[jacketree]

[quote author=jacketree link=topic=14252.msg151083#msg151083 date=1451943219]
Maybe Stanford should just get a giant dump truck-sized drum and wheel it around with four guys.  All would be forgiven.

Is this a dig at Purdue?
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That's who I had in my mind, but it was a dig at the whole giant drum concept in general rather than Purdue specifically.  I think a few bands have one (Mizzou, Florida, Texas; even Harvard has its own Big Bertha).  I always thought it would be funny for LSJUMB to roll out not a giant drum, but an actual  giant dump truck tire with some fabric stretched across it that read "World's Largest Dump Truck Tire Posing as a Giant Drum" or something like that. Works better when the opposite band has one of these:



I mean you are sort of insulting them, but at that point objecting to the dig just looks really whiny.

Hasn't U.S. and C occasionally done some scatter stuff just to poke fun at LSJUMB?  Totally harmless and inoffensive and we'd boo them mercilessly. Although, I no longer trust my memory with much to be honest.

Sorry to hear it is so hard to get decent musicians these days.  Our high school of maybe 1,500 had a 300-person strong marching band, divided into two halves for daily practice.  All spots through tryouts. It was just a garden variety public high school, nothing magnetic about it.  For whatever reason we had a lot of musicians. Top trumpeter went to Julliard. #2 guy went to Eastman, #3 was really good too, but I think she became a EE, #4 went to Berklee SOM, somebody went to Yale for music, etc. Maybe times have changed. I don't go to high school games outside the WCAL, and I think only Riordan and St. Francis even have bands.

Anyway, maybe they can learn to tune the sinks and skateboards and it'll sound a little better.

[jacketree]

[quote author=jacketree link=topic=14252.msg151083#msg151083 date=1451943219]
Maybe Stanford should just get a giant dump truck-sized drum and wheel it around with four guys.  All would be forgiven.

Is this a dig at Purdue?
[/quote]

That's who I had in my mind, but it was a dig at the whole giant drum concept in general rather than Purdue specifically.  I think a few bands have one (Mizzou, Florida, Texas; even Harvard has its own Big Bertha).  I always thought it would be funny for LSJUMB to roll out not a giant drum, but an actual  giant dump truck tire with some fabric stretched across it that read "World's Largest Dump Truck Tire Posing as a Giant Drum" or something like that. Works better when the opposite band has one of these:



I mean you are sort of insulting them, but at that point objecting to the dig just looks really whiny.

Hasn't U.S. and C occasionally done some scatter stuff just to poke fun at LSJUMB?  Totally harmless and inoffensive and we'd boo them mercilessly. Although, I no longer trust my memory with much to be honest.

Sorry to hear it is so hard to get decent musicians these days.  Our high school of maybe 1,500 had a 300-person strong marching band, divided into two halves for daily practice.  All spots through tryouts. It was just a garden variety public high school, nothing magnetic about it.  For whatever reason we had a lot of musicians. Top trumpeter went to Julliard. #2 guy went to Eastman, #3 was really good too, but I think she became a EE, #4 went to Berklee SOM, somebody went to Yale for music, etc. Maybe times have changed. I don't go to high school games outside the WCAL, and I think only Riordan and St. Francis even have bands.

Anyway, maybe they can learn to tune the sinks and skateboards and it'll sound a little better.