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Subject: Do you think marching band is cool?
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Poll: Is marching band cool?  [closed]
Hell yeah!:  13%
(8 Votes)
It's okay.:  8%
(5 Votes)
Maybe.:  13%
(8 Votes)
No.:  11%
(7 Votes)
Hell no!:  37%
(23 Votes)
I don't care.:  19%
(12 Votes)
Total Votes: 63

Personaly I'd pick marching band over Halo 2 any day but that's not the point. Do you like marching band? I think it's much more competitive than any sport. A lot of people in my school don't like marching band but I've realized that most of those people aren't worth talking to. Any way, for those of you that care our band got first in our class at the championship competition yesterday. Here's the news article. I am really mad at myself for not joining earlier. I hold up the scrim (don't know if scrim is a real word or if some one just made that up) in the show. It's a big plastic thing that is supposed to look like an aquarium. I want to play bass drum next year.

  • 10.25.2004 1:08 PM PDT
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Y is that even a question?! And why would u waste out time with it?

  • 10.25.2004 1:53 PM PDT

It was a cold day near the southern base in Blood Gulch. Cortana and I were relaxing over a game of Go Fish, WHEN OUT OF NO WHERE 700 BANSHEES CAME FLYING IN!!! I GRABED MY SPARTAN LASER AND LET HELL REIGN DOWN UPON THEM. I HOPPED IN THE NEAREST WARTHOG AND TOLD CORTANA TO GET IN.

Marching band sounds kickass. I wanna join one next year.

  • 10.25.2004 1:57 PM PDT
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I was in one so many years ago. I liked the social stuff, but that was about it. It was just not that good at all. It takes up way too much time as well. The directors were really -blam!- about a lot of things. We would try to sync our dancing and all kinds of fun goofy stuff, but after we switched band directors 2 years in and it all went down hill from there.

  • 10.25.2004 2:18 PM PDT
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Posted by: madcow2021
Y is that even a question?! And why would u waste out time with it?


He's obsessed. You should hear him at school. It's marching band this, marching band that, blah, blah, blah. And he gets all mad at me when I think something is really cool and keep going on and on about it.

EDIT: And I voted "I don't care." BTW, Helljumper.

[Edited on 10/25/2004 2:27:39 PM]

  • 10.25.2004 2:26 PM PDT
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Marching band is -blam!- my school won city title four years in a row, but most songs played were plagarized rap songs.

  • 10.25.2004 2:30 PM PDT
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Posted by: CabooseMoose7103
Posted by: madcow2021
Y is that even a question?! And why would u waste out time with it?


He's obsessed. You should hear him at school. It's marching band this, marching band that, blah, blah, blah. And he gets all mad at me when I think something is really cool and keep going on and on about it.

EDIT: And I voted "I don't care." BTW, Helljumper.


You people will never understand. You can't know what it's like to perform in front of an audience of well over a thousand people. You will never know the commradery or excitement that we feel. You can't understand what it's like when you win a competitoin and know that you are the best in the state, when all your hard work pays off. I don't know why I bother talking to you about it. It's obviously to difficult of a concept for you to grasp.

  • 10.25.2004 2:45 PM PDT
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Mmm hmmm, right Helljumper, I can't grasp the concept. I've been in front of a crowd before and competed. First it was Odyssey of the Mind and then it was FIRST. I'm not judging you or anything. I think it's great that you enjoy marching band so much. I just don't think it's really for me. It's just you keep going on and on and on about it and when you're not talking about it Angel is. Speaking of which, where is he? I haven't seen him on here recently.

EDIT: BTW OM and FIRST took weeks to prepare for, some of the most stressful and fun weeks I've ever had. Marching Band isn't the only thing out there worth doing you know. Everyone has different tastes.

[Edited on 10/25/2004 2:52:57 PM]

  • 10.25.2004 2:51 PM PDT
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Marching band is alright. I never really liked it for the MARCHING... it's the whole package that's appealing. The main part I like is the social aspect. Playing at the games used to be fun, but I'm a senior now so that gets a resounding "meh" from me.

  • 10.25.2004 2:56 PM PDT
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Well.....marching band is a bit bigger than FIRST but I guess you have a point. Just as long as your not dissing band. After all I do know where you live!

j/k :)

  • 10.25.2004 2:57 PM PDT
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Posted by: Helljumper76
Personaly I'd pick marching band over Halo 2 any day but that's not the point.


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  • 10.25.2004 2:58 PM PDT
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this is why public schools suck.

  • 10.25.2004 2:59 PM PDT
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Posted by: Octaian
this is why public schools suck.


What do you mean? Please elaborate.

  • 10.25.2004 3:01 PM PDT
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Posted by: Helljumper76
Well.....marching band is a bit bigger than FIRST but I guess you have a point. Just as long as your not dissing band. After all I do know where you live!

j/k :)


Nah, I'm not dissing band. It is kind of interesting and you like it so I'm not gonna diss. And you are kind of wrong. FIRST is an international competition. Our team has gone to the World competition a couple of times I believe. We didn't last year but that was due to mechanical problems that we couldn't control. And you don't know, I could have moved.

