I literally just got back from a band trip to Florida and this video just gave me memories from messing around in the hotel room and messing around in the parks it was so fun
I am SO excited I found your channel! I was a band geek in HS in SoCal & have a lot of great memories (that, at the time, I thought were horrible: like the 5am practices on the football field, but at least this was in Southern Calif. AND our Band Dir. throwing his ladder at us over & over when we messed up). Thanks very much!
So because of covid, we missed two years of band trips, but i remember my first band trip ever. I live in New Mexico and there aren't really that many places to go (plus it's not like they can take 6th graders across the country) so we went to this place called Humming Bird Music Camp. It was up in the mountains and we played like 4 or 5 hours every day (which for my tiny 6th grade self was pure suffering as I am a sax player and my inner lip was bleeding). The trip was awesome though, the food was amazing, we had a bondfire night, and we got to go swimming at the waterfall, there's also a little creek on the edge of the camp that we had a lot of fun with because people kept falling in. The dorms were fun too because lights out wasn't until 12 so we had time to do lots of crazy shit. There was also something called cavity cave that we got once a day, it was one soda and one king size candy bar, which was the best thing i had ever experienced in my life because all i ate at home was organic rabbit food. It was a really really fun trip, especially because i had never done something like it before.
My high school marched the Hollywood Christmas Parade for several years, and one of those years when “90210” was hot, I totally saw Brian Austin Greene run to a porta-potty! Highlight of the trip, clearly! Love your channel from one percussionist to another 🥁🎶#drumlinerules
I just went on a band trip to Disney world. We marched in magic kingdom, and I came back this morning. The band is called the “saint clair marching saints”. Quite a mouthful, I know.
The OU chant is Oklahoma on Kickoffs where as the kicker is lining up they shout O and as the kicker kicks the ball they say U. At the home stadium in Norman, OK, a cannon goes off after the U
Seika Girl's High School was/is one of the top band programs in the world. In band I have been to the Rose Parade, China for some kind of Olympics ceremony thing, and Canada for concert band. Schools don't travel out of state often in Hawai'i because it costs so much. The best bands currently are probably Moanalua and Mililani High Schools from what I know. My old school used to be a powerhouse band but was in decline when I got there.
As a retired band director I can look back on 4 decades of band trips. Most were good and only a few stick out as negative. Most of the time I got zero sleep as I worried about the kids doing something they shouldn't or students from other bands who were also staying at our hotel not being chaperoned properly. (that's a nightmare) I really never had the urge to enter my bands in the massed band college bowl appearances. Most of our trip performances were either competing in concert band contests or marching at Walt Disney World in Orlando. (which was the destination of choice being from the deep south). We did get to perform as the featured band for two NFL football games back when they actually used high school bands for halftime. Also got to play for President George Bush twice and for several gubernatorial parades. Memories. Mostly good.
My high school went to the gator bowl over the 2006-2007 holiday, so a few years after yours. We were given a medley of Lynyrd Skynyrd music to play. I played saxophone in the horn line so I can't speak for how all the drumlines sounded, but we didn't even have the live band with us that year to cover it up. 😬 West Virginia played that year as well and our band was super hyped since we have the same mascot, the Mountaineers. Everything else about the trip was almost completely the same. Rehearsals, yacht party, parade, sportsball, Universal Studios. It was a great time all-around with lots of fun stories.
My band went to Hawaii last year, even played a version of taps outside the pearl harbour. Personally my favorite moment. It can be viewed via my Instagram.
Lol, the first part takes me back to Fiesta Battle of the Bands in San Antonio… there’s a massive drumline cadence that all the drumlines in the city play. Good times
A few weeks ago we had our statewide band showcase. It was like 3 hours away from our school. That day it was really freaking cold for some reason and we had to wait around for several hours that night after our band’s performance for scoring and other dumb performances. When we FINALLY got done (we got 8th place in the state 🤯), we took pictures and made our way over to the buses at like 9 or 10 pm. We got going, but before we even left the parking lot, our bus BROKE DOWN. We waited in the parking lot, with the other two fully functional buses to transfer over to a working bus. In the end, we got back to the school at like 3:30 am. So yeah, one of the worst nights of my life! 😊
My high school's marching band was a parade marching band. We did parades, that's what we did. A 2-5 mile parade isn't that bad. We had some 8-10 milers that sucked. I should mention that you could join the high schools summer marching band between 8th and 9th grade, and do it after you graduate. So I did it 5 summers, playing bass for a few years and then tenors. Every summer, we would take a trip with some pretty cool destination. One year we went to Disney World, and got to play in the park. One year we played the Star Spangled Banner at a St. Louis Cardinals game. There were a couple years where we went to Traverse City, MI for the cherry festival, with a trip to Mackinac Island (a place where there are no cars - you can walk, rent a bike, or rent a horse) One year we did a non-marching show on the USS Intrepid, because it was a concert type performance, with no marching. That same summer, we went to Arlington, and the drum majors laid a wreath during the ceremony of the changing of the guard. All the trips were on coach buses, so we had stops at various parades and amusement parks.
