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Post by aggiepride73 on Sept 24, 2017 7:47:12 GMT -5
I see the band didn't travel to MSU. What happened?
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Post by DOOMS on Sept 24, 2017 8:08:51 GMT -5
I can't remember ever seeing them at Morgan.
That doesn't mean they've never gone. Just means I don't remember ever seeing 'em there.
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Post by Aggie One on Sept 24, 2017 8:16:19 GMT -5
They won't be at FAMU this year either. Those decisions were made by Dr. Ruff way before the season started. They'll travel to SCSU and Norfolk.
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Post by VA's Finest on Sept 24, 2017 12:07:25 GMT -5
Yeah, according to twitter appears the BGMM had multiple fundraising events around Greensboro,m yesterday.
BGMM made the trip to Baltimore i believe in 2015.
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Post by oleschoolaggie on Sept 24, 2017 13:20:26 GMT -5
morgan's band was very good last night. it appears that they have a much "larger" band this year compared to years past, might even be as big if not larger than the bgmm...
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Post by ohsixrain on Sept 24, 2017 13:32:24 GMT -5
No...BGMM has grown as well so they are not quite as large as us.
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Post by ohsixrain on Sept 24, 2017 13:33:37 GMT -5
Wish they would have come though.
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Post by marchingband1969 on Sept 24, 2017 14:06:31 GMT -5
No...BGMM has grown as well so they are not quite as large as us. Okay before we get confused,for band heads size doesn't matter when it comes to bands, especially when you are discussing the Blue and Gold Marching Machine. Dr. Ruff and his staff are all about creativity, musicianship and showmanship. That's why the BGMM videos on YouTube get thousands of views for years. This year's BGMM is larger but more importantly they sound fantastic.
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Post by marchingband1969 on Sept 24, 2017 14:13:50 GMT -5
Yeah, according to twitter appears the BGMM had multiple fundraising events around Greensboro,m yesterday. BGMM made the trip to Baltimore i believe in 2015. That's what our band has to do to raise student scholarship funds. The Band Boosters (BG Loyalty Foundation) and band students spent Saturday washing cars at several locations around Greensboro. It's a great way to bond with the students and raise much needed scholarship money.
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Post by ohsixrain on Sept 24, 2017 17:19:10 GMT -5
You get no argument out of me, for years we were called, "The Small Band with the Big Sound." I was just stating Morgan band has grown but so has ours.
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Post by KidHeartless on Sept 25, 2017 12:18:22 GMT -5
Morgan's band sounds great....but they're missing "something". I don't know what it is.....but its not there.
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Post by Aggie One on Sept 25, 2017 13:19:57 GMT -5
I feel ya Heartless. They are what I like to call "basic." There is absolutely nothing distinguishable about them in their sound, their look, their style, or their routines. Now that doesn't mean they aren't any good but they are, for the most part, an ordinary generic brand among HBCU bands - basic.
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Post by aggielaw on Sept 25, 2017 14:46:12 GMT -5
They were fun to watch in the stands last Saturday. They were the only band in the stadium and the game was never close.
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Post by oleschoolaggie on Sept 26, 2017 13:22:50 GMT -5
imo, i thought they had a pretty good half time show. hey, i'm not trying to put them of a "high pedestal" compared to the top hbcu bands. but as always, i just "call it the way that i see it". i wasn't comparing their "sound" nor their "routines" to the bgmm, i was just comparing their "size" to ours. all i'm saying is that this year's morgan state band looked much "bigger and better" than the morgan state bands i've seen in the past.
now how they stack up against other hbcu bands is not my call, that's not my area of expertise. but i always give credit where credit is due (except maybe for the buzzards) and i thought morgan's band did well the other night. maybe not quite as well as the bgmm might have done, especially not their exit from the half time show back into the stands. but compared to howard's band that i saw last year in dc? morgan would've blown howard away just as ours did last year.
so i agree, aggielaw. they were fun to watch last saturday...
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Post by oleschoolaggie on Sept 26, 2017 13:27:51 GMT -5
so will the bgmm be in orangeburg this saturday? lawd knows i hope so!! we'll need all the support we can get...
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