If you all look the conductor held up "40" at the beginning. If you look at the lower right corner band members were opened up to "37" The look on his face when he realized what the band did..priceless!!!
@@Dean_Machina American here, I've only ever heard them called conductors by people that don't know any better like little children and parent's who are forced to go to their child's performance. This is coming from over 8 years of experience in band.
@@lunchbox1553 At the college level, he doesn't make that decision. The production director, or whatever the title is, tells the director when to start and cut off through the headset he's wearing. The production director has a very similar job to a stage manager calling a play/musical in a college game of this scale. When and how much the band gets to play is predetermined and they tell the director to go. Specifics may vary depending on where you are, but the general way it all works stays the same.
I appreciate how together the band was, not only with the prank, but also actually following the director when he gave a signal to jump to a coda, a rehearsal mark, or wherever it was for that arrangement of 25 or 6 to 4.
So for any who don’t completely understand this prank, the song is 25 or 6 to 4, which is by the band Chicago. The university this band is from is Loyola University Chicago (LUC) so they decided to play one of Chicago, the band, most popular songs
@@6stringgunner511 yes!!!!! Oh man! The good ol days! 1 Friday night blizzard, next Friday a heat wave and bonfires in the parking lot! We used to throw hot hand warmers in the tuba and huddle around it! 🤣
One day my band director was waving his "wand" around for the song that we were playing and when we were going to hit a high note he swung his "wand" up and it his his papers that were on the podium and they went flying and hit a girl in the face😂😂
One time my band director went to go point at this guy with his baton and ended up snapping it in half and when we were doing our sight reading for a competition our assistant drum major was conducting with a concert baton and ended up throwing it at me when she counted four lol
When I had band practice for concert band one of directors was conducting like normal, Flutes.. He started waving the wand and let go and it flew into the flute section😂 He kept going and so one of the flute players grabbed it, As he kept going she started waving it until he took it away but the site was hilarious!
Yeah, ours would have made us stop and then made a scene so everyone in the audience would wonder 'What the hell is his problem?'. At one of our concerts he made us restart a song because somebody messed up.
'Chicago Transit Authority' is Classic. My first Concert in 1974. From Russia With Love 25 or 6 to 4 - Chicago (Leonid & Friends сover) ua-cam.com/video/9_torOTK5qc/v-deo.html
I assume this is their band's meme song, ours is Holiday (#26 in our book) We have a shirt that says "things only band kids understand," and for one of them it's legit just "26"
I recognize that guy.... Mr Lowe! He was assistant band director for us at Lake Zurich High School back in 1999. Is this at Loyola University in Rogers Park?
Our band pranks were taking the practice field tower down and putting into the band directors front yard all setup. Then to top it all off we would hike the back end of his car onto the sidewalk curb were he parked at the entrance to the school. That was a 8 inch rise and for a small car that already sat low to the ground it did cause a bit of damage to the rocker panels. We did stop doing the car prank after we learned about the damage and a couple of the auto body students made the repairs.
Am I the only band kid here who has no idea what this song is? I can only assume the prank was playing a different song than what he called for but I've seen that 100 times
This song is called "25 or 6 to 4" by Chicago. The framework of this song is just "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You" by Led Zeppelin, which was released 1 year earlier. The LZ song is absolutely ridiculous it is so good.
We did this in church. We all opened to different pages to play then gradually one at a time get “frustrated” by the cacaphony, throw our books in the air, stomp off stage until the only guy left was the tuba player who had been doing the A&W theme song and left with the Imperial March. Shocked music pastor couldn’t get it together again to lead the congregation. We would also play random Christmas music slowly and romantically during the preludes to see if anyone caught on.
My marching band did this at one of our football games this season, we spent about five minutes just trying to plan and get everyone onboard without the director noticing. I think she cut us off on the third measure, but the look on her face was worth it
Man it's a good thing a lot of people don't pay too much attention to the lyrics, or this song probably would have been forbidden. But then again, a lot of rap lyrics get ignored. I don't remember which band member it was, but one night at a party someone asked him what time it was. He looked at his watch and said, "Twenty-five or six to four". I don't know if that spawned the song or gave it a title and a catch phrase. Either way, its a good song. Chicago sure knew how to mix in some brass with some rock and roll.
