FAMU 2003 "Rolling Thunder"

[@Honzo13]

T-Bones are some beast couldn't hear anyone else until they stopped playin

[@amus1calfreak]

Speaking from a program where we warm-up every rehearsal with Long Tones, Lips Slurs, Chorales, and 7 marches.......I salute FAMU because they have ALWAYS been the advocators for playing a varied repertoire!!!

[@igtox797]

Man I miss Prof Bing. He taught me so much. I hope he is looking down on me from Heaven--proud of his prized Applied Student. Hubba Angels!

[@w5draw1]

@krbrown...The band is playing Rolling Thunder by memory, on the football field, and marching as they play. You were probably sitting down with a music stand in front of you in a concert hall. There is a marked difference. I would love to see your band march and play Rolling Thunder at 180 mm. LOL

[@jazzlife1]

R.I.P Prof!!! "Make it Pretty", "Pretty Tones", "Stop blastin those horns", I'm gonna run you off this field". I'm about to cry...

[@mas09j]

Seeing this reminds me how much I miss seeing Prof. Bing at the Music BLDG. Hubba Prof!

[@Sportsjocku2]

Great piece! I loved playing in when I was in the 100.

[@spke532]

This is a good march. hard to play clean they do a good job. sweet sound.

[@sumitvids]

EPIC MUSTACHE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@freaksrkool15101]

that was a pretty fun interpretation of it...i really liked it

[@fortepiano4491]

1.25 speed is life.

[@markforrest3040]

Forte Piano that’s perfect speed lol

[@atom7828]

"Forget tone, play loud."

[@Cardellt]

HBCUs condition their players to be heard loud and clear across packed stadiums. they are way better suited for football games than any other style.

[@thanosave7112]

wow!

[@TheeMelloMan]

has FAMU trombones ever been this crisp since then?

[@Cardellt]

They were traditionally this hood before the incident. There was and never will be a trombone section like pre 2012 Famu

[@blankfaceman9694]

Please chill trumbones yall on point but chill damn yall good

[@sr2971]

XD

[@famuscholar89]

Hubba Prof!! We Miss You!!

[@mbcwolverine00]

@djmike2013 Tri-Cities HS? Good too see the standard of excellence is still there c/o 99

[@badoc10]

Damn...Trombone Power right there.

[@MrTymon1]

Very well played haha...love HBCU's...im goin to NCCU though.....

[@khai.reid2172]

🦅

[@MHSroyalbone]

I want a mustache like prof. Bing

[@jazzlife1]

Thanks HHorn2002 for posting Prof Bing!!!

[@joeheid2776]

One of my favorite marches. A little slow, but for a marching band, not bad. Instead of focusing on certain sections, would rather hear the whole march with proper balance.

[@georgiareb1]

My friend, I AM a real musician. I was a member of the University of Georgia Redcoat band trumpet line when I was in school, and I also have, not that I need to justify my opinion to you, a great deal of respect for the musical traditions of the HBCUs. Other traditions, such as rampant brutal hazing, not so much. But the point here was not that I was dissing the band's rendition, but merely that i was not being played at the written tempo. I have played RT. It is a chop-buster at any speed.

[@kenhill100]

Sounds about white, oops, I meant right.

[@lavontae3000]

Thats Counter Melody is bangin' boy.

[@aristocratify]

I've read all of the posted comments and there seems to be a consensus of two basic musical points; one, the trombones were misplaced thus making them appear to be out of balance with the rest of the band and two, the march was performed at a slow tempo. I would agree with both logical criticisms. Most march enthusiasts would agree that the Rolling Thunder March should always be played up-tempo. Finally, the trombone melody is a part of the whole and not the whole piece by itself. Balance!

[@marvinmotley2734]

Wish we would have said, "IGTOX RUTHFUL!!!!"

[@miabandman94]

HUBBA PROF BING. R.I.P.

[@famupiccolo92]

Hubba Prof!

[@psgchisolm]

dont be hatin on dem bonez ;D

[@cazgel19]

ilove this song!! ^_^

[@famupiccolo92]

@krbrown76 Marching by memory with NO music in front of you? on a field TOTALLY by memory???? and MARCHING?????

[@BlackLightning20101]

@aristocratify This is no easy march. At it's original tempo, it's a trombone player's worst nightmare. That said, I have to agree. It is too slow. As for the sound, it just goes to prove that A) trombones are the loudest instrument in the band, B) because of A, trombones should never be at the front and C) you shouldn't put microphones in front of trombones. But then again, it is Henry Fillmore. Woodwinds played well. Would've liked to hear more horns. Were there any 2nd or 3rd trumpets?

