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 Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2004 5:33 pm
Everyone who considers themselves a band nerd/geek has a slew of band-related stories, many of which are the best stories of their high school experiences. Some stories, the ones to share here, are about the silliest, craziest, most embarrassing times in band history!
So share yours! This can be your "Most Embarrassing Band Moment," the "Best Band Prank," the "Craziest Band Trip Incident" and so on. Share the moments that made you split your sides with laughter so we can split our sides along with you. blaugh
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Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2004 6:38 pm
i just got back from band practice and i have trumpet bus stories. . . later . . .
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Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2004 7:30 pm
I had to sit next to a kid who threw up on the way to ACCs in Scranton last year... thank God he turned the other way into the aisle and not on me.... o' course, I smelt like puke until I took a shower in the hotel that night lol.
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Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2004 9:53 pm
My freshman year, our show theme was Extreme Basics (yup, we did a marching show about marching. We're very original), or X-Basics for short. Right before we went on the field for the preliminary round of the local Mid-States Band Association final, a large X appeared in the clouds, probably from two jets crossing paths. It showed up before a couple other big competitions, too. One of the online newsletters read, "You know you're doing well when even the clouds cheer for you." 'Twas cool. [edit]Hey, I found a photo (way to large to post here): http://www.kingsmusicassociation.org/images/2002_Pix/A Sign.jpg
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Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2004 1:43 pm
On April Fools Day my senior year, one of my friends (who was 2nd chair clarinet) broke into my band locker (well, not "broke" into it, he got the combination for my lock from the band director's office), and put gafting tape over the third keyhole on each joint. So when I was warming up, I couldn't play a C in either octave. The woodwind director couldn't figure out what was going on for the longest time, then notices that there was "something in my clarinet". He had to get a pair of pliers to reach the tape to pull it out!
Then followed the incident of the switching of the locks on the lockers (same guy did it).
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Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2004 2:10 pm
OK I guess I post about mine. My band is very large so each section has it's own bus for when we go to games and competitions. Anyways the trumpet bus, percussion, and low brass bus all have certain reputations. in fact all the buses have certain reps but those three basically have the same reps. Anyways my bus has this stupid thing where before games- sometimes after they'll do (note the they) will say a "prayer" saying we'll do a good half time show and then down sugar packets which they call sugar shots.
Ok besides that we were going to some competition and they brought a cd player/boom box thing on the bus to listen to music. This wasn't odd of course until they started to smash it apart with thier mouthpieces. Yes their mouthpieces. Sadly there was a subsitute driver driving the bus behind us, the low brass bus. So over the radio in all the buses she reported that they were smashing things up. Oh god our director was so pissed. And then the loading crew- which all rides my bus forgot the keys to our trailer (which we keep percussion, pit, and low brass instruments in) so . . . heh . . .
And then when our football team made it to states we were riding a very long way. And we got caught in traffic on the interstate and they came up with the wonderful idea to have a rumble . . . in the back. Which included all the guys getting into a pile and jumping on each other and kind of play fighting and once again we had a subsitute driver behind us who only saw the people in the bus in front of them fighting. So we had to get extra bus drivers on our bus. domokun sweatdrop
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Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2004 3:44 pm
*lol* really nice, Masq! blaugh
Hmm... some band bus stories....
Well, we had this one guy in my circle of friends who was pretty big, and had terrible luck with girls, so... me and a couple of my gal pals decided to flash him, regularly... ain't we nice? wink Hmm, and we had lots of games of truth or dare... two of my friends wound up doing M&M body shots eek
Hmm... oh, and one yr our show included the song 'An American in Paris' ... well, their was a trumpet solo, and one of the girls was doing a dance around the soloist... a very provocative dance.... and the judges kept telling her to tone it down. sweatdrop
... that's all for now.
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Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2004 5:35 pm
one tiem i collasped but that was right after thanksgiving day so of coarse i collasped. it was the next morning too so i didnt eat anythign since i woke up almost late and also i had a hangover since it was thanksgiving plus i slept very late like 3 o clock in the morning and my parade was at 7 so not much sleep there sweatdrop
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Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2004 8:13 pm
Last year we had this duet trumpeters and had a guard member dance provoctative around them and people whisted at her . . . sweatdrop More craziness of my band is that the guard is known to be halfway naked our their bus . . . eek Once, I think at state competition, our bus was parked next to ours and well . . . they were all jumping around and taking off their uniforms and like almost naked and stuff and what's really horrible is that our director rides that bus! eek sweatdrop
Also we have this thing at away games in those horrible visiting side stands with the wire fenches around the top- we take our paper water cups and spell out things. xp Like Spam, OSHS, and that's all I remember.
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Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2004 11:47 am
My trombone fell off the stands last year... and of course, I was sitting in the highest row, so it fell about 25 or 30 feet! Thankfully, it landed on the outside of the chain-link fence bellow the stands, which is all bushes and trees and stuff, so it came out only with some minor scratches and dents. Had it landed on the inside, it would've been completely trashed, since that whole area is gravel. My section leader last year had that happen to him his sophomore year... he dropped his baritone, it landed on the inside of the fence, and came out looking like scrap metal eek
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Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2004 1:43 pm
My freshman year of high school, the color guard had to use these 18 inch plastic balls for part of segment 3 (you know, like the ones they have in those huge bins at Walmart). There was a fraternity that had a house down the street from the high school, and they made one of their pledges steal a ball from the field where the color guard was praticing. My band director, who is not an athletic sort of man, threw down his megaphone and sprinted down the street after the guy, went to the frat house, and demanded that they give it back. Which they did.
Another time that same year, two guys rode bikes through the backfield wearing nothing but pantyhose.... on their heads.
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Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2004 2:02 pm
Elenriel Nimloth My freshman year of high school, the color guard had to use these 18 inch plastic balls for part of segment 3 (you know, like the ones they have in those huge bins at Walmart). There was a fraternity that had a house down the street from the high school, and they made one of their pledges steal a ball from the field where the color guard was praticing. My band director, who is not an athletic sort of man, threw down his megaphone and sprinted down the street after the guy, went to the frat house, and demanded that they give it back. Which they did. Another time that same year, two guys rode bikes through the backfield wearing nothing but pantyhose.... on their heads. we got bombered by water balloons the practice the same day as state competition.
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Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2004 8:29 am
hehee, so many good stories! ... yeah... we sort of had this thing where we'd bring blankets to games and competitions on really cold days (duh,right) well, one day their were about six of us huddled under two blankets... yeah... our director, and several other bandidos were giving us funny looks xp
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Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2004 8:58 am
My freshman year of marching band I had just barely grasped the concept of marching in step and playing at the same time. We were performing one of our first half-time shows of the year and it was a bit on the difficult side. Anyway, my squad was doing fine when all of a sudden we noticed we weren't in the right spot. Our squad was alone, 3 yard lines from the rest of the band! Needless to say, our director chewed us out for that one. redface
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Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2004 8:59 am
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