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Post by bariclaribob on Jan 28, 2007 14:52:53 GMT -5
Two words... "udder cream." You don't even want to know. Let's just say we freshmen should have been warned to never EVER attempt to talk to the bass player...
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Post by carahtheodd on Jan 29, 2007 17:50:14 GMT -5
During our mock-lock down drill I was with a bunch of seniors. Thye were wrestling in the dark, and knocked over the timpani. Our band director got in trouble for having "uncontollable students"
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Post by bariclaribob on Jan 29, 2007 17:55:31 GMT -5
^Would any of those seniors be nick-names?
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Post by carahtheodd on Jan 31, 2007 17:00:07 GMT -5
um-both...brianna and engelbert ;D
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Post by juliebee08 on Feb 1, 2007 21:28:43 GMT -5
one of our freshman baritone players put his uniform on backwards...the pants part. the zipper is normally in the front, so I have no idea how you could not notice you had put your pants on wrong...+
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Post by Lprdgecko on Feb 3, 2007 21:02:57 GMT -5
This was pretty much THE funniest thing I have ever seen.
Ok, freshman year, our band was performing at a football halftime show towards the beginning of the season. This was only the school's second year, and we didn't have uniforms yet, so we wore school T-shirts and shorts. Anyways, there was this one move where the brass and woodwinds cross lines like so:
<-WWWWW BBBBBBBB-> <-WWWWW BBBBBBBB->
Etc...
Well I was behind a flute player. The trombone line crossed between her line and mine. Well [trombone player] apparently didn't have his horn 10 degrees above parallel, because as our lines cross, [trombone player's] slide gets caught in [flute player's] ponytail. I'm marching right behind her. I witnessed the slide come clean out of the trombone and into her hair. This is in the middle of the first movement. I begin to laugh as hard as I've ever laughed before. [Flute player] kept her cool and kept on marching with a big heavy trombone slide hanging off the back of her head, which was good of her to do (she was a junior at the time). After the first movement was over, we had a pause between movements, and anybody near started laughing their heads off. [Flute player] quickly goes to the sideline and tries to get the slide out of her hair. It's stuck. She ends up having to yank out a few hairs to get it out. Meanwhile, [trombone player] is not happy about this incident at all... He marched around the whole show with a slideless trombone... Wow... Thank goodness for shakos, lol.
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Post by mthsbandrocks on Feb 3, 2007 21:37:02 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... Haha, yeah. I could SOOOOO see that happening to one of our trumpets at band camp. Our trumpets are so joke prone its not even funny! = ] PS: Why was your BD on the roof?
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Post by mthsbandrocks on Feb 3, 2007 21:40:29 GMT -5
Oh-ho, as soon as I read the title of this topic, millions of memories popped into my head.. But one in paticular; which came to be known as the "Crack Fries from Tuscon" story. Well, one of our band competitions was located in Tuscon, Arizona. It's about, 2-3 hours from where I live in AZ. So on the way back from our trip, we stopped at this McDonalds located in Tuscon. I wasn't very hungry, so I just got some french fries and a shake. And I swear they put something a little "extra" in those fries; which is were the name "Crack Fries" came from. So anyways, after I got my food, I went outside to join my friends Chris (Bass Clarinet) and AJ (Drumline). I tried to eat my fries and walk, but ended up almost choking on one of them. So we sat down at a table outside along with some trumpets. I was sitting there, when all of the sudden, I just fell out of my seat and unto the ground, knocking my shake over. My friend Chris picked up my shake, but then I ended up knocking it over AGAIN because I was laughing really hard at this point. "Cassie, get on the buss before you hurt yourself." Was all Chris said to me after that. So I was walking to my seat on the Charter buss, and I hit my head on one of the TV's. Twice. Finally once the buss started to move I seem alright, until we made a sudden halt, causing me to hit my head on the seat in front of me. And start cracking up. I finally fell asleep, and when I woke-up my face was squished in-between the seats behind me. So now, everytime I do something stupid or whatever some says, "Cassie have you been eating those crack fries again?" Haha. That's a GREAT story. I love it. Tehe, "crack fries".
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Post by mthsbandrocks on Feb 3, 2007 21:43:22 GMT -5
This was pretty much THE funniest thing I have ever seen. Ok, freshman year, our band was performing at a football halftime show towards the beginning of the season. This was only the school's second year, and we didn't have uniforms yet, so we wore school T-shirts and shorts. Anyways, there was this one move where the brass and woodwinds cross lines like so: <-WWWWW BBBBBBBB-> <-WWWWW BBBBBBBB-> Etc... Well I was behind a flute player. The trombone line crossed between her line and mine. Well [trombone player] apparently didn't have his horn 10 degrees above parallel, because as our lines cross, [trombone player's] slide gets caught in [flute player's] ponytail. I'm marching right behind her. This is in the middle of the first movement. I begin to laugh as hard as I've ever laughed before. [Flute player] kept her cool and kept on marching with a big heavy trombone slide hanging off the back of her head, which was good of her to do (she was a junior at the time). After the first movement was over, we had a pause between movements, and anybody near started laughing their heads off. [Flute player] quickly goes to the sideline and tries to get the slide out of her hair. It's stuck. She ends up having to yank out a few hairs to get it out. Meanwhile, [trombone player] is not happy about this incident at all... Wow... Thank goodness for shakos, lol. Haha, I could almost see this happening to one of our trumpets. We are talented like that. I mean, someone hit our SL in the bell hard enought to jack up the bell and make his mouth bleed. And no one knew who did it. I think you would notice if you ran into someone that hard.
