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Table of Contents
More Love...........................................................4
The infamous Nathan Love gives a lesson on beatboxing
Grease Songs. Bam. ...............................................5
So you can be prepared when you get to play Meet the Band
The Pride of Arizona’s Sonum Bonum............................6
Get an answer to the age-old question: Does Scott exist?
Retrospective.......................................................7
What did POA members think of Rees the TA?
Behind the Band....................................................8
Crazy interpretations of City of Delusion
MIscellaneous.....................................................10
Color Theory, Beat of a Different Drummer, and more
Meet the Band.....................................................11
This week, meet the Clarinets and Marcos
Meet the Director.................................................12
Another interview from Rachel Bennett
Meet AJ.............................................................13
Learn some more about our newest TA
Fabulous Football.................................................14
Will he be right again?
Shoutouts...........................................................15
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Message from the Editors
This edition marks the halfway point of this year’s Leaky Bugle (and almost
the halfway point of the semester, which means we’re sure most of you are
having fun with midterms and projects right now). We hope to make the sec-
ond half as good as the first half was, so make sure and help us out by submit-
ting! You don’t need to study for midterms. You need to write an article for the
Leaky Bugle.
In all seriousness, though, good luck with all of your academic pursuits, espe-
cially if there’s anyone else who made the stupid decision of taking the GRE
during midterm season like Chelsea will be doing next Saturday.
theleakybugle@gmail.com
(PS: GO CATS!)
Tau Beta Sigma Kappa Kappa Psi Tyler Anderson Nathan Love
Chelsea Cohen Kristen Riordan Rachel Bennett Stephen Mangum
Stephanie Castro Tyler Anderson Stephanie Castro Tiffany McCall
Tiffany McCall Carl McBee Kenny Contrata Monique Murietta
Amanda Tester Emilio Romero Bryce Good Amanda Tester
Craig Tester Lauren Spradlin Ellie Leichtenberg
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More Love By, Nathan Love
Since my “Meet the Band,” I’ve had several people ask me how to beatbox. Seemingly unsatisfied with my
answer, “imitate drum sounds with your mouth,” I was then asked to explain more in-depth how to do so.
There are a couple of stumbles beginner beatboxers often hit, so I’ll go over those first. Number one is time
and meter. There are a lot of beatboxers out there who have great sounds and they’re fast and they can do all
kinds of melodies and sing and stuff while they beatbox, but they lapse in and out of time. This, as you may ex-
pect, sounds patently awful. I’d rather hear a beatboxer with three sounds that can do her beats in time than one
who has a million but speeds up and slows down. (This is true for music in general!)
The second one is trying to do too much. You hear crazy beatboxers on YouTube or whatever doing a million
billion sounds and all kinds of complex routines and you get jealous. I totally understand. I wish I were as good
as they are. The way to get there is not to jump in the deep end. You have to start with the basics.
That said, here are the basics. There are three of them.
1. Kick drum (b) - The kick drum is the most fundamental element of beatboxing. It’s the basic sound that you
probably know as the bass drum on a drum set (makes since, since you play it with your foot.) To make this
sound, say “Beat the Oregon State University Beavers Soundly.” Now just say the first “B” sound. You want
JUST the attack, none of the vowel sound that comes after it. You now have the fundamental sound for the kick
drum. Most beatboxers then add an “f” or a “v” afterwards to give the drum some depth (making a “bf” or a
“bv” sound). This is generally the sound you want to make on the downbeat.
2. Snare drum (p) - The snare drum is the trickiest of the basic sounds to get right. Say “Pride of Arizona,”
now just make the first “P” sound, just like the kick drum. You’ll notice they sound very similar, the P is just a
little shorter and “higher” on your lips. The way to get them to sound different is to add an “s” or “sh” sound
after the P sound. Make sure to keep your “sh” sound high pitched, like you’re trying to get someone to shut up.
This one takes a little time to get sounding right, so practice is helpful.
3. Hi-hat (ts) - Say “Go Cats!” Now just say the last sounds, “ts”. That’s your basic hi-hat sound. Keep it short
and and high-pitched. This one is particularly useful for throwing in when you don’t know what else to do in
a beat, since many drum beats have hi-hat sounds on every eighth note. It doesn’t ever sound like it doesn’t
belong.
