2010 UIL State

[morebueno]

Oh the good old days... I dont think anything will beat that lineup in 2000. All 8 bands were the best I've ever seen. I wish Westfield made finals so I could watch their 2000 show again, I wish someoen would put it on youtube!

  Xenon said:

I agree completely! And 2000 was epic beyond all belief!

 

Westfield's brain show, Churchill's jungle gym, The Colony's Ghost Train, Duncanville's powder cannons, Spring's techno breakdown, Spring's rushing the stands to close, Berkner's massive tarp, Leander's lake tarps and Flight of the Bumblebee, Langham Creek being added as an 8th Finalist thanks to the Bad Judge Rule, and Bell earning the Triple Crown.

[rcb05]

  morebueno said:

Oh the good old days... I dont think anything will beat that lineup in 2000. All 8 bands were the best I've ever seen. I wish Westfield made finals so I could watch their 2000 show again, I wish someoen would put it on youtube!

 

Indeed, 2000 was epic. Though it will always be the year that my heart got ripped out. It was my senior year at Duncanville, and we ended up only one ranking behind Bell for the state title (I think they had a 7 and we had an 8). Obviously I still appreciate how special it is to be the second best band in the state, but in some ways that wound will never heal.

[TxRaider13]

  rcb05 said:

Indeed, 2000 was epic. Though it will always be the year that my heart got ripped out. It was my senior year at Duncanville, and we ended up only one ranking behind Bell for the state title (I think they had a 7 and we had an 8). Obviously I still appreciate how special it is to be the second best band in the state, but in some ways that wound will never heal.

 

I loved Bells show that year..The death drill was the best

[supermanuel]

  rcb05 said:

Indeed, 2000 was epic. Though it will always be the year that my heart got ripped out. It was my senior year at Duncanville, and we ended up only one ranking behind Bell for the state title (I think they had a 7 and we had an 8). Obviously I still appreciate how special it is to be the second best band in the state, but in some ways that wound will never heal.

 

Westfield 2000 has got to be one of the best shows i've ever heard and I haveb een DYING to see a recording of it but it's nowhere to be found. I heard rumor of a video existing somewhere (and since the loss of SKRAMP's) i fear it may be impossible to find

[Xenon]

  supermanuel said:

Westfield 2000 has got to be one of the best shows i've ever heard and I haveb een DYING to see a recording of it but it's nowhere to be found. I heard rumor of a video existing somewhere (and since the loss of SKRAMP's) i fear it may be impossible to find

I know someone that has a VHS tape of it but doesn't have the equipment to bring it into the computer.

[mrt0106]

I have been going to the state marching contest for a while now and I just have to say that it is amazing at how many great bands there are here in Texas, every band that performed on Tuesday totally deserved to be there. I enjoyed every bands show and thought they were all great

[rcb05]

Quality video of Duncanville's finals performance:

[TxRaider13]

  rcb05 said:

Quality video of Duncanville's finals performance:

 

 

IMHO that was the greatest Duncanville show I have ever seen and I have seen some pretty darn good ones, even with director changes the program didn't miss a single beat(no pun intended)

Edited November 5, 2010 by TxRaider13

[bchorn]

they also had the best pre-show of all the bands. I couldn't believe that vocalist was live.

  TxRaider13 said:

IMHO that was the greatest Duncanville show I have ever seen, even with director changes the program didn't miss a single beat(no pun intended)

[The Devil's Advocate]

  rcb05 said:

Quality video of Duncanville's finals performance:

 

Best show of the night.

 

I grew up not liking Duncanville shows. They were slow, didn't move much, and lacked thematic unity. I take all of that back now. Duncanville was amazing.

 

Marcus was fun to watch but Duncanville is the band I want others to model themselves after in the future.

[rcb05]

As an alum, it warms my soul to hear those comments about Duncanville. Many worried about the director change, but I think they took everything that was good about Duncanville (great playing, fundamental marching and musical selection) and put it with a show design/theme that was something we've never seen from them before. Best show since 2002, maybe ever.

[Xenon]

  bchorn said:

they also had the best pre-show of all the bands. I couldn't believe that vocalist was live.

Thanks, but the vocalist wasn't live; she was from the UNT recording of Angels in the Architecture. It was pre-show, so pre-recorded music is allowed.

[The Brass Messiah]

uummmm hello? is no one gona say anything about the FREAKEN AWSOME oboe/english horn solo? and the new uni's where cool too!

[TxRaider13]

  The Brass Messiah said:

uummmm hello? is no one gona say anything about the FREAKEN AWSOME oboe/english horn solo? and the new uni's where cool too!

 

 

You obviously haven't been here long...There is a whole topic to new uni's and many topics talking about them

[supermanuel]

Here is, also, a really good quality recording of Brazoswood's performance.

 

 

A performance that really makes me proud to have been a Buccaneer, GO BUC BAND!

[IamNobody]

Found Hebron:

[wilburtuba]

Duncanville's 2010 program "Every time a bell rings...." was so great. Had to be the most emotional show of the night. I love Duncanville band program.

[supermanuel]

  Xenon said:

I know someone that has a VHS tape of it but doesn't have the equipment to bring it into the computer.

 

I would give anything to see what actually happens at "ONE"

 

i actually seem to have deleted the MP3 for some reason and i am not happy about it.

[Xenon]

  supermanuel said:

I would give anything to see what actually happens at "ONE"

 

i actually seem to have deleted the MP3 for some reason and i am not happy about it.

I only saw the show once, but that is a moment I remember clearly. Everyone hit the 50 in a single line straight up it. On the recording, you can hear the flagpoles striking the ground in the silence just before the "ONE". It was the transition from one side of the brain to the other. All All of the forms before were very angular and all of the forms after were very fluid and curving. If I remember correctly, at the end when both are working together, forms on the left of the 50 tended to be more angular while forms on the right were more curved.

 

I loved the setting up of a little 45degree parade formation during the "traditional" part of the left speech.

[rcb05]

The Brain show was a great concept (one they actually adopted from their winter guard). The problem was that they simply didn't play enough music to garner the scores needed to make finals.

[j_bakergal]

  supermanuel said:

Here is, also, a really good quality recording of Brazoswood's performance.

 

 

A performance that really makes me proud to have been a Buccaneer, GO BUC BAND!

 

 

 

EPIC!!!

[BariEuph1]

Ronald Reagan is back. Agree or disagree and explain.

[TxRaider13]

  BariEuph1 said:

Ronald Reagan is back. Agree or disagree and explain.

 

 

Should have made this a new topic

[TxRaider13]

 

TCHS "Ghost Train" 2000 show

 

I found Spring HS from the same year, but audio is pretty bad but cool to watch

Edited November 8, 2010 by TxRaider13

[NewMexicoBandsman]

Depends on your definition of "back." If you mean, "back in the running," then yes, they're most certainly back. They've had a great showing this year, and have returned to the intensely competitive world of BOA San Antonio as a powerful contender. If by "back" you mean "back to where they were in the first half of the decade," then no, they are no longer in a position to redefine High school marching band.