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Post by NinjaBaker on Sept 7, 2007 23:13:55 GMT -5
^ hahaha! That's amazing!
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Post by piccolos101 on Sept 14, 2007 17:54:59 GMT -5
We had to count outloud for some of the excersises we did. And I thouhght that we had to count, and out of 150 band kids, I was the only one counting. I got to five before I finally noitced why everyone was lauging.
hahaha.
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Post by hchswiregrasshorn on Sept 19, 2007 19:35:22 GMT -5
Both my mom and I bought All-State Shirts from this past year. Well this year they decided to put class of *insert year* on the left sleeve of student shirts. Well, they also added a band mom t-shirt.
Well, I was up until 1:30 doing research when I decided I was done. Well, I got up at 7:00 and had to leave for school at 7:15 to do some last minute research at the library. Well, I grabbed an all-state shirt and went to school. Can you guess which one I grabbed?
No one noticed it, myself included, until the first alto pointed it out and started laughing. The next thing I knew everyone in the band knew. It was Embarrassing and hilarious at the same time...
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Post by euphoniumgirl on Sept 24, 2007 14:45:47 GMT -5
Ok, I was in band and I was standing in the percussion section which is the top riser. I backed up, knocking the bass drum down from its holder. It rolled down a riser or two.
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Post by Sherri the Bari on Sept 24, 2007 15:50:15 GMT -5
I have two of my own... from the same day.
1. Morning of a band competition last year (I was a prop pusher) and it was raining... so when we were getting out of our boxes and I didn't want to get my gloves dirty... so I stepped out in sort of a lunge. I hear this loud "RIIIIP and sudden breeze going past my spandex. My uniform pants RIPPED in the crotch. We still had to load the props, and the entire time I was freaking out cuz I was cold. We made it to FINALS, so it's not like I could casually mention it when we turned our uniforms in. One of the band mom's fixed it for me... thankfully
2. That night... At finals. I decided not to try the lunge again to get out. When I heard what I THOUGHT to be the bass drum- I did sort of a roll out of my box. My box buddy refered to it as a "James Bond move". Well, it was just a microphone turning off... cuz she asked, "What're you doing? It's not time to go!" I crawled back into the box... mortified but thankful that she was the only one who had seen it. We still joke about it. At UIL, in our "Crazy Pose" we stood back to back with our hands as guns like a James Bond movie thing. Quite amusing
These are good...
Freshman year:
1. Another Freshman (a percussionist), while loading the truck, decided he had to pee. He asked the percussion instructor, who told him NO, we were fixing to leave. He asked his section leader when we got to the competition. She said NO, they had to warm up. He kept asking and they kept saying no. So... while we were marching the show, said percussionst peed his pants on field and promptly told his section leader when he was beside her in the drill and she laughed and asked if he felt better. Of course, he replied, yes!
2. We had this big 'rock out' section in our show. EVERYONE got into it. Well... my section leader apparently got TOO into it... his pants ripped RIGHT down the crotch.
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Post by lightningflute2010 on Sept 24, 2007 15:56:56 GMT -5
I don't think I've done anything too embarassing this year, but last year I did a bunch. As freshmen usually do. 1. On an unusually rainy day during practice, I slipped and fell in the mud while learning a new set, and was almost mauled by a sousaphone. About two minutes later, one of the trumpets fell and did what is now known in the band as the "James Bond roll", since it was such an awesome almost-bail. That wasn't all too embarassing, but I slipped and fell 2 weeks later in the same set during a windy day when I forgot my shorts at home and was wearing a skirt. Lesson learned? never wear skirts to band practice. You can also add in the countless tripping up and down stairs and bleachers, knocking down music stands, walking into music lockers, and falling off my chair. All of which I basically do on either a daily or weekly basis.
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Post by bandoforlife on Sept 24, 2007 22:09:46 GMT -5
I was the only clarinetist in pit for the spring musical last year. Consequently, I was playing most of the time and hardly ever got to watch the thing, but during one practice one particular scene that didn't have music had to be rehearsed a couple of times over, so all the kids in pit got to stand up on chairs and things to try and watch as well as they could. So I'm standing up on this chair on my tippy toes peering over the side of the stage, when my chair tips over and I end up sitting on my behind on the floor! It made a cacauphony of noise and all the other pit people were laughing their heads off, but luckily a door slammed on stage right when I fell off, so no one else noticed. The brass section laughed about it for weeks.
At band camp last year we had a skit night where every section performed a skit that they had made up, and the clarinets did a "mock sectional." We were all goofing off and being weird, and at the end we all run out to go and get food, but I leave my shoe behind and have to run back and get it. So I ran back to get my shoe, and as I'm running back across the band room after the rest of the clarinet section, the bottom half of my instrument fell off!! I was mortified, but as it turned out, I had bad corks. still.
