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.
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
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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..."
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.
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.)
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.
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
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.)
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.
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
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 🔥🔥🔥🚨🚨🚨🔥🚨🔥🚨🔥🚨🔥
@@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 believed it before the "edit" because, how/why would you specifically make that kind of crazy up?! GREAT STUFF here! That memory is priceless! Thanks for sharing it...
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, 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.
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
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.
I've always been entertained by the different instrument personalities. Then you get weirdos like me that played more than one instrument and dang in choirs as well.
Morale of the story, there's a reason trombonists are in the back of the band/orchestra. Someone, somewhere thought it was a good idea to put them in the front of most every marching band parade formation. As a trombonist who has done FAR worse than this, I appreciate that someone :))
I don't think there's a single trombone on this planet who takes life seriously
Sleepybones got that straight, sarcasm is amazin
damn straight. life is so much more fun that way
Don
Don't take life so seriously, you aren't getting out of it alive anyway.
@@cliff8675 and if you do well i don't even know what you are
I was about to disagree, but then I realized you're right.
oh I thought the video was talking about the 2 unmotivated people holding the banner
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 😂
lol okay then
LOL YEA ME TOO
Same here, then I saw it lol
Wait it isn’t about them?
As a bass trombonist of 56 years I applaud their efforts to keep up with the legacy of pranks we pull.
Individual double trigger Holton here.
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
What did they do ? Serious question
@@patmoore7959 literally two kids got out of uniform to make some statement, whatever it was
@@patmoore7959 They weren't supposed to sway side to side or act "marching band like"...
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.
You mean you grabbed a bunch of guys, picked up the car, and moved it??
What a good laugh. Thanks
Amazing what you can accomplish with a good set of wheel dollies.
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.
@@Jay-st6sl if somebody can’t control themselves enough to be a good teacher they shouldn’t be a teacher. Get therapy first damn.
and then there’s my concert band, where one of the trumpets are trying to bribe the teacher into letting him sit in a cardboard box on stage.
Pleasant People @me
Hahaha me...
Pleasant People is it your 2nd year playing, cause your in concert band. I was in concert band but not anymore:)
Nayely Casales, uh, no, this wasnt during concert band. and not my second year either.
As a trumpet player, that sounds like something I would do
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!
McSuperfly101 Such Gootballs
McSuperfly101 “Setting fire to hobos”
One of these is not like the others
Ah yes we trombones frequently set hobos on fire, they seem to scream in joy so we think they get the joke.
Trombonist in my band keeps throwing things in the Baritone next to me(I play Bari Sax)
As a percussionist, I can confirm the trombones do things such as this. I see everything.
Why are all trombones stereotypically like this lmaoo?
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)
Oh in our band it was always percussion.
@@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.
I had a friend who was 6'9" and was in the band. When he graduated from high school they gave him his uniform because nobody was ever going to use it.
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
Haha that’s great
@@billybob042665 after 25 years I can see that.
Would have died if someonr the same height OR EVEN TALLER cane next year.
We have a uniform like that locked away in DEEEEP storage, will likely never be used again.
Hard hats. safety first especially when you have other trombonists swinging their brass behind you too
I got my first broken nose courtesy of a trombone, who turned a half beat early. I finished the halftime routine, though!
I'm a tromboner. I'm my band all the trombone's are in a group chat to plan mischievous events
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!
@@lisagulick4144 Our high school had those crazy tall fur hats, too, with the dang chin straps. Ugh! Class of '73 rules LOL
If it's pranks, it's the trombones. If it's spontaneous remixes to the music, it's the drumline. If it's intonation, it's the flutes.
Two piccolos playing in unison is a perfect third.
if it's literal screaming, it's trumpets
If you can't hear anyone, it's the trumpets
My grandfather's legacy continues - he was the trombone who wore the light up bow tie back in 1950.
For every good band player, there is a band director ready to take the wind out of your sails.
Only trombones man
Grovyle90 you know it
Band veteran here. Can confirm
I am a trumpet player and we are brain dead enough, but trombones, yess, totally demented.!
Brian Baumgarn MAH DOOD! MAH FELLOW TRUMPETEER!
666th like, and yes, only us trombones.
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.
did it work though
we did that same piece and our director literally told our trombonist the same thing
My fellow trombonists and I enjoyed playing scales subtly out of tune during rehearsal just to mess with the band director. That didn't last long.
We would do that on tune up/warm up before parade. Drove our director nuts but it was funny.
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.
@@mjedge808 you didn’t have to kill him like that!
@Derek Schumaker big money in band huh……BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Get a life
@@leoperd3487 yes he did
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.
Imma just steal this to piss off my friends. Thanks
Should have every other person do this on each row, what on optical that would be!
🤣🤣🤣🤣
It's to present confusing visual patterns to predators. This way band members are less likely to be picked off by football players or priests.
😂
Why is it always trombones
Aritelz Because they (and us other low instruments) have boring parts, so lots of time to think up crazy gags.
Because our parts are the simplest most of the time and we get bored
Because we Special
Airlegohero hehehe no
Aritelz it is and forever will be trombones
i was hoping for them to pull out a second hat
that would be amazing
Now THAT would have been epic!
