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From: lsjumb@leland.Stanford.EDU (Stanford Band)
Subject: Re: Virgina
Organization: Stanford Band
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 20:31:16 GMT

In article <5:15> letmein@next11csc.wam.umd.edu (Rich Samuel Biscoe)
writes about the University of Virginia Band:

>Nice story and all!!!  However, I think the straw that broke the camel's  
>back is when your band decided to come to our stadium and urinate on  
>thefield in the middle of a half-time show.  Somehow, I think it's going  
>to take a while to live that one down!!!!  Respectively,
>
>							Rich Biscoe

Whoa - that's weird.  WE got blamed for doing that in 1986 or so in
our own (Stanford) stadium.  Of course the story got ballooned out of
proportion.  What actually happened was one or two really fucked up
Bandsmen peeing on the sidelines (probably outside the track) AFTER
the game.  Of course, legends being legends, the common misconception
is that the ENTIRE STANFORD BAND urinated in the MIDDLE of the
football field AT HALFTIME.  Needless to say we were banned from the
stadium for the next game (actually for a culmination of events, but
those stories will come out in time - kind of like vomit stains).

Scott Stan4d - not the Band historian, but old enough to make up the
difference.  And I haven't graduated YET.  **sigh**
-- 
Leland Stanford Junior~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~---___   "It's Hoover Tower after
University Marching Band~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~__D   \_  the earthquake.  What did
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~--D___/~; YOU think it was, Ted?"
lsjumb@leland.stanford.edu~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~  ..___.....
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From: knights@IASTATE.EDU (Andrew H Combites)
Subject: Re: Marching Bands
Keywords: Marching
Reply-To: knights@IASTATE.EDU (Andrew H Combites)
Organization: Iowa State University
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 18:18:13 GMT

In article <1992Dec11.060930.26295@news.weeg.uiowa.edu>,
dkelly@news.weeg.uiowa.edu (Dave Kelly) writes:
> currybg@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Brian) writes:
> 
> >To put it simply the Purdue AAMB rules!
> >In the band we march and swagger as we play for old Purdue
> >At the halftime we do shows no other band on earth could do
> >When we cheer the earth will tremble
> >For we're known throughout the land
> >As the best in marching music
> >We're the Boilermaker band!
> 
> Iowa refers to Purdue as the Amoeba Marching Mess.  FYI.
> 
And we at Iowa State refer to Iowa as Paisley "A" to Paisley "B".
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From: knights@IASTATE.EDU (Andrew H Combites)
Subject: Re: >>> NEW SUBJECT <<< 
Reply-To: knights@IASTATE.EDU (Andrew H Combites)
Organization: Iowa State University
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 04:40:20 GMT

In article <1992Dec16.005034.932@u.washington.edu>,
tonyamm@carson.u.washington.edu (Tonya May) writes:
> 
>   New subject:  Weirdest place you've performed a show.
> 
>   The Wisconsin Marching Band came to Seattle for their game
> against the UW Huskies.  While they were here they had to 
> perform on the FLIGHT DECK of an naval aircraft carrier.  Wierd.
> 
> 
> 
At Iowa State, we have practiced in the rec. center which is odd.  We have also
performed at a High School game in Oklahoma where they fed us beans and
cornbread for dinner and then the power went out in the stadium and we had to
play in the dark.  It was really fun.  We also performed at the "Swamp Fox
Festival" in Marion Iowa at 6:30am on a Saturday morning for a pancake
breakfast!!!

Later,
Andy Combites
ISUCF"V"MB Trombone
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 18:18:29 EST
From: Kurt Ludwick <KEL111@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.marching.misc
Subject: Re: tasteless
Distribution: usa

In article <1992Dec15.003810.26141@leland.Stanford.EDU>,
stanford@leland.Stanford.EDU (Scott Stanford) says:

>I reiterate - NOT going on national TV.  NOT in a state that voted for

Let me tell you, if the Blockbuster Bowl is handled anything like it was
two years ago, NOTHING you do will get on national TV.  (Instead of bands,
2 years ago they put Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on TV, right after the
worst George Bush impersonator in the Universe.)

Just so you know.  Don't get your hopes up.

