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 Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2011 2:38 pm
I dunno about the band's traditions (other than a group prayer), but the pit has had superstitions and traditions out the wazoo.
We have about fifty rules written down somewhere. Many of them describe technique, but some of them denote other behaviors. For example: "Safe sex is no sex." and "No humping." (I actually accidentally caused that one to be made. Dx) The top two, though, follow: #2: Don't die. #1: Don't Suck.
One superstition is that it's good luck to need to pee before a competition. I believe it's true; I feel like crap if I don't chug water before a show.
A dead tradition (due to time constraints and lameness crying )we had is that, before a competition, we'd make a huddle with the battery and say a positively, absolutely, tell-anyone-and-you'll-die secret word.
Traditions have been my favorite part of being in the pit; they seem to die as I age, though...
My favorite one though, is that of being professional and freakishly epic in general.
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Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2011 7:35 pm
I just thought of more!
Anywho, we always have a Senior Night, the last home football game of the season. Before our performance, all of the seniors line up and are introduced to the crowd, along with the colleges they want to attend.
After we do our show, the seniors march to the front sideline after the closing set and salute the crowd. It's always amazing to hear how loud the crowd cheers for that.
There's also a senior night during band camp, if I didn't mention that, when all the seniors leave band camp a few hours early and go out to eat, followed by going to do something fun. This year, we raced to get to an amusement park near our school, where we played laser tag all night.
During band camp the vets always get to lead the first time members to a usually disclosed location. The new kids are blindfolded first and the vets have to lead them there by touch and voice. On the way back, the roles switch.
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Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2011 9:22 pm
It's been awhile since I was in a band, choir or an orchestra on the basis that I graduated school at the end of 2007, so I wouldn't know what they're doing now...
But when I was in my school orchestra one of the guys in my year who was in percussion would do stand-up comedy on the way to shows and while we were waiting in green rooms would lead us in clapping games.
The flute section of the school band which was fondly nicknamed The Flute Army would always raise their flutes in the end and touch the tips together gently in one big circular mass.
And in the particular choir I was in was at school (we had about 5) normally milled around like sheep to be lead out to slaughter.
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