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Post by euphoniumgirl on Feb 7, 2007 11:14:06 GMT -5
Ok, this is the the week that I did some of the stupidest stuff in my life! #1: We had brass sectionals after school, when I was walking off the stage I stepped into the band room and found this helarious pic of our BD on a rollercoaster. Soo I called all the brass people over and dropped my backpack on the floor. So I left and got in my mom's co-workers car and drove home, without my backpack. Luckly, I live 2 min away from the school, so the co-worker drove me to the front, where I ran all the way around the school to get to the band room and it was locked! My bd had alreadly left! So I ran all the way back around and hopped in the car, we drove into parking lot cut my band director off, and got the keys.
#2: During jazz band I told my bd that my lip hurt, and with the county 6 hour rehearsal coming up he proceeded to take my instrument away and leave me bored. So during band, I was had my valve oil in my hand when Barbra the euphonium player next to me placed her foreward faceing baritone on the floor face up. I dropped my oil down the bell! Just then, before I could say anything, she picked up the baritone, moving the valve oil in farther! We were stuggleing to get it out when the bd said, "Barbra, can I see you baritone?" We both froze thinking that he had seen the whole valve oil thing. SO he played it, complaining that it was really badly out of tune when we told him that the oil was stuck in it. He didn't believe us, the next day he threw me my valve oil and said, "Here don't throw it again."
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Post by aznfiddle on Feb 14, 2007 23:38:56 GMT -5
Fridays for us are officially.... SMACK ASS FRIDAY!!!
The name is quite explanatory really... No one is safe! Imagine the whole entire horn line in block band... A whole line of band peeps all facing the same way... Hand out... and infinte smacks galore... I for one have not attempted this but have witnessed as well as become a victim of this day...
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Post by mkmello2010 on Feb 15, 2007 16:40:43 GMT -5
Just today, my BD yelled at the trumpets for having their mutes drop out while we are playing. And, he said that he will glare evilly at the trumpets if we have a mute drop at contest this weekend. Right after he said that, we started playing agian, and my mute fell off of my lap. My friend next to me starts laughing hysterically, and I do to. I didn't even mean to do it. But, thank goodness that he didn't see that. ;D
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Post by hddrummer on Feb 15, 2007 19:03:01 GMT -5
I'm on the drumline, and at band camp, we were all together playing the show, and we have a really good drumline, but we're kind of on-and-off, so it's either great, or it's...not so great. So we played the opener, all from memory, and it was great! except the ending. we have a prestissimo at the ending, at like 160bpm, and we played it at like 240bpm. And our drumline instructor goes, "that's like great sex in a car that just fell of the edge of the cliff". Another time, we were playing the rose bowl parade (last season), and all of the people on the sidelines kept holding up signs that said, "1/4 miles left!" and then they'd flip them over, and theyed say, "jk, 5 more miles to go!" (it's a 7 mile route). my friend mike (also a drummer), threw his tenor stick at them, and then he asked for it back, claiming he dropped it. it was hilarious. I had cymbals at the time, otherwise I would have done the same thing.
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Post by trumpetspride on Feb 15, 2007 20:06:29 GMT -5
This MB season we had a new BD...and he is like only 2 years out of college. So he learned throughout the season how to deal with us...which was quite amusing:
During a practice one of the trumpet section leaders was being obnoxious. I don't remember what she was doing but I remember that I think she was causing distractions and stuff, probably saying silly things. She tended to get really hyper/giddy when she was tired or something...but that's not the point. Anyways, she did SOMETHING and our BD just looked at her, then picked up a pencil and threw it at her. Bad idea...because she kept the pencil and a few minutes later threw it back at him.
Our drumline...as well as the entire band...can be VERY ADD at times. Like the time a butterfly flew across the practice field and half the band got distracted for a few minutes. But anyways, so we were having trouble focusing and so our BD was like "I need something shiny or something to get your attention." So he stood there for a moment then grabbed his keys and held them up and jingled them. Like...the entire band turned and starred. We like shiny objects :-D.
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Post by bandie4life210 on Feb 18, 2007 13:02:22 GMT -5
Our hats that we have to wear for our uniforms have mirrors on them so its very common to see people trying to direct the reflected light from their mirrors into someone's eye. Probably not the smartest thing to do but o well. Also with the mirrors, as mentioned before, our band is really ADD so one time after a contest the entire band was standing around our BD in a semi circle. The BD had his back to the wall and was giving use instructions on when to be where and congratulating us on a good job, that kind of stuff, when he realized that no one was paying attention. We were all looking above his head at the wall. He turned around and there were the reflections of 100 little mirrors dancing on the wall behind him. The entire band was amazed by it. It did actually look really cool. Anyways our BD laughed and said something about us have the attention spans of 3 year olds and tried to get everyones attention to finish what he had been saying. Again no one listened but he gave up trying, knowing that he would never be able to get our attention back as long as we had our hats on
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Post by samthered on Feb 18, 2007 15:23:43 GMT -5
With the mutes:
The day before our first performance for pit, I was playing, and my harmon mute decided to fall out, hit the wall, my stand, and my other mute. It banged around for ten seconds before stopping. We stopped right after that, and I'm pretty sure it was because some cast member fell over laughing. And it only happened to me, it didn't happen to anyone else.
