Rival band is playing same show

[bluescalesdragon]

My band will be playing The 47 Ronin this year, which is a pretty neat show with an interesting story behind it.

But.........there is a school near us (not in our district, thank god, but we compete against them in sports all the time) that is playing the same show this year.

This school happens to hate my school with a passion. When I was in middle school, their band director came over during my middle school band class to recruit people for their band. He told me that the band program at the school I was to go to was horrible because "you were only allowed to take band class for half a year" and the first thing that the school tried to do was "talk you out of taking band". His lies made me cry, because I believed him....until I started marching band at my high school and saw how awesome it was.


But here's a twist: Several of my best friends are in that rival band. Though we are still close friends, we can't talk about marching band without arguing over who's band is better.

Thank god they compete in USSBA and we compete in TOB. But still. I hope to god we do not have a football game against them.

Has anyone else ever had a rival school play their show?

[stickshifty]

Almost... we counted 12 things in a rival's show that we did in a show the year before (for us it was the show that won us 5 championships).

Believe me, we were all extremely mad/upset/homicidal/ect. when they won.

[piccolo + ADD = fun]

Don't be mad, feel flattered that since they couldn't come up with an original show of their own, they liked yours so much that they felt like trying to be like you and tried to meet your standards by taking your amazing show. They're jealous that you guys are more awesome than they are and wanted that awesomeness. You can't blame them for wanting that.

[bandgeek101]

2 other bands in the area are doing The nightmare before cristmas. It's aggrivating, but they are pretty different even though based on same movie

[keyslinger]

well it hasn't happend to us directly with a rival but anoter school was playing Sing Sing Sing the same year as us.. the only thing is that their arrangement was way better that angered the lowed brass

[Brassman]

May 26, 2009 0:16:07 GMT -5 keyslinger said:

well it hasn't happend to us directly with a rival but anoter school was playing Sing Sing Sing the same year as us.. the only thing is that their arrangement was way better that angered the lowed brass

Not only was it better, they sucked at playing it. THAT's what angered everyone. Thier lowbrass couldn't handle it. It was lame.