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- jackpot, on 11/15/2007, -1/+114Mortal Kombat is in there as well, I wish the video was shot from the other side.
- Audacitor, on 11/15/2007, -3/+104Woah... dude... Suddenly, I have a new respect for marching bands...
- kosmoX, on 11/15/2007, -1/+84The Mario castle tops it off.
- soapdev, on 11/15/2007, -6/+47GO BEARS!
- bstew22, on 11/15/2007, -3/+38the recording was *****... and also the band was moving from back to front... I'm not saying that their range is good, but there is no way to frikin tell from this recording.
- chubbybubba, on 11/15/2007, -0/+28Band Geek + Video Game Geek... thats like a double negative!
- kaidovak, on 11/15/2007, -14/+42The brass, especially the trumpets, need to work on their range. The Zelda theme was painful.
- shaun1018, on 11/15/2007, -0/+27They ***** up tetris. You can't have complete rows.
Still very ***** cool though. - CaptnHector, on 11/15/2007, -0/+26Yeah, they should have disappeared into thin air.
- TheLoneWolf071, on 11/15/2007, -0/+23Awesome. But is there a video of it from the other side, Cause that's what it seemed to be catered for... how well, still freakin awesome.
- ChrisF79, on 11/15/2007, -0/+22That's amazing. Love seeing these bands try new things.
- OG1502, on 11/15/2007, -5/+26Go Berkeley!!!
- Coven, on 11/15/2007, -4/+23Some of these bands bring in military drill sergeants to help with the formations.
- xadhominemx, on 11/15/2007, -1/+19I can quite literally hear the Cal band play right now. They sound much better in person!
- wilf_brim, on 11/15/2007, -0/+16The L shaped block makes a return.
- Matt2k, on 11/15/2007, -0/+15Down. DOWN
- Shawn4168, on 11/15/2007, -2/+16I'm guessing that
1) It was really cold out, and
2) The stadium is not built with acoustics in mind. - timewarp424, on 11/15/2007, -0/+12that flag and castle was crazy. nice job.
- nonstop87, on 11/15/2007, -0/+11Hearing that music reminded me of this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-hh1dkFNsI - dakilla91, on 11/15/2007, -1/+11I am proud to be a band geek :)
- acevoncash, on 11/15/2007, -2/+11agreed. the intonation was *****. but range? meh. if they tried not passing stones through their horns, then they would stop cracking every note.
- knightblade2oo4, on 11/15/2007, -1/+10i bet you're a blast at parties.
- iBenzin, on 11/15/2007, -0/+9Awesome.
- Eastcoastsurfer, on 11/15/2007, -0/+8Im 18, and grew up around atari, nes, snes, and every thing in between and since. None of it was lost to me either.
- kernelhappy, on 11/15/2007, -0/+8You would think with all the work they put into it, they would have had some people ready to do a better job of recording it on hand.
- astyanax, on 11/15/2007, -0/+8Almost every gave except for MK was 8 bit or less. I think the OP is just wrong, not the band :-)
- bstew22, on 11/15/2007, -0/+7ah, maybe, i haven't heard of it. I've played/seen a lot of marching band on the west coast as well as the midwest.
- Drewboy64, on 11/15/2007, -0/+7Shut up! You know you liked it = P
- DMCer, on 11/15/2007, -0/+7The last 40 seconds are the best, it's when they do the Mario end-of-level skit. For all that work, the crowd didn't seem too grateful...
- acevoncash, on 11/15/2007, -2/+8atrocious intonation. cool that a band is doing it? sure. But they should try not sounding like a middle school band. Anyone can play loud. thats not impressive. Playing loud and well... thats a different story
- bstew22, on 11/15/2007, -0/+6who? because i've never heard of this.
- ThetaDot, on 11/15/2007, -0/+6Have to admit. That was pretty fun to watch.
- WNW3, on 11/15/2007, -0/+6UC Davis too
- techmaster, on 11/15/2007, -1/+7I was thinking the same thing. I'm a trumpet player myself, and that video really made me cringe. That is a college band right? The college bands I've heard were much better musically. But the show was definitely cool. Some of it was kind of timed screwy, like when they formed triangles for Zelda, two of the triangles finished forming LONG before the other two. That's purely the fault of whoever laid out the field charts for the show though. Usually, the way they time the charts, the whole field will be a chaotic mess of people, then all at the same instant, everybody snaps into place and the picture seems to appear out of nowhere. I guess imagination takes a toll when you're forming basic geometric shapes on the field though. ;)
- josenim, on 11/15/2007, -0/+6Cancel each other out into total stud? One can only pray.
- c_starfish3, on 11/15/2007, -0/+6Iowa did it this past weekend, must have ripped off everyone else's idea
- DeviantDragon, on 11/15/2007, -0/+6You act like the 18-25 yr old crowd wouldn't recognize Zelda music from all its inclusions in SSB and other Zelda games?
- merper, on 11/15/2007, -0/+5* Stanfurd
not Stanford University :) - SittinSidewayz, on 11/15/2007, -0/+5That was well done. And made me realize that humans are just really big ants especially when in large groups.
- zeptobyte, on 11/15/2007, -1/+6It would be twice as cool if they weren't playing my school. >_
- trisweb, on 11/15/2007, -0/+5FYI - this was a field mic'd official video, so the audio directionality is very bad. I know, I set up the microphones. Basically the mics record whichever brass instrument is pointed directly at them at any given time. Not so hot, but better than recording 90% crowd noise and 10% band, so it's a tradeoff.
The band sounds much better than they do on this video, just take my word for it. - Coven, on 11/15/2007, -0/+5well...I know my marching band was REALLY bad. Perhaps that is why our director brought in the drill sergeant.
- TheGambit, on 11/15/2007, -2/+7i think this was the first time i've ever watched an entire half-time show
- gcacho, on 11/15/2007, -0/+5It's a lot better than what the Stanford band can do.
- zetec, on 11/15/2007, -2/+6Being 21, I'm not even going to dignify your jackassery with a direct response. Stop pretending like you're superior just because your ***** is closer to prolapse than the rest of us, you old *****.
- Coven, on 11/15/2007, -1/+5My high school band did, although we never went further than marching in parades. An ex of mine lived in Nebraska for a good chunk of her high school years, and one of her schools did the same thing. The drill sergeants are usually retired, and for the most part just get the band to learn some discipline and coordination with each other. Who better to teach you how to march than somebody who taught it to our men and women in uniform?
I don't know if the college bands do it, but I know for a fact that some high school bands do. - zspeed78, on 11/15/2007, -0/+4Yes but none of those schools have the BIG GAME video also involving the marching bad, so suck that.
- diggsilva, on 07/10/2008, -0/+4Right, like there is really anything similar between that picture and this entire show.
Hmm... Who would have thought that two separate groups of people who are exactly the same age range and grew up in the same culture might come up with the same ideas separately?
Aren't they all just copying Nintendo? - TheKrillr, on 11/15/2007, -1/+5Tetris... then something else... then pokemon. then zelda... then mario...
- LanceHardenburg, on 11/15/2007, -0/+4What are you talking about bingobongony?
I am in college now and I grew up with each and every one of these games. -
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