Fort Mill High School Marching Band SCBDA Upper State 4A 2008

[arrowmarcher]

Do schools with corps in their towns have a lot of kids go on to do DCI?

[JessOnTheRun]

God, how boring.... horrible wind and percussion arranging... tip, get people who know the medium and know what they are doing... this is just lame and an epic fail.

[comomello]

i hear eric whitacre's Eqqus in here! :-D

[xcrayziestephx]

yayy i go there

[joncabello23]

at 6:08 it didnt look that good =p

[FSUfanOFtheBAND]

OMG nice cords @ 5:52!!!!!

[okapizebraman]

Are they marching trombones at 5:52??

[FSUfanOFtheBAND]

I dunno lol. It looks like all baritones to me.

[babyblues454]

go amez!!! i love that guY!!!

[iluvu807]

BEN!! Kaite!! CELESTE! SQUEEE!!

[clarinetgeek7299]

oh crappers. i dont wanna pay THAT much, because all i want in the first place is a video of just us..

but anyways, thanks, and congrats again :)

[clarinetgeek7299]

ITS 55 DOLLARS?? holy moly! but couldnt you just buy a dvd of JUST your band?

god my moms going to state this saturday (5A) and she wanted to buy a DVD of us, but theres no way shes paying 55 dollars for a dvd..

[rpmspence]

No, the State Finals event was only selling a DVD of the whole competition. I did get to film the Color Guard and National Anthem. At least they waited until after that to scold the people that brought video cameras!! Thanks and good luck at the 5A competition!!

[clarinetgeek7299]

congrats Fort Mill to your 2nd place finish at 4A state! does anyone have a video of their performance yesterday...possibly looking over the entire band so i can see forms and stuff? jw :)

[rpmspence]

I was going to tape the competition until they said video cameras are strictly prohibited.  I guess they wanted us to buy the $55 DVD. Oh well

[iiShayTay]

I'm one of the mcarching sisters.I'm in the 6th grade,but I'm going to be in the marching band.You should see my sisters setion leader!BEN!He's freakin' hillarious!

--ShayShay

[ZodiacDream101]

Shay. please, when you type, use spaces after sentences. =_= and you don't even know Ben. and you better not play flute. you ARE going to play Bass Clarinet. ^_^ 'cause were the bomb! ^_^

[iiShayTay]

Well ... Flute is really easy right now,But I AM going to be playing bass clarinet when I get into high school. Then you'll be my sexy leader!! ^_^

[ZodiacDream101]

no, it's Section leader! xD

I made that mistake once. xD

[cjanva]

Great video of the band! They did an awesome job and can't wait to see how State goes. GO FORT MILL!!!!!

[moslermanj]

WOW! I wonder where your song choices came from. There is no way you guys could have taken Wando's song selection from the year before. No way at all. Seriously, this is why Wando wins (because they have originality)

[P3rcuss10n]

yeah Wando is so original... i mean Wando didn't take "Liquid" from the Cadets 2005 show... not at all... and it was 2 years ago that Wando played "Liquid" and a year before that the Cadets played it... if your going to bash on someone, or some band you should probably get the correct information first... jackass

[moslermanj]

Jay Bocook, the composer of liquid, personally arranges all of Wando's music. I don't think Wando is taking it from the cadets when the composer himself gave it to Wando to use and arranged it personally for their use.

[P3rcuss10n]

yeah, Jay Bocook also arranged it for Fort Mill. and Cadets played Liquid before Wando did.

[ZodiacDream101]

Um, our show IS original, not fully(2/3 selections ( that I know of ) are from DCI corps ^_^, but our drill( by Mr. G ) and song selections(not sure were Equuis came from O_O; *3rd movement*) yes, according to Mr. P. But still, OTHER bands have 'stolen' OTHER shows before. It's common, usually if a band 'steals' a show, either music or drill or both, it's really good. DCI is good, were not the ONLY band who 'stole' from them you know. And I agree with P3rcuss10n. really.

[bandgeek58965]

Yeah, Equus was composed by Jay Bocook for us

[bassclarinet17]

*this is ZodiacDream101 on another account

[ZodiacDream101]

ok, 'cause I wasn't sure. now I know. xD

[bandgeek58965]

btw, Our third movement (equus) was conducted by Jay just for us, and our drill was written by a band director in the area, and our show idea originated from Mr. Ford, half assistant band director, half Film and fiction teacher. Yeah, we're not original. Oh, and look up Wando's 2006 show, guess what their opener is...LIQUID!!

[Clarinet00113]

congratulations on 3rd you guys!

i'm from Crescent high school (we're 2A) and we finished 7th at upperstate.

our asst. band directors are actually from FM.