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Post by piccolo + ADD = fun on Sept 14, 2008 20:31:21 GMT -5
Anyone with any (appropriate) gross out stories involving band?
We've had
-Gum in plumes we've had to pick out
-people leaving moldy reeds in the back on other people's music
-someone take out a bit of their finger when a snare stand pinched them
-our drum major sweats like a hog during parades and after halftime
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Post by Tales From Band Camp on Sept 15, 2008 11:44:10 GMT -5
The person next to me threw up on my back during a Saturday morning run-through.  |
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Post by NinjaBaker on Sept 15, 2008 11:59:48 GMT -5
Turning around in flag block to see that the girl behind me is bleeding profusely from her head. Her flag had landed on her head, hit her headband which had punctured her scalp.
blonde+blood=weird stains.
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Post by SaxGirl on Sept 15, 2008 13:51:00 GMT -5
During training week for the Marching 110, our music section leader puked on the field, but kept marching. Our other SL heard a "splat" right behind him and almost marched through it. On Saturday, a trombone player threw up INTO his horn... and sat out for some of the game.
I remember all the times in high school when we had the communal recycling bin as the storage for trombone spit in sectionals. Sometimes we could get a good inch or two in the bottom...
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Post by altoclarinets on Sept 15, 2008 14:06:34 GMT -5
A friend of mine took an old basson reed of hers, got it good and wet with spit and left it in the case in her closet until it was black with mold last year.
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Post by bariclaribob on Sept 15, 2008 16:17:00 GMT -5
-Moldy reeds
-The (school, of course) mouthpiece I got for bari had a light brown crust on it... and it smelled like puked up cheerios
-Sweat
-My first year in mb, our guy dm was so skinny that not only could you see his ribs when he took off his shirt (which he did often, naturally), you could see his heart beat through his chest
-And, of course, all the silly tubas (cough, freshmen!, cough) who are so fascinated by the bari's buttons that they think the spit valve is a key... I love their reactions
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Post by Deleted on Sept 15, 2008 18:48:20 GMT -5
People laying on the floor, of course. Baritones draining on each other's feet (totally not our fault, I swear). I was mooned by the accordion player.
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Post by tubachick11 on Sept 15, 2008 19:06:45 GMT -5
^ How do you get mooned by an accordian player in MARCHING BAND? Lol. That much be a..um unique, story. In basic band i didn't realize that I was actually suppose to CLEAN my instrument. My valves molded over. I'm glad I've grown up a bit since then.  In one of the schools I went to every year the band director would show a movie, appropriatly nicknamed the SLUDGE MOVIE. It showed how to clean a trumpet and the consequences if one did not. Needless to say, it wasn't a fun movie to watch directly after lunch, which was when band was at the time. |
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Post by altoclarinets on Sept 16, 2008 16:26:48 GMT -5
-The (school, of course) mouthpiece I got for bari had a light brown crust on it... and it smelled like puked up cheerios When I checked out the contra alto for the summer, the mouthpiece that was in the case with it was... ehhh... ugh. It had a dark brown film on the inside of it that at first appeared to actually be part of the mouthpiece peeling off... Memories of cleaning it still give me nightmares. Listerine is a necessary supply for any reed player! |
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Post by iFrostyflute on Sept 16, 2008 20:20:34 GMT -5
Not sure this one counts, but there was a Whataburger cup left in a locker for almost the entire year last year. It still had some soda in it on the last day of school. -shudder-
And there's also the guy flutes taking off their shirts during outdoor sectionals. They were ... exceedingly fuzzy, to say the least.
And then there was the Sacred Taco.
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Post by Lprdgecko on Sept 16, 2008 21:23:11 GMT -5
The person next to me threw up on my back during a Saturday morning run-through. Ewwwwww. If that had happened to me I would have puked too. Blech. Today we were running back to a set, and one of our drummers fell and scraped his knees REALLY badly. He had like 10 Band-Aids on each knee and it was still bleeding horribly. He's ok now, but it was pretty gross. Oh, this was in middle school, but every day the kid next to me would eat chocolate pop tarts before band and so he would play with bits of pop tart still in his mouth. He also never took off his reed. A few months of doing this, he took of his reed and lo and behold the whole back of it was BLACK. It was SO GROSS. |
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Post by Duel of the Flutes on Sept 17, 2008 19:13:59 GMT -5
The person next to me threw up on my back during a Saturday morning run-through.  I think we have a winner. Our bd likes to go around hugging people after he runs during his prep hour... which he can get pretty sweaty and gross when it starts getting hot out. I think the nastiest thing I ever did, though, was give my trumpet a bath when I first got it, lol. Seriously, the water was black, and it hadn't really been played for like 10 years. One of our horn teachers at BLFAC also grossed us out by telling us horror stories about black bathtubs from old school horns... needless to say, I think everyone in our section gave our horns baths when we got home. |
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Post by nphsdm on Sept 18, 2008 22:07:09 GMT -5
-During the Drum Major retreat, the Hornline Sergent had too much to eat and threw up on the colorguard captain's back. He has marched with the Boston Crusaders the summer before so he acted like it was nothing and went back to attention.
-Coming back from a competition, some members decided to see how many pieces of bubble gum they could shove in their mouth. The lead trumpet and mello players each got 20 pieces of bubble gum shoved in their mouths.... but that's not the nasty part.
The trumpet player couldn't take it anymore... so he took the wad out of his mouth and the mello player WILLINGLY snatched the sticky gob of gum and put it in his own mouth...making a giant 40 piece wad that was half chewed by someone else.
...He still has it in his freezer from over a year ago....
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Post by piccolo + ADD = fun on Sept 19, 2008 14:30:29 GMT -5
^ Um ew?
one of our cymbal players gets hyper sometimes and runs around licking or biting people.
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Post by mandadm on Sept 19, 2008 16:06:55 GMT -5
2 years ago we got new marching uniforms that were actually used. I volunteered to help clean the hats. My friend and I found out that the hats were really moldy, along with some gloves that were still in the hats. The hat boxes also needed to be cleaned. There was mold growing in there too. It was really gross.
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