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Post by bariclaribob on Nov 28, 2006 19:23:23 GMT -5
In jazz band this morning, there's this song where it's just saxes and bass (and high hat) at the beginning, and our bassist messed up. When the director cut us off, a trumpet called to the bassist "Sounds like you're having diarhhea over there!" I was laughing so hard, I couldn't play. When I finally got a grip on myself, I found it funny all over again and the tenor who sits next to me kept shooting me weird looks, which made me laugh harder and harder...
But just about everything that happens in band is in some way hilarious. Not to band-outsiders, of course.
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Post by cloverflutist07 on Nov 28, 2006 20:02:00 GMT -5
During marching season...we were cleaning sets...
and the intervals (horizonatally) in the clarinet line weren't looking to even...it was line, midpoint, line, midpoint etc...spaced...*sighs*...
This is eventually pointed out by the trumpet section (very discreetly too, as all trumpet sections are ;D ) So the clarinets all start fixing the intervals, when the one clarinet from the almost-center of the line goes... How far am I from the yardline?? BD: 4 steps... Clarinet: but from which yard line??? Guard: does it matter?! BD: it's the midpoint. Clarinet *very seriously*: i know, but from which yard line?? Outside the 45?? Inside the 40?? ***conversation comes to an uncomfortable end***
She did eventually realize...that it did not, in fact (...as suprising as it may have seemed...) matter which yardline she was 4 steps from...because she was, as the BD said, on the midpoint...
lol...it was a very productive and inspiring practice ;D
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Post by enjoithetrumpets09 on Nov 28, 2006 21:44:30 GMT -5
preparing for madrigal dinner with the chorus this afternoon.... I'm 1st trumpet in the brass quartet, and I had to improv little sections of fanfare when certain people entered...I just screwed around with bugle calls, and decided to play one we had in one of our marches, and every band member there just busted out laughing. I guess you had to be there, but it was funny
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Post by talkitiveflutist on Nov 29, 2006 19:01:37 GMT -5
today in band we were playing our christmas song for our conert coming up a week from today! we blasted my band teacher lol he like moved back like he sort of was going to fall. and he cut us off and said you blasted my gramda out in the back row!! lol i think you sort of had to be there i don't get it!!
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Post by wwcgjunkie on Nov 29, 2006 23:03:47 GMT -5
1~ Ok so my eigth grade year in marching band (our mb u can start in 8th due to lack of idiot highschoolers who arent in it!!!) my cousin was a senior and my boyfriends crazy (no really shes in a mental school now) ex-girlfriend(known as "it") were clarinets. we they had a circle to rotate and my cousin was in front of "it" and "it" tumbles down...mind you shes no so tiny...well kinda gigantic and she rooled into the person behind her!!!
2~ My boyfriend used to knock over stands alot before he graduated...well know i think he passed it on to me... I was getting my flute from the closet and when i walked back i knowed over a stand onto my freshman sax's head. i made sure he was ok then went to go back to my seat and i knocked over another one onto a clarinets head.
3~ So my freshman sax is UBER!!! ticklish and when u tickle him or poke him he makes puppydog noises and its soooo funny. well last month on the bus on the way to a compatition i was retaping a swing flag and i poked him with it. he didnt expect it so he jumper 2 ft in the air and landed on the floor and he was whimpering. i was laughing so hard i fell oiff my seat and hit my head with the flag.
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Post by brassdancer on Nov 30, 2006 16:25:05 GMT -5
One of my favorite quotes ... over the summer, I guess a euph player was checking out a guardie and over the loudspeaker we hear:
"Hey, (euph player) why don't you run a lap to make sure the blood goes to the BIGGER of your two heads." Oh my god.... I seriously lost it.
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Post by bandmutt on Nov 30, 2006 20:32:27 GMT -5
Today it was a girl's birthday, so somebody asked if we could sing happy birthday to her.... BD: No, she was tardy, you can sing happy tardy to her. Whole Band: Happy tardy to you, happy tardy to you! Happy tardy dear *****! Happy tardy to you! Kevin: How many tardies do you have? How many tardies do you have....