[color=003247]Die evil -blam!-. Marching band sucks and you know it. You'll never get me, never.[/color]

  • 10.25.2004 3:05 PM PDT
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Posted by: CabooseMoose7103
Posted by: Octaian
this is why public schools suck.


What do you mean? Please elaborate.


school funding is split four ways. 50% sports, 40% band, 9% education, and 1% school food.

  • 10.25.2004 3:06 PM PDT
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Heh, I believe it. But I think the cafeteria is on it's own budget so that it isn't affected by any cuts that are made.

  • 10.25.2004 3:10 PM PDT
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Posted by: CabooseMoose7103
Heh, I believe it. But I think the cafeteria is on it's own budget so that it isn't affected by any cuts that are made.


the 1% is how much of the food is real and safe to eat.

  • 10.25.2004 3:11 PM PDT
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i've spent 2 years in marching band (i am now a senior) and i decided that marching band and pep band aren't worth my time. granted, we aren't a major contender for a state competition. We are more focused on the Symphony and Jazz departments *of which we aren't really competitive in either*.

that said, i would NEVER think that marching band is more competitive than most sports. most musical competitions are called "festivals" or something happy like that. They are not purposefully meant to be competitive or else they'd call it "the super high school marching band PLAYOFFS" with the losing band living in shame for another year until it's time for that competition again. Sports are however, like that.

And i don't just say that because i'm rock jock. i don't play any real competitive school sports. (unless you think golf is ultra-competitive)

Jazz Band is a excellent part of my life, i believe fully in music's ablitity to open the mind and in all reality and very literally make you smarter. I really don't believe in making it a huge competition, because when a few groups get together it's 1) to hear and play great music and get better and 2) be competitive. In my opinon, that's what makes the Fine Arts a more productive, optimistic aspect of the high school expirence. Losing a football game is much more devestating to the football players than is losing a Band festival is the the band members.

Unless your overly-obsessed with slamming a drum and marching in funny clothing in perfect order.

"you play the music first, everything else is secondary" almost my band directors life motto. (he is overly-obsessed with band, but not with marching in funny clothing).

oh, lastly... marching band over Halo 2? umm, that's an interesting comparison, i mean.. i'd definatly prefer making music over playing a video game, but it seems unfair, everyone would rather do their most favorite hobby over playing a video game (unless that video game is their favorite hobby) Halo in my book, rocks every other game i've ever played, Jazz rocks every other type of music i'll ever play, but i don't think comparing the two is a fair comparison.


EDIT: wow, i didn't realize how hard-core that post was. i don't mean to say that marching band sucks or anything, lol i think it's alright...

[Edited on 10/25/2004 3:16:56 PM]

  • 10.25.2004 3:13 PM PDT
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Posted by: xsliderx

Unless your overly-obsessed with slamming a drum and marching in funny clothing in perfect order.



i know a few people like that. One in particular.

  • 10.25.2004 3:20 PM PDT
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Posted by: CabooseMoose7103
Posted by: xsliderx

Unless your overly-obsessed with slamming a drum and marching in funny clothing in perfect order.



i know a few people like that. One in particular.


-blam!- Parade?

  • 10.25.2004 3:30 PM PDT
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Posted by: Octaian
Posted by: CabooseMoose7103
Posted by: xsliderx

Unless your overly-obsessed with slamming a drum and marching in funny clothing in perfect order.



i know a few people like that. One in particular.


-blam!- Parade?


Hehehehehe no. I meant a few people who are just a little too obsessed with marching band, one of them in particular is REALLY obsessed. No it's not Helljumper, it's someone esle I know, It's going to get worse tomorrow with him, today he was to tired from the big marching band competition over the weekend (which they took first place in as Helljumper76 already informed you) but tomorrow he will be wide awake and just about hopping out of his seat he'll be so happy they won. He'll be absolutely unbearable.

  • 10.25.2004 3:37 PM PDT
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Posted by: xsliderx
Losing a football game is much more devestating to the football players than is losing a Band festival is the the band members.


Not if you practice as much as we do. We work extremly hard and our directors are like military instructors or something. People show up for band even if they're sick. And I mean sick as in they should be in the hospital not out in the cold. No one works harder for this than us. Belive me if we lose it hurts.

  • 10.25.2004 3:38 PM PDT
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Arlington High School.

  • 10.25.2004 3:38 PM PDT
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Posted by: Octaian
Arlington High School.


What about them? They probably think we're crazy. When they were getting on their bus we were shouting AR-LING-TON! AR-LING-TON!

Good times. lol

[Edited on 10/25/2004 3:42:26 PM]

  • 10.25.2004 3:42 PM PDT
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Posted by: Octaian
Arlington High School.


Huh? Did I miss something?

[color=003247]Marching Band sucks. They're brain-washing you while they pretend to teach you how to play. It will be VERY funny to see you fail one of these times. Hehehe[/color]

[Edited on 10/25/2004 3:42:53 PM]

  • 10.25.2004 3:42 PM PDT