MARCHING BAND: IT'S DIFFERENT!

:sound of two hands clapping:

(european style)

The FAMU band is athletically gifted.
The tOSU band works hard.

I will bet you any money that the band at FAMU has to put in more hours preparing for gameday than the football team. My wife sets great store by her time in the Cal Band but even she admits that YouTube clip is just too hardcore for words.

Sadly, the Pride of the Sunshine was never featured in a Trick Daddy video.

When I see a marching band I don’t see black or white. I see only nerd.

um… turns out japanese bands kind of kick ass.

Perhaps not BDoc, but we did perform at halftime of a Bucs-Bears game during my tenure. And as we left the field for the third quarter to start…who was waiting in the tunnel and shaking each band member’s hand as we shambled by?

That’s right.

Ditka.

P.S. As we waited to take the field I also got to stand thisclose behind the bench where both Walter Payton and Neal Anderson were sitting. Band geekdom has it’s nebulous rewards at times.

zzgator, you got to shake hands with Ditka? All I ever got to shake hands with was a sweaty guy impersonating Chevy Chase as Fletch at a basketball game. And also Ron Zook at an Outback Bowl pep rally. I’m still not sure which was more prestigious.

and where, exactly, does the stanford band fit in this discussion?

One of my most treasured band memories, Dave…and he was even wearing braces/suspenders with little teddy bears on them…no lie.

And yes…I’m a girl.

I’ve seen the FAMU band at the Honda Battle of the Bands in the GA Dome before, and they’re quite the spectacle. Loud, precise, energetic, everything.

Another fringe benefit of college marching band is the free swag. I’ll never have to buy another white T-shirt or water bottle again, because I’ve got enough to outfit a small army. Bowls do give out cooler stuff on occasion, like the Humanitarian Bowl in 2003. They gave the entire band very nice parkas.

The Stanford Band is like that drunk, unmarried uncle that’s the life of the party. He’s having a blast and everyone laughs at his antics, but nobody wants to get caught in the blast radius when things go awry.

The FAMU band has some tight dance moves, but they are sloppy musically.

#9, #13 – I can’t find the link but I will reprise a fellow alum’s description of the Stanford Marching Band: “a cry for help with instruments.”

1. - The difference isn’t so much athleticism vs lack of pigment, it’s Big 10 anti-speed.

I just googled “FAMU white” to see if there were any white people there. Google replied by asking if i meant “TAMU white”

One thing that’s abundantly clear is that FAMU’s choreographer owns a fuck lion.

I’m saddened that Tracy Morgan is not on SNL to spoof this, even though it’d be just like his bit on phone dialing from 30 Rock:

“See, white folks dial like this: ‘beep, beep, boop, beep’ and brothers dial a phone like this: ‘boop beep beep boop’”.

It’s funnier to watch than it is to type.

Rev. Wright’s comments make me think of a conversation that might result that would be akin to one of the all-time classic Seinfeld lines:

“So this offends you as a white person?”
“No! It’s offends me as a comedian!”

Stick to preachin’. Leave the stand-up to Chris Rock.

P.S. Seriously… a side bar ad for Alabama ring tones?

You can’t allow things like that and then complain about the Auburn/Alabama thread jacks.

UF played FAMU a few years ago, stadium was packed. Then, reprising a favorite quote from Drumline, “Halftime is gametime”…
Needless to say there were 50,000 less people there to see th 2nd half of football…

At FAMU, not only do the drum majors get more ass than the QB but they need five of them to keep up with demand.

On that note, I would say the Reconstruction may have gone a little too far.

…..this one time, at band camp…….

BTW, did anyone notice that the closing song was the theme to “Good Times”?

Al Groh should rot in hell for insisting on getting rid of the UVA Pep Band and replacing it with the crappy one they have now. Of course, they had been banned from marching at about every ACC skool.

One of my roommates during my Sophomore year was in the Marching Chiefs. I have never met a more depraved group of people in my life than the trolls and whales he would invite over. Everything was a really bad sexual innuendo to them and, if I recall correctly, they were actively trying to spawn a race of supernerds as everyone in the band had banged everyone else in the band regardless of gender or was actively attempting to do so. I remember making a lot of jokes about the weeping baby Jesus and pillars of salt back in those dark days.

I can only describe it as living with Stiffler guest starring on Friends, with a raging case of hallitosis, and minus the MILF.

Please tell me you’re joking when you say Jeremiah Wright is Muslim. Was the giant cross behind him not enough of a clue as to his religion?

Mostly, the GT marching band just binge drinks. Or, at least they did before the new director started kicking people out for drinking during games (not kidding). My last year in band, I marched maybe two games semi-sober, the rest tanked. I did keg stands in full uniform at tailgates for chrissakes.

The turning point was when, the year after I quit, some freshman got piss drunk in the hotel in Blacksburg (2006 GT-VT game), dropped trou in the middle of the hall, and pissed on someone’s door. What a bastard.

illegal immigrant @ 28 – being unfunny is non-denominational.

@29 Leave it to Georgia Tech’s band to make drinking uncool and nerdy. Fess up, Chris, you quit because the new director outlawed tickle piles.

7 in a row, nerds.

So, would “Drumline” be to marching bands, as “The Program” was to Div-1 college football players?
Did anyone die trying to emulate “Drumline”?
No.
Did anyone die trying to emulate “The Program”? Yes….I will give you this, people in the band may be smarter when it comes to dealing with traffic and whether to lay in the road at night or not, but as far as band members trying to procreate, well, thats a problem…..we dont need another 100 Bill Gates

Michigan’s band is deceptively fast.

i like to smoke weed

@ #22 Boozy —

I think it’s the same story wherever FAMU plays. Miami game, probably 15 years ago when they were still Da U, season opener I think, Miami’s up about 40 at halftime. Nobody had left. FAMU band takes the field, starts, plays, finishes, everyone heads for the doors. Mass exodus.

@31

Joe, tickle piles at Georgia Tech are a tradition. As such, try not to debase the one psudoerotic reason for matriculating there.

Hey ZZGATOR . . if you’re still reading this thread I want you to know I took time out from classlessly dancing in your endzone to stop in and say “hey”. Aaron Murray says “hey” too. We thought you might be missing us.

As a FAMU alum I went to school with some white people in the band. The Marching 100 will take anyone who is talented enough to pass the tryouts.

“I just googled “FAMU white” to see if there were any white people there. Google replied by asking if i meant “TAMU white”

Comment by Shane — April 30, 2008 @ 12:22 pm"

MCG…you thought wrong.

@31
You must be Joe Cox. Who told u to take stafford’s cock
out of your ass? Tickle piles @ Dega rule