[Dixielandjazz] RE: Stanford Marching Band; Rice Owl Band (MOB)

[David Richoux]

I guess everybody skipped my earlier reply on this topic as the "Best 
Damn Band"  thread was past expiration date?
anyway, check out the Stanford website for truth, fiction, rumor, music 
and stuff - many links to other college bands (scatter and "normal")   
http://www.stanford.edu/group/lsjumb/

and as somebody else mentioned - if there were not college bands, 
village bands, circus bands, military bands, etc.  playing before 1900 
then jazz probably would have been a very different thing altogether!

It is all a part of the tradition...

Dave Richoux

On Monday, January 6, 2003, at 12:14 PM, Dan Augustine wrote:

> Folks--
>     99.9% of you poor folks have never experienced the Rice University 
> marching band, called the MOB ("Marching Owl Band').  They are even 
> less respectful of marching-band traditions and practices than the 
> Stanford band, and in fact their webpage says:
>                   "W E     D O    N O T    M A R C H
>                                 Ever."
>                   (from http://mob.rice.edu/info/)
> They saunter (or run) onto and off the field as they feel like it, 
> play jazz at times (see, Somewhat On Topic!), include violins and 
> string basses (on wheeled carts) and other non-standard instruments, 
> and dress in suits with fedoras.  They satirize everything, sometimes 
> with extreme lack of taste (one year after UT had played USC, they 
> outlined a Trojan on the field--a condom, not a soldier).
>
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