[Dixielandjazz] RE: Stanford Marching Band

[David Livingston]

They were also famous for "marking" their territory on
the football field.


--- "Williams, Bob" <robert.c.williams@eds.com> wrote:
> The Stanford Marching Band is famous for "The Play,"
> a(n) hilarious incident
> that occurred at the end of the "Big Game" with Cal
> (Berkeley) in November
> of 1982 - in fact, a Google Search on "Standford
> Marching Band play" will
> result in some recent write-ups commemorating this
> event.  Tragically, a
> trombonist was creamed, but he's managed to milk a
> bit of a career out of it
> (http://www.offthekuff.com/mt/archives/001076.html).
> 
> 
> I've found a site with a non-streaming Real Audio
> clip of the famous play,
> at http://hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cje/.
> 
> As a high school drum major for three years, I
> abhorred marching band,
> although I did march with the UCLA Bruins for one
> year.  I agree with Jim
> Beebe, it is an abomination.  I envied the Stanford
> Band because they
> satirized the institution beautifully.
> 
> Bob Williams 
> The World's Most Modest Man and 
> That's About It At The Moment 
> <http://wnjb.com> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Gunter [mailto:jazzboard@hotmail.com]
> Sent: Saturday, January 04, 2003 10:52 PM
> To: JimDBB@aol.com; dixielandjazz@ml.islandnet.com
> Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] The Best Damn Band
> 
> 
> Speaking of college bands, Jim Beebe writ:
> 
> >    University of Southrn California.  He is
> talking about the University 
> >band
> >that plays for the football games.  This is a
> ghastly phenomenon
> >peculiar to the the U.S.   200 college musicians
> who can't play anything
> >blasting away in silly tributes and formations.
> 
> I don't know if it's still going on, but the
> Stanford band at one time back 
> in the late 60s and early 70s decided they wanted no
> more of military style 
> precision, drill and formations. They still played
> the traditional college 
> songs but they wore casual garb and sort of strolled
> around the field in 
> haphazard formation. Many individuals behaved as
> "individuals" and did silly
> 
> and "far out" antics just to show they were rebels,
> above traditional lock 
> step marching. I didn't particularly dig that stuff
> - too traditionally 
> hidebound, I suppose.
> 
> But I do thoroughly enjoy traditional drum and bugle
> presentations and among
> 
> my favorite forms of entertainment are the English
> Tattoos such as the 
> Annual Edinburgh Tattoo on the Castle Esplanade.
> Military pipe band from all
> 
> over the realm congregate to strut their stuff.
> 
> Respectfully submitted,
> 
> Bill "Hut - two - three - four" Gunter
> jazzboard@hotmail.com
> 
>
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