Football season is winding down

Finally, the Aggies are almost ready to call it quits, and let the marching band have a weekend to ourselves. Thankfully they squeaked out another win, but regardless the best party of the game was our disco show. Hopefully video will be forthcoming...

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Cool Cymbal stuff

That was from Crossmen



The IUP Marching Band



Is there a better cymbal line than Santa Clara Vanguard?



VIPER!!!! Only the greatest cymbal visual of ALL TIME!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ0mc7Yuwws

I couldn't embed this one, EPSN 2 wouldn't have it, but this is the BEST CLOSER EVER!!! (In my Opinion)

Anyway, that's enough for now.

Band Geek Win!

LOVE it!

A W is a W...

Woohoo! The Aggies won the home opener against Idaho State!!! We ( The Aggie Marching Band) played a special patriotic tribute for 9/11 featuring a big flag on the field, and it was AWESOME! My baritones looked great too. All in all it was a great game!

I hate rush jobs...

So our athletic department at USU, in their infinite wisdom, planned our home opener on Sept. 11th, which doesn't bother me, except that we only have two weeks to prepare this show, and our pre-game. It is tough, because we are all kind of on edge, hoping that everything is going to work out okay with the shows... I suppose I am a little excited to watch the game, since our team nearly pulled of an upset against Oklahoma, I just wish that it wasn't so soon after the beginning of school...

I'm in KKPsi

I had the pleasure of going to dinner with on of my brothers from Kappa Kappa Psi, the honorary band fraternity during our fundamentals week. We were both wearing shirts that we had made to wear for the breakfast we provided for the band, which had KKPsi stenciled on them. When we got to the restaurant that we  were going to eat at, a family that was eating there started eying our shirts, and asked us "What does that mean? Is it some sort of gang?"


We wound up spending a good twenty minutes explaining our role as members of Kappa Kappa Psi, what we did in the band, what kinds of shows we do. It was actually kind of fun, and funny at the same time. The things I take for granted are things that other people may never have heard of, I guess.

Back to the grind...

Here we go, back to school. Finished is the summer, sleeping till eleven, band camp, camping; on to music history, jazz band, and private practice...

Band camp was great though, I am really glad to have a solid section this year. It is nice to be able to count on the members of my section to be there on time, to play their parts well, and to march well. I hope that we will have a blast together this season.

A tradition of the USU fundamentals camp is the picnic/pie auction, where section leaders get a large plate of pudding to the face, along with a few faculty members. My baritones seemed to really enjoy spreading pudding all over my face, and I have to admit that it was pretty funny, and it is an odd sensation to be covered in pudding. Thanks to my section for a great Fundamentals Week, I'm looking forward to the rest of the marching season, starting Sept. 11th against ISU!