Now, what to do? Well, experiment with throwing these three sounds together. The BEST way to figure out
what order they go in is to listen to songs. Don’t limit yourself to music you normally listen to. Listen to jazz,
hip-hop, rock, rap, and techno, and using these three sounds, try to imitate the beats going on behind the songs.
There are a lot of videos of beatboxers online, so going there and listening to what they do is often helpful.
Keep in mind that they often use a microphone (and a better one than the silly little long-ranger mic) which
makes pretty much any beatboxer sound better, so don’t be discouraged! They’ve also probably been beatbox-
ing an awfully long time, comparatively. Practice equal improvement!
I’ll be back next edition of the Leaky Bugle with more advanced techniques and tips.
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Grease Songs. Bam.
By Eleanore Leichtenberg
“You’re The One That I Want” “Hopelessly Devoted To You”
I got chills But now there’s nowhere to hide
They’re multiplyin’ Since you pushed my love aside
And I’m losin’ control I’m out of my head
‘Cause the power Hopelessly devoted to you
You’re supplyin’ Hopelessly devoted to you
It’s electrifyin’ Hopelessly devoted to you
You better shape up
‘Cause I need a man “Grease Is the Word”
And my heart is set on you Grease is the word
You better shape up Is the word that you heard
You better understand It’s got groove it’s got meaning
To my heart I must be true Grease is the time, is the place, is the motion
Grease is the way we are feeling
“Blue Moon”
Blue moon, you saw me standing alone “There Are Worse Things I Could Do”
Without a dream in my heart, without a love I could hurt someone like me,
of my own Out of spite or jealousy.
Blue moon, you knew just what I was there for I dont steal and I dont lie,
You heard me saying a prayer for someone I But I can feel and I can cry.
really could care for A fact I’ll bet you never knew.
But to cry in front of you,
“Born To Hand Jive” That’s the worst thing I could do.
Born to hand-jive, baby,
Born to hand-jive baby- yeah!
How low can you go? See? There are more
How low can you go?
How low can you go? songs than just
How low can you go?
Grease Lightning.
“Hound Dog”
You ain’t nothin’ but a hound dog
Cryin’ all the time
You ain’t nothin’ but a hound dog And someone should
Cryin’ all the time
Well, you ain’t never caught a rabbit learn how to do the
And you ain’t no friend of mine
Hand Jive.
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The POA’s Sonum Bonum
A Philosophy article by Stephen Mangum
Being that this is my first Leaky Bugle article, I feel as though it is appropriate to being many
marching band members current on some of human’s most troubling philosophical questions, and
relate them to marching band. The title of this article has the Latin phrase “Sonum Bonum” in
the title, which means “the highest good”. Many philosophers have discussed what they believe to
be the highest good and have formulated ways to reach such a state of being. I therefore ask the
question, “of what is the Sonum Bonum of marching band?” I will use Plato’s idea of Forms to
discuss this argument (so you may want to Google this when you get home). When one perceives
a perfect circle (take the clock in part one for instance), they recognize that the object they are
seeing is not a perfect circle, however they can see that it is a circle because they have the idea of
a perfect circle in their head and their perception is influenced by this idea. Plato calls this idea
of a perfect circle to be the Form of the circle, and it is with Forms that one is to comprehend any
object in the actual world (there is much more here but I do not have the space to write it out, so
Google it).
So of what is the perfect Form of how we are to judge our marching forms? It is obvious
that Rees has the impermeable authority to change any marching form, however is it not the drill
page that has the overlying authority of where to march? Although Rees appears to have ultimate
authority, the written drill page is the entity that gives us the direction toward the Perfect Form.
Now I pose my question for the day: What is the Sonum Bonum of marching Band? It cannot be
Rees, for he is such as a lawgiver who ordains laws that of which cannot be broken even by the law-
giver. The drill Page is the obvious answer as to how one is to march, but how does this affect the
authority of someone like Scott?
The Answer is obvious from the reasoning above that the drill page is the ultimate authority
in marching band, and is our only way to view the Perfect Form. Rees therefore has no author-
ity other than that which is derived from the drill page, but now we must ask the question of how
Scott’s authority is to be measured, or does Scott even exist? Yes that’s right I said it, I would like
to finish my first article with an argument that Scott doesn’t exist, get ready everyone:
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Retrospective
This week we’re bringing you a blast-from-the-past as we provide you a segment of an old Leaky
Bugle. Bugle readers have long been able to enjoy clever and entertaining comics with plenty of
band-geekiness to satisfy them, but there have been several comics that have stood out from the
rest. The following comic is one of those. This comic is from the September 8, 1993 issue and
depicts Professor Rees when he was still a TA.
