The funny thing is that during this Era...none of us were music majors...just street kids who found out they had some talent...and produced some of the most memorable shows of the 70's and 80's...
@@Ryan-dz7mg My response is 2 years late, but I did it. I did not march my age out year, or even the year before that. I could have marched up to and including the '79 season, but I marched '74 - '77. By that time I had knee surgery on both knees, and it was just too painful to continue.
They were pitched in G which make them naturally louder than today's Bb and today the music is so much more demanding, the performers can't play all out for the whole show. But I agree the sound of those old school bugles is something else. Check out Madison Scouts 2001, that was the last show ever to produce that sound.
@@dukeingraham6530 And the bugles only had two valves (rotor and piston) which limited them to only being able to play eight notes on a chromatic scale. They were louder for the same reason...they were 1/3 shorter than a Bb trumpet of the day.
I marched Scouts 95-97...these are some of the best shows still. I would have loved this drill...a full on park & blow! Why doesn't DCI go back to this? I recall the crowd going nuts during that part of any of our shows...forget the fancy drill!
I'd say the modern corps make much harder things sound easy. Listened to Crown '13 yet? They blow this group out of the water. In every way possible way.
Bone-Tone Lord This was state of the art for its time. The performers in today's corps are pseudo-professionals who have been training for years, following training models that have been developed over the years, and look nationwide for the best corps that they can be in. The 1976 Blue Devils most mostly local kids from Contra Costa County.
@@chrisnguyen1186 - part of the show was a concert piece where they wouldn't do m&m. Not sure, but I think it was in the rules that they had to do that.
From an old guy, me; BD's in 75 were so-so, they were pretty good but we were better, they took 3rd at finals but I never paid much attention to their show. 76 was an entirely different game when they blew this concert number out of the water in the second show of the season. We knew by the end of the song we were screwed and they were taking this all the way to the finals and finishing on top. Which they did. Years later I can only compare it my military career - shock & awe.
You'd be surprized what the crowd reaction would be like if a corps did an OLD SCHOOL style show !! If the Blue Devils did this type of show....they'd win again !!! Bring back the actual G BUGLES and bring back the volumes of yester year !!
And just for a fun side note, this corp performed at a Buddy Rich concert a month or two after this recorded performance. We were the warm up gig. Imagine Buddy's surprise when we came out playing Channel One Suite. Buddy came out and stood center of our snare line for the whole chart. When he finished, Buddy yelled out for all to hear "Right on drummers?". Hate all you want, but we received praise from Buddy himself. I will listen to that long before any of the haters.
I marched 4 years with the Blue Devils, '74 thru '77, so yes, I am playing in this recording. I played baritone. For those of you other Blue Devils, you will know me just by my logon name here. For the haters, there's not much you can do about them and the won't go away. The tenor drums were the north drums. They introduced a whole new concept of directional percussion, and were way ahead of their time. As for the drum major, no Dave was not drunk, just having a cut loose good time.
@mhnoodles2 Actually, Dave Dugan was the original BD DM from 1971 and this was his age-out year. Charter members have said that if anyone could keep the corps together in the early days, it was Dugan. It was showmanship....I gave his grief about spanking himself on the BD brass alum FB page the other day.
what amazes me is the music composer for this show on how do u write music and make it possible for these bugles to play it knowing that they only had one valve and a trigger in the key of G. it amazes me.
one of the best performances, ALL TIME, songs played in the world of Drum Corps start to finish no one could ever play that song any better than the Blue Devils. However, lets get back to where we were. Class A performances that don't appear as a Broadway Show.
Thank you Liz. I marched Blue Devils '74 - '77 on baritone. After all these years, you have no idea how nice it is for comments like yours to still be offered.
77 was my last year with Phantom Regiment as a drummer. I miss it, but I could have never afford the way it is now. I still go to shows and have attended a few DCI finals and of course support my corps as much as I can. But Legend of a One Eye Sailor is the best song to date that I can still hear playing in my head. I love it.
Liz A I marched 4 years with the Blue Devils, '74 - '77. My nickname with BD was 'Trooper' as DCW regularly would post caricatures of various corps, and I was a perfect match for the Troopers caricature. I am still called Trooper within the BD organization to this day. It was good nickname to have as in '74 BD placed 9th, and Troopers were 5th, and are always a class act.
