Were you in a band in Highschool?

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

RandomKoolzip and I were - those were the days baby!

Fistful of Ugly

We did the best Danzig covers you ever heard!

[Allenberg]

1. Us.

That was our band name. Us. We'd mostly just hang out at jam sessions, but we did get to play for a bit at a friend's wedding. We did mostly jazzy stuff. I played brass (trombone, trumpet, and on those oddball nights, a concert baritone.)

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

2. I played the baritone horn in grade school

[papau]

11. I refuse to admit to that - or the trombone!

but I have the concert records and contest recordings (grade school and high school) because my mom purchased them and I inherited them, along with the newspaper clips of report and photo of when our band played the high school freshmen HOP (our only real gig)!

Yet another of my careers that the world was saved from by older mentors pointing out to me that I was not that good at that particular game!

[tigereye]

19. I ddin't know you played saxophone

guess I should have figured that out!

no band for me til college. But I did play the piano in high school.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

21. No THIS baritone horn

[tigereye]

22. oh cool!

is that similar to a sousaphone? All my best friends in high school played the French horn, oddly enough. All three of them.

scuuuuse me :)

[hfojvt]

35. no, it is like a trombone with keys

way cooler than a tuba, which seemed to be mostly plastic in order to make them portable.
Brass all the way, but saxophones are like honorary brass because they are so saxy.
Trumpet player here, but rememeber the line from "The Sultans of Swing" - "They don't give a tanj about any trumpet playing band, it ain't what they call rock and roll."

[bobbobbins]

3. I was in the band "Lord Bagel" in highschool

We only played once, at an audition for a talent show...we did foxy lady with a sit in drummer...it was then we realized our singer has stage fright...he got up on stage and just stood there, wouldn't sing.

[obreaslan]

4. I was in a few bands in High School.....

The most memorable was "The Naked Mole Rats".

We were awesome!

[sniffa]

5. yes - "the tru poets"

oh yeah!

[Modem Butterfly]

6. In college I was

We called ourselves A Dick Did. Until we found out there was already a band with that name. Then the band decided to call itself "Our Drummer's a Fat Chick" and the drummer left. Three guesses what instrument I played.

[Cyndee_Lou_Who]

7. No, but my boyfriend was, so I was a "Band-Aid".

They were punk rockers... Maladjusted Youth. They did Suicidal Tendencies, Corrosion of Conformity, etc. Good times....

[RetroLounge]

25. I'm picturing you it as a Sid and Nancy thing

LOL!

:hi:

RL

[Cyndee_Lou_Who]

27. MUCH less destructive, thankfully!

:hi:

[Murphys_Unlawful]

33. I'm sure you had your moments though.

:)

[Cyndee_Lou_Who]

36. Well.. didn't/don't we all?

:evilgrin:

On edit: WELCOME to DU! :hi:

[Murphys_Unlawful]

38. Thank you!

So far I've been enjoying the time.

[Murphys_Unlawful]

40. So where can you get a cup of joe in this place?

[Tafiti]

29. COC: "Help me Jesus...

...help me clean my wounds. He said I cannot heal that kind!"

I used to love that song, forgot all about it. Thanks for the reminder.

[arcane1]

8. a few

all with silly names:

Lightning
Excyter
Tel Aviv
Malicious Intent

it's too early to be blushing

:headbang:

[Squeech]

9. Once upon a time

Several bands, actually, involving the same bunch of people in different configurations, depending who could afford what gear, and who was pissed off at who else, etc.

I became a bassist because we had a surplus of guitarists, and I wanted to play badly enough to swallow the four-string demotion. It worked out okay, I'm (generally) happy to identify as a bass player nowadays, and it would actually take major effort to reinvigorate my guitar chops enough to play live.

We tried mainly to write our own stuff, but (especially early on) we covered a lot of the California psychedelic folk-rock bands: Byrds, Jefferson Airplane, Love, Country Joe & the Fish, and did I mention the Byrds? (We tried to play *all* of Younger than Yesterday.) And we did the lamest version imaginable of "Help I'm a Rock."

Please note that this was about 35 years ago, and I don't have any documentation of any of this stuff. The good news is, I tracked down the drummer from the year *after* high school, and he not only had tapes of some of our originals (archived with the old band photos etc.), he'd even burned two tapes onto CD! So now I can embarrass myself in digital!

[DeepGreen]

10. Yep, HS, College, after College

Now I am doing my own thing, when I have the time.
:)

[WMliberal]

12. ohhhhhhhhhhhhh boy don't get me started!!!

Hornline captain right here.

[Midlodemocrat]

13. Yup, high school, college and beyond

used to play in bars in New Haven. Name of the band Matrix. Long before the movie. I was the lead singer.

[madinmaryland]

16. I remember hearing of you band on WPLR in new haven.

Did you ever play in Danbury at Tuxedos? I lived in CT for 20 years before moving to MD earlier this year.

[Midlodemocrat]

26. I think we did, but it was a long time ago. at least 20 years.

[Beware the Beast Man]

14. I was in marching band.

Yes, I was in a unit called Joke's on You that never made it out of the garage. I sang. I was fired. :cry:

[UrbScotty]

15. Baritone and trumpet!

YEARGH!

[TNDemo]

20. Me too!

And french horn. Ah, remembering "accidentally" dropping your music below the stands and having boyfriend help find it...

[johnnie]

17. Yes

It was called Stonehenge and then Spinal Tap came along and made us look stupid..lol These are the same guys I play with today although we have taken extended periods from each other in the last 20 years.
I was also in a band called "Johnnie and the Commodes". We played some parties and crap like that.
There were others, but only for short periods of time.

