Golden Valley HS - Roll Away Bet! - 2013 Arcadia Band Review 

As a SoCal band player, I have to say that I absolutely loved this performance. The guard, the band, and the drum major. It was just so exciting. Simply stunning, no matter what the judges say.

Our band director always told us that our scores doesn't matter as much as how we represent ourselves. This band represented NCBA very well, and I thought their scores for this parade was rather unfortunate. This is one of the best marching band videos that I've ever seen. Absolutely fantastic.

That opening brass sound.... AMAZING! I keep rewinding it to hear it again and again. The clarity in the music is perfect: articulations, dynamics, balance, contrast, accents and not to mention the level of difficulty of music. And the guard was absolutely impressive as always; a visual representation of the music.

Even Though We Didnt Place AnyThing Yesterday,

Absolutely one of the more exciting performances of the day! A crowd favorite for sure. Id rather have 10 Golden Valleys at a parade than some other AA bands. It would be awesome to have more NCBA bands compete at AFOB.

What an entertaining performance. It was creative and well choreographed. It was nice to see something different. Lines are important to the judges in So. Cal. Thanks for making the trip and entertaining. When I was a youngster in the 80's Castle Park pushed the norms and were always underscored. I hope to see you guys in person.

I'd say deserving of a 91-92. There were some tuning issues, but the opening was pretty damn amazing.

Great job by golden valley. No matter what they scored doesnt change the fact that they a norcal band travels south and competed. Different style from what they are used to. They did gr eat and shoukd be proud of themselves no natter what they scored

A great performance which is not indicative of the poor score they received!

I must agree with the comments about their score being too low. It was a fine performance of a march none of us down here have even gotten to hear on the street before.

I loved it!!!!! I thought the auxiliary deserved much better than an 81.60.

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If they go down again, the guard needs a strict Socal routine that's all in the front of the band. I absolutely agree they deserved a 93.7ish possibly even a 94 based off the opening and the sheer difficulty of this march, the guard sadly went behind the band which made the guard judge freak out haha and tank the 90+ guard score. The guard was better than most on the street that day, I would know, I've watched these videos countless times. I would love to see the band go down again! Kinda sad to think that Socal bands can find success up in norcal since the judges are more accepting as opposed to someone seeing a normal band while judging and automatically tanking the score. Give the kids an unbiased shot, because I know for a fact some of the local bands that are put in the 90s should suffer at the hands of golden valleys performance that day. Sorry for my frankness of the matter!

How did this performance get an 89.25?

NCBA allows for more creativity than SCSBOA. Nor cal band's can perform more for showmanship than so cal and this style is not preferred. Golden valley is a premier band in nor cal yet contrasting styles of performance can hinder score. They deserved at least a 93 IMO.

Another British brass band march