YouTube Thursday - This One Time At Band Camp Jokes Have Not Been Funny For Almost A Solid Decade Now

by TwistNHook on Jul 31, 2008 3:28 PM PDT in General

Well, then. Our running YouTube Thursday routine has been going for quite a while now and we have yet to show off what is easily America's #1 greatest resource:

The California Marching Band. Time Magazine proclaimed them as the Best Damn Band In The Land. The Beatles called them "bigger than Jesus."

Let's get this party started with what may be one of the Marshawnthusiasts for this site. It is a bit difficult to tell.

Here they come, marching up the hill. It has been so long, I can barely remember all the cadences. I think there is still one named after me, but I'm not sure.

Here they are playing the songs of Blondie. I think Blondie is a band. Not sure. So far I am not sure about a LOT of things.

Let's go Old Skool. 1989! I was 8. A young New Kids Of The Block was teaching America to love again. And a toddler Dumpster Muffin was just learning how to annoy the fuck out of everything ever.

Look at how empty those stands were. Crazyness. For anybody who doubts Tedford, just look at that.

Big Game 1989. SO CRAZY!

Even I, a supremely superior phonez player full of supreme supremeness, can give some begrudging props to the Gold Bonders amongst us. Impressive stuff.

But the Band is just one part of it. One amazing part of it. Let's not forget the awesomeness that is the Cal Dance Team.

This would not be complete without the classic Video Game show:

I've really been digging "Can't Get my Mind Around You" by The Philosopher Kings recently. But I can't find them on YouTube. so, here's "You Stepped On My Life."

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I <3 The Dance Team

At least in those years where there are at least three Asian girls. And just last year I got each of the other members of the CGB signed photos of the team. What did they get me? NOTHING.

But I still love you guys. Really.

I'm still wondering why the Nets didn't draft Leon Powe.

by yellow fever on Jul 31, 2008 3:31 PM PDT 0 recs

1989

Some of those 1989 moves were pretty cool. Love the Astroturf only 7 years removed from The Play.

On another note, has anyone seen this picture of the new uniforms before?

It is the first shot I have seen of players actually in the unis. They look pretty good to me.

by Davis Bear on Jul 31, 2008 3:57 PM PDT 0 recs

Sorry- here's the link to the photo

here

by Davis Bear on Jul 31, 2008 3:57 PM PDT 0 recs

Were you attempting to link to this photo, discussed here:

"Save The Oaks: Overthrow Capitalism" said Dumpster Muffin sanguinely

www.CaliforniaGoldenBlogs.com

by TwistNHook on Jul 31, 2008 3:59 PM PDT up 0 recs

by Davis Bear on Jul 31, 2008 3:59 PM PDT 0 recs

I’ll take that as a yes!

"Save The Oaks: Overthrow Capitalism" said Dumpster Muffin sanguinely

www.CaliforniaGoldenBlogs.com

by TwistNHook on Jul 31, 2008 4:00 PM PDT up 0 recs

when the players have their hands down to their side, their fingers touch the claw marks on their thigh pads making it look like they have huge yellow claws. Kinda cool.

Vote Brock Mansion for QB in 2008!

by HydroTech on Jul 31, 2008 6:05 PM PDT up 0 recs

That’s what I said! On that other thread. Totes!

by CalBandGreat on Jul 31, 2008 6:23 PM PDT up 0 recs

totes4life

"Save The Oaks: Overthrow Capitalism" said Dumpster Muffin sanguinely

www.CaliforniaGoldenBlogs.com

by TwistNHook on Jul 31, 2008 7:41 PM PDT up 0 recs

That’ll do with the 4life, Twist, that’ll do.

I kissed Dumpster Muffin and I liked it. The taste of her hippie chapped lips.

by Maharg on Aug 1, 2008 8:05 AM PDT up 0 recs

Stealing my bit!

"Save The Oaks: Overthrow Capitalism" said Dumpster Muffin sanguinely

www.CaliforniaGoldenBlogs.com

by TwistNHook on Aug 1, 2008 8:40 AM PDT up 0 recs

Somebody’s bitter!

