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Just watched the new FMB DVD. Very cool presentation, looks well done. Too bad the sound recording quality kinda sucked with the weather, though, especially on the Kickin' Brass and Bon Jovi shows.

One note I do have on the DVD; I don't like how we always have footage of us playing at the skull session on our videos. Its like we're conceding that toswho mb is a much greater entity than the FMB. I personally felt this year that for the second consecutive trip to Columbus for us, we completely showed up their half-time show. If we had to include the skull session, why not include one of our pre-game tail-gate lot shows, like the one before the KSU game with Joey Pero?


The skull session is a beautiful thing and I was honored to be a part of it this year. However, why should we pine after what they have instead of making our own show just as good and just as well steeped in pride and tradition?

The Niz wrote:One note I do have on the DVD; I don't like how we always have footage of us playing at the skull session on our videos. Its like we're conceding that toswho mb is a much greater entity than the FMB. I personally felt this year that for the second consecutive trip to Columbus for us, we completely showed up their half-time show. If we had to include the skull session, why not include one of our pre-game tail-gate lot shows, like the one before the KSU game with Joey Pero?


The skull session is a beautiful thing and I was honored to be a part of it this year. However, why should we pine after what they have instead of making our own show just as good and just as well steeped in pride and tradition?

I have no problem with it being included, seeing as it WAS an FMB performance, so long as other shows don't get cut out for it.

Well all the other pre game performances outside the Doyt are FMB performances. The high school band shows, the tail-gate lot, and pre games are all FMB performances. I completely agree that the pregames that were cut needed to be because they were disgraceful.

I will also concede that the crowd at the Skull session was the biggest crowd we played for all year. The brainwashing around the state just hit me full on this year. I had always been a stout buckeye fan until this year, but I have been rubbed the wrong way and can't stand anything about them anymore.

I suppose I just feel like stirring sh!t up.

The Niz wrote:The brainwashing around the state just hit me full on this year. I had always been a stout buckeye fan until this year, but I have been rubbed the wrong way and can't stand anything about them anymore.

Welcome to the darkside my friend!

The Niz wrote:Well all the other pre game performances outside the Doyt are FMB performances. The high school band shows, the tail-gate lot, and pre games are all FMB performances. I completely agree that the pregames that were cut needed to be because they were disgraceful.

I will also concede that the crowd at the Skull session was the biggest crowd we played for all year. The brainwashing around the state just hit me full on this year. I had always been a stout buckeye fan until this year, but I have been rubbed the wrong way and can't stand anything about them anymore.

I suppose I just feel like stirring sh!t up.

Great post, Niz!

The Niz wrote:Well all the other pre game performances outside the Doyt are FMB performances. The high school band shows, the tail-gate lot, and pre games are all FMB performances. I completely agree that the pregames that were cut needed to be because they were disgraceful.

I will also concede that the crowd at the Skull session was the biggest crowd we played for all year. The brainwashing around the state just hit me full on this year. I had always been a stout buckeye fan until this year, but I have been rubbed the wrong way and can't stand anything about them anymore.

I suppose I just feel like stirring sh!t up.

Atta boy! As goofy stated, welcome to the dark side.

Put this in perspective, I don't mind the school itself other than the perception that they are the only deserving school of the higher education teet off of the fat sow of a state government. I'm more put off by the fans of said institution - especially when they question whether I was born in Ohio since I'm no fan of the school.

Story time: I wore my Harvard sweatshirt to work one day. I didn't GO to Harvard, but I did get drunk with a score of their alumns several years ago. So, one of my coworkers calls me a "fraud" because I was wearing this sweatshirt and didn't go to school there. "Um, dear" [she was a she] "Didn't you wear an Ohio State sweatshirt last week but graduated from Akron?"

"Well, that's different, I just like their sports teams."

"You do know Harvard has a good hockey program. I'm going to get a Cornell sweatshirt next."

Sheesh.

Rightupinthere wrote:Story time: I wore my Harvard sweatshirt to work one day. I didn't GO to Harvard, but I did get drunk with a score of their alumns several years ago. So, one of my coworkers calls me a "fraud" because I was wearing this sweatshirt and didn't go to school there. "Um, dear" [she was a she] "Didn't you wear an Ohio State sweatshirt last week but graduated from Akron?"

"Well, that's different, I just like their sports teams."

"You do know Harvard has a good hockey program. I'm going to get a Cornell sweatshirt next."

Sheesh.

To go off of what RUIT said, I've grown accustomed to not liking the school as a whole for the simple reason that it tends to change people's perspective of other schools in this state. I've had several friends who were really cool to hang out with in high school, but since they've started to attend said State Institute, they've become real @$$es in what seems to be every aspect of their lives. I've met better, true hardcore Ohio State fans that are nicer than several of my former friends. I guess I've grown to hate Ohio State in respect to more than just their athletics. When it comes to fans, the majority of them are pretty cool and I know that they just like giving me a hard time about them beating us in football.

I have a huge beef with the supposed bdbitl; their pregame show is the only thing that makes them what they are, and its not even close to the best one I've seen: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRk8Dh4nzrE The script ohio has nothing on the floating lions. In the last three years I have not seen or heard of a single decent half-time show from toswho.

Don't get me wrong, the skull session is a beautiful thing and I have the utmost respect for what it has accomplished. If you've never seen it, it can be awe inspiring. As I sit here and type I finally figured out the reason for showing our footage at the event, aside from their own fight song(s), we completely blew them away there too. I guess that is a pretty noteworthy performance now that I think of it.


I'm gonna go work on my front flip some more now.

LOL Mark, I have a Harvard sweatshirt also, but I just wear it to look smart.

I just noticed something really awesome during the first pregame recording; During the Alma Mater, it gets VERY overcast right at the beginning. However, when we reach "for our dear Bowling Green, when all is..." the clowds lift and the band is lit up by the sun. The sun and the crescendo in the song match almost perfectly. It gave me goosebumps.

Thanks for posting the link to that pregame. I had never seen that one before. I still think I like the OSU pregame a little better, but this one is sweet. I'm more into the show band type, like my high school was, than the FMB roll stepping at halftimes. I guess that's why I like these a little better.

The Niz wrote: Don't get me wrong, the skull session is a beautiful thing and I have the utmost respect for what it has accomplished. If you've never seen it, it can be awe inspiring.

Awe Inspiring? This Illinois-born BG alum has only been to one Skull Session (September, 2003), but I didn't see anything that was that that different there from the pre-game concerts that college bands give at their respective schools across the country. It wasn't bad, but it certainly isn't unique.

I thought the Band DVD was really good, I think personally that it might be a little better than last year. Personally I loved to watch it and remember the fun times of marching in the swamp for a field........... GOOD TIMES!!!

falcongirl17 wrote:I thought the Band DVD was really good, I think personally that it might be a little better than last year. Personally I loved to watch it and remember the fun times of marching in the swamp for a field........... GOOD TIMES!!!

If anyone didn't love marching in the swamp of what was once the practice fields then they really aren't true band geeks! We got done what we needed to, regardless of the conditions of our field. Hell it got us prepared for the mud bowl performance!