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From: ender@leland.Stanford.EDU (Chris Hondl)
Subject: Re: Greetings!
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 07:23:16 GMT

In article <1992Dec14.033314.20619@cis.ohio-state.edu> csmith@tortoise.cis.ohio-state.edu (craig edward smith) writes:
>In article <Bz691J.JuH@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> vaurenta@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Jonathan Chase) writes:
>>    To all on r.a.m.m:
>>
>>   Hello! I am Jonathan Chase, at Purdue University, and a former member
>>   of the Purdue All American Marching Band, the best band in the world.
>>   :-) Saxaphone player also.
>Ohhh! The famous Purdue Marching Amoeba????? The band so large that when
>they get done entering the field, you can't see the field anymore? Who do
>the famous mytosis drill? Who have marchers who's sole purpose is to set
>off smoke bombs?
>
>Is Barry Kopetz (former drum major for TBDBITL) directing there?
>
As far as I know, if the Barry Kopetz you are talking about is the same Barry
Kopetz I am thinking of (and indeed, which other Barry Kopetz would he be were
he to want to confuse us all) then we are thinking of the same Barry Kopetz who
I believe is at Utah.  The Barry I am thinking of was formerly asst. director 
of and at the University of Minnesota.  He went to Utah for the academic 
1991-92 year.

He is an exceptional conductor.  Played under him in a couple of high school
honor band things, and one summer in the Minnesota (symphonic) alumni band.

Chris Hondl
ender@leland
---We don't march, not because we can't, because we don't want to.  LSJUMB.

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From: mss2e@Virginia.EDU ("Ramalama from Alabama")
Subject: Re: Quick band-ish question....
Organization: Virginia Tech
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 17:51:17 GMT

	Yeah, we have a chapter of those rascls here.  What a
bunch of heathens they are!  They do nothing but sit around,
smoke dope and shoot smack.  And they speak with the most
wicked tongues I ever heard in my life.  There is a foul curse
word in their every sentence.  They don't ever bath and they
smell like bacon and fat.  Their cholestorol level is entirely
too high, and I'll bet not a one of them can do a single pull
up.  And they bad mouth the other chapters constantly.  They
call you a bunch of nerd geeks -they don't practice their
instruments, ever, and you can who they are, because they're 
the ones that always step off on the
wrong foot and don't have pride in their eyes like the rest of
the people in our band do.  They eat with their mouths open and
lick their utensils, even their knives.
	And they call me "Chunk Wad".  I hate it when they do
that!  Why must they be so cruel?

			Max Smelt
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From: jim@fuji.eng.yale.edu (James J. Szinger)
Subject: Re: Destroy these songs before you go blind
Organization: Yale University, Intelligent Sensors Lab, Elect. Eng.
	<1g80vbINN1d7@agate.berkeley.edu> <JIM.92Dec10152310@fuji.eng.yale.edu>
	<1992Dec11.014502.14655@leland.Stanford.EDU>
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Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 16:25:55 GMT

In article <1992Dec11.014502.14655@leland.Stanford.EDU>
stanford@leland.Stanford.EDU (Scott Stanford) writes:


>Hey - time for a list of tired old songs that have worn out their
>welcome to all bands everywhere.

>Louie Louie
>Gimme Some Lovin'
>Tequila
>Land of 1000 Dances
>Everybody's Everything (hate to admit it, but EVERYONE plays it now)
>Get Up On Your Feet
>Dr. Who (the HEY song)
>ANYTHING by the Beach Boys
>Wipeout
>Bad Moon Rising

Louis, Louis is the only one of these that we really do, but it's
OK since we have added an improv horn obligato part.  Loving and
Land aren't played too much this year, but Tequila seems to be
sneaking back into the repertoire.  There is an active effort to
seek out new tunes so we don't keep playing the same stuff over
and over, but some of our fans cannot be satiated.

Ciao,
Jim
--
James Szinger                        jim@fuji.eng.yale.edu

"He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad."
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From: stanford@leland.Stanford.EDU (Scott Stanford)
Subject: Re: Section rivalries
Organization: none whatsoever
Distribution: usa
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 92 22:48:08 GMT

In article <blather> swain@aludra.usc.edu (Ronnie Swain) writes:

>"Fight On!" uses more than two cords.  You obviously must be refering to 
>"Tribute to Troy."  We love that song!

