I was a member of the the Goin' Band (Band I - yeah!) the year the Western Show debuted. The show was written especially for our trip to accompany the Red Raiders to the University of Wyoming. Tim Rhea (now director of bands at TAMU) wrote the arrangements while doing his masters work at Tech. The Western Show was performed at the Jones as the infamous "Light Show" and in Denver at the Broncos halftime. The Denver Post even wrote an editorial about the show! Yeah it is my favorite show!
Thanks joshprice. The styles are different, but the execution is equally flawless. Many of these drills were first performed by the Tech band in the '70s, designed by the late, great Dean Killion.
This was a very good drill. This is what a band can do with the right numbers and instrumentation. IT was a nice lil drill. I'd love the see some SWAC bands with numbers like these and the training to use it right
The music for this show was arranged by (now) director of bands Dr. Tim Rhea when he was a graduate student at Texas Tech an premiered in September 1991. We took the show on the road to Cheyenne at the University of Wyoming and the following day at the Denver Bronco halftime show. It's might have been 25 years but I swear I could still march my Foot-N-Half to this, my favorite, show.
Crazy! That drill was amazing...much respect TX Tech! I would LOVE to an HBCU band w/ equivalent #s and skill get this drill in their hands and add their own flavor to it!
To the TU longhorn - you guys are called the Slow Band Of The Southwest for a reason - you could have never matched this show. Half of the people play on the field and for them it's all about moving 16 resting 128 and moving back 16. This was NON-STOP marching from start to end.
Awesome show, guys! We did a similar rotating flower a while back :) The only thing that caught me was that the percussion doesn't do a lot as far as formations go :( Nonetheless, I loved it!
Dont be such a freakin homer. OSU has a great band but they arent the greatest every day, and they sure werent this day. Tech's band was phenomenal and even the OSU crowd acknowledged that. You would gain a lot more respect by being a little more fair handed.
@goyankis - Whoever said TT had one of the top two bands in the nation at any point in histoy? Although admittedly good band, I've never heard their name mentioned in conversations about the top bands. They finally one the Sudler behind many other bands. They're not nearly as good as the UT Longhorn band. I doubt they blew the all-brass OSU band off the field. Being loud doesn't automatically makeyou good.