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Post by euphoniumgirl on Sept 25, 2007 19:44:30 GMT -5
^^ I know how you feel. I'm pretty clumsy and I am always bumping into stuff or smashing my hand in something.
I just remembered this. Last year my band was at a comp at Busch Gardens. So after the awards ceremony me, my two best friends, and the two bds and the choral director went on their new huge 205ft drop roller coaster. It was one of my first huge roller coasters and I was seriously freaked buy the bd was making me do it.
So we got off the ride and bought the picture. Only one problem: the pic was so embarressing because of the terrifed looks on our faces and the 5Gs distorting them! So we laughed about it and I stashed my pic in my bag as my bd bought one too. So we had a great time on the bus and went home.
On monday, everyone was crowding around the trophy cabinet, but they weren't all laughing and staring at the trophies. They were laughing at the pic! The picture went every where! It was even mentioned the at concert and brought up on an overhead projector there!
But I got over it, and now it follows me on my band folder.
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Post by Sherri the Bari on Sept 25, 2007 20:05:07 GMT -5
I had a somewhat embarrasing moment today...
I was walking to the band hall after school *cuz what else WOULD I do?* with my boyfriend- who's in ROTC, but not band. Anyways, our "Band Mom" *the band booster we see most often... she even brings us food... luckily I'm on her bus* stopped me and asked who that was that I just hugged. I told her and she told the band directors I have a boyfriend! He's only a sophomore, but he USED to be in band, so the directors KNOW him. They started teasing me about it... but my director loves to tease us all... so I'm kinda just letting it slide...
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Post by samthered on Sept 26, 2007 20:37:02 GMT -5
Not really embarrassing, but I guess it fits here.
About 2 weeks ago my band locker "bit" me. I was shoving my coat into it and it left a scrape on my right forearm that still hasn't gone away. Then I had to suffer through my family teasing me and telling me to be nice to my band locker because it will bite back.
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Post by ba12itone on Sept 27, 2007 19:49:14 GMT -5
Speaking of band lockers, I can't tell you how many times I've hit my head on the top of mine. Since my Euphonium locker is freaking HUGE [Sometimes I sleep in it HAHAHA] I have to reach into the back to get something, and while coming out I hit my head and it hurts.
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Post by Sherri the Bari on Sept 29, 2007 2:58:45 GMT -5
I'm on uniform crew, and for some reason we're all crazy. So, I was playing around after I put my uniform on and I turned to my friend and pulled up my jacket (I actually needed to get my friend's phone out of my bibber's pocket) and I said "Look, I'm flashing you!" and I turned around... and there was the Drum Captain. It was hilarious, but he gave me the WEIRDEST look ever.
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Post by bariclaribob on Sept 29, 2007 11:03:46 GMT -5
Oh heavens. We were moving percussion equipment and stuff around in the auditorium. I was supposed to flatten the risers. I sat down on one, not realizing that my friend had kicked the lock out already, and kaBOOM!, I go dropping straight to the ground on my butt on top of the riser. It stung like heck, but I think what hurt more was my bd yelling at me over it. And the fact that everyone had to ask me if my butt felt better yet.
At a jazz festival, we had a short clinic after the performance. All the saxes went with the saxes from a University jazz band. We were getting to our chairs, and in front of all these college guys I go walking to the other side of the room, smash into the wall with bari, and then hear everyone in jazz band going, "Uh, [bcb], you sit over here." So I had to walk all the way back, tip over my stand, and almost fall off my chair when I sat down.
clumsiness + bari sax= bariclaribob walking into something/one every rehearsal
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Post by Sherri the Bari on Oct 6, 2007 0:23:07 GMT -5
Dude I definetly ran into a prop tonight I've been sick all week Missed Practice completly Tuesday (I left school during band) No school for me Wednesday- still sick. And then Thursday I left band early cuz I was coughing and one of the directors told me to "go home and get rest" So I had no idea our circle expanded And stupid Mr. F got the prop size wrong Therefore our ENTIRE circle was wrong... But they all knew that I didn't And I ran into the prop Not just kind of... But COMPLETLY ran into it So now my leg hurts Ow... And I'm embarrased Cuz a lot of people know I was crying after we got off field... Cuz my leg hurt... And one of the trombones asked "Did you run into a prop or something?" Geez.. embarrasing. But the thing that freaks me out the most Is the guy I hate most in my section, After I ran into the prop and was crying.. He kept telling me "It's okay" and he was all sweet about it Creepy... The world is ending We almost went into overtime tonight. But we didn't
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Post by bandgeek5 on Oct 14, 2007 16:43:24 GMT -5
ok, this is a mix of my two loves, band and stage crew... last year we preformed "anything Goes" for our spring musical. there is this one point when the main character takes off his disguise and thows it off stage, sadly, it got messed up and he ended up thowing his hat into the pit orchestra...straight into a tuba...
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