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Post by carahtheodd on May 29, 2007 16:47:04 GMT -5
We were rehersing in marching band, playing an insane version of america the beautiful. It was a quiet choral section and my music told be to play a low Bb (I paly tenor sax, and i was playing a T.C. baritone part) I tried to play it-it came out, but REALLY REALLY loud. I turned so red. The MBD stops, looks at me, and says "good, but if you haven't noticed, this is a quiet section:" everyone laughed at me
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Post by stickshifty on May 29, 2007 19:33:35 GMT -5
I'll give you one guess who that person is sprawled in the mud at a competition... (Ok the filter keeps on changing one of my un-naughty words and it's frustrating) My a**istant bd said that I had the "deer in headlights- OMG I can't believe this is happening" look on my face. It only lasted about 4 counts (I still don't know how I pulled myself up so fast), but I just remember kinda hanging there, thinking how my life is going to end. The next set the whole band was moving one direction and I didn't want to cause a pile-up. That would have been much more embarrassing.
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Post by piccolo + ADD = fun on May 29, 2007 20:06:01 GMT -5
At drum major auditions, I followed the DM and assistant dm's advice and looked above the band in the gym. I went through the audition with no mistakes. UNTIL it cam time to perform a salute we had to make up. Because I had practiced my salute while looking straight ahead, I hit my salute too low and hit my glasses. It was sooo embarrassing, and I didn't get DM because of it.
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Post by bariclaribob on May 29, 2007 20:11:49 GMT -5
We were rehersing in marching band, playing an insane version of america the beautiful. It was a quiet choral section and my music told be to play a low Bb (I paly tenor sax, and i was playing a T.C. baritone part) I tried to play it-it came out, but REALLY REALLY loud. I turned so red. The MBD stops, looks at me, and says "good, but if you haven't noticed, this is a quiet section:" everyone laughed at me Your face wasn't red, it was bright pink! My sl and I were laughing so hard, I thought she was crying. You should have seen your sl's face!!!
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Post by Pheud on May 31, 2007 20:35:27 GMT -5
My sophomore year we went to a DCI show in Salem Virginia and Esperenza was there.After they and Mandarins performed me and a friend of mine went out to the souvie area and went browsing around.Right before we went back to the stands,two girls stopped us and asked us what we thought of Esperenza.Well,they wanted an opinion so I went "Eh,I didn't like it too much." and my friend just straight up said "It sucked".Well,turns out we were talking to the Drum Major and Trumpet soloist for Esperenza.Needless to say after we found out,we wanted to crawl in a hole in die.To make up for it,I bought them their dinner,and gave them a hug...it still embarrasses me though.
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Post by lada on Jun 5, 2007 20:07:39 GMT -5
OK, this one still gives me nightmares... So it was night, and I was on the band bus with my boyfriend on the way to a band trip when things started to heat up. It was dark, and we were listening to his iPod when he was like, Hey, wanna make out? And I was like, Oooh, sure. And so we sat there making out for what seemed like an hour, when... when the little headlights above us turned on, and his friends were right there, laughing their butts off. Turned out they watched the whole thing. I got PO'd so I started throwing stuff at them, and it turned into a stupid little fight full of lame comebacks. Of course, they went ahead and told the rest of the band about what they saw, and people, including my BD, who also found out, still tease us about it! ha ha, very funny... NOT. Again, it gives me nightmares!!!
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Post by hardcorpsflute on Jun 5, 2007 21:26:38 GMT -5
Okay, this happened to a section-mate of mine.
We were watching an Asian-themed show, and suddenly a siren went (as part of the show) and everybody on the field ran in seemingly random directions. Well, it was then that my friend yelled, "CHINESE FIRE DRILL!" subconsciously, or so he says. And, of course, my band director was right there. Shockingly, all he said was, "Hey, we were all thinking it."
Then, several shows later, as we were marching to the field, they were doing band-o-grams, and one was "Chinese fire drill!" It was so hard for the whole corps to not burst out laughing on the field.
Well, it was embarassing for my friend.
