Amazing. I don’t even know how they pulled this off. Between finding enough members with enough free time to learn a 12 minute show to that amount of uniforms and instruments. Turned out awesome though.
The logistics team and volunteers took years to plan this. They are the heroes here. Us performers had about 8 days to learn it. You’re witnessing what was literally our fourth time running the show top to bottom. We never even rehearsed big chunks of the music other than getting notes from the staff during ensemble. The fact that this came together at all is amazing. The fact that we did it in 8 days is a miracle. Performing this was a highlight of my life.
@@darrentanner8780 Y’all did fantastic! Sure to the discerning eye and ear it wasn’t technically perfect but I don’t think there’s a single person on this planet who cares, it was a wonderful trip into the past and seeing y’all’s passion and emotion was the cherry on top. Tilt got me into DCI but I never got to see it live so the fact y’all did that pitch bend at the end was indescribable, incredible. One of those moments I’ll never forget. but seriously the fact that y’all put on that banger of a show with such minimal rehearsal speaks volumes to yalls skill. That’s why y’all were all Bluecoats after all!
I believe they only had 10 rehearsals to do this. The staff who helped write the show did an amazing job of bringing all the history together in such a short period of time. Amazeballs!
We had about 8 full days worth. 2.5 days in July and 5.5 days of rehearsal leading into semis. It wasn’t the cleanest show ever, but dang… performing that show was about the best, most fun 20min of my life.
I’m out there! This was one of the absolute highlights of my life. The week spent doing this was without a doubt the best week of my life. We put this on the field in 8 total days of rehearsing. The logistics and planning took several years, and those volunteers are absolute heroes. But we only had 8 days together to make the performance happen. We never even practiced some or the music numbers as a brass ensemble. We leaned Hey Jude the day before. You’re witnessing literally the fourth ever full run of the show. And those 20 min sharing love with the audience are probably my favorite 20 min of my life.
A culmination of a group, passionate about what they do, and the result was spectacular! To invest what they did for this performance, the result priceless. It choked me up seeing the emotion of the members on the field. Everyone of you should be incredibly proud. GREAT job to my brother Mike Ruth
Me too!!! I was beyond thrilled to hear that and the stuff from Kinetic Noise as I never got the opportunity to see either it or Tilt. Only thing I wish they had spliced in was Hymn of Axiom from Tilt’s ballad but oh well, everything else was perfect! And you’re welcome! I had to share this incredible moment
Wow. This brought back so many memories of past shows. I kept wondering if they were going to do the pitch bend and of course they did at the end !!!! All I missed is the jump off of the ramp and the perfectly timed landing ! Thanks for posting.
@@codywright2840 that was the show I was in the regular corps for, so trust me, so was I ☠️☠️ I filled a hole last minute and literally started screaming when I got my hands on the music and saw we were gonna be grooving again 💃💃💃💃💃💃
Blue Coats...I am totally blown away by this performance, this has been hands down the best Alumni performance ever, and that includes 27th Lancers, Madison Scouts, and Santa Clara Vanguard and dare I say the Anaheim Kingsmen Alumni shows, and that is saying a hell of a lot. Man they even did the wink! And the pitch bend, I was yelling “Bloo”! So loud my wife thought I hurt myself or something. Would have loved to see that live!
As someone who has not seen any of those other alumni performances you mentioned, that speaks volumes! I knew something felt special about this one. Truly is the most incredible performance at a dci event I’ve ever seen. Bluecoats and their Tilt show is largely responsible for making me a fan of dci so to hear that sound live and see them do it was spectacular!
An amazing design and instruction team. We put the entire thing together in 8 days of rehearsal. Start to finish. But our staff was top notch, and everyone came with their game face on, ready to work.
I’ve noticed that too. This year on finals might I was sitting down low right in front of where most of the corps put their amplification speakers and was like, why do they feel the need to amplify select members of their hornline? I’m all for the crazy sounds and stories that the amplification revolution in dci allows but amping the whole hornline is too far. Let the in your face brass shine through natural!
I so miss this style of marching and musical performance!!! So nice to see this video!! I don't appreciate the excessive use of props on the field today. LOVE this performance!! LOVE that ending!! Well done, Alumni!!
my only critique is that they pranked us twice with creep gosh i just wanted to hear the full bit of that but they kept going to the boxer which was great the first time but man i wanted to hear the rest of creep from them.
