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The 101st most awesomest college band performance ever

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by Player1, Nov 14, 2007.

  1. Flash

    Flash Guest

    Our schools can't afford marching bands. So we drink instead.
     
  2. Cape_Fear

    Cape_Fear Active Member

    My first concert ever, the Grass Roots, Herman's Hermits, Gary Puckett and the Union Gap and the Monkees following a Temple-Florida A&M game. They were bands 2-5 that day. The FAMU band kicked ass. I was disappointed when they didn't travel to a I-AA playoff game I covered a few years ago.
     
  3. heytkachuk

    heytkachuk New Member

    Ohio University's Marching 110 rules. It plays better than the football team.
     
  4. EmbassyRow

    EmbassyRow Active Member

    The SMB ending is absolutely perfect.
     
  5. Big Buckin' agate_monkey

    Big Buckin' agate_monkey Active Member

    That's cute ... but the draw to the original link was the old school video game themes.
     
  6. Del_B_Vista

    Del_B_Vista Active Member

    The label on the Grambling clip is in error. That's not a marching band. It's a dance-in-one-place band, and I don't say that to disparage the entertainment. Marching bands do more than march to the middle of the field in one formation and march back off the field in the same formation.[/sonofbitteroldbandfatherwhothinksyougottahaveadifferentshoweachweek]

    All that said, I've covered one SWAC game in my career. Went to Itta Bena for Alcorn-Valley, and I'd put them up against what I just saw from Grambling. The bands spent way more time limbering up before halftime than the teams did before the game. Both were entertaining as hell.
     
  7. Sam Mills 51

    Sam Mills 51 Well-Known Member

    As a veteran of both styles of bands, each bring entirely different elements to the table.

    One brings unbridled enthusiasm, the other tends to make better use of dynamics. One brings moves that boggle the mind (try some of these moves with quad/quints or bass drums strapped to you), while the other brings precision charts.

    Both are outstanding ... just don't try to combine the elements like one idiot director I know. Complete disaster ...
     
  8. imjustagirl2

    imjustagirl2 New Member

    And had the thread title been "awesome band performance of video game themes" then cool enough. But when one says it's the best performance ever, I can have a difference of opinion.
     
  9. audreyld

    audreyld Guest

    I know it's a wholly different thing, but I've got to admit I love the Aggie band. Just too snappy.
     
  10. three_bags_full

    three_bags_full Well-Known Member

    I thought this had something to do with Ft. Campbell. :'(
     
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