Any good mamories out thewre...what were some of the shows that U did...did U make it to Bands of Americe...share please....I'm feeling nostalgic.

We did no show my first year cuz our High School had just opened and there was like 20 people in Band. We did play a song called Gazspacho(??? I think that's how U spell it) Our drum line didn't even have drums yet...they played on folding tables...lol.

The next year we did a Beatles Show. Magical Mystery Tour, Gotta Get You Into My Life, Strawberry Fields, Elanor Rigby. Elanor Rigby was fun, but Not as fun as Magical Mystery Tour. I remember our director telling us that we gotta play it loud and crazy and told us to remember that it was a bunh of fools that were High and trying to have a good time and to take that into consideration when we were playing it. LOL! The best to play though, cuz I played Saxophone was Gotta Get You Into My Life. We played that hook that was in the song and we were in front and got to go into a little "we're cool" stance while we played it!


Year after that We Did a Gershwin Show. Porgy and Bess and that song they play in the American Aitlines Commercial and some other Tunes by Gershwin...I don't remember at the moment. During Porgy and Bess...one of the Colorguard chicks...Monica Peru...FINE AS HELL(too bad she ended up preggo her senior year) did a little ass wiggle dance RIGHT infront of me(like 4 feet..or however much room the pole needed to swing) for like 12 bars!...it was GREAT!


My senior show we did some Spiritual songs...like Oh Happy Day(NO...not the Happy Days theme!). I had a solo in that song...it was AWESOME. We did a song that Blood Sweat and Tears did. It was kind of a standard, but we played their arrangement of it...uhhh....lemme google it real quick...God Bless the Child. That was fun to pla. jeesh...my memory is bad. I don't remember the other tunes we layed that year either...


Here's some of the Pep Songs we played during the football games....
links are courtesy of http://www.jwpepper.com

Rocky!

The HEY! song

Louie Louie

Kiss Him Goodbye]

Peter Gun

Let's Go Band is in the middle of this one

That's just some of the tunes we played. We Played the Imperial March theme for Srtar Wars too!


PLEASE share memories or opinions or ANYTHING. I wanna see how many replies this thread gets!
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I played a drum kit for junior high school band class, but we didn't march.

CinisterCee said:

Drum Kits are fun. My senior year I messed around witht the one our band had. I didn't have 5th and 6th period cuz it was my Senior year. The Chior room was next door. I would play a simple dance beat and the girls next door would hear and come over to the band room and dance to it...it was FUN AS HELL!

This one time, at band camp...


I wasn't in band but I was in choir--and no, I never had sex in high school.

most of my friends in high school were in the school marching/jazz band. i used to hang out in the band room with 'em every morning before classes started. fun times.

I wish I was, but I was in with a different bunch of nerds - school newspaper!

flute player

RipHer2Shreds said:

i was with my school newspaper too...i was one of their in-house artists and i did my own comic strip.

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

Cute! I covered "world events." Cuz that's what teenagers are interested in, not the price of school milk.

Those were the days...

i was in band from 4th-7th grade, i quit in 8th grade because i was too good for them, or so i thought... but after missing out on having fun with music, i dove back in during the last half 9th grade through 10th -- we did A LOT of competitions and marching. all the band kids were very cool. it was a lot of fun, but also a lot of work. we always placed very high, usually in the top 2, sometimes 3. then i dropped out of band again in 11th grade when my high school offered a musicianship/songwriting class. there were only about 7 or 8 of us. we wrote songs at night and brought them in next day to critique each other's work. that was the best class i ever had! the teacher would give us some bizarre assignment like, write a song composed only of 16th notes and change keys 3 times, but using no more than one minor key. yep, those were the days.
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Handclapsfingasnapz said:

YUP...band kids are fun...cuz we're of a differen't breed I believe....strange but fun people were in our band....We were called "Band Twinkies"...or just "Twinkies" at our school. I took pride in being a "Twinkie"!