Amazing. I don’t even know how they pulled this off. Between finding enough members with enough free time to learn a 12 minute show to that amount of uniforms and instruments. Turned out awesome though.
It turned out beyond awesome! All those old hands still got it! I too was amazed by just how many of them they got to return.
The logistics team and volunteers took years to plan this. They are the heroes here. Us performers had about 8 days to learn it. You’re witnessing what was literally our fourth time running the show top to bottom. We never even rehearsed big chunks of the music other than getting notes from the staff during ensemble. The fact that this came together at all is amazing. The fact that we did it in 8 days is a miracle. Performing this was a highlight of my life.
The colorguard was still learning work through Wednesday. Thursday and Friday were our only real days to "clean" anything.
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Y’all did fantastic! Sure to the discerning eye and ear it wasn’t technically perfect but I don’t think there’s a single person on this planet who cares, it was a wonderful trip into the past and seeing y’all’s passion and emotion was the cherry on top. Tilt got me into DCI but I never got to see it live so the fact y’all did that pitch bend at the end was indescribable, incredible. One of those moments I’ll never forget.
but seriously the fact that y’all put on that banger of a show with such minimal rehearsal speaks volumes to yalls skill. That’s why y’all were all Bluecoats after all!
And we learned and added Hey Jude AFTER DINNER THE NIGHT BEFORE!! First time any of us had played it.
This was my favorite performance of the entire weekend.
It was mine as well! I’m still pinching myself that it happened
When the tuba section is bigger than some corps. Ear heaven
my Corps has 13 Members Total
My son was one of them!
Ikr seeing all those contra out there was wicked cool
I believe they only had 10 rehearsals to do this. The staff who helped write the show did an amazing job of bringing all the history together in such a short period of time. Amazeballs!
We had about 8 full days worth. 2.5 days in July and 5.5 days of rehearsal leading into semis. It wasn’t the cleanest show ever, but dang… performing that show was about the best, most fun 20min of my life.
@@darrentanner8780 Agreed on the most fun 20min of my life.
I’m out there! This was one of the absolute highlights of my life. The week spent doing this was without a doubt the best week of my life. We put this on the field in 8 total days of rehearsing. The logistics and planning took several years, and those volunteers are absolute heroes. But we only had 8 days together to make the performance happen. We never even practiced some or the music numbers as a brass ensemble. We leaned Hey Jude the day before. You’re witnessing literally the fourth ever full run of the show. And those 20 min sharing love with the audience are probably my favorite 20 min of my life.
You won the lottery of life being able to relive a part of your life you thought was not possible anymore. Y'all did awesome!
I can’t put words to the joy this performance brought me. Thank you all for your dedication!
@@codywright2840 just to add a couple of songs to your video description: 1987/88 Autumn Leaves, 1991 Nutville, 1990/2005 Caravan.
@@darrentanner8780 ahhh yes thank you so much! There were some songs in there that I did not know the origin of!
@@darrentanner8780- Autumn Leaves was also played in 1998.
I will take this any day over the 'Broadway show' format they use today. This is what I grew up with, in your face brass and stellar drum lines.
Freaking incredible. Wish I was there.
I really was incredible. Hopefully this will do in lieu of bing there for you
All those horns on one field!! 🤯
Proud of my son Jonas out there!
Blew me away. 🎺
12:29 BLUUUUuuu- Kew kew kewuuuu!
Lol yup my voice failed me there 😅
@@codywright2840 don’t blame you one bit. What a performance!
A culmination of a group, passionate about what they do, and the result was spectacular! To invest what they did for this performance, the result priceless. It choked me up seeing the emotion of the members on the field. Everyone of you should be incredibly proud. GREAT job to my brother Mike Ruth
Yes I agree! I could see and hear the passion on every one of them. I truly think it will go down as one of the all time great DCI moments.
It was an honor and privilege to march that show. If I had to pick which 20min of my life, it would be those 20min.
Thank you for posting this!! So happy they brought back tilt for the closer!!!!!!!