My GOSH! Best version ever of this tune. I have never seen it live until now. Before I had only heard it on the record. What a performance! Oh and the snares actually sound like snares.
It saddens me to see people argue about DCI :/ What's wrong with just being able to enjoy old and new? Both have perks, both have faults. Why argue about something everyone here loves?
Because the majority of drum corps fans love THIS, not the moronic, flamboyant, prissy garbage they crap out today, designed for a dwindling audience of judges, parents living vicariously through their children, art critics who aren't even in attendance, and sexual predators.
I love how when the corps started and at the time of this show, the intro lick on the snares was the “Crazy Army” lick. Then in 2017 they reused it again. It’s amazing.
This was back in the old days of drum corps when you had an opening song, a drum solo (which is what you marched around the field) a concert presentation (which you played facing the audience) then you marched off the field with your bye bye song. This is when drum corps was at its greatest
i remember watching this, brings back a lot of memories for sure. one eyed sailor was my favourite number. i was in KW Northstars in 77 in Boulder. My brother was in Seneca Optimist on the snareline. these were the best years for Corps.
dude if you would have been, youd really understand what us older farts are saying. my son sees it big time and hes 20, he digs toughness and power over dancing. its cool that you see it too...
All I really see are angry old people who think that because things are different, they must be worse which is one of the absolutely most retarded things I've ever heard.
@Micah Lall-Trail thats like saying a c trumpet is harder to play because its harder to stay in tune. Maybe because they have been praticing on Bb horns most of their life
nobody does it like this anymore sadly i have lost interest in today's corps i marched in the 70s got to hear and see the greatest of all time some are on youtube some are not but the memories do last a lifetime which is cool
This is REAL drum & bugle corps folks !!! The volumes that were attained in this era haven't been heard since !!! Notice NO 15 PERSON PIT, NO ELECTRONICS, NO DANCERS, just colur guard and a marching drum line. This is NOT MARCHING BAND !!!
I am a percussionist myself, and it sad to see this very great sounding music go away. My highschool band celebrating their 100th year of our band program, and through that time, we've pretty much always been a swing band. I'm just a sophomore, but i still have opinions of this music style. All that you can hear from present day drum corps are big notes, over-complex percussive notation, Kevlar snare heads that sound like counter-tops, and some crazy ass tonal bass drum part that does not even fit the music. I like it without the melody, but when the melodic ensemble is playing, the drumline doesn't have to be chopping down forest in the backround. Just Saying...
@@kylegardner9240 There was a period of time (the early transition to kevlar) where snares sounded like you were playing on a tabletop. Snares today are sounding better, but doesn't beat the rich, deep, thick sound of the 70's and 80's.
This was one of the songs that hooked me on drum corps. I had the records from that year, but they are long since lost. Thanks for sharing. It was nice to see.
Wow... look at that DM move! Talk about putting your body into conducting! :-) I'm glad he has spirit. They did an awesome job of using plume advantage! Great visuals! Go Mello!!!! (What can I say, I'm biased as a horn player.)
Sounds good but I heard a recording by Poway High School in California which was rearranged by their band director Lars Best and slowed down a bit in tempo. They really nailed it, which I was a little envious of. (I went to Orange Glen).
@cainanuk Actually, Gibbs was in the soprano line...he wasn't DM until 1978. My guess is this is Dave Dugan...the original DM for the corps once they added bugles in 1970. This would've been Dugan's 6th and final year as DM...Hell of a way to age out! Jeff DeMello (another old-time BD alum) said on the alum brass site recently that Dugan was one of the greatest BD DMs....as anyone who could hold the corps together in the early days rocked!
Ahhh....you marched with some people I know....Ken Gomez (while at San Diego State), Stymie, Doug Peterson, Rob Brown, Paul McKlusky (who stood next to me in the arc). 84....best year of my life. btw....my condolences to your spine for having to carry those buggers!
For those of you that know any of the BD alumni, you can find Dave Gibbs out there, along with the likes of Bonnie O., John B., Charlie K., Jim M. Nancy N., Rick C and many others. Unfortunately, you can't see me out there, much to my disappointment. Oh well.
@hotdogsplinter no, they are based off the original tune by Herb Alpert, the drummer plays that intro at one point in the song, and SCV took it start off Electric Wheelchair, Devs used it because, of course, they were playing the tune.