😂😂
It would almost be worth the trouble they'd be in.
typical trombone thing to do
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.
@@ProtectLifeAlways ok karen
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.
Proof?
When the going gets tough, everyone leaves!
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.
Mello Wtf lol that amuses me too
stairs
Venorexia yeah let’s just drive a car up stair cause that works
@@legendindaturk8745 Everyone just lifts the car on carries it
idk if this is possible but maybe if they had enough time they could've disassembles the car and just re-assembled it inside of the band room.
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.
WOOT! Class of 87 represents!
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.
That was a great part of playing trombone! Front row in the parades!!
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.
You're preaching to the...... Band ; )
Performing a song about how great a country America is, while suppressing individuality, is the perfect statement about our country in 2021
As a tromboner*, I approve.
Pingas Meister *tromboner get it right 😤
Pingas Meister boner*
Tromboneist
Someone called me a tromboner once lmao
Luke Ma I approve of your picture.... How Nerdy are you? I myself played trombone and was percussionist. Gamer?
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.
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.
As a trombone specialist (6 years) and baritone player (sr. Year) i can say .....we gave our band director more hell than he deserved.
this is why were not allowed in the front
truth
Not true. "Seventy-six trombones lead the big parade".
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..."
i don't see any hats. like what even happened? the two people they were showing didn't have any hats on soo... can someone explain.
That’s exactly what happened to me
@@bassclefly F
This is incredible. You should do more play-by-play descriptions. It's real 'edge of your seat' stuff, man.
@@LeatherCladVegan I wrote that when I was fifteen, stinky. Hand over the metaphorical pancreas, ma'am. Cheese whizz
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.
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Trust me.
As a Junior year Bari sax, I can confirm that this is the attitude of the low winds. Just let us wear our hats!!!
@@IstasPumaNevada I like it 😂😂 very accurate
@@fendershredder1185 see you get it! It’s a great time isn’t it?
A lot a virgins aid they same thing too…..🤣😂
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.)
Our director quotes this all the time lmao
Reading the comments I now realize I am not reaching full potential as a trombone player
IlikeArt :P same lol. Can’t wait to do something stupid in band class. However, my band teacher makes us do push-ups when we get in trouble.
@@hunterbruyere5052 So? You can be the most swole tromboner in the class!
lmao same im first chair i should be setting the example
The dislikes came from football players and angry band directors.
No it's just a terrible video.
haha I play football this just reminded me to dislike
I play football... I don’t get this video and I don’t really care about the band. it’s a sport not a music competition
what's your point? ^
Dorks.
Glad to see that nothing has changed in 20 years years. Thank you trombones!
Make that 50 years. Our trombone players were nuts.
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.
It took the second time for me to notice what happened. Typical trombone players, me being a trombone player
Wolff me too. It took me a second time to notice
Took me a third time. XD
Wolff took me a seventh time after reading the comments 😂😂😂 but hey that's the best brass to have 😂
Ya I’m a trombone player too
I'm still confused
Everyone: *typical trombones*
Me: *._. But I'm a flute. I guess we never do anything funny anyway. Flutes are rule followers XD*
I love your profile pic
Ain't that the truth
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
Ok but flutes are like the supermodels of the marching band, you are the REASON trombone players act out, to impress you!
flutes for life
They sound and look great. The band director and parents should be proud.
The trombones in my band held an entire wedding in the middle of the section relay. It was amazing.
As a woodwind player who is learning trombone and always has been this weird, I finally feel at home.
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.)
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.
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.
I swear it's always the trombones isn't it xD
That I can confirm
As a trombone myself I will confirm this
not at my h.s. -- Bruce was eldest child of the h.s. vice principle, the other the only child of our town's few doctors.
Trombonists MUST always rebel. It is our nature!
And it is tradition! 😂
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
All our sons were in the band and we were band parents. I never met a group of kids more fun to travel with and be around.
Ahh, I love my section
Dopy mm
What is your section?
Saaaame
bTsThEbOmB lel Aye ARMY and Band kid
Same
I was expecting him to rip it off of their heads and/or chuck it across the street. That was stupid!
Jose Martinez what happened? I couldn't catch it. I didn't see what they were doing
Destiny Gudaitis the two guys in the front left corner were wearing construction hats on their heads. He just casually walked up and took them off.
Trust me he was pissed afterwards
My director would've taken them.off and made us run laps
Jose Martinez i dont think thise were contrustion hats
One time at band camp...🤣🤣🤣🤣....never gets old
As a trombonist I can attest we are class clowns, like 2/3 of us.
They are actually marching they aren’t just walking like Corp style bands look at Jackson state sonic boom of the south
They definitely not show/traditional style
MICHAEL SMITH corps*
That is not corps style. That Ohio state/ big 10 style.
Marcus Jones we all know this. I was saying he spelled corps wrong....
Corps style bands don't walk... lol
If I was the band director I would be proud!😂
As a former trombone player, reminds me of sneaking vodka into our spray bottles for the football games....
