Northstar Band 2009 WSMA Performance

8:32-9:13....awesome

old school drumline tuning... you don't hear that often anymore... nice

i really liked our show this year. :D

I'm going to take this time to apologize for some of the comments I made earlier. There are assholes in every band. I have no doubt that if Oak Creek had won, it would have gone to some people's heads and caused undesirable things. North and West are both excellent bands; I just don't feel that the results matched the performance this year. I've always been the first OC person to criticize my own for blaming things on the judges and cutting down the Waukeshas, but I felt this year was different.

So how 'bout that tenor solo? Pretty amazing if you ask me, that split roll, all so awesome.

Split rolls are indeed awesome. But maybe I'm just biased for being a part of one in Oak Creek's 2007 show. (which I still feel was OC's best year in percussion despite the 8.0 and 3rd place finish)

for a marching band this was good. Not perfect but you will not find perfect at this level.  How do you properly Jazz step then? Ask anyone who teaches marching and they will tell you everyone has a different technique. Also, the abuse of sarcasm is becoming very old

the Reading Buccaneers a long time ago. The two guard fighting and the ending set was definitely pulled from Blue Coats 08. Cirque Du Soleil? North did that in '07 West used triangles that were like North's last year and they had giant flags at the end of the ballad which was Colts 09. Bottom line is we all do it so you can't criticize on that basis. Frankly I think it is awesome when I see DCI moves copied and pulled off well to compliment an already great show.

I am flattered you could tell we used a bunch of different influences as well as our own stuff to put together a great show. The fact that you identified different parts meant that the kids executed well. Oh and because one group has ever done something before does that make it off limits for everyone else? If that is the case can I go so far to say the OC copied Phantom 08 by playing battlefield, using the wood blocks in the pit and fighting. Also the guard line during drum solo was done by

ok, north is a rich band, no, west is the rich one, they have a personal semi truck