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 Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2008 11:39 am
So, we had our first game on Friday. And after the halftime show, our Colorguard coach quit. Which caused our drumline instructor to quit. Which caused 5 of the 7 drummers to quit.
In the middle of a game.
We're not quitting marching band by any means, but it is an enormous setback. Anything disastrous like this happen to any of you?
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Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2008 2:44 pm
Wow, that sucks. I wish you guys the best of luck.
Nothing that disasterous has happened while I was in marching band, but I have a few stories.
Before band camp, we had ten people signed up for color guard. Only six showed up. And we only had a temporary instructor (fresh out of high school, the previous year's captain) and she was a b***h. On the second day, one girl quit. We replaced her with one of the abundant flutes. And then, after band camp was over, another member quit. So not only did we only have a real instructor for a week, we only had five color guard. And then when we had a lady help us out with practice and tips (she was really nice and knew her stuff, and would have made an awesome permanent instructor) the captain decided to be a b***h and gave her a lot of attitude. So the lady had every right to stop teaching us, and I don't blame her for it, but it sucked. We ended up having hardly any guard work for the show, since we had to learn from a DVD with pre-written work.
Luckily, this year was a lot better.
And my brother told me this story of the year before that.
The last BD isn't the skinniest guy, if you know what I mean. And so some kids were making fat jokes, and they got a little out of hand. So, on the day before a competition, the BD just disappeared for a few days. Without the BD, the band couldn't go to that competition. Luckily, he did return, but it was only to finish the season. Then we got the new BD, who isn't nearly as cool, but the job gets done.
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Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 1:36 pm
in the middle of performing for our parents, i got ran over by a flute. then there was this other time when i got ran over by a claronet, and other times it was a guard girl. yea...
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Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2008 2:51 pm
Wow your colorgaurd must of done somthing bad to make thier coach quit.
It's never happened while I've been in marching band, but some funny things have like....
during compition last year while we were doing our show the cologaurd all 4 of them (yes 4 I know not at all a good colorgaurd) they threw thier flags up at the same time and all together thier flags flew 5 feet in front of them and fell at the same time. the ran picked them up and had to quickly figure out what their routine at that part was and jump back in.
during another compitition last year all the band members were fighting with the colorgaurd before the show (which got us into trouble)(but it was fun cuz it was about 100 to 4 members, band winning) The bd screamed at us as we were getting ready to walk on and the pit could hear from all the way across the football field (goal to goal). so the pit went on laughing, while the rest of us went on scared at the bd.
He needed his coffee. litterally, he'll normally just scream at us the next day he sees us.
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Posted: Sat Sep 27, 2008 9:20 am
There's many infamous stories like that in my band.
Like the girl that got really angry during a practice freshman year and spiked her clarinet into the ground reed first and eventually got kicked out for getting in a fight with another member
Or the one year where we were going to have three tubas, but one never showed up, and the other just quit, leaving one with a solo.
Or just last year, we started out with 6 colorguard. One quit before band camp, and another one after it because she couldn't deal with the drama.
So far this year no one's quit, but a lot have been close to it. At one point we were really fed up with our Director and visual caption head guy that a lot of people were thinking of quitting, but things are starting ot get sorted out and its getting better.
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Posted: Sun Sep 28, 2008 5:33 pm
my drumline gets treated like gods when their expletive expletive not gods
but last year we had a d-line feature and a c-guard feature we had performed the d-line feature many a time and the c-guard feature once so the c-guard asked to perform their feature at homecoming
director said no
can you guess who didn't perform for the rest of the season out of comtempt
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Posted: Sun Sep 28, 2008 9:58 pm
wow. major suck. Bad story number 1:
My dad introduced the term "flaggot" to my band. No one had heard that word before except for the guard girls so when my friends heard that I had made the winterguard they didn't know how to make fun of me. but once my dad called me that in front of everyone I had a very long season. But I don't regret picking up a flag xd
story number 2:
That was my senior year of high school btw. No in my freshman year of college this mellophone player I know likes me. This is disastrous because he's gay and i'm not. But he's a senior! he has a car, and money, and an apartment... ugh I don't want to take advantage of him but he keeps buying me dinner and stuff.
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Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2008 5:16 pm
I've staffed for high school bands before; and I, myself, walked out in the middle of camp one year. The director and I weren't on good terms, so to speak, so to show him that I was nothing to laugh at or to mess with, I made a point by leaving.
It's very real, and it happens.
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Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2008 7:52 am
not if ur the quit-e by force i couldnt go to the first few games then when i could i had to be with the pit a month later i moved now im freaking out about how my ole band is, cuz during practice our bd was getting pissed at every little thing O.o and i dont know about this new band
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