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KOALA BITCHING
Oct. 4th, 2006 12:35 amWHOO AN UPDATE!
So yeah ... what is this shit about this time? FOKING MARCHING BANDS!
Yeah, the tournament was on Saturday ... and I post now.
Few things first ... I know it was the first tournament of the season for all the bands participating. But I do know for a fact that it was NOT the FIRST PERFORMANCE. Marching bands perform during half time at the football games. If they don't, then that means they were shit to begin with and they are not even good enough for football games so why the fuck even go to a tournament? I also know that because it is the first tournament that not all the drill would be complete, and that the colorguard would not have all their work down. So ... Now onto what I think of the bands ...
Bishop Amat: I liked the fact that they actually rolled their feet and had white shoes too. That's pretty much all I noticed ... Small band 1A, could barely hear them. I remember first thinking FOK SO THAT'S WHAT A SMALL BAND SOUNDS LIKE?! The guard had pretty flags ... and I think that's pretty much it for that band ...
Locke: OMG WTF IS THIS SHIT?! I could NOT get over the fact that this band absolutely had NO PIT! Drum set and a keyboard does not qualify as a pit for me ... The keyboard overpowered the band, and the keyboard player kinda sucked ... They paused on like every single foking note ... The person on the drum set was good, that grabbed all my attention, until I saw someone move at a stand still then my attention was brought back to the band.
Again ... OMG WTF IS THE SHIT?! The spacing, horrible ... it made me want to cry T___T The marching, horrible ... It was just complete crap. I know many people don't actually lateral slide ... and I saw some people that TRIED ... but dood don't try to lateral slide if no one else isn't doing it ... you just gave away that you were supposed to lateral slide ... and yet you weren't even fully lateral sliding! I know some band directors say "Don't lateral slide on this part." It only works if everyone DOESN'T lateral slide or even half assed lateral slide ... don't even get me start on their color gaurd ... OMG ... NEXT BAND PLEASE ...
Not everything was horrible about this band ...
I did like their uniforms ... They had a F on it
with some other crap and it reminded me of
the f holes on a violin ...
Mt. View and Whittier: I don't remember much about these two performances ... all I know was that my ass was starting to hurt from sitting on those crappy bleachers for like an hour ... but I know that one of these bands played part of Incantation from Cirque du Soleil's Quidam ... I was really sad that they only played the opener of the song.
Covina: I don't remember this performance at all ...
Wilson: FINALLY! AN ACTUAL BAND! I was SOOOO happy to see Wilson perform. They were the best band that I had seen so far that day. The color guard was actually together! The band actually made formations and sounded like a band! I was just soooo overjoyed at not seeing crap that I forgot to actually pay attention! I was also distracted by the flags and costume of the color guard, it was all flowy and pretty. I do remember at the beginning there was a solo guard performer that was dancing and their hair piece fell off XP
Los Altos: OMG EVEN BETTER! Their show was really fun. It was exciting and sounded great. The color guard had some funky costume, but it's all good.
Rowland: WOOOAAAH 5A band ... I thought their show was pretty good ... the end. I was distracted about my ass hurting again ...
Host band: Only played the opener, but man it was good. They looked good, and the sounded good. Though, it wasn't exciting at all and I know the reasons for that.
1. having to work all day because the were hosting the tournament
2. McKenna probably said crap about their performance at the football game
3. it was in honor of a band booster parent that had passed away
My one complaint ... WTF CLARINET DUET?! I could NOT HEAR them AT ALL This pissed me off ... Why? Because I have heard clarinet SOLOIST play LOUDER than the BOTH of them ... you know what was worse? THERE ACTUALLY WAS A CLARINET SOLOIST FROM ANOTHER BAND THAT PLAYED LOUDER THAN THE BOTH OF THEM THAT DAY!
Now that I have written this I've just remembered all the other crap ... GAWD I CAN GO ON! But because I really don't want to remember the rest of the shit I saw I won't go back and add things in ...
If anyone cares, these were the scores:
CLASS 1A Bands
50.75 Bishop Amat
41.40 Locke
Auxiliary
45.6 Bishop Amat
36.4 Locke
CLASS 2A Bands
60.95 Mt View
54.75 Whittier
Auxiliary
54.2 Mt View
42.0 Whittier
CLASS 4A Band
72.05 Glen A Wilson
63.00 Covina
Auxiliary
55.8 Los Altos
42.3 Covina
CLASS 5A Band
71.25 Rowland
Auxiliary
53.6 Rowland
Percussion
74.4 Rowland
60.7 Los Altos
55.5 Whittier
SWEEPSTAKES
Auxiliary - 61.7 Glen A Wilson
Percussion - 76.0 Glen A Wilson
Visual - 144 Glen A Wilson
G.E. - 259 Los Altos
Music - 336 Los Altos
BAND - 73.80 Los Altos
So yeah ... what is this shit about this time? FOKING MARCHING BANDS!
