scouttimp Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 Maybe this is asked and answered somewhere, but there is a quick shot of a marching unit in the opening credits. What I can see is a snareline, tenor line, 4 basses and one contra-type bell front tuba wearing helmet-ish headgear. Who is it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
corpsband Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 Maybe this is asked and answered somewhere, but there is a quick shot of a marching unit in the opening credits. What I can see is a snareline, tenor line, 4 basses and one contra-type bell front tuba wearing helmet-ish headgear. Who is it? Well they're clearly wearing kilts ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scouttimp Posted January 10, 2012 Author Share Posted January 10, 2012 back right looks like a sax-o-mophone, tho... thanks for the screen grab! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
general_tsos_chicken2 Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 it's star of indiana Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigBadMadMan Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 Show is freaking hilarious, by the way. Major jokes at the expense of the "we take ourselves too seriously" crowd. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scouttimp Posted January 10, 2012 Author Share Posted January 10, 2012 it's star of indiana you just made me spit sweet cherry wine on my keyboard. Put A Bird On It! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbg Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 This looks like Granada Hills charter high school marching band from Granada Hills, California. I know they have marched in the Portland Rose Parade in 2005 and 2007. and I also know that they have done a few other commercials, Nickalodeaon Kids Choice awards, and some other things like that. So I am not saying it is definately them...but it looks exactly like them. Their band director was a Freelancer back in 80' and 81'.....I think he was one of the brass soloists in 81. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stu Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 Here is a bit of Freelancer trivia: They were in an eighties campy movie called Chattanooga Choo-Choo. You can see and hear them play on the platform at a train station. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjeffeory Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 it's star of indiana What? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonPRBari Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 Here is a bit of Freelancer trivia: They were in an eighties campy movie called Chattanooga Choo-Choo. You can see and hear them play on the platform at a train station. I actually went to the theater to see that movie, because I heard (in Drum Corps World, I believe) that Freelancers were in it. The film was horrible, but the Freelancers were quite good (if somewhat dumbed-down – the arrangement of "Chatanooga Choo-choo that they played could have been much more challenging). Anyway, at the screening I attended, the theater management passed out 45 RPM records of the Freelancers' performance from the movie. That's right, kids . . . one of those little black records with the big hole in the middle that you played with a needle. Unfortunately, I lost it somewhere along the way. Its probably quite rare these days. Oh, well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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