😂🤣😂🤣
As a fellow band geek...i approve, though it would have been better if it had been the whole section 😂😂
Agreed!!
Ah trombones...gotta love the best band instrument
Aw yeah! In da front too! I can relate to the dumb trombone shenanigans as a fellow trombone! 😆
That makes me proud! Been 35+ years since my school days, but good to see the trombones are still acting up!
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!
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.
Maybe he played the trombone back in the day!
Brenda Deatherage he played sax actually :)
THAT'S MY BAND DIRECTOR. GO MR. T. HE COULD HAVE DONE A LOT WORSE LET ME TELL YOU.
Avery Brock uh huh?
1 in a 100 chance that is true
Mr T .. Take away your yellow hats
DUDE MY PERCUSSION INSTRUCTOR IS NAMED MR T
Dan Mills what
Dan Mills yes i do. but what do you mean?
I love that they never missed a beat and kept on playing. 👍
Had I done this in my band, I'd STILL be running laps -- and I graduated in the '80s!
My jr. high concert band duct tapped the new percussionist to the ceiling. Pretty sure it was a drop-tile acoustic ceiling too.
The band director didn't like the kid wearing the yellow hat
I am the Yellow Hat!
Yellow Hat Did you make a google account just to make this comment?
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).
Yellow Hat Might i ask what this story is?
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.
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.
“Never look at the trombones, it only encourages them.” - Richard Strauss.
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.
Clairineters doing this? No. Trumpeters doing this? No. Drummers even?
Tromboners...it's always the tromboners doing shi like this. Sheesh
tromBONERS
i’ll let myself out
And THAT ONE FUCKING BARI SAX.
For me it was the saxes. I don't regret being part of the band clown posse lol
Please...bones are wannabe pranksters compared to the drum line.
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 sometimes ask the trombones to adopt my poor French horn self
I, the bari sax, just join in with the weirdness. best friends with one of the tromboners in band.
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.
Is this poetry?
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.
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 🔥🔥🔥🚨🚨🚨🔥🚨🔥🚨🔥🚨🔥
Hello bari sax brother
Wow 2 hats...amazing prank -.-
Seems a little like click bait to me. So they had hats on. Ok.
That’s just about as crazy as it gets in band. This is basically dropping an atomic bomb on a entire nation in their world.
That's the point. He was being rather picky
The band director is very picky, I’m in the band currently (you can probably tell by my pfp) and If something isn’t perfect, he isn’t happy😂
I rewatched it a couple times expecting one of the trombones to smack the director in the head lol
As a Baritone Horn (or euphonium, whatever you wanna call it) player, I am familiar with trombone players like this. And I flippin’ love it.
Baritone horn is bell front and a member of the trumpet family; Euphonium is bell up and a member of the tuba family. /end pedantry.
@@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.
The band director spotted it from a mile away. While the chaperone standing next to them didn't even notice.
Took me so long to realize what was wrong, I’m like “they sound great!”
I believed it before the "edit" because, how/why would you specifically make that kind of crazy up?! GREAT STUFF here! That memory is priceless! Thanks for sharing it...
that's a well directed, great sounding band
Why is it always the trombones?😂 Flutes for the win!😍👌
That could cost them points with the judges being out of uniform.
I remember my band days fondly. The kids were just having some fun.
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
Don’t even get me started on the awful horn angles
There’s 85 seconds I’ll never get back 🎉😂😮
that's some well played and well practiced music
Ah yes, the good old days! For us at North Hopkins, the whole low brass joined in on causing absolute chaos!
I was like "oooh, memorial day, probably the worst day for a prank..." and then I was like "Oh, yea that's harmless"
And what's perfect is that I'm now part of this and I see this possible happening again with my grade group
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.
Oh my gosh 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Love the professionalism in these youngens to completely press on. 🙌🙌🙌
Wtf was that marching?!? My band doesn’t do that. We just normally march and just hold our horns up and play and not move it around.
DHLCupSeries it’s called rocking
They aren’t Corp style marching
DHLCupSeries they trying to be usc marching band moving around like that lol
I actually like it... It makes the band look happier :)
DHLCupSeries Look up the Anthony Wayne Marching Generals. We move while we march, just not as sloppily and our high step marching is neater
Our bass drummer marched homecoming in a pink fuzzy bunny suit. He was warm at least.
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
Somebody should have given the band director a SNICKERS bar
Our drum line does shit like this, I find no one else really has the guts but drum line 😂
Candy And Sketch 😂😂😂 well in my school this shit happens in a way but different
Drumline & tromboners are kindred spirits fr
@@EmeraldLavigne I mean if they get rid of us no one else takes the place then you lose a major part of the band, and because it’s fun to do it…
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.
I've always been entertained by the different instrument personalities. Then you get weirdos like me that played more than one instrument and dang in choirs as well.
Morale of the story, there's a reason trombonists are in the back of the band/orchestra. Someone, somewhere thought it was a good idea to put them in the front of most every marching band parade formation. As a trombonist who has done FAR worse than this, I appreciate that someone :))
as a color guard member who's always right in front of the trombones, i live in constant fear for my life during parades.