quote:<HR>Originally posted by Endure:
I'm a brother of Kappa Kappa Psi (yes, a female brother... KKPsi and TBS are both co-ed organizations these days). <HR>

One of the reasons my wife was a charter member of our TBS chapter is because back in the '70's KKPsi wouldn't let us initiate female members. I'm glad to see they came to their senses.

quote:<HR>Originally posted by NDIrishO3:
I was there during the Bob Davie years (with Ty and the "return to glory" season - well, until we lost to Boston College - my senior year), and we never saw a season this bad. We can only go up from here (I hope!!).<HR>

I was there during what I call the Ron Pawlus years (1994-98). The force-out of Lou and all that stuff. Blah! It's funny in hindsight though. We went 9-2 my freshman year, and we totally thought we sucked! Now I'm yearning for the 9-2 glory days!

It's still fun to go back for the games though. My group has made it back all but one year and actually had an absolutely fabulous time this year. As my father said, it's not just about the football. (This from a man whom we nearly had to put on suicide watch after the BC loss in '93. How the times have changed!)

marching band cello ...

quote:<HR>Originally posted by NDIrishO3:
I was there for the Air Force game too! It's the only game I made it back to this year so it was the only halftime show I saw...yeah there was quite a bit of dancing . I've been back for at least one game each year since I graduated and I never saw that much dancing before. Good possibility that they were trying to distract from the game, lol .

I was there during the Bob Davie years (with Ty and the "return to glory" season - well, until we lost to Boston College - my senior year), and we never saw a season this bad. We can only go up from here (I hope!!).<HR>

BC Alumna here...Woot

I was a music major in college. Percussion. Didn't like the marching and concert band crowd very much. I gravitated towards the orchestral and jazz types.

Musically, marching band does nothing for me. I know socially, people have fun with it. Concert band is better, but 20 clarinets will never sound as good as a violin section. The sound of a good orchestra is so much better than a good concert band.

I've played in so many different groups over the years. The weirdest was New Music Ensemble in college. It was the chamber group that played extremely contemporary music and the members were mostly theory/comp majors. There weren't any percussionists who were theory/comp majors, so they were always trying to recruit percussionists to play in their recitals. A lot of the contemporary music used percussion extensively.

One piece I played with that ensemble was by an underground Soviet composer (this was the 70s and this type of music wasn't in favor in the Soviet Union). He set Japanese haiku to music. One haiku was about butterflies. I had to beat on the chest of a male faculty member with my bare hands while he sang to get the butterfly effect. (Yes, we were both fully clothed.) He stood facing the audience and I stood in front of him with my back to the audience.

The small audience - almost all were fellow music majors - knew the faculty member was a singer and I was a percussionist. But they had no idea what I was doing standing in front of him until he started to sing and I started beating his chest. I heard some snickers from the crowd.

quote:<HR>Originally posted by jcumming:
Had to make a choice in 10th grade to play sax in the band or play safety for the football team.

Gee...and to think that some 40 odd years later I could probably have still been playing sax. <HR>

My dad played center and also played in band......

He was drafted in 63 and was placed in the 5th Army band....spent the first couple of years of the Vietnam War marching in Chicago playing sousaphone.....
Being a musician can save your life....

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the original rubber band man.