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BEHIND THE BAND-
Interpretations of City of Delusion
By Tiffany McCall
Muse says: The song has the same lyrical theme as Assassin, in which an individual is prepared to commit
brutal acts to get their news and opinions noticed by corrupt power. Matt Bellamy specifically describes the
tone of Assassin as “kind of a take a gun out and kill someone.” Bellamy’s profound choice of words is just as
awe-inspiring as ever. Somehow I feel like writing songs about sunshine and unicorns just aren’t his style.
Tiff’s Response: In reference to your confusion of the word “theories” for “fairies”… really? Also, how is
does the use of the words “belief” and “divine” make religion a “ridiculous interpretation.” I find the contrast-
ing argument between religion and fantasy that Fairy Boy here suggests to be both amusing and appropri-
ate coming from somebody who has picked their screen name with a reference to a CS Lewis book (famous
Christian fiction/fantasy writer for the people who grew up under a rock), then again, maybe I shouldn’t be
surprised…
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BEHIND THE BAND
Continued...
Manel says:
In my interpretation of this lyric, or part of it, is about
the illegal immigration problems that the EUA and
Europe face. The first verses fit well into this interpreta-
tion, as well as the music, in the case of the Mexican
immigration in the EUA.
The walls are real in the Mexico-EUA frontier.
But who knows? This is just my contribution
Tiff’s Response: Funny story- I had to do some research on what was implied by ‘EUA’ and just have to ask
why you would respond in English and drop a Spanish acronym in reference to American immigration issues
(EUA in Spanish is expanded to Estados Unidos da América, aka USA). That aside, immigration in Muse’s
lyrics, again? Not only is it hard to get Americans to care about immigration, I find it harder to believe that
a band from UK would care enough to write a song such as City of Delusion about it. Unfortunately, I find it
hard to take too many of Muse’s lyrics as literally as breaking down the walls between Mexico and America.
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Miscellaneous Fun
Oregon State-Orange and Black: We’ve already gone over black. It’s
just a black hole of suck, not the cool supermassive kind. Not too
many people like orange. It’s like that one person in your section who
never shuts up. Psychologically it provokes hostility, probably
because it’s so hot and stands out brighter than yellow. I don’t see
my fellow artists use straight out the tube orange that often. I
don’t, and my last two paintings have had fire in them. It’s an
annoying color. And black+orange=Halloween so I can’t take that
combination seriously.
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Meet the Clarinets!
Meet the Band!
AKA: The Invisible Section, McSteamy, Lui G, The Gimp Corner, Max.
Quotes: Brownies. Get some. Zebras die every day. Du dududu dududu du du du du du du (William Tell intro).
That’s what she said. Don’t die. The cemetery’s that way. You have no idea. Do we have to have sectionals
today? When in doubt, pull out.
Memorable Moments: Drew’s intense fear of bugs. Clarinets (rookies) going to the wrong I-Hop. That time
Rees complimented... oh wait... Getting brownies at Band Camp. Clarinets getting hurt. Clarinet curse. Clarinet
BBQ. Clareoke night. Cliking.
Questions for Rees: Why don’t you mention us? Do you know we exist? When’s the clarinet solo? Will you
give us brownies? Can we stroke your hair? Can our next visual involve twirling our clarinets?
Quotes: No good (waves arms)! There’s no more room for dead bodies in my car. I know,
ha. What up homie. Fish jokes. How do you stop a fish from smelling? Cut off his nose.
Egg break and letter F.
Memorable Moments: Two e a three a. Falling off the podium from the wind. Counting
off “Fight, Wildcats, Fight.” The first game.
Questions for Rees: Can I light myself on fire during the new “Visual of Death”? If I fall
off the podium, do I get health insurance? What does a fish say when it runs into a wall?
Show Suggestions: The Return of Kanye West, Return of Radiohead, Coldplay, Michelle
Branch, The Killers, 92.9 The Mountain, The Verve, Luis Miguel, Miley Cyrus.
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Meet the Director
Leaky Bugle: How and when would you say you became addicted to Interview by Rachel Bennett
Licorice and how has it affected your life??
