I love how Malik just sits there and agrees for almost the whole video 😂

I’ve always interpreted the “cluttered” props as intentional. Sort of like when Matisse is cutting paper up, he would have a bunch of paper clippings all over his workspace (read: hospice bed) until he cleans up and he puts the artwork together. Makes sense to me. 🤷

Please do Phantom next! They’re getting up there in scores! Best phantom group in a long time!

I saw them live at rose bowl, insane how you can watch like 5 cores perform and bd come on and they’re just LOUDER. It’s like everyone moved 100ft closer to the field. They’re in their own different level compared to everyone else

Blue Devils are like Taco Bell. New items but the same old ingredients. They’ve mastered the art of familiarity.

BD Taking drum corps to another level with Matisse. Wittgenstein. Reich. Cody Fry. JoJo. TesseracT. Joni Mitchell. Graettinger. Here for it.

Thankfully its been over a decade since they've played Incidents in Jazz, and it probably fits in with the show theme anyway. On a different note, props to the Q5 because they're probably the best since the 2009-2012 era.

did no one catch laurent LAUNCHING his LH stick when he hit that double stop at 13:15 in the vid?

First five minutes are very entertaining, there is so much going on. You have to view it a few times to capture it all. The closer lacks that big ending for a show of this calibur. I can't wait for the new closer.

Snare line is op, BD22 + RCC23 Laurent has played with everyone

Y’all’s corp is actually my favorite corp ever. I’ve been thinking about auditioning next year

I was at this show. (Live in Fresno). BD is so entertaining. To think they're only going to get better...

Got to see this show live last night. Loved the Stan Kenton section!

Growing up a Blue Devils Fan and watching since 2010, I really loved this show. It's the perfect blend of old school and new school Blue Devils. After marching against and being of staff for a corps that go against Blue Devils, it's nice to enjoy early season. I think it will be interesting if the members fully embrace the BD process to get this clean by the end.

Cant wait to see this masterpiece

Attending the rehearsal 2 days ago, they were struggling to get their cover downs clean in the ballad, needed a lot of reps, it did get better but, just a little bit of evidence for the comment of the brass visual being the weakest part

We had Daniel from BD staff over at Guardians last week and we really learned a lot from him!

It’s funny how last year Laurent didn’t move in the circular moving snare break and this year he’s moving the most 😂

I do agree there are people are standing out they need to clean up especially in the guard but I think they will get there. Where they need to clean visual other corps are adding difficulty. This might be one of the closest top 4 scores ever! Love yalls videos!

I was at this Fresno show, and I can't express how POWERFUL this brass was. the drumline Aswell. they're so strong compared to the Fresno show last year.

I agree with the assessment, having marched against them (Phantom Reg.) in the early years, late 70's- early 80's I've always appreciated the attention to every single detail imaginable! This year is no exception.

we not gonna talk about that trumpet double c during the beginning of the jojos theme?!?!?!

i love love love the opening excerpt from "caves" by cody fry, absolutely amazing!!

I have been what you might call a “BD hater” for the past several years. I have decided this year to just enjoy the show design and execution. This really is a great show and it is very well done. Great job, BD.

Great critique! Nice to see Steeler Nation in the background. 🙂

Your comments about brass visuals are great.. Like this is how much you have to nitpick to find something wrong with this show. I can say the color guard is absolutely killing it. So difficult and so clean.

Anyone who marches or marched Blue Devils whether Brass, Guard, or Percussion is a winner in my book! THE BLUE DEVILS ARE THE BEST!

Update: Broken Arrow Show- July 18th- BD drums=1st Boston=2nd Blue Coats=3rd and Crown=4th. BD won all categories across the board except for a couple of the achievement sub captions. Looks like another Gold for the Blue Crew in 2023.

I love y’all’s reaction videos and I’d love to see y’all’s reaction to Mandarins this year. I want to hear more input on our show from other people. It’s hard being from the inside and seeing it the way the audience sees it. If you need a good flo video lmk!! Again Love y’all’s content!

Coats does voiceovers: not a big fan of voiceovers BD does voiceovers: OMG THATS TOUGH

Guess who will win DCI world this year in brass, guard, visual effect, GE and perhaps drums captions 😅

I agree with almost every opinion in this. I think Bluecoats got them beat on vis right now but MAN that hornline and battery are COOKING

hype

That has to be one of the hardest intros to a bd show! Absolutely just booking it to the point where they are actually crabbing and PLAYING

Are you guys coming back to Chattahoochee High school to the blue devils rehearsal on the 22nd?

I’m just excited to see how this season unfolds. I love the first part of BD’s show, and the last third is pretty meh, but I’m sure they’ll clean that up/change it. I hope you guys have fun making more videos!

Just keep counting Crown out this summer. Lol…. We have four world class corps with four very different approaches this summer. So many great shows throughout the activity, but these four will be special..

My guys!

