Funny thing about the snowman one, it was actually only two bases at first . . . Then a third one was added at the last minute. How do I know??? Because I was the one wearing them!
Absolutely not that heavy pal, EMCs crazy quads that he made weighed like 90 something, bass drums are lighter than quads normally, that's like ~40-50lbs I'm guessing
UPDATE: Found the videos, linked in the replies If you can find it, Spirit 1988 had toms mounted on top of the top couple of basses. Also, 1996 Glassmen had a bass feature in the beginning of the show on micro basses, doing the piccolo part of 'Stars and Stripes Forever'. And that 1993 Bushwackers solo was the balls.
I was the caption head for Woodward High school (Alums include Danny Thomas and Jamie Farr from M*A*S*H),from 2006 to 2019. We had a small line and only 1 Bass drummer. I remembered the 1988 Glassmen had a guy march two basses, so since the center of the football team, was also our bass drummer, I decided two floor toms could be attached to the bass drum. Well both myself and the bass drummer decided to kick it up a few notches and added two mounted set toms. The result was sheer shock and terror in other lines faces, when we showed up for drum offs. Remained undefeated all years. Still very proud of those lines and years.Aged out with the Glassmen and was on staff for three years.
My freshman year marching bass 4, our bass 1 would always leave halfway thru football games, so id March basses 4 and 1 out of the stadium when we played our cadence and such. Twas epic
Holy shit, that’s my high school featured. ‘07 was my freshman year at Felix Varela. What an awesome surprise to see them again here (they were a really great line). Subbed!
When I marched Magic of Orlando in the 90's some of the guys in this video were our brass and percussion staff. The snare player on the right (John Campese) wrote most of our percussion shows and the Contra player kneeling in front of the camera (Mike Roylance) was our contra tech and now he plays with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. The group was mostly Suncoast Sound alumns who went professional and booked the ensemble to play a few shows/day at the Disney parks. Total badasses! And as kind of a 2nd generation, half the jammitors are Magic alumni
IIRC some of the JAMMitors were members of future corps, some of the brass might’ve moved to the Main Street Philharmonic or done The Power of Blast but I’m not sure.
@ 3:05 - Eric, the first time I saw stacked basses was Super Corps at Epcot in March of 1983. (The park was only six months old and still had large, uncompleted "worlds" at the time.) They used a snare, a quad, a triple bass, and a percussion cymbal/toy guy. Interestingly, they also had a small guard, too. I think they dumped the guard that same year. Cheapskates! I have photos, but I have no scanner. If I ever get one I will upload them and send them to you.
Future corps marched a massive set of bari tritoms before they moved to that stack. The tritoms didn't last long... looked heavy af, feel like they started with their stack in about '85
Wow I built the snowman in the beginning of the video! that needed a lot of zip ties. A month before that we zip tied a 30” bass and a 20” and that was the worst parade I’ve ever marched in.
@@Green_Coatedjay you marched a 30+ a 20? That's legendary status that will never be repeated! Your story and that of your back muscles shall live on through the ages in the scrolls of infinity.
I think the coolest I have seen was a high school I marched against that only had 5 people in the battery; 1 snare, 1 tenor, and 3 basses where basses 1+3 were stacked, 2+4 were stacked, and then bass 5 was on their own. I have seen the "snowman" stack a few times as well, but it was mostly for GE during the percussion feature.
A year after the Cavs used the double-stack Rhode Island Matadors (DCA) used it after their second bass drummer broke his ankle. Bass drummer #1 stacked bass drums 1 and 2 and put a plastic kids periscope on it which I think was half functional and half just as a joke. As I watched this video it made me think, "Why didn't we think of creating a space for the guy to see through? Once again, a very cool video, Eric! I have no idea why there are any thumbs down on this video.
