Band camp fun/jokes

[MechCD]

Thos is partially from that eveel hertin' toe thread



I play trombone, and we trombones call em bones, boners, and tbones.



So does the badn director.



This one was good, the first day.



"Chief! Stop pokin' Crystal with yer boner!"

Everyone looks back at chief (last row) while all the tbones crack up.



"Snap those boners up! I don't want slow reaction time. Get em up right when the cymbal crashes!"

Self explanatory, whole band laughs



"Who left a tbone on the table?"

After break time, like someone left a steak on the table



To the rears are fun. thats when you count, 6,7,8 on 8 you leave your left foot where it was on 7 and flip around in the opposite direction, by swinging and lifting your instrument (while playing) to the left. Trobones are long and somewhat large. I have 3 trumpets in my squad. You should have seen that poor trumpets face when we did to the rears for the first time :):):)



Juggle trobones. This needs a diagram. T stands for trumpet, tb is trombone



--front of band

me t t t - more band

tb tb tb tb - mad drummin section



ya toss yer tbone to the person infront/back of you



me

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chief



and then back. That scares the trumpets too :D



or




me

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Chief justin


this board doesn't like my ascii skillz



While marching, I'm with a trumpet squad (dangit) so i gotta blast it to keep up with the tbones tht are movin' in another direction. trumpets play different stuff than me. :) i can play louder than them :D They mess up cuz I'm playing something SIMILAR to what they are plkayin, but not the same. That could also werk in reversr, cuz I don't now my music that well. (we memorize our music)

[MechCD]

More fun. While werkin' on crunch time's formations (which are very similar to Power of love's formation) My squad (3 trumpets and me(tbone)) manage to pull off a right pinwheel instead of a left.







Pinwheels are just a rotation type thing. We ended up off the field for a few counts and then we had the joy of tryin to get back in formation.







BAnd director says "that was an intersting variation of crunch time" "Give squad B4 a good clap" :)







and we get tp peg each other with ice at breaks :eek: :rolleyes: :D

first day the waterboy got cruddy water with floaters in in (lotsa dirt specs) so we dumped it on him :) and now we get better water and bottled water

Those dang flag peeps can't march!

[Medic193]

You know.. One time in band camp....Ha!:D :D

[MechCD]

Originally posted by Medic193

You know.. One time in band camp....Ha!:D :D



Duh, huh wha? I missed somethin (again) . i though you guys would get a kick out of some of that, maybe not:eek:

[Medic193]

Originally posted by MechCD




Duh, huh wha? I missed somethin (again) . i though you guys would get a kick out of some of that, maybe not:eek:

Have you ever seen "American Pie?" The quote is from that movie. If you haven't seen it, I highly recommend it.:D

[zhotfire]

I never got to go to band camp.... :sniff: :(
Instead i was forced to take the bus to the music dept! :mad:

[siggy]

I thought it was funny. I can actually picture some of this happening.:D

[MechCD]

Originally posted by siggy




I thought it was funny. I can actually picture some of this happening.:D









It does happen :D









Next up. Tbone hockey. We plucked a large weed from the practice field (we don't practice on the good filed, the crew is werkin on it) and started chucking it at people by passing and catchin' it with our tbones. You catch it in the bell, and let it slide down the end of the slide and then ya huck it at someone or pass it to a tbone. Tbones are the only instrument that can do that. One of my firendly friend trumpets tried but ended up with the weed floppin' back into her face :D









Rck On, closer song. We dance in the middle. Suicides were suggested









tbone 1 ducks, tbone 2 swings tbone over 1's head. then 2 ducks and 1 swings tbone over 2's head and keep going. Trumpets didn't like that idea, but the 4 tbones in the back thought it was ok. COmbine that with juggling tbones and we could ahve ourselves a dandy dance or halftime show. But someone said its fun until someone gets hert..... How would that happen :confused: :rolleyes: ?





Jeremy yells "Let go of my boner!"


another one where the whole band turns and laughs.





During a running cadence Jeremy tried to get back in step, so he ended up hopping on his right foot for 8 counts (halfway to the yardline he was supposed to be at)





Tbone mouthpieces fit in trumpets and vice versa. So chief played trumpet with his tbone mouthpiece. Sounded like a mini barritone.