I really wish I could enjoy the Blue Devils. I respect them for everything that they do, it's undeniable that their staff and performers are some of the best in the game. I just really wish they would take a risk on a show, they always play it so safe. When the blue coats ran Jagged Line after winning the previous year, it was risky. Obviously, it didn't work out for them. But that's ok, because Jagged Line was a really entertaining show. BD has always done what works and, I feel, have rarely ever taken risk. At the end of the day what's clean is clean and that's what matters, we can't judge shows based on how "fun" they are (if we could BD wouldnt have won since 2017). I really just wish BD would put on a show for "Drum Corps Fans" not just "Blue Devils Fans".

one of the tenors dad coches my drum line

how do I find the official video

Wish I could join ya'll on this review as an alumni of 2012 and 2013 crown. While there were many moments the brass sounded great.. the hardest licks were sitting on their heals. How DCI has changed.

I watched this show in Salt Lake City

the JoJo music 👌👌👌👌👌

Ain’t no way the blue devils collectively hit the DIO pose

Is the pausing so the vid doesn’t get sniped?

Same intro as the 97 BD color guard show. And I'm here for it

What would be great woukd be to have actual DCI judges doing a video like this on every top 15 corps, so we can hear directly from the experts through their ears and eyes. But that would be unlikely to do publicly. It would have to be judges not currently active. Lest an active judge risk making comments that might taint the judging pool. Judges need to be able to keep their dialogue with corps confidential to preserve the integrity of the competitive scoring process.

BLUE DEVS GOING TO WIN BY AT LEAST 2 POINTS THIS YEAR

I need to see a phantom and Spirit reaction

what year(s) did you march bd?

Gateway Indoor 2017 iykyk

That Announcer tho!!!

Can you give me the source of the clip please?😅

well hello, mellos 😃

Please, don’t call BD 2010 ole school! 😅🤣😂 Let me grab my walker… 🤷🏾‍♂️ Also, I loved BD 2010. It’s hard for this to measure up for me, but if anyone can, it’s them.

Where is the original video

Ready for another blue devils undefeated season🥲

U guys should do some other reactions like troopers blue knight colts ect I seem to only see u react to the top 5

Is Malik okay? I've barely heard him say a dozen words in these recent vids

My favorite show this season !!

I've been a BD fan for a long, long time. That said, I am one of the folks that felt that their shows over the last 3 years have been variations on Metapmorph. I absolutely *love* this show, and feel it is not anything like the last few years. Cant wait to see how they develop and clean it.

Does BD winning this year count as a three-peat?

This show is going to be amazing in a month. No corps cleans better than BD. I cannot wait to see the real ending because right now the shows just stops without an ending. BD does not have a weak section this year. I think if they max out this show no other corps will be able to beat them come Finals. I am a guard person and BD's guard as well as Boston's guard are just better than the rest. It will be interesting to see who takes the Zingali award between Boston and BD!

I find too many colors in the props, it actually removes some of the difficult drills that they do.

Do white whale

You telling me they didn’t know this was a jojo reference??

Need to Lower your mic volume 50 percent and raise corps 25 percent

Really......you called 2010 "old school".........make me feel really old....I first saw BD live in 1987 🤣

14:24 not anymore hes not 😬

Going forward please let Malik get his say in. Molly on first take get more in than Malik. It's not his fault. I disagree with you on that Stan Kenton song. It shows off the brass sure its not like 2010 yet but a little rewrite and more punchy clean up its a great sound. Over all nice job guys. I'm thinking Devils can sweep all captions at finals !!!!!!

Tired of not bringing Ott and High Drums home.

"No jazz yet by anyone in the top four!" "No one does jazz like BD" what?

Calls it "Old School" when it from 2010. Old school? you gotta go back a LOT further than that. Old school would be BD doing Channel One Suite again!

🧂😂

Same thing every year since metamorph

ok so as an alum i have to say the shows are repetitive. i hate that i'm saying that and it feels bad saying it but their idea of whats new is old. the show is gonna have a theme an art and film major would really connect with. Drumline will have double stops for days and fast ramming notes. there will be 20 contrasting musical ideas that will be crammed in 13 minutes, theres that rocking visual they did in 17 that will make its way in alot of the shows, i mean yeah we have seen it. what BD has that is undeniable is the performance quality. we have a way where the performance is next level. Gibbs is always right when he says this is a saturday night corps. its truly fun to watch. *shrug*

2:40 lost me with the silly squat & twist move. You'd think that high school faux choreography would have been played out by now.

And I thought it was impossible for them to do anything more boring than some of their previous shows, but once again I have been proven wrong. I also think they need more crap on the field, I don't think there's enough.

battery mostly from rcc, some horns from SCV and they are already at 92.6 are they gonna beat 2014 score?!?!?!? Tune in next time on Dragon Ball ZZZZZZZZZZ!!!!!!!!!!!!

Not gonna react to the ballad? Kind of an awhole move

Bro its the same show. Every. Single. Year.

boston better

yk what guys...maybe BD really is just better than everyone in every way possible🥲