Me too!!! I was beyond thrilled to hear that and the stuff from Kinetic Noise as I never got the opportunity to see either it or Tilt. Only thing I wish they had spliced in was Hymn of Axiom from Tilt’s ballad but oh well, everything else was perfect!
And you’re welcome! I had to share this incredible moment
Wow. This brought back so many memories of past shows. I kept wondering if they were going to do the pitch bend and of course they did at the end !!!! All I missed is the jump off of the ramp and the perfectly timed landing ! Thanks for posting.
That is the arrangement of Autumn Leaves that Stan Mark used back in the 80's.
Amazing!! I’m absolutely blown away by this. I’ve only seen this in spurts of snapchats last night. I appreciate the post… dang this was some show!!
I had to upload for all to see, it was too amazing!
@@codywright2840 my brother is there and says IT WAS SOOO LOUD!!
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Believe it! It was unlike anything else on the field!
Thanks for checking us out fren (:
I wouldn’t have missed this for the world! Where were you in this performance?
@@codywright2840 am one of the contras floating around the 50 for most of the show (:
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That’s awesome! Seeing that many contras on the field was so cool! I was overjoyed when y’all played the Kinetic Noise tuba feature
@@codywright2840 that was the show I was in the regular corps for, so trust me, so was I ☠️☠️ I filled a hole last minute and literally started screaming when I got my hands on the music and saw we were gonna be grooving again 💃💃💃💃💃💃
40 contras should be the new standard 🤣
Blue Coats...I am totally blown away by this performance, this has been hands down the best Alumni performance ever, and that includes 27th Lancers, Madison Scouts, and Santa Clara Vanguard and dare I say the Anaheim Kingsmen Alumni shows, and that is saying a hell of a lot. Man they even did the wink! And the pitch bend, I was yelling “Bloo”! So loud my wife thought I hurt myself or something. Would have loved to see that live!
As someone who has not seen any of those other alumni performances you mentioned, that speaks volumes! I knew something felt special about this one. Truly is the most incredible performance at a dci event I’ve ever seen.
Bluecoats and their Tilt show is largely responsible for making me a fan of dci so to hear that sound live and see them do it was spectacular!
My nephew and his wife are both horn players in this group- both past drum majors with the corp. so proud of them!!!🫶
Just absolutely stunning! Goosebumps!!!
now that's what a corps should look and sound like! so good!
No words, f’ing amazing
I was speechless too the hole time.
My old band director is out there! I love you Mr Bryk!
Definitely shed a few tears for the boxer🥲
How did these old guys pull off a 12 minute show? Amazing!
I know right! I was super impressed!
An amazing design and instruction team. We put the entire thing together in 8 days of rehearsal. Start to finish. But our staff was top notch, and everyone came with their game face on, ready to work.
Thanks for sharing this. What a performance.
It was truly a special performance, one that will go down in DCI history as one of the greats
As a freshman, this experience was amazing!!! Got to see Decatur's very own, Grant Mason!!!
Amazing how everyone loved the big corps sound ... not heard much in modern drum corps.
I’ve noticed that too. This year on finals might I was sitting down low right in front of where most of the corps put their amplification speakers and was like, why do they feel the need to amplify select members of their hornline?
I’m all for the crazy sounds and stories that the amplification revolution in dci allows but amping the whole hornline is too far. Let the in your face brass shine through natural!
Wish I could have seen this live...
Fantastic! So inspiring!
🔥
Thank you IP for providing us with so much for this show!
Yes, thanks IP for all of the equipment use! The BlooPitAlums appreciate you 💙🍁💙
I so miss this style of marching and musical performance!!! So nice to see this video!! I don't appreciate the excessive use of props on the field today. LOVE this performance!! LOVE that ending!! Well done, Alumni!!
Highlight of the night!
my only critique is that they pranked us twice with creep gosh i just wanted to hear the full bit of that but they kept going to the boxer which was great the first time but man i wanted to hear the rest of creep from them.
I had same thought! The Creep hit would have sounded unreal coming from 300+ horns. I also wish they had played more of Kinetic Noise but oh well lol
Kinda mad I didn’t go to semifinals instead of finals…
Woulda made more sense if they found a time slot for this on finals night, but then they woulda stolen the show too much tbh 😅