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0:53 love seeing that Slingerland logo on the bass drum.

Twirling a rifle, while on the ground ❤ Fantastic color guard. Great M&M

DCI: play passionate tunes we all remember, please.

Still a classic! They were cheated by the judges though....they clearly were better than the blue devils

Whose arrangement is it, please?

SPLOOIE

When drum Corp still could March!!!

Does anyone know the percussion arranger at this point? There’s some really futuristic beats going on for something in the early 80s , loving the 9lets at the end there

❤My Jaw Dropped! I've always loved the Cavaliers, but this was especially amazing. BRAVO!

I would like to dedicate this performance to My cousin, Vernon David, RIP, who marched on the snare or Timpani line, who inspired me to join and compete in Drum corps. He was a CMCC Warrior through and through.

89’ Phantom

Simply Magnificent ! ! !

That green wall man when they come to that sideline and step over their guard that still is one of the coolest closers that's in the top five of closers

I'm a Blue Devils fan and i was there all three nights at the Citrus Bowl. This show was damn good and powerful. Phantoms Spartacus had the splash, but this show had the power.

The Iconic marching over the color guard moment! I love seeing this!!!!

These kids are probably hitting their 60s now, lol. What a legacy.

First DCI show I ever saw. To this day it is still the best. Raw power and energy!

Great then. Great now. Nothing stays the same in life, but DCI has lost its way. Field today is cluttered with too many props for one. Secondly, sound amplification is ridiculous. Marching Bands of America has ruined the drum corps activity.

One of the best moments of my teen years. This show was so awesome. Splooie

I was never in DCI but I did March in drumline in marching band and did this song my Jr year. I love that last drumline accents and everything about it. It hits you in the heart and the gut!!!!! HARD!

This show is hypnotic. The play between the rigid marching and the freedom of the guard matches a similar tension in the music, which is varied yet unified. The drill corresponds as well to the music, and the finish is emotionally moving. This is Phantom at its best!

1 second agogrowing up This was a closing song of one of the old Professional Drum & Bugle Corps. Heard it played at Fenway Park CYO Nationals in 67 or there about. (may have been Cavaliers) It was a favorite of my fathers who was a member of CYO’s St Thomas Moore in Jamaica Plain , Boston, a member of Lt. Norman Prince in Malden and then as a member of Professional Drum & Bugle Corp the Milton Grenadiers from Boston (CYO Boston Crusaders were then one of the feeder Corps for them). When I hear this it always brings back good memories. Director Jack Lesalva of Boston Crusaders Senior Corps is an old friend and former football teammate from youth and sandlot team. These were definitely the “Golden Years” and people like Jack keeps it alive.

Phantom Regiment percussion is EN FUEGO!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

I miss seeing dci on PBS when there were shows like this.

Now that was color gaurd

❤️😍❤️😍❤️ PR ... Always CLASSY Always BRASSY!

I haven't watched this for a few years. I think I said "Wow" five times! They certainly don't build 'em like that anymore! Great drum corps year, 1980, but the shows were a little bit long.

What a treat to see this. Back when identity was everything and I ended up marching for three years in another corps. Emotions and memories are very special to me. What happened to all the time. Suddenly I'm 60 next year😎but feel like a kid when I watch this.

just think of how many balls those guys probably saw as they got stepped over, over the course of an entire summer....

Love the marching tymps. I'd love to see a corps insert them into their show. I also love the next corps marching onto the sideline during the closer. At the old Rynearson Stadium show, you could always see the next corps' buses pulling up and unloading. Talk about distracting!

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At 1:02-1:08 I saw the drum major marching in place while conducting. And then at 1:35 he leaves the podium and conducts from the middle of the field! Were these common practices back then? I'm a newbie to Drum Corps, maybe this is a basic question :) feel free to @ me so I see your reply!

sorry to inform you but because its now 2020, this is no longer top 5

So ahead of it's time for 1980!

40 years later, that still gives me chills. In my opinion, those who reduce this to the activity "was just better back then" are missing how special this piece was for any era, any group. There were special moments back then, and lots of mediocrity as well. This was more than special. This was timeless. To reduce it to the key of the bugles is to miss the point. This staff and these kids made ART happen on a football field. That transcends keys and eras. This performance was forever.

The next year (or it could have been '82) they did the same closer but when they stepped over the color guard, they held their legs up for one beat and then came down. I thought Ralph.....Ah, can't remember his last name...wrote the drill? It will come to me. And Jeff Fieldler's last season as DM.

If anybody doesn't know the story behind the song and lyrics, it's definitely worth a Google!

This is one of the few corps that did classical music and transcribed it to bugles and percussion. A feat in itself. These instructors were and still are some kind of wonderful. This is most likely my deepest regret in that I aged out in 1976. That one piston, one rotary valve "G" Bugle was a bear to play, but it did that one thing that the audience wanted to hear, A FULL SOUND, one that blew your hair back and the foam off your beer. These videos should be seen by all upcoming band directors who have marching bands. All hail the true Drum Corps of a time long past.

Someone in Chicago loved The Princemen!

Jesus, that opener. Never been a better tension release than 2:29 in drum corps history.

It was just different and better back in "The Ole Days" of drum corps. Seeing this show live caused my chest to expand with admiration and my heart fill with pride for being a drum corps participant and fan.

I was a college freshman in 1996, and I marched in high school, and even back then marching bands were imitating drum corps. My band had an assistant who copied drill from some drum corps and we had to march it. General Effect wasn't as over the top as it is now, but our director was still making us do it. At the time I wished our band marched more like HBCUs, now that I'm older I'm sad that I missed out on the days when every band marched like A&M, as that requires the most precision, and we always started out in band camp doing block band anyway, having to stay directly behind the person in front of us directly beside the people next to us.

at least it was real emotion on the face not acted exaggerated emotional grimacing, a performance for all time, cant imagine being in front of it

We (Spirit) were on tour with Cavies in 80. Lots of good memories and good music. (Spirit snare alum)

BEST drill I have ever seen ! thank you Dale Peters for writing this drill

Today's faux corps can't hold a candle to the sound and precision of drum corps of the past, like this.

This is the quintessential PR production. I hope they can get this intensity back in the near future. No more silly tourists in Paris!!!!!!!!

That was a magical night: My first DCI Finals performance and I can remember the crowd reaction like it was yesterday.

Why they were not in the top 4 is anyone's guess. Bridgemen (3rd) were not even close to the mastery of the Cavies.

One of my all time fave closers ! I was in a small Corps that had the same schedule for 2nd tour as the Cavies. I got to see this show every night. It's hard to tell from this video but the crowd reaction when the company front steps over the rifle line was always phenomenal. What a treat!