Opposing team MB uniforms-Awards.

mikeyb3d · Post by **mikeyb3d** » Thu Jul 07, 2005 2:35 pm

Well, I can respect your opinion. However, I dont think that a college band should be DCI. Because well, they're there to entertain, not "orchestra on the field [boredom]"... But that's just my opinion.

It's the Journey... · Post by **It's the Journey...** » Thu Jul 07, 2005 7:33 pm

College marching band should be about more than entertaining. They should be a teaching tool. they should be used to give music education majors experience. They should be used to expose the members to new styles of music and marching. There is more than one way to do things and members of ANY college marching band should experience as many of those options as possible.

MiamiBando · Post by **MiamiBando** » Thu Jul 07, 2005 7:52 pm

The FMB is good at what it does. It is top notch(though, a step below a certain group I'm involved with... but then I'm biased

. j/k) Orchestra on the field is a stupid thing to say. Just because a show isn't put with dancing drill, it doesn't mean people don't like it. Marching band is there to entertain, in part. It is there to be the pride and spirit of the University. It is to represent all that is good about the university. It is about putting on a show that is musically challenging and showing off the talents of the students and people involved. If that means putting Mozart on the field, then deal with it. Cheer for the people working. Be happy for them. Stand and cheer, because they are pouring their hearts out on the field. THAT is what it is about.

Leave it ALL on the field. If you can't say you have done that, then you aren't giving enough.

FliccGirl · Post by **FliccGirl** » Thu Jul 07, 2005 9:13 pm

'Sides, as for "dancing drills", they may get the crowd cheering, but they aren't all that impressive most of the time. I forget who told me this... someone said that at the GMAC this past year, a couple Memphis fans (whose band was the dancing type) said they wished their band was more like OUR band.

Of course, there will always be differing opinions.

MaggotMan09 · Post by **MaggotMan09** » Thu Jul 07, 2005 9:31 pm

Personally I despise dancing drills as much as I do park-and-blow. I see no point to either one. Also I do agree that MB is supposed to be a teaching tool. I learned more about classroom management and pacing from my last year in MB than I did from my Ed Psych class.

1987alum · Post by **1987alum** » Fri Jul 08, 2005 1:42 pm

FliccGirl wrote:'Sides, as for "dancing drills", they may get the crowd cheering, but they aren't all that impressive most of the time. I forget who told me this... someone said that at the GMAC this past year, a couple Memphis fans (whose band was the dancing type) said they wished their band was more like OUR band.

Flicc:

You guys won the halftime battle in Mobile, hands down.

MiamiBando · Post by **MiamiBando** » Fri Jul 08, 2005 1:43 pm

Of course the FMB won hands down. How could y'all have done anyless? You are the FMB, the pride and spirit of Bowling Green State University!

bgmaggot00 · Post by **bgmaggot00** » Fri Jul 08, 2005 1:51 pm

Flicc:

You guys won the halftime battle in Mobile, hands down.[/quote]

Well, if you ventured out of the underside of the stadium into the downpour to watch pregame, we dominated in that as well. Memphis' pregame was simply BAD. I do agree with their director's decision to not march the woodwinds for pregame as we did (it ruins the pads of woodwinds), but I found it odd that the WW's in their band were the ones screwing up the marching the worst. Whatever, as soon as I accepted the fact that I was soaked to the bone, that game was great. Adios, Jeff

MiamiBando · Post by **MiamiBando** » Fri Jul 08, 2005 3:03 pm

Yikes, it suck to march in rain.

One of the only times my HS band got a standing ovation from the crowd...
We were playing our arch-rival. Their band took the field with their raincoats on. They played in a block.. The field was a disaster waiting to happen.
The seniors told our director that tha band voted to march full dress uniform, so he had a parent run up to the band room and get the plumes, and had another collect the raincoats. It was the last game of the season, and it was the last time the uniforms were ever going to be used.

When we took the field in full uniform, it started to down pour. No joke, it poured through our entire show. But because we were marching our whole show, and not using the park and blow block, they stayed. I have never seen the stands that full(Other than when Miami's TBS and KKPsi chapters sent students, and a pep band to a game last year.) No one fell, they got it on video, and it was the best we had ever done the show. We did the "Bond, James Bond. Agent 007" show. I lost a shoe, one girl lost part of a school owned flute. The woodwinds pads were soaked, and we were soaked. But we didn't care, we played our hearts out. When we finished with our ".... And Down!" the crowd immediately was on it's feet cheering, clapping and screaming. They cheered more for the band that day, then they did for the football team.(We lost 28-34, and lost the Rotary Bowl.) The announcer came on the PA and asked the band to move to our block formation, and we did. Our director had our snare start the roll off, and we played our version of "On Wisconsin." The crowd stayed standing and cheered and clapped through it. As we left the field, the cheerleaders held up signs they had made for us. It was truly the most amazing band experience I've ever had. Better than the bowl game, better than pregame! Our cheerleaders coach quickly came up with and taught the cheerleaders a cheer, and they did it for the band. How many schools, especially high schools, have cheers written for them? It makes me smile to think about it....

