Marching Band!

I am in band on xylophone, the band's website is here. We are...um...not professional. It's so fun though.

Crut, this is seriously adorable.

^^

i totally forgot i was in a marching band. and it's not like it was a brief experience. i was in it all 4 years, section leader for the battery, practice every morning before school at 6:45am. but the second it was over, my brain completely wiped away the memory. and then a minute ago someone on facebook links to this:

And I could tell them
About all the beats
And the breathing
And the running
And the coverdowns
And how we did the same same thing every day.

I could say all the times
I was told
It wasn’t good enough
And how I had to keep going
Until it was
More than good
More than excellent

If they stayed long to listen I’d tell
About how I used to be afraid
When it got so tough
When I thought I was breaking
And how I had to learn
Shattered as I was
To put myself back together

And I’d tell about the time
I found my friend
Who’d struggled and cracked
Sitting with dust in their eyes
So close to giving in
How I sat down beside them
And gave them strength to go on
Because you don’t ever just let someone
Fall away

But I don’t say any of that
Because so many people don’t know
What it’s like
To be so alive
In all the dimensions of time

So I say
Drum corps taught me
To live life
Better
But by the time it is said

They have walked away

They have left our dangling conversation
To be surrounded by a life
That they will always understand
And will never truly live.

jesus fucking christ people

BAN MARCHING BAND

haha kill me

did you ever end up playing in marching band crut? i can't remember. i feel like roxy did too.

So I say
Drum corps taught me
To live life
Better
But by the time it is said

They have walked away

They have left our dangling conversation
To be surrounded by a life
That they will always understand
And will never truly live.

hahaha, love this part

yes for one semester

i really like the idea of someone walking away halfway through someone saying "Drum corps taught me to live life better"

"drum corps taught me- oh. why did you leave our dangling conversation? it is not as if we were having a conversation and then when you abruptly left, the conversation 'dangled'. rather, it is that the conversation itself was dangling, so you left it. and so i am left here, alive, in all the dimensions of time. i level up and boost my skill points in poetry"

lol, but competitive drum corps is different than hs marching band. kids get reaaaal intense about it.

a drum corps is the best place to find people who really like a regimented lifestyle and being bullied about but are too wimpy to join the military

also Rush fans

yes it is a documented fact that drum corps participated have the worst possible taste in music

they still listen to 311 because the drummer "marched corps, man".

some of them like "jazz" i.e. the worst maynard ferguson cheekfarts you ever heard

i like roxy's thread on this: in every high school marching band ever

over-achieving drum major
majorette with rep
the jazz band dudes - usually that kind of huge glasses, straight-A student nerd type of guy that is also somehow a stoner(?)
cache of (flautist) catholic girls with greasy hair who wear dolphin necklaces and want desperately to be wild but can not manage it

― (♥_♥) (roxymuzak), Monday, December 14, 2009 2:03 AM (3 years ago)

mainly i have negative memories of marching band because of how it ruined the summers after my sophomore and junior years in high school, when all my friends had cars and were driving around getting into rural teenage kind of trouble all the time and cataloging material for wistful nostalgic moments of the future. except i was never there because i was always on the fucking football field making sure that the battery was TIGHT before the big upcoming tri-county marching band competition that we either won or totally lost or who cares, it was meaningless. meanwhile everyone was driving around making out

haha kill me

― :C (crüt), Friday, February 1, 2013 3:41 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Awww <3

They don't really do this at schools in England - the only marching bands round here tend to be Salvation Army types. I did have an ex-marching band glockenspiel, though I preferred to think of it as a glockenspiel analogue to a keytar (i.e. a ROCKenspiel).

I'm thinking I dodged the marching band bullet. I was in marching band, but my hs' band director was two years away from retirement, so he didn't give a shit about us not giving a shit. We were totally sloppy in every respect. His replacement tried meekly to whip us into shape, but it didn't work. The idea of our band competing with other bands was beyond laughable.

I desperately wanted our band to be so much more serious and regimented and GOOD than it was, or than anyone else wanted it to be. MORE PRACTICES! MORE YELLING! MORE PAIN! Of course I had nothing else going on in those days except Jesus so I guess band looked exciting by comparison.

I fantasized of being in a corps but you had to a) pay a lot of money, b) be like phenomenally good, which I couldn't imagine being because I wasn't a prodigy or w/e, and c) live away from your family, which I couldn't imagine/wouldn't have been allowed to.

I know someone know who was in Phantom and is still all rah-rah about it, so now I kind of feel like I dodged that bullet.

* now

lol. "It wasn't like this on the set of Phantom, darling. Such amateurs!"

I desperately wanted our band to be so much more serious and regimented and GOOD than it was, or than anyone else wanted it to be. MORE PRACTICES! MORE YELLING! MORE PAIN! Of course I had nothing else going on in those days except Jesus so I guess band looked exciting by comparison.

Haha yeah the kids who were SUPER into band and were always first to stand at attention were the churchy kids. They cherished the opportunity to be obedient and chew out the deviant trombone players.

Phantom Regiment!

http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2011/213/8/3/phantom_regiment_2011___horns_by_ambyrion-d42dll4.jpg

Mostly I cherished the opportunity to be subsumed into a greater cause that would make me suffer for it.

Also, boys.

I don't think you need the "also" there.

Yeeeeah.

Mostly I cherished the opportunity to be subsumed into a greater cause that would make me suffer for it.

well put.