David S. Phipps
Assistant Band Director, Hobbs High School, Hobbs, NM, USA
Principal Clarinet, Southwest Symphony Orchestra, Hobbs, NM, USA
Graduate, University of Oklahoma, Class of '88/Master's Class of '89
Pride of Oklahoma Marching Band, 1984-1988
Orange Bowl, 1985, 1986, 1988
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BBall15903 wrote in message
<19981118230621...@ng-fa1.aol.com>...
>Look at the facts... The Lassiter band and the Sprayberry band are
considered
>to be almost on the same level (I do admit that Lassiter a little better).
But
>I would hope so. Actually, they should be much better...
>Sprayberry:
>Completely volunteer
>Has regular practices about 2 times a week
>Usually has one, maybe two Saturday "camps"
>
>Lassiter:
>Must try out (they pick the cream of the crop)
>Has many practices per week, basically ruins any chance of a
> social life
>From what I understand has many, many Saturday "camps"
>
>For how much more effort Lassiter puts into their band, they are only a
little
>better than Sprayberry. They may look great and sound great, but if
Sprayberry
>were to mimic Lassiter (which I hope never happens) Sprayberry would be at
>LEAST 10 times better, and could make number 1 in BOA (something Lassiter
has
>yet to do)
>
>Senior @ Sprayberry High
>
Wow...that is a rather bold statement to post on here!! I think that Lassiter
has an incredible band...no matter how they got there, they did it and that is
what is important. I personally have never heard Sprayberry's band...but I hold
Lassiter in the highest esteem and I feel that it is kind of petty and low to
come onto here and tell everyone how much better than the national champions
your band would be if they applied themselves. If it's that important to you,
then get out there and practice and then prove yourself!!
Jessica Frost(GB)
Union Drumline
Senior @ Sprayberry High
P.S. If it makes you feel better this will be my last post
Why do you keep saying that Lassiter didn't get first at BOA.. what do you
think first place at 2 regionals (johnson city and atlanta) as well as first at
Grand Nationals is?
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Michael Bell
Timpanist/Percussionist
Jacksonville St. University
Marching Southerners PIT
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I am afraid Lassiter is more than just a little bit better than
Sprayberry.
I am hoping this was a joke. If not, you should seek prompt medical
attention.
Matthew Harris
BBall15903 wrote:
>
> Look at the facts... The Lassiter band and the Sprayberry band are considered
> to be almost on the same level (I do admit that Lassiter a little better). But
> I would hope so. Actually, they should be much better...
> Sprayberry:
> Completely volunteer
> Has regular practices about 2 times a week
> Usually has one, maybe two Saturday "camps"
>
> Lassiter:
> Must try out (they pick the cream of the crop)
> Has many practices per week, basically ruins any chance of a
> social life
> From what I understand has many, many Saturday "camps"
>
BLAH BLAH BLAH
you (the person who i'm replying to) did not prove anything by saying
>that were good at BOA... they still didn't get first, which they've been
>trying
>to get for so long...
UMMM.....They did get first! DUH...They are the BOA Grand Nationals Champs.
I seriously doubt that you haven't seen Lassiters band being that it is that
you are from right down the road from there.. But seriously you can't say
anything bad about Lassiters concert band.. The Wind Ensemble there is
absolutely amazing.. They are one of the few bands that is repeatedly invited
to perform at the Midwest Clinic in Chicago. So tell us all why you feel that
the concert program there isn't as good as Sprayberry?
Kevin Pfefferle
Westerville North H.S.
Trumpet
http://members.aol.com/BigBirdTpt/home.html
Michael Hafer,
"May the marching arts continue in excellence BEYOND the 21st century."
Fort Wayne, IN
BBall15903 wrote:
Sprayberry's band is VERY nice... I may not appear to be, but I'm not apart of
the band... use to be but it wasn't for me... I still Think that Sprayberry is
a great band for the facts that I had previously given. I've noticed two things
1) No one has yet to admit that they should be better with all their practicing
and 2) you (the person who i'm replying to) did not prove anything by saying
that were good at BOA... they still didn't get first, which they've been trying
to get for so long... When Sprayberry sets a goal, we're there in two years...
tops. If you haven't heard of sprayberry then maybe you weren't watching the
Rose bowl parade in 1996. Sprayberry's concert bands have played in Carnegie
(so kill me, i'm not a good speller) hall. Which lets face the facts... how
well the Concert bands play directly effects the Marching... seeing that in
every organization i've heard of, you must be in a concert band to be apart of
the marching band...
