Florida State Band plays "Whatever You Like"

At NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament in Boise, Idaho, at the Taco Bell Arena. March 20, 2009. Wisconsin vs. Florida State. First Round. Florida State lost.

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[jet06d]

How dare you cut away from the Golden Girls, even if only for half a second!!

BTW, nice angle.

[cmoney944]

at 00:31-00:48 tht junk went hard

[mike71085]

@ThaOneKidz Nope, wrong again. FSU Golden Girls dance to Seminole Sound playing "Whatever You Like." They're the dance team, not the cheerleaders.

[Jr3ll]

man i need me a nice southern belle..goddamn!

[ThaOneKidz]

More like "FS Cheerleaders dance to Marching Band playing 'Whatever You Like' " :)

[mike71085]

@Ryber85 It's not "racial profiling" if it's true. I believe that HBCU bands CAN play with a great degree of musicianship, it's just that they choose not to with the style of music they play, and that's fine. They play their style of music at the volume and level of musicality that they wish, and 'Corps Style" bands will continue to do their thing. I don't see why their should be debate or controversy over it since both styles have their fans that wouldn't have either sounding any different.

[Ryber85]

I have to agree with the musicality argument. True emotional expression, dynamically, comes from the contrast of playing piano, forte, and everything in between. Playing constantly louder than your ability will allow with proper tone and technique is quite the opposite of emotionally expressive. constantly playing or singing louder then your skill level can actually be physically harmful. I also find it odd that a respected band director would be perpetuating racial profiling in any manner....

[Ryber85]

Interesting all this discussion on volume... if that is truly your issue with this performance being "boring" then blame the NCAA since they only allow 30 member bands for post-season play, which this clearly is based on the giant logo mid-court. I can assure you that the full 160 member band (Seminole Sound) is much louder.

[gaminzoner]

@TheDragonmaster18 Thats really not the case at all. corps style bands just use musicality when they play their songs. They could easily sound like an hbcu band if they just ignored everything they learned in high school about how to properly play music. hbcu bands just overblow everything. the only hbcu band i've seen play anything truly musical is famu. and even they overblow songs. real musicians know their limits, they know how loud they can play before quality of sounds starts to suffer

[TheDragonmaster18]

@gaminzoner the only reason i made this a black thing is because the band director houston al- star band told me the exact same thing i told you. as well i hate it when these type of bands turn a good song into a concert piece ballad type thing and you cant even enjoy it or groove to it cause it sounds so boring cause there are alot corps style bands who have messed up good classic songs that they should have really let the HBCU bands play.

[gaminzoner]

@TheDragonmaster18 thats not always the case. i don't understand why you're making this a black thing but i guess you're too ignorant to understand this conversation fully. when musicians want their music to have emotions and feeling they just play or sing loud. they use dynamics and expression in their music to connect with their audience whether they're black, white, blue, green or all of the above. when all you do is play loud it takes away from the actual music and doesn't do it justice