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 Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2006 6:19 pm
The Lovely Fawn I don't know if any of you guys live it Connecticut, but this Thanksgiving was awful. And we had our big halftime show. It was raining, incredibly windy (they were holding down the sousaphone player), and it was hailing. Of course, we were all so hyped for the show, we didn't really care that we were losing the feeling in our fingers... wow. I wish my band would be excited about our shows -_-
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Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 7:27 pm
For us, it rained. The drummers got their feet stuck in the mud and it just kept raining, it was the largest storm of the year for us and out instruments were totally waterlogged gonk .
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Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2006 5:16 pm
Our last game:Senior Show.
Our seniors worked so hard
to make the entire drill
featuring Greased Lightning,Rythem of the Night/Nature Boy,and Star Wars/Raiders Ark.
It was raining sooooo hard, come half time the field
was completely drowned in water, probably at least 4 inch puddles of
mud! Us being the bandos we are were all
"Let's go! We can do this!!"
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Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2006 10:19 pm
Geez... I have a lot of experiences that I could list here, and I've only been in varsity a year. Let me start with band camp. 90 degree weather, at least, daily, except for the one day it rained. Oh, did I mention that we were on black pavement? I just moved here to Indiana from Texas, and I can truthfully say that I like heat, but that was extreme even for me. Then, on the one day it decided to rain, the weather was just horrible. Drizzly, wet, humid, and slippery. Our charts were totally soaked... I'm suprised I can still read them! But I guess the heat and wetness weren't too bad, because the food was SWEET. Especially pie day.
Then, on my birthday, which is August 12th, there was a parade scheduled. My childhood favorite, actually, the FunFest parade. It usually falls on my birthday, and it's actually the reason I wanted to join band in the first place. Well, just like band camp, the weather was HOT. But it was dry, which is good for me. At that point, I had no idea how the entire band would turn a corner, and it took me a bit to figure it out. Besides the fact that I wasn't exactly an expert an guiding... But at least I got a hug that day for my birthday!
Then there was the day that this so called "expert" came. Everyone was groaning when they knew he was coming, and I quickly figured out why. He had the most annoying voice ever, and he was weird in how he taught us marching and breathing things. Then he did the thing that ticked me off... He wanted to see how our show was coming along, when it was POURING outside. My friend Jack, who usually sticks to playing snare, was dumping sheets of water off his drum as he marched. I HATED that stupid expert!
Now onto the real subject. This is the absolute worst I've been forced to get through, though it wasn't really that bad. The school where an invite was being held was always known for having a bad field, and to top things off, it had been raining for a day or so before the invite. Even though some kind of clay stuff was thrown down, the field was incredibly slick. Luckilly, no one slipped during the show! That would've ruied our pretty silver capes...
That's right, we have capes. Envy us! ^-^
(Whoa... That was long. o.o )
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Posted: Tue Dec 19, 2006 10:32 am
The worst conditions was definitely this August in South Korea. It was like 120 degrees, we were practicing outside for like twelve hours every day and it was just grueling. People were passing out from heat exhaustion all over the place, and I was sick with food poisoning. eek
Then the year before we were at Otis Airforce Base on the Cape and everyone started getting this mysterious illness... but the moment we stopped drinking the water at the base everyone got better. It was bad though, and people were quite violently ill. I was really sick AND I really sprained my ankle. Marched through it though. That tour was so miserable.
Then my first year we were doing the Bristol fourth of July parade in RI and it was torrentially downpouring. And it was stop and go. And we were barely ever allowed to take a break, so we were constantly playing for like four hours. O.o And we were wearing wool uniforms, and a couple of the saxes got their pads ruined from the rain. And I had whooping cough.
...haha I always have something wrong with me on band tour.
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Posted: Sun Dec 24, 2006 4:34 pm
Hmm, it was homecoming night. It was snowing, raining, and was about 0 degrees outside! gonk Now it's Christmas, and it's warm, with no snow! I wish we were marching now.
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Posted: Tue Dec 26, 2006 3:05 pm
it was cold raining and i had cramps not to mention that the band directors are ruthless....!!!!!!!!!!!
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Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2006 6:08 pm
foot ball game i play a wood wind insterment so i had nothing to do but talk every one was wet to there core (with our parkas on)
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Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2006 12:11 am
hmm worst..worst..worst...every freaking day in band camps in summer its either in the high 90s, but thats not the worst with the humididty its horrible u feel like ur drowning in sweat after being there our for 2 mins, within in 1 hr my friend could twist his t-shirt and make sweat come out easily trying doing that for a week from 1-9 or more, and of course our band directors only care if its lightening they dont care about the heat..almost passed out this year..always ever year people get sunstroke heat exhaustion or passout my friend last year got 2nd degree burns bus she burns easily, and if its not hot its raining which i like actually its fun to march in rain , but if there lightening we go inside, but then it stops raining gets really humid within a min were all sweating and we havent even marched , then we have to march in big wool uniforms in the heat to..it suxs but i love marching so its all worth it =D. i live in south florida
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Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 7:19 pm
oh my god, worst conditions, let's see.
the whole summer was nothing but 80-90 degree heat except a few days where it rained and there were clouds. that was nice. at our show it rained most of the day and we were the last ones to go on so we were marching in half a foot of mud that could suck your shoes off. later on at district, it first rained so hard that we were soaked in minutes. then it hailed and hailed some more. it made nice sounds on the drums though. when the hail stopped, we were allowed to warm up a bit more than usual before we went on. and right before we went on our BD said "give 'em hail!" towards the end of the season we were all saying how we've been through it all except snow and low and behold, it snowed that day.
yea, we've been through a bit.
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Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 2:29 pm
Last year during band camp it was about 125 degrees and people were having heat strokes. Then about halfway through the season it got down to about 10 w/rain not snow but rain!!! anyway people started getting hypotherima then and it was just bad all around...
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Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2007 8:03 am
When we went to Area Marching Competitions it was POURING down rain and about 40 degrees the wool uniforms were SOOOOOOOOOOOO wet and they stunk horribly the next day. 100 stinky band unifroms in the band hall makes for a long rehersal
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Posted: Sun Jan 14, 2007 7:16 pm
The wind was blowing really at one contest and at one point the wind blow so hard that the symbols that were in front on me almost tiped over on top of me.
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Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 1:15 pm
I didn't march in it, but I was at the game. We had a day where it poured rain all day and then we had an away game. The woodwinds couldn't do the cheers due to corks and then the band couldn't go on the field...but the track. It sucks just being there. They weren't even in uniform. Just jeans and their raincoats and tennis shoes
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