Senior @ Sprayberry High
Matt Haynor
Sprayberry Band of Gold c/o '99
I'm not going to get into this tinkle tinkle contest, but I just wanted to
point out that the Sprayberry band program is one of the finest in the south.
Sprayberry and Lassiter (and Pope and Walton, for that matter) are all know n
as being some of the best marching bands in the south. Why you haven't heard
of Sprayberry is probably because we're the underdogs when you look at the big
picture. We hardly ever compete in BOA. We used to go up in BOA, but I don't
believe we've done BOA in a long time. I don't know the facts behind it, but
we just don't compete in that competition anymore.
I just wanted to say that this is the funniest thread I have read in a long
time...
Awesoman's Awesome Page of Awesomeness!!!!
PS thanks to the people who have helped defend us :-)
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-MAP "It's the power of the Woody, baby!"
-Lassiter Trumpets
If you want to know a little more about Sprayberry, check out their web page
that has quite a bit of information. If you'd like to HEAR Sprayberry, e-mail
me. I have mp3 file s of our performance last year in the Fiesta Bowl.
You were at the Fiesta Bowl last year
Do you remember this?
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DATE: Monday, December 29, 1997
EVENT: Arizona: Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Arizona
Fiesta Bowl National Band Championship, Phoenix
JUDGING BY: Assembled Panel
OPEN CLASS - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
94.75 Union High School, Oklahoma
91.60 Jenison High School, Michigan
90.90 Sprayberry High School, Georgia
We were 12th at Nats
Where would you be?
"The Puppet Guy"
Ben Lawrence
Trombone
Renegade Regiment
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Jeremy Frasier
Walton High School
Snare Line
Squad Leader
You might also want to point out the fact that Sprayberry won the parade
championships of the Fiesta Bowl.
There is no need to start bashing each other's bands. Yes, the person who
wrote those messages about Lassiter goes to our school. No, he is not involved
in the band. Yes, he just wrote an apology message stating that everything he
was saying was just BS. Let's put a stop to this thread. Personally, I think
it's safe to say that the Sprayberry band (as well as every other band in the
south) is very proud of Lassiter's achievement. Let's not start a debate on
who has the best marching band out there.
Works for me. :)
Again, let's end this stupid thread...with this message.
On Thu, 19 Nov 1998 the_pup...@my-dejanews.com wrote:
> OPEN CLASS - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
> 94.75 Union High School, Oklahoma
> 91.60 Jenison High School, Michigan
> 90.90 Sprayberry High School, Georgia
"The power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it."
This is a weak argument. First, I've heard both programs and they are both of
the highest quality (Lassiter obviously, and Sprayberry is about as good...just
not very well known).
I've done my homework. Yes, Sprayberry made 3rd in the field show at the
Fiesta Bowl, but you forgot to mention that they made an almost clean sweep
with the parade competition, placing first in marching, musical performance,
overall effect, and was the Grand Champion . As for the field show
competition, I'm not going to get deep into this (as I don't know the facts for
sure), but apparantly all the judges except for one all gave Sprayberry the
highest ratings, but that 1 judge was apparantly biased and gave a low score
for the band. Again, I don't know these facts for sure, but I've heard this
story quite a few times.
Other Sprayberry Band accomplishments.
1. They continue to make superior ratings and place first in all (most) of the
competitions they compete in. (They recently gave a clean sweep in the Citrus
Bowl...it's not BOA, but it's still a competition)
2. This is more of a school accomplishment, but they host the famous and
well-recieved Southern Invitational competition is held at Sprayberry (in
which Lassiter regularly competes in...except for this year).
3. Sprayberry High School band has some of the finest instructors around. Dan
Martin, the band's director is a well respected gentleman. His brother, Freddy
Martin, is a well-known band instructor (chances are you've heard his name
before) who assists with marching band practices and really helps define the
band.
4. For all the other people that have heard about them, Sprayberry is also a
very well-respected band, and along with Lassiter, Pope, and Walton, have great
respect for other bands. These four bands set an example for what other bands
should aspire to be.
The main reason I'm pointing out these facts is to show those ignorant of
Sprayberry that this is an excellent band program that, like many other bands,
deserves respect. Just because of the derogetory postings of one blithering
idiot individual (who isn't even in the band) does not mean that Sprayberry has
no respect for Lassiter or any other bands. The two bands have a high respect
for one another.