[Kire]

18. I was in a death metal band, among others.

I just wrote a long post about it, but by sheer stupidity, I closed the window without submitting it. It was great, and it took a lot of searching my memories to write. But, I'll try again, but I'll cut right to the band that had the most impact.

I played bass for a band called "Carcass Craver". We were a death metal band. Our singer could do the best death metal growl out of anyone I knew. He sounded a lot like the guy from "Suffocation", which I must tell you is one of the cooler sounding death metal voices. During one song, kind of a joke, called "Bunny Butchers", we all switched instruments and the drummer and I took turns singing. I chose a really high pitched, scream modeled after Mick Harris, the former drummer to Napalm Death and, at the time, he was playing with avant-garde saxophonist John Zorn in a band called Painkiller. Zorn sometimes did a high pitch screaming voice himself. Check out his label, http://www.tzadik.com/.

Anyway, I also wrote lyrics to use in my high pitched scream of a voice. Here goes:

Kill the Bunnies
Bunnies Must Die
Dying Bunnies
I Love Their Cry

Kill the Bunnies
Bunnies Must Die
Crying Bunnies
Die Die Die

(This was later published as a poem in a literary magazine in my college, and is still passed around the English Club today)

Anyway, we reunited after a year because we got the chance to open for Cannibal Corpse. I'd post their lyrics, but I would get tombstoned in a minute. Anyway, we were big fans and they were a pretty big band among death metal people. We actually changed our name to "Defecated Entrails", but I could not tell my Mom that was our name, so I forced them to change it back to Carcass Craver (wuss, I know). This pissed off the club owner, who already made a sign and did some promotion in whatever the Aquarian used to be called.

But, our singer had gotten arrested a few weeks earlier because he was in the same car as a gun (a starter pistol, actually) and he wasn't going to his Community Service because he didn't have a ride (and where we live, you need a ride to get anywhere), so there was a warrant out for him, and the police knew about our show and they were going to arrest him before he got the chance to perform. So, what does he do? He writes a suicide note, takes all of the money from the tickets we sold, and becomes a fugitive, running to Florida with the guy whose car and gun it was when he got arrested, and whom was facing similar charges.

So, I go to the club owner the day of the show and tell him what happened, and I sign over my paycheck from Burger King, which luckily covered it, and as we were finished, the guys from Cannibal Corpse come in the office and tell me that they need some supplies, like a guitar strap and such, but they don't know where to go. I do know where to go, but it is difficult to just give directions, so I offer to go with them. And, I'm off on an adventure with these guys. Prince was in my cassette player, and they didn't like that, so they picked out some Pantera, and they were going on and on about "Diamond (as he was known at the time) Darrell" playing. When we got to the store, they played some Pantera songs and bought a new guitar, even.

Anyway, that's my story. Thanks for bringing back the memories.

PS Now that I think about it, my previous band (with some of the same members of Carcass Craver), played "Mother" by Danzig. I bet we would have gotten along well with "Fistful of Ugly"

[RetroLounge]

23. Oh yeah, it started in High School in the 70's in Chicago

Best friend was a drummer, I played guitar. We had a series of bands and attempted bands. Lots of garage bands, with no names. Then we got better. We played clubs and some larger shows in a few bands. Once opened for a local band in front of 1200 people. Scared the crap out of us. He and I went separate ways, band-wise, and I moved on from covers to originals, from 50's and 60's to metal to punk to new wave to just plain old rock & roll.

Some (local) Bands I was in or played with:

Heretic
Icy Ewe
All Fall Down
The Tearaways
Fear of Flowers
Woolton Parrish

Sigh, at least I still have my Les Paul...

RL

[Left Is Write]

24. No, I was a groupie.

[Murphys_Unlawful]

28. I wish I was....

It would have been a punk band.

[johnnie]

30. Welcome to DU

:hi:

[Murphys_Unlawful]

32. Thank you!

You are too kind.

[Tafiti]

31. Yeah, but we never really stuck with a name.

So many of us played instruments that we would put together bands before the talent show and come up with a name du jour.

1st place 2 years in row: junior year - Pearl Jam's "Alive"; senior year - Rage's "Bombtrack". Hell yeah. The night before the talent show junior year, 3 other dudes approached me for a "2nd" band. Put together STP's "Unglued" in about 45 minutes...boom, second place. Haha!

[Zuni]

34. Yes, I played in a blues/soul band for years

We were hot in the Baltimore area. Played tons of shows and cut several CDs.
I played bass, and wrote alot of material. Most of our repetoire was original

We were called "Malt Liquor"

[pres2032]

37. yup, for 6 glorious years!!!

joined the HS band in 7th grade as a trumpeter and loved every minute of the 6 years i was a part of it!

[terrya]

39. No. High School, for me, was something to endure.

Nothing more than that.

[Karenina]

41. All-City H.S. Band...

Concert band in NYC. Pieces written with that orchestration in mind are a different animal. Persichetti comes to mind. It was HUGE (100+) and VERY COOL, the best players from the 5 boroughs AND LOUD.

[mitchum]

42. Roger Mudd and the Witches...

We did Beefheart and Bowie covers

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

43. No RUN DMC?

:)

[mitchum]

45. No...Whodini!

:)

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

47. And I pegged you for a Grandmaster Flash and the Furious 5 cat!

Just goes to show - ya never know!

[Ramsey]

44. Glee Club

My school was too small to have a band, but I was in the Glee Club! That's just as geeky, right?

[Magrittes Pipe]

46. The Obscure

Named after the Hardy novel, natch. We really sucked.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

48. there's a shocker!

:eyes: