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Post by shortbaritone on Jul 17, 2007 17:45:24 GMT -5
Some people are just completely clueless... one time we had stopped and were holding our horns at attention while we had to stop, probably for some stupid Football float, and a little girl was standing right next to me staring at me, and i broke set to wink and her, and she started freaking out and ran to her mother and screamed "MOMMY MOMMY! I WANT TO PLAY THAT!!!" -pointing to my and my baritone. ;D It was sweet. Then one kid threw a fruity in my bell, and it got stuck. Stupid kids.
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Post by freshmanflute on Jul 17, 2007 21:30:58 GMT -5
^ awwww that's so cute
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Post by brassdancer on Jul 19, 2007 15:17:54 GMT -5
I forgot about a good one.
Capital Regiment was doing a parade in Chicago, and we had this old guy follow us. He was screaming "They are from ... OH-HIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
For the rest of the season we'd just say "OH=HIIIIIIIIIOOOOOO" for fun.
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Post by jello on Jul 20, 2007 15:57:36 GMT -5
“Oh remember me guys? I was your fifth grade teacher! Remember from ___name of school___! *turns to people around her after realizing that no one will answer her* "I guess they don't remember me" ---------- I'm not sure if she really was but yeah.
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Post by ba12itone on Jul 24, 2007 0:56:45 GMT -5
I'm personally scared to death of my first parade... Just the thought of marching for hours while holding up my baritone... *shiver*
please tell me it's not as hard as I think it is.
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Post by brassdancer on Jul 24, 2007 14:04:34 GMT -5
The roughest experience I had with my baritone was the Steelers parade in 2006. THIS was because we had terrible towels, and our BD had a motion to tell us we could wave them (and put our horns down casually) SADLY this motion was almost identical to our drumlines signal to count off into us playing another tune. It was terrible, I went about 4 miles holding that thing up. It got to the point we were at the end of the parade and I think a nerve just shorted and would NOT let me hold up my horn and I was shaking uncontrollably. It was scary, but nothing a few minutes rest cured. But yeah, my worst experience with the baritone. Sadly, it was worse than anything I had endured in drum corps.
You will be fine. Don't worry too much about the weight. It's all mental. If you tell yourself its not heavy, it wont be. Hold the horn with your abs, not your arms. And if you start shaking, dont lose control. You know you'll have your horn put down soon. It'll be fine.
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Post by bandislife on Jul 24, 2007 20:32:38 GMT -5
Well my personal favorite was "Look Mom! They're marching with pianos!" because we have keyboards in our band. I also think it's funny when people try to sing along with what we're playing.
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Post by friskylurker on Jul 26, 2007 21:07:57 GMT -5
we only march in the homecoming parade, which doesnt really hvae large crowds. my favorite thing from that was from this past year, when the baritone section leader was telling the freshmen in his row what to do. "ok, that's :mellophone's name.: you stay behind him. and that's :other mellophone's name.: you stay behind her, ok? and that's :me:. (i was in front of him, i guess he decided they could figure out that he stayed behind me) ...she doesn't really play mellophone." at which point i retorted that i did in fact play mellophone, just not horn, and all the rookie baritones looked at me weird
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Post by hchswiregrasshorn on May 5, 2008 17:21:13 GMT -5
I know this is almost a year old, but I thought I would bring it back.
Every year, Dothan has the annual Peanut Festival Parade, to signal the last day of the Peanut Festival, which isn't exactly a little town carnival. Well, we were band number 13 one year, so we were set up on the bridge before you get to Downtown Dothan. Well, we were waiting to move closer to the start of the parade, when all of a sudden we hear this huge crash. We all look down to the street below. Someone had rammed a car. That's not the end of it. The person that rammed the car got out and beat the crap out of the person he rammed with a baseball bat. Then, he took his wallet and stole his car. And, in case you are wondering, is a true story. So if you ever go to downtown Dothan, stay in your car and lock the doors.
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Post by eyeswithpride on May 5, 2008 18:57:09 GMT -5
A few parade moments:
some random chick: *staring at us* My gosh! There's so many of them! That line never ends!
Right before a local parade, these girl scouts kept asking me questions about my instrument. It was kinda cute, until we got called to attention, and I spun around and yelled like we're supposed to, and I think I scared her. I felt pretty bad.
We were stopped during one parade, and it was burning outside, like 105 degrees, and we were wearing wool uniforms, so everyone was sweating really bad. This jerk with a water bottle took a drink, and shouted " Hey, I bet you guys want some of this, huh?" and laughed. But, then someone else shoved him, and sprayed some of us with one of those spray-bottle fan things. Under the circumstances, I was grateful.
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Post by bariclaribob on May 5, 2008 19:31:19 GMT -5
There's always the people with silly string who threaten to attack us if we don't play.
There's the drunk guys who say they're going to throw beer at us if we don't play.
There's the little kid (my friends heard this one): Look, Mommy. Superheroes! (We have capes.)
There's people from random bands watching that'll cheer on their section.
Then the inevitable, "HEY, [DM]!" or "SMILE, [CLARINET]!" at our home parade.
When we were in Boston, guys on the street: Look! They're from Minn-ee-soh-tah, doncha know? Minn-ee-soh-tah! That's way on the other side of the country, ya know.
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Post by tubachick11 on Dec 5, 2008 14:36:22 GMT -5
I hate it after the parade when we're walking back to the bus, none of us are in step and it's obvious we WON'T play, since we just marched the entire parade and everyone is yelling at us to play.
So annoying.
My personal favorite is the baritone comments though. "Look mommy a trumpet."
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Post by clarinetrox2012 on Dec 5, 2008 21:22:16 GMT -5
Well, tonight was our x-mas parade. Well, one of them, anyway. So the drumline was playing the cadence, we were marching along, lalalalala...and then out of nowhere our SL got attacked by about 3 girls and they started doing party boy to her. By this time we were playing. It made me mad that people didn't have the decency to STAY ON THE SIDEWALK!!!!! So I put my horn down and yelled, "HAVE SOME RESPECT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" I was BURNED.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 5, 2008 22:30:14 GMT -5
During CAP, we get "baby killers!" a lot. Even though we have exactly one guy old enough to be military. Idiots.
During the Greeley Stampede parade, which is theoretically the biggest Fourth of July in the country, we were told to smile and look right at the audience during the cadence, so people liked us a lot and yelled and stuff.
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Post by clarinetrox2012 on Dec 6, 2008 20:04:09 GMT -5
This morning was our second x-mas parade, and the last time we use our uniforms until our Disney trip...=( Anyway, nothing really interesting happened. It was REALLY cold, though. I had ice in my clarinet and my friend who plays tenor sax had icicles hanging off his sax. A lot of our brass were pretty peeved because their mouthpieces were so cold and my friend's trombone slide froze.
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