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- Finals were in Atlanta Georgia. The Garfield Cadets glowed golden like Gods as they introduced the world to the next level of Drum Corps winning the world Championchip. We had a stunning year ourselves in the Freelancers, we were the best fed corps of the year with our own mobile kitchen (Chuckwagon). We gave the gaurd 20 sapranos and taught them how to play ballzondo whole notes to the opening "You're still a young Man" by Tower of Power. We were arguably the loudest Corps of the year. We also did singing/vocals as a first, at least to us in our era. Back in the Day, California had 5 of the top 12 , and a few more in the 24. This is most of our show, I had to cut a couple of minutes so it would fit on TH-cam. Have you seen Drum Corps Lately? these kids are marching and performing in this day and age what seem inconcievable to me from our basic styls. Wow !! Enjoy. You can see me at 9:27 part of this video playing saprano wailing away. Thanks for enjoying, its a great feeling to contribute. Thanks DCI and IAMAI
Post Script: John Zimney, great decision to add that last lowering at the end, so much emotion with that kiss. Thank you are you and your brothers help in my childhood development. I don't think I could have been a Firefighter for 30 years without the experience in the Drum Corps.
Loved this show from the first time I saw it in California early season.
The Freelancers never let up with their power and dynamics. Great music!
I played Contrabass on the '84 corps.
That was some of the best times of my life! I loved the Freelancers!
This corps was class. Thank you both!
Awesome show, I was 14yrs old, miles from home enjoying Drum corp for the first time. The memories.......;(
The single season of DCI that I marched was 1994, ten years after this, so this show is "before my time". But I have loved, loved, loved this show after discovering it a couple of years ago! (It helps that I am a huge Tower of Power fan!) The Freelancers were amazing and are missed! Thanks for sharing this video -- I'd only ever heard audio of the show until finding this video!
This is one of my top ten drum and bugle corps shows of all time, and I was in the activity for more then 50 years, the music selections, the overall production, and corps general appearance was simply stunning. I just want to thank and congratulate everyone who played a part is such a enjoyable, historic and truly crowd pleasing show. It is my true belief that the Freelancers never got the true recognition or ranking that they deserved by the D.C.I. judges. Maybe it was all simply over their heads.
Have you seen the drum corps in these latter years ? Wow
@Micah Lall-Trail There is a Sr. Corps of Alumni, but the Freelancers that we remember live only in our memories.
@@askmeif that holds true for every drum and bugle Corp, even going back to the 50s and going forward. It was a great honor to play with some of the great drum corpse of the world.
I thoroughly enjoyed this performance. You can hear the passion of the horn line. The closer is simply stunning to listen to. Just close your eyes and enjoy.
This is one of my all-time drum closers. Beautifully staged and performed.
As a 13 year old trumpet player who lived in an isolated rural south Georgia discovering dci and particularly THIS show I was able to take the inspiration and go on to march dci and receive a college scholarship. But it all started with this show and the soprano and flugle and baritone soloists and that Billy Preston number! Thanks Freelancers and for posting this. You never know where the music will reach!
Finals show.. eh.. peaked at the rehearsal before finals show. 1984 year changed my life really. After Finals in '84 I moved to Atlanta and lived there for 6 years. Memories to last a life time.
Best to all,
Roger
'81,'82,'84 pit
I am with Ryan on that one. 82-84 Freelancers killed it brasswise
One of the greatest all time dci shows I've ever witnessed, the music was outstanding and performed excellently by all sections, the soloist were unbelievable. Honestly the Freelancers were one of the greatest corps in DCI history, but then back then the Corps were much better over all then the corps of today, and the music was much more entertaining for the crowd.
The mega forte's came from 16 more horns! Freelancers taylored 16 cadet uniforms so the male rifle line could quickly tear away (velcro) sleeves. The guard's uniforms change @115-120. Watch the Sop's rank rotate to the No1 side/20-45 Yd front side-line.
I have the 85 show on dvd.I marched the years 85 and 87.Played cymbals in and soprano in 87.
Off The Line: Powerful and beautiful
I was a part of the Arizona Musketeers, and got to tour for a few years. The 1st Arizona corps to compete at DCI.
