Band suspended for graffiti at Game
At the Yale-Harvard football game on Nov. 22, the Yale Precision Marching Band may haven taken its “respectfully irreverent” motto too far — at least according to Director of Yale Bands Thomas Duffy.
After the band used a prop bearing profane writing during its Game halftime show, Duffy suspended the YPMB on Nov. 24. The band’s leadership said they were unaware of the graffiti in question — which Duffy termed “completely inappropriate and highly offensive” — but would have nixed the graffiti had they known. As of press time, the band is still suspended, and band members are not...
Hahaha... NOT badass. DEFINITELY horrible.
I was a member of my high school marching band and had considered joining Yale's my freshman year but their "shows" are so tacky and poorly performed that I couldn't bare it. They should be permanently disbanded and replaced with a competitive DCI-style marching band that performs real shows [that the audience understands] in real uniforms.
Remember, this is the same Thomas Duffy who did his best to kill the Saybrook Strip. Isn't there a nice, orderly, disciplined Catholic high school somewhere that could use a band director?
Wait, how did he try to kill the Strip?
#4, the Saybrook Strip used to be performed to a song the YPMB played, "The Stripper." In the mid-90s Thomas Duffy told the band to stop playing the song in an attempt to get them to stop, and as an act of defiance Saybrugians strip anyway, making up a new chant to go with it. Do a google search, there are a couple of YDN/herald articles about it.
For all of H's pretension, he needs to learn to spell. Bear, not bare.
By all means, the YPMB is meant to be humorous, not serious. Most of the members are in serious bands and probably use the YPMB as a chance to unwind.
If I came off pretentious, I apologize. That was not my intended tone. I didn't intend that my high school marching band was the best marching band ever, in fact it was probably on the bad end of high school marching bands fielded in the state. What I meant was that my high school marching band was an outlet for artistic and musical expression, whereas the YPMB is more of a comedy troop with sound effects. A lot of the humor is political also, so it doesn't necessarily resonate with everyone.
@ H.
"Comedy Troupe."
"I didn't intend TO SAY that my high school marching band was..."
and
"A lot of the humor is political also, so it its doesn't necessarily resonate with everyone." What is this supposed to mean? One could say the same thing about fart-jokes, Owen Wilson films, Russian humor, and so on.
Everyone has different taste. Everyone understands differently. Look at the Humanities in this university. Take a course which involves some kind of theory of meaning.
Please don't just mindlessly criticize. The YPMB is not even really a target - it's an organization which is supposed to be ridiculous.
YPMB is SO badass.