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Post by samthered on Jan 6, 2007 14:33:10 GMT -5
This happened before I was in marching band but I heard it from my sister.
The marching band was doing the Toreador (spelling?) song from Carmen, and they weren't playing it good enough for my bd. So he stops everybody and says, "This is the toreador song! You need to do it like a toreador!" So he starts singing, "I am a toreador.." And then the dm's started dancing around, one acting like a bull fighter, waving his cape around, and the other dm was acting like a bull!
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Post by bandmutt on Jan 7, 2007 17:22:42 GMT -5
4 of us got to play with the 5th grade band for the last hour of the day, but we got done 20 minutes before class was out, so we escorted the 5th grade back to class (by skipping in front of them down the halls). Then we went back to the band room because one kid wanted to do a lesson, so we sat in the band room. We were bored, so we organized all the of the stands. There's about 10 stands that only max out at about 2 1/2 feet tall, so we put them all in their own corner, found a box of chalk (we write on our stands with chalk), and wrote "speshul stands" on them. It was so hilarious, you had to have been there.
Then, we didn't want to go back to class, so we folded all the pep band shirts. So we're sitting on the floor folding shirts when the BD walks out of his office, see's us, and announces "You know, folding the shirts won't make them any less smelly or gross!"
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Post by falcongeek on Jan 9, 2007 9:12:51 GMT -5
Its now a tradition in the band that whenever we go to a restaurant we tell the manager it's our band director's (whom we call "H") B-day to embarass him. He thinks it's hilarious.
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Post by Clarisax on Jan 10, 2007 18:56:13 GMT -5
[in the middle of breathing excercises] Shawn: Owww! [grabs ankle] BD: What did you do? Shawn: I dropped my trumpet on my ankle. BD: Wow. Leave it to Shawn to injure himself with a trumpet... Then there was the day Junior Winds (concert band outside of school) fell on Halloween...we all wore Halloween costumes. I just stole my bro's marching band uniform and wore it (shh, don't tell!). There were two guy trombonists (from my school, actually) who both dressed up like girls. And someone wore a big pink bunny suit...it was hilarious. i5.photobucket.com/albums/y157/Athrax/JWHalloween1-1.jpg (the 2 trombones dressed as girls...also the bunny suit and some more ones.) i5.photobucket.com/albums/y157/Athrax/JWHalloween2.jpg (a better picture of the bunny-suit guy. ) At band camp, there was a Hawaiian Day...and my brother, being the weirdo he is, decided to wear a grass skirt and coconut bra. It was creepy. i5.photobucket.com/albums/y157/Athrax/BrianCoconutBra.jpg^ Yep, that's my brother.
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Post by hchswiregrasshorn on Jan 12, 2007 22:52:08 GMT -5
At our first band practice, we had a beginning percussionist asleep on the band couch. (Yes, we have a band couch. It's HUGE and Awesome) He was sitting up and had his jacket zipped up with his head inside his jacket. Well, we had people sho saw it, and it soon got up to the band director. Well, he decided to get the crash cymbyls. (Sp?) We'll you can only guess what happened next...
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Post by trumpetspride on Jan 12, 2007 23:30:57 GMT -5
Oh my. This board was seriously made for me...I have SOOO many stories...SOOO many...were to begin...*thinks*
Trumpet Water Wars: At the first sectional (friday afternoons sections would go to someone's house or out to a resturant to eat before a game) someone squirted someone with a waterbottle, so our section leaders started soaking eachother with the water bottles...don't ask. So one of our section leaders got totally soaked. When we went back to school she peeked into the director's office to ask a question and they gave her a funny look...then she sat outside to dry. But ANYWAYS, she wanted to get the other SL back and I said that I would help. SO, at the second sectional we were in the basement of this kids house. The "victim" was playing a video game with another trumpet player, so the other SL and I managed to spread the word of our plan to everyone there except the kid who was playing the game with the victim. So SL and I ran outside and stationed ourselves by the hose, and everyone filed outside for a "group picture". We were then going to soak the victim with the hose...only problem...the hose wouldn't work right away so he saw us and tried to run inside. So, SL said "Get him!" so the section members tackled him to the ground. Only problem THERE was that the victim is on the wrestling team and could easily take them all. So, there in the front yard of this kid's house we have a trumpet wrestling match with a hose flying around (once it started working). We won that battle. SO...at another sectional, SL, section member, and I were gonna leave and go crash someone else's sectional but we thought it'd be more fun to try to get the victim wet again. So we found a bucket but it had holes in it, so we put pieces of cardboard on the bottom and began to fill the bucket. And in case you DIDN'T know...cardboard FLOATS, so the water leaked out of the holes ANYWAYS. So we couldn't carry the bucket to the backyard were the victim was because all the water would leak out so instead we tried to get HIM to come OUT FRONT. So first I told him that SL had a question. Then I said that she needed him to come out front. Then I said her car was broken down. FINALLY they all came out front but the victim saw the bucket. The hose began flying...some people chose alliances, and all chaos broke loose. SL and I both got pretty wet, and the victim ran and hid in his car. So, after standing around his car for a while, SL decided that she had to get SOMEONE wet, so she chose the guy who had partnered with the victim in this particular battle. She took the full bucket and, me with her purse and the car unlocked, she dumped it over his head and we ran to the car, jumped in, and locked the doors. We lost that battle...had to change into dry clothes...but the TRUMPET WATER WARS sure did make sectionals...interesting...