I love how he went “[confusion]...you guys.....eh this works, not bad.” And just went along with it lol
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Every "Band Prank" video reminds me of that vine where two nerds write "=16" next to the "4x4" on a car
Lol. I miss vine...
Jack and jack
I was just thinking about that recently lmao
"We totally pranked the band teacher by just playing a different song"
Nice pic
Playing song 37 instead of 40.
I see band musicians know how to have fun
NEEEEEEEERRRRRRDDDDDSSSSSSSS
@@Pedakin
Fuck u
@@CT-5736-Bladez it’s true tho
But you can see the 37
Laughs in captain holt
If you all look the conductor held up "40" at the beginning. If you look at the lower right corner band members were opened up to "37" The look on his face when he realized what the band did..priceless!!!
In American colleges / universities they’re called band directors not conductors
A lot of times pep band books have two songs to a page, so #40 would be on the bottom right of that book.
@@faiththomas1749 no they're not. I'm an American we call them a conductor.
@@faiththomas1749 American here. Ever comp/game I’ve been to, we call them conductors. Both our band and the other teams band
@@Dean_Machina American here, I've only ever heard them called conductors by people that don't know any better like little children and parent's who are forced to go to their child's performance. This is coming from over 8 years of experience in band.
So we can agree the director lost his soul a long time ago, right? I mean look at his face
He was trying sooooo hard NOT to look at everyone.
Yeah he looked dead
Nah! He was pretty pissed that they switched songs behind his back, which anyone would be!
@@bataton7733 No he was watching the game, you can't play while the game is in play. He needs to know when to cut off the band.
@@lunchbox1553 At the college level, he doesn't make that decision. The production director, or whatever the title is, tells the director when to start and cut off through the headset he's wearing. The production director has a very similar job to a stage manager calling a play/musical in a college game of this scale. When and how much the band gets to play is predetermined and they tell the director to go. Specifics may vary depending on where you are, but the general way it all works stays the same.
I appreciate how together the band was, not only with the prank, but also actually following the director when he gave a signal to jump to a coda, a rehearsal mark, or wherever it was for that arrangement of 25 or 6 to 4.
Our bands was "Hang On, Sloopy" at the football games, and "Hogan's Heroes" at Basketball.
The teacher keeps saying "BOI" to the band
🅱️🅾️ℹ?
🅱️⭕️👀
👋🏼🅱️🅾️ℹ️
🅱️🅾️ℹ️⁉️ ℹ️F YOUR DONT
👋🏻🅱️🅾️ℹ️
25 or 6 to 4, man i loved playing this song
alexarmy3 I WAS LOOKING FOR A COMMENT SAYING THE SONG!!! THANK YOU
Same
I hated this song ngl. Glad we got rid of it a while back.
ITS SO GOOD, AND ITS MOSTLY BRASS
Lol. I hated playing it!
He was shocked at first but then he's like alright this works. I can tell he's one proud band teacher.
Only band kids will understand why this is a prank
Dat Cash but I don't and I'm in band😂
Leeanna Boss me 2
Dat Cash haha no kidding
Leeanna Boss don't feel bad, I not in a band, and I don't get it either.
The band director was telling them to get out number 40 but in the bottom right hand corner it shows that they had number 37
So for any who don’t completely understand this prank, the song is 25 or 6 to 4, which is by the band Chicago. The university this band is from is Loyola University Chicago (LUC) so they decided to play one of Chicago, the band, most popular songs
Guess again!
Nope. The prank is that the director called for one song and the band played another.
I appreciate your confidence, but no. He directed them to play 40 and they played 37.
@@HildebrandJohnson this could be why they chose 37 instead of any other song though
@@qwertyuiop8795He should have figured that out ahead of time and planned it.
Still playing the same tunes we played in the 70s. Good music never dies.😋
The memories....I can almost smell the popcorn and taste my old, moldy sax reed!
Is that what your wife calls it? ;)
Good memories
Friday night football games in sub-zero blizzards.
Man, I miss the old days!
Graduate of 1982!
Sax player here, too!
@@6stringgunner511 yes!!!!! Oh man! The good ol days! 1 Friday night blizzard, next Friday a heat wave and bonfires in the parking lot! We used to throw hot hand warmers in the tuba and huddle around it! 🤣
@@Imrockintheboat
That's TOO funny!!!