7:09 That 2005 Holiday Band Fest competition where Seika Girls came over from Japan and *slaughtered* everyone is as far as I know the only HS band competition where a Japanese scholastic group has competed against American scholastic groups. I would *love* to see a score recap from that contest but I don't think one exists in digital form. I *do* know from research that they won Best Music, Best Visual, Best GE, Best Percussion & Best Guard (full caption sweep).
I was also on the field for that Gator Bowl and was playing on that drumline. It was absolutely… atrocious. I also had no clue what was going on, and no one cared. 😂 Solid recap of that memory.
My most memorable band trip was when we went to Taiwan for a competition. We had 3 flights from Calgary to Vancouver and 1 12 hour flight from Vancouver to Taipei. The long flight had games on the entertainment system, including a trivia game that allowed unlimited number of players. There were so many of us on that game that we crashed the game and it didn't work for the rest of the flight (or maybe the FAs disabled it because we were getting disruptive). We get off the flight, and one of my friends was visibly ill. We have to walk past a quarantine desk, and they pull him aside. I don't know if they tested him for anything, but he was forced to wear a mask for the first few days (for the record, this was in 2018, pre covid). After a couple hours on the bus, we stop at this random restaurant in the dark for our first meal in Taiwan. Guess what they failed to tell us about Taiwan cuisine? Every single chicken is served with the feet and head still attached. I feel so bad because we must've seemed so rude, but you just don't serve 150 jet lagged teenagers chicken heads. We participated in a field parade competition. Our director expected a set course so we didn't prepare anything. But it was a *free* parade competition, meaning there was no set course and we needed to prepare our own. So like the day before we decide we'll go out there in a parade block, break into arcs, stand still and play, reform the parade block, and parade off. And we WON. I don't think the other bands were happy, and the next year the rules stated in bold and highlight that bands must remain in constant forward motion for the parade competition. However, we played Hey Baby and after the competition ended and we waited with he other bands in the storage room (since Taiwan is HOT and HUMID). There was this big guy who played bass drum in a pipe band from Hong Kong started singing it to us, and everybody joined in and we took turns playing for each other. The retreats were confusing because they didn't announce scores. Instead, they announced a prize colour based on your score in performance order, and then announced the overall winner. Except the guard competition where we performed midway and they skipped us in the order. They then announce us second last as gold recipient and we cheer very loudly thinking we won. Then they announce the last band as gold recipient and we're confused. Then they announce the winner...and it's us! The colourguard show was actually really cool, we tool our wintergreen show. It was about self image and back home we had a bunch of mirrors that when flipped over spelt BEAUTIFUL. But we only took one mirror to Taiwan, so we repainted it with the Mandarin word for love. The audience's reaction when we flipped the mirror was so heartwarming. International Competitions are interesting because we haven't heard of most of the bands before showing up, so we had no idea how well we'd do. There was an elementary school drumline from China who had like Indigenous headdress costumes, which, you know, is kind of problematic. There was a junior high band also from China who did a Cats the Musical Show with like fursuits. There was a drum corps from Malaysia from a military school who had a bagpipe feature in the show. Such strange bands. This retreat setup was quite stressful in Show Finals, as we were one of 4 bands that they awarded gold and were 3rd in Prelims. So it was quite stressful waiting for the announcement of the winner, knowing that there was a chance it could be us (it wasn't) You'd think that after 2 weeks of eating basically nothing but unusual Taiwan food, 150 teenagers would have problems, no? Well, we were fine until we got to our last day, and we go to Pizza Hut, and one of the pizza gives the members that ate it awful food poisoning, with the spewing out of both ends. There were concerns that some of them may need to be left behind so hey can get an IV. Finally, we fly home from Taipei to Vancouver, with our 3 flights from Vancouver to Calgary. We'll our flight comes in late. And at this time in Vancouver, to connect, you have to get your bags, recheck them, and go through security again. Well, the luggage got the first two flights does not come in time. So Air Canada has to get 100 kids, each with piece of luggage and like a tuba or a bundle of harnesses, their luggage back after the fact. The next time I connected through Vancouver we did not have to do this, so I feel like we single handedly changed the luggage operations at Vancouver International Airport.
