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 Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2007 10:24 pm
Oh boy, so many fun moments...
Championships freshman year when it was so cold the Hothands (those chemical heat thingys) froze.
Icicles forming on the instruments when we played carols at the grocery store.
Being told we were "the whitest band" our director had ever heard. (Jazz show- non Jazz musicians)
Marching in three ticker tape parades.
The time one piccolo player dropped her piccolo down a sewer grate- and a band parent climbed down and retrieved it. (Canada trip)
World's worst pizza (also Canada- maybe it was just that hotel, but wow.)
My cousin hitting a judge in the head with a flag at championships. (Ok, not band per se, but funny anyway.)
Her friend kicking off her shoe during a show.
The time we begged for our raingear and were told "It's not going to rain." Guess who got to stand in a downpour while the director sat under his umbrella?
I know I had more, but I'll leave it at this for now smile
Wow, I miss this stuff.
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Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2007 11:21 pm
Wynjara Championships freshman year when it was so cold the Hothands (those chemical heat thingys) froze. Fejeebers. Where do YOU live? o___o
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Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2007 11:30 pm
We were on the bus ride back from a water park. My friend and I were sitting in front of this guy who had left his shirt off because it was all wet from the park. He spent the ride pressing his torso against the window for passing cars to see. Also, all the boys in the band started singing "Baby got back" at the top of their lungs. They still do.
We were milling around in a parking lot, waiting for the judges to come judge our marching. A whisper went through the crowd that the judges were here. My friend asked were they were. I pointed to a random black guy sitting on the curb and told her he was a judge. She then proceeded to turn around and spread the news.
I'm forgetting all the best ones. It makes me sad...
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Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2007 12:00 pm
Ok, I've got one:
The boys were all huddled up together in the band room, and they were singing (we didn't have to play that day). Being bored, I went over to them and asked what they were doing. They said that they were singing Soldier Boy. A boy brought out his phone (our band teacher doesn't care if we bring electronics out as long as we aren't playing) and he played the song.
I started dancing the Soldier Boy dance and we started to laugh. One of them didn't know how to do it, so another boy showed him. We recorded it on the phone, and, while they were dancing, the guy who was teaching the other guy to dance fell on him, knocking over some stands. It was hilarious!
Yeah, I know it's not that good of a story.
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Posted: Fri Dec 28, 2007 9:00 pm
mmk. this reallly annoying slut preppy girl named heaven(that name soo doesn't suit her) was on our first bus ride to cedar point and we were riding and all of a sudden she screams "DOES ANYBODY HAVE SOME DOUBLE A BATTERY'S!!" and she scremed this like 50 times until the bus driver pulled the bus over and gave into her going into a gas station and getting some fricken AA+ fricken batteries rolleyes
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Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2007 12:26 pm
Oh Gods...
Band Camp
Our director, Hartmetz, was talking to us over the longranger and a senior in my section (pit) said "Oh no! It's the voice of God!"
I was the only one who heard him and I couldn't listen to H for a minute or so.
When we were inside for a day due to rain, Hartmetz told the trombones to skip a part of the song for practice reasons, or something (I don't remember anymore), but Robbie (section leader of trumpets) decided to do the same.
H: ROBBIE WHAT ARE YOU DOING?
Robbie: It's a remix, Hartmetz!
H: ...Be careful YOU don't get remixed, Robbie...
First Competition
Well, we failed at that one...
But the best stories came from it.
The 'virtual bus': The bus which showed up late and proceeded to break down halfway there, forcing all of us on it to pile onto the other busses.
The Dibs: Our senior baritone got some Dibs at a stop, and he was laughing for no reason 'cause he was hyper. So Hartmetz said "Anthony, stop giggling like a schoolgirl so I can finish role!"
Made all of us laugh. XD
Second Competition
This one we won second place Percussion and first place Guard.
(and we would have had first place had the sousaphonist not messed up his cowbell part...D:< )
Once again, we were taking role on the bus, and this happened...
Hartmetz: *going quickly through role* Anthony?
Mangus: Here.
H: Rob?
Robbie: -bie.
H: What?
Robbie: It's Robbie, not Rob, H...
H: Whatever. Are you here?
Robbie: 9_9 Yes.
Final Competition: AKA States
Waiting to go on...
Us in pit get kinda bored...
At one point Ian (the senior with the Voice of God thing) decided to sleep in the back of the little tractor for the cart...
Another pit member poked him in the stomach and he twitched really weirdly. XD
We were all talking a little later, and during a momentary pause, we heard two of the guy pit members talking about something, and this was the only line we heard: "No, Sean, you're a six inch...I'm a foot long."
We were busting a gut and Sean was like "HEIGHT, YOU SICK PEOPLE!"
On the bus back from states, Mangus (who pwns everyone at MarioKart) was pretending to be asleep under his letterjacket.
Secretly, he was playing (and pwning) MarioKart against the n00bs. Changed his character name though. XD
They all knew it was him, but were too scared of what he'd do to them if they woke him up to find out. XD
Eventually we convinced them that a guy near the front of the bus was playing...
And when we got to the school, Mangus sat up laughing saying "You guys are so dumb!"
Random Happenings at Football Games (and before them)
Once again, Mangus was playing a racing game and Newbie (only freshman baritone, hence the 'Newbie'...) and a few other freshman were trying to make him lose.