But all in all, does any of this really matter? No. What matters is that we
do our best to make our marching band the best it can be, to satisfy ourselves,
and present an entertaining musical experience. THAT is why I've been in
marching band.
I am not slamming sprayberry at all, but we did win several of the captions
there, so not just one judge made the difference. I believe we won marching
and GE so more than one judge must have had them below us.
~Justin Neff
~Union Renegade Regiment
~Bass Clarinet
~Class of '99
The main thing I remember from that performance (I was the keyboard player that
year for Sprayberry) was the opener. First, the Fiesta Bowl was held in one
huge, overwhelming stadium (the Sun Devil Stadium, I believe), and that kinda
freaked me out. The very beginning of our show is where you could hear my
piano part clearly. There were these two camera guys with their cameras
totally focused on me (that only helped in making me more nervous), and I
remember being especially hot that day. However, these things were nothing
compared to the big problem.
Ya see, our show that season (music from "Jekyll & Hyde"), featured a flute
solo through a microphone at the very beginning of the performance. However,
as luck would have it, the microphone all of a sudden just stopped working.
Hence, you hear no flute solo at the beginning of our show (though you do hear
my band director frantically telling my assistant band director to "turn it way
up!!!" You also hear me, playing chords, with those damn cameramen focused
directly at me. I was pretty much scared out of my mind. They finally got the
microphone working again for the other solo in the middle of the performance.
I don't remember much else from that show other than we did a marvelous job.
There is NO band in the southeastern United States which is nearly the
equal of Lassiter.
Matthew Harris
> the highest quality (Lassiter obviously, and Sprayberry is about as good...just
> not very well known).
>
> I've done my homework. Yes, Sprayberry made 3rd in the field show at the
> Fiesta Bowl, but you forgot to mention that they made an almost clean sweep
> with the parade competition, placing first in marching, musical performance,
> overall effect, and was the Grand Champion . As for the field show
> competition, I'm not going to get deep into this (as I don't know the facts for
> sure), but apparantly all the judges except for one all gave Sprayberry the
> highest ratings, but that 1 judge was apparantly biased and gave a low score
First of all, Lassiter did win GN this year so your argument about their
"not reaching their goal" is false.
In 1994, the last time they attended, they finished third. Hardly
something to apologize for.
Only ONE BAND in the entire country can win grand nationals - are you
implying that if a band goes to GN and does not win, that band has
FAILED?
This is ridiculous. There are obviously many bands going to GN and a
number of them hope to win. Only one can. The rest are certainly not
failures.
You state that Sprayberry can achieve any goal is sets its mind to in
two years, tops.
I take this as an implication that Sprayberry could win GN in two years
if it wanted to.
This is ridiculous.
You write as if Sprayberry could be better if they worked harder, but
that they don't WANT to work harder. You seem to expect us to RESPECT
you for that. It reminds me of the guy who says "yeah, I could make
straight A's if I wanted to but I don't study that much" expecting
others to be impressed by his "potential" when in fact they are repulsed
by his laziness.
If I am one of your band mates or one of your directors, I pray nightly
for you to shut up because you're behaving like an arrogant, jealous
idiot and you're making Sprayberry look like a bunch of foolish jerks.
Fortunately, I am not one of your band mates.
Please don't tell us how great Sprayberry could be if they wanted to be.
I'm not impressed by your "potential" I am bothered by the fact that you
don't have the desire to achieve it.
Matthew Harris
BBall15903 wrote:
>
> Sprayberry's band is VERY nice... I may not appear to be, but I'm not apart of
> the band... use to be but it wasn't for me... I still Think that Sprayberry is
> a great band for the facts that I had previously given. I've noticed two things
> 1) No one has yet to admit that they should be better with all their practicing
> and 2) you (the person who i'm replying to) did not prove anything by saying
> that were good at BOA... they still didn't get first, which they've been trying
> to get for so long... When Sprayberry sets a goal, we're there in two years...
> tops. If you haven't heard of sprayberry then maybe you weren't watching the
> Rose bowl parade in 1996. Sprayberry's concert bands have played in Carnegie
> (so kill me, i'm not a good speller) hall. Which lets face the facts... how
> well the Concert bands play directly effects the Marching... seeing that in
I was there they were awesome...
