Hilliard Davidson High School Marching Band
Yep that's us. I'm a member of the Marching Band, and fortunately managed to survive 3 years of it so far. I play in the pit, mainly mallets but occasionally I get forced into playing the accessories...wheeee! The pic on the left is me as a Freshman in our 1997 marching season. We played "Waterworld" and accomplished absolutely nothing ;).
The next picture is our show from last year "Beethoven's 5th and 9th symphonies" where we also accomplished nothing. Quite an improvement I must say with our highly fashionable new uniforms! We no longer look like australian smurfs! A'int it great?
This year we played songs from Led Zepplin including "Kashmir" "Battle of Evermore and Rock and Roll" and "Stairway to Heave" which you will hear playing in your background if you're fortunate enough to hear background music. (Yes I said music not the wierd voices that talk to you and tell you to kill.... uh... nevermind.)
Hopefully once I get my dead butt out of this chair long enough to get our schedule, you'll be able to see a list of how we've done so far. (We place 24th in BOA out of 30, yay) ::long drawn out sigh:: Oh well it was fun and there's always next year...maybe.
How we've done...
Cloverleaf - 3rd Place, class AA
BOA Toledo - 24th place, class AAA
Kettering - 3rd place, class AA
Tecumseh - 4th place, class AA
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Top Ten Signs you have a bad Director
10. He holds the trumpet upside down
9. Annual band trip is held at the horse track
8. Insist on doing "you dont know how it feels" by Tom Petty for
marching show, insist on wacky visual for the "Roll another joint" line.
7. he brings in new visual consultant, Richard Simmons.
6. Instead of sitting up in the front of the bus he is in the back
making out with his girlfriend
5. When you ask him if you should practice he says "ehhhh......whatever"
4. He claims he is a 10 year clarinet vet for the Blue Devils
3. He encorages members to quit and go play football.
2. While conducting he lets out a loud YEEEEEHAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!! for no
apparent reason
And the number 1 sign you have a bad director is......
He wears a batman costume to practice!
25 Ways to Know if You've Been in Band too Long
1.You actually like marching band and would kill to do it all year long.
2. The drummers start making sense to you.
3. You have to stay in step with people around you while walking.
4. You direct the songs on the radio.
5. Playing "stare down" with the drum major is no fun anymore.
6. You wonder what life would be like if you weren't in band.
7. You roll step while you walk to class.
8. You practice your marching music on a daily basis.
9. You think Louie Louie is the best song ever written.
10. You major in music and usse your high school band director as a role model.
11. Those stupid "band humor" jokes are the funniest things you ever heard.
12. You pick out instruments from the music in cartoons.
13. You start screaming "Left! Left! Left!" to people that walk in front of you on the way to class.
14. Drummers start making sense to you.
15. You've dated everyone in the band and now wonder if you've ever gonna have another date.
16. You think that trumpeters have a right to be egotistical.
17. You don't think flutiest have a slight attitude problem.
18. You change from your instrument to the tuba.
19. You have perfect pitch.
20. The band director is always right.
21. You marry that special someone in your section.
22. You have kids and force them to be in music.
23. Drummers make lots of sense to you.
24. You start to call your director "Dad" because you see him more than your actual parents
25. You an relate to more that a fourth of these things!
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More pictures and marching band humor coming soon!