tromboneking87
Band Nerd
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Post by tromboneking87 on Mar 12, 2007 15:27:47 GMT -5
Sometimes the nicknames fit so well, especially for the tubas and drumline, that even the band directors will have temporary memory loss as to what the member's real name is! Oh yes, we had a guy that everyone called "cheez-it", and basically everyone including the directors just forgot about his real name and just called him cheez-it.
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Post by falcongeek on Mar 12, 2007 19:18:27 GMT -5
Our band director is called "H" and pretty much every one has a nickname. Mine is "Mouse"
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Post by tuttiflutieoboist on Mar 13, 2007 23:25:46 GMT -5
I give the underclassmen nicknames, like "my tuttifluties," "the little oboist," or "bandie."
They call me "The Band Dork" or "The Band Geek" or something along those lines.
My BD calls me "Myka K." My middle name is Kay. His starts with a K and he signs everything with his middle initial, so he started using my middle initial.
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Post by trumpetbabe69 on Mar 14, 2007 20:13:19 GMT -5
Sometimes the nicknames fit so well, especially for the tubas and drumline, that even the band directors will have temporary memory loss as to what the member's real name is! yeah, i love it when that happens! Theres one kid in my band and i actually do NOT know what his real life name is, no one EVER calls him by it. Even the BD's only call him his nickname and i dont have any classes with him outside of band. I may never find out!
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Post by percussion4life on Mar 23, 2007 5:52:46 GMT -5
my name is Jon but when i was little i hated to be called Jonny. my freshmen year i got my nickname "Jonny Boy" and it sticked with me ever since. other nick names for other students
nickname real name Joey ray (long story) slick mark (again long story/traditon)
and theres a whole lot more but some times we call them by there last their names
now one of my band directors is calling me Jonny
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Post by SaxGirl on Mar 23, 2007 21:09:39 GMT -5
I got another one last week. Two freshmen are now my parents; my "mom" is a freshman bass drum player. She's absolutely nuts. And my "dad" is a very silly clarinet player... though she's a girl too. Without even giving me a reason, I am now their daughter, who they decided to name Taco.
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Post by shortytrumpet on Mar 24, 2007 1:20:00 GMT -5
we have a jewish guy come to our skool 4 concert band. his name is gideon but we call him giddy.
i get called catherines sister or bonER chick.
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Post by euphoniumgirl on Mar 24, 2007 20:48:07 GMT -5
My band calls me euphzy.
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Post by lilclarinet92 on Apr 20, 2007 20:56:35 GMT -5
Example:
Lil H (flute player who was a band groupy following her sister for most of her childhood) Nipples (lil brother- don't ask) K-Tizzle (moron (lol)) C-Dubz (other moron (lol)) Lil bit (me-shortest clarinet player ever(lol)) Flaget (most of the colorguard) Randy (stupid newbie trumpet player) There's a lot more but that's allI can remember right now.
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Post by lilclarinet92 on Apr 27, 2007 22:54:18 GMT -5
We just have some really funny ppl in our band soo they get weird nicknames
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Post by lada on May 8, 2007 22:57:35 GMT -5
Sometimes the nicknames fit so well, especially for the tubas and drumline, that even the band directors will have temporary memory loss as to what the member's real name is! yeah, i love it when that happens! Theres one kid in my band and i actually do NOT know what his real life name is, no one EVER calls him by it. Even the BD's only call him his nickname and i dont have any classes with him outside of band. I may never find out! Oh no, you can stalk him. That's happened to me with this one new kid in our band, so I just stalked him and I even found out stuff like his mom's name. No, I never had a crush on him, though.
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Post by lada on May 8, 2007 23:08:18 GMT -5
Example: Lil H (flute player who was a band groupy following her sister for most of her childhood) Nipples (lil brother- don't ask) K-Tizzle (moron (lol)) C-Dubz (other moron (lol)) Lil bit (me-shortest clarinet player ever(lol)) Flaget (most of the colorguard) Randy (stupid newbie trumpet player) There's a lot more but that's allI can remember right now. Hey, that's mean calling your little brother that! Plus who would give someone nicknames like the second one on the list- pretty disturbing, don't you think? And are those "morons" in band? Because they might not be even morons- they might be awesome brass players, and I will always love my fellow brass people, so don't try to mess with us. Also, I bet that Randy kid is an awesome trumpet player, just that a lot of people diss our personalities just cause they're jealous. You should learn to respect yourself more, just for future reference, and you will get more respect. Good luck.
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Post by woodwindchick on May 9, 2007 20:11:42 GMT -5
The one that springs to mind immediately is "B." Our BD was gone one day and she had me lead the concert band (which is mostly freshmen). I can't remember why, but I ended up telling this freshman alto player, Taylor, that he wasn't important enough to have a name. (I was messing with him... I tease him a lot.) A few days later me, him, another alto player, and my boyfriend (whose name is also Taylor) were all talking, and the other alto said that we should call them Taylor A and Taylor B. I said that we should just call the alto Taylor "B" because he didn't get a name. It stuck, and now we call him B a lot of the time.
We've also got a freshman bassoon/alto that a couple of the other freshman boys nicknamed Zanzibar.
My boyfriend's best friend, a trumpet player, affectionately (?) calls me "Old Hag" a lot of the time, so I call him "Fatty" in return. (I can do that because he's not fat at ALL... he's actually pretty muscular because he does wrestling and cross-country.) I actually get called "Old" a lot in the band, especially by the freshmen, because I'm the oldest person in the band not including the BD (I'm 19).
Oh, and last year we had a freshman trumpet that a group of us called "Prostitute Man" - he's actually listed that way in my cell phone, lol. That came about because we used to eat lunch on the stairs in the band hall, and he would stand at the corner of where the stairs came out into the hall. Our oboist told him that he was like a prostitute working the corner, and the next day he came to lunch with a piece of paper taped to him that said "For Sale By Owner." It became Prostitute Man from there.
My freshman year there was a senior drummer that EVERYONE called "Fatty," but I never did find out the story behind that one.
I can't think of any others... wait, yes I can! How could I forget? My junior year, we got a freshman trumpet player named Jackson. The thing was, there was already a trumpet player named Jackson. The older Jackson didn't want to share his name, so he insisted that we add another "son" onto the freshman Jackson's name. He became Jacksonson, or Jacksonsonsonsonson (it could go on forever... I think he filled up someone's yearbook page with it one year, and last year one of our band homecoming posters was filled with it), or just Sonson. The other Jackson quit band, and then graduated, but we still call Jackson "Sonson."
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Post by lada on May 16, 2007 0:26:44 GMT -5
^Ha, ha. My boyfriend has a lot of weird friends too. And really, like none of us band geeks ARE actually normal, haha. I call my boyfriend Manservant because since I'm sometimes too lazy to go get my trumpet I make my him get it along with his trombone. Also his friends call him Boner Dude because at one of our banquets I was chasing him and he ran around with his trombone screaming "Please! Don't hurt me! I have a boner!" and then I pinned him against a wall and he was like, "Can't you see that I have a boner?!" It was funny. lol
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Post by bassclarinetdude19 on May 19, 2007 11:09:32 GMT -5
ALot of people call me best friend who plays euphonium, Buckets.
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