When we (Avon) went to the Copper Bowl in 1996, I didn't have to worry about memorizing my music because I made a shrunk copy of it and put it in a flip folder. I think most of our band members who went on that trip did that. I do know that the band competition there was optional because we didn't do it due to about fifty people in our band not being able to go on that trip. We also forgot our parade banner and one of the other flute player's band uniform. She ended up having to wear a color guard uniform whose owner got sick and had to bow out of the trip. Our massed band halftime show was okay. The Copper Bowl All-Star band played a cadence for us to march out onto the field to, and then we played our show while being drowned out by the amplified fiddle player. It was a fun trip for me, even though I got sick during it and had to miss white water rafting. It did have enough problems and made a bad impression on our director that Avon didn't go to another Bowl game until they were invited to the Rose Bowl in 2012.
@@morgancason6876 Avon wasn't a powerhouse yet when I went there. Every powerhouse band was a normal marching band at some point who had to work their way up. We did terrible at Grand Nats in 1996. Our first State Championship and Grand Nats finals appearance were still five years away at that point. Five years of a lot of work on the part of the students, staff, parents and band boosters.
I literally got back from Universal Studios and Island of Adventure!!!! I just remember one thing about the Hulk, that it looked terrifying and didn’t go on it……. But our band’s trip was super fun!!!!!
We had a similar band trip to Hershey Park for a band competition. Our marching and jazz bands were competing. It was my first and only major band competition and I had a blast. It was the mid-90s and we were not angels but such are those teen years. We spent a day at Hershey Park and met other band students from all over the nation. Our Jazz band actually placed 3rd. Thanks for the stroll down memory lane. :-) BTW I played tri-toms in marching band and we had these heavy Ludwig Tri-toms that were Heavy. It was a bit comical because I was the smallest drummer in the band and carried one of the biggest instruments. Those were the days! Great memories Eric, thanks for sharing.
I did the holiday bowl in 2005 at the chargers stadium. Awesome experience. That Japanese chick school was amazing ! I hated the Christmas parade too lol. The halftime show was decent a bunch of beach boys tunes. I think they just played tracks over the whole thing. I was on snare for that lol.
I'm a freshman in high school and I'm in band. Some 15 of my band mates and I got to go to a northern state university wolves football game last Saturday evening. Brother's marching band is really cool and talented. I enjoyed playing with the two alto saxophone players I was shared music with!
I’m a tenor for my Highschool! We do lots of band trips, and they are pretty chaotic, but they’re all fun in the end! The “OOOOOO-U!” Thing is the University of Oklahoma (Sooners) thing. I go to a lot of their football games, and it’s just a fun thing that fans do every game.
I have a story So I was in my 8th grade year as last bass and we started playing time travel, the kid in front of me (another bass) drops one of his sticks down the stands all the way to the bottom of stands and the other beneath his feet, and instead taking off his drum to grab the sticks or grabbing them after the cadence he tries to grab them with the drum, the harness became loose and the drum started falling down the bleachers into the other marching band students. He yelled that it was falling and surprisingly within our 200 person marching only 5 broke any bones. When we finally got the Bass Drum back we discovered one of the bass drum heads had a hole in it from landing on someones arm after they tried to catch it. The bass drum player was suspended from the Marching band for several months
3:33 That's the Woodlands High School Band. They're one of the top 5 best Texas Marching Bands in the state and one of the top 10 best Marching Bands in BOA Grand Nats. We've played against them before and we got destroyed, not just in football, but in contests also. Although, we beat them in Area one time, but that was it.
My husband promised to transfer some old VHS tapes to digital, which made me quite excited because I hadn't watched my 2000 NYC St. Patrick's Day Parade (my sole real marching experience!) video since.... well, since it was new, and there isn't anything even about just the parade in general online that I could find. He still hasn't gotten to it:-P Band trips were the best.