Dude! I'm so glad to see someone finally show this!!! I marched the 3 stack in high school for three years. I had to train with the football team in the summer to build up muscle for the marching band season. It weighed 58 pounds but it was so tall it was easy to put down on the ground between rehearsal however, I frowned on this and by my senior year, I was able to march the entire show going to the field and back without putting the drum down. I marched a single bass in college and they of course put me on the big one so it was different not having control of the entire bass section, but it was a pretty smooth transition all things considered. The hardest part was reaching the bottom drum as it stuck out from the bottom. I tried making some custom mallets that were longer but they kept breaking. My senior year premark sent me a prototype of their aluminum mallets and they did help as they were longer, but the best part was they never broke. My band director was a big FSU fan and had us play the war chant a lot, so in the stands I brought out an extra large bass drum to fit in the stands that I could play with or along with the triple bass that I mounted on the stadium rails in front of me. I'll be happy to send some video links if you like. Thanks for your support of the greatest instrument on earth.
Instead of stacked bass drummers, I'd just make the bass drums a part of the pit, turn them almost flat, and let 1 or 2 kids with a good sense of rhythm play all of them. They'd usually have fun doing that and it would makes them feel like they are the star of the show!
We did pretty much that my freshman year. Was a brand new high school and was A60 class so the director didn't want a full battery section on the field. We just put all the drums in the pit. One guy played four basses set up like a giant set of tenors (it was awesome), iirc we had 2 snares, 1 tenor, and a kit player as well. Despite not having a proper drum line, we still took home a couple of percussion caption trophies that year.
Future corps eventually went in that direction as well and put the basses on a horizontal rack like tympanis because the guy wasn't 19 anymore and it's tough on your back doing that for 6 shows/day!
Hell yeah! I was able to see the blast performance when they came to Pasadena California. I bought tickets that were in the middle of the theater, but due to some mix-up my tickets weren't at will call, and they got sold so... what the house did for me was put me my mom and my wife on the front row in the pit!!! 😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎
I remember two years ago seeing a DCA corps called Les Stentors at a DCI showcase and there was this girl who carried a bass 1 stacked on a bass 2. We called her the snowman girl.
I'm glad you've got Future Corps in the video. Rich Viano is the guy playing the triple bass in this video. I made a set back in the day based on the Future Corps one. When making a set it is important to have some space between the top two basses so that the player can see forward when marching.
My tiny high school in the early/mid '90s did this. Sadly no evidence exists to this date. But there might be video of the parade where the trailer carrying nearly all of the instruments got a flat tire on the way to the event, so we marched with like drumsticks a flute and a trumpet
Not stacked, but my alma mater (Jacksonville State University) marched 9 tonal bass drums.. Including a drum large enough that we had a window put on the front and back of the drum so that the drummer could see where he was going.. not sure how many corp style drumlines have done that. I believe we did it for 4 years; '95, '96, '97, and 2000 - I was privileged to march "5 of 9" in the bass line of 2000, my freshman year.. used to joke that I was "center bass" lol
I'm a little disappointed that we didn't see Eric make a quad set. How cool would that look to have the letters E, M, and C, and the baseball (football) logo all on separate drums inn the stack?
Having been to Epcot and watching FC live plus watching every TH-cam video I can find, it amazes me how people walk right past without stopping Speaking of FC , the opener played by the USMC D&B ensemble at DCI sounds familiar
Thanks for including Future Corps! I first saw them in 1982 with the stacked triple bass! So they may have bee pan the first. It would be interesting to find out!
The time you uploaded this is just the right! This really IS a good morning! (Here in asia, by the way.) Also, same thing to you and please, stay safe and keep on rocking!
I remember the Glassmen, Colts and Cavies. You have a picture of the Colts and I think that was Andrea (Can't remember her last name) but she marched Colts and Bluecoats in that 84-90 range. I seem to remember touring with Glassmen and that guy was there for a few years. I think those were Remo drums at the time too. Things from the past
My high school had a bass drum stack , mccormick brand. If I remember correctly, the heads came attached to a rim that also got replaced during head changes. The heads were also pre tuned so you kinda just attached them to the drum. I think you still could tune them a bit tho
I was EAF when I saw Future Corps made your list! My parents had Marched Blue Stars in the 70's with a Future Corps member so we always went and saw then when we were at Disney in the 90's. I always thought those guys had the best job ever! Also the first time I saw a triple stack base drum.
