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Marching Band

knosound911	Date: April 22, 2008 @ 2:14 PM I also would like to know who here is also a marching band geek like me too (come on, past or present) I did it for all four years in high school, my last two as sax captain and i denied the offer of drum major. I am also doing it next year at Rutgers University. so, who else here marched?
zedsalt	Date: April 23, 2008 @ 3:38 AM I never made it that far. I played trombone in elementary school, but towards the end of my second year, the teacher put a piece a music in front of me that I wasn't familiar with and told me to play it solo. That forced me to admit that I almost literally couldn't read a note. I admired you band geeks, though. We all did, in that freak/geek mixed clique they called "the artsy kids".
knosound911	Date: April 23, 2008 @ 6:04 AM Thanks. yeah its fun i guess to be in that group. obviously there are the people who make fun of us, but we are the ones who make the music that everyone listens to, so check mate to them
Distilled1	Date: April 23, 2008 @ 6:41 AM I was with the Stoners/loaner/geeks, witch included my best Friend who wailed on Clarinet all 4 years and into college ... I did violin and Piano k-8, never did School band stuff switched to guitar at 14
GeneHilbert	Date: April 23, 2008 @ 7:06 AM I actually have a march called "Crown OF Horns". I would to eventually like to get a marching band to perform it. I was thinking Grambling St. or Southern U would be good choices, but I'm not picky. I'll have to record it and post it here. Thanks for reminding me of it. Six years marching band - Jr. High & High.... 4 years first chair trombone
Tattoomom	Date: April 23, 2008 @ 9:39 AM Jr. High...... FRENCH HORN!!! My favorite was blowing out the spit valve into the hair of the popular clarinet girl who sat in front of me. Found out the teacher of the guitar class was a Van Halen fan and marching band was history!
imemine	Date: April 23, 2008 @ 1:18 PM Oh yea! 100 years ago! I also played the French Horn (Mellophone in Marching Band) I even played the Sousaphone one year because I could actually carry it AND play at the same time. (Small town ya know) The spit thing was cool too. BUT......let me tell you, not everyone was a "geek". We had some illicit things too (without going into details )AND that "popular clarinet girl"....Band trips were a nice place to He He He.....lets just say....make new friends. She had a GREAT embouchure!!!!
knosound911	Date: April 23, 2008 @ 4:15 PM ha ha. yeah i never had any experiences like that imemine, but i did meet this really cool girl that i sort of dated, but nothing was ever official cause of my stupid friend , he liked her too, but she did like him, only me
GeneHilbert	Date: April 23, 2008 @ 8:32 PM I always like girls with French horn lips..... Now that's a tight pucker..... To bad you're married.......... LOL imemine - Sorry Dude...... I can't drink that much......
zedsalt	Date: April 24, 2008 @ 3:41 AM The more I think about it, the more odd it seems that there wasn't more overlap between the Music Majors in my school and the Artsy Kids. But then, we were a pretty small school (sixty people in my graduating class), and a lot of us were really busy with substance abuse.
justinother1	Date: April 24, 2008 @ 11:43 AM cough,cough...
hate9wicket	Date: April 24, 2008 @ 12:15 PM Woot, French Horn players unite! Did Marching band for about 8 years, JH, HS.... even doing Halftime shows in pads at football games. Was a Marching Coyote @ S. Dakota for a couple years before realizing Music Education and school in general did not agree w/ me, or rather, going to class and waking up before noon did not agree w/ me. My experience was more like Zed's, the theater, art, and music departments were all in the same building. My instructor was first chair w/ the Omaha Symphony.... and without volunteering the info, warned me to stop smoking pot because it would ruin my embouchure oh well
knosound911	Date: April 28, 2008 @ 8:00 AM ha ha. well im looking forward to marching band in college next year
kingo	Date: April 28, 2008 @ 11:07 AM My school was completely bassackwards, and the band teacher would never let me join the band as the guy who played percussion on the brass section's instruments and chairs. Goddamn asshole.