Or even "chords."  It does in fact have 2 chords (I and V) unless you
consider the gratuitous modulation.  Then you get 4.  Congratulations.

>dum da da da da dum dum da da dum da da da da da dum dum da da da-a-a-!

Hmm.  More spelling errors.  Try:

DUMB da da da da DUMB DUMB da da DUMB da da da da da DUMB DUMB da da da-a-a-!

>Fight On!

Blow donkeys.

>Ronnie Swain
>swain@scf.usc.edu
>Trojans Rule!

Have fun ruling over FRESNO STATE in the FREEDOM BOWL.

Scott Stan4d - the asshole, not the Taco Bell-style campus.
-- 
Scott Stanford                 |)  Eenie meenie miney moe.
stanford@leland.stanford.edu  /|   Catch a tiger by the toe.
                             ((|,) If he hollers...yeah whatEVER.
"MORE Doctah Peppah!!"        ~|~  He's EATIN' your ass.  Run, you idiot.
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From: dkelly@news.weeg.uiowa.edu (Dave Kelly)
Subject: Re: Hey! TUBAS.....where are you???
Keywords: lalalalalal
Organization: University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 07:45:56 GMT

sasmith@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Four) writes:
[stuff deleted]
>different bond for us--well, we sorta have an unofficial fraternity..
>SIGMA TAU RHO--the Syracuse Tuba Republic...founded 5 years ago.  It

Iowa's Sousy's are all proud to claim membership in the association of silks
and sousys  (Even though we don't have silks anymore...)  This informal
fraternity, Alpha Sigma Sigma (ASS) is quite a strange bunch, to say the
least...
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From: sloan@iastate.edu (Eric R Sloan)
Subject: Bunch of Stuff (First r.a.m.m post)
Organization: ISUCF"V"MB
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 00:09:01 GMT

 Hi all! I'd just like to say that I'm very pleased that this group was 
created. There should be some interesting discussion I should think...


 As for band traditions, we have one I havn't heard much about recently, but
I still think it exists....It's called "Campiniling"(sp?)

 There is some old school tradition that says that you aren't really an ISU 
student unless you kiss your SO (Significant Other) for all 12 bells
(midnight) under the campanile(belltower). Now on warm autumn nights it can 
get almost crowded under there. Well, now you KNOW what's going to happen
there's not much point in telling BUT Well, we get a bunch of people 
together and do a little "midnight serenade" :)

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If I recall correctly someone from U of Iowa refered to the Wisconsin style
of marching as "corncob up the butt"

I can sum up Iowa's marching style in one word.... "QUACK!!!!!!"

Well.... I've said enough..
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Yet another person asking "What's a bowl game?.........."
Eric Sloan 
ISUCF"V"MB
Clarinet---Wouldn't you like to be a Woody too?
Proud player of VINTAGE D.Noblet wood....
Silly Woodwind....Plastic's for kids!!!

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From: hakari@lars.acc-admin.stolaf.edu (The Conformist Contrabass Clarinetist)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.marching.misc
Subject: Re: High School marching bands
Date: 12 Dec 92 17:24:21 GMT
Followup-To: Thor...see my .sig
Organization: ContraManiacs Anonymous

In article <Bz4Ky0.BKv@news.iastate.edu> sloan@iastate.edu (Eric R Sloan) writes:


>Real Clarinet players play BASS Clarinets...
>Real Bass Clarinet players play CONTRA Bass Clarinets!!

	I agree TOTALLY!!!  Why do you think I picked up contra?  My contra
playing even helped me get into the #1 band here.  Where else can you find a
~80-piece concert band with a 5-member bass clarinet section, with one doubling
on contra?


--Andrea


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From: sloan@iastate.edu (Eric R Sloan)
Subject: Re: High School marching bands
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 02:44:24 GMT

In article <1992Dec12.014509.16397@news.stolaf.edu> hakari@lars.acc-admin.stolaf.edu (The Conformist Contrabass Clarinetist) writes:
>
>
>
>
>	Did anyone's high school band march with their bass clarinets?

