<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><div style="direction: inherit;"><a href="http://mailman.fsr.com/pipermail/vision2020/2013-September/093411.html">http://mailman.fsr.com/pipermail/vision2020/2013-September/093411.html</a></div><div style="direction: inherit;"><br></div><div style="direction: inherit;"><a href="http://mailman.fsr.com/pipermail/vision2020/2013-September/093412.html">http://mailman.fsr.com/pipermail/vision2020/2013-September/093412.html</a></div><br>DC</div><div><br>On Sep 19, 2016, at 16:21, Tom Hansen <<a href="mailto:thansen@moscow.com">thansen@moscow.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><div>Courtesy of <i>Boise State Public Radio</i> at:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://boisestatepublicradio.org/post/idaho-marching-bands-macklemore-cover-lands-rolling-stone-top-10-list#stream/1">http://boisestatepublicradio.org/post/idaho-marching-bands-macklemore-cover-lands-rolling-stone-top-10-list#stream/1</a></div><div><br></div><div>--------------------------------</div><div><h1 itemprop="name" class="post-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.4rem 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Lato, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); text-rendering: optimizelegibility; line-height: 1.125; font-size: 2.25em; letter-spacing: -0.015em; text-indent: -0.1rem; word-spacing: 0.4000000059604645px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">Idaho Marching Band's Macklemore Cover Lands On Rolling Stone Top 10 List</h1></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The University of Idaho is getting some unexpected national attention this week. It's not for an academic honor or for a big athletics win, it's for a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ApsaXfE1dk" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit;">YouTube video</a> of the U of I marching band. The video is featured in a <a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/10-mind-blowing-college-marching-band-cover-songs-20130917?page=2" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">Rolling Stone</em> list</a> of the top 10 college marching band cover songs. </span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"I got an email from the dean's office, from the secretary, saying, 'I'm sure you have already seen this,' and I clicked on it and it was an article about our marching band being in <em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">Rolling Stone</em>," Martin says. "It was a fun shock."</span></div><div><em style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;"><br></em></div><div><em style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">Rolling Stone</em><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">ranks the Idaho marching band's cover of</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QK8mJJJvaes" target="_blank" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit;">"Thriftshop"</a><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">by popular hip-hop artist Macklemore as one of the best on the web, putting it next to much larger schools like Ohio University and Michigan State. The short video was filmed over the winter during a basketball game in Moscow – but band director Martin says the idea to give the pop song a pep-band twist came earlier last fall.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5625rem; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.75em; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"This would have been back in October," he says. "[My brother-in-law] sent me a link to 'Thriftshop' and it hadn't broken yet, and just listening to it – it was awesome. So I sent it to one of our arrangers, and he hadn't heard it either and said, 'let's do it.' So we made our own version of it and debuted it in December."</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5625rem; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.75em; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Right around that time, "Thriftshop" started being played on top-40 stations, and its <a href="http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/1521657/macklemore-ryan-lewis-crown-hot-100-justin-timberlake-soars-to-top-5#/news/macklemore-ryan-lewis-crown-hot-100-justin-1008110862.story" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit;">popularity was skyrocketing.</a> Martin says music arranger Jeff Chambers – a recent U of I grad himself – has gained some notoriety from his arrangement of the pop song. He's now arranging music for marching bands at Iowa State and Vanderbilt University, as well as a number of high schools around the country.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5625rem; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.75em; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">And who exactly is the young man killin' it on the drums in the video? Martin says that's Jeremy Quinn – who was actually a senior in high school at the time.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5625rem; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.75em; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Jeremy just happened to be up in Moscow, checking out the music school and the university," says Martin. "And there just happened to be a basketball game that night, and I think it was actually some of the other percussion students who said, 'Why don't you come along and see what it's like to play in a university band?' And so he was just sitting in on a song, and it was just kind of the perfect storm."</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5625rem; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.75em; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In the world of college marching bands, pop songs haven't always been part of the repertoire. But <a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/10-mind-blowing-college-marching-band-cover-songs-20130917?page=2" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit;">according to <em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">Rolling Stone</em></a>, the University of Idaho's rendition of "Thriftshop" is part of a trend to bring more mainstream pop songs to the game. Martin says they are trying to stay ahead of those trends.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5625rem; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.75em; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"If we're just going to try to do something everyone else is doing, what's the point? We want to do something that is unique and different," says Martin. </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5625rem; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.75em; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This year at halftime, Martin's band is performing a mash-up of Led Zeppelin, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5EofwRzit0" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit;">Daft Punk</a> and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsO6ZnUZI0g" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit;">Kanye West.</a></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5625rem; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.75em; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">--------------------</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5625rem; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.75em; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Jeremy playing Thrift Shop with the University of Idaho pep band (February 2013).</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5625rem; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.75em; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="https://youtu.be/0ApsaXfE1dk">https://youtu.be/0ApsaXfE1dk</a></span></p></div><div>--------------------------------<br><br><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>=======================================================</span><br><span> List services made available by First Step Internet,</span><br><span> serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994.</span><br><span> <a href="http://www.fsr.net">http://www.fsr.net</a></span><br><span> <a href="mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com">mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com</a></span><br><span>=======================================================</span></div></blockquote></body></html>