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 Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2008 7:07 pm
you know how before you start your show at competition, the judges introduce the band? like your school name and your marching band name? okay, im in MMC, Mighty Marching Chargers. ever school has an opponent school...like my school vs. OHS. their mascot is the cougar and RIGHT before we started our show, the judge screams into the mic, "Introooooducing the _____ High School Miiiighty Marchiiiing COUGARS!!!" i was like WTF?! and almost missed the cue to start
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Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2008 11:07 am
"I can't believe I'm saying this, it's the first and probably last time I'll ever say this, but bass clarinets are playing too loud."
One of the bass clarinets asked for that tape from our BD when she heard that on there. She still has it.
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Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2008 5:01 pm
Our show was originally titled 'To the Beat of a Different Drummer' but got shortened to 'A Different Drummer' and we had our drum-line open up the show, but they marched off into the pit and we marched with no drumline (and we had an orchestra with electronic instruments ^^! It was spiffy nifty!) and this old fart of a judge said "I don't get it, wheres the drumline?" O.o I don't know, did you listen to the name of the show - 'A Different Drummer'? Different being the key word there, maybe that would've helped.
It was so hard to march without a drumline o.o so hard. We did it though, tied for 21st at Grand Nats that year (2006), it was our first time going and we had a new head director (previously the third director and percussion guy) so we did pretty alright =D
Oh, and "The cuffs of the pants aren't the same throughout the band..." Thanks for watching our... legs? It was the beginning of the season too, and we had some kids that like grew a foot over the season, the moms kept having to fix their pants XD
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Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2008 12:00 pm
Apparently our band needs to sound more like clam chowder. XD
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Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2008 12:04 pm
Schizophrenic Spork Apparently our band needs to sound more like clam chowder. XD wut? -_- since when did clam chowder have a sound?
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Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2008 4:28 pm
We had a very supportive instructor last year
the color guard judge?
so freaking hilarious
he had a high wispy voice, and a lisp, and kept saying things like "c'mon girls.....keep those flags up...oh no! outta step! outta sequence! c'mon!"
so that was pretty fun
then we had a music judge who made weird noises like he was in pain when there was this chord with a few wrong notes
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Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2008 5:33 pm
We got one clinician who said something like, "Pit, you're playing too loud. You're just a filter, you're NOT NEEDED. Oops, did I just say that?!" really mockingly. Grr.
Oh, and we had one judge say he'd buy us pizza. Lo and behold... he bought pizza for 160 kids.
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Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 1:44 pm
A judge actually walked up to me and while talking into the tape i heard him say, "i like your playingness, its very nice" and he did a borat noise.
i almost loled.
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Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 4:50 pm
iamsomud Two years ago, we did a show where the drumline had to walk out of a bar set thing that was in the back of the field. "Wow. They're actually in step. Usually when people walk out of bars, they aren't in step." That is absolutely freaking amazing.
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Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 5:58 pm
Our amazing comments for the Munford Band, which is amazing.
1. several to the effect of "WHA-OH MY GAWD!!!?????"
2. "Wow-Amazing! This just-OH NO, YOU'RE ABOUT TO TOTALLY FALL APAR- OH MY GAWD! NO WAY!!! wow. I'm ready to go home." -2006
3. Adrea Fagean: "Wow." -commences crapping his pants- if you knew adrea, you'd understand. also by fagean: "oh, that was FABULOUS, band, just FABULOUS." we think he's a little fruity-in-the-booty.
4. "Damn." *turns off tape* -1994, not when I was in band
5. "Oh my god. You laid them all the way down on the ground." -talking about every member of the band 'cept for pit, drumline and gaurd. yes. even the tubas, 2006
6. "I've never said this before, and I'll probably never say this again. You're piccolo and flute players are holding their posture as if they're playing trumpet." -2006, when I was playing piccolo. I'll never forget that. I played
Also, Mishaps we've had in being introduced:
1. "Conducted by Mr. Dexter Do-Well!!" His name is pronounced dowl as in the 'rod', but spelled Dowell. We all started laughing when they said that. -2006
2. On several occasions, they intro-ed our show as "Second City Lights". It's Second City Nights. -2007
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Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 7:32 pm
Music Judge: "Trumpets, that's horrible marching."
Some Judge: "The brassline's shoes aren't white enough."
Some judge: "Welcome, to blah blah blah, it's wonderful weather... *swat* you'll haev to excuse us, there are BEES flying everywhere up here... *swat* so... *half way through his critique* @$^#!! *very, very, loud smack in the background*"
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Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 9:13 pm
i love listening to judge comments...lol, TRUMPETS BLOW HARDER
CLARINETS MAKE A LINE...NOT A PIMPLE NOR DIMPLE...A LINE IS IT SO HARD I MEAN YOUR ON THE 40 YARD 'LINE' AND CANT EVEN STAND ON IT STRAIGHT...
GOOD BARITONES/TROMBONES... OOOOOH THATS NIIICE
I LOVE CHASE. . .WHAT DID YOU DO TO IT??? D=
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Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 9:24 pm
Random judge: Well, N.______high school wow these guys are good, wait....this isnt N._______ high school.... man. . . well welcome _____high school and good luck(having 2 bands with the same highschool name makes you kinda suck at life. . .)
Guard judge: clarinets need to be back a little more (yep i agree with you 'color guard' judge...)
Music judge: trumpets your sharps are too flat(doesnt that make it natural?)
Music judge: baritones. . .Baritones. . .BARITONES(ummm. . .yes?)
Visual judge: trombones, try to keep your slides in a bit more (what?)
Visual/guardish: okay, where is the guard? they arent in the form!(yeh they are. . . they are inbetween the trumpets and the bass drums... =o omg we made that passthrough)
music: okay, bari. sax. its okay, you dont have to overplay. . . it will be okay, i can hear you fine(a bit later) where is the bari. sax. play out...
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Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2008 2:00 am
So we definitely had Colonel Sanders as a judge as one point...he knew our director personally so he always refered to him as "Jermey."
"Jemery, when you grow up big and strong, you're gonna learn to march ya tubas!" (We had concert tubas with no straps).
"It's nice that you have the tubas down dere wid dat ol' injured trumpet player down there." (The injured trumpet player was a paraplegic.)
"This is a FINE band. FINE band. I like this piece! It's loud. FINE band."
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Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2008 12:20 pm
Judge: That music was just YUMMY YUM YUM!!!
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