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Post by bandie4life210 on Jan 17, 2007 18:27:03 GMT -5
Our Drum Line is really ADD and r constantly not paying attention (more so than the rest of the band at least) so one day our Director held up his keys and shook them around. Every member stopped and stared o and there was an attempted kiddnapping of the Trumpet section leader during band camp www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iT0YLESODA
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Post by mthsbandrocks on Jan 17, 2007 18:40:37 GMT -5
Well, I don't particularly know where to start, but the other day my BD was coducting and he stopped us and goes: "Swish and Flick. It's LevioSA not LEVIosa." (That's from harry potter for all that don't know) and no one knew what he was talking about so we all kinda stared at him with this expresion: and he was laughing. It was quite akward because he was the only one laughing. Then we started laughing because he stoped and was like, "Oh COME ON! That wasn't funny?" I could go on FOREVER
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Post by trumpetspride on Jan 19, 2007 11:09:00 GMT -5
OMG yes! I had forgotten about that one! Aww *remembers* Good times, good times. Hey! I'm in that video! lol. Yeah, our BD wasn't too pleased when that happened...
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Post by trumpetspride on Jan 19, 2007 11:15:13 GMT -5
Oh, and there was this time when bus 1 broke down at a football game 2 hours away from home. We sat on the buses for what felt like EVER until finally they made us put all of our crap on the trailor (well, not our personal crap...) and split us in half and put us on the other 2 buses. We got home really early in the morning...between like 1 or 2. It was great.
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Post by charli07 on Jan 19, 2007 16:29:59 GMT -5
One of our trumpet players switches trumpet/tuba throughout band rehearsals... Well, one of our songs requires trumpet mutes...after rehearsal the trumpet playerr wanted to know if the tuba could use a trumpet mute...well, it does, but it is currently stuck...very stuck. They have spent the past 30 minutes trying to remove it from hte tuba...by using water...and...fire. I am currently watching them trying to get this mute out. The mute is VERY stuck...Along with about 2 gallons of water...and ashes. Right now they are playing the tuba trying to release it with the vibrations...Its making this gurgling sound I guess it is almost out... It definately has made my day extremely good!
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Post by softbol36 on Jan 20, 2007 14:04:10 GMT -5
so... last yr. the seniors were practicin for senior night... and our dm ran to kick a soccer ball, and fell!!! "Remember when Seranko fell?" (its the best!)
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Post by trumpetspride on Jan 27, 2007 22:57:14 GMT -5
1. at pep band one of the flutes was taking a bunch of pictures, and another flute put her hand in front of her face because she didn't want her picture taken. So the flute taking the picture said "don't be emo, [flutes name]!" So one of the trumpets made a comment and then one of the sax/clarinets said something along the lines of "you don't be emo you emo!" or something. But the funny part was that everyone in the gym had basically silenced because it was a foul shot...so all you hear is "you don't be emo you emo!"
2. 5 words: whipped cream in band room. nuff said. Lets just say it ended up on a couple of cars in the parking lot
3. In LAND OF 1000 DANCES there is a part, you know, were there is 7 beats of rest and then everyone is supposed to say "uh!" In my band, we don't just stand in silence then say it...we go "1-2-3-4, 1-2-3 UH!"
4. Marching season. It rained. Field got super muddy. And I mean REALLY muddy. Getting close to competition, so BD extended practice an hour but let people leave if they had to (like for work or something). So it's late in practice, the field it muddy. Both BD's have their dress pants rolled up to their knees (on had his dress socks pulled up too) and a few people are missing. So BD decides to march with us in someone's spot. In the mud. Seriously...picture this with me for a sec...yeah. That's what I mean. Funny picture. Funny funny picture.
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Post by mthsbandrocks on Jan 28, 2007 0:06:36 GMT -5
HAHA! I was laughing out loud [seriously] when watching that. I like the person on the long ranger or whatever yeallin "Hey! Put him down!" = ] I think if that happened in our band rehersal my band director would be too busy laughing to yell "Put him down!"
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Post by trumpetspride on Jan 28, 2007 10:57:09 GMT -5
HAHA! I was laughing out loud [seriously] when watching that. I like the person on the long ranger or whatever yeallin "Hey! Put him down!" = ] I think if that happened in our band rehersal my band director would be too busy laughing to yell "Put him down!" I'm pretty sure that was our BD yelling that. He was less amused by the act than some... Yeah, just checked it. The first, CALM, "put him down please" was our BD on the roof. The second, not so calm, "PUT HIM DOWN" was our percussion instructor. I'm almost sure of it lol Hey, lol, if you look close enough on the video you can see me lol. Sorry, I find that amusing...
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