The 101st most awesomest college band performance ever

[Player1]

Could've been posted here before, I don't know. Anyway, enjoy.

 

[imjustagirl2]

Re: Possibly the most awesomest college band performance ever

Any thread with this title that is not about an HBCU is patently wrong.

 

[Player1]

Re: Possibly the most awesomest college band performance ever

Any thread with this title that is not about an HBCU is patently wrong.

Normally, I would agree. But watch the vid. If you disagree, we can come to a compromise on a new title.

 

[imjustagirl2]

Re: Possibly the most awesomest college band performance ever

I disagree.

THIS is a band performance (2003). Hell, just search for 'grambling band' and you'll find 100 things better than that.

 

[Flash]

Re: Possibly the most awesomest college band performance ever

The number of superlatives in the title scare me.

 

[crusoes]

Re: Possibly the most awesomest college band performance ever

Didn't the Stanford band do a "Salute to the Reproductive System" once, complete with band penis releasing little running band sperm? Or is that one of those stories that sounds good but isn't true?

 

[Mayfly]

Re: Possibly the most awesomest college band performance ever

No mention of Southern yet? For shame.

 

[imjustagirl2]

Re: Possibly the most awesomest college band performance ever

Grambling owns Southern.

 

[Player1]

Re: Possibly the most awesomest college band performance ever

First off, FAMU and Jackson State have the best HBCU bands. Grambling and Southern merely have good football teams. Far less important.

Second, I guess I gotta come up with a title for this *****. Copying and pasting the e-mail subject line was just too easy, I guess.

 

[Mayfly]

Re: Possibly the most awesomest college band performance ever

Anytime a marching band is called "The Human Jukebox," I believe it trumps any other band.

 

[imjustagirl2]

Re: Possibly the most awesomest college band performance ever

Eh, firm believer in HBCU bands being much like popular music: a personal choice.

I'm going to go watch some Jackson State. Never seen them.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

Music from video games? Yes, that's pretty cool. Much better than the usual tripe you get from a marching band.

 

[Flash]

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

 

[Cape_Fear]

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.

 

[heytkachuk]

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

 

[EmbassyRow]

The SMB ending is absolutely perfect.

 

[Big Buckin' agate_monkey]

I disagree.

THIS is a band performance (2003). Hell, just search for 'grambling band' and you'll find 100 things better than that.

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

 

[Del_B_Vista]

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.

 

[Sam Mills 51]

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 ...

 

[imjustagirl2]

I disagree.

THIS is a band performance (2003). Hell, just search for 'grambling band' and you'll find 100 things better than that.

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

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.