I’d much rather watch and listen to that than DCI today.
The funny thing is that during this Era...none of us were music majors...just street kids who found out they had some talent...and produced some of the most memorable shows of the 70's and 80's...
I was given this song as freshman in HS to play. Remains standard of excellence. Marched SCV and still one of my favorites.
That is a load of BS a lot of the music teachers I have met marched corps in the 80s and 70s DCI and DCA.
Isn't that what music majors are?
I mached in 1980 and was a music major.
Jim Ott's fingerprints all over this one. Absolutely kick arse!
I had the pleasure of actually performing in this very show. I was 18 at the time. Wonderful time.
BDTrooper76 when did you age out
You did a great job out there! this is one of my all time favorite DCI performances...awesome!
This show is the benchmark for all drum corps to strive...
You were blessed!
@@Ryan-dz7mg My response is 2 years late, but I did it. I did not march my age out year, or even the year before that. I could have marched up to and including the '79 season, but I marched '74 - '77. By that time I had knee surgery on both knees, and it was just too painful to continue.
Today's corps sound amazing but old school bugles sounded like untamed animals.
Heckuva lot of passion and dynamics in this performance.
That's why we loved them!
Ain't that the damned truth. I've never read such a statement that said the truth in so few words
They were pitched in G which make them naturally louder than today's Bb and today the music is so much more demanding, the performers can't play all out for the whole show. But I agree the sound of those old school bugles is something else. Check out Madison Scouts 2001, that was the last show ever to produce that sound.
@@dukeingraham6530 And the bugles only had two valves (rotor and piston) which limited them to only being able to play eight notes on a chromatic scale. They were louder for the same reason...they were 1/3 shorter than a Bb trumpet of the day.
I marched Scouts 95-97...these are some of the best shows still. I would have loved this drill...a full on park & blow! Why doesn't DCI go back to this? I recall the crowd going nuts during that part of any of our shows...forget the fancy drill!
This comment ❤️💯
Played to this record in my parents' garage
during high school. Four years later I marched
snare with the Spirit of Atlanta.1980
Memories!
The amount of MUSIC the drum major is feeling is incredible.
Scientists thinking blood runs through our veins
Musicians knowing it’s just music, and always has been
Bonnie Ott is AMAZING! It's a shame they didn't give her the same props as the other soloists.
This was an incredibly difficult tune to play on the instruments of that day. And they made is sound easy.
I'd say the modern corps make much harder things sound easy. Listened to Crown '13 yet? They blow this group out of the water. In every way possible way.
Nate Glugla
Champion drum corps have a habit of doing that. Music was limited to simpler stuff in 1976 due to the non-chromatic horns in weird keys.
Bone-Tone Lord This was state of the art for its time. The performers in today's corps are pseudo-professionals who have been training for years, following training models that have been developed over the years, and look nationwide for the best corps that they can be in. The 1976 Blue Devils most mostly local kids from Contra Costa County.
Which is fine and all, but then people shouldn't go saying that the groups from this era were better.
Goo They were far more entertaining back then - but that is not the kid's fault.
I could listen to this all day long on repeat! Amazing power and range of BD brass was absolutely awesome.
The best part about Blue Devils back then was most of the kids came from Concord, Ca and the surrounding cities.
Damn... I miss the days when corps sounded like this.
Tim Meekins Amen!
Amen
people complain that Blue Devils don't march today. evidently they didn't march back in 1976 either.
I agree. All that keyboard stuff sounds ticky tacky, wastes time for set up and tear down and eats into a corp's budget.
@@chrisnguyen1186 - part of the show was a concert piece where they wouldn't do m&m. Not sure, but I think it was in the rules that they had to do that.
This is the moment that BD took over the activity. BD is drum corps.
Inspired by Music but before that did I mention our friends called the cadets
@Inspired by Music ..... well the Cadets stole it for about a decade, then Cavies with a few breaks, and then what you said
One of those moments that 44 years later you think, "yeah, I was there..." Almost makes it feel like getting old is worth it.
This is when drum corps was DRUM CORPS...
70s DBCs are cool, I personally believe all eras of DCI are very entertaining, just in different ways.
Legend of a Blue Devils Drum Major. *(new name for this song) RIP Dave Dugan
It's the hip motion for me
THAT is good drum corps.
The old park and bark section, just made you feel good.
