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Post by boahistorybuff on Sept 23, 2020 4:22:50 GMT -6
I can't remember if it was 800 Video Express or Mr Video that produced the CDs at that time. But yes, looking back now I can see it as being cheesy.
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Post by boahistorybuff on Sept 23, 2020 4:27:29 GMT -6
Are You Ready For Some Football?
2004 Avon
This is the Indiana Class A State Finals performance. The multi cam footage from Grand Nationals on the web is available but the video quality is poor.
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Post by dbalash on Sept 23, 2020 15:22:11 GMT -6
I can't believe this was 20 year ago. Yikes! When I saw the final end of season product of this show, I thought to myself, Whoa that must have been a fun show to do. I also thought, WOW how insanely difficult. One of PCEP's most difficult shows they ever did. So if a show can be both fun and incredibly difficult to perform and hard to learn, this would be that show. 2000 Plymouth-Canton Ed Park "Reflections On Obsessions" The opening credits from BOA were so cheesy back then. 🤣 Correction: The greatest thing since sliced bread! |
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Post by Subito Fortissimo on Sept 23, 2020 19:58:29 GMT -6
I can't believe this was 20 year ago. Yikes! When I saw the final end of season product of this show, I thought to myself, Whoa that must have been a fun show to do. I also thought, WOW how insanely difficult. One of PCEP's most difficult shows they ever did. So if a show can be both fun and incredibly difficult to perform and hard to learn, this would be that show. 2000 Plymouth-Canton Ed Park "Reflections On Obsessions" The opening credits from BOA were so cheesy back then. 🤣 The opening credits from BOA were so cheesy back then. 🤣 Correction: The greatest thing since sliced bread! I have to agree with Dan. Hearing that makes me feel so nostalgic. |
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Post by Allohak on Sept 23, 2020 19:59:39 GMT -6
The opening credits from BOA were so cheesy back then. 🤣 Correction: The greatest thing since sliced bread! I have to agree with Dan. Hearing that makes me feel so nostalgic. Thirded. |
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Post by LeanderMomma on Sept 23, 2020 22:31:31 GMT -6
It just makes me feel old. 👵
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Post by srv1084 on Sept 25, 2020 7:11:17 GMT -6
I have to agree with Dan. Hearing that makes me feel so nostalgic. Thirded. Add me to the old-timers list. 2000 was such a great year. I really wish I could find more videos from that year, especially Tarpon and Northmont. Tarpon was phenomenal, and the fact they won the visual caption with ~60 marching members says something. And Northmont... they came out of nowhere that year. |
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Post by Jake W. on Sept 25, 2020 13:07:05 GMT -6
Add me to the old-timers list. 2000 was such a great year. I really wish I could find more videos from that year, especially Tarpon and Northmont. Tarpon was phenomenal, and the fact they won the visual caption with ~60 marching members says something. And Northmont... they came out of nowhere that year. That Northmont video was easily accessible on YouTube for years! I showed it to many groups of students over the 2010s. It's too bad that it's gone and that no one has uploaded another one. Great show, and tremendous passion! |
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Post by boahistorybuff on Oct 4, 2020 19:45:13 GMT -6
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Post by boahistorybuff on Oct 4, 2020 20:14:42 GMT -6
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Post by statechamp1239 on Nov 29, 2020 8:43:07 GMT -6
The Amazing William Mason HS 2013 show - Till Death Do Us Part
William Mason HS 2012 - This Land
Westlake HS (TX) 2013 - Carnival of Venice
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Post by principalagent on Dec 10, 2020 12:06:44 GMT -6
How has Vista Murrieta 2016 not been mentioned? That show was amazing and a fantastic and captivating way to spend ten minutes. I still think it's the best show from west of Texas since I started in this crazy world almost 15 years ago, and only Ayala 2019 can rival it for me.
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Post by boahistorybuff on Dec 10, 2020 14:36:11 GMT -6
How has Vista Murrieta 2016 not been mentioned? That show was amazing and a fantastic and captivating way to spend ten minutes. I still think it's the best show from west of Texas since I started in this crazy world almost 15 years ago, and only Ayala 2019 can rival it for me. Thanks for mentioning it. Yes it was a great show. |
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Post by thewho on Dec 10, 2020 22:57:55 GMT -6
I think Vista Murrieta went a tad too easy on the visual side of the program (which is a little surprising, cuz Cali and color guard...), but they had enough in the gas to make the jump into Finals (0.2 away if I'm not mistaken). I really thought they made it that year, but alas it wasn't meant to be.
I really hope that VM can finally make either the San Antonio Finals (though I think 2019 was a little too out of reach, but 25th is absolutely commendable) or GN Finals someday. The surge in the recent years has been terrific, especially from 2015 to 2016.
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Post by LeanderMomma on Dec 17, 2020 9:27:17 GMT -6
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Post by josephbandfan on Dec 17, 2020 12:09:24 GMT -6
I really enjoyed TWHS show this year. Probably more than their 2019 show. The music is just so much fun.
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Post by jmike16 on Nov 27, 2023 12:09:18 GMT -6
I am bringing this thread back alive.
I really enjoyed Pearland's 2017 show. If anyone has a video of them from that year, please send it to me.