Amazing, a tier-list video where most of them made S tier and none of them were F tier. I never thought I'd see the day, or that the day would be so bassy.
I have to march with one bass 5, and it's heavy enough (don't know why they gave the smallest dude the biggest drum) i'd straight up quit if they told me to march with that.
So, I'm a teacher overseas. We used to do "marching band" .... but inside... because of wet season and the field being too muddy to march on. Percussion didn't march because there was no room and too few of us. We handled the bass drums a bit differently. I'm playing (there weren't enough students and I play drum set, so I was recruited into the band as if I were a child) the bass drums at 5:49 in this video: th-cam.com/video/79jXpeKJkcc/w-d-xo.html
I set our drumline's six bass drums up in my living room tilted on various things and played them for a few hours once. If we'd had stacks I'd have played bass instead of snare...
I carried a double bass one year in high school. I was #2 in a five person line, #1 quit and I said I was already playing the parts, so we zip tied them together. Playing running sixtuplets with stacked drums was a hoot! Super awkward and pretty heavy.
I played bass in 7th grade then snare the rest of the way through high school, I hate marching bass.... I’ve never seen this though. Very cool! Would definitely try this out!
have u done a vid on the LARGEST bass drums around?? like the Carolina Panthers bass drum Minnesota Vikings Skol drum KC Chiefs native drum Purdue "Largest drum" University Texas big bertha Missouri "Big MO" i'm sure there's more, but interesting rabbit hole 2 go down
This just opened me up to the realization that you can make a stack with a combo of bass drums and toms. It’s also can make bass lines more user friendly because I have found very difficult to get buy in from students who just see them as hard and unrewarding…
Green Army Men was a Toy Story overlay that the Magic Kingdom Korps did for a while at Disneyland. They weren't around as long as Future Corps at EPCOT. Both groups however would do multiple shows per day, at least 5 days out of the week. When Future Corps started, the basses weren't stacked. They were set up like over-sized tri-toms. Not sure when they switched. I've only seen one video of them in that config so it probably wasn't long. Some time in the mid 1990's, the group switched the drum line over to rolling racks of drums. The snare and tom players had extra drums and mounted cymbals. The bass drummer had a rack of 6 bass drums (sometimes only 5). I didn't care for the rack set up. The bass drums didn't project as well in that configuration.
I was just looking that up. I need to do this for the tiny line I’m working with. I’ve done it before, with the great help of my father in law, but in need to do it again without drilling.
I played Base Freshman year in Highschool. There is now way I would have marched a double base in a New Orleans Mardi Gras Parade. We marched one that was 12 miles, from 10 am until 6 at night. No Way! Side note, my brother was the cymbal player who jumped over the the other guy in Blast.
Love the inclusion of Blast! on your list. I think a better representation of their use of stacked bass drums takes place in Medea as opposed to Battery Battle. Def took me many years and a good pair of headphones to hear but there are indeed some good clean runs played.
Believe it or not, I marched with 3 of the original cast members if Blast! in 99 and was on tour as support staff with Magic in 02 with Ben Harloff the suspended flugel player
Funny thing about the snowman one, it was actually only two bases at first . . . Then a third one was added at the last minute. How do I know??? Because I was the one wearing them!
you sir are a legend
Haha cool!
Respect!
deadass?
Nice!
I'm surprised by the coordination these guys have playing stacked basses. That seems super rough, but yet they absolutely kill it!
It doesnt actually seem that bad. Easier than tenors
Imagine playing at the speed of a snare, but with vertical arm motion instead of horizontal, while carrying upwards of 125 lbs
uhh.... pretty sure it wouldnt be that heavy, but alright
Absolutely not that heavy pal, EMCs crazy quads that he made weighed like 90 something, bass drums are lighter than quads normally, that's like ~40-50lbs I'm guessing
UPDATE: Found the videos, linked in the replies
If you can find it, Spirit 1988 had toms mounted on top of the top couple of basses. Also, 1996 Glassmen had a bass feature in the beginning of the show on micro basses, doing the piccolo part of 'Stars and Stripes Forever'.