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Post by texasbandnerd09 on Nov 30, 2006 21:11:33 GMT -5
We have numerous inside jokes in our band like one time during concert season last year someone in the perc. section tripped and everyone was laughing and a little out of it then our band director counting us off or w/e and we all kinda looked at him strangly when we were saposed to play and he looked at him self and went "WHAT is there something sticking up on me??"and we were quiet for a minute and then he thought about what he said and ran into his office fro the rest of the class and our asst. worked with us...it was so funny when he ran our everyone busted out laughing... at a monday night practice it had rained so the field was wet and I was running to my spot and my right foot slid out from under me and I was going to land on my horn and someone I flipped myself over so my new custom sax was safe @.@ it was embarasing... today after we got through practicing for the christmas parade this saturday one of our base drum players had his drum on backwards and was walking by a bench in the court yard infront of the band hall and fell over backwards and the drum slipped slightly under the bench and he looked like a snail stuck on his back we had to get 5 guys to remove him from his drum... at our first contest our rival band was there and my bf is in their band and he was takeing off his uniform and was about to unbutton his bibbed and took a step and someone stepped on his pants leg and RIPPED his bibbers all the way up his leg and his butt XD!!! wish I could have seen that...heard it was HAlarious
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Post by altoflouto414 on Dec 1, 2006 18:54:18 GMT -5
Well, yesterday, apparently our DM mooned our BD. That in itself is hilarious.
Our DM ended up getting suspended for a few days, so our BD had to have a chat with us about making the right choices. While going through his speech, our BD stops to allow some of the talkers in the band to be respectful and all of a sudden, a loud fart noise comes from the percussion section. Everybody was dead silent for 2 seconds and then BUST OUT LAUGHING. It was certainly a scene.
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Post by spartanguardie09 on Dec 1, 2006 21:46:20 GMT -5
We were at a big game, our biggest of the year (it was the semifinals game against our rival school). It stayed 0-0 until the 4th quarter when they scored a touchdown. On the second touchdown, everyone in the band was silent and mad. All of a sudden, one of the saxes starts playing "Taps." Everyone in the band was laughing as hard as they could.
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Post by texasbandnerd09 on Dec 4, 2006 16:15:18 GMT -5
OOHHH I remembered the funniest thing that happend this year well it was funny in the end, okay we were at area AREA important big deal pee your pants nerviousness okay anyway, at the end of our 2nd song everyother line steps to the right and dips their body to their left leg then back up and when one of our tubas did that his BELL fell off!!! he picked it up then marched the rest of the show with it in one hand! well its more funny now after we got 2nd at area and advanced to state and had random posters around the band hall that said "Break a leg Tuba *****"
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Post by charli07 on Dec 5, 2006 20:39:11 GMT -5
BD fell off the podium at contest...good thing it was just warmups. A girl fell off the bus on a band trip...oh wait, that was me... new bandies trying to put on their band uniforms for the first time...I have pictres somewhere. halloween 2005...can not share details (what happens in the band room, stays in the band room)
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Post by euphoniumgirl on Dec 6, 2006 16:39:44 GMT -5
During our jazz rehersal, one of the tenor sax players instrument wasn't working. So he started walking down the risers to ask the band director to take a look at it and just at that moment, he tripped. His sax when flying through the air and the drummer dove down and caught his sax right in time!
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Post by freshmanflute on Dec 7, 2006 15:37:54 GMT -5
one of the drummers was suppose to copy all the jazz songs on to a cd and burn one for everone in the jazz band, but he ended up somehow burning his sister's cd. So we get to band pop in the cd expecting jazz to come on...... and what comes out instead?? American Pie. It was quite funny
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Post by bariclaribob on Dec 9, 2006 12:22:53 GMT -5
We had a sub bd, and he's an awesome trumpet player. He put a CD in for us to listen to. He said it was a trumpet group playing Christmas music. At first it was, but then it turned into "screaming trumpets." They were just blasting like you never have heard on incredibly high notes... at a guess, I'd say two g's above the staff. It was head-splitting, but hilarious.
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