Cal Band Disney Show 1989

[supergokou]

8 hours to take this to performance yes... but he forgot to mention that the Cal Band memorizes their music. If you can't memorize it, you don't march. GO BEARS!

[mconner262]

How did is in that band, like 3a size or wht

[MadameMadHatter]

amazing.

[tomcatf]

awsome show but the bird that keeps flying around is anoying!

[mayo153]

i play trombone in the Allen Escadrille, and yes its the biggst band in the world, with 600+ people, just see us at UIL.

btw man, the Cal Band was awesome :D

[Love2Ridexoxo842]

thats sick

[lilymaggie93]

i say it's pretty good for one week

[antonio3h3]

does that look familler on 1:21 ?

[ohsnapitscassandra]

One of those lines is horribly crooked in the beginning when they make the diamonds.

It's driving me nuts.

[brassplayer]

Yeah, the performance is not as clean as it could be, but you'll have to cut us some slack in this instance. Because of the football schedule in 1989, this particular show was learned from beginning to end in ONE WEEK. And that includes memorizing BOTH the marching and the music.

[kristenhulsey]

At FBHS we learned everything! It really wasn't that hard. We just had 11 hour days for a week.

[kristenhulsey]

I meant we learned all of our music and our halftime show in a week

[brassplayer]

In 1989, the Cal Band rehearsal schedule was: 1.5 hours of music/marching rehearsals Tuesday-Thursday; an additional rehearsal on Friday if there was a game on Saturday; a light rehearsal Saturday morning before the game; and another hour of sectional rehearsal/week. This means that this entire show was taken from rehearsal to performance in just over 8 total hours.

[kristenhulsey]

ahh.

[xianrex1]

@brassplayer AND we went to Berkeley, so add the crazy courseload on top of that.

[xianrex1]

@brassplayer AND we went to Berkeley, so add the crazy courseload on top of that!

[DAYAMN1]

@ohsnapitscassandra Dude, the third triangle? yeah! same! and after that, they made the square, they didn't hit the set. the circle looked lumpy. And I still give them credit for it all, but you have to admit... All of the forms that were set for them are some of the hardest in Marching. Why would they want to throw that at a marching band? Professional or not.

[DAYAMN1]

@DAYAMN1 ALSO with the fact that they only had one week for both. their sound is amazing(:

[katherinesilen]

This staduim looks very familiar...

where was this filmed at?

[brassplayer]

Memorial Stadium on the U.C. Berkeley campus.

[LilKnucksie]

What? No EARS??

[Gassendi314]

Sound is particularly muddy and splattered, but it's forgivable with amazing drill like that. I think they sacrifice musicality for drill complexity. A trade-off that IMO is worth it given the results.

[ProductionsOfTheCape]

remember that this is also 1989... the recording equipment wasn't exactly the best

[CraziInsani]

Bloody awesome.

[ChristainPatriot01]

I thought I saw better Chorography in a North Korean Military parade.

[ChristainPatriot01]

Very amazing

[musikat2010]

much more impressed by this show than the cartoon theme ones.

[hckygrl4]

Beautiful! I miss marching! I'm so glad clips like this are on here to remind us all of the great times we had - no matter where we marched.

[lildigipoke]

ahhh....memories....very impressive....can't believe this was 20 years ago

[Veritas1992]

I wish my band could learn in one week and be THAT clean...we have 3 months and it still isn't as clean as it could be

[Gassendi314]

I'd be utterly amazed if they learned drill like that in only one week.

[LaLinMangaFreak]

wow...the part at 1:09-1:30...jaw dropping...wow

[brassplayer]

Wind Band. The Cal Band's instrumentation includes brass, woodwinds, and percussion.

[Sorayoushi]

WHOA That "When you wish upon a star" has a great beginning. It sounds like the real one. I think this band is really really cool how they play all these songs while moving.

[xLauraC]

OMG Awesome formations, especially in Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah!!! Was that high step or mini-military? I can't really see... Oh and I really liked the glock playing "It's A Small World" in "When You Wish Upon A Star".

Anyway, thanks for posting! It's so cool to compare to the Disney show we just did. =] Go Bears!

[brassplayer]

This show was charted by Sean Baird (Drum Major 1986). Sean had a good imagination for combining Drum Corps-like flows with the Cal Band's High Step style. It looks like "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah" includes both High Step and Mini-Military. And yes, that Glock soli was very cool. That was Liz Zamora and Christine Benzler on Glock, and they made sure they nailed it.

[MusicChick215]

I know the sound quality on this video camera can't be that good, but you guy really need to learn how to balance and blend the sound. It really doesn't sound very good. The marching and choice of music are stellar, but your director should focus more on sound.

[cinemajunkie05]

EPIC!!!!

[APlusArt]

Heh. How appropriate, their instruments catching the light makes it look like the formations are sparkling. Awesome stuff

[Bman0229]

That'd be the tubas! Low brass ftw! oh how I wish our band director wasn't a douche and I was still in a decent band

[panicxitsxbrea]

That's just. Pure genius, really. I went to a high school that's been to Macy's more than almost any other in the country (and have only been around since the 60s), and they could never pull that off.

[nepnyy12321]

just cause youve been to macy's doesnt really mean you guys are great

you ask to go, ur not invited

[panicxitsxbrea]

Er, no, we got invited and then had to raise multiple thousands of dollars to get on-screen time. And they're a fairly well-known band, for having very little money to promote themselves. Drop the hostility, already; it was a simple youtube comment. o.O

[MattLanggg]

is their pit as small as it looks or is it on the other side of the field?

[brassplayer]

The Cal Band marches a traditional military style and does not use Pit Percussion.

[MattLanggg]

Thank you. :)

[cck92]

they sound better back then then they do now.. trumpets can hit high notes alot easier than the 2007 show

[Tuba408Bass]

i am soo glad that my band is performing this whole show at disneyland this year! we have added 3songs from pirates of the Caribbean also :D

[colorguardstar16]

I wish my band would do something as cool as that...

that was awesome!

[allidiane]

Wow I wasn't even born yet. :)

[FrawstbyteEXG]

holy crap 1989!

go cal

[SSJ4HP43]

I really wish they had done more of the movie stuff. I wanted to hear some Pirates of the Caribbean, lol.

[brassplayer]

"Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl" didn't come out until 2003. This show was performed in 1989.

[SSJ4HP43]

lol, my bad. xD I didn't pay attention to the time, it was connected to a 2007 halftime show.

[ilovedisney35]

i can sing a lot of the songs in this vidieo

[NarutoM]

i see some bad guiding XDDDDDD THIS IS AWESOME!

[brassplayer]

Yeah, the performance is not as clean as it could be, but you have to realize that this entire show was learned in ONE WEEK. And that includes memorizing BOTH the marching and the music.

[rockerbaby87]

wow! :O

seriously... WOW!

what is the name of the most famous disney song? i recognise it obviously but can't put a name to it..

[juiceostans]

It's "When You Wish Upon A Star".