Yeah, my freshman year in high school, I played drums in the marching band. Then, from my sophmore to senior year, I played drums and guitar in the jazz band at school.

BobGeorge909 said:

oh man--i remember in 11th or 12th grade, one morning the pepsi delivery man was at our school to refill the pop machine that was down the hall from the band room. well, the dude had to go to his truck or somethin to get something so i think he had left the pop machine open. all the band kids got free pop that morning...and nobody even saved a pepsi for me (this happened before i got to school that morning).

I wasn't, but the horn section of the band I played in were all part of THE marching band of that day...



... The Florida A&M Marching 100


Led by the one and only...



...Dr. William P. Foster

"Hubba Doc"


tA

Tribal Disorder

http://www.soundclick.com...rmusic.htm

These are all great stories people...Keep 'em coming...the nostalgia is on FIRE!

And YES I was in Band Camp for 4 YEARS. I always used to say "This one time...in Band Camp!" But not since American Pie came out. It's embarrasing now...





arrgghh...I hope I get over my recent addiction of bolding everyting...

Yep, at the first High School I attended, Trinity Grammar School in Sydney, I was a member and principal soloist (alto saxophone) for the Concert Band, Marching Band and Stage (Jazz) Bands. We toured California at one point in 1993 (I was in the 9th Grade, 15 years old), a time I will never forget. Getting to play with the very high-standard American marching bands was a treat as was playing at Disneyland...and I met many interesting people...some of whom I am still in contact with today. Very good times.

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twinkie


edit: i was in my grade 7 and 8 band...best clarinet player EVER and i got the award 2 prove it!



never played that instrument again
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i was! i played sax then switched to trumpet, and made first chair in both instruments

hey honeys, I don't quite fit in here because i was in the high school ORCHESTRA

I quit for a few years being too good for those schmoes, then I rejoined my senior year. Me and my best friend shared first stand in the first violin section and we totally goofed off. I even played a solo a couple of times in the Concerto Concert with the high school orchestra backing me up. (The conductor rushed like a madman, so the next year I chose a piano accompaniment instead LOL) We used to play in shopping malls quite a bit around Christmas.

I also have a fond memory of me and my friend Janet practicing our violin/oboe duet out near the track on summery day while the rest of kids were in class.

SammiJ said:

you sound like me....my flute is somewhere collecting dust right about now. I even considered pawning it. But I actually liked playing in concert band middle school and high school. I just dreaded marching band. oh god....goin' out in 80-90 degree weather after school was horrible. Our school didn't even care about us either oh noooo....the football team was their pride and joy

Marching band was a really big deal at my high school. Freshman year we jammed on the The Jackson's "Torture". Homecoming queens were escorted while we played Anita Baker's "Sweet Love"

I'm an Aussie and I was a trumpet player in the 2000 piece Olympic Marching Band that performed at the Sydney 2000 Olympics Opening Ceremony. It was made up of about 1000 Aussies, 500 Americans, 200 Japanese and 300 from other countries. Man, that was a trip! I can't believe that was almost 5 years ago!!

toejam said:

That's HELLAH tight. Goes to show how UNIVERSAL music is!

Oh Man ...the stories I could tell...

I play all the woodwinds and attended Interlochen Arts Academy for 2 years as well...marching and concert.....wow...I'll try and recall a few stories that I can tell... and get back to ya...

pippet said:

SWEET!



This one tme...in band camp!


Everyone used to think that all the band twinkies were geeks and nerds...but with the Colorguard tagging along....Chicks got PREGNANT on our bus trips!....HA!

BobGeorge909 said:

Lil did everyone know....we were the kewl ones to hang with...

Got me thinkin back now...I remember first year initiations...pushin pennies with noses..across a street... ...so much we put the newbies thru...late nite raids...stealin the boys stuff of course loads of fun there.......

And that line..."This one time in Band Camp"...OMG...