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That better not be a Lonsdale shirt chris, i can't stand that make.

No way!! ben sherman

Isn't half-pipe judged? I'd say that was a sport...

Not all competitions are sports. Although now that ESPN apparently has nothing better to put on TV and airs card games and exercises in gluttony, I guess the definitions of sport are relaxed. In my book, anything that involves judging is hard to consider a sport. Too arbitrary. In soccer, whoever scores the most goals is the winner. Similar with baseball, basketball, etc. When judges are involved, then things get sketchy. I realize that there are referees in every sport but they are not directly involved in the result like they are in, say, figure skating, or marching corps.

Additionally, I'd argue that the focus of sports is on the actual physical play. This is hard to explain I think, but basically, I could create a piece for a marching band that is incredibly demanding physically and involves running all over the place while playing your instruments, but the judges would say, "What the fuck, that was stupid," and give me a bad score. A piece that was less physically demanding but had better music and better choreography would win out. I assume that the focus in musical competitions is on the aesthetic part of it, and that the winning group in such a competition is the one who sounded and looked the best when they performed, not necessarily the one that makes their band members look like runners at the end of a marathon.

But what do I know.

Not very much. Music is judged, yes, but so is the physical, and visual portions. I could show you the score sheet, but it would be pointless if you're not familiar. Basically, each section (brass, precussion, colour guard) is judged both on the difficulty of what they do, and how well they execute it. That goes for both music and visual. You are also judged on the amount of different techniques you use, and how well the staff wrote the show.

So, no. You aren't being judged on whether or not the guy keeping score likes your show, just how well you do it. And when theres 10+ people standing next to you doing the same exact thing, even you could point out when something is wrong, Jelly. Like I said, the music isn't the main concern here, the show is.

Last words for the band thingy.
Don't get me wrong, MA. I have TONS of respect for what you're doing, it is extremely difficult to master a musical instrument, so props for that. I just don't agree with the concept of music being a competition or sport. Music is music, sports are sports. And neither is worse or better than the other, it's just a way to separate something that focuses on physicality and one singular clear cut objective from something in which the point is to create an appealing sound, possibly with visuals to go with it. At least that's my opinion. But hell, in the end the bottom line is they're just stupid words.

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These 30,000 people are my motivation, dude. So think what you want.

Putting motion to music is something that's been done for years. Take dance, gymnastics, or fight scenes in movies even. Only difference here is that we're making the music. I see sport as something that is both physical and competative. And this is both. But still, everyone gets hung up on the fact that there's music, and we get labeled accordingly.

So whatever. I know what I do, and that is something most people could not. I just wish you people would learn how to bust my balls for something other than the fact that im in band. It's really getting fucking old.
Do you have any idea how many times I've heard "GO TOOT UR FLUTE LOLZ!!"? Seriously, man. It's so fucking tired.

I actually had no intention of busting your balls this time through. But when someone said "marching band" and you were like "NO DRUM AND BUGLE CORPS" that kinda rubbed me the wrong way, sounded like a typically elitist band thing to say. I mean people have told me a million times in the fall, "So you're running track now right?" and technically if it was fall I was running cross-country, not track. But running is running and it's the same uniform and no one except a track runner would give a shit whether I was running a mile on a track or 3 miles in the woods so I didn't bother to correct those people. The correction wasn't really warranted.

But I'm sure you really meant nothing by it and didn't mean it to be an elitist comment and I just made a big deal over nothing. And I admit I did. The good news, though, is that the last page of this thread has been entertaining, and I and eman aired our differences in the philosophy of music than MA, and MA got to be like "30,000 people watched that homes" and in the end we were all friends again. So MA you keep tooting your flute and I'll uhh...well I don't do the track/xc/running anywhere thing anymore but I'll find something to do and I'll do that.

So getting back to what this topic is for...

Here's me and my sister on the best rollercoaster in the world, El Toro:

I'm in the white shirt with my sister next to me.

Ohhh girl on the forums, can I have sex with your mouth plix? lolz BRAP BRAP EBOUE!!!

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You people are fucking stupid. Yelshi, I apologise for the mental age of this site as a whole.

Your first mistake was taking anything you see on this website seriously.

least of all bruckner, whose current posts seem to range from the incoherent to the idiotic.

Me with my band at a Battle of the bands final in February of this year. I'm the one on the right (on the end)

Regardless of whether they were joking, which I assumed they were, no guy wants to have to hear that about his sister.

Regardless of whether they were joking, which I assumed they were, no guy wants to have to hear that about his sister.

Bruckner probably wasn't joking, but I don't think anyone here listens to him anymore.

it's cute i could stir such a rile!
but then again, if i cared much about what people thought of me on this site i wouldn't post, now would i?

edit: actually, in hindsight, it was a pretty shitty thing to do. i don't know her and they don't know me, no immature remarks need to be spread.

Seemed like a solid guy-out-drinking-with-his-friends type joke to me. Still a bit sketchy though with someone you don't know (Only a bit though).

Emo_ffaf, how old are the guys in your band. You look pretty damn young, which is prolly a good thing cause if you start early, you have much more of a chance of making it in the future. I only hope your guys' musical style is not represented by your name.

Seemed like a solid guy-out-drinking-with-his-friends type joke to me.

You're right, it would be OK if we were friends.

Taking Brucky seriously is like watching porn with friends. Don't

I'm in the black shirt on the bottom.