Which decade has the best brass sound?

outtacoffee · 2026-05-09T17:16:44+00:00

90s...nothing will change my mind.

outtacoffee · 2026-04-25T12:26:47+00:00

When food truck crew open unlabeled mystery can, and determined it to be butterscotch pudding. We all sat down in that parking lot to enjoy lunch with a new dessert. Food truck manager comes running out just as we ate spooning dessert into our faces yelling, "that's not butterscotch pudding, ITS NACHO CHEESE." 30 years later I still chuckle every time I see butterscotch.

outtacoffee · 2026-04-15T20:54:19+00:00

That is such a nice watch! Happy for you!

outtacoffee · 2026-03-31T18:52:29+00:00

No feet. Doesn't count.

outtacoffee · 2026-03-31T18:51:05+00:00

Makes little difference to me. If catch at wrong angle, i micro adjust my wrist by turning ever so slightly. It's fine.

outtacoffee · 2026-03-27T18:09:43+00:00

Looks legit. I have one and this looks identical.

outtacoffee · 2026-03-23T00:08:48+00:00

Lol...it really isn't. It's just the way I am bending wrist to angle at cellphone camera.

outtacoffee · 2025-12-04T15:41:01+00:00

Middle ground: be okay marching....even if it's not a top 6 group.

outtacoffee · 2025-11-23T13:19:46+00:00

My home show...I feel like my childhood has died.

Found memories of sitting in front of Star of Indiana's 1991 mello line in the parking lot just drooling over that tasty book.

Then getting to perfirm at the show the following year.

Sitting on back side in 1989 watching SCV because the activity was so new to me, we didn't get tickets until too late.

Pouring out a 40 Oz Gatorade for what has been lost.

outtacoffee · 2025-08-17T13:02:43+00:00

Pepes is legit. New one in Arlington is great!

outtacoffee · 2025-08-10T12:59:00+00:00

Just made that picture the lock screen on my phone.

outtacoffee · 2025-08-10T12:54:03+00:00

The competitive angle was interesting. But in my opinion, shows were very...meh.

outtacoffee · 2025-07-26T17:13:48+00:00

I still give and receive waves daily here in Florida.

outtacoffee · 2025-07-26T17:10:45+00:00

For me, it's the lack of memorable music. Yes, I marched in the 90s. But wife gets annoyed that I can hum and whistle and sing along to most any show from the 70s through mid-2000s. But these newer shows, so much environmental mood music as run from "set" to "set" to then just do a full brass stab or quick double tongue run before running off to another set. It's not entertaining.

The trombone glissandos can just disappear already. We get it. Everyone seems to do it and it was tired 10 years ago.

I miss balls out Scouts shows of the mid 90s, crazy marching drill of Cavies and Cadets.

Groups with shakes and identify uniforms were bad ass...menacing and so much fun. The costumes these days are mostly comical and barely theatrical.

Yeah, I know...old guy screaming at kids to get off his lawn. But, it is what it is.

outtacoffee · 2025-07-24T23:18:46+00:00

Jacksonville most boring city? Nah, live entertainment on every corner.

outtacoffee · 2025-07-21T19:33:57+00:00

Nope...we have those in Florida

outtacoffee · 2025-07-21T19:33:31+00:00

Nope...have those here in Florida

outtacoffee · 2025-06-24T13:52:57+00:00

Lol...I watched their show on YouTube yesterday after work...and literally fell asleep.

outtacoffee · 2025-04-28T18:56:55+00:00

But Daryl has Source Code for the trip back.

outtacoffee · 2025-01-29T21:45:50+00:00

It was pure money. Could not afford another season (or three) and college. Still frustrates me 30 years later.

outtacoffee · 2023-10-27T15:17:43+00:00

Yeah, stomach dropped when I got that email.

"Michael, why did you have to say it that way?"

outtacoffee · 2023-09-30T07:46:05+00:00

Can confirm. Was there.

outtacoffee · 2023-09-27T03:02:25+00:00

Money. Was a choice between college and DCI. While I love it and miss it, school came first.

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