal footage. I'd like to see it. It's the same performance for one person or 30,000 people. It makes no difference.
@@quooby-doo7986 ruclips.net/video/vmOuuxjOvBk/видео.html Start at the 5 minute mark.
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Courtney, Fun Fact: If you noticed the sound from the horns are different that's because they are!!! Before the year 2000 drum corps horns were played in a different key and had slightly bigger bores and bells. The metal was lighter and shinier. They were closer to what was called a bugle during the early days before DCI was founded, pre 1972. These "bugles"/horns were in the key of G instead of B-flat. This made the sound reach into the "stratosphere" or a higher pitch because they were!! Usually they were played with 1 or 2 valves and/or a rotary. I played on what was called a soprano, translated trumpet in concert horn (B-flat) terms. I played in drum corps, honors music and many other groups between 1989 & 1995. That was it for me, even though I still played in other forms afterwards. One of the soprano soloists went to school with ne at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio...Schipper (misp.). We both were soprano soloists. Our jobs were the high notes. 🎶🎵
Awesome review once again Courtney! I knew you’d flip out for the 95 Scouts! Love your visceral emotional reactions. I got to see that show live 6 or 7 times that summer and let’s just say they devastated every crowd!!
I went over there that year with a Drum Corps from the UK,I've never witnessed anything like that in my life,the sound they produced was immense and like someone said before me babies were being thrown from the crowd.The standing ovation didn't stop until the Pit had left the field.My favourite scouts show and my 2nd favourite show of all time.
I actually requested you to watch this video a few weeks back! I’m so glad you watched it and enjoyed it! I am the mellophone soloist in the beginning of the second song (the calm/focused one) and yes, I was both, you nailed it! 😊
FWGlockGuy AND the mellophone soloist that opened the ‘96 show. 👍🏻
At about 8:50 in the performance, you saw a man in a green shirt right in front of the drum line. He was a judge.
DCI is almost 100% American, though there have been some corps in Canada, Japan, etc. But, it's about as Americana as you can get.
Malaga is a city in Spain, so I'd lean toward Spanish, rather than Mexican.
In the old days, they called this Drum & Bugle Corps, so these are bugles.
I've always been a fan of the Scouts.
Fun fact: Madison’s hornline and the Cadets’ (then Cadets of Bergen County) hornline tied for best brass!
Awesome show! You should check an indoor DCI show called Blast... it was on broadway and it won a Tony award. You should check out their version of Malagueña. You’d fall out of your chair.
I have a bunch of shows I have lined up awaiting cash and Blast has a couple, Malagueña and Bolero.
Thanks for your reaction. I was in the color guard this year ~ such a great season and wonderful memories.
So, this performance in particular was in a .wav file I somehow ended up getting, and it used to play in my random playlist rotation - it was absolutely part of my life in 1995, and every time I hear it, I can pound out those accented sixlets and triplets along with them 🙃 .. I wasn't aware of where this stood among all of the other DCI performances over the years, but blooking at the comments it's fun to see that it's universally seen as one of the best DCI performances ever .. it really is a great 11 minutes of sound...
I really like shows that you can follow and still keep you at the edge of your seat! Shows are getting so convoluted these days that they make me miss the good old days. But hey, that's just my opinion!
In the Top 10 shows ever for me
The drum major here was our Corps Director 2001&2002 at Southwind. Legend. The Scouts these years just has that double birds up we are just going ram this music in your face. And we loved it. Once in 2001 I saw one of the Scours tenors kick an orange cone out of the way as they were marching onto the field. It was so badass.
Classic Scouts. (Malaga is in Spain). Wonderful show.
Preemptive comment .... Court is going to lose her shizzz
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I marched Northern Aurora this year and got to see this show multiple times....and it killed every time. One night we rained out and all the Corps played their show INDOORS! People were plugging their ears because LOUD was an understatement!
I had 2 nephews and a niece playing horns and piccolo for DCI's *Black Gold (Tulsa, OK)....* one of the nephews was recruited by Vanguard to play with them for one season before he went back to college.. When our family was so involved with DCI, the Santa Clara Vanguard, Madison Scouts, Cadets and Blue Knights (not sure what cities they were from) were the big winning corps
This seems more like a show you'd see from a corp based in MY part of the country (south Texas) than one based in Wisconsin. This kind of music could be heard at just about every high school football game in my school days.
Part of it has to do with the fact that they
Se were actually high school bands copying this show!
I marched with the 1988 and 1989 Madison scouts. The years after we won DCI I heard so many bands playing Malaguena. I thought well maybe that's a fluke but the next year we played a sandi Patty gospel tune "Make his Praise Glorious." I saw no less than 3 or 4 marching bands play that song the next 2 seasons. Crazy being a marching rock star!
@@daveyboygee I was in high school a decade before that.
@@larrywt656 Funny coincidence then.... that Madison also played malaguena a decade before this.
Malaga is a Municipality of Spain in Europe. Madison 95 is one of my favorite shows, non-stop energy.
Your enthusiasm makes viewing these videos as if they were new, even though i have seen them hundreds of times..thank you
Hey Courtney! I really enjoy your reactions from your viewpoint. I'm also very pouf of how much you have grown in your music repertoire. I would love if you could react to Santa Clara's 1992 DCI show of Fiddler on the Roof. it inspired my freshman year's marching show of FIddler, back in 1994, EEK. Thank you being so genuine.
It’s a good day to be a Madison Scout.
I saw this show live in Dallas. It was fantastic. They were so loud in person. This video and audio quality doesn't do it justice but that's what we had to work with back in the day.