LMBO 😂🤣😅😂!
Have a great week and be safe out there.
0:25 I thought the slide was gonna hit the girl lol
One day my band director was waving his "wand" around for the song that we were playing and when we were going to hit a high note he swung his "wand" up and it his his papers that were on the podium and they went flying and hit a girl in the face😂😂
Swift Modz happens all the time don't worry
One time my band director went to go point at this guy with his baton and ended up snapping it in half and when we were doing our sight reading for a competition our assistant drum major was conducting with a concert baton and ended up throwing it at me when she counted four lol
Swift Nation its called a baton
One time my band director was pointing at our flute section and he accidentally let go of his baton and it hit the girl in the face
When I had band practice for concert band one of directors was conducting like normal, Flutes.. He started waving the wand and let go and it flew into the flute section😂 He kept going and so one of the flute players grabbed it, As he kept going she started waving it until he took it away but the site was hilarious!
“He was like wait a second, well guess i dont have a have a choice”
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That was very cool! And it sounded good! Glad the band leader didn’t freak out! He was cool with it!
Yeah, ours would have made us stop and then made a scene so everyone in the audience would wonder 'What the hell is his problem?'.
At one of our concerts he made us restart a song because somebody messed up.
I loved 25 or 6 to 4 when I played drums in the band!! Great Chicago song.
'Chicago Transit Authority' is Classic. My first Concert in 1974. From Russia With Love 25 or 6 to 4 - Chicago (Leonid & Friends сover)
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I assume this is their band's meme song, ours is Holiday (#26 in our book)
We have a shirt that says "things only band kids understand," and for one of them it's legit just "26"
Holiday by Green Day???
@@fxsja6255 yep!!
man what a cool song to play
Holiday, got that one too
25 or 6 to 4!!!!
Garrett Gaston I'm gonna be playing this so soon lol. They played it really fast though
From Russia With Love 25 or 6 to 4 - Chicago (Leonid & Friends сover)
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@@countdownshows From Russia With Love 25 or 6 to 4 - Chicago (Leonid & Friends сover)
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I recognize that guy.... Mr Lowe! He was assistant band director for us at Lake Zurich High School back in 1999. Is this at Loyola University in Rogers Park?
The writing on the end of the basketball court does seem to say Loyola.
Yes it is
@@johnfahoum7494 wasn’t sure. Thought maybe it was Loyola Academy in Wilmette
I saw Chicago in concert several years ago.
They put on a great show!
Great song, love his reaction too. You guys rocked it!
As a former pep band player, this is awesome! This was uploaded on my birthday too.
The music is incredible and so on, but that guy is awesome. :D Why don't we have this kind of attitude here in central Europe :(
You can tell that this secretly what he dreamt of by the his facial expression at the end.
It makes my smile 😊
“Waddaya doing?? This isn’t the… Okay, it’s Chicago, go ahead.”
I loved it loved it loved. It loved. It loved it loved it/. I watched several several times and loved it each time.
I really loved this video
Our band plays this song, we played a whole show to Chicago!
I LOVE IT
"I watched vintage spiderman! That's how I know you!"
Dude I played this I love it so much
I loved that song lol, still have the music to.
What’s the name of the song????
@@tyrawardley1638 25 or 6 to 4 by Chicago
We used to play this in band all the time also, it was a fun song 25 or 6 to 4
Awesome band and instructor.
I played this song last year! It's a great song!
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Our band pranks were taking the practice field tower down and putting into the band directors front yard all setup. Then to top it all off we would hike the back end of his car onto the sidewalk curb were he parked at the entrance to the school. That was a 8 inch rise and for a small car that already sat low to the ground it did cause a bit of damage to the rocker panels. We did stop doing the car prank after we learned about the damage and a couple of the auto body students made the repairs.
This brings me back to my high school days; classic song played by my schools Jazz band and orchestra
“Eh-…. Wait… keep going… you’re doing something.”
i love that it looked like he was expecting gimme some lovin or something and got so confused when they did 25 or 6 to 4
We played this. Loved it then. Love it more now.
director looks totally defeated but they actually sound really nice
Nice squeak at 0:34
Lol!