So Newbie, being stupid, stole Mangus's shoe.
Mangus, unable to resist winning his round, simply sat there until he finished the race. Newbie came back and said he threw the shoe down the hill outside the school...
As he looked up, Newbie was running back across the room with his shoe, and he saw him and started running for his life.
Mangus took off his other shoe saying "I'll beat him with a shoe...that's ironic enough..." and took off after him in socks.
Our director saw Newbie running with a shoe, then Mangus running with one, and came out of his office to stop it. "Anthony! What did I tell you about beating the Freshman in front of the security cameras?"
There's a LOT more stories, but...yeah...
I will say this one thing though...
Hartmetz: ANTHONY! GET BACK IN YOUR LINE! YOU'RE SCREWING UP THE GUIDINGS...you tree...
Mangus is really tall. XDD
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Who is Puffer Fish Vice Captain
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Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 5:32 pm
Star Wars
Ok so our band director says she is our Yoda and we are the padawans. It was so hilarious. I play the oboe and the clarinet and I told her, "So, I'm the person who has two light sabers and eveything and hurts herself?" All of our players burst out laughing so hard. Jack our sax dude fell off his chair he laughed so hard.
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Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 5:40 pm
At one of the last football games of the season, me and my alto sax friend John were talking to our senior clarient friend Aubery. When we were talking to her, we were saying something about sugar, and someone overheard us. However, he thought we were talking about chicken... So he turned to us and said, "What about chicken?" We were sort of confused at first, but then we made up a cheer! It goes something like this:
person 1: CHICKEN!!! (screamed)
person 2: SUGAR!!!! (screamed in response)
person 1: CHICKEN!!!!
person 2: SUGAR!!!!
anybody who wants to scream: CHICKEN SUGAR!!!!!! (in unison)
So now, whenever we feel like it, one of us will start up the cheer. We usually use it to confuse and mock other people. It's pretty fun.
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Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 5:52 pm
I remembered another one!
One of our Trombone players named Samuel just moved here. He is so sweet yet so clueless. Our director asked him to get some music out of the file cabinets. We have the ones where you slide the button by the handle and pull it out well Sam thought is was locked cause it wouldn't open! (He wasn't sliding the button) He went and got the keys only to come back with Jack who looked at it and said, "This isn't locked! Idiot!" and he stormed off and gave the keys back only to find that when we said slide the button Sam hit the lock button. Jack was so mad and everyone else was cracking up.
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Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 1:10 am
This year during one of our marching show our band had to make a rotating cross that even in practise was bad but we did it anyway. After the show we asked people how whe did and they kept saying that they couldn't tell what we were tring to make. The next day when we watched the video, we found out we assidentally made a swastika. opps. sweatdrop
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Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 12:01 pm
oh dear... what to say first...
our saxophone section leader is a senior, so he drives to school, well, there are three boys in our band who love pranks, so, they took like 4 or 5 huge pads of post it notes and covered his entire car. it took him forever to get them all off.
then there was a time when we went to Disney land for band tour, but we stayed in a smaller hotel, so the door to the rooms led outside instead of to a hall, well, the boys decided it would be funny to duck-tape one of the girls rooms door shut. well, it would have been funny if we didn't need to hurry that morning. (well, actually, it was funny... just not when our director found out about it)
this one is a drum line story, but... same thing.
we have a fund raiser at the lazer tag place in our mall, and we have a cadence that we play so often, everyone knows everyone elses part, so we all switched drums (and cymbals) and played it like that. we sounded horrible. =P
then there was an instrument switching frenzy at our last football game of the year last year where our drumcapitan ended up with a flute and couldn't make noise on it... our co Capitan had a chlarinet and i had a trombone. we played the ultimate chear like that. (i know that one on trombone, so it was fun being the only one on drum line who knew how to play the instrument i had. =P
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Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 3:49 pm
During band, the new drummer and the trombone player, plus me, ganged up on Alan(he plays a trumpet) and shoved him into a cello player's music locker.
We played Sleigh Ride out in the cold for Salvation Army(we raised SO MUCH) and the drummers went into a store during the song and bought twizzler twerps and about a quart of eggnog. They never shared it. x.x AND they left us alone, so we had no clip-clops.
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Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 11:12 pm
first thing I have to say is that out BD's office door is covered is comics that where cliped out of a newspaper, most of them having to do with music.
earlier this year a trumpet stood up for a minute and placed his trumpet on his seatwhen he did so. Later when he sat back down he forgot to move his trumpet and sat on it and broke.
the reason I had to talk about the comics is because there is a comic on the door about someone sitting on a trumpet and flattening it. Now the trumpet can't go near the office without someone pointing it out to him.
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Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 10:51 pm
well, my dorn mates saw like 10 girls flashing us all the way in the other dorm, the girl dorm. Has anyone been to Rio Grande?
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Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 10:54 pm
Wild-childs- This year during one of our marching show our band had to make a rotating cross that even in practise was bad but we did it anyway. After the show we asked people how whe did and they kept saying that they couldn't tell what we were tring to make. The next day when we watched the video, we found out we assidentally made a swastika. opps. sweatdrop holy s**t! u prolly got docked right?
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