Free For All Friday
For the last two weeks T and I have been lamenting to each other that it feels like the wrong day. "Is today Thursday?" "No, it's Wednesday. But it feels like Thursday."
In celebration of that fact I am posting Fridays post today. Who doesn't need a little Friday on a Thursday? By the time Friday rolls around we'll be so glad that we won't need a Free For All Friday.
Check out this amazing video by OK GO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJKythlXAIY
and then come back and let us know in the comments about your favorite memory of marching band.
Were you in the band?
Did you see a marching band lift a VW Rabbit and carry it across a a parking lot?
Did you make out with a drum major under the bleachers?
Personally, I've only done one of those three things.
7 comments:
hah i love OK GO's videos. I especially love videos with marching bands in them. ie: the one marching band who did a ben folds song, made me wish my band director had us do that.
oh ya i was in band, we did such trilling songs as , 'star trek, the next generation', 'batman returns' and some jewish hava negila medly.
I was awesome because I only played the flute for my freshman year, after that i was in the DRUM LINE! AW yeah! I played the rocking symbols and have the knuckel scars to prove it! I even have pictures of me wearing fake wayfarers and rolled jeans. tewtally 90s man.
I've always loved the marching band and rock and roll crossovers.
When I was in college they did a Chicago medley though, and that was....rough.
Ha! I love that video!
I have no good memories of marching band, unfortunately. I was in band in junior high, and the band director was this young thing who maybe, kind of, if-you're-really-stretching resembled Scott Baio having a bad hair day, and his ego was stupid high. I can only believe that since I'm so SMRT (ha!) I saw through his facade and refused to kiss his ass the way all the other tweens were doing. He hated me. Literally. I didn't fawn over him and wet my pants in the hall just to tell him 'hi' the way my friends did. The unfortunate part was that I played flute, so I was on the front row and received the brunt of a few of his temper tantrums, including one memorable day when he jerked my paperback book out of my hand and threw it against the piano because I was reading quietly when he chose to work with the trumpet section the majority of the band period. Apparently, all fawning eyes must have been on him non-stop, even when he was acting like an asshole. What a douchebag he was. Probably still is. I can only guess he got his rocks off to the HMS annual in his free time. I'd love to punch him in the junk if I ever saw him. So, yeah. There's that.
Hehe, I'm guessing this comment section wasn't meant for me to word-vomit my pent up anger at that guy.
ANYWAY... (serenity now!) My favorite memory of marching band, was when we did the theme song to 90210. I thought it was mostly lame, but secretly a little cool, because I loved that show. Donna Martin Graduates! I can still remember the fingerings for my flute for that song.
Teresa - do you still have your flute? I'm thinking about buying one and picking up the hobby of playing it again.
i had a band director in grade school that i HATED. all he ever did was yell at us. and one time he took my cleaning rod (which is solid silver) and banged it against my music stand, thereby denting the hell out of it.
andrea: yup i still have it. we could do a jethro tull type jam session :)
I wasn't in marching band but I was in elementary and high school band. First chair clarinet of the second row, baby!
All I remember is playing the bass part to Somewhere Over the Rainbow and the Eye of the Tiger. I never got the good parts.
Since I love music but I wasn't very good I decided to do the music world a favor and become an avid listener instead.
You're welcome.
They are so creative with their videos. I love this!
We moved around too much when I was in school for me to join band or any other extracurricular activities. I hated not being a part of something like I saw all the kids in band being.
I had season tickets to see TX A&M one year, and watching their corp of cadets march during halftime is one of the coolest things on the planet. And, I've always loved listening to the drum section during a football game. SO cool!
I was not in band in high school. I joined band in 6th grade because you had a choice: band or choir. And I couldn't sing. I played the flute through 8th grade and I was TERRIBLE.
Funny that I have no musical talent to speak of and now I work in the music department!
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