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Post by Pheud on Feb 4, 2007 0:05:05 GMT -5
Not as funny as some others,but I thought it was.
So we were going to East Burke High School in Connely Springs,North Carolina for a band compeitition.To get there we had to take Interstate 40.For those of you North Carolinians you know that I-40 is a Horrible,HORRIBLE interestate.Its really really bumpy.Every 3 seconds or so the bus hits a bump.After about 40 minutes of this the bunch of us sitting in the back are basically going out of our minds becuase of the jarring bumps.Finally after another 10 minutes or so I scream out "FOR THE LOVE OF GOD MAKE IT STOP!" In all honesty,after I said that,it stopped.
Also,when the band was going to Marshall University for their competition we stopped at the Huntington,WV Mall for a break. We get an hour and a half to hang around in there.Me and a couple of us head for the arcade and hang around in there.After a while our Band Director and Percussion Instructor comes in and plays some games.Among one of them is Dance Dance Revolution. My band director decides he wants to play it and gets onto it. At the same time a little 7 or 8 year old girl gets on the other platform and challenges him to a match. And of all things,he actually plays her.He basically schools her and beats her down. And to make it even worse,he made her cry! So now we rag him about that all the time and our Perc.Instructor even got him a DDR shirt.It was so funny.
Theirs also the Gummy weiner incident going to Marshall University,but I won't discuss that...
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Post by SaxGirl on Feb 4, 2007 14:10:58 GMT -5
Well I was behind a flute player. The trombone line crossed between her line and mine. Well [trombone player] apparently didn't have his horn 10 degrees above parallel, because as our lines cross, [trombone player's] slide gets caught in [flute player's] ponytail. I'm marching right behind her. I witnessed the slide come clean out of the trombone and into her hair. This is in the middle of the first movement. I begin to laugh as hard as I've ever laughed before. [Flute player] kept her cool and kept on marching with a big heavy trombone slide hanging off the back of her head, which was good of her to do (she was a junior at the time). After the first movement was over, we had a pause between movements, and anybody near started laughing their heads off. [Flute player] quickly goes to the sideline and tries to get the slide out of her hair. It's stuck. She ends up having to yank out a few hairs to get it out. Meanwhile, [trombone player] is not happy about this incident at all... He marched around the whole show with a slideless trombone... Wow... Thank goodness for shakos, lol. That is hilarious... Luckily I've never done that to anyone yet, though I did almost kill a freshman this season. The flutes and trombones had to converge in a cross-through, but both of us were moving backwards, trying to make an X. It was so confusing. So, these flutes had to move in a backwards diagonal, to the left. The trombones did the same, but to the right. The poor freshman flute on the front of the diagonal was moving back, and as I was, I pretty much stepped on the front of her shoe (I don't have eyes in the back of my head!) and she went flying backwards. I started cracking up unintentionally, and then helped her up and apologized. It kind of reminded me of my freshman year when I still marched alto sax and had a similar move, but instead of the predator, I was the prey. The trombone section leader was moving back, and I was too far up. Her slide clotheslined me right in the side of the face. It was hilarious... she felt bad, and I was just completely dumbfounded.
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Post by bariclaribob on Feb 4, 2007 15:35:46 GMT -5
Our student teacher told us that once he was marching in a parade in some big city (St. Louis, maybe?) and he was playing trombone. Well, he said he was marching, and he got elbowed or something in the nose, and his nose started to bleed, and then his slide fell off. Well, he was a senior at the time, so he turns around and grabs some freshman's trombone and just keeps marching and playing. He was in ST. LOUIS, guys! He wasn't ever going back, but he figured the freshie might. LOL. ;D
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Post by enjoithetrumpets09 on Feb 4, 2007 19:14:22 GMT -5
Our BD hates it when our mutes hit the ground and makes us use towels at concerts. After Janfest, he came into the warmup room where we were lined up, and called his name and dropped them all at once.
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Post by mkmello2010 on Feb 4, 2007 22:33:37 GMT -5
^ ha ha ha!! that's too funny! my bd yelled at us trumpets the other day for that. lol! ( we have 2 bd's) and the one that i have always stops and tells us random stories. he was complaining about how he got a parking ticket, and he drew us a picture in band and everything to "prove" to us that it wasn't true. and don't ask what happens to him when he doesn't have his coffee.
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Post by trumpetspride on Feb 5, 2007 22:11:24 GMT -5
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... Haha, yeah. I could SOOOOO see that happening to one of our trumpets at band camp. Our trumpets are so joke prone its not even funny! = ] PS: Why was your BD on the roof? Hehe. He goes up there so he can see the formations and stuff.
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