From an old guy, me; BD's in 75 were so-so, they were pretty good but we were better, they took 3rd at finals but I never paid much attention to their show. 76 was an entirely different game when they blew this concert number out of the water in the second show of the season. We knew by the end of the song we were screwed and they were taking this all the way to the finals and finishing on top. Which they did. Years later I can only compare it my military career - shock & awe.
You'd be surprized what the crowd reaction would be like if a corps did an OLD SCHOOL style show !! If the Blue Devils did this type of show....they'd win again !!! Bring back the actual G BUGLES and bring back the volumes of yester year !!
Rob Dunnington the Bb trumpets allow for more flexibility and have a more controlled sound.
The last bugle maker Kanstul has closed its doors. I'm not aware of any manufacturers of brass making GD bugles. Sad times.
at 56 seconds I am 3rd from left
Jack Brainard wow really? Cool
Sorry Jack, but that is Charlie Kilbourne.
0:56
ONE marching set change in the entire piece. This was when DCI was ALL about the music. UN-FREAKING-BELIEVABLE!
The rules were different back then. This was the concert piece. We were supposed to stand still. Everybody did a concert piece.
I'm 50 ! and recall this being on one of my 3 only DCI records i ever owned...funny it's still appreciated now...I smile
Modern Drum Corps just doesn't hold a candle to this kind of raw entertaining power.
Excellent soprano line. One of the very best horn lines in drum corp history. This from a former Cadet.
This blows away anything I've heard from drum corps in the last 30 years. NOTHING tops it. NOTHING!
Well, The Bayonne Bridgemen from the early 80s were pretty badass
La Suerta De Los Tantos.
Malaguena
La Fiesta
Slaughter on 10th Avenue
There’s a few, but yes. Absolutely love “Legend”.
One of My Favorite Drum Corps Songs of All Time! Real Drums And Real Freakin' Bugles!
NO AMPS REQUIRED!!
Thanks Much! :-)
David Dugan was a Legend, may he rest in piece. The only DM I know of to conduct with three appendages. GOAT!
And just for a fun side note, this corp performed at a Buddy Rich concert a month or two after this recorded performance. We were the warm up gig. Imagine Buddy's surprise when we came out playing Channel One Suite. Buddy came out and stood center of our snare line for the whole chart. When he finished, Buddy yelled out for all to hear "Right on drummers?". Hate all you want, but we received praise from Buddy himself. I will listen to that long before any of the haters.
I marched 4 years with the Blue Devils, '74 thru '77, so yes, I am playing in this recording. I played baritone. For those of you other Blue Devils, you will know me just by my logon name here. For the haters, there's not much you can do about them and the won't go away. The tenor drums were the north drums. They introduced a whole new concept of directional percussion, and were way ahead of their time. As for the drum major, no Dave was not drunk, just having a cut loose good time.
AMEN. I was a huge 27th fan back then, but BD totally earned EVERYONE'S respect that year. 1976 was THE year for drum corps in my estimation.
Simply. Utterly. Unbelievable.
The Devils owned the field that night.
@mhnoodles2 Actually, Dave Dugan was the original BD DM from 1971 and this was his age-out year. Charter members have said that if anyone could keep the corps together in the early days, it was Dugan.
It was showmanship....I gave his grief about spanking himself on the BD brass alum FB page the other day.
Good old school stuff and fun to watch. Those G bugles were loud.
Amen
hence, no need to mike them.
Don't you just love the bass 6 contras put across! Now it takes 12 or more it seems to get that same sound.
It was a lot easier to crank it uo on those horns
what amazes me is the music composer for this show on how do u write music and make it possible for these bugles to play it knowing that they only had one valve and a trigger in the key of G. it amazes me.
Marcos Salome Gonzales II The great incomparable Jim Ott...
I love playing this stand tune at our highschool football games, and i love that it’s difficult! so fun
Rick Odello was one badd ass drum instructor!!
my. god. what. even. what. how.
I don't know
100 % Pure BadAss.
Live. They Blew Your Socks Off!!!
one of the best performances, ALL TIME, songs played in the world of Drum Corps start to finish no one could ever play that song any better than the Blue Devils. However, lets get back to where we were. Class A performances that don't appear as a Broadway Show.
Thank you Liz. I marched Blue Devils '74 - '77 on baritone. After all these years, you have no idea how nice it is for comments like yours to still be offered.
