Pep Band at Barclays?
Was at the game last night. Tough loss, but a good showing against a good team, and a lot of reason to feel good about improvement over the course of the year.
Does anyone know if that was our pep band there? They looked super young (of course, that could be because I keep getting older). They also helped with a t-shirt promo that Barclay's ran during the game. And maybe it was just my ears, but their Victors did not sound like it was played by a band who has played it 25,000 times.
November 26th, 2014 at 4:01 PM ^
November 26th, 2014 at 4:25 PM ^
I think it was a local Brooklyn High School b/c they couldn't even execute the Victors properly without messing up notes lol.
November 26th, 2014 at 7:54 PM ^
Small, very young-looking contingent, so at first I joked that it was a junior intern squad. (Too many upperclassmen going pro early.) Just wish they'd announced it so that people would have cheered them on and appreciated their filling in instead of giving the impression our real band had fallen on hard times.
No cheerleaders, either, so somebody wasn't paying for the trip. Or knew that the priority was their 9:00 am classes the next morning.
November 26th, 2014 at 8:52 PM ^
November 26th, 2014 at 4:08 PM ^
November 26th, 2014 at 4:18 PM ^
November 26th, 2014 at 6:11 PM ^
Our last home game had a lot of high school band members from different schools there playing with our band, again, IIRC. That could be skewing your perception maybe.
November 26th, 2014 at 6:27 PM ^
Also, "off keys"? "Bad timing"? Come back when you know what you're talking about.
November 26th, 2014 at 7:36 PM ^
What do you want him to say: "pitch issues" and "percussive disparity?"
November 26th, 2014 at 8:51 PM ^
November 27th, 2014 at 4:54 AM ^
November 27th, 2014 at 9:12 PM ^
November 28th, 2014 at 1:05 PM ^
November 28th, 2014 at 1:06 PM ^
November 28th, 2014 at 6:41 PM ^
If you're going to mindlessly insult the MMB, one of the premier university marching bands in the country, then you need to be able to back it up. I take issue with what you said not because you're necessarily wrong, but instead because of the thoughtless cynicism that you are promoting.
So, yes, come back and try again when you can describe to me the difference between "out of tune," "off pitch," "wrong notes," and "key signatures."
November 26th, 2014 at 4:08 PM ^
November 26th, 2014 at 4:13 PM ^
I thought it was a good replica of the Victors for an off-night.
November 26th, 2014 at 4:24 PM ^
November 26th, 2014 at 4:25 PM ^
Looked like a local BK HS band... doubt it was middle school because those games went to midnight, basically. //Getoffmylawn!! //SpikesGota9am
November 26th, 2014 at 4:41 PM ^
It was a high school band.
November 26th, 2014 at 4:53 PM ^
Given their use of flip folders, it could have been Wisconsin's band...or Penn State's...or Notre Dame's...
/bandjoke
November 26th, 2014 at 5:08 PM ^
We used flip folders in basketball band too. It's just that most of us were also in the marching band so we had already memorized a lot of the music.
November 26th, 2014 at 4:54 PM ^
In 2010, we played in Atlantic City for the same Legends Classic we just finished. I was there and if I remember correctly it was also a local high school band wearing Michigan shirts. I think they changed shirts after they played for a different school the first game that night (not quite as quickly as Quick Change might I add).
Of course, I could be confusing it with the 2012 Preseason NIT or one of the other Brooklyn games over the past few years.
November 26th, 2014 at 5:01 PM ^
They were playing Victors at about half tempo. Even if you slipped every member of our band a valium they wouldn't play it that slow.
November 26th, 2014 at 5:32 PM ^
November 27th, 2014 at 11:47 AM ^
Open your mind! They could have been Africans from the continent of Africa or blacks born in Europe. "African American descent" - so presumptuous!
November 26th, 2014 at 5:43 PM ^
November 26th, 2014 at 5:52 PM ^
After tomorrows another embarrassment, overall record at U of M will be 31-20 (61%) and Big Ten record 18-14 (56%). After first year with Lloyd and RR's kids, overall record is 20-18, Big Ten 12-12. Last 2 years, overall 12-13 (48%) and 6-10 in Big Ten (37.5%). Redletter games versus ND, MSU and OSU...3-8. Though a much better man than head coach, come Monday please stop this.
November 26th, 2014 at 5:57 PM ^
You're in the wrong thread.
November 26th, 2014 at 6:29 PM ^
The Game has been moved to Thanksgiving Day? When was that announced?
November 26th, 2014 at 5:57 PM ^
After tomorrows another embarrassment, overall record at U of M will be 31-20 (61%) and Big Ten record 18-14 (56%). After first year with Lloyd and RR's kids, overall record is 20-18, Big Ten 12-12. Last 2 years, overall 12-13 (48%) and 6-10 in Big Ten (37.5%). Redletter games versus ND, MSU and OSU...3-8. Though a much better man than head coach, come Monday please stop this.
November 26th, 2014 at 6:01 PM ^
yea sorry, wanted to make this a new post...Help?
November 26th, 2014 at 6:11 PM ^
A couple things -
1. You need 100 points to create a new topic on the board. You have 1.
2. If you were to create this thread, it would be deleted about 5 minutes after it was created.
You're new to posting here, so I would take some time to look at the FAQ under the MGoBoard tab up top. Most of what you have posted has been discussed at length and it would not be discussed as much as you might think. It would more likely result in people asking for it to be deleted. Change is coming to the coaching staff, you just have to be patient for a while.
November 26th, 2014 at 6:09 PM ^
Standard procedure for these things is hiring a local high school band, shipping them a bunch of shirts and music, and hoping they sound passable.
November 26th, 2014 at 6:10 PM ^
I was at the tourney at Madison Square Garden last week with Texas, Syracuse, Iowa, and Cal, and all of the bands except Syracuse had the same deal--all high school aged kids who weren't that good.
I thought maybe each of those schools had chosen to bring a HS band from their area as a sort of prize, but since this happened at this tournament too it tells me that these bands were all local kids.
Also, all of the bands I saw were almost entirely minorities, which means it was likely city schools/kids. Oddly, Syracuse had a band full of adults--not college kids, but 30 and 40 somethings.
November 26th, 2014 at 7:52 PM ^
and they were terrific. Lots of very large brass instruments, and obviously very strong musicians, since they were bouncing and dancing with all that heavy brass. The Oregon had a band, too, that was more traditional. But the VCU bandsfolk were singing and dancing along with several of Oregon's more popular numbers.
And Oregon's band played a slightly tinkered-with version of Let's Go Blue, so the M people already in the audience gave a very nice [loud] response with our non-tinkered-with lyrics.
November 26th, 2014 at 6:28 PM ^
Fine... I'll be the one to say it.. The band at the Barclays was much more diversified than our regular pep band and clearly not our band. They also played USC fight song during the game...
November 26th, 2014 at 11:09 PM ^
November 26th, 2014 at 10:47 PM ^
Dave Brandon.
November 26th, 2014 at 11:24 PM ^
I don't know about now, but back when I was in school, getting into the UM Basketball Band could actually be difficult. Some School Of Music guys actually came down and played in the band, probably because of the Fab 5, but it was a challenging audition. I usually played in the Hockey band because it was slightly easier to get into, had a fixed schedule (Fri/Sat games) and we were allowed to be a lot more rowdy. :) And I wasn't chopped liver--I was all-state in high school and routinely got top marks in my solo competitions.
So when you compare it to the high school bands, it isn't really that the high school bands are bad. Our basketball band is pretty darn good.
November 27th, 2014 at 9:17 AM ^