I kissed Dumpster Muffin and I liked it. The taste of her hippie chapped lips.

by Maharg on Aug 1, 2008 11:44 AM PDT up 0 recs

Yep

Sorry- didn’t read that day. Go Bears!

by Davis Bear on Jul 31, 2008 4:02 PM PDT 0 recs

Anyone remember the Alumni Dance Team last year? There was this one Mrs. Robinson who was probably 45 but with a really well kept together body. Can you say cougar material? She can baby sit me anytime.

Stanfurd Delendum Est.

by Olsonist on Jul 31, 2008 4:14 PM PDT 0 recs

Oski's Jesuits, if you will...

The reason I’m even here is because my wife marched 5 years (and 3 bowl games!) with the band and became…how you say…intense.

The trombone headchoppers to “Hey Ya” at 2004 Big Game remain to this day the most incredible thing I’ve seen from a marching band outside halftime of the Bayou Classic. If I’d tried that when I was a 19-year-old band geek, six of my best friends would have carried me out by the handles.

by VandyImport on Jul 31, 2008 4:19 PM PDT 0 recs

3 bowl games in 5 years? Your wife is either really, really old or really, really young.

"Save The Oaks: Overthrow Capitalism" said Dumpster Muffin sanguinely

www.CaliforniaGoldenBlogs.com

by TwistNHook on Jul 31, 2008 4:23 PM PDT up 0 recs

nah, she could be an early '90s girl

Cal went to the inaugural Copper Bowl in 1990, the Citrus Bowl on New Year’s Day 1992, the Alamo Bowl in 1993, and the Aloha Bowl in 1996.

So, basically, you gotta Go Bears!

by ragnarok on Jul 31, 2008 4:31 PM PDT up 0 recs

cal's complete bowl history

via Wikipedia. Cal is 9-8-1 all-time in bowl games, but hasn’t won a Rose Bowl since Hilter annexed Poland.

So, basically, you gotta Go Bears!

by ragnarok on Jul 31, 2008 4:33 PM PDT up 0 recs

Yeah. Went to Cal in the early 90s. Really, really old.

Why do you always doubt me, Ragnarok?

"Save The Oaks: Overthrow Capitalism" said Dumpster Muffin sanguinely

www.CaliforniaGoldenBlogs.com

by TwistNHook on Jul 31, 2008 4:34 PM PDT up 0 recs

is 40 the new 80?

So, basically, you gotta Go Bears!

by ragnarok on Jul 31, 2008 4:56 PM PDT up 0 recs

30 seems absurdly old to me.

Then again, I turn 27 on Sunday. So, what am I saying?

"Save The Oaks: Overthrow Capitalism" said Dumpster Muffin sanguinely

www.CaliforniaGoldenBlogs.com

by TwistNHook on Jul 31, 2008 5:01 PM PDT up 0 recs

If anyone says they were actually at the Copper Bowl...

...they are lying.

by zoonews on Jul 31, 2008 4:38 PM PDT up 0 recs

Oops, that’s Insight Bowl isn’t it? Same point, tho.

by zoonews on Jul 31, 2008 4:43 PM PDT up 0 recs

dude, i was at the insight bowl

my senior year in band. there were way more people there than that photo shows. not a sellout, but cal fans were way excited, especially given the terrible day-after-christmas game date. great for TV, bad for vacationers.

