Cavaliers 1980 - Softly As I Leave You - The Step-Over Closer
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 ก.ค. 2013
- This is history right here, kids. A 'defining moment' for the Cavies.
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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.
Did you by chance know Edward McGuire?
@@jacobmoore2914 the name doesn't ring a bell
Well said! The attitude, the showmanship, the accessible music to everyone in the crowd!
Ray I totally agree with you
My dad started in corps in 36. My brother an I marched 64 through 70. Son in 2002. All sopranos. I love corps today as much as our days🎺👍👏👏👏👏
These kids are probably hitting their 60s now, lol. What a legacy.
One of the best moments of my teen years. This show was so awesome. Splooie
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!
The Iconic marching over the color guard moment! I love seeing this!!!!
I miss seeing dci on PBS when there were shows like this.
So do I Kevin. It was such a treat to watch.
I have the LP of this show - you can't quite tell on this recording but at the stepover (2:33) the crowd goes INSANE. The roar almost drowns out the corps on that recording.
Is there any way to get a copy of the LP of this show!?
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
So ahead of it's time for 1980!
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.
You too?
I love that the last chord NEVER ENDS
We (Spirit) were on tour with Cavies in 80. Lots of good memories and good music. (Spirit snare alum)
Yes it was! Cavalier snare
@@mikeneer1651 did you by chance know Edward "ed" or "eddy" McGuire
@@jacobmoore2914 doesn't ring a bell sorry
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.
BEST drill I have ever seen ! thank you Dale Peters for writing this drill
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.
Can I hit the "like" button twice? Kudos to the color guard for so many reasons, not the least of which is keeping their hats on during the final somersault. A tip of the cap to the soloist. This is an exemplary closer.
The mellophone soloist is Mike Maloney.
Twirling a rifle, while on the ground ❤ Fantastic color guard. Great M&M
❤My Jaw Dropped! I've always loved the Cavaliers, but this was especially amazing. BRAVO!
Paul there was a HS in Texas, Hutto I believe , that did this move in the state marching band finals. I talked to one of the band directors from there that said he was on the Cavies the year they did this move. One of the BEST moves EVER!
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.
(getting kind of misty-eyed) Oh! Oh, yes. YES!!
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!
Wish they would bring back those hats.
THE GREEN MACHINE!!!
badass drill.....don't see that anymore...RIP DCI
No longer drum and bugle Corps it's now a marching band, nothing wrong with marching bands but definitely not a drum and bugle Corps
Oh how I miss the gun shots during the performances
And the next corps walking up to the far sideline usually during the closer.
What was the gun for? I know they discontinued that in the mid 80’s
@Steve Schow It signaled the end of execution judging...i.e. no more tics (.1pt deduction) for technical errors...the final minutes were only judged for general effect.
@@johns3106 in other words, it meant "Get ready to be blown away"
@@steveschow9377 it was for timing, they would fire the gun on a starting line for the first move in the Drum Corps, when their time on the field was complete I believe it was 13 minutes they would fire the gun again to let everybody know time was up, in earlier days they had to be over the finish line, or you would receive a penalty
Simply Magnificent ! ! !
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!
Most of the time you could not see other drunkards buses pulling up if there were in the stadium you wouldn't see them at all if they were at a small High School field then you might see them in the background but normally you wouldn't see anyting, and if you could hear a drum corps practicing inside competition field you would receive a penalty for doing that, I believe it was up to two points period that was considered to be a major distraction
@@americanspirit8932 Voice to text? Or did you mean to call them drunkards?
Also, at Rynerson Stadium (EMU), you could see the buses plainly and hear corps in the distance. But that was a long time ago.
That was a magical night: My first DCI Finals performance and I can remember the crowd reaction like it was yesterday.
any chance youre in touch with John Leonard?
I remember John Leonard but I probably haven’t seen him in 30 years.
0:53 love seeing that Slingerland logo on the bass drum.
Miss the Drum and Bugle Corps induced goosebumps, it just doesn't happen very much anymore. It's really too bad.
I agree. I have stopped going to shows altogether. I have a DMA in music and know what I hear and see. I simply refuse to believe that one corps is that good on a yearly basis.
@@2009grifin1 yes the scoring system today is horrible. It boils down to opinion. The drum lines in today's marching bands, play nothing more than a warm-up exercise from Old School. They play very very few rudiments I think they're only required to play only six? Today they do plenty of head-bobbing in the Drumline, and a lot of juggling. They use back sticking who was developed by a good friend of mine John Dowling, he first introduced it in the early 60s the first Drum Corps to use back sticking was the Air Force drum and bugle Corps drum quartet. And they took first place national champion
John Dowling may he rest in peace.
Now that was color gaurd
Someone in Chicago loved The Princemen!
If anybody doesn't know the story behind the song and lyrics, it's definitely worth a Google!
Stan Kenton, I think.....?
DCI: play passionate tunes we all remember, please.
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.
13 minutes was the average Drum Corps Time on the field karma for being judged. When the gun Woodfire they were allowed still to play but not be judged
Why they were not in the top 4 is anyone's guess. Bridgemen (3rd) were not even close to the mastery of the Cavies.
The true power of the Bridgemen was their drumline (79 & 80). Incredibly, they broke 90 and were within .5 of winning it all.
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
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!
Almost every Drum Corps in old school days with march on the field, most of them never stood on the podium. They would stand on the 50-yard line conducting when they were in concert formation. Concert formation was done on the 50-yard line fixing the crowd right up to the foul line. Amount of time required was approximately 2 to 2 and 1/2 minutes
@@americanspirit8932 cool, thank you!
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.
just think of how many balls those guys probably saw as they got stepped over, over the course of an entire summer....
SPLOOIE
Whose arrangement is it, please?
earlier in the season wasn't there a pause with feet raised just before the step over?
yes but it was in the prelims of the DCI championships. A small change in the closer but very memorable and very dramatic to those who were there. Good memory!
1981 prelims was the first time we did the pause.
@impactdrilldesigns:
Well you guys did a great job obviously as it made a lasting memory for many corps members around the country. Well done!
We did that the next year, in '81. Added it just before DCI prelims.
No, that was either '81 or '82.
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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.
The “hesitation” was put in at DCI Prelims and Finals in 1981. The drill designer was Ralph Pace.
@@johnflorio3052 RALPH PACE!! He was awesome. Is he still with us? I have a recording from a Mass show in 1981 and I thought I heard the hesitation there, too. I'll have to check.
@@ultramannick Ralph Pace was ahead of his time with respect to visual effects. As a trumpet player I always appreciated Ralph’s knowledge of how to write drill “for” the music. He always had the brass in the proper place for maximum musical effect not just for visual effect.
@@johnflorio3052 He certainly was. I think he also wrote the drill for the Reading Buccaneers in 1979 and 1980. Wish I could have met him. Some people are just genius at crafting drills like that. And that was before computer software-assisted drill creation tools.
@@ultramannick Ralph Pace was an odd duck, as I like to put it. He was eccentric but not in a creepy way, if you know what I mean. Ralph was visually oriented but he understood brass players extremely well. He even taught us the “grinder” exercise to increase volume which he learned from Jim Ott.