Am I the only band kid here who has no idea what this song is? I can only assume the prank was playing a different song than what he called for but I've seen that 100 times
Chicago, 25 or 6 to 4. It's from 1971. Rock classic.
Arnie, you're not allowed to use "Bruh" in the same sentence as a Chicago reference.
Connor Thomas no
For anyone wondering, the song they played was 25 or 6 to 4 by Chicago.
Man this song is so fun to play
Dude just went from wait wut to aight we vibin. Lmao
I like the band director!
We played this in band in the ‘70’s
25 or 5 to 4 by Chicago. Lol! My local school of rock did this song in one of their shows
Always loved playing, 25 or 6 to 4
Woah ho ho what wild prank you really got him!
"25 or 6 to 4" was BY FAR my favorite song to play in pep band
*AYYYYY 29 OR 6 TO 4!!! LEGENDSSSS*
You don’t have to be a boomer to love Chicago.
But apparently you have to be one to know the correct name of the song.
29???? 🤨
I'm a band director. Can confirm
This song is called "25 or 6 to 4" by Chicago. The framework of this song is just "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You" by Led Zeppelin, which was released 1 year earlier. The LZ song is absolutely ridiculous it is so good.
reminds me of highscool pepband. we use to play this song all the time
We did this in church. We all opened to different pages to play then gradually one at a time get “frustrated” by the cacaphony, throw our books in the air, stomp off stage until the only guy left was the tuba player who had been doing the A&W theme song and left with the Imperial March. Shocked music pastor couldn’t get it together again to lead the congregation. We would also play random Christmas music slowly and romantically during the preludes to see if anyone caught on.
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One thing I’ll miss about high school, is our band
This sounds like it could be the intro for a sitcom.
My marching band did this at one of our football games this season, we spent about five minutes just trying to plan and get everyone onboard without the director noticing. I think she cut us off on the third measure, but the look on her face was worth it
That rest at the end was so crisp tho
This is why I always hung out with band members, they were a cut above.
We used to play this in marching band too
You’re gonna be in my old playlist.
I like how he just went oh fine and kept going
25 to 6 or 4 yea baby I love it also I play this on snare in band
The look on his face is brilliant.
The look on his face....oh you guys, even better.
Love that song!
For those wondering the song is called "25 or 6 to 4"
This is a great Marching Band Song.
think i was more scared of my band director than my football coaches
we played that when it came out.... :)
Me not knowing the song:
You did good
I love the band teachers who just role with the students.
Role?
He just goes with it applause for this dude
25 or 6 to 4... a staple of my pep band days. I'm 50 and the song was before my time lol. Great song though.
I loved playing 25 or 6 to 4 in 7th grade
Good song to choose for a band prank. 25 or 6 to 4 by Chicago if I'm right.
It was a rite of passage for every band to play 25 or 6 to 4
These kids have been playing a few years- unlike my sons 6th grade jazz band just starting out!🤣
25 or 6 to 4 is such a banger. Played this for a competition in 7th grade
Chicago one of the best bands ever. Dozens of hits.
Inlove hiw he looked at them’like wyf guys and than alright then 😂😂😂
I´ve seen this video like 20 times, love the energy :v
They use to play this all the time at my highschool. Im 33 now.
This is my first time seeing a high school band perform for a basketball game
I love how he just goes along with it
We play this for my schools pep band
Omg! I’m just thinking about how my band director would probably kill all of us if we played a prank like this 😭🤣
my favorite pep band chart. closest i'll ever get to being a rock n roll drummer
His face really said i dont get paid enough for this shiz
Man it's a good thing a lot of people don't pay too much attention to the lyrics, or this song probably would have been forbidden. But then again, a lot of rap lyrics get ignored.
I don't remember which band member it was, but one night at a party someone asked him what time it was. He looked at his watch and said, "Twenty-five or six to four".
I don't know if that spawned the song or gave it a title and a catch phrase. Either way, its a good song. Chicago sure knew how to mix in some brass with some rock and roll.
i love this band pranks that consist of playing a different song gottem
in a world where band geeks and video game nerds reign supreme...
I love how he was like shi What is dis????? Know what...... I like it keep going
We used to play this. But it was rehearsed and played at every fb game