So, basically, you gotta Go Bears!

by ragnarok on Jul 31, 2008 4:55 PM PDT up 0 recs

Many more = 10? Or 20?

by zoonews on Jul 31, 2008 5:02 PM PDT up 0 recs

rags and I were at the Toilet Bowl

Cal vs. Rutgers in 2001, 0-10 vs. 1-10. Feel the SCARLET FEVER! RUTGERS FOOTBALL

I'm still wondering why the Nets didn't draft Leon Powe.

by yellow fever on Jul 31, 2008 5:18 PM PDT up 0 recs

man, that was most likely the worst college football game i have ever attended. cal called the same crappy plays they always did, but rutgers, in their ineptitude, consistently failed to stop them. both teams really tried to lose, but rutgers wanted it more. or something. it was awful.

and it’s not like i’ve only been to Cal games. i went to a I-AA game a few years ago, UC Davis hosting North Dakota State. that game was better attended, had a better band (god, the Rutgers band was awful), and the quality of football was significantly better, too.

i hear things have improved for Rutgers, though i also hear they are still located in New Jersey, which is really too bad for them.

So, basically, you gotta Go Bears!

by ragnarok on Jul 31, 2008 6:16 PM PDT up 0 recs

Games at Davis are awesome, people are really into it, the weather is usually better than at Cal, and the team usually does well…their team dominated DII before the switch to 1-AA. Plus they throw out free Chipotle with those burrito-launchers.

by Spazzy Mcgee on Jul 31, 2008 10:31 PM PDT up 0 recs

I was at the Copper Bowl!

As the old man among us-or at least one of them (SoCal Oski?)-I can honestly claim to have been at the Copper Bowl. After suffering through the Kapp era, and the first few rather dismal years under Bruce Snyder, there was no way I was going to miss the Copper Bowl in scenic Tucson. It was a pretty lame game, not nearly as good as the game vs. Arizona earlier that year in the same stadium (Russell White and Sean Dawkins—awesome!!), but it was a victory nonetheless.

There were no Oak trees, nor cacti, to worry about that year. But the game was nonetheless shrouded in controversy as the State of Arizona at the time refused to recognize Martin Luther King day as a holiday. Thus, the Bears took to the field with a black-and-white MLK patch on their jerseys.

Go Bears!

by California Pete on Aug 1, 2008 10:43 AM PDT up 0 recs

Here’s a pic of the 1990 Copper Bowl, Cal vs Wyoming.

by zoonews on Jul 31, 2008 4:48 PM PDT 0 recs

I hope they didn’t cut down any oak trees to make that high performance athletic center i spy in the background…

by Itchy25 on Jul 31, 2008 9:26 PM PDT up 0 recs

I think that’s the towne haberdashery.

by Spazzy Mcgee on Jul 31, 2008 10:32 PM PDT up 0 recs

Is that on the way to the cobbler? And where is the nearest apothecary?

I kissed Dumpster Muffin and I liked it. The taste of her hippie chapped lips.

by Maharg on Aug 1, 2008 8:08 AM PDT up 0 recs

Time for a blood letting!

"Save The Oaks: Overthrow Capitalism" said Dumpster Muffin sanguinely

www.CaliforniaGoldenBlogs.com

by TwistNHook on Aug 1, 2008 8:40 AM PDT up 0 recs

So, uh, these turn of the century business jokes doing anything for you?

I kissed Dumpster Muffin and I liked it. The taste of her hippie chapped lips.

by Maharg on Aug 1, 2008 11:45 AM PDT up 0 recs

Indubitably, old chap!

"Save The Oaks: Overthrow Capitalism" said Dumpster Muffin sanguinely

www.CaliforniaGoldenBlogs.com

by TwistNHook on Aug 1, 2008 11:57 AM PDT up 0 recs

Cheerio!

I kissed Dumpster Muffin and I liked it. The taste of her hippie chapped lips.

by Maharg on Aug 1, 2008 2:46 PM PDT up 0 recs

My brothers used to call them duration jokes. Hear them now, laugh a hundred years later.

Stanfurd Delendum Est.

by Olsonist on Aug 1, 2008 4:25 PM PDT up 0 recs

Err...

Look, I support the Cal band as much as any non-band member, and, err…that’s a lot of youtube of non-nintendo band….

