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w/e the nearest trumpet has. i rarely have to use valve oil since i play t-bone when i do the trumpets usually have this blue stuff.

We do that...alot. Its happened to me once and ive done it to someone. Its quite amusing.

fat albert

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Yeah thats basically what ours is. With an adjoining room to store all the drums.

Wow...now thats a story. Last year we passed a car that had just erupted into flames on the side of the road...got a few stares...but they didnt stop to see if anyone was hurt/on fire.

Actually all you have to do is act like the rest of us and your pretty much good. BAH. Stupid parents and stupid hazing crap. My 8th grade year the Leander T-Bones chased down, tackled, then forced The Brew down someones throat when he tried to refuse to drink it. We would have so done that last year if we wouldnt have been suspended/arrested.

We have a room called the "Blue Room" due to the fact that it has blue sound reducing things on the wall. Basically only the Drumline and pit are ever in there.

We had three freshmen last year. One was awesome, fit in with the section, and is our only sophomore this year. One was really loud, annoying, not a exceptionally bad player but definately not the best in the entire band...The third(i will refer to him as "number 3")...well he was an exceptionally bad player, bad tone, couldnt play, couldn't march, and was basically bad everything. That was annoying but tolerable. What pissed us off was that he failed to drink The Brew, our most important tradition, that everyone that ones to be accepted must partake in. Basically we have a potluck before homecoming in which people bring anything ranging from KFC to Brocholi flavored soda and garlic extract. Then we put all of these "ingredients"(usually about 20) into a gatorade bottle and shake it up. All freshmen and seniors have to drink it then the soph and juniors can volunteer to drink whats left if they want. Well when it was time to drink it "number 3" was nowhere to be find. After asking round we found that he was hiding in the bathroom stall with his uniform on. Our leader when into the bathroom. Slid the gatorade bottle under the door and told him that if he poured some down the toilet we would be content and leave him alone. He slid it back under and said no. After that he was no longer a member of the trombone section. Just some kid who was in the band and happened to play t-bone.

We are told to be quiet during performances but since our directors are usually all sitting together at the very front its the upperclassmens job to keep others from talking. We are called to attention during results announcements and thus, aren't aloud to cheer or applaud until we are called back to parade rest and dismissed.

Leander High School from...you guessed it Leander, TX

Sounds like our show. Entire band facing back sideline save drumline. Four counts, the band turns then the effect we go for is "a wall of sound hits the judges and audiance" or something like that....

So i guess ill start on just one bus ride. We took busses to Disney World my freshmen year. 20 Hours there and due to complications 30 hours home. Two of the things we did on these bus rides that pop to mind are the insult contest and bus surfing. Basically the insult contest was what its name suggests, a contest to see who could come up with the longest, dirtiest, and most insulting/disturbing insult. Add to this that most of us had just popped at least two caffiene pills and you get an interesting game involving insults generally no shorter than 4 or 5 words. Secondly is bus surfing. This occured around 1:30am-2am on the ride home when most everyone was asleep, including the director. Me, and a couple friends stood in the aisle of the(charter of course) and then without holding onto anything would jump and do 360's and the like while the bus was in a turn, and not falling. Ended up only falling on and waking up like 4 cranky people and it was very entertaining.

We did that...as well as play the Imperial March when the director walked in...she didn't like that very much...as well as innumerable antics on long bus rides which include bus surfing, putting makeup on sleeping guys, waking the entire bus up at 3 in the morning by singing our version of "In the jungle", watching "The Patriot" getting yelled at and told to turn it off halfway through, and then turning it back when the director fell asleep. And wow..Im really off topic....maybe start a "Bus Ride Antics" thread somewhere...

We have Quarter Masters to paint over the dots, in fact they do almost all labor involved in the band. They are people who like to help and get leadership for transcript/NHS applications and/or people who failed and dont get to march so they are forced to move stuff around.

We got caught singing the unedited version one night on a bus ride home...that wasnt fun. We weren't aloud to sing it again till they forgot...which didnt really take too long.

We(the trombone section at Leander) are argueably one of the best sections in the band when we want to be and have been stepping it up this year to actually get noticed. That said anyone who has witnessed trombone potluck and the brew, or heard the pirate song can verify that in no way our we innocent little angels either... I quote our director "Trombones, you guys are both the best and the worst section this year"

According to our director(questionable reliability) if 25 bands make it to area then they are taking the the top 5 bands. Any less and they are only take 4 idk how many are needed to take 6.

Yup. Only problem is when the paint pens fade out...by which time you should already know your spot. They are just for reference weget yelled out for looking at the ground while learning sets. And to make sure people dont use teh dots to find their spots while marching we sometimes will play to the other sideline so the dots are completely wrong.

No but they seem to help out....Id like to see someone do some magic in a show...make the trumpet section disappear...

We miss practice and we lose points on our grade for that day if we dont talk to the directors before not showing up. They take an attendance every day during fundmental block. We still end up with people missing without anyones knowledge though. Generally if we talk to directors beforehand its cool so long as we show up again as soon as we can.

I think what he means is that if you dont have a ton of GE in your show no matter how hard the music or the drill is your not going to do as well as the ones who do.

We use spray paint for all our charts. End of the year get the quarter masters and leadership team out on the field during summer with black spray paint. IDK how long this is going to work though. Field was repaved two summers ago so as of now it only has this years show on it and last years painted over. May not be too long before it has to be repaved again.

Yeah just from the very brief section of Bowie's perfomance that i heard(didn't get to see it) they very much deserved their music score. I liked Round Rock's show but after seeing it 3 times in 2 days I wouldn't mind not seeing it for awhile. CP's show was good. Did ya'll add or change things? I thought it seemed different from last weeks...maybe it was just my imagination... GL to everyone next week.

Bah...our guard...needs work...lots and lots of work. :-(