77 was my last year with Phantom Regiment as a drummer. I miss it, but I could have never afford the way it is now. I still go to shows and have attended a few DCI finals and of course support my corps as much as I can. But Legend of a One Eye Sailor is the best song to date that I can still hear playing in my head. I love it.
Trooper76?? Drum corps Troopers or ???
Liz A I marched 4 years with the Blue Devils, '74 - '77. My nickname with BD was 'Trooper' as DCW regularly would post caricatures of various corps, and I was a perfect match for the Troopers caricature. I am still called Trooper within the BD organization to this day. It was good nickname to have as in '74 BD placed 9th, and Troopers were 5th, and are always a class act.
ahhh makes sense do you still go to Drum Corps events?
Its cool to see a drum major keeping time but also having fun
Rotary valve and piston bugles! Love it!
My GOSH! Best version ever of this tune. I have never seen it live until now. Before I had only heard it on the record. What a performance! Oh and the snares actually sound like snares.
Add Channel One Suite, and 1976 was epic for the BD
I love the complexity, creativity, and glam of modern drum corps, but this type of noise is just something else entirely. What a sound.
Twitching my hips listening. Love, love, love this!! Thank for the fun!!!👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻❤️
It saddens me to see people argue about DCI :/ What's wrong with just being able to enjoy old and new? Both have perks, both have faults. Why argue about something everyone here loves?
Because the majority of drum corps fans love THIS, not the moronic, flamboyant, prissy garbage they crap out today, designed for a dwindling audience of judges, parents living vicariously through their children, art critics who aren't even in attendance, and sexual predators.
damn some of these people are flexible
That is freaking awsome!!!
I love how when the corps started and at the time of this show, the intro lick on the snares was the “Crazy Army” lick. Then in 2017 they reused it again. It’s amazing.
This was back in the old days of drum corps when you had an opening song, a drum solo (which is what you marched around the field) a concert presentation (which you played facing the audience) then you marched off the field with your bye bye song. This is when drum corps was at its greatest
wow nice, when it was the same old format over and over. its much more FUN now
40年近く前に大分の球場で演奏したのを思い出す！
大好きな曲なので、見つけて凄く嬉く涙が出そうになった😅
ありがとう🙇
Gawd!!! They killed us that year. Best concert performance ever!
Thumbs up for funky drum major.
i remember watching this, brings back a lot of memories for sure. one eyed sailor was my favourite number. i was in KW Northstars in 77 in Boulder. My brother was in Seneca Optimist on the snareline. these were the best years for Corps.
That right there is why I chose to march BD-82. 76 BD stirred my drum corps passion as a youngster.
I never get tired of listening to this group. Awesome song by chuck.
Ugh the power...the passion. Gives me the chills. Wish I was brought up in this generation of drum corps :(
dude if you would have been, youd really understand what us older farts are saying. my son sees it big time and hes 20, he digs toughness and power over dancing. its cool that you see it too...
All I really see are angry old people who think that because things are different, they must be worse which is one of the absolutely most retarded things I've ever heard.
And the quality of drum corps hasn't gone down, it's only changed, so that's a shitty argument.
Well the quality of hornlines also hasn't gone down, so it's still a bad argument.
@Micah Lall-Trail thats like saying a c trumpet is harder to play because its harder to stay in tune. Maybe because they have been praticing on Bb horns most of their life
Wow. So different that Chuck's version, but equally passionate, and amazing sound quality for a 1976 recording.
This was one of my favorite songs during my marching band days at Austin High School 1979. #Drumline
wow this is pretty good quality for 1976... Some modern videos aren't even this good.
Those North Quads and duck tape....love them
I believe they were called "Tuba Toms"
man their drum major is awesome
Saw this live in the Pontiac Silverdome that summer. Love this show!
That was a difficult stadium to perform in. The echo was brutal. We had phasing issues.
Seeing how much instruments have changed is so crazy!
Still my favorite Blue Devils song of all time!
❤me too
nobody does it like this anymore sadly i have lost interest in today's corps i marched in the 70s got to hear and see the greatest of all time some are on youtube some are not but the memories do last a lifetime which is cool
not really no. it has developed so much, and there are so many more people interested in it, but people like you refuse to move on.
NEED MORE COWBELL!!!!
So intense. What a performance!