Just saying…

by sec119 on Jul 31, 2008 9:44 PM PDT 0 recs

I’m an idiot, there it is.
/sobering up

by sec119 on Aug 1, 2008 5:49 AM PDT up 0 recs

The video game medley is soooooo sweet.

by Itchy25 on Aug 1, 2008 2:03 PM PDT 0 recs

You missed some great OLD Cal Band videos!

zoonews tells me it’s too late to post on this thread – “the ship has sailed!” – but I’m doing it anyway. Cal Band Great!

Here’s the oldest Cal Band clip I could find on youtube, the 1974 Cal Band pregame vs. Stanfurd:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEmZ407NFS4

Here’s what the crowd really looked like in 1974:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IWo-LBpptg

And this is my all-time favorite clip when a TV station featured the 1991 Cal Band and Alumni Band for our centenniel celebration (an absolute must see!):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkDxQPAHS2c

CAL BAND GREAT!!!

by OskiWeeWee on Aug 2, 2008 9:03 PM PDT 0 recs

Damn.

I thought for sure at least Twist would reply. Doesn’t he read every new comment simultaneously?

by OskiWeeWee on Aug 3, 2008 11:16 AM PDT up 0 recs

hahah, pretty much

i’m sure those videos will show up at some point…lots of thursdays to come!

So, basically, you gotta Go Bears!

by ragnarok on Aug 3, 2008 12:46 PM PDT up 0 recs

Is that true that the Band doesn’t get scholarships? I took my nephew who plays in band in middle school to a Cal Band practice and introduced him to the guy who plays his instrument. This guy was just awesome, talked to us for 10 minutes, totally cool. (My nephew was a pain.) Anyways, the Band member said he turned down a full ride U$C scholarship for his instrument. Wow.

Stanfurd Delendum Est.

by Olsonist on Aug 3, 2008 3:20 PM PDT up 0 recs

yes, it's true

No one in the Cal Band gets a scholarship. There are a few awards with a monetary stipend attached that are given out at the December awards banquet. I also turned down a full ride to $C (not for band, just for general goodness). Thank The Lord.

by OskiWeeWee on Aug 3, 2008 3:29 PM PDT up 0 recs

there are a few partial scholarships available

only in the last 6-7 years, i think, and they’re only for students who would otherwise have to get a job instead of doing band.

mostly, band members get their compensation in other, more intangible ways. i still think it’s totally worth it.

So, basically, you gotta Go Bears!

by ragnarok on Aug 3, 2008 3:48 PM PDT up 0 recs

what instrument does your nephew play? I think a few of the other guys here on the CGB play an instrument or something.

www.californiagoldenblogs.com

by HydroTech on Aug 3, 2008 4:41 PM PDT up 0 recs

I know Twist plays the skin flute well.

I kissed Dumpster Muffin and I liked it. The taste of her hippie chapped lips.

by Maharg on Aug 4, 2008 9:13 AM PDT up 0 recs

Been busy this birthday weekend. I apologize. I will watch these and get back to you.

"Save The Oaks: Overthrow Capitalism" said Dumpster Muffin sanguinely

www.CaliforniaGoldenBlogs.com

by TwistNHook on Aug 3, 2008 8:11 PM PDT up 0 recs

So did we ever find out if a CGB-er is in one of those youtube videos above?

www.californiagoldenblogs.com

by HydroTech on Aug 3, 2008 4:42 PM PDT 0 recs

i’m pretty sure we decided that it was CBKWit in the first clip.

So, basically, you gotta Go Bears!

by ragnarok on Aug 3, 2008 4:52 PM PDT up 0 recs

Awesome.

Yesterday, I spent a glorious 15 minutes or so watching these videos. Watching the magnificent Cal Band, in combination with the Women’s Huddle last week (post on that to come…watch out, boys!), is really getting me pumped for the season!

If I may be so bold as to say it (and I hope I may)...Cal Band Great and Go Bears!

by RemorsefulBruinBabe on Aug 5, 2008 9:36 AM PDT 0 recs

GO BEARS! BEAT AUGUST!

So, basically, you gotta Go Bears!

by ragnarok on Aug 6, 2008 9:26 AM PDT up 0 recs