    Yep! 
        I was with the Downers Grove Marching Mustangs (IL) and played
        bass clarinet my Junior year. I moved at the end of my junior year
        and the school I transfered to did not march B.C.'s. 

        At Downers Grove, there was an emphasis on classical and traditional
        band pieces, and we were closer to a Marching Wind Ensemble than
        a marching band. 

        I really enjoyed playing the B.C. on the field. I loved the looks
        I would get from some people like "You gotta be nuts!! what is that
        thing!?!?!" I loved it and I'd like to do it again.

	Unfortunatly here at ISU, we are a more traditional "High-Power,
   	Crank-out-the-tunes, Go Nutz" Marching Band, with no real need 
        for B.C's. But if we had just WAY too many clarinets one year,
        I might just beg to play a B.C. just for the fun of it!

Eric Sloan
ISUCF"V"MB--Clarinet
Proud player of a VINTAGE D.Noblet Clarinet
Real Clarinet players play BASS Clarinets...
Real Bass Clarinet players play CONTRA Bass Clarinets!!
  

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From: mss2e@Virginia.EDU ("Ramalama from Alabama")
Subject: Re: Band Announcers
Organization: University of Virginia
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 22:07:56 GMT

	Funny that Arizona's announcer should say, "Baaaaand,
take the field."  We used to have ours say the same thing,
followed by, "-okay now, band, give the field back."
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From: vaurenta@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Jonathan Chase)
Subject: Greetings!
Organization: Purdue University
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 00:22:30 GMT

    To all on r.a.m.m:

   Hello! I am Jonathan Chase, at Purdue University, and a former member of the Purdue All American Marching Band, the best band in the world. :-) Saxaphone player also.
    For the love of Marching, I am glad this newsgroup is up! 
    Well, C-ya all, and remember: Start on the LEFT foot!

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
"And as they passed through the desert, God did deliver unto them manna and much beer, so that they may party in those fourty years."
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From: raistlin@billthe.engin.umich.edu (Douglas Treder )
Subject: Re: Reading music off of flip folders....
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 92 13:03:18 EST
Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor
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Originator: raistlin@billthe.engin.umich.edu


Actually, lots of rubber bands and tape. The trumpets 
especially do weird things to the pipes; most of them
force the two upper pipes further apart to get the
lyre down in there.
 
Tenor saxophones normally load the mouthpiece with 7 or 8
layers of atheltic tape to cushion the jaw.

Michigan Marching Band (last of the great high-steppers)
From: tonyamm@carson.u.washington.edu (Tonya May)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.marching.misc
Subject: Re: Band Traditions
Date: 11 Dec 92 18:14:43 GMT
Article-I.D.: u.1992Dec11.181443.18492
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle

In article <1992Dec11.051713.19318@leland.Stanford.EDU> stanford@leland.Stanford.EDU (Scott Stanford) writes:

>Nope, sorry that WAS us (Stanford Band).  And yes, we were terrible
>(it was about 20 of us, tops, and not very balanced).  And hate to
>tell, you, but most people thought we were YOUR band (UW), coming for
>a second round.  For those of you that don't know, the UW Band does an
>all-campus rally before EVERY home game.  Very admirable as far as I'm
>concerned, even if they do only play the "songs that make you go blind"
>(see the post on that subject elsewhere).

  Sorry Cal.  Please accept my big appology for this terrible blunder.
I should have known that it wasn't any of you.

>In the confusion they were happy to see us and rocked out.  Some UW
>Band members joined us as well, helping us find our way around campus.

  That's not what I heard from people in the dorm.  The kids that were 
rocking out were supposedly high school students that were on campus
(skateboarding).  As for the UW band member that joined you (I know
of only one) he is not accepted as part of our band, and would be out
if the Bandmembers had their way.  Our director did ask him not to
come back this year, but had no way of enforcing this request, so
the guy came back anyway.  I don't know if he'll be around next year,
he screwed up a lot this season.

