PVPGod Memorial Parade is the worst parade of the year so, I can see why Caleb and Libby were not having it since they were in 8th grade when this video was recorded 😂
Yes, kids in my day at Halloween wore Goblin Rubber Masks on Halloween. Don’t forget when you’re in uniform it’s called Uniformity. Now it’s those Face Diapers (Masks). Some want to prank, well you all got those masks now. I guess that is Karma from all those years of us pranking. Now our kids and grand kids are paying for our sins. LOL
My Band Director was always pissed about something and acted as if he was something special. He had the habit of parking his compact car in the student parking lot outside of the band room. He messed up one morning and did not secure the band room when he was at the teachers lounge before school one morning. When he returned his car was sitting in the middle of the drum section. Not learning from that he parked it in front of the doors to the gym the next week. He found it down the hall, wedged into a corner it could not roll out of. He never parked in that parking lot again. Thirty years later I had a fellow band mate ask me what I knew about those incidents. I told him a lot, since I was the one who recruited the folks to help me pull it off. Sometimes it does not pay to be the most disliked teacher on campus.
So the guy was basically clearly emotionally disturbed and as a prank you decided to fuck with his personal belongings? 😂What a bunch of snot nose assholes you must've been.
That’s what thought. Perhaps these kids got hit by the person behind them once or twice….. they were tired of it and trying to either send a message, protect themselves or both…..
@@Hambone571 My thought exactly. Of course, in my school's marching band, they had those awful tall fake-fur hats...heavy, hot, and itchy. It might have been a relief to out trumpet players to get those knocked off by a slide!
It's always the trombones am I right? I remember back in my high school days those crazy guys were _always_ pulling stunts like this... silly hats, wearing their uniforms back to front, setting fire to hobos. What a bunch of goofs!
As a fellow percussionist, we also goof off but also watch every other section, every instrument in band has a stereotype Percussionist, Watchers Tromboners, Jokers Flutes, rule followers Hotel, trivago
@@RandomRakkoon trumpets: purposely blast at the end of the song during rehearsal (I did that when I played trumpet in Middle School and the band director and my band mates were not amused lol)
@@shadowkille8r99 I can say this because I am/was a trombonist. Every second you spend in the trombone section, you lose a brain cell. Now imagine 4+ years of that. That’s why we are always the jokers.
Dude, there was a boy like that when I was in highschool.... Except he was in middle school with my little sister when I last saw him..... His parents were HUGE, so tall they must have been this kids parents. Like I almost believe in giants (I know some people "endlessly grow" and stuff, but omg) I wouldn't have noticed the kid if he wasn't 13-14 and taller than even the adults. Like jeez kid, mind your head (for doorways and whatnot) :^0
Trombone player in high school. We were practicing Master of the House from Les Miserables for a concert. The director wasn't getting the sound he wanted from our section, we were playing it "too clean". So he stopped rehearsal and gave us the directions "play it like you're drunk"... When it came time for the actual concert half our section was drunk... It's always the trombones.
True story: I was in the center of the front row of trombones in the Kentucky Derby Festival Parade. One of our sophomores was on the end of the front row. A fight broke out in one of the businesses along the route. Our sophomore trombone player, while in step, clocked the one guys in the fight right across the head with his trombone and didn’t break step. Oh, by the way, we won first place trophy in marching and music in that parade. Good times. Wilson Senior High School Marching Unit 1987.
Our director taught us during parade, you didn’t stop for anything unless it was from the drum major or him. I kicked more than one camera guy during my tenure.
@@jasondavis3244 i see a big era difference between each class . Im 1990 Southgate my bro is 1988 Southgate. Music snd up to potatoe chips what a difference in taste style
I loved HS marching band and performing at our football halftime shows. Trombone players were scarce and in high demand, so while all the Freshmen went into Freshman Band their first year, the trombone players went straight into Advanced Band. I played for two years and I was a Drum Major for two years. Our director was a really great man to work with/for. He allowed me to experiment with our performances and keep things fun. I regret not keeping in touch with him more after graduating.
