Nobody was featuring percussion like this back then. The Cavaliers, with Jim Campbell's writing and program coordination, revolutionized the approach to percussion.
@StephenKershaw1
5 ай бұрын
ummm... not so fast....everyone had percussion features.... Campbell, who along with Kuhn, did an amazing job bringing the Cavies percussion up a notch, but gives credit to Tom Float and Mike Back (Spirit of Atlanta) for his inspiration
@richpellegrin7713
5 ай бұрын
@@StephenKershaw1 Thanks for the reply. Good to know Campbell credited those guys. I didn’t follow drum corps closely until 1988, so I do have a blind spot with respect to the 80s. And Spirit was usually in the finals in the 80s, but rarely in the 90s, so they were mostly off my radar. Maybe I should check out some Spirit shows from the 80s. I will say that from ’88-’93 I don’t remember any corps in the top 6-12 featuring percussion as consistently and extensively as the Cavies did. Cavies always had a significant feature in the opener, followed by an extended feature in the second half of the show. So from my limited perspective as a youngster getting involved around that time, it seemed that Campbell was revolutionary. But things rarely if ever fall out of the sky, and famous “revolutionaries” usually get ideas from other less prominent artists.
@richpellegrin7713
5 ай бұрын
Funny thing - I went to DCI headquarters around 1994 and gave a presentation about how there were a lot of phenomenal drumlines out there that didn’t necessarily get featured much at the time, like SCV. I remember them agreeing with me about that. I told them they should start putting out VHS tapes of just the drumlines, since marching percussion instruments and writing was something totally unique to drum corps and there would be such demand for it. (Plus the PBS recordings of the full shows didn’t always keep the camera on the drumlines during the features.) Then the internet happened, lol.
@marcsmith7385
3 жыл бұрын
Monster drumline and those tenors were gods
@Luckyjasondrum
3 жыл бұрын
They rammed so many notes that year. Nearly every square inch of that book was challenging even by today's standards.
@phrenopsis
8 жыл бұрын
Wow, I've always wanted to see the tenors throughout the whole solo. Thanks
@viawilderness
Жыл бұрын
The thing I love about Cavaliers is their trademark visuals, even up through early 2000's. It kept the Rosemont spirit alive for each Corps
@brian52827
6 жыл бұрын
Wow! Never saw that angle before. Drum to drum scrapes on the tenors? Dude! I've seen plenty of in the lot footage over the years, but nothing like that!
@RTCMAHL
4 жыл бұрын
Man, never realized how much we stole from the Cavies until I watched all these old dci vids.
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