Tonya
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From: mss2e@Virginia.EDU ("")
Subject: Wait one cotton pickin' minute
Organization: University of Virginia
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 19:45:46 GMT

 	Heeeeeyyyy - I have never heard about us pee
peeing on the field at Maryland.  That story would definately
have affixed itself permanantly in Pep Band anals -I mean
annals.  You might be getting us confused with Stanford (and
son) -they're a bunch of nuts.  I am, however,  happy to hear that
apocyrphal tales  of our exploits have reached ther schools, though.
I did hear a story about us fleshpiling the Terrepin mascot and
him breaking his arm; now that definately would have broken the camel's back.  
	Speaking of camel's back, did you know that the camel on Camel
cigarrette packs has an erect man being pounced upon by a lion
hidden on its back.  It's really weird and subliminal and you
have to really look for it.  And Joe on the Camel Buck has a
nose and cheeks like -darest I say -a talleywhacker and two
testes, and his mouth... well I won't even say it, but it's slit
vericaly, it even has a... I won't say that either, but it
begins with a /C/ and rhymes with "Boris"- and to top it all
of, the whole thing's smoking a cigarette -such a thing ne'er
have I seen!  I don't know why I wrote that -it
has nothing to do with anything -ask a Camel tokin' friend to
show it to you.
	Anywayyyyyyy, sure I'll say hi to Matt Fader -he's
on our managing board now, too.  You can reach him yourself
through Pep-Band@Virginia.EDU, but remember, the entire band
will be areadin' it and making snap judgement of your character.
	N.C. state -yeah, sure that was a great game...FOR YOU,
MAYBE!  At least we beat VPI.  I was over there throwing gummy
worms and toothbrushes (to remove said gummyworms from the parts
of your teeth you tongue can't reach) to your band.  Did you see
me?  I was wearing an Elvis jacket and hardhat.  Sorry our fans
yelled at you to get a real band -they usually say that to us! 
	Why didn't any of you perform at Scott Stadium this
year?  The only band we saw was Clemson -"Ho' da' Tiga'"- joy
and rupture -



				Mick Stone
				Wahoo friggin' Wa
From: Liza_Weissler@rand.ORG (Liza Weissler)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.marching.misc
Subject: Joe Paterno
Date: 17 Dec 92 21:56:23 GMT
Organization: The RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, California

> What to expect from the band? Well, I thought they were real nice and put
> on a damn good show. There was only one bad thing about the trip: Joe Paterno.
> What a putz. He wouldn't let either band march on the field at halftime
> because 'we'd tear up his grass'.

Hey, good ol' Joe was a jerk at the 1981 Fiesta Bowl, too.  Good to see
some things don't change.

        ---  __o          Liza Weissler
     ----  _`\<,_         The RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, CA
      --- (*)/ (*)        liza@rand.org
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From: holt_c@cubldr.colorado.edu
Subject: Re: cheerleaders: kill them or just disembowel?
Followup-To: rec.arts.marching.misc
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 19:24:11 GMT

In article <jgladu-151292131007@128.249.27.63>, jgladu@bcm.tmc.edu (grungy (John F. Gladu)) writes:
> 
> embarrassing:  Oatmeal, oatmeal, salt and butter too
>                All for the Rice Owls hold up your shoe!
> 
> Fun:  the spellout cheer (letter by letter) T-H-E W-I-L-L-I-A-M M-A-R-S-H 
> R-I-C-E I-N-S-T-I-T-U-T-E F-O-R T-H-E A-D-V-A-N-C-E-M-E-N-T O-F
> L-E-T-T-E-R-S S-C-I-E-N-C-E A-N-D A-R-T . (period)
> 
> The football team has been doing too well to possibly distract them with
> our usual ridiculous cheers - ain't it a shame...
> 
> bcnu - grungy (John Gladu) MOBster
> Systems Support Center -- Baylor College of Medicine
> INTERNET: jgladu@bcm.tmc.edu  | VOICE: (713)798-7370
>  US MAIL:  One Baylor Plaza, Houston, Texas  77030

One of our favorites is:

RAH-RAH-RAH
SIS-BOOM-BAH
HIT EM IN THE HEAD WITH A BRICK <GRUNT>

It's used mainly as a defensive cheer.
							Charles Holt
							C.U. Snareline
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