Colorguard Anyone?

Dancer3 · 07-12-2005, 12:42 PM

I was just looking for anyone that is on a Colorguard or on the marching band @ their school. Just to talk, exchange tips... and so on. Well gotta go,
please respond!
peace
Dancer3

adamkaboom · 07-20-2005, 08:28 PM

MARCHING BAND IS THE COOLEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We just went to the DAK(drums across Kansas) In wichita, one of the stops to the DCI championships, which i got to go to last year.

Drum and Bugle Corps shows are the coolest thing ever!!!

Dancer3 · 07-21-2005, 12:12 PM

Awesome!! That's great! We have a DAK, except it stands for Drums Across Kentucky. lol, marching band is DEFINITELy the coolest. Thanks for replying!

adamkaboom · 07-22-2005, 10:00 AM

That is cool that there is a DAK there too....lol Have you ever been to a Drum and Bugle Corps show?? I think you probably have.......what is your favorite corps? My is definatley Phantom Regiment.....you should hear them play Rollerball........

I am glad that I am not the only one that thinks this is cool.

Dancer3 · 07-23-2005, 06:54 PM

HECK YEA!! I love that show!! I'm not too familiar with the corp names. But I've definitely watched it a time or two. Our band director had us watch it once during class. it is sooo wicked hot!!! Oh me too! I'm so glad that I found somebody to talk about this with!

adamkaboom · 07-23-2005, 09:49 PM

Ya..this is great. I had to watch one during class, and I was like wow. And then we actually went to one...and I was like "You gotta be kidding me" it is unbelievable!!!! If you want to hear some cool clips. I have a post in GD, that is called "Isn't this the COOLEST?" or something like that....wait i'll put them on this to make it easy. well g2g.

Dancer3 · 07-24-2005, 04:45 PM

Wow!! Thanks a lot!! That was awesome... they sound amazing. Hey you should come to my blog sometime. It's Dancer3's Hideaway. I'll check out your other post! Do you have a blog? I'll check yours out if you do! This is great that I can talk about this with someone! Are you in the band this year? We're starting our final week of band camp tomorrow at 8:00 in the morning. We have to work ten hours!! Whoa, yeah I know. What's your band camp like?

adamkaboom · 07-25-2005, 02:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Dancer3

Wow!! Thanks a lot!! That was awesome... they sound amazing. Hey you should come to my blog sometime. It's Dancer3's Hideaway. I'll check out your other post! Do you have a blog? I'll check yours out if you do! This is great that I can talk about this with someone! Are you in the band this year? We're starting our final week of band camp tomorrow at 8:00 in the morning. We have to work ten hours!! Whoa, yeah I know. What's your band camp like?

10 hours???? How many weeks have you been going? Our band camp starts the 8th of August. We only have like 4 days of it though. I think in those 4 days we put in about 55 hours. Ours is pretty simple. The first day is teaching the newbies the basics. Then we start memorizing music, along with learning the show. Is it hot out there? I know that by 11:30 here it is already almost 100. I think you ppl in Kentucky are more into marching band. Out here in Kansas it isn't as big. We would travel all the way back to the eastern parts for marching shows....we took em by storm with our 4A band. The state here has a rule that we can't go to more than 4 competitions.

What is your show this year? Ours is a construction theme.(Workin 9 to 5, Chaing Gang, and somethin else) Instead of having regular uniforms, we have costumes that fit our theme. Last year we did pirates of the Carribean, and the year before we got to wear Zoot suits. So we have fun. How big is your band?

**beanbag** · 07-26-2005, 06:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Dancer3

I was just looking for anyone that is on a Colorguard or on the marching band @ their school. Just to talk, exchange tips... and so on.

I was in guard for three years in jr. high. I miss it a lot, especially performing on the floor for competitions and stuff. I still have my silk and my rifle from way back when.

simple servant · 08-02-2005, 10:34 PM

I was supposed to go to the DCI Midwestern Championships a few days ago in Indy, but something weird happened, and we ended up not going. I went to the Phantom Regiment Drum Major camp this summer, and that was fun. We got to do basics with Regiment, and it was freakin awesome! Especially the 6-to-5's at about 180 bpm all the way down the field. Great stuff! But yeah, I'm a drum major, and I'm in the brass line, so we have a natural rivalry with the guard. Maybe that's because our guard has gone terribly downhill over the years, but it may also be because they're always taking out brass players with their flags. I don't know. Oh well, I'm a band geek for life.

adamkaboom · 08-03-2005, 03:44 PM

band geeks r the coolest!!!!!

simple servant · 08-04-2005, 09:59 AM

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Originally Posted by adamkaboom

band geeks r the coolest!!!!!

Indeed they are.

melstergirl · 08-08-2005, 05:28 PM

I started band in 4th grade; the elementary school didn't have a marching group, though, so I did that until 5th grade.

I was in marching band in 6th grade; that was the only year that the school that I went to had an actual "marching band"... I think we only did one, maybe 2 parades.

In 7th and part of 8th grade, I was at a different school; in band, but we didn't march. In the 2nd part of 8th grade, the school I went to had no band at all. For freshman year, we had a small band (pathetic, six people, and only half of them played) that only did one concert and we went outside and tried marching, but it was pretty pointless.

My mom used to be a flag-twirler. What's the technical name for that? (We never associated with them; at my school they were just a couple of the cheerleaders who were souped-up... not actual flag-twirlers)

simple servant · 08-08-2005, 05:39 PM

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My mom used to be a flag-twirler. What's the technical name for that? (We never associated with them; at my school they were just a couple of the cheerleaders who were souped-up... not actual flag-twirlers)

If it was your mom, they had a different name for color guard back then I believe. I can't remember what it is off the top of my head, but nowadays, it's color guard.

melstergirl · 08-08-2005, 05:56 PM

Oh, have things changed that much since 1985? I thought the color guard were the folks who carry the state flag and national flag... like I said, I was just ever with the band.