The first official RCHS "Mighty Laker Marching Band" competition will be held Saturday, September 7th. The competition begins at 5:30, at Franklin-Simpson.

We'll perform at 8 PM, CST in class 3A competition. There's about 5 other bands in our class I think. Hopefully, we'll win the whole shindig.

I'll post results on Sunday, for those of you who give a crap. Former band rats, and the like.

That's great. I was a band fag for 7 years. Played drums. Bass drum in marching band. Haven't even picked up a stick since my senior year. Wish I could say I miss it...

Wouldn't that be funny if all us Org members went to this and heckled Battier?

2the9s said:

Yeah, like "blow in that bloody thing Battier, give it some lungs!"

and

"Your Spanish teacher"s a bum!"

and

"You're too stupid to spell bugger properly"

Aaron said:

Band fag?

You'll do great!

Battier, I don't want to jinx you or put any anxieties in your head that you didn't have before or anything, but whatever you do, DON'T TRIP OVER YOUR OWN FEET! Okay?

heh heh

Aaron said:

thats not what i heard...and i hear you handle sticks real well...

2the9s said:

not like you just did over you lip, rite??? j/k
GO GETT'EM BBMD!!!
as for the lil memebers, leave that shit to the teachers.
THAT'S WHUT THEY GET PAID FOR!!!

BattierBeMyDaddy said:

Marching band was hell. Our uniforms were these stupid all polyester sailor suits and these ridiculous huge hats that would always blow off in the wind. On top of that, marching with a saxophone or any reed instrument is a suicide wish. And the point of reeds in a marching band is beyond me. You can barely hear reed instruments, especially clarinets and oboes and saxophones over brass! A marching band should just be brass and drums and maybe flutes... and definitely a handful of cheerleading squad rejects to twirl flags and batons and fake guns and shit. They have flute bands that march in Belfast on King Billy Day... they all play C pennywhistles. That's also dangerous. Any cylindrical object pointed down your throat while you're blindly marching up a street surrounded by equally encumbered independent individuals trying to do the same thing is a bad idea. Try to avoid that if you can. That's my tip for the day. Stay tuned because there's more where that came from.

One last tip for the day: leave the music business after high school or you'll end up like me and write ranting run on paragraphs like the one above on web forums of websites by/for fans of musicians you used to believe in way back when things mattered and all the other famous musicians were either prematurely dead or strung out and homeless...

Good Luck LAc.You know i'm rootin for ya.

2the9s said:

I won't fall. There are only two reasons to fall, one being wet grass, the other, improper marching. I've never fallen, nor will it happen this year. I have no anxieties about performing, or tripping. I can march correctly, and I doubt the grass will be wet.

I did, however slide a bit last year at North Laurel. I must have slid two steps in the form due to the wet grass. At any rate, that's the only time it's happened, or come near.

You can't jinx me, fool.

BattierBeMyDaddy said:

So, it could happen, right?

2the9s said:

It could, but it won't. And even if it did, it wouldn't matter. No one knows who the hell you are from your uniform, and you just get right back up and go on about it as if nothing happened. The judges see it, but won't take off really unless you lay there awhile and don't do a good job covering it up.

At any rate, I have no fears SO fuck off.

BattierBeMyDaddy said:

Okay, whew! At least you have a contingency plan for when it happens. I mean if it happens! of course...

heh heh

2the9s said:

If I wasn't me, and you weren't you, I might be annoyed with you.

BattierBeMyDaddy said:

I thought I was you?

2the9s said:

Are you?