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Post by stickshifty on Dec 9, 2006 18:44:28 GMT -5
On the band bus on the way home from the Christmas Parade, one tenor sax decided that she'd bring a mistletoe with her. All of a sudden, she says, "[Girl in the seat behind me], I have to talk to you for a minute." The whole bus gets really quiet, and she comes up and asks hows it going. She holds the mistletoe over me and my bf's head. Extreme awkwardness to the max bc I don't exactly heart PDA, and the tenor sax (and the whole back of the bus for that matter) wanted me and my bf to kiss while everyone was watching. It was funny for everyone except me.
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Post by dontbreaktuba09 on Dec 13, 2006 15:59:11 GMT -5
ok! so there I was in the middle of the most important porformance that weve had so far in the season (area to be exact) anyways...there we were and right at the end of the second song. Well it just happenes that we have a body movement that we have to dip down for...well when i did, i come back up...but the bell of my sousaphone didnt! I stood there stunned. But by the start of the third song i had it in my hand and marching. i finished the show like nothing happened when inside i felt like i was going to cry because i just knew that i had ruined our chances of going to state, but i didnt...we made it to state and i got applauded form the band, principle of my school, band directers, and by the fans of our band. I also got marcher of the week....for breaking my tuba ok! When we was leaving the contest some guy behind me said "hey thats the boy whos tuba broke...thats tha tuba boy" ands thats where i got my name Tubaboy. [glow=red,2,300]Tubaboy[/glow]
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Post by allnamesaretaken on Dec 15, 2006 22:16:02 GMT -5
There was this one indoor competition that, after we had performed, we formed a tunnel around the doorway, and as other band people walked in and out of it, we'd cheer them and give them high-fives. And then after the last group leaves, one of our alto sax girls runs through yelling and slips on her back. It was hilarious. (It also happened to be the only competition that we placed well in.)
Another competition, my freshmen year, I was talking with some people from another band, when I mention that I'm wearing long pants under my uniform. A girl instantly asks me if I'm retarded. It was one of those you-had-to-be-there-moments.
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Post by moe on Dec 16, 2006 0:35:49 GMT -5
hmm. last summer my DM was counting off something (i dont remember what) when all of the sudden her voice jumps like 3 octaves. haha it was amazing. oh and we had those Most likely to...awards also. The entire guard received the award of most likely to be run over by drumline. hahaha. it was great, the whole place laughed.
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Post by saxtherapist on Dec 16, 2006 11:03:20 GMT -5
My trumpet friend was talking out his instrument and it was really cold (in the middle of summer) so he he's like "wow, it's kinda cold, feel." so my flute friend feels it mentions something then my really slow and out of it alto sax friend is like "what? what's happening" and so my trumpet says:
"Feel my instrument"
I standing with my back to them putting my sax together and almost drop it I laughed so hard. No one else except the trumpet got it. My friends were like what the hell is wrong with them? So now it's a thing with him. He won't do it to anyone else because they don't get it so he'll come up really close behind me and be like "feel my instrument" and I can't stop laughing when he does it. He says it super sexually too. The funniest.
then three days ago I had had it with my mouthpiece so I was like I'm gonna washes it out then if it still sucks, goodbye mouthpiece. So I soaked it over night in pamolive and javex. The dish soap was orange smelling. So when I got to school the next day I was like "look guys, nice and clean, yum" then I was like" but it smells kinda funny, pamolive and javex smell kinda strange together" then I smelt it to figure out what it smelt like "it smells like salsa" My mean friends burst out laughing and now I put my instrument down and instead of "don't hurt the sax" I'm like "don't touch my salsa!" This one doesn't seem as funny writen out as it really is.
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Post by euphoniumgirl on Dec 18, 2006 15:32:13 GMT -5
Today, we were finishing up our jazz band songs when my band director goes, "I need reading glasses. We were like "Why?" And the bd said,"Well, is it just me or is the speed quarter note=160 or half note =160 because they wrote it soo small." Our first trumpet player goes,"That's not a half note, it's a quarter note, just not filled in."
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Post by ~*Not~a~Stalker~* on Dec 18, 2006 21:16:11 GMT -5
Today we didn't do any thing but mess aroung for an hour, and me & some friends made a video on my camera mocking our "favorie" teacher. I'm gonna try and put it on youtube.
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Post by americanidiot50 on Dec 18, 2006 23:04:39 GMT -5
About 10 people all cramed into the directors office to just talk. But it turned into some random outbursts where you had to talk really loud to be heard. So a DM said to another DM [one is a boy and one is a girl], "have you ever been skeet shooting?" And most of us only heard skeet. *Note the band directors are in the room.* Then this guy [who is quite sexually wrong if you ask me] goes, " John [guy DM], did you just aske Katie [girl DM] if she wanted to get some skeet?"
