Coast Guard Marching Band Medley to Armed Services

[Sarge2556]

Love to all Long Island Flotilla members. Semper Paratus!

[mgmlovebeatles]

loved nice!! it makes me proud to be a coast guard recruit

[ncom95]

@mgmlovebeatles

Thanks for serving our country! Oh, and I'm trying to get into the USCG Band, and I've been e mailing the band on the USCG website, but I never get a response. I'm in 11th grade in high school right now, and the USCG is definitely where I'm going right after High School. Help please? And can you give me some feedback on everything you do in boot camp, stuff like that?

[whitakermk]

Sounded good. Keep up the work and post more.

[mpmcd81]

One of the first things they should do is get some decent field percussion equipment and back off the dynamics in the percussion section. Given the number of parades they do, it would be the best investment that group could possibly make.

Give them a couple of years and they will sound a lot better than they do here.

[ncom95]

@mpmcd81 Dude, don't you notice that they're obviously retired form the USCG?! They probably haven't played in years! lol

[mpmcd81]

@ncom95 No. These are USCG Auxiliary, not retired USCG. Probably true.

As far as joining the normal USCG band, there's one of them in New London and auditions to get in to it are extremely competitive, like major symphony orchestra auditions. You however, would be very competitive for a Navy fleet band, non-DC USMC band, or an army band right out of high school.

[mpmcd81]

Don't be too harsh on these guys. These guys are less than two years old as an ensemble and need new members badly. If you play an instrument around the tri-state area, join these guys. They need and want new members.

This is a very exciting new development for the auxiliary, and they could become a wonderful new type of community band.

[ericn32]

percussion totally lost it entering Semper Paratus

[20031200]

The Fat guy with the cymbals is an embarrasment to the rest of the retiree band.