Rees: I always liked licorice ever since I was a kid, it was kind of a treat
when my mom gave it too me but then after a while it wasn’t something I
went out and bought. But one day during practice I made a joke that if you
wanted to appease the gods you should bring “them” licorice. One day
after that comment there was a bag of licorice on the white board of the
tower, and it was funny because I was angry with the band…I was yelling,
saying you suck and you guys just need to…but I stopped mid sentence
cause as I was climbing up the tower I spotted the licorice, so in mid-yell I
said over the loud speaker…ohhhh licorice, cool let’s try this again and the
entire band erupts in laughter. Ever since that moment it has taken a life of
its own
Leaky Bugle Insider #1: If you really want to appease the Gods
• Don’t buy him Pull N’ Peel
• He prefers Twizzlers over Red Vines
• He enjoys gourmet black licorice from Trader Joes
Leaky Bugle: How did you ask Wendy out??
Rees: I meet Wendy in the summer of 1989 while I was working in LA as a waiter as a starving/
struggling musician. In order to earn some extra money I picked up so lunch shifts at a restaurant
and Wendy was just an acquaintance at the time she had been already working in the music indus-
try for several years. One day she comes in to the restaurant and tells me about how some lawyer
was hitting on her, she told me that she didn’t usually date the “stuffed shirts” kind of guys that
carried briefcases, she said that she usually dated the starving, struggling, poetic musicians. So
I asked her if she would like to add one more the list and she looked at me and said “You?” and I
said yeah and that’s how I asked her out. Our 1st date was just dinner but for our 2nd date we went
to watch a jazz bass player at a jazz club that I later found was a UA graduate.
Leaky Bugle: In light of family weekend what would you say was one of your worst parenting
moments?
Rees: When I think of bad parenting this event always comes to my mind first. It was when Evan
was very young probably around 3 and we were throwing the football around. The football was
one of those nerf balls that whistle if you threw it hard enough. Evan really wanted to hear the
football whistle so I decided to chuck it at the garage because I decided I couldn’t throw it at Evan.
Well…the ball got away from me and it flew up onto the roof and I instinctively said “Oh s#*!.” For
the next three days Evan just walked around saying Oh s#*!.
Leaky Bugle: Someone told me that you match your pencil with your outfit, is that true?
AJ: It is a stylistic choice. When I was in college I would like to do certain things that separated me
from the group and this is just one way he can be different. So every morning I grab a pencil that
matches my shirt. (Note: Day of the interview AJ was wearing a navy blue shirt and sure enough he
had a navy blue pencil)
Leaky Bugle: What has been your favorite part of the Pride experience?
AJ: Wow that is a loaded question, but I truly think my favorite part is being on the red box and
watching individuals between sets because that is where you see all the fun and inside jokes.
Leaky Bugle: Do you have a funny story you would like to share?
AJ: A while ago I worked at a six flags amusement park in NY and on one of my off days four of my
friends and I went there to hang out and we got the VIP treatment. One of the best rides is this giant
water slide where you can either seat 4 adults or 5 children. But we decided we were going to con-
vince the girl working the ride to let all 5 of us on the ride at one time (I asked…there was no flirting
with the girl because she was a little bit too young). Well because there were 5 adults guys on this
slide we were picking up some extra speed due to the added weight and as the turns/curves were
coming up we started flying over the walls. At one point one of his friends flew off the raft into air
and fell on the other side of the slide! but there were no injuries- just awesomeness.
Leaky Bugle: What do you think is the best album of all time?
AJ: Michael Jackson’s Thriller
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Fabulous Football!
by Kenny Contrata
Since halftime tonight will be halfway though our home game schedule, I thought I would provide a quick
recap of this season before I unceremoniously begin bashing the Beavers.
So let’s be clear, my fabulous predictions for the past three weeks have been indisputably sound. Not to toot
my own horn, but I am the most superior footballologist there ever was. They should basically rename me
the Oracle of Delphi or Nostradamus. Granted, my scores may not be exactly right… but hey, that’s college.
Whether you get a 100 percent in a class or an 89.5, you still get an “A.” Who cares how much we beat Cal
by, we still won.
