Michigan Marching Band "Stars and Stripes Forever" 9-28-1991

[AllenJBlodgettJrmota]

Anybody else think there is too much percussion, especially in the beginning?

[fosterslover]

It's interesting how muted the sound is when the horn players turn the other way

[dnbsick]

what is the idea

[MrRootBeerz]

The piccolo solo makes this song what it is. WHERES THE SOLO

[dpanian]

@TwinCreekStables, continuing... However, the MMB stopped performing with flipfolders about 15 years ago, which just means some of my friends and me probably would have a difficult time being in the band were we to do it again.

[dpanian]

@TwinCreekStables, considering about 95 percent of the Michigan Marching Band then, like now, is non-music majors, the members have better things to study than their music. Also, the MMB prepares new shows for every home game, often in just five days. And some of us, like me, have a hard time memorizing music but have an easier time memorizing the drill.

[DCHStrumpet]

@dpanian Ohio State has never used flip folders

[TwinCreekStables]

youre a college band and youre marcdhing with FLIP FOLDERS??? thats 6th grade shit

[USofAUberWoW]

OMFG.. At first i thought the audience was the band until I saw the field..

[jonathan1234911]

WOW!! SO Cool!

We don't have anything like this in Britain :(

[camoblackhawk]

@jonathan1234911 that's because you live in Britain.

[sirbuick]

@camoblackhawk quit being a douche. Responses like that are the reason the rest of the world thinks America is full of assholes.

[sushiru]

Muy bonito lo de la bandera.... pero no escuche la parte de los piccolos :S

[MrAk47brian]

drumline way way too heavy go alto saxophones 

[saris093]

Don't be hater, good video very creative band

[MrMinecrafthacker]

Im a canadian but thats still cool

[collinsl02]

drumline was WAY too heavy

[Motive11331]

@collinsl02 Drumline is always way too heavy.

[bandpickle2000]

That's weak....great effect, but skipping the piccolo part....that's just lame

[MrGriffico]

@bandpickle2000 You can hear the piccolos going nuts in the recording if you listen real close...

[dpanian]

It is from an 18-year-old VHS tape produced using 1991-era audio and video equipment. There's not much I can do about the source. But if you're talking about the volume during the part where the "flag" is waving, at any moment about half the band is facing away from the microphone so, yeah, the volume is going to be diminished.

[varbren]

@dpanian just beautiful, only in america, too bad about the soundtrack

[cliffenj]

the sound is poor!