Zach
I was in marching band back in the day too.Yep, we
were geeks and proud of it. I played the saxaphone. I
only did it in High School though. I didn't do
anything music related at Rutgers but I did take my
guitars with me and had them in the dorms..Sometimes I
even played them too!
Ian
--- Donald Mallinson <dmall@mwonline.net> wrote:
> Zach,
>
> I am proud of my marching band years. Over half of
> SIU's band is made
> up of non music majors, and that is a lot different
> than most major
> college bands. I loved playing music and SIU
> allowed me to participate
> in jazz band, concert band and more and just have
> fun. Don't play much
> now, but still have a trumpet. Sold my really good
> Holton many years
> ago but bought a crappy student model a few years
> ago. I need to donate
> that to some charity and get a good horn someday
> before I forget all
> the notes.
>
> Purdue always had a superb band, love watching it
> whenever I can get the
> chance.
>
> SIU's band is more of a jazz band and amazingly
> enough, up till about
> 1974 it was all male. Legacy from starting out as
> the ROTC band way
> back when women weren't admitted there either. WE
> had female twirlers,
> but no girls in the band. Funny thing is we never
> thought it was
> unusual, and the upside is that 100 of SIU's band
> could outplay 200 or
> more of most other bands. Why? BEcause we had
> almost no woodwind
> instruments. I played mellophone because it had the
> Eflat sax line and
> we had very few sax players. We were more like a
> modern Drum and Bugle
> corps than a typical marching band. Still to this
> day, the band plays
> jazz numbers and doesn't have much in the way of
> woodwinds, but they are
> about 40% female. And I guess road trips are a lot
> more fun! :)
>
> Don Mallinson
>
> Zach Leahy wrote:
>
> >On 5/1/05, Donald Mallinson <dmall@mwonline.net>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >>I have fond memories of Busch Stadium as a member
> of the Marching
> >>Saluki's band as a trumpet, then Mellophone player
> and finally the
> >>announcer for the half-time shows starting in
> 1967.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Hey another trumpet and mello marching band kinda
> geek. All hail
> >bells you can't see around :)!
> >
> >I was in the Purdue band for serval years
> (recently) and we played a
> >couple NFL games, but most people don't give a rip
> that you are there.
> > Amazingly at Purdue, there is a lot of respect,
> even from the drunk
> >students... So much that I have seen a drunk
> student shut up an
> >annoying visitor heckling the band a few times.
> That impresses me.
> >
> >My SHO on the other hand did not impress people too
> much on campus....
> >Until i took them for a ride... :)
> >
> >Z
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