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So last night at the football game we played a school called "San Diego"... pretty big band. I dont know the exact numbers, but im guessing maybe around 60 or 70? Every time we would play a song, not even 10 seconds into the song, they would start playing the same song back at us. It would realy screw us up to kus they have more than twice as many pple as us. .... i mean, if your gonna play the same song back at us, at least wait till were done playing the song. This went on with most of the songs we did. I just think it was a little un neccesary kus they know they can play louder or over power us, especialy when thay have more than twice as many pple as us. At least our football team won B)

Anything like this ever happen to anyone else?

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That's pretty bad i'm glad most bands can't overpower us around here i know down south they make em bigger but for my area we're pretty big. Anyways back to the point i agree the BD was being very irresponsible allowing his kids to do that it's just unsportmanslike

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Well, I do agree that the other BD was in the wrong. There was a life lesson taught: In this world there are people who are pricks. And that the "little guy" (smaller band) got picked on by the bigger bully.

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Song battles can be fun when it's done in good spirit, but it does get out of hand when one band tries to overplay the other. The ones that lose is the audience, some of whom actually like hearing the bands play.

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wow thtas not even cool...what a tard bd they must of had

 

 

well..#'s dont always matter

 

 

 

our girls basketball team won state..last year and so the mayor had invited us...and 2 other schools who had won state for something..

 

 

us and another scool brought bands..and well

 

 

we are a good # of 200 (we dont try to blast or over play...heck we could care less what the other band is playing)....but the other band was about 30..( u know those bands that all they do is blast and go to competitions like battle of the bands)...well they had 1 susaphone (sp?)...and well that 1 susa was able to severly blast to the point of covering our band..(we dont try to match them...we have no reason to prove to them anything)..well either way...i feel sorry for that susas lips...i mean he was playing so freakin loud u can hear his bell rattling

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well they had 1 susaphone (sp?)...and well that 1 susa was able to severly blast to the point of covering our band..(we dont try to match them...we have no reason to prove to them anything)..well either way...i feel sorry for that susas lips...i mean he was playing so freakin loud u can hear his bell rattling

:blink:

 

 

 

 

LMAO. thats freakin halarious. :lol:

  • 3 weeks later...
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i love Hey Song battles! that's the onl song we'll do it with and it's usually Clear Lake. we usually end up not playing after the 4th round and doing the whole "WE GOT SPIRIT" thing, but we'll see how it goes this year, we're playing them on tuesday.

  • 2 weeks later...
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We never have song battles and we dont really care about the other band and sometimes the football game. Our drumline just play cadences and we just party the whole time especially on one of the cadences were each person on the drumline battle each other.

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The only experience I've seen with song "battles" per say, is the other band playing back "Hey Baby," or the occasional trombone section that's also pinned down a rendition of low rider. But hey, they don't have a crazy **** sousaphone joining in, adding sparatic improv for comedic relief, so it's all good.

 

Funny sousaphone story, though: I was at a football game for another school in town, and they were playing Spruce high school. Now, Spruce was a good ol' inner city Dallas school, but the 30 person band was pretty damned entertaining. Not by quality, exactly, but by production value. When the band uniform consists of XXXL t shirts, and the stands repetoire equates to hip hop drum beats couple with a pair of ridiculously loud, blasting sousaphones, it's hard not to nod along. Sort of reminded me of that god awful Drumline movie.

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I agree with most people that song battles are fun to an extent... I don't think it was very nice of them to play while you were playing.. At least let yall finish or something.

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we do song battles occasionally but it's always after the other band finishes their song and it's not every song that they play. I think it's just a fun friendly competition with the other band. Of course it can get taken over board and do it way too much and interupt the other band's playing and I find that rude but other than that it's just a friendly contest...if you even want to call it that.

  • 2 weeks later...
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we get into song battles with "Land of 1000 dances" its crazy!we had a band at one game that kept playing it and egging us on so after about the 4th time we played it our director finally called it up so we played it about 80 beats faster(at least) waaaaay better and owned them! it was great! but on the original topic thats one of those bands that needs to get their head out of their __________ (insert word here).

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song battles are freakin awesome. we have our battles with several bands around this area. pretty cool. but i dont think its right when you have a little band being overpowered by a much bigger band. but when the bands are about the same size or at least BIG then its all fair game.

  • 2 weeks later...
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We do that.

A lot.

 

There is this one song our school plays, and if I remember corredctly, it was actually written by a former student at the school. Anyway, when other bands start playing that song, we always play it back.

 

and we win.

 

 

 

OHHH

 

and last year, we marched The Planets, and so one school played the Mars Impact theme to us in the stands. then we played it back.

 

and won again.

 

:P

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