Yeah, the tournament was on Saturday ... and I post now.
Few things first ... I know it was the first tournament of the season for all the bands participating. But I do know for a fact that it was NOT the FIRST PERFORMANCE. Marching bands perform during half time at the football games. If they don't, then that means they were shit to begin with and they are not even good enough for football games so why the fuck even go to a tournament? I also know that because it is the first tournament that not all the drill would be complete, and that the colorguard would not have all their work down. So ... Now onto what I think of the bands ...
Bishop Amat: I liked the fact that they actually rolled their feet and had white shoes too. That's pretty much all I noticed ... Small band 1A, could barely hear them. I remember first thinking FOK SO THAT'S WHAT A SMALL BAND SOUNDS LIKE?! The guard had pretty flags ... and I think that's pretty much it for that band ...
Locke: OMG WTF IS THIS SHIT?! I could NOT get over the fact that this band absolutely had NO PIT! Drum set and a keyboard does not qualify as a pit for me ... The keyboard overpowered the band, and the keyboard player kinda sucked ... They paused on like every single foking note ... The person on the drum set was good, that grabbed all my attention, until I saw someone move at a stand still then my attention was brought back to the band.
Again ... OMG WTF IS THE SHIT?! The spacing, horrible ... it made me want to cry T___T The marching, horrible ... It was just complete crap. I know many people don't actually lateral slide ... and I saw some people that TRIED ... but dood don't try to lateral slide if no one else isn't doing it ... you just gave away that you were supposed to lateral slide ... and yet you weren't even fully lateral sliding! I know some band directors say "Don't lateral slide on this part." It only works if everyone DOESN'T lateral slide or even half assed lateral slide ... don't even get me start on their color gaurd ... OMG ... NEXT BAND PLEASE ...
Not everything was horrible about this band ...
I did like their uniforms ... They had a F on it
with some other crap and it reminded me of
the f holes on a violin ...
Mt. View and Whittier: I don't remember much about these two performances ... all I know was that my ass was starting to hurt from sitting on those crappy bleachers for like an hour ... but I know that one of these bands played part of Incantation from Cirque du Soleil's Quidam ... I was really sad that they only played the opener of the song.
Covina: I don't remember this performance at all ...
Wilson: FINALLY! AN ACTUAL BAND! I was SOOOO happy to see Wilson perform. They were the best band that I had seen so far that day. The color guard was actually together! The band actually made formations and sounded like a band! I was just soooo overjoyed at not seeing crap that I forgot to actually pay attention! I was also distracted by the flags and costume of the color guard, it was all flowy and pretty. I do remember at the beginning there was a solo guard performer that was dancing and their hair piece fell off XP
Los Altos: OMG EVEN BETTER! Their show was really fun. It was exciting and sounded great. The color guard had some funky costume, but it's all good.
Rowland: WOOOAAAH 5A band ... I thought their show was pretty good ... the end. I was distracted about my ass hurting again ...
Host band: Only played the opener, but man it was good. They looked good, and the sounded good. Though, it wasn't exciting at all and I know the reasons for that.
1. having to work all day because the were hosting the tournament
2. McKenna probably said crap about their performance at the football game
3. it was in honor of a band booster parent that had passed away
My one complaint ... WTF CLARINET DUET?! I could NOT HEAR them AT ALL This pissed me off ... Why? Because I have heard clarinet SOLOIST play LOUDER than the BOTH of them ... you know what was worse? THERE ACTUALLY WAS A CLARINET SOLOIST FROM ANOTHER BAND THAT PLAYED LOUDER THAN THE BOTH OF THEM THAT DAY!
Now that I have written this I've just remembered all the other crap ... GAWD I CAN GO ON! But because I really don't want to remember the rest of the shit I saw I won't go back and add things in ...
If anyone cares, these were the scores:
CLASS 1A Bands
50.75 Bishop Amat
41.40 Locke
Auxiliary
45.6 Bishop Amat
36.4 Locke
CLASS 2A Bands
60.95 Mt View
54.75 Whittier
Auxiliary
54.2 Mt View
42.0 Whittier
CLASS 4A Band
72.05 Glen A Wilson
63.00 Covina
Auxiliary
55.8 Los Altos
42.3 Covina
CLASS 5A Band
71.25 Rowland
Auxiliary
53.6 Rowland
Percussion
74.4 Rowland
60.7 Los Altos
55.5 Whittier
SWEEPSTAKES
Auxiliary - 61.7 Glen A Wilson
Percussion - 76.0 Glen A Wilson
Visual - 144 Glen A Wilson
G.E. - 259 Los Altos
Music - 336 Los Altos
BAND - 73.80 Los Altos