The whole place was cracking up. Even the band directors. Then we all got kicked out for saying skeet. : |
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Post by trumpetislife on Dec 20, 2006 23:02:03 GMT -5
this wasnt funny at the time but i thought id share it:
so today was our holiday concert and concert band was on (including me) and it was the beginning of the song and my trumpet was in my lap and the person sitting next to me had her trumpet on her lap to. so im moved my leg by acident and the bell of my trumpet hit the mouthpeice of her trumpet. and it hit it just right so the mouthpeice fell out! and it hit the stage and it was really LOUD! and i just paused for a second then quickly got it. i was soo upset! i felt really bad! but it was kinda funny becides the fact it was during a concert AND my mom heard it and she was in the audiance!
(and i almost fell off the stage trying to get to my seat )
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Post by peaceloveoboe on Dec 27, 2006 13:51:41 GMT -5
So the guard keeps all our flags in a rolling trash can to help us get them down to the filed. Marching season was long over, and one of the senior saxes decided to put one of the 8th graders in the trash can. We get almost halfway through band class and the bd just assumes he isn't there, then all of the sudden, right in the middle of a song he bursts out of the trash can and falls on the floor. We about died...
This isn't exactly band, but it was in youth orchestra. We were having a practice that wasn't in our usual rehersal room, so the general manager asks us to bring folding music stands. My mom just picked my friend and me up from school, and we're hauling it downtown to the practice. So she decides to pick up her music stand and try to open it in the car. The thing got bent, so she can't open it, and we're pulling on it and it's tangling itself...We start laughing hysterically, though I think you would have had to be there to think it was funny. We ended up writing a manual on how to open a folding music stand...
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Post by trumpetskickbrass on Dec 27, 2006 15:23:18 GMT -5
Last year, when i had a different band director, he got a letter one day but they spelled his name wrong on the envolope. His name is Mr. Creste (like the toothpaste, lol) but on the envelope it was printed "Mr. Teste" he was like "ohh that great. just dannndy." We all thought it was insanly funny. We laughed for about 5 minutes. If you get it, its kinda innapropreate, but really funny, cause he's the kinda guy you could laugh at that for. XD
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Post by mthsbandrocks on Dec 28, 2006 23:00:36 GMT -5
1-I sit behine one of my clarinetist friends in the stands at almost every game. The first game we went to when I had my new sax, she kept turning around to look at it. In the middle of "Hey Baby" she turned around and stuck her hand as far into my bell as she could fit it. While I was playing. Her boyfriend got mad at us because we had "crazy bell-sex" without him. He's just jealous of our relationship. Ohh! Crazy bell-sex. Yes, my favorite. Lol, JUST KIDDING!
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Post by altoflouto414 on Dec 29, 2006 14:25:29 GMT -5
This funny band story is kind of one that you have to know the kid who it happened to..so I'll give you a brief overview.
This kid, who's name is Jason, is a pit player, and thinks he's like the "Pit God". He is very annoying, and nobody really likes him, which sounds mean, but it's the truth. Anyways, our BD made him Pit Captain this year, just because he didn't want him on drumline. But yeah..that's Jason.
So... yesterday, we had an Indoor Percussion Camp, which is kinda like Band Camp, but for Indoor Percussion. Well, anyways, we we're working through this one run, and of course, this Jason kid starts the run out, then it goes through the rest of the keyboard section. Our director goes, " And let's see here...Jason starts the run, so it's JUST JASON! You know, like that guy on Will and Grace, how he's always saying 'JUST JACK!...." I turn to my friend and say, "Isn't Jack the gay one on the show?" and she says," Yeah, he's like, the OVERLY gay one."
I almost died.
Jason just stood there, with a little smug look on his face.
P.s. Sorry if this has offended anyone, with the word "gay" and such.
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Post by samthered on Jan 1, 2007 13:58:05 GMT -5
Last summer, from each parade we went to, we stole a no parking sign! We'd be getting on the bus, and then we'd find out someone was missing. We'd look around, and then we'd see them running up with a no parking sign! It was hilarious!
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Post by bariclaribob on Jan 6, 2007 11:29:11 GMT -5
Jazz band is hilarious. The other day, we got to a part in a song where there was a repeat and above it was written "Play 4 x's" and our bassist is like, "Mr. B, I have a question. What does 'play 4 x's' mean?" And everyone yelled "Play 4 times!" Then, later, we were playing "America My Country 'Tis of Thee" when twice Mr. B had to stop us and say "Make sure you aren't playing 'American the Beautiful.'" Sure enough, our bassist was playing the latter--which is in a completely different key than "My Country 'Tis of Thee." He complained that in his packet the two are right next to each other, to which everyone yelled that that's how it is for everyone else too.
I think it was yesterday that our drummer was letting his apprentice so to speak play drumset for one song, so he was just hanging out, talking to the bassist, when Mr. B told him to go away because the bassist needs as much concentration as he can get. But when the drummer left and we started the song again: no bass. Everyone turned to him as he said all embarrassed, "I forgot to turn on the switch."
I was also hit by a guitar yesterday. I can honestly say that's a first.
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