Oh yes, I was too young to appreciate those guys, now as an adult , realizing how fragile we really are, less was truly more. Remember Modesto Valley Fever?
Yes they were another great drum Corps.
I hate to say it as your rival and the former drum major of the Velvet Knights (the real ones).....but MAN I LOVED 1984 FREELANCERS!!!!!!!! There I said it!!!!!!!! LOL!!!!!!!!!! Thank you for posting this Chris.
Well we all know the truth that VK was always the crowd favorite. Oh what an era we were so privileged to know and love.
My first DCI tour was in 1985, and everyone on my bus talked about 1984's Garfield, VK, and the Freelancers. Good stuff.
What an honor to be associated with all of that. We enjoyed our show, but I never really thought we were anything as entertaining as VK, or as unbelievably innovating and artful as the Cadets. Thanks Zach
my band director was a horn player in this show. :)
WOW, I have not viewed this show since live in 1984. Thank you for the POST
Love this show. Listen to it often.
I showed up for the first couple of camps in 81, I had to drop out for a year and get some more courage. I am so glad I marched, It changed my life and gave me a sence of disciplin.
Helluva lot of memories and stories... I was in the 10-man contrabass line in '84. One of the best lines in corps that year. I still have my jacket and a cheesy long sleeve t-shirt. Marc Bobro
You Contras always impressed me. Never could complain about holding a soprano, all I had to do is look at you guys and I had no standing. We always seemed to be like heroes getting to play the melodies but we on the top of the register always knew who the true heroes were. First thing I ever did to size up a horn line was count the contras.
You guys are killing it at 4:53! NICE!!
I remember the multi-velcro uniforms. We toured with Free in 84 and 85.
This was one of the most well rounded, musical and beautifully performed productions on the DCI Field that year. It took one from the sizzling heat of "Tower of Power's You're still a young man" opening fanfare to one of the most Beautiful Arrangements ever performed on the field of "Billy Preston's With you I'm born again. and I would have stopped there but then they added a closing fanfare as if to revive you. In truth and my opinion, that was one of the best shows, if not the best show on the field that season, if not ever. That was straight forward, in your face drum and bugle corps long before started to DCI lose its mind and throw all of it class, history, and tradition totally out of the window some three decades later. And, went from a bunch of different Corps with individual Styles and Music. to a homogenized Bunch of glorified marching bands that all sound the same and are blindly following each other into the overpriced, demise of what was once the standard of musical marching art activities around the world. SAD!!!
So much to say about the class that was Freelancers, then we kinda made bad statements about people doing what this inspired.
Let's not let our expectations and experience privilege our tone of voice to what the activity is today.
It is what it is because of what was. Try to enjoy how it has all been done to make it what it is today.
@@cicook7 what it is today is a marching band no longer a real drum and bugle Corp. Former member of the Long Island Sunrisers 1964 through 1968. Today is December 31st 2021.
Freelancers were always one of my favorite Corps. I always liked their uniforms.
@tubtiger , I liked you guys alot, In the Freelancers soprano section, we each picked another corp to root for, mine was blue nights, I had a shirt and was a fan. Those were magic years.
DCI put us on tour, and there was a show or two we would win because we went to shows where there were no real contenders. Freelancers peaked in 1983 I think in 8th place. We took 9th in 82 and 84. It was really cool beating Vanguard in marching for some of the early shows, then they just took off ... Zoom
I marched in 82, skipped 83 and then again in 84 so I don't think we ever met. If you were like me, you were probably pretty familiar with the 84 show, like I was familiar with the 81 show when I first marched in 82. The guys would warm up with last years show riffs, and it was a great motivation to see last years show and wonder if I could ever do something like that.
The corps was short on red Cadet jackets, so the cymbals had to give theirs up. The following year ('85), Freelancers switched to those crazy multicolored, multi-flap velcro unis.
very very good. one of the best retro corps i have seen
A HISTORIC opening HIT!
When we (BD) first saw sops being tossed like guard gear we were stunned...then we realized they were being thrown around by MEMBERS of the guard AND they were old valve-rotors, so we relaxed.
However, the corps smashing their horns into their chest buckles on parade rest in the retreat block always made us cringe en masse...we babied our horns.