Now football is in no way like college in so far as when I don’t go to class, my grades don’t go up. When
we actually beat Cal, that AP dude kept our ranking at No. 14. Yet, we get a vacation, called a bi week (ap-
parently football goes both ways), our ranking goes up! Our ranking went up to No. 9! I wish every time I
didn’t go into work I got a raise. Stupid football…
Oh! You know, I think that disgusting bear Osky from Cal must have read my scathing review of his face,
because he never made an Arizona appearance. See that, once again my footballology prowess reared its
well-groomed, exfoliated face. I’m so invariably ingrained in the Wildcats football program that Arizona
Athletics really should be paying me for securing them three victories. If they’re cash-strapped, I’ll accept a
date with Nick Foles or Ricky Elmore as collateral – yes, Nick you have competition. If you don’t know who
Ricky is, google image him… it’ll be worth it.
Looking toward tonight’s game… who in their right mind would pick a BEAVER as a mascot?! Did they
never think about checking it in Urban Dictionary? What genius roundtable of crotchety, old deans were
picking a mascot when one giggled, “Let’s be a slang, borderline-degrading term for lady-parts. That
makes sense.”
For the purposes of academic intercourse (it means communication between groups too, look it up), let’s take
a look at a few definitions of a wildcat. Wildcat: 1) Someone who likes to get freaky in the sack (potato
sack, of course) and be spontaneous; 2) a cougar in training, a young woman generally between the
ages of 25-30, who is on the path to cougarhood.
Now, based on the Urban Dictionary definitions, wouldn’t you rather be a Wildcat? Bear Down and
bang the Beavers.
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Shout Outs!
Grado-
We’re debuting part 2 and our hotness will be out on the field...
people may spontaneously combust from it.
Erin
Nathan Myers,
POA Families, Hey, my baby!
Hello :D Hope you’re doing well! Have fun at the game!
~Mama Kristen
Kristen and Emilio,
Thank you for everything you guys do for me! You are the best Hornz, What’s considered a “dude”?
parents ever.
Love your daughter, Valerie, YOU TRYINNA GET HYPHY?!
Alison -Eleanore
MUCH SHOUTING??
Jordan “Shi’lah” Jimmie”
Hornz,
In case you haven’t figured it out yet, I like girls. Get the jokes now? Adam and Brian,
COLLEGE! -Mo I thought it would be a nice to say thank you for all your words of
encouragement.
Julie, I wouldn’t be marching in the pride if it wasn’t for you.
Love you
Great job with your TAness. Rachel
Thanks for always listening
<3 Piccolos-- y’all are ridiculous. Keep it up. I love you.
Ethic food!!!! Hell YEZ!!!! Kim
Rachel
Tiffers’ Toe, Heal faster!!
To Emu, ~Kristen
Where’d you go?
I miss you so. HEY! Spoon was awesome.
Seems like it’s been forever since you’ve been gone. I want sheets.
-GQ
I love you, Marcos!
HEY PICCS -Stephanie
YOU’RE COOL
K BYE Trombones,
Love, Haley After last weekend, I think it’s safe to say we’ve gotten closer and
share something. What we share? I’m still trying to figure that out.
Tran and Ashlee! Hey! Hey!
My beautiful babies! Good luck today on part two! -Stephanie
Much love,
Mom Zach,
Hockey season is fast approaching. I can hardly wait like no joke it
Chelsea and Tiffany, needs to come faster.
Thanks for being part of an epic weekend with the bones. Rach
AJ, Next time, let’s play Brawl. Erika and Kid!!!! Good job with family weekend...now you can
breathe!!! Rachel
JoTOhTHWCDUIBS,
You’re one crazy person, you know that? Couldn’t ask for a more “Carl & Jimmy! MOW!!!!! CHA! MAN!.........der. BTFD brothers!
awesome brother! Thanks for letting me bum rides off you all the -Shi’lah”
time! XD
AEA, Edgar, Get that Black Magic.
J-Master -Mo
Kristen, Tracie!
I love you!! Thanks for always making me smile during practice. You are doing such a great job! Keep up the amazing work and I am
I am glad I found your castle chip, don’t lose it again. so glad that you are my kid. =]
Oh and sky box band=AMAZING <3 your Mom =]
Rachel
Cadityzena,
Nissa, <3 that is all I am so proud to march next to you and I am glad you can wear your
Rach TBS pin with pride.
Go get em kid!!
Semofo, Couldn’t have done it better myself! Love you
J-Master Mom
Kirstin, You’re doing great so far, and I’m glad you’re my kid! Keep Sniggz,
being awesome! So, I just wanted to tell you that you’re the most awesome Dad ever!
J-Master I’m glad you’re marching this year!
AEA, J-Master
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