SE++ March!

Butler For Life #1

So SE++, I've been listening to a lot of music recently, and I've realized something.

Marching bands are great.

Whether it's the inspiring tones, or the energetic high stepping, nothing is as exciting as a marching band. Maybe I loved them so much because I dreamed of being a trombone player in one when I was a kid (another dream gone thanks to short arms).

But regardless of arm size, I think we all like marching bands!

Whether they're cheering a victory...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnkOkraJXK4
(The best college fight song ever, John Phillip Sousa said so)

Dressing up in silly yet awesome costumes...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEV1hk_c51w

or getting run over...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fZCCAqoSwY&feature=fvst

They're always fun to watch!

Tell me about bands, SE++!

BugBoy

for a second I was wondering what you were doing creating a march thread in october

but this makes more sense

Knob

oh look we can play an instrument and walk at the same time, look at us we are so cool snort snort snort

mensch-o-matic

does this count!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDMGXZL6-f8

Butler For Life #1

It doesn't seem to involve trombones or fight songs, but it is awesome, so it gets a pass.

Sterica

I was in marching band for two years.

meh

zucchini

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZtCZOiZ-cg

natek

march...madness?
but that isn't until march!

I would buy marching band music if it was all instrumental versions of my favorite songs

Sterica

All we have no is October Obliviousness

Stale

BACK OF THE BUS BANDITS
















BACK OF THE BUS BANDITS!!!! LOOK AT MY DICK!!!!

natek

did the band folks show each other their dicks on the bus, too?
I thought that was only the track team

Baidol

I don't remember that part of the band bus.

#pipe

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7k6VYGtm8g

Noisymunk

Stale wrote:

BACK OF THE BUS BANDITS
















BACK OF THE BUS BANDITS!!!! LOOK AT MY DICK!!!!

FRONT OF THE BUS SUCKS!

IT'S HOT/COLD ON THIS BUS TURN ON/OFF THE HEAT/AC.

I marched U.R.I. drumline for 2 years. Played drumset in pep band for 4. I miss playing in a drumline, I don't miss strapping on 40 pounds of quads and walking around dressed like a fool.

Baidol

Walking around dressed like a fool comes with the territory.

L|ama

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcMXBSI-0rI

yw

VALVEjunkie

@tommy2hands thread

neville

BugBoy wrote:

for a second I was wondering what you were doing creating a march thread in october

but this makes more sense

Twin MindMelt was out of sync?

neville

Baidol wrote:

I don't remember that part of the band bus.

me either

Baidol

CaptainK, too.

A high school band was on campus this weekend practicing. Three years after graduating college I had to restrain myself from yelling at the kids to stay on their damned platforms when moving backwards.

Chimera

That after school music video has reminded me of the Destination Unknown music video.... and also resulted in that song getting stuck in my head.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yg0yzURme_M

BugBoy

neville wrote:

BugBoy wrote:

for a second I was wondering what you were doing creating a march thread in october

but this makes more sense

Twin MindMelt was out of sync?

it's these tachyons/a disturbance in the force

Duke Phillips

I was in marching band for all of high school.

Then I went into drum corps for a year. So much better than marching band. It's so much more intense than marching band. For instance, instead of 2-3 hour rehearsals after school, you would have 8-12 hour rehearsals each day in the summer unless you had a show that night where you'd only practice for like 6 or 7 hours. I ended up losing 30 lbs from the middle of June to the 4th of July. By the end of tour I lost somewhere close to 40 pounds. The drumline always had it so much worse though

I marched with the Troopers in 2008 in DCI, Drum Corps International. Here's the closer of the show from a camera taped to the carrier of the center snare. I'm the tuba in the blue shorts and white stripe down the middle at 0:43-1:20 or so.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szPayMkj8do

neville

BugBoy wrote:

neville wrote:

BugBoy wrote:

for a second I was wondering what you were doing creating a march thread in october

but this makes more sense

Twin MindMelt was out of sync?

it's these tachyons/a disturbance in the force

A glitch in the matrix?

BugBoy

it is all of these things at once

SkankPlaya

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VP0Nv_ivTaw

Opty

Chimera wrote:

That after school music video has reminded me of the Destination Unknown music video.... and also resulted in that song getting stuck in my head.

[video]

Man I've been trying to remember this song for ages now. Thanks!

To contribute to the thread some, I was in marching band for all 4 years of high school. We got 2nd in the state competition a couple of times...one year we would have gotten 1st except one judge screwed us bad enough that they changed the judging rules the next year to prevent it from happening again. Man were we bitter about that.

Orikaeshigitae

paging @Captain K

TheySlashThem

Duke Phillips wrote:

I was in marching band for all of high school.

Then I went into drum corps for a year. So much better than marching band. It's so much more intense than marching band. For instance, instead of 2-3 hour rehearsals after school, you would have 8-12 hour rehearsals each day in the summer unless you had a show that night where you'd only practice for like 6 or 7 hours. I ended up losing 30 lbs from the middle of June to the 4th of July. By the end of tour I lost somewhere close to 40 pounds. The drumline always had it so much worse though

I marched with the Troopers in 2008 in DCI, Drum Corps International. Here's the closer of the show from a camera taped to the carrier of the center snare. I'm the tuba in the blue shorts and white stripe down the middle at 0:43-1:20 or so.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szPayMkj8do

I played one of those tubazookas all through highschool

they are for real men

sousaphones are for sloppy vaginas

Duke Phillips

That is the most correct opinion one can have concerning bands, drum corps, and instruments in general.

Shorty

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJKythlXAIY

Nirya

The USC fight song (and their band) is terrible and should never be linked under any circumstances.

However, I do enjoy most things that the Stanford band has done, even if they aren't musically talented. And they've made "All Right Now" their de-facto fight song, which is never a bad thing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IhLOYr5f_M

Nirya

Oh, and here is my high school band (back when I was in high school) doing a Lion King field show. It isn't the greatest thing but it was all right.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSXwXVHuupw

Arang

one time at band camp we were scheduled to do a march-through of this theme park with another band

everybody got into full wooly, itchy, hot-as-shit uniform, lined up, warmed up, ready to go, only to be told there's been a scheduling mixup and we can't move for another 45 minutes, during which everyone has to stay in formation in case minds are changed and we need to go, same thing also went for the other band lining up next to us

pretty soon people are reeling and bottles of water are being passed around with the kind of desperation usually reserved for dogs trapped in hot cars, when suddenly there's a loud thump and we all turn to see one of the other band's trumpet line is on the ground, and a hushed murmur went up:

"I hope he's dead"

B_R

I don't like marching bands for historic reasons.

Tommy2Hands

back of the bus is the throne and you all are my bitches

now we're gonna sing kreayshawn for the next half an hour

I hope for your sake you know the lyrics

Indie Winter

we didn't have a school sponsored marching band

we had a school sponsored metal band

and during our last year they met up with 3-4 other school sponsored metal bands from the area and had a battle of the bands

our schools are better

Lost Salient

I would be behind this thread, but...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5pgrKSwFJE

Lord Dave

Nirya wrote:

The USC fight song (and their band) is terrible and should never be linked under any circumstances.

However, the Stanford band aren't musically talented. And they've made "All Right Now" their de-facto fight song

thenshewaslike

I spent four years in my high school's marching band. The first three years we had a tightly wound, music-stand-and-shoe-throwing dictator, and it was great. Then we got a 23 year old idiot who wanted everyone to be his friend. We weren't able to place respectably at all once he took over, and I spent the year trying to break him.

Then my college's band was far too insane for me, so I gave it up.

Sheri

This is a thread for me!