This style show was the blueprint for winning corps up until the early 1980s when some of us really started to get serious about classical and theme based shows. The real change started in 83 when the Cadets won with the Rocky Point Holiday show.
"The Garfield Cadets became the first corps from the East to win the DCI title in 1983, featuring a new style of drill by George Zingali that was akin to watching droplets of water move around, or watching the results of someone playing with one of those small chains that are attached to pens at a bank. Indeed, Zingali stated those were two methods he utilized to get ideas for his new type of “flex-drill.”"
www.dci.org/news/spotlight-of-the-week-1983-garfield-cadets
This truly was the season that changed Drum Corps forever.
aw man, you love it now......but once you see a live show, you'll hear it in a whole new way, even watching online you can start to imagine better the different nuances like when they're playing backfield vs turning around for an impact moment.
My high school borrowed this show in 96' for our fall season. Our junior drum major used one of the actual color guard outfits from this show. Some of the Madison scouts came out to watch us, including their color guard director. It was pretty cool. We used it to win the 1996 Washington State Marching Band championships. ruclips.net/video/s_t84-upSiE/видео.html
These older shows are my favorites because although they may not have all of the costuming that is popular today, they don't need to as they're so good anyway.
8:57: preliminary applause for the closer.
Thank you so much for doing these videos. 1990's drum corps were so good!!!
Ya Courtney was never gonna be ready for this one. Lol welcome to the mid 90's ma'am!
The first song is called El Toro Caliente, I wouldn't call it Mexican but more of Spanish deriving from Spain. Toro is Spanish for Bull and Bull Fighting originates in Spain. El Toro Caliente is The Raging Bull. One of my favorite DCI shows ever by the Madison Scouts
Your reactions are *priceless*!!!
FIRE FURY AND PASSION THAT'S THE MEN OF MADISON THEY BRING THAT THEY BRING IT AND THE CROWD JUST ROARS LIKE LIONS!!
@12:48 - "Rocking back & forth unconsciously without the ability to speak" = Madison '95
Ahhh the good ol' days!
I mean, they named it A Drum Corps Fan's Dream for a reason.
Actually the crowd named it that... 😜 The show itself has a different name.
@@ProudPapaJD really? That's great! I have a bunch of friends in that show and a lot of them taught my drum corps when I marched and I never heard that. Again, that's awesome!
smd ftb The show was titled A Day in the Life of a Bullfighter. But everyone called it a drum corps fans dream. So in ‘96 the show title was A Drum Corps fans dream, part dos, to honor those fans!
One of...if not the best shows of all time...
Madison Scouts Wikipedia article: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madison_Scouts_Drum_and_Bugle_Corps
best. show. ever.
I used to loop this performance on my iPod in high school!
I was at that show in Buffalo, NY.. they took 4th place and were amazing.. Cavaliers took 1st and Cadets 2nd.. those shows were all amazing in 1995.. blue devils have my favorite drumline though.. Madison best brass imo
The Blue Devils also were there and had an AWESOME performance!! Good times for sure!
They're all 21 or younger. Check out some of the DCA hornlines when they really get their "chops" wall of sound realized!
My band director was in this show, he showed us a video of one of the performances today.
my absolute favorite show from the 90's. and one of the best crowds ever. But now you have to do Madison Scouts '96 because it's basically a sequel and it is arguably even more intense in some spots.
Horns? Yes .... Trumpets? No. G bugles prior to the year 2000.
The horns are named like voices of a choir because they are all G bugles in different sizes. Soprano (high) Alto (or mello's) Baritone (also Euphonium) and Contrabass. They're very similar in construction to their concert band counterparts but are much harder to play in tune. Some claim they are louder because of the conical bell construction. Some claim they are louder because all are in the pitch of G and the overtones stack easier. Meh.... regardless.... the Men of Madison did NOT disappoint in 1995. The crowd gave them well deserved standing ovations at multiple times during the show and felt they should have placed higher than 4th (regardless of visual dirt). MYNWA
Overall 1995 was one of the best years in DCI. Maybe top 10 or even top 5 of all time
This is by fav my most favorite year ever of DCI history. What I would do to have been there live! 😭
1987 Cadets and 1987 Vanguard are brilliant shows
If you've never seen this show live .. only seen the finals Video ... check this out. ruclips.net/video/EyYBSHt8PqA/видео.html
July 1st in Cedar Rapids Iowa. TV Broadcast mid season. It's not as clean as finals (obviously) ... but you can actually hear the low brass and the pit isn't drowning you out (poor audio engineering at finals). This might give you a better appreciation for the show.
We told you.....😁😁😁
Now you gotta watch their 1996 show cuz "Part Dos" is part of the show title. As far as bullfighting and the dance style you saw on the yellow boxes originated from Spain but bullfighting and some elements of the dance were brought over to Mexico...also, I'm Mexican.
Best show ever!!!!!!
“I keep losing my pencils like gangbusters” (look up Scouts 1995 + Bad Band Judge)
Love these vids. I’ve enjoyed going with you on the journey from modern back to old school. Different vibes but still same energy and precision.
4 dislikes? What do you 4 want? Great show and reaction thanks.
Probably those that only like shows within the last 10 years that make you think, 100 things going at the same time, with sophisticated storylines, blah, blah, blah, etc. People really just want in your face excitement with music that’s louder, faster and higher. Sit back, relax and easy to enjoy. That’s why this show has stood the test of time.
@@StanislavBD thanks, exactly