And that 1993 Bushwackers solo was the balls.
Starting at 3:00 th-cam.com/video/OOc_gsdjTbw/w-d-xo.html
Starting at 5:45, they add 4 more basses with the toms for a total of 9 basses for the feature. th-cam.com/video/YVPrKS5uMtQ/w-d-xo.html
Check out Spirit’s 89 show. They had 9 basses for the entire show, 4 of which had the top mounted toms from the previous season.
I was the caption head for Woodward High school (Alums include Danny Thomas and Jamie Farr from M*A*S*H),from 2006 to 2019. We had a small line and only 1 Bass drummer. I remembered the 1988 Glassmen had a guy march two basses, so since the center of the football team, was also our bass drummer, I decided two floor toms could be attached to the bass drum. Well both myself and the bass drummer decided to kick it up a few notches and added two mounted set toms. The result was sheer shock and terror in other lines faces, when we showed up for drum offs. Remained undefeated all years. Still very proud of those lines and years.Aged out with the Glassmen and was on staff for three years.
Beno Morris started it all in 1984 at The Cavaliers! He’s a drum corps legend, and has been the sound guy for Academy for Mandarins for a while now.
And he's a great guy....glad to see Beno get a shoutout!
My freshman year marching bass 4, our bass 1 would always leave halfway thru football games, so id March basses 4 and 1 out of the stadium when we played our cadence and such. Twas epic
There were two of us in 1988. I carried double bass with Knights and Glassmen had a guy with two drums, as well.
Thanks Dan! Came here to mention that he skipped ‘88. That was me at Glassmen.
N. Aurora in 85 as well.
@@Ticker2 Wow! Only 33 years later. It’s cool to e-meet you.
Holy shit, that’s my high school featured. ‘07 was my freshman year at Felix Varela. What an awesome surprise to see them again here (they were a really great line). Subbed!
Epcot Center still has the JAMMitors, but I would love to see the Future Corps brought back.
When I marched Magic of Orlando in the 90's some of the guys in this video were our brass and percussion staff. The snare player on the right (John Campese) wrote most of our percussion shows and the Contra player kneeling in front of the camera (Mike Roylance) was our contra tech and now he plays with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. The group was mostly Suncoast Sound alumns who went professional and booked the ensemble to play a few shows/day at the Disney parks. Total badasses! And as kind of a 2nd generation, half the jammitors are Magic alumni
IIRC some of the JAMMitors were members of future corps, some of the brass might’ve moved to the Main Street Philharmonic or done The Power of Blast but I’m not sure.
My back hurts looking at that stacked bass drum
Made me think of Future Corps from Disney.
@ 3:05 - Eric, the first time I saw stacked basses was Super Corps at Epcot in March of 1983. (The park was only six months old and still had large, uncompleted "worlds" at the time.) They used a snare, a quad, a triple bass, and a percussion cymbal/toy guy. Interestingly, they also had a small guard, too. I think they dumped the guard that same year. Cheapskates! I have photos, but I have no scanner. If I ever get one I will upload them and send them to you.
Bass drum scrapes at 6:16!
Future corps marched a massive set of bari tritoms before they moved to that stack. The tritoms didn't last long... looked heavy af, feel like they started with their stack in about '85
Wow I built the snowman in the beginning of the video! that needed a lot of zip ties. A month before that we zip tied a 30” bass and a 20” and that was the worst parade I’ve ever marched in.
You say it was the worst, but I was the one wearing it!!
@@Green_Coatedjay you marched a 30+ a 20? That's legendary status that will never be repeated! Your story and that of your back muscles shall live on through the ages in the scrolls of infinity.
@@TonyPerez816 thanks! That was quite the message.
Lake Lehman HS back in 87-88 had stack bass and they were monsters.
I saw Blast live in Denver way back in the day. 100% got me into marching percussion
Me too. Never forgot that live show I saw. Then realized my old private teacher was in it.
Bushwhackers 93 triple bass feature was impressive. Got to see their practice several times.
I got to see it every week from my spot in the snare line
Sitting in the front row waiting to see Eric marching with The Commandant's Own ... Will need to watch this later!!!
