Columbia Marching Band Dissolves

[DFW HOYA]

Once known as the "Cleverest Band in the Land." "Clever" was an overstatement. So was "band."

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/15/nyregion/columbia-marching-band-shutdown.html


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8j2ct_6uUg

[Laker]

I remember them mocking their own team. Too bad that the football players didn't take care of things themselves.

[bulldog10jw]

I remember them mocking their own team. Too bad that the football players didn't take care of things themselves.

The Yale Precision Marching Band was and is far superior

[FUBeAR]

The Yale Precision Marching Band was and is far superior
I saw them in in person in 2018. Sure, they were disadvantaged by having to perform in a mud hole / sand pit...but the Punter did play his SouzaPhone...or whatever...in his Football Uniform pre-game & at halftime...so FUBeAR supports this comment.

[DFW HOYA]

The Yale Precision Marching Band was and is far superior

Yale is another one of these musical time killers with people shouting long winded political monologues from the press box. No one thinks they are remotely funny.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVe9u5zCY9A


If the Ivies want to know how to do it right, look to Cornell.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35mtEPtDOxI

[Sader87]

Harvard Band was banned from Fitton/HC one year in the 80s for making abortion, Catholic jibes....

I actually prefer those type of pep bands to big marching bands in general.

[bonarae]

What gives with the Ivies' marching bands? Are they oranges compared to HBCUs', Jacksonville State's, JMU's, etc?

[Laker]

What gives with the Ivies' marching bands? Are they oranges compared to HBCUs', Jacksonville State's, JMU's, etc?

More like kumquats. Or kale.

[bulldog10jw]

I saw them in in person in 2018. Sure, they were disadvantaged by having to perform in a mud hole / sand pit...but the Punter did play his SouzaPhone...or whatever...in his Football Uniform pre-game & at halftime...so FUBeAR supports this comment.


When's the rematch? 2022? 2023?

[FUBeAR]

When's the rematch? 2022? 2023?
10/2/21 https://mercerbears.com/sports/football/schedule/2021 in Maconga

C’mon down - we’ll learn y’all up on some real music...(worth the 8 minute watch)

https://twitter.com/cbsthismorning/status/1287002558725345281

[bulldog10jw]

10/2/21 https://mercerbears.com/sports/football/schedule/2021 in Maconga

C’mon down - we’ll learn y’all up on some real music...(worth the 8 minute watch)

https://twitter.com/cbsthismorning/status/1287002558725345281

I may go. I have a nephew in the Atlanta area who I would like to visit. How far away is Atlanta? I'm sure he would go, too.

I saw the Allman Bros in concert twice. Unfortunately, after Duane died. The first time the opening acts were The Marshall Tucker Band and the Wet Willie Band.

[Derby City Duke]

10/2/21 https://mercerbears.com/sports/football/schedule/2021 in Maconga

C’mon down - we’ll learn y’all up on some real music...(worth the 8 minute watch)

https://twitter.com/cbsthismorning/status/1287002558725345281

Cool piece. Thanks for sharing!

[FUBeAR]

I may go. I have a nephew in the Atlanta area who I would like to visit. How far away is Atlanta? I'm sure he would go, too.

I saw the Allman Bros in concert twice. Unfortunately, after Duane died. The first time the opening acts were The Marshall Tucker Band and the Wet Willie Band.
All 3 of those were prominent Artists involved with Capricorn Studios. Just visited with the Fam recently. It’s really cool...here’s a link to a gallery of bad pics I took. I could have stayed & read & listened all day. The Fam....not so much, although they do all like the music. https://postimg.cc/gallery/JLz48KW

78 miles straight down I-75 from the ATL Airport to Mercer’s campus.

(apologies for high jacking this Ivy League band thread, but the Eli did ask about the rematch...and I kept it music-related :))

[OhioHen]

What gives with the Ivies' marching bands? Are they oranges compared to HBCUs', Jacksonville State's, JMU's, etc?

Both styles are entertaining and enjoyable in their own way, but comparing HBCU bands and those such as JSU, JMU, or WCU is apples to oranges. Compared to either, Ivy bands are prunes.

[dgtw]

Political commentary aside, they weren’t even a good band from a musical standpoint.


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[bulldog10jw]

Political commentary aside, they weren’t even a good band from a musical standpoint.


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The were a tiny band. It always seemed that they had about half the number of musicians as the other Ivy bands.

[Bill]

[QUOTE=dgtw;2909502]Political commentary aside, they weren’t even a good band from a musical standpoint.


I hope you're not referring to the Allman Brothers!!:D

[Go Green]

Harvard Band was banned from Fitton/HC one year in the 80s for making abortion, Catholic jibes....
.

Columbia's band has gotten in hot water over those exact same topics. Birth control at Dartmouth game, and molesting priests at a Fordham game.

[Ivytalk]

Cornell’s band is the least original in the Ivies. Ohio State wannabes.

The Columbia band was the most ragtag. From week to week, you never knew who was going to show up.

Harvard’s band was pretty good musically (With “fight” cheers linked to the music of Mozart, Beethoven, and Dvorak) and had some funny formations . At the Yale game one year, they did a routine on the mystical significance of the number 2. Bush the Elder was Veep at the time.

[neverobeyed]

10/2/21 https://mercerbears.com/sports/football/schedule/2021 in Maconga

C’mon down - we’ll learn y’all up on some real music...(worth the 8 minute watch)

https://twitter.com/cbsthismorning/status/1287002558725345281

Somewhere around here, I have a 60-minute version of Mountain Jam that needs to be played again.

("Exactly how MANY different versions of Mountain Jam do you really need?" - my wife - about 20 years ago - seeing me walk in from the mail box with another brown padded envelope containing a live show on CDs from a kind stranger. The answer, of course, was, "More.").