It is my first year of marching band. I am first trumpet right next in rank to my section leader. I'm in 7th grade and have autism. I am wishing to play quads
I marched the Tournament of Roses Parade with Mira Mesa Sapphire Sound on January 1, 2022. A few days before we did Bandfest in Pasadena where we played our field show and parade music. Unfortunately, we got rained on, so we played an abbreviated show standing still with raingear on. All our notes were almost a half step lower due to how flat we were from the cold. We went to Disneyland the next day where we also got rained on. We were set to do the Main Street holiday parade, but that got canceled, so we had a free day. I was in the middle of the Space Mountain queue when I found out. It was still a fun day because the rain cleared up and the fireworks show happened. Fortunately, it was a beautiful day on New Years Day in Pasadena and we marched the parade in full uniform. There was a massive chicken UPS Store float right in front of us that stopped twice in the middle of the 110 degree turn at the start, so we stopped multiple times. I was the front center guide for my school, so I had a big chicken butt right in front of me. As a result, most channels did not capture us on TV. However, KTLA covered us for an entire 7 minutes, more than all the other bands. We marched 5.5 miles playing two songs over and over again. Afterwards, we ate in-n-out burgers and reeses peanut butter cups. Overall, this was a memorable experience.
This was awesome to hear, and it must've been such a wonderful time for you! I remember back when I was in marching band, we got to go to the various football games and competitions, as well as state finals. Well, during the 2017-2018 season, we got to go to Disney World down in Orlando. I live here in Ohio, so it was about a 22 and a half hour trip by bus, including rest stops. We had over 200 students, so it took 6 buses to get us all there. I was on the 5th bus, and they just happened to be those very luxurious buses. We had to sleep overnight on those buses, though, which wasn't necessarily the coziest. But we made it. We spent about 6 days down there, and we got a pass to go to every park that Disney World had, including Universal Studios. That was in March of 2018. Later that year, during the 2018-2019 season, we got to have one of our competitions at the OSU football field down in Columbus, which was such an amazing opportunity. Their band was after ours, and they played an arrangement of songs by Queen. We then went back to Columbus a second time that season, where we had our marching band state finals, which went well. The trips from marching band are some of the greatest adventures I've ever gotten to experience, for sure. :)
We travel from Pennsylvania to Florida every other year for the magical kingdom parade, and our budget is mostly spent on good techs, good instruments, and really good props, so instead of traveling by plane, we have to travel by a 12 out bus ride. Feels like DCI.
I recently went to watch Grand nationals. We didn't go to the full thing because we had to get ready for our veterans day program, so we didn't get to see some of the best bands like nearby Carmel, and Avon, but we still got to see some cool bands we never heard of before. We went to the mall for lunch, and we messed around the mall being dumb little high schoolers for over an hour. Definitely a good trip to start off my freshman year. It excites me to see what's to come over the next few years for band. I've already had great experiences like marching in the Indy 500 festival parade, and winning 1st place at my first contest.
The drumline is on the verge of quitting every week. It seems like the director hates us. I was drum Captain, it was a trial to keep people from just leaving this year
I miss big band trips. My highschool went to Grand Nationals my senior year, and we were out of finals by .2 Later in college, the marching band went to the thanksgiving macys parade which was a blast, especially being on a band trip as an adult lmao. I still do the college marching band because I enjoy it, but we havent had a big trip in years
Hahaha, Indianapolis 2022, we stopped off at this Kroger to buy things we’d want for the week and while in there there was this highly intoxicated individual that first came up to me and was being weird then to other individuals in our band and finally a pack of girls who then got a chaperone and told the manager, then getting him kicked out. After this while we were loading busses I was standing outside the busses and about thirty yards away from the Kroger when I hear this cars horn blaring and getting closer, then about a second later this car comes crashing into the Kroger, the airbag and glass ridden car with the bumper fully off lodged into the building was being driven by guess who ….🥁…. The high dude! Who we learned stole that car in the parking lot! He then stumbled away into the night but was caught minutes later by the state trooper who was in the parking lot!! 😂. We had to give statements and do so many things that we were in that parking lot for an hour and a half. The whole trip was a mess 🤦🏻♂️. I hope next year goes a lot smoother.