Good ole Herb Alpert & the Tijuana brass classics
This is REAL drum & bugle corps folks !!! The volumes that were attained in this era haven't been heard since !!! Notice NO 15 PERSON PIT, NO ELECTRONICS, NO DANCERS, just colur guard and a marching drum line. This is NOT MARCHING BAND !!!
so....COOOL. Nothing quite like that G Bugle sound :DD
This is a great piece to Crazy Army and Cindy Ott is incredible, she is the consummate soloist.
Bonnie
I’m sure Cindy is great, but nothing compared to Bonnie. 😉
This makes me so happy. The drum major is my spirit animal.
Repeating for emphasis and historical context: BONNIE OTT!!
I miss the days when a snare sounded like a snare.
hiddencharges Amen!
They still do just a different type. And you can also loosen the heads but I don't like it that way I like Kevlar heads. Don't judge me.
I am a percussionist myself, and it sad to see this very great sounding music go away. My highschool band celebrating their 100th year of our band program, and through that time, we've pretty much always been a swing band. I'm just a sophomore, but i still have opinions of this music style. All that you can hear from present day drum corps are big notes, over-complex percussive notation, Kevlar snare heads that sound like counter-tops, and some crazy ass tonal bass drum part that does not even fit the music. I like it without the melody, but when the melodic ensemble is playing, the drumline doesn't have to be chopping down forest in the backround. Just Saying...
@@kylegardner9240 There was a period of time (the early transition to kevlar) where snares sounded like you were playing on a tabletop. Snares today are sounding better, but doesn't beat the rich, deep, thick sound of the 70's and 80's.
Never gets old. :)
Amazing 😭
This was one of the songs that hooked me on drum corps. I had the records from that year, but they are long since lost. Thanks for sharing. It was nice to see.
@brueck4 and Electric Wheelchair was written off of Edwin Lemley's Crazy Army, which was written as a variation on the old drumbeat Army 2/4.
When you’re the DM...
Marching pit, weird looking quads, crappy video quality = ME VERY HAPPY
I'm sure Chuck approved this..
Had to of !!
He actually did, when he was guest hosting a DCI finals. He was, if I remember right, positively gushing about it.
I am trying to learn this on my 3 valve dynasty and man that intro is fun once you learn it
GREAT Chuck Mangione composition.
Still my favorite BD tune.
So much fun! And so fine!
Wow... look at that DM move! Talk about putting your body into conducting! :-) I'm glad he has spirit.
They did an awesome job of using plume advantage! Great visuals!
Go Mello!!!! (What can I say, I'm biased as a horn player.)
Never gets old
Juste magnifique à voir et à écouter ! Ils avaient déjà tout compris à la musique !!!
Sounds good but I heard a recording by Poway High School in California which was rearranged by their band director Lars Best and slowed down a bit in tempo. They really nailed it, which I was a little envious of. (I went to Orange Glen).
Played on G-bugles with horizontal piston and rotary valves. Ol' skool.
@cainanuk Actually, Gibbs was in the soprano line...he wasn't DM until 1978. My guess is this is Dave Dugan...the original DM for the corps once they added bugles in 1970. This would've been Dugan's 6th and final year as DM...Hell of a way to age out!
Jeff DeMello (another old-time BD alum) said on the alum brass site recently that Dugan was one of the greatest BD DMs....as anyone who could hold the corps together in the early days rocked!
If these guys strolled out at finals and played this, the drum major and tambourine player alone would win them GE.
Ahhh....you marched with some people I know....Ken Gomez (while at San Diego State), Stymie, Doug Peterson, Rob Brown, Paul McKlusky (who stood next to me in the arc).
84....best year of my life.
btw....my condolences to your spine for having to carry those buggers!
For those of you that know any of the BD alumni, you can find Dave Gibbs out there, along with the likes of Bonnie O., John B., Charlie K., Jim M. Nancy N., Rick C and many others. Unfortunately, you can't see me out there, much to my disappointment. Oh well.
Mellophone solo ROCKS!
"We are going to be the biggest, baddest, loudest, mother-fucking-est drum corps ever." (Fast forward 42 years.) *repeat*
@hotdogsplinter no, they are based off the original tune by Herb Alpert, the drummer plays that intro at one point in the song, and SCV took it start off Electric Wheelchair, Devs used it because, of course, they were playing the tune.