Ryan
wrong
Nick
I assume you go to Lassiter.
Hmmm...maybe he said "wrong" cuz the other guy actually HAD seen Lassiter
before?
Well, they did kind of win Grand Nationals, so technically, by BOA standards,
they are the best band in the continental United States.
Matt Scovil
Union Renegade Regiment
Trumpet
Class of 2000
" Is that Polyester you're wearing? "
By BOA standards, yes. But what about all the other great bands that chose not
to compete in BOA?
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Awesoman wrote in message <19981119161009...@ng113.aol.com>...
>>if Sprayberry is so
>>good then why has noone heard of them?
>
>I'm not going to get into this tinkle tinkle contest, but I just wanted to
>point out that the Sprayberry band program is one of the finest in the
south.
>Sprayberry and Lassiter (and Pope and Walton, for that matter) are all know
n
>as being some of the best marching bands in the south. Why you haven't
heard
>of Sprayberry is probably because we're the underdogs when you look at the
big
>picture. We hardly ever compete in BOA. We used to go up in BOA, but I
don't
>believe we've done BOA in a long time. I don't know the facts behind it,
but
>we just don't compete in that competition anymore.
>
>I just wanted to say that this is the funniest thread I have read in a long
>time...
Oh, so we have to have a lot of money in order to be known? Makes sense to me.
Jackass.
I love "my" band and I think they are great but I'm able to recognize a
highler level of excellence when I see it.
The first time I saw Lassiter was 1995, so I cannot speak about events
before that time. But since 1995 I have not seen a band which even
comes close to them.
Matthew Harris
Awesoman wrote:
>
> >There is NO band in the southeastern United States which is nearly the
> >equal of Lassiter.
>
> I assume you go to Lassiter.
Gordon
By BOA standards, yes. But what about all the other great bands that
chose not to compete in BOA?
Actually, the post has nothing to do with Lassiter in particular. What I meant
is that there are people on here that believe that the only good marchings
bands are the ones that compete in BOA, and that's not true at all.
Henceforth, we can't be totally certain that Lassiter is the best marching band
out there (but they certainly are one of the best.
Awesoman's Awesome Page of Awesomeness!!!!
>yeah sure their poor... hmm they live in east cobb county just like lassiter
>they are far from poor
Heh.
It's us people that live in south cobb that are poor... get it straight.. :)
Jason Lowe
South Cobb HS Drumline 95-97
Section Leader 97
Boy it feels good to post again!!!
Matt
Mister Badguck....er CAPTAIN FUNK!!
Qvack.
Member of the Stef Fan Club!!
ICQ#: 19504660
"I shall refrain from forcefully applying muscle tension to my jawbone and
breaking your outer epidermal layer by the use of my bicuspids."
>Sprayberry.
>Whatta neato name.
>Makes me think of Ocean Spray.
>Cranapple was always my favorite.
Makes you think of Ocean Spray? heh.
Makes me think of cat spray, ferret spray, and other forms of urination.
hehe, I'm just kidding. :)
>Boy it feels good to post again!!!
>
>Matt
>Mister Badguck....er CAPTAIN FUNK!!
>Qvack.
>Member of the Stef Fan Club!!
>ICQ#: 19504660
>"I shall refrain from forcefully applying muscle tension to my jawbone and
>breaking your outer epidermal layer by the use of my bicuspids."
>
Jason Lowe
South Cobb 95-97 Drumline
Section Leader 97
>I remember Cobb County.
>That where that one wrestler guy was from.
>I forgot his name??
>Shoot!!
Big Boss Man? Yeah, he was a police officer of Cobb County.
>I was born in Dekalb County. Decatur, Geeeorgia. Woo hoo!!!
Wow, I didn't know that, cool. I have friends in Decatur.
> But all in all, does any of this really matter? No. What matters is that we
> do our best to make our marching band the best it can be, to satisfy
ourselves,
> and present an entertaining musical experience. THAT is why I've been in
> marching band.
>
I understand where you're coming from, puppet guy, but still I agree with
Sprayberry guy here...It is a comepletely different competition than Fiesta
Bowl, and just remember the idiocy of the judges there? (DL score)
Nick "Waldo" Barton
UDL '96-'99
moron '81-present
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I only meant to offend one"blitherin idiot individual" I'm deeply sorry if I
insuted anyone else.
The Puppet Guy
Ben Lawrence
Trombone
Renegade Regiment
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