zirbo
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Post by zirbo on Dec 6, 2008 23:00:04 GMT -5
We had our holiday parade today, so much fun! All the kids were really cute  There was this one dude standing on the side holding a random sign and walked along our band shouting "DONT LOOK SO RIGID! LOOSEN UP A BIT!" there was also a point where the horses in front of us pooed in the middle of the street and some people on the side were laughing when we walked through it. Thankfully it was far away from me. |
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Post by Lprdgecko on Dec 7, 2008 23:01:30 GMT -5
At a Christmas parade yesterday, as we were marching by, this one lady was talking to her young child saying, "And there's the flutes, now the clarinets, here's the saxophones..." It was awesome lol.
EDIT: Woo! 1000 posts!
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Post by yummiebears on Dec 7, 2008 23:19:41 GMT -5
so in our holiday parade yesterday and the night before, we had at least 3 people per night say YEAAA SAXOPHONES to the parade block.
last night one of the floats got a flat tire so we were in the middle of the parade and we were all like we should play the school song or our other parade tunes. then we decide to start singing. someone in the crowd was like "Louder!! We can't hear you!" so we sang louder. Once we finished that song we started doing the hookey pookey. We got the crowd doing it to. I guess we turned from a band to a choir.
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zirbo
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Post by zirbo on Dec 8, 2008 0:49:44 GMT -5
^that's awesome!! i bet my BD would yell at us if we started doing that...she'd just have us cycle through our limited amount of songs and the crowd would get really bored.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 8, 2008 23:28:36 GMT -5
^^ Did your, uh, baritones have anything to do with that, yummiebears?
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claribeth
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Post by claribeth on Dec 14, 2008 23:05:25 GMT -5
since im a band manager i got to walk behind the band and basically just throw candy
nobody said anything to us but these little kids covered there ears with there hands.
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Post by yummiebears on Dec 15, 2008 19:28:06 GMT -5
well oscar, they were the first ones who started singing. i think. and kept pressuring us to say something. you know a lot of our baritones (two lol).
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Post by Deleted on Dec 16, 2008 10:39:26 GMT -5
That makes me so happy. It was the two that were at Masonic, yes? MT and VDLT?
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KUguardgrl13
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Post by KUguardgrl13 on Dec 16, 2008 16:42:03 GMT -5
at the minnesota state fair parade last summer we had people who would say, "look at the flag girls!!"
we'd be kind of screwed if there was a halt in the parade because our band only has the parade tune, school song, and then the two drum line cadences memorized. we only do the one parade every year, and our show music is boring for parade crowds.
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Post by adrianfoley on Dec 16, 2008 17:15:05 GMT -5
"Can they play AND turn corners!?"
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Post by stickshifty on Dec 16, 2008 22:15:07 GMT -5
So when we did blocks in high school, I would usually be on the end. I still remember a little girl pointing at me and saying this:
"Mommy why does that girl walk so funny?"
Yeah. Some of us can't help it.
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Post by NinjaBaker on Dec 21, 2008 21:23:09 GMT -5
"Hey are you guys JMU?"
By far the stupidest thing i've ever heard.
#1. our band is over 400 people strong. NO ONE else in the area has a band that large
#2. PURPLE!!! if that doesn't give it away then...
#3. our uniforms say JMU on them. Who else could we be?
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Post by spacermase on Dec 22, 2008 9:54:13 GMT -5
"Hey are you guys JMU?" By far the stupidest thing i've ever heard. #1. our band is over 400 people strong. NO ONE else in the area has a band that large #2. PURPLE!!! if that doesn't give it away then... #3. our uniforms say JMU on them. Who else could we be? Hahahaha, the EXACT same thing happened to us at the Paint the Town Orange parade at the beginning of the season. We were waiting around for the parade to start, and somebody on the street sincerely asked "Hey, what school are you guys from?" He apparently missed the fact that all 263 of us were wearing bright orange shirts emblazoned with "VIRGINIA CAVALIERS" on them (and this was in Charlottesville, mind you) |
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Post by yummiebears on Dec 24, 2008 14:50:54 GMT -5
sorry oscar, im so busy.
um it was definitely VDT and im not to sure about MT (he hates me for no reason anyways).
VDT was in our front center rank. and he was the one who lead it. (right foot!) It was fun.
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Post by altoclarinets on Dec 24, 2008 15:17:31 GMT -5
We only ever march in one parade a year- the FFA rodeo parade- but it was an experience last year. Freezing cold (it was january), and we weren't really marching because it was all 6 area HS bands together, each with some 200+ members. And of course as we went by we had all sorts of random people yelling "GO CLARINETS!!!" and such.
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