I remember when I was a sophomore in high school band, during the final football game of the year, the seniors all got to have the third quarter off, and only the underclassmen would perform. During that time, as a senior prank, they all got together and somehow managed to put my band directors Porche inside the band hall. Needless to say, he was not amused. This was made all the more impressive considering our band hall was on the second floor. To this day, I still have no idea how they did it. Edit: Lol It's funny how everyone thinks I'm made this up. I wish I could say how they pulled it off, just to prove it, but of the few seniors I still keep in touch with, they absolutely REFUSE to reveal it. Like, even six years later, it's still some sacred secret that they will take to their graves. If it helps, they didn't manage to get it all the way into the band hall. They got it about halfway through the double doors before the game was over, and the car was tiny as hell. Also, I doubt it was a brand new car, but it was definitely a Porsche. It was freezing that night and I didn't stay long enough to see how they got it down, but I remember it being all over Facebook the next day.
In my HS in Southern California we had to march in 110 degree heat. Our uniforms came from the midwest and were black wool. We all poured sweat after only a few minutes. One of our trombonists ran a plastic tube around his body that was attached to a can of freon. While marching he would spray the freon every few minutes to keep himself cool. One day the tube came loose and he accidentally sprayed freon onto his body and he screamed when he burnt himself. 40 years later and I am still laughing.
It “wasted” all of 10 seconds for the director to notice and tell us to knock it off. And on many occasions our director encouraged our creativity with our warm up times. He had a wicked sense of humor. If you don’t find this funny, perhaps trombone is not the instrument for you. Try alto sax.
When you close your eyes for a moment, then open them and miss the message saying to watch the two in the front row and you don't know what happened until you restart the video, see the message, then see the two people with the hats and you're just like, "well... rip those two..."
You need to go to my old highschool. We had this on flute player who did her geometry homework in band, while she had out havendance on her stand, even though we were playing danzas cubanas
I and the other bass player really pissed off my Orchestra teacher in High School when we showed up for the concert wearing black and white, except we were wearing black shirts and white pants.
My band teacher, Grade 9-11, definitely had a sense of humour, verging on the cruel (not with us, luckily). He was in an orchestra in the very early years of TV (we're talking 1949-1950), and their conductor insisted on counting in 1-2-3-GO, no matter how many times they asked him not to. So on live TV, they did go - got up and left.
So 2 band members decide to put on hard hats during 'God Bless America' and chubboom takes issue with that? I see it as a subtle tribute to the hard working men and women of this country and totally support the kids and their intended gesture. The guys out of touch.
Thank you! I watched the whole thing and had to come to the comments to figure out for what reason the band director was not amused. I didn't even see the hard hats the first time around.
I suspect they put them on because they'd been whacked by the trombonists behind them in the past, and meant it as a roast of the people who don't know where their slides are.
So the thing with marching band is that u cant wear anything but your uniform anything else is going to be taken away also it's a parade it's when they need to wear only there uniform anything else is breaking dress code
As a retired band director, I can tell you that if those were MY students, I would have done EXACTLY the same thing. Plus, there would be a consequence for both afterward for openly and defiantly wearing something that was not regulation. In band, "personal accessories" are not allowed. Nope, no "out of touch" problem with this director. Great job, sir.
Any of us who suffered with Band directors with mental health issues and failed dreams of grandiosity, will understand. It is like dealing with a Mr Opus, complaining to themselves they could have written the next Beethoven Classic, but instead they are stuck teaching kids, who will either like music and band instruments or hate them because they associate them with their band directors.
When I was in highschool, my section used to wear weird hats while we did rehearsal. We were also in the low brass section. We wore dollar store floral hats normally or safari hats. One day we all got Krispy Kreme hats and wore them all day. Definitely made band a lot more fun. We were the bari sax/tuba section.
A musician without a rebellious nature is not really a musician.. Literally, hats off to the guys. (Although as a drummer, it should have been the entire drum line that did it) That’s the way we rolled back in the day. Low brass, gotta love them.
Our section marched my last adjudication parade with mirrored aviators. Our hats were low over our eyes anyway and by the time the director noticed we were on route and not stopping (his orders). I guess he assumed we would take them off before we started "like we were supposed to". (Like trombone players ever listened.)
As a trombonist from back in the 70's, I approve. Things like this is why composer/conductor Richard Strauss once said, "I never look at the brass. It only encourages them." (Although the statement has also been attributed to American composer Carl Ruggles.)
Some of the funniest moments from high school band involved the trombones, especially the first chair. He was so funny, that even the band director would laugh. The trombone player was a super nice guy. He would do this spontaneous fall back in his chair, with his feet kicking over the music stand, and his slide flying off. 😆👍🏻 I know you had to be there. Or wearing his dad’s big shoes, and white socks, for marching band, while wearing his uniform pants hiked way up. Ah, the good old days.