We have a thing that the band busses do every time we go on an away game/competition where we go down the little hill behind the highschool and the bus driver brake check as many times as he wants while we sit on the back of the seats and we go flying sometimes
It's like you're telling the story of my trip! 😆 I went to the 2022 Outback Bowl in Tampa Florida and got to go to Busch Gardens! Not many of the bands knew their music. 😅 Go WCHS Warrior Marching Band!
That "Oooo-U!" chant is from Oklahoma University. They do it while the drumline plays the beat from Led Zeppelin's "Immigrant Song." I love hearing them do it, but I always wished that the trumpets would play out the "ah-ah-aaaaah-ah!" part so I arranged it for the horn line of a band whose drumline I was coaching at the time. The school's initials are C-O so the rest of the band, and the cheerleaders, chant that. 👍🏾
This July my marching band was invited to march in D.C. and boy did my back hurt after. I had slept on the floor the night previous because it was four kids to a room and only two beds.
we had a 4 hour bus ride for a marching band comp (which we got 2nd but best in our state) and you had all the flute players kissing and like 5 people got asked out and in our hotel me and the girls in my room were crying over pie so that’s fun
We did something like one of those massive conglomerate bands for the 1996 NCAA Div-I AA national championship game at Marshall University, except instead of a bunch of full bands doing the whole paid-invite thing, Marshall invited band directors in the region to send their upperclassmen. For players of divided-part instruments (eg, 1st-3rd trumpet), the Marshall director randomly assigned parts to each school delegation. Being juniors and seniors who had been playing 1st parts and solos, our school's trumpeters weren't too happy with being assigned 3rd parts. Our big idea was to show up the morning of the game and claim we'd lost our school's music and needed replacement 1st parts. Of course, when we tracked down the director's office, as soon as we walked in, he said, "Let me guess. You lost your music and need 1st trumpet music." Apparently every other school's trumpet and clarinet players had had the same idea. They'd been coming in with the same story all morning! Also, Randy Moss had had some sort of legendary performance that day to close his college years, receiving 220 yards and 4 TDs. I don't remember that at all!
Man the Gator Bowl thing reminds me kinda of when my high school and a bunch of other high schools in Washington went to the University of Washington for the 69th (nice) band day to play at the halftime show. It was really cool and my first performance in HS. I'm a freshman btw. The part about not knowing the music is also kinda relatable, because I didn't know the cymbal part to Bow Down to Washington, so I just had the UW band handle that.
This year we were at an away football game, and I’m playing bass 4 which I can’t see over and the guy I asked to spot me ran away, and I smashed my band directors taillight
OU usually refers to the University of Oklahoma while the University of Oregon is usually referred to as UO. So they were cheering for the University of Oklahoma. Or they were being typical Band Kids and being silly by thinking they're cheering for both.
I sadly didn't have any band trips, as when I started high school covid had hit, then I graduated and the next year they are now currently going to Disney land and stuff and I'm very sad 😢
I'm still in high school, but I went to grand nationals just recently and just barely didn't make finals. We are going to Ireland in two years though so I'm excited for that
Just saw your review on the 2021 Hebron HS show. I was wondering if you would check out the Kiski Area HS 2022 finals performance. I would love to hear your review of it
Should I do Band Trips in College?
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Yes, happy thanksgiving Eric!
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I love how he values band more than his family. He’s a true percussionist.
Cowboy butts drive me nuts!
As a percussionist I completely agree with that statement
~~and theme parks~~
As a percussionist I completely agree with that statement
As a percussionist I completely agree with that statement
I literally just got back from a band trip to Florida and this video just gave me memories from messing around in the hotel room and messing around in the parks it was so fun
Lucky. When I was in band the farthest we travelled was Utah. It was boring there
Same here what band?
They made you take a trip during thanksgiving?!
yo same we performed in a disney parade
@@guppatea cool my old highschool did the Disney parade as well
As an aviation geek I’m jealous of everyone who got to fly for their band trips.
I did get to fly to Ireland in college orchestra so that’s cool, but I didn’t really know anyone
In high school, I got to fly to Rome with my school’s marching band. As an aviation geek as well, I was happy in my Lufthansa Airbus A350.
@@SamTheTriangleTrainsyoooo lucky
we took old white busses everywere
@@SamTheTriangleTrains I flew on a British Airways A380 to and from London for my college orchestra trip in Ireland.
I am SO excited I found your channel! I was a band geek in HS in SoCal & have a lot of great memories (that, at the time, I thought were horrible: like the 5am practices on the football field, but at least this was in Southern Calif. AND our Band Dir. throwing his ladder at us over & over when we messed up).
