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So, my friend didn't wet his reed before playing, so our teacher tells him, "you gotta suck on it before you play with it!"

So me and my friends were screwing around in the band room like normal. J.J's screwing around with Darren and Sarah. They get into a conversation about gay people.

I start to sing "There! Right! There!" and my band director joins in and shouts at the top of his lungs, "DAMN!" It got really silent in the band room, and all decided never to speak of it to any of the teachers in the school or anyone outside of band.

Best. Day. Ever.

I still wonder how he knows that song.

Our guest percussion instructor is...awesome.

Matt: *pops a piece of gum in* Anyone else want one?
Us: Uh...we're not supposed to have any in a band room with carpet...*we were in the guitar room, that's how we got away with the following*
Tucker: You break the rules all the time, dude.
Matt: Good point. Everyone take one! Fight the power!...and if all else fails, blame Cristine!
Cristine: What?! No!
Us: WOO!

...Cristine is our German exchange student who never does anything wrong. xD

You have a Geman exchange student too?! It would be weird is they knew eachother!

Anyway, I have a funny story(also posted in the marching subforum in the IM pissed at the football team threadXD) about my bd and these two football players.

*BD is walking past a group of football players, taking the water and props out to the field for rehearsal*
FB 1: Dude, i so wanna be in band
FB 2: Yeah, it looks so hard.
BD(To FB 1): You really shouldn't talk about things that you have no clue about. At least the band students don't ditch class
FB 2: Hey, thats my teammate!
BD: Really? I poop bigger then him!

loved the vid.

My BD likes his gock-blockXD He has this bright red wood block and a metal stick to hit it with. Take it this way, he was examining it while waiting for the bell to ring one day and he is like "Well, this thing is almost chipped into the middle!" And then he started cuddling it and apologizing0.o We were all just like eek ninja burning_eyes Then we all looked away like "we didn't see anyhing." he hits that thing like a metronome during rehearsals, but he doesn't during games until we warm up for our showXD Talking to friends whodon't live near the school, they can hear te horrid thing from their house, but not the band.

And then my BD is always pretending to be us, usually if we do something wrong. So today, we started concert season, and we were playing this uber easy christmas piece(which he decided to give to the lower band because we managed t first try, which is pretty rare) and the hardest part he stopped us at because we pretty much fell apart, and for the first time in the history of my days in any band, nobody said anything. Usually, in the words of my BD, chaos insues. And so he "Compliments" us about it.
"What is that noise? Is that...silence?! You mean for once chaos didn't insue because we played a new peice?! Wow! Normally, we would have been(talking fast and in an annoying way) 'Oh no, lets try that again, hat was so bad, oh no, the world is going to explode!'"
And on and on and on, causing our whole wind emsemble to crack up and almost fall out of the crappy metal fold-up chairs that we are stuck using in the band room. (nd then he commented how the first time in 6 years, we have a full wind ensemble. We have an awesome class. We have an oboe and a basoon, a good amount of clarinets, a few trumpets, a horn, 3 or 4 tubas, 2 or 3 euphoniums, 2 trombones, 3 altos, 1 or 2 tenors, a bari, a few flutes, and a bass clarinet.)

My new band director has a habit of making jokes and not realizing it. Mainly because of my overly-perverted class though. He says we need to make a list of all the things he's not allowed to say in front of us because when he was explaining one of our christmas songs saying "It doesn't matter how big it is, as long as it's tight" and half the band broke out laughing.

Hartmetz: I HATE when people don't tell me when they're leaving! We might as well cancel practice if we don't get at least another third of the band in here...
Turner: *walks in, yawning due to being a teenage boy at 7:45 AM*
Hartmetz: ...GOOD MORNING, TURNER.
Turner: *whines* It's too early, shut up x_x

Hartmetz: I used to be one of the adjudicators for National Honor Society...until I saw how the kids actually got in and quit. Mostly it was based on their community service hours. And most of those kids were probably forced to volunteer at their church by their parents. Probably also forced to apply. Sick. So I quit. ...I'm not a quitter, it's okay to quit when things are IMMORAL AND WRONG.

*says the man who tells us to never give up, lol*