[@ajsflittte]

is their a band behind those bones? lol

[@HuggumsMcgehee]

@Bobofwestoregonusa Sure, but it's not just melody and harmony here. It's melody and countermelody. I would've like to hear the countermelody a bit more.

[@Geecheeman]

HUBBA PROF. BING!!!!RIP!!!!!

[@Bobofwestoregonusa]

@aristocratify Yeah, but Rolling thunder just sounds so FUN at this tempo!

[@AsaGayle]

R.I.P Prof Bing

[@Zeus070911]

Hubba prof!

[@verbvideo]

Hubba Prof Bing... RIP

[@arthurparker7705]

Why did they leave out the break strain?

[@JCMIA83]

Hubba!

[@Bobofwestoregonusa]

Professor bind DID have an awesome moustache.

[@MrTeacherCoach]

this is great but the woodwinds need to bring it up and this would be what every Military marching band director would dream of

[@tubatrumpboy86]

I don't care how fast or slow they play it because fast doesn't mean good and slow doesn't mean bad. But they announcer needs to take public speaking lessons and I have never heard that trombone part and also I know there is more than one part as well. Maybe I'm wrong but they added to the trombone part. PLAT WHATS ON THE MUSIC!!!

[@badoc10]

Nice.LOL, this would explain why the lowbrass is in the back of bands most of the time. Trombones and tubas drowned everything out. n

[@fa03btop4]

A band that can play a march clean spread over the field.... (CLAPPING!!!!!!) I knew it wasn't too good to be true!

[@MrTheChosenOne954]

* content sigh* love it!

[@kmk0091]

this is the sound wat trombones n all low brasses want XD

[@famu32]

in response to aeiouandytoo, in a good marching band ur not suposed to hear the percussion section, we are FELT not herd!

[@cwallace97]

oh my gosh.... the microphones are in the front... so are the trombones... common sense would tell you that ... for when the trombones move from the front then the trumpets become loud...

[@mrfamu]

so what if its slow

[@Whales1987]

Hubba Prof! Recording doesn't do the performance justice. This is a standard that is played well by the 100 just about everytime.

[@aristocratify]

The point that was missed is that it is futile to place 30 trombones out front when the essence of the march requires all parts to be heard in harmonic tandem. I have followed FAMU more years then you have lived on this Earth. Hater I am not, music observer I am. It would have been more musically effective to keep the shape of the trombone with the trombone section embedded in the band. The slower tempo for this piece served no purpose but to provide assistance to the musically inept.

[@Bobofwestoregonusa]

Actually, they play out, because it's the melody, and everyone plays softer. Common sense and basic musical concepts would tell you that.

[@ChicagoBandHead]

as direct bands.....lol

[@whitere9]

The trumpets is a little weak but good overall

[@gowbass]

LOL

[@bassbonemexie]

uh I don't think the trombones are loud enough

[@georgiareb1]

Nice performance. Was this before or after the band members beat their drum major to death?

[@FabalaH8sH20]

Cute, but you wouldn't even know Rolling Thunder was a screamer from hearing this rendition.

[@georgiareb1]

Now let's see them try at at tempo...they're playing it at about half the tempo of Sousa's band......

[@dperfect28]

Steve Shelnutt because it was marching band season and not sophonic band season

[@nelsonarias4560]

Why is everyone in the band black?

[@parlaychronicles9310]

nelson arias is it a problem that they're black I mean it is an hbcu

[@stephaniecurry45]

Jermaine Godfrey yes, it is

[@yvonnewilliams4328]

Arin George how so?

[@Mikey29418]

TOO SLOW!

[@Victorbarreira525]

Too slow

[@Mikey29418]

IT`S TOO SLOW..

[@dozck]

Super slow, Eastman did better

[@jpow890]

This sucks musically almost as much as FAMU sucks at covering up their hazing scandal.

[@theol6252]

Omg I can actually PLAY THIS FASTER THAN THIS! IM NOT EVEN IN HIGH SCHOOL!

[@MrSuperpancho9]

they are a marching band so that makes it hard to play together very quickly

[@gov3rnor17]

Francisco M. Facts

[@slepp3843]

but can you play it clean?

[@charleyhibschweiler4555]

Theo L Same. But I had to learn to double tongue a while ago. But It's still torture

[@SimplyMusic6]

Hubba Prof!!

[@HuggumsMcgehee]

LOL