Thanks very much!
Our marching band marched in the Macy's thanksgiving day parade last year. We were in NYC for a few days and it was super fun
So because of covid, we missed two years of band trips, but i remember my first band trip ever. I live in New Mexico and there aren't really that many places to go (plus it's not like they can take 6th graders across the country) so we went to this place called Humming Bird Music Camp. It was up in the mountains and we played like 4 or 5 hours every day (which for my tiny 6th grade self was pure suffering as I am a sax player and my inner lip was bleeding). The trip was awesome though, the food was amazing, we had a bondfire night, and we got to go swimming at the waterfall, there's also a little creek on the edge of the camp that we had a lot of fun with because people kept falling in. The dorms were fun too because lights out wasn't until 12 so we had time to do lots of crazy shit. There was also something called cavity cave that we got once a day, it was one soda and one king size candy bar, which was the best thing i had ever experienced in my life because all i ate at home was organic rabbit food. It was a really really fun trip, especially because i had never done something like it before.
My band also kinda got ruined from Covid. We're still recovering years later. Our band still sucks.
If you are in band at my school you have to do marching band, pep band and concert band. It’s a small school with a small band of about 40 people.
My Band is 25 people 😐
My high school marched the Hollywood Christmas Parade for several years, and one of those years when “90210” was hot, I totally saw Brian Austin Greene run to a porta-potty! Highlight of the trip, clearly! Love your channel from one percussionist to another 🥁🎶#drumlinerules
@emcproductions. no way mfs are actually pretending to be emc
I just went on a band trip to Disney world. We marched in magic kingdom, and I came back this morning. The band is called the “saint clair marching saints”. Quite a mouthful, I know.
The OU chant is Oklahoma on Kickoffs where as the kicker is lining up they shout O and as the kicker kicks the ball they say U. At the home stadium in Norman, OK, a cannon goes off after the U
I think he was referring to the O-U chant that the band does while the drumline plays the beat from Led Zeppelin's "Immigrant Song."
Seika Girl's High School was/is one of the top band programs in the world. In band I have been to the Rose Parade, China for some kind of Olympics ceremony thing, and Canada for concert band. Schools don't travel out of state often in Hawai'i because it costs so much. The best bands currently are probably Moanalua and Mililani High Schools from what I know. My old school used to be a powerhouse band but was in decline when I got there.
AYO THATS ME @ 1:25 IN THE FLOWER SHIRT WITH THE TROMBONE. What a coincidence. Slay. 🤪
Sick mate
This is where I would put my high school band memories
IF I HAD ANY
As a retired band director I can look back on 4 decades of band trips. Most were good and only a few stick out as negative.
Most of the time I got zero sleep as I worried about the kids doing something they shouldn't or students from other bands
who were also staying at our hotel not being chaperoned properly. (that's a nightmare) I really never had the urge to enter
my bands in the massed band college bowl appearances. Most of our trip performances were either competing in concert
band contests or marching at Walt Disney World in Orlando. (which was the destination of choice being from the deep south).
We did get to perform as the featured band for two NFL football games back when they actually used high school bands
for halftime. Also got to play for President George Bush twice and for several gubernatorial parades. Memories. Mostly good.
My high school went to the gator bowl over the 2006-2007 holiday, so a few years after yours. We were given a medley of Lynyrd Skynyrd music to play. I played saxophone in the horn line so I can't speak for how all the drumlines sounded, but we didn't even have the live band with us that year to cover it up. 😬 West Virginia played that year as well and our band was super hyped since we have the same mascot, the Mountaineers. Everything else about the trip was almost completely the same. Rehearsals, yacht party, parade, sportsball, Universal Studios. It was a great time all-around with lots of fun stories.
reminds me of the festival of bands in texas
YAAAA HAPPY THANKSGIVING EMC
My band went to Hawaii last year, even played a version of taps outside the pearl harbour. Personally my favorite moment. It can be viewed via my Instagram.
Lol, the first part takes me back to Fiesta Battle of the Bands in San Antonio… there’s a massive drumline cadence that all the drumlines in the city play. Good times
A few weeks ago we had our statewide band showcase. It was like 3 hours away from our school. That day it was really freaking cold for some reason and we had to wait around for several hours that night after our band’s performance for scoring and other dumb performances.
