Marching band members past and present - roll call

[cmd]

The local high school band is in the stadium running through their opening show. I'm lucky enough to live very close to the stadium and love the evening serenades. If you were/are a marching band member tell us what you played.

cmd - trumpet in a really bad high school band

[AwakeAtLast]

1. Flute and cymbals in a really bad HS band

:hi:

[mzteris]

2. trumpet n/t

[TheMightyFavog]

3. Alto Sax

We dubbed our one parade that we marched in every year the "hell march".

[Lars39]

4. Clarinet

Fifth thru freshman in college.

[William769]

5. Marching Band member here.

Alto Saxaphone.

[SummerGrace]

6. flute & trombone

Flute in hs; trombone -charter member of college marching band 1975 & 76.

[Burma Jones]

7. Trumpet - but I also played Football, so I only marched in parades

[supernova]

8. Flute

I did the games and the xmas parade. Plus the pep band and the wind ensemble.

Hey, it was fun. B-)

[xultar]

9. Flute

[VelmaD]

10. concuss....err...percussionist here

;)

Yeah yeah yeah...go ahead...hit me with the drummer jokes.

[xmas74]

14. I always hung out w/ the drum line.

My best dates in high school were w/ drummers.
And the drummer girls-we used to share black eyeliner and cigarettes.

[no_hypocrisy]

11. Clarinet -- with braces no less! Ouch!

God, we had ugly uniforms with spats.

[progmom]

12. color guard, then flute, then saxophone

:)

[xmas74]

13. Trumpet in marching band.

All state-"1" ratings for the band. I played trumpet in jazz band too and I was all state w/ a "1" rating for solo, duet and trio.

[oneighty]

15. Trombone

In the high school band in my home town and one fall season in Sheffield Alabama where football was king.

I left in the eleventh year (1951) to join the navy. The second day or so in boot camp we were asked if "Anybody play a musical instrument?" Several of us wound up in the marching band. At one time there were sixteen trombones.

Fun. Stars and Stripes Forever-over and over and over, like forever man!

180

[FuzzySlippers]

16. Flute. I didn't want to be in the freaking marching band

but you had to participate if you wanted to be in the concert band, which was the only thing available at my high school (no orchestra). Gawds, I hated marching band.

[Karenina]

41. Same rule at my school...

All us double reeders got Glockenspiels. UGH! I got out of it by making the cheerleading squad! :woohoo::woohoo::woohoo:

[nykiera]

17. Trumpet

in a really bad, really small marching band.

[Zuni]

18. dork alert

:D

[progmom]

34. oh - are you a self-confessed dork?

:hi:

[Zuni]

39. I am proud to say I was never in school band

those kids were creepy

[progmom]

40. ....

:grr:

[Zuni]

43. not you, of course

those other kids...:D

[ulysses]

19. oh yes - we rocked.

Our football team sucked rocks when I was in high school - three wins in thirty games - but we marched 120+ during halftime. I played trumpet - band prez senior year.

[ajacobson]

20. Tenor Sax

marched in summer competitions in Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan and Indiana. 1982, I think (what, I should remember that far back?).

Heraldry Guard of Crystal Lake, Ill.

[Richardo]

21. Trumpet. In my soph year our HS band had 16 members. A 4X4 square.

:eyes:

We filled it out to about 70 by the time I was a senior.

[peekaloo]

22. percussionist

We actually did a 'Tubular Bells' tribute. I crap you negative.

[nickgutierrez]

23. Percussionist here

Cymbals/"Auxillary" my first year, 2nd Bass Drum the next two, and Snare Drum my Senior year. My back reminds me of it daily.

[Obamarama]

24. Trombone in HS Marching Band; Mellophone in The Cavaliers D&B Corps

Was also HS drum major for two years for my corps-style HS marching band.

[grannylib]

25. Played clarinet but Concert band; was Rifle Sergeant for drill team

that marched in front of band (twirled rifles and flags and all that jazz)
it was OK but we had the most HIDEOUS uniforms. loved twirling though.
even without hallucinogens. lol

[lildreamer316]

26. Flaggot here.

No; really; that was our nickname.
Also 1 year DCI baby!!!!!!!

[fortyfeetunder]

27. air guitar

GOTCHA!
actually clarinets, the ones that were carryable and playable, alto, bass or soprano.

Had one helluva life in the HS marching band, the best years of my teenage life.

Let me know where is a geezer marching band, and I am in!

[cleofus1]

28. clarinet

1st clarinet in my senior year...we played stars and stripes forever!!

[Kire]

29. what do you call the french horn sized trumpet?

I dated a girl who played one of those

[cleofus1]

30. bass

base....naw thats the teeny weenie tuba...yeah...bass trumpet...

[Kickin_Donkey]

31. Third trumpet ...

Freshman year in high school. Totally got into it ... you all know the feeling.

Then the cool band teacher left and another replaced. I quit a couple of weeks into my sophomore year ... followed by half the band over the next couple of months.

It was cool while I did it, but I'm glad I didn't turn out to be a band geek.

[msu2ba]

32. Clarinet during concert season....

tuba during marching season in HS.

Marched tuba with the Spartan Marching Band at Michigan State.

I teach HS band. We have bandcamp this week.

[cmd]

33. I knew there had to be a band director among us.

That was my son-in-laws original calling. Now he is a firefighter and plays bagpipes........and bassoon, accordian, tin whistle, piano, and any thing else that appears on e-bay. I dearly love him.

Have a great season.

[Modem Butterfly]

35. Clarinet, first chair

And I played bass in Jazz and pep band. I also went to band camp...

[bertha katzenengel]

36. Mrs. Venation -- Alto Sax. I think her fave was "Baby Elephant Walk."

:loveya:

(She doesn't come to DU much anymore.)

[Midlodemocrat]

37. snare drum, here.

and loved every blooming minute of it.

[indigo32]

38. French Horn here

pretty good at the instrument, and didn't mind marching as a unit, but I was so bad at doing formations on the football field during half time, that I put the guy who choreagraphed them into fits. We were stuck though, I couldn't get an A in my band class if I didn't participate.

[Mizmoon]

42. FRENCH horn! Why do you hate 'Murika?

:P

[Beware the Beast Man]

44. low Brass- baritone and tuba.

Yes- I was the stereotypical fat guy with the tuba, but the other tuba players balanced that out by being rather fit.

[1gobluedem]

45. Flute and piccolo in a really good marching band

We had a total school population of about 600 and over 200 were in the marching and concert bands.

Now the high school is something like 1500 total and they have less than 100 in the band -- and it's lousy.

[LanternWaste]

46. Drum Major, Class of '84.

Drum Major, Class of '84.

I was told often that I looked like Luke Sywalker when I had that get up on. :)

(Bass Clarinet during my underclassman days...)