I think the coolest I have seen was a high school I marched against that only had 5 people in the battery; 1 snare, 1 tenor, and 3 basses where basses 1+3 were stacked, 2+4 were stacked, and then bass 5 was on their own.
I have seen the "snowman" stack a few times as well, but it was mostly for GE during the percussion feature.
You can never have too much BASS
The bassist for Future Corp was my drum line instructor for high school, and let me tell you he was just as awesome with snare drum.
My back hurts just from watching this, thanks.
His “good morning” startles me every time
You gotta make the quad stack happen. You’re the perfect man for the job!
A year after the Cavs used the double-stack Rhode Island Matadors (DCA) used it after their second bass drummer broke his ankle. Bass drummer #1 stacked bass drums 1 and 2 and put a plastic kids periscope on it which I think was half functional and half just as a joke. As I watched this video it made me think, "Why didn't we think of creating a space for the guy to see through? Once again, a very cool video, Eric! I have no idea why there are any thumbs down on this video.
LET'S GO BUSH BASS
Dude! I'm so glad to see someone finally show this!!! I marched the 3 stack in high school for three years. I had to train with the football team in the summer to build up muscle for the marching band season. It weighed 58 pounds but it was so tall it was easy to put down on the ground between rehearsal however, I frowned on this and by my senior year, I was able to march the entire show going to the field and back without putting the drum down. I marched a single bass in college and they of course put me on the big one so it was different not having control of the entire bass section, but it was a pretty smooth transition all things considered. The hardest part was reaching the bottom drum as it stuck out from the bottom. I tried making some custom mallets that were longer but they kept breaking. My senior year premark sent me a prototype of their aluminum mallets and they did help as they were longer, but the best part was they never broke. My band director was a big FSU fan and had us play the war chant a lot, so in the stands I brought out an extra large bass drum to fit in the stands that I could play with or along with the triple bass that I mounted on the stadium rails in front of me. I'll be happy to send some video links if you like. Thanks for your support of the greatest instrument on earth.
Instead of stacked bass drummers, I'd just make the bass drums a part of the pit, turn them almost flat, and let 1 or 2 kids with a good sense of rhythm play all of them. They'd usually have fun doing that and it would makes them feel like they are the star of the show!
We did pretty much that my freshman year. Was a brand new high school and was A60 class so the director didn't want a full battery section on the field. We just put all the drums in the pit. One guy played four basses set up like a giant set of tenors (it was awesome), iirc we had 2 snares, 1 tenor, and a kit player as well. Despite not having a proper drum line, we still took home a couple of percussion caption trophies that year.
Future corps eventually went in that direction as well and put the basses on a horizontal rack like tympanis because the guy wasn't 19 anymore and it's tough on your back doing that for 6 shows/day!
My Band director said we did this one year way back in the 90s. Using bungee cords.
1988 and 1989 Spirit of Atlanta. Nine basses, and the top four had pony drums on top for a chromatic octave with 36” of thunder on the bottom
Those triple stacks have got to be TERRIBLE for your back my goshh.
Looks Cool and not painful in the slightest
I had the Opportunity to see Blast! LIVE twice!!!! It was ....THERE ARE NO WORDS!!!!!!
Hell yeah! I was able to see the blast performance when they came to Pasadena California. I bought tickets that were in the middle of the theater, but due to some mix-up my tickets weren't at will call, and they got sold so... what the house did for me was put me my mom and my wife on the front row in the pit!!!
😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎
I remember two years ago seeing a DCA corps called Les Stentors at a DCI showcase and there was this girl who carried a bass 1 stacked on a bass 2. We called her the snowman girl.
Why not just snowgirl 😅
Ironic considering stentors are from Quebec and the major mascot over there is in fact also a giant snowman
I'm glad you've got Future Corps in the video. Rich Viano is the guy playing the triple bass in this video. I made a set back in the day based on the Future Corps one. When making a set it is important to have some space between the top two basses so that the player can see forward when marching.
I thought that was Viano. That’s why it was so impressive.