When we FINALLY got done (we got 8th place in the state 🤯), we took pictures and made our way over to the buses at like 9 or 10 pm. We got going, but before we even left the parking lot, our bus BROKE DOWN. We waited in the parking lot, with the other two fully functional buses to transfer over to a working bus. In the end, we got back to the school at like 3:30 am.
So yeah, one of the worst nights of my life! 😊
My high school's marching band was a parade marching band. We did parades, that's what we did.
A 2-5 mile parade isn't that bad. We had some 8-10 milers that sucked.
I should mention that you could join the high schools summer marching band between 8th and 9th grade, and do it after you graduate. So I did it 5 summers, playing bass for a few years and then tenors.
Every summer, we would take a trip with some pretty cool destination. One year we went to Disney World, and got to play in the park. One year we played the Star Spangled Banner at a St. Louis Cardinals game. There were a couple years where we went to Traverse City, MI for the cherry festival, with a trip to Mackinac Island (a place where there are no cars - you can walk, rent a bike, or rent a horse)
One year we did a non-marching show on the USS Intrepid, because it was a concert type performance, with no marching. That same summer, we went to Arlington, and the drum majors laid a wreath during the ceremony of the changing of the guard.
All the trips were on coach buses, so we had stops at various parades and amusement parks.
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That 2005 Holiday Band Fest competition where Seika Girls came over from Japan and *slaughtered* everyone is as far as I know the only HS band competition where a Japanese scholastic group has competed against American scholastic groups. I would *love* to see a score recap from that contest but I don't think one exists in digital form. I *do* know from research that they won Best Music, Best Visual, Best GE, Best Percussion & Best Guard (full caption sweep).
0:36 the order of your priorities here is amazing
2:33 NICE REFERENCE!
Band and theme parks are also my favorite things too
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I was also on the field for that Gator Bowl and was playing on that drumline. It was absolutely… atrocious. I also had no clue what was going on, and no one cared. 😂 Solid recap of that memory.
My most memorable band trip was when we went to Taiwan for a competition.
We had 3 flights from Calgary to Vancouver and 1 12 hour flight from Vancouver to Taipei. The long flight had games on the entertainment system, including a trivia game that allowed unlimited number of players. There were so many of us on that game that we crashed the game and it didn't work for the rest of the flight (or maybe the FAs disabled it because we were getting disruptive).
We get off the flight, and one of my friends was visibly ill. We have to walk past a quarantine desk, and they pull him aside. I don't know if they tested him for anything, but he was forced to wear a mask for the first few days (for the record, this was in 2018, pre covid).
After a couple hours on the bus, we stop at this random restaurant in the dark for our first meal in Taiwan. Guess what they failed to tell us about Taiwan cuisine? Every single chicken is served with the feet and head still attached. I feel so bad because we must've seemed so rude, but you just don't serve 150 jet lagged teenagers chicken heads.
We participated in a field parade competition. Our director expected a set course so we didn't prepare anything. But it was a *free* parade competition, meaning there was no set course and we needed to prepare our own. So like the day before we decide we'll go out there in a parade block, break into arcs, stand still and play, reform the parade block, and parade off. And we WON. I don't think the other bands were happy, and the next year the rules stated in bold and highlight that bands must remain in constant forward motion for the parade competition.
However, we played Hey Baby and after the competition ended and we waited with he other bands in the storage room (since Taiwan is HOT and HUMID). There was this big guy who played bass drum in a pipe band from Hong Kong started singing it to us, and everybody joined in and we took turns playing for each other.
The retreats were confusing because they didn't announce scores. Instead, they announced a prize colour based on your score in performance order, and then announced the overall winner. Except the guard competition where we performed midway and they skipped us in the order. They then announce us second last as gold recipient and we cheer very loudly thinking we won. Then they announce the last band as gold recipient and we're confused. Then they announce the winner...and it's us!
The colourguard show was actually really cool, we tool our wintergreen show. It was about self image and back home we had a bunch of mirrors that when flipped over spelt BEAUTIFUL. But we only took one mirror to Taiwan, so we repainted it with the Mandarin word for love. The audience's reaction when we flipped the mirror was so heartwarming.
International Competitions are interesting because we haven't heard of most of the bands before showing up, so we had no idea how well we'd do. There was an elementary school drumline from China who had like Indigenous headdress costumes, which