TX Suh-nare

Normally , since they make better marching shows, but today since I'm taking a girl I really like on our first date today. What goes better w/ peanut butter, jelly, or spit?

Good marchers=the army

Hablar con nosotros. Vamos a apernderte con su repaso de espanol. What's better, a great marcher who can't play an instrument, or a great musician who can't march?

In Grand Nationals, the prelims setup is carefully thought out. Most local bands go on Thursday, when bands a certain distance from Indy (I want to say 1,000 miles minimum) get a Friday performance date. That way, TX and other "foreign" bands get a day to rest up before they perform.

The white is a good look, but it's kinda hard to imgine a Phantom Regiment in spotless white getups. When I first saw them way back in yesteryear, they were in the all black FJMs, and man, those black uniforms sold the show for them. They fit perfectly with a PR image. I guess I'm one of the few that liked the khaki, though. Those looked good.

Overall I like the look you presented. Not a big fan of white aussies, though. It's defidently a look you can grow to love, though. Considering it'll get pretty darned hot up un SA, subbing the black for some white would be practical.

Good choice. If you ever watch the lot vids of Star...ridiculous. They were headed by HANDS DOWN, the greatest percussion director of all time, Thom Hannum. To look at his track record, he also headed the Garfield Cadets in 1987 (hint hint, still only DCI percussion section to get a PERFECT SCORE) Yeah. I would bring them back for the same reasons as I would the Lancers. Very innovative, very cutting edge, but not too overboard with their ideas.

I know one solution for our double reeds during marching season is to get into mallet instruments. You could even upgrade to drumline if you wish. Heck, some of our best section leaders were bassoonists.

I would say to bring back the Bridgemen so we could get some hippies to trip out and make a show, but then I realized that's possibly what the Cadets have been doing for two years, so I'll reconsider. (not really sure if they're really dosing, but I will say most sober people don't think about Alice in Wonderland meets a Catholic school girl) I will say to resurrect 27th Lancers, though. That was a corps that, like the Vanguard, was on the cutting edge of it's time, without blowing it too out of proportion, like Bridgemen did. That corps introduced the ever famous, "whiplash drill" that was brought to Garfield in 1982. The next years, well, you know (THREE-PEAT) and it stayed there under George Hopkin's leadership. We could use a corps on the edge, but not too far out there these days.

I think they still have one some recently. I mean, the guy who just won the DCI Fred Sanford High Percussion Award teaches at UNT. Paul Rennick, you are a drumming "G"

Preach my brother!

Defidently. I'm dressing up as me! (Man, I suck at jokes!) Have y'all seen any examples of possible UIL politics? Just wondering.

You put your B-S-T (blood-sweat-tears) into this show, and now it's being discarded just because it outlived it's competitive usefulness. Your baby just died. I'm sorry for your loss. Speaking on that, have any of you actually bled in uniform?

I'm one of those guys that enjoys band too much. Especially marching band. I had a cool start, though. I went to my first DCI contest when I was five (ExSIGHTment of SOUND in Rice Stadium, 1995), and I've wanted to drum since then. Here I am, eleven years later, a veteran of my high school snare line, playing under one of the guys that was in my favorite corps that night, Phantom Regiment. I hate having to do the hour-and-a-half double stroke rolls in band camp, but once the music starts to take shape and the drill gets learned, it's really just non-stop fun from there. For you guys that don't know how to make band more enjoyable, just think about who inspired you to do what you do, and how you can do the same for someone else. That's what's kept me going!

Dude, it's almost over? Oh, crap! Doesn't it feel like you just started band camp two weeks ago?

It's one of the Adolescent Laws. Only be able to remember the things you'll never need in life. When do you think England should have stopped producing James Bond movies?

I'm confused...I sent the pdf File in the mail, but I think I still need to RSVP, bt I don't know how. HELP!

It's this one guy in the pit. He's a junior, and he's the guy that all the girls love since he's so sweet, but he tries to be annoying, and he's brought out the worst in me on too many occasions. He's so annoying, every guy, and some of the girls, in the band can't stand him. Oddly enough, the guy who had that spot before became or band's vice president...Irony

For a while, our percussion section constructed, "The Underground," which was basically a little room up in the roof (yes, it's name is the Underground even though it's in the celing.) It had a table, lights, a pad, several pair of sticks, you name it! Legend even has it there was a cooler up there acting as a refrigerator! Somehow, the fire marshall found out, the percussion director yelled our heads off about it (this was my freshman year, so I never got to enjoy it), and we had to get all the stuff out. Some of us still know the code on the door that acted as the entry way, though. But there's no talk to rebuild it. We just hide in there and scare people when they walk by it.

My toilet got clogged (No, seriously. It did. It sucks!)

They had "Music of the Night" in there...Dude! They shined at Arlington!

Alomst non-existant. It's actually our percussion director's office. He just stole a big practice room, and we chill in there, eat lunch, watch DCI movies, pad it up. It's the coolest hangout in town!

I hope so. I'm taking it Saturday. If Jesus really does hate the Yankees, does he hate me since I'm half-Yankee?

Attitude. What seperates good marching bands from great ones? Their vibe, their approach, the way the crowd percieves them. The well-known bands have the ability to use that. Some do it better than others, but all the bands you know and love have some way they carry themselves.

On the ride home to H-Town after Arlington this year. I had fallen in and out of sleep for half the ride, but I finally got a good hour's worth. When I woke up, I was taped to my chair. Some pit punk's girlfriend brought msking tape and they confined me to my chair. Freaks! They even video-taped it! That tenor is gonna GET IT!