Any ways, that's my marching in the rain experience.

8)

1987alum · Post by **1987alum** » Fri Jul 08, 2005 3:14 pm

bgmaggot00 wrote:Flicc:

You guys won the halftime battle in Mobile, hands down.

Well, if you ventured out of the underside of the stadium into the downpour to watch pregame, we dominated in that as well. Memphis' pregame was simply BAD. I do agree with their director's decision to not march the woodwinds for pregame as we did (it ruins the pads of woodwinds), but I found it odd that the WW's in their band were the ones screwing up the marching the worst. Whatever, as soon as I accepted the fact that I was soaked to the bone, that game was great. Adios, Jeff[/quote]

Unfortunately, we missed the pre-game.

MiamiBando - the FMB didn't march in the rain in Mobile. They marched in what I can safely say was the most intense torrential downpour I have ever witnessed first hand. I remember saying to Noah that it wasn't just that it was raining or raining hard, but that it seemed like each raindrop was supersized, like each raindrop was a medium-sized water balloon.

MiamiBando · Post by **MiamiBando** » Fri Jul 08, 2005 3:35 pm

I obviously wasn't there, I was doing my Indy Bowl thing, and it was a beautiful, and sunny 64 degrees in Bossier City/Shreveport. If I'd had a swim suit I'd have gone swimming, and some people did!

That really sucks, but I'm not trying to compare, I was simply saying that I know what that feels like, and I was telling you my experience. Sharing my experience through the power of Mac. The rain for that game was pretty hard, at pregame, our team came down the hill and none of them fell(the stadium is in the shape of a horseshoe, and it is a natural grass stadium. they just leveled out the field at the bottom, added stands, etc. It is REALLY awesome to look at.) but McClain's team slide/rolled/fell down the hill.(The hill is VERY steep, by very steep I mean like 70 degree down angle at points. I fell down it, but it awesome to sled/table ride down. Noah would get a kick outta it I think.) It was the funniest thing I'd seen in a while. They were all muddy and looked trashy before the game started.

Imagine a 6'1, 240 lbs lineman slipping and taking out half of his team. There are three other teams I'd love to see that happen to... OhioU, Marshall, and UC.

bgmaggot00 · Post by **bgmaggot00** » Fri Jul 08, 2005 4:35 pm

MiamiBando wrote: I have never seen the stands that full(Other than when Miami's TBS and KKPsi chapters sent students, and a pep band to a game last year.)

YES!

Sorry, I had to applaud the Psi/Sigma reference, as plenty of others here did as well!

MiamiBando · Post by **MiamiBando** » Fri Jul 08, 2005 4:41 pm

Yeah, at Miami we do a thing called third quarter travelling band, the FMB prolly does something similar. We run into the stands and play to the fans, and we specifically play the fight song to the other teams fans.

We did that at the HS game, and they LOVED IT. Heck, they announce it the "Miami University Redskins Fraternity and Sorority Band." I laughed at that, my HS's mascot is the Indians, so we played the scalp song, as well as the Tomahawk.(The school is a wannabe FSU, right down to the arrows for amazing plays.) I can't tell you how many people were there, my HS won the day, 23-19. Many a fan in the stands were Miami alums... so they kept asking if we'd play Love and Honor. I had to laugh at that.

When they realized a collegiate band was gonna be there, people were on their phones caling their friends, and telling them to get down to Richards Memorial Field. Another great game.

Back to my thought at the top...
My sister was the FC, and she and some other students who had sibs int the MUMB, along with my help and their sibs help, got some or Miami's stand cheers. The crowd loved those, especially when they ran screaming into the stands, immitating us. That is agreat feeling, and that is what college band is about. Teaching, and earning and sharing pride, musicianship.

FliccGirl · Post by **FliccGirl** » Fri Jul 08, 2005 10:28 pm

Actually, we DON'T do that. It's been discussed at length amongst the bandies... in a "that would be cool" sort of way.

And as for woodwinds in the rain, we don't ever do it except actually on the field for performances. In the stands and for practice, they're away.

With the way our music is arranged, it wouldn't sound right with just brass for a performance, much as I know many of you would like to argue.

Some bands could pull it off (like Memphis?), but not the "symphonic-sounding FMB."

MaggotMan09 · Post by **MaggotMan09** » Wed Jul 13, 2005 8:54 pm

FliccGirl wrote:And as for woodwinds in the rain, we don't ever do it except actually on the field for performances. In the stands and for practice, they're away.

With the way our music is arranged, it wouldn't sound right with just brass for a performance, much as I know many of you would like to argue. Some bands could pull it off (like Memphis?), but not the "symphonic-sounding FMB."

Yeah, but we need to tell the clarinets and flutes to play louder, you can't hear them on the DVD. The only woodwinds I can hear are the pics and saxes.