A senior prank at my school happened, a group of kids literally dismantled a car, part by part, and put it back together in the library, the fit an entire old ass Corolla through single door, built it in the library so no one could get it out. Funniest shit I’ve ever seen. Car stayed in there for almost a week before they figured out it had to be taken completely apart. Some one in the school had to of helped them lmao.
In my high school band we had two trombone players who played chess during rehearsals. During a long rest, or when the director was drilling other sections, they sometimes made several moves. About fifteen years later, when I was playing in a festival orchestra at a mountain retreat, the trombone players moved my car around behind the cottage we were staying in, and stacked up several cases of empty beer cans on it.
All throughout elementary, middle, and high school I had a stern, mean, and oftentimes abusive band director who would yell at us in private and then turn around and sing our praises in public. Well senior year BD gets a job at another school and new BD comes in. That year for our local town’s parade, we all wore Burger King crowns because BD made a deal with a trumpet and tuba that if *everyone* agreed to wear a crown, we could wear the crowns, and lo and behold everyone wore a crowd for the parade (casual parade, not in uniform, just a school polo and khakis). It was a literal 180 in terms of directors and he made my senior year really special
Our band had the most problems with the clarinets and flutes. One March to the Green after a victory during our drum cadence, one of each shouted One-Two! And then Three -Four! As the line up to the Green was just get a place in line, the band director said. “Oh,you two. Never stand next to each other again.” My sister and I giggled all the way to the car.
Honestly, i was in band, marching AND Symphony for YEARS, I failed to even notice what they did after watching this multiple times! But our band director had VERY strict rules that if you did ANYTHING unseemly in uniform, even horsing around, bonding after a performance while getting a burger, you could be demoted, or even kicked out! My husband had do miss ONE performance because everyone everyone else called in w with the flu at work, so they called HIM in on an emergency, while there, the band director called him AT WORK (yes he was first chair, but there were other trombones! He told him at work at the club, there were NO other chefs!) and demanded that he get there in 5 minutes or he was out! After putting in 6 years of his life! So he told him where to stuff his trombone! Now, years 5&6 our primary was a different director & he overturned it, & he actually had us DO cool stunts like this, so I guess it all comes down to who's got the baton!
katgamer Not at all, that’s my actual account name! It’s a long story how I got the name, but not based off of Curious George (which everybody assumes).
katgamer Once when I was little I would play always this racing video game, I think it was called Forza 2. For whatever reason I would only play with this car that had the words “Yellow Hat” emblazoned on the side (I think it was a brand or something). I would get really angry if I didn’t get to play with it because I was virtually obsessed with that car. I don’t know why, but I was. My dad made me an email account and used that name. I took it and used it for my Google account and have been using it ever since.
I am so grateful for my band director after hearing everyone’s stories. Mine comes off as a serious guy but sarcasm is his humor and he’s just a big goof ball like all of us.
One of our cadences is pop goes the weasel, and whenever we say pop goes the weasel we put our instruments up. My friend was so happy that we all did it because it was his idea, the saxophones were spinning around and having fun but me and my fellow bass clarinet and bari sax (I also play the bari sax) had to be in front of the tubas and melaohones and we missed out on all the fun. Saxophones are lit 🔥🔥🔥🚨🚨🚨🔥🚨🔥🚨🔥🚨🔥
Maybe my band was different, but our brass and woodwinds weren't the troublemakers, it was the percussion section ... usually the guys on the quads for some reason.
I found it amusing....You gotta enjoy life , and every once in a while , step outside the box , and possibly your comfort zone....Life is over way to fast....so don't let an opportunity to chuckle , pass you by , especially when nobody gets hurt.....
Yeah Im a trombone dude I can relate! 😆 I can also relate to band directors too though, cause while I think they can be a bit too serious, the band's image and behavior reflect the director and their image. There are exceptions, though. Some band directors are pretty chill and fun.
@@BigDogCountry I'm a baritone player and prefer it over the euphonium because we get better counter melodies. Euphonium was too much oom pah pah for my tastes.
I started playing trombone first year of middle school my band teacher Mr Hopkins was brilliant. Played some Led Zepp to us first day of class. So talented himself and taught us to love all different genres of music. Got me from making farting noises to 2nd chair of the state honour band in my time with him. I loved it. Got to high school and all of a sudden I am having to dress up in a stupid tight fitting green and white uniform and spend more time learning to march and swing my instrument around than play any actual music. I hated it. Lost interest and started skipping the class. One of my only regrets in life and the only thing I look back on and think what could of been. I know boo hoo poor me. Lol
@tiredofpc K Oh I do still enjoy music and can strum a bad tune on the guitar and people tell me I play mean harmonica. Borrowed a trombone a fair few years back and the embouchure was just not there. Trying to use the internet to learn to knock around on the drums. When I say it is a regret I mean the chance to have continued at that standard and perhaps have gone on and studied music at college/university. Thanks for your comment and all the best to you and yours.