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Post by ibanana on Jun 15, 2007 13:54:33 GMT -5
At this last year's VBODA, I took out a trombone player. He ended up marching the rest of the show with a muddy uniform, as did I. I basically slipped about 2 steps before a pass-through... smack!ing his slide with my flag and sliding about 6 feet across the field... I promptly got up, and continued with my work. I didnt really realize what'd happened, or that i had made him fall, until the next day. But we got a superior, so the band wasnt too mean about it. All the trombones keep an eye out for me now though... haha.
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Post by tracciadiarmonia on Aug 13, 2007 14:05:45 GMT -5
it isn't too bad, but i know i couldn't stop laughing.
it was at a football game and we're up in the stands doing stand tunes, and during sports center we always go on the step in front of us [since naturally its a little higher than where we're standing] and do a side to side horn move. i'm always nervous i'll fall though because 1. i'm afraid of heights, and 2. i have horrible balance.
but at this football game my section leader decides lets go on the step behind us, which is way higher, and for me; Death.
Naturally as you can guess i totally ate it and slipped and my drum major almost doubled over laughing in the song, and so did the kid i fell on and everyone in flutes, clarinets, and saxes.
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Post by Clarisax on Aug 15, 2007 11:19:40 GMT -5
Once I was marching a section of the drill and I had no clue where I was going...I ended up about five yards too far to the left, and the senior next to me had to literally grab me and push me into the right spot. Thankfully, it was just during a practice and not an actual performance, and it was only once...
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Post by cosmicwonder on Aug 15, 2007 14:35:07 GMT -5
^ I do that to my section and the horrible base drummer who can't take the right size step for the life of him.
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Post by piccophone on Aug 15, 2007 15:21:44 GMT -5
Last year my flute fell when we were marching, and today at band camp I backwards into my AD.
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Post by SaxGirl on Aug 15, 2007 19:00:51 GMT -5
trombonemeister and Pheud, your stories made me crack up. I would have felt so bad about the Esperanza thing... And poor stickshifty, your picture is unfortunate, but it's gonna allow me to segue right into my embarassing moment. We had a move that could have been a possible pile-up in the show of my freshman year. Dance in the Gym, the 5th or 6th move, I believe. It still haunts me when I come to troublesome sets. All of the alto saxes were in a very cramped line (seriously, the intervals were probably less than one 8-to-5 step), and we had to move in an arc backwards. So, pretty much, if one person misstepped, the whole line was screwed. At a practice (luckily never at a competition), I stepped backwards on another sax's foot, and the one in front of my stepped on mine. I just went careening backward and fell flat on my butt.. and stickshifty, just like you said you got up in four counts, I did too. I have no idea how - and I even managed to stay in line and in step. It was like my butt had magical springs... I also expected quite a few more embarassing moments last year, considering it was my first year marching trombone. During our third song, the trombones had to take some rather large backwards steps (around 6 or 5-to-5 size), and I always cut this one flute player off. During one runthrough of the move, I accidentally stepped on the back of the flute player's shoe, and she just went dowwwwn. Like, WHOOOSH! I felt terrible.
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Post by lilmoosic011 on Aug 15, 2007 20:27:27 GMT -5
^Omg that sucks so bad!!
Band Camp is this week and yesterday we were running the first song of our first show "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap." And we were marching without playing, so I shouuuld have been able to watch where the hell I was going, but noooo. I was supposed to end up 4 off the 45 line, and I ended up 4 off the 30 for sooooome weird reason. And the whole freaking band is staring at me, including my BD, like "what the??" I felt like a complete moron!!!
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Post by hchswiregrasshorn on Aug 15, 2007 21:32:47 GMT -5
There are many from last year.
It was the first game. It was predicted to be rainy, so we wore our new windsuits. (that thin, slick material) Well we have a trombone player that didn't march on his toes...We got to the ballad last year, One Day I'll Fly Away, right after the trumpet solo when all of a sudden, a trombone goes in the air. He had caught part of his pants while marching backwards and fell on his butt! I wish I had seen it
Another one. We had the "Moulan Rouge" theme last year, so our drum major was required to wear her hair in a giant ponytail, (or whatever it's called) but she didn't have long enough hair, so we got her a fake ponytail. Well, about the third game she was conducting, and the fake hair just came out. Hilarious! I don't know how she conducted while laughing so hard.
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