Always kinda wished they've done the opening vocal in French at the Montreal show.
Yes...the Freeloaders/Flearanchers/Freebasers (heh)....not a bad corps at all.
CHRIS!!!!!
Allot of future Blue Devils in that corps.
My band instructor is in here! He's playing mello. haha
Also the San Jose Raiders doing all latin music for several years.
In 1988 The Freelancers were having some difficulties and as a result several horn players joined us in Concord and Mario was one of them. He played the soprano solo in the opener Happy Days Are Here Again. He was a very nice guy and well liked. If you go to the BD site and look under Alumni "Through the Years" there is a roster for each year and I think his e-mail address is there.
What's with the cymbal uniforms?
Where is Mario these days? (flugle solo) One of the nicest drum corps members you'll ever meet.
Frank Dorritie wrote the horn book, yes?
Remember how many corps there were back then? I could not believe what Garfield was able to pull off back then. Thanks for your comments and I am glad you enjoyed the video. I am thankful that they didn't pull it for copyright problems, You tube is the only place to get some of this stuff.
I marched Garfield 82 , soprano. Just stumbled upon this show… beautiful ballad
@@keith9482 I just went to my first DCI show in 10 years, and was so astonished as to the evolution of the art. I was truly reminiscing the old days, and was remembered the 84 Cadets as 'best in history' in my book. The revelutionary drill with the wonderful West Side Story catalog was an excellence far beyond the standards we new way back when.
Thank you Capt Douche bag - Freelancers '82-84
Thanks for posting this. The TOP fans have discovered it.
VK, they were always a hoot to watch, a big crowd pleaser.
Which year did California have 5 of top 12? I know that they had 4 of top 12 (VK, BD, SCV and Freelancers).
srtyler Do you know? I don't recall, Maybe it involved 'The Raiders' 'Valley Fever' 'Dons'.
Think most CA had was 4 in the Top 12.
@Vaussii I know and remember that feeling also, It was really amazing being a part of an art that others such as yourself enjoyed in that manner. Very few of us get to experience that. Even though we may have been awesome to you, I felt the very same way watching the Garfield Cadets amongst others.
The bingo hall is still there. Seems like taxes knock them out of the game. There is some active junior drum activities going on, if you search TH-cam, you can see the basket ball court version of what the Freelancers have become.
Come check out the alumni corps - freelancers dawt org. We're looking for players. Lenny 78/79/09/10 Sop
@Vaussii I remember your mom. She also was involved with our winter guard. I just saw Cindy at the Santa Parade rehearsal. Ahhh memories of the good ole days
Carol (Nydam) Garrett
@Vaussii
So did I , We know each other, Did you take 83 off ?
Yes, the 2 valve G bugle, didn't really make much difference unless you came down in the register, No low D and E flats
Jacksonville State University Marching Southerners have similar uniforms!
Now this is more my style!! (I'm probably the youngest person you'll ever hear say that...)
I agree. Such a fantastic repertoire.
Ahhhh flugel solo at 7:03.
77 Cadets, wow, didn't know that, They had us thinking we were breaking some ground .
You guys were so hot in 81. I marched in 82, and I must have listened to your show hundreds of times on my worn out tape player. You made it back into the top 12 " Sac is Back" . I wonder what Mario and Dave are doing these days.
You guys really had that closing number down with Evergreen.
What ever happened to Drum Major...Brian S. This is a great show.
I remember Mario very well, he sure looked alot older than he was, a mature nice young man he was. Used to work at the video store off Florin and 65. I am sure if we found his last name we could find him on the internet somewhere.
@tubtiger Yep, I remember the San Jose Raiders, and there was another start up with a spanish name from the modesto area, La Something?, oh , and the Kingsmen , they did a wonderful "evergreen".
Can't donate sorry.
I was going to but then you spammed.
@askmeif
Esperansa I think that was it ; )
Yeh, we had some shtick going on with maybe 90 horns at the beginning, and all that vocal work. I loved Garfield though,
@tubtiger Oh yes yes. But there was another hispanic sounding one from the central valley , Like La questra or some femine forceful sounding name. Remember anything like that?
I remember your mom :) :)
LMAO @ the irony