Trumpet mouthpiece in a tbone caused evil sounds that noone wanted to hear :(



And my tbone gets a name, Bob the Welfare trombone. its the school's tbone, and the water key flew off during a practice, and now there is duct tape over the hole. The slide sticks and there is a dent in the top rounded part. The tuning slide won't move. Even when Chief tried pullin' it off, it would budge.

[MechCD]

One werd. Flaggits. Flag peeps. Like faggots, but there flaggits. THeymanaged to run into me while I was playing. Skrillz there. I was actually in the right formation. :D

Go me! I memorized 3 whole ongs! out of the 7 I was supposed to know. But the director is being a lil easy on me, I had my music for 3 weeks before camp, and everyone else had since MAy (last school year)

[siggy]

Well keep up the good work MechCD. You'll get there.

[MechCD]

:D:D:D:D List of songs I know

Firelands Fight Song (tested)
Rock on (tested)
Firelands Alma Mater (tested)
Crunchtime
Star Spangeled banner (national anthem)

I need to test the last 2 and learn a bunch more songs.

I have about half of "The Power of love" down.

[MechCD]

Hmmm, the jokes have died the 2nd week..

We ding mouthpieces... Hold yer mouthpiece lightly and barely hit someone elses and it makes a cool diiing noise

put a tbone mouthpiece into a trupet to get a "bass trumpet"

and a trumpet mouthpeice into a tbone to get an "alto trombone"

Any one want audio files of me songs (whole band or just me)? MP3s

[MechCD]

Okey dokey, today I think there was somethin in the water :D

We weere singing hte songs and marching :D
dah dah duh dah duh doo DAH!

Then the director saidd "Sing through your instrument" as in play, don't sing

So we sang through our tbones :) Literal singing :D

Ok 5 tbones. Put 4 in a tripod type thing, but with 4. Put the 5th one throught the opening in the middel

Its the Tbone pentapod.

Looks like a bazooka. It makes it easy to carry all of then, because you can pick up the whole thing and none will fall out.

"If chief played trumpet, it would explode beacsue he plays so loud"

har har har
"Ok, chief, we don't need the noise on the notes, turn the volume down to just before the sound distorts"

In power of love, we freeze during the tbone part (called the "bridge")
We do a head bob when changing what we're doing (like 7bob 8 and then start going forward, and then 5 6 7bob 8 and stop)

Steve did a perfect headbob, and kept marking time isntead of freezing ! :D Oops!

"Steve rides the short bus to school"

Stopping cars with the pentapod :)

Put headphones on tuba mouthpiece, crank volume, results in added bass and its louder :)

[viperdog]

OK, I'll admit in public I too once played the T-bone.

I was also the guy front row center that set the marching pace, so I was a bit obvious to the crowd. The (high school) band went to a local town to march in a parade and I forgot the tuning slide! Left it right on the kitchen table that morning. so..... what to do?

Dropped into a local hardware store and found some 1/2 ( I think) copper water pipe. Bent it to about the right shape added a little duck tape to seal the joint ( was a lot of fun to tune ) and I'm back in business.

My old band teacher gets a chuckle from that still...she got the shop teacher to award me a certificate for "musical plumbing".


p.s. - my old formula for cleaning the inside of my bone..

1 part Daisy brand BB's
1 part water
1 part Brasso brand polish
1/4 part Liquid Wrench brand penetrating oil

Mix it all up and pour it down the bell, shake like H E double toothpicks, running the BB's down the slide and tuning slide.

Dump it out and flush with clean hot water...the hotter the better. Then disassemble air dry, and re-oil with silcone spray first on the bare metal and then slide oil over it.

Brings back that like new sound and the slicone makes that slide really move. ( and yes I have thrown the slide clean off the bone before, smacked a majorette right in the back of the head )....lol

"Flag on the play..ops no wait..sorry that's just her panties"...hmm maybe I should be nice and put those legs together until she wakes up. nnnaaaahhhhhh!

[MechCD]

Der, chief smacked a majorette (we call em flaggits :D)with his slide too.
Ours are kinda ditzy, sshe walked into chief slide :) Oops...

She didn't get knocked out though.

Is it just my, or are tboners always a lil goofy?

Back in 6th grade they were goofy, and they are goofy in marching band ....... :)

They aren't goofy unless they are at a band function though.

I have duct tape over me spit valve.... It (the valve cover) flew off while playing "Yo mamma don't dance "