Cavaliers 1984. That's Beano!!!!! He's a Drum Corps Legend being the first double bass. Super cool guy as well. So glad you have him on here.
I had totally forgot about the Epcot Future Corps guys. Nice throwback.
My tiny high school in the early/mid '90s did this. Sadly no evidence exists to this date.
But there might be video of the parade where the trailer carrying nearly all of the instruments got a flat tire on the way to the event, so we marched with like drumsticks a flute and a trumpet
Not stacked, but my alma mater (Jacksonville State University) marched 9 tonal bass drums.. Including a drum large enough that we had a window put on the front and back of the drum so that the drummer could see where he was going.. not sure how many corp style drumlines have done that. I believe we did it for 4 years; '95, '96, '97, and 2000 - I was privileged to march "5 of 9" in the bass line of 2000, my freshman year.. used to joke that I was "center bass" lol
I'm a little disappointed that we didn't see Eric make a quad set. How cool would that look to have the letters E, M, and C, and the baseball (football) logo all on separate drums inn the stack?
he did it today!! go look!!
@@fo-ef8qo ok!
I remember the Disney "future Corps" had a 3-stacker and thinking how cool it was.
Having been to Epcot and watching FC live plus watching every TH-cam video I can find, it amazes me how people walk right past without stopping
Speaking of FC , the opener played by the USMC D&B ensemble at DCI sounds familiar
Thanks for including Future Corps! I first saw them in 1982 with the stacked triple bass! So they may have bee pan the first. It would be interesting to find out!
The time you uploaded this is just the right!
This really IS a good morning! (Here in asia, by the way.)
Also, same thing to you and please, stay safe and keep on rocking!
As someone who marches bass drum i can say those are utterly cursed and i have a love hate relationship with this idea
who knew stacking bass drums could be so AWESOME
I played stacked basses my first year of drumline in high school and it was honestly pretty fun to do
Those Felix Varela boys were amazingly clean!
Vern Johnson on that sick blast solo!
I remember the Glassmen, Colts and Cavies. You have a picture of the Colts and I think that was Andrea (Can't remember her last name) but she marched Colts and Bluecoats in that 84-90 range. I seem to remember touring with Glassmen and that guy was there for a few years. I think those were Remo drums at the time too. Things from the past
As many times I have watched Blast!, this is the first time I noticed the stacked bass drums.
My high school had a bass drum stack , mccormick brand. If I remember correctly, the heads came attached to a rim that also got replaced during head changes. The heads were also pre tuned so you kinda just attached them to the drum. I think you still could tune them a bit tho
Also emc you are the reason I play bass drum
I was EAF when I saw Future Corps made your list! My parents had Marched Blue Stars in the 70's with a Future Corps member so we always went and saw then when we were at Disney in the 90's. I always thought those guys had the best job ever! Also the first time I saw a triple stack base drum.
Amazing, a tier-list video where most of them made S tier and none of them were F tier. I never thought I'd see the day, or that the day would be so bassy.
I have to march with one bass 5, and it's heavy enough (don't know why they gave the smallest dude the biggest drum) i'd straight up quit if they told me to march with that.
Could you please do some technique videos to help teach those of us that want to play percussion but need help learning.
When Cavaliers did Holst The Planets the lead bass had two drum stack.
So, I'm a teacher overseas. We used to do "marching band" .... but inside... because of wet season and the field being too muddy to march on. Percussion didn't march because there was no room and too few of us. We handled the bass drums a bit differently. I'm playing (there weren't enough students and I play drum set, so I was recruited into the band as if I were a child) the bass drums at 5:49 in this video: th-cam.com/video/79jXpeKJkcc/w-d-xo.html
My high school drumline had a single bass player (my brother) he played basses 1 and 2 as a double bass drum!!!
I can't find a video of it, but I believe Trinity HS in South Carolina in 2013 had a bass drum stack. Can't remember if it was 2 or 3 drums.
Love your channel hope to see you at pasic
I set our drumline's six bass drums up in my living room tilted on various things and played them for a few hours once. If we'd had stacks I'd have played bass instead of snare...
