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| And now for your listening pleasure, our favoite Pep Band Song: HEY BABY! Just because we're not the jocks who get all the attention doesn't mean we don't know how to have any fun. We're the Band Geeks! And we all have a story or two to tell about life as an instrument player. No lie! Band people are the most sick minded, fun loving ans not to mention bizzare people you'll ever meet. And you'll never forget the stories they have to tell. Here's just a few from the memory books of CHS band students: |
| STORY # 8: Well Equipt Field movements for football half time shows are awlays difficult when you play a big insterament. During a secion of a song, the baton and flag twirlers have to run through the low brass section to get their props on the other side of the field, and the trombone players would pop up their horns so they wouldn't hit the girls running past them. Our director siad "Bones, you have the longest insteraments in the band. Don't pop up for the flags and batons, just let them go between you." It was about that time, that the "BURRACK BUILT" t-shirt thing started. |
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| STORY # 1: Band Camp Blowout And this one time, at band camp...our director was telling us about air flow through our instorments. And about five minutes later, he said "I don't know what I'm going to do with you sax players. Some of you are blowing, but the rest of you suck!" And it was so funny! |
| STORY # 2: Trom"bones" Our director likes to used shortened names for our instroments. For example, he calls the french horns "horns" and the saxaphones "saxes." But what is funny is that he calls the trombones "bones." When we marched in a televised parade last Thanksgiving in Chicago, I walked up to a friend of mine (who just happened to be a trombone player) and said "were you yankin' and blowin' your bone on TV?" and he responded, "no, I faked it." Not to mention the fact that bone players do it in 7 positions! |
| STORY # 3: The Magic Stick When I was a freshman, after Marching Band was over and we started Concert Band, our director gave us "Concert Band 101." He said to us, holding his baton in the air, "this is the magic stick, when I raise the magic stick, you will play. When I lower the magic stick, you will stop." The whole class laughed. And then, at the end of class, he said "I'm excited..." and we couldn't help but laugh! |
| STORY # 5: Junk While waiting for our director and a few other students to get on the bus on our band trip a few years ago, a couple of us took the microphone off the tour bus and inverviewed people in the parking lot of Six Flags: St. Louis. The whole point of the interviews was to get people to say the word "junk." Some people had a lot of junk, some wanted lots of junk, and one gave his junk to the drunk skunk in the trunk. On the way back to the hotel, we interviewed our director. When the interviewer asked about how much junk he had, the bus was in an uproar of laughter. (Note: this director was also a trombone player.) |
| STORY # 4: Whipped Cream While prepairing pieces for state contest, our director compaired a part of our music to being covered with whipped cream. He said "it starts out as a little bit of whipped cream, but then there's more, and more and pretty soon you're just covered with it! Come on everyone: be a blower! Be a player!" It only took a split second for us to think about what blowers and players do with whipped cream... |
| STORY # 6: Band Animals Ever wonder what a band would be like if they were a barnyard full of animals? We got bored one day, and came up with this: French Horns-Cows. They have big bells. Trombones-Bulls. They have long horns. Flutes-Chickens. The way they hold their arms up. Clarinets-Ducks Saxaphones-Horses. Sexy Stalions... Trumpets-Donkeys. Just annoying and controling sometimes. Euphonium/Baritone-Pigs Tuba-Ox. They pull the cart of the band. Flags-Dogs. In constant feud with the Cats. Batons-Cats. In constant feud with the dogs. Director/Drum Major-Farmer. They control it all! |
| STORY # 7: Kissing Skills When our drum major had to start playing his trumpet again, he complained about his lips being sore. Our director said "You should get a girlfriend. Trumpet players are good kissers, because of the size of their mouthpieces. Trombone and Tuba players are really sloppy kissers." So I started to think, what about french horn players? I mean, we have smaller mouthpieces than the trupmet players, so we have the best kissing skills. And the trombone and tuba players: maybe thay're not bad kissers, maybe they're just good at something else...I mean, they can use their tounging skills in other places... |
| The 2002 Seniors: Katie Quandt (Baton/Drums), Crystal Ewoldt (Baton/Flute), Dusty Heino (Trombone), Heather Hoffman (Baton/French Horn/Trumpet), Katie Bergolf (French Horn/Trumpet), Benn Bluml (Drums), Cassie Reiling (Sax), Alison Bergolf (Trumpet), Ruth Umthun (Flag/Oboe/Flute), Kristy Wigman (Flute), Chad Lawson (Drum Major/Trumpet/Euphonium), & Nathan Proctor (Sax/Piano). |
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