We could always do dumb shit in rehearsals as long as it was all in good fun but holy shit if we did ANYTHING like this during an actual performance we would get torn into pieces
Oh, the memories of irritable middle aged men whose careers fizzled and so they took their frustrations out on teenagers--in this case, teenagers who have worked long and hard on their skills that actually make him look good and justify his salary. I suspect he also gave them one of those solemn "talks" afterward about how they let down the team, they let down themselves, etc.
For us it was always the trumpets myself included who would get in trouble for in the middle of it either start playing The imperial March or I would walk down the hallways playing reveille and then run like a sob
oh, it will, count on it--and if you go with it you will have the best time of your life. 40 years ago things happened which were handled internally in band that would today require a School Board meeting and suspensions. I feel for you fellow kiddos today with how craptacularly serious everything has become today. It's just NOT that big a deal.
As a tenor sax player through high school and now 30 years later still playing... It is actually the entire "low brass" section. Tenor sax, baritones, trombone, tubas were considered low brass in my school. Tenor sax played the exact same music as the treble clef baritones in marching band. We always had fun at the expense of band directors "plans". lol Horn flashes to adding in notes that he didn't write into the music because we liked it and it fit. I've had fun playing music all my life but I really miss marching band. Those were special times.
We trombones and baritones would always add "amen" notes to the end of every song in practice on the field, no matter the tempo--and our director was virulently anti smear; you had to play every note up and down the slide. Course in practice smears were everywhere, even when not called for; would we do it in a real performance? Oh hell no, we knew way better than that. We were just so bored because the brass (sax too) and drums knew our parts, but the woodwinds were lame at best except for a few standouts, so we had to do it over and over and over again. Low brass would swap horns--you had baritone players on Tuba, Tubistas on Trombone, and the bones would pick up the baritones. We were actually a very talented group in our low brass; everyone could play all three; I don't consider French Horn "low brass" (never could get the hang of that confounded thing --could be cuz I used standard fingering instead of that goofy french horn nonsense and you can get away with it more or less.). Our two comments are eerily similar; I always suspected it was like this everywhere, but you have confirmed it.
I don't know about this particular parade, or it's location, but the Rose Festival Parades in Portland, OR have a judging portion for the band participants (as in military level inspection and inquiry done by active duty or reservist volunteers). Being out of uniform (the hats, for example) would have cost them points if the same held true for this parade.
For the non band kids: Basically you're not supposed to screw around during parade or field shows because you can get penalties on your score. Believe it or not there are actually rules about uniformity and band competitions in general.
As a saxophonist, I thought that was hilarious!!! ALL trombonist are crazy! In 1979, Denny W. drove his Harley Davidson through the hallways of OUR school. Went into the gym and burned several donuts on the court. He was an awesome trombone player and he was the coolest guy in school. BTW. New court hardwood floor was already on site. The gym flooring was scheduled for replacement after graduation a week later.
@@6stringgunner511 though considered "midsized" (sorta, not really) by the standards of the day, that thing was overweight and huge. My band friends and I called it the "Luff Machene". We trolled down there one afternoon after school; and here comes the Asst. Principal walking the other way to leave for the day. We backed out of there just as quietly; then he saw us and just looked at us and shook his head. Last time we ever did that. You can't get away with that stuff today; it's all so serious business now. No repercussions whatsoever and nothing else was ever said; but our principal and VP/AP were used to crap from band students and never did anything unless you _really_ got out of hand. Different days, for sure.
@@BigDogCountry I agree. School teachers had a sense of humor The principal, V/P and A/P were laid-back. But I'll tell you what. Our student councilor was a total peg!!! Once I told him, " You don't have to be a jerk! It's NOT our fault you have to look UP to US!!! Instead of US looking UP to YOU!!!" (He was a midget....I mean, little person). Our school mascot was a fighting Pirate. The Flag line and cheerleaders made a parrot 🦜 costume for him to wear at the football games. He didn't find it funny and refused to wear it. One of the cheer leaders had her 6 year old brother wear it at the games!!!! The kid loved the attention and became a bit of good luck for the team.😂