I carried a double bass one year in high school. I was #2 in a five person line, #1 quit and I said I was already playing the parts, so we zip tied them together. Playing running sixtuplets with stacked drums was a hoot! Super awkward and pretty heavy.
My freshman year (1989 season) Henderson High school in W Chester PA We had one double bass drummer
I played bass in 7th grade then snare the rest of the way through high school, I hate marching bass.... I’ve never seen this though. Very cool! Would definitely try this out!
Awesome video, love the bass love! I’ve always wanted to March in a bassline with five me’s. Guess I should just March a five stack eh?
Our drum guy, Sergio A. Once made a quad set out of some basses before a parade
As a freshman base 1 player, all I have to say is “Jesus”
As junior base 4 player without enough bass players, all I have to say is YES
Video 33 of commenting until EMC makes an entire battery percussion section out of spocks and 8 inch splash cymbals
have u done a vid on the LARGEST bass drums around?? like the
Carolina Panthers bass drum
Minnesota Vikings Skol drum
KC Chiefs native drum
Purdue "Largest drum"
University Texas big bertha
Missouri "Big MO"
i'm sure there's more, but interesting rabbit hole 2 go down
one of our techs for indoor marched double base. his name is breeno and he was in the second clip. he’s super cool and really really funny
*beano
My buddy marched blast!
I Love these videos and am super excited for the first football game I march in
YES YOU INCLUDED BLAST!!
Please watch Blast it’s... well... a blast.
This just opened me up to the realization that you can make a stack with a combo of bass drums and toms. It’s also can make bass lines more user friendly because I have found very difficult to get buy in from students who just see them as hard and unrewarding…
Saw Future Corps at DCI finals 1992. First time I had seen a bass stack.
Green Army Men was a Toy Story overlay that the Magic Kingdom Korps did for a while at Disneyland. They weren't around as long as Future Corps at EPCOT. Both groups however would do multiple shows per day, at least 5 days out of the week. When Future Corps started, the basses weren't stacked. They were set up like over-sized tri-toms. Not sure when they switched. I've only seen one video of them in that config so it probably wasn't long. Some time in the mid 1990's, the group switched the drum line over to rolling racks of drums. The snare and tom players had extra drums and mounted cymbals. The bass drummer had a rack of 6 bass drums (sometimes only 5). I didn't care for the rack set up. The bass drums didn't project as well in that configuration.
Sprit of Atlanta had toms stacked on their basses in 1989. That was the year they has like 20 bass drums or something.
I would've loved to march that
Emc all day!
Felix Varela reppin' SoFlo!
There's a drum company in Tennessee that produces the configuration for the
stacked basses. Forgot the name? Sorry. Will try and find.
2 Cool Percussion
I was just looking that up. I need to do this for the tiny line I’m working with. I’ve done it before, with the great help of my father in law, but in need to do it again without drilling.
the person that dislike is the tenorline player that emc didnt show his solo in the 1st video.
I played Base Freshman year in Highschool. There is now way I would have marched a double base in a New Orleans Mardi Gras Parade. We marched one that was 12 miles, from 10 am until 6 at night. No Way! Side note, my brother was the cymbal player who jumped over the the other guy in Blast.
If I remember correctly the Future Corps performer was Rich Viano, Star of Indiana
Future Corps bass drummer is the '89 DCI solo snare champion from Star
Check out the 60s and 70s. There were horizontal bass triples.
Love the inclusion of Blast! on your list. I think a better representation of their use of stacked bass drums takes place in Medea as opposed to Battery Battle. Def took me many years and a good pair of headphones to hear but there are indeed some good clean runs played.
Believe it or not, I marched with 3 of the original cast members if Blast! in 99 and was on tour as support staff with Magic in 02 with Ben Harloff the suspended flugel player
fun fact the future corps tough my dad how to play tenners
As a bass drum in a marching band I approve this video
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Le Stentors had one in 2019!
Built my own set of triple bass.
I think Kilties had a stacked bass drum in 2017
0:54 that would be the great Vern Johnson (BD 88-90, 92) tenors