No other music ensemble is as
loud as we are. I have friends who live in old dorms and they say.
'Oh you're going to do a Michael Jackson' show' like your door with half a mile
It's like, 'You're dorm is half a mile away!'
There's really nothing like performing
in front of 60,000 people. It's incredible the scale, the hype of the crowd
it's just so exciting to go out onto the field with the whole band
it's amazing I've never felt anything like it. There's so much noise and it's
nothing that you can prepare for.
Creating formations with 330 people
is pretty impressive, it takes a lot of practice. You really have to know the
people to your left and right
to make sure it works well. And a lot of our shows this season are one-week shows
which require us to learn everything in a Tuesday, a Thursday,
a Friday and then be ready to play Saturday. But everyone's really just
hype because you are about to perform another show that we
have worked our butts off for. Coming out of the tunnels
I always get butterflies in my stomach. We always
shout, 'Band, what is your profession?'
and we all yell, 'Wahoo, Wahoo,
WAHOO!' Let's GOOO!!! [Cheers ]
Camaraderie in the band is unlike anything I've ever
seen or experienced before. I've seen so many people in the band really grow.
Being part of the CMB I think really
brought me out of my shell. At the end of the day, I'm really in the CMB
because I've become best friends with these people. I think it's more than
a friendship we're really family.
There's so many different types of people
in the band, Engineering school people I'm a Classics major.
but marching band it's not about you at all! It's really just about
330 kids who love music who love to perform,
gettin' together and really working hard to make something special. All these people came together
to make this piece of art, and it all comes together in such a perfect way
to be able to go to sleep knowing that I did that
and that we all did it together is...
it's an amazing feeling
[Announcer] 'OhhhhhhYEAH!'