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Post by abtwitch on Nov 27, 2023 14:13:44 GMT -6
McKinney North 2022 is my pick
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Post by ilikeguard on Nov 27, 2023 14:29:19 GMT -6
I’m sure I’ll think of more, but here are a few over the last couple of years that struck me as especially fun:
2023: Bellevue West, NE: “Dreams are the Playgrounds of Unicorns”; Eastview, MN: “The Ballad of Eastview”; Choctaw, OK: “A BEEautiful Life”; Beavercreek, OH: “Bedrock”
2022: Cypress Woods, TX: “Shenanigans”; Archbishop Alter, OH: “Overjoyed”; Bentonville, AR: “Lady”; Lincoln, SD: “Unchained”
2021: an obligatory Camdenton, MO: “It Is”; Murray, KY: “The Ecstasy of Gold”; Flower Mound, TX: “The Band Show”
2019: going to echo Mustang, OK: “RAWR”; Leander, TX: “Radioactive”; Broken Arrow, OK: “Yee Haw”
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Post by fr0ntline on Nov 27, 2023 15:58:42 GMT -6
2022: Russell County, KY (Plume Crazy) Switching plumes throughout the show made it super fun, especially for a smaller 1A band! (And they won their class at St. Louis, deservedly! So exciting seeing them again in finals exhibition) 2023: Millard West, NE (Off the Rails) No explanation needed, anybody who watched St. Louis this year knows how much energy this show brought  |
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Post by crowncrawler on Nov 27, 2023 19:38:10 GMT -6
Friendswood, TX ("Follies!") was a lot of fun to watch this year.
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Post by ilikeguard on Nov 28, 2023 0:10:00 GMT -6
2022: Russell County, KY (Plume Crazy) Switching plumes throughout the show made it super fun, especially for a smaller 1A band! (And they won their class at St. Louis, deservedly! So exciting seeing them again in finals exhibition) 2023: Millard West, NE (Off the Rails) No explanation needed, anybody who watched St. Louis this year knows how much energy this show brought Totally agreed on both of these! Was just talking about Russell County 2022 with some friends. What a simple but creative concept! |
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Post by rickyrosay on Nov 28, 2023 8:29:19 GMT -6
This thread makes me smile. I think back to the days of just sitting in the stadium and watching as much of prelims as I possibly could, watching all of semi-finals, and then getting that last chance to watch whatever band I just had to see again one more time. Marching band man, it's a world you don't really understand and can't fully grasp until you're in it. Similar to being in the lot in Dayton, or in UD for Guard Finals, there is no energy quite like any of it. All that to say, Mason 15 (I'm pretty sure that was the Westside story year) and Castle 16 will forever be my two favorite in person shows. I may go back and watch others more. But those two live rent free in my mind and will continue to stay there.
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Post by LeanderMomma on Nov 28, 2023 9:15:41 GMT -6
Mentioning Mason and “fun” takes me back to the very first time I’d ever heard of William Mason HS and that was in 2016 when Leander went to GN. I’ll never forget seeing them take the field with those giant inflatable balls rolling around!!! It was so crazy and so fun and like nothing I’ve ever seen. 🤣🤣
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Post by cybrunette on Nov 29, 2023 17:42:56 GMT -6
Whichever band had that sax soloist spinning on a wheel during his solo... that specific moment def made me go "Whoa!"
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Post by riot on Dec 20, 2023 9:36:23 GMT -6
Franklin, TN 2021 "I Love Lucy" themed show.
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Post by neop on Dec 20, 2023 22:21:35 GMT -6
Buckeye H.S., OH had a show this year about an alien who had crash-landed on Earth. The "alien" was dressed in a stereotypical green Martian outfit, and kept trying to fit into parts of the band by picking up instruments or doing the same visuals. The show ended with the alien leaving and the drum majors doing a Men In Black style memory erase on the audience. It was a lot of fun each of the three times I saw it, and I wish there was a video on YouTube. There is a video available on the OMEA video archive, though. So many shows are very emotionally complex or even tragic, and it's always refreshing when I see one that's unserious. Mustang H.S., OK has done a few of these.
Maybe this isn't "fun" in exactly the way the question meant, but I think funny shows are fun.
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Post by stlbanddad on Dec 21, 2023 10:56:17 GMT -6
Maybe this isn't "fun" in exactly the way the question meant, but I think funny shows are fun. This is EXACTLY what I had in mind when I posted the question. I'll have to go on a search for this one - sounds fun. |
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Post by kdivine on Dec 21, 2023 13:53:05 GMT -6
Watch this from 6:30 to the end. It is Greene County Tech [AR] doing "Recess" [2023] and the bit you are looking for is a trust fall from the top of a see-saw.
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Post by smj02 on Jan 16, 2024 20:53:41 GMT -6
I'll throw an older show out there: Centerville Jazz Band 1992. A fun Tower of Power show.
I was lucky to perform four shows in high school that were an awful lot of fun to be a part of...and I think they were pretty fun to watch, too. My favorite was my sophomore year. The theme was "Jazz Across America". We started in New York with Slaughter on 10th Ave, then went to New Orleans with Swing Low, Sweet Chariot; When the Saints; and Basin Street Blues. We finished on the west coast with some Tower of Power: So Very Hard to Go and What is Hip, topping it off with a tag ending.
It had snowed a couple days prior to championships. There was snow in the end zones and it was cold, making tuning a challenge. We weren't the cleanest band, but we had a good time and everyone knew it. Be sure to watch to the end!
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