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Post by bariclaribob on Feb 19, 2007 18:58:29 GMT -5
The student teacher Mr. M was directing the jazz band the other day, and he says, "Bones! This is how you're playing that Eb *demonstrates* when you should play it like this *demonstrates the right way*. Play it like you think a tenor would." Then he pauses for a second, trying to decide how to hold his bone like a sax would. So he turns to the tenor and says "You hold it off to the side like this, right?" And the tenor says "Well I play between my legs."
At that, all the saxes and the guitar (who sits right by us) burst out laughing because it sounds so wrong. But Mr. M doesn't get it, so he (get this) puts the bone between his legs while standing up, plays the note, and swings his slide between his legs right you-know-where...
Then later on, he tells the bones to play their note really lightly. He tells them they sound like the 500-pound trombone, and all the sudden everyone goes "OOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHH!!" and turns to look at our heavier-set bone player. Mr. M realizes that he offended him and startes to apologize just as the kid says "I don't weigh that much..."
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Post by bariclaribob on Feb 24, 2007 14:24:14 GMT -5
Our bd was making fun of some kids in jazz band b/c they said they were gonna go clubbing when we go to Duluth.
"Sometimes, you just gotta dance." That is seriously what he told us.
I don't know why that was so funny. I guess you had to be there.
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Post by bariphonium on Feb 26, 2007 19:17:16 GMT -5
o man.... so many moments. one that comes to mind right now is on our band trip to Florida over spring break last year. It was about 5am, and we'd spent close to the past 15-17 hours on the bus already. We had just entered Florida, and most people will still asleep. Those of us who were awake had just started to watch the sun rise out of our windows when 2 of our low brass guys (Go low brass! lol) start belting out that song from Lion King. you know, "NAHHHHHHHHH SEH-VAIN-YAHHHHHHHH!!!!!" or whatever. lol. They bust into that song and sing the ENTIRE thing. I was laughing, but let's just say, not everyone on the bus found it to be as funny.. .. "GOSH. SHUT UP!! " But totally worth it.
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Post by Lprdgecko on Feb 27, 2007 23:03:51 GMT -5
On our way back from Indy back in November, we stopped a few hours into the trip at a mall for lunch. There was a music store there, and these two really annoying sax players decide they want to each buy a two-cent kazoo. And play them very obnoxiously on the bus. So, we all get back on the bus and are sitting there waiting for everybody to get on and whatever, and our BD comes on and says, "The second this door closes, the kazoos get put away!" So they proceed to play as much of the kazoo as they can before the door closes, so they play our marching show. We must've been waiting on a lot of people because it took a while for them to close the door. At least 5 minutes. So we're all chanting towards the end, "Shut the door! Shut the door!" They eventually did, and it was surprising that they actually put them away. Then as our BD was walking by somebody mentioned that it would be [guard girl's] birthday in a couple days. Then [alto] said, "I'll bring my kazoo to play happy birthday!" And he did. Lol.
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Post by samthered on Feb 28, 2007 17:54:19 GMT -5
In choir, we have a song called "Shut de do", and at the end of class we line up at the door. One day somebody opened the door and our CD yelled "shut the door!" so we all started singing!
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Post by mthsbandrocks on Feb 28, 2007 20:48:07 GMT -5
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. Oh why dont you have a tower? Because every school around us does
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Post by mthsbandrocks on Feb 28, 2007 20:55:36 GMT -5
Today in band our BD was telling us to play mad. And my SL [who always plays like hes mad] goes "Even me?" and my BD goes "no. you ususally play like your more than mad. YOu know. That 'P' word." And everyone was like oh. haha. the 'P' word. And the german exchange student that was sitting next to me goes, "whats the 'P' word?" really loud. And our BD was like, "uhhhhh. ask someone around you" and we all lean over and was like "PISSED!" [sorry about saying that, but it wouldnt be as funny]. And she was like, "OHHHHH! I didn't know that was the 'P' word."
It was great. I thought I was gonna fall out of my chair.
Then today in sectionals my phone fell of my stand and the back and the battery fell off and I was putting it back together again and my BD goes, "[SL's name], some people in your section aren't fingering through their music." And they all looked at me. So I was like, "my phone exploded. I mean...it fell on the ground. UGH! You know what I mean!"
Haha, that was funny too.
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Post by mthsbandrocks on Feb 28, 2007 21:01:02 GMT -5
Our hats that we have to wear for our uniforms have mirrors on them so its very common to see people trying to direct the reflected light from their mirrors into someone's eye. Probably not the smartest thing to do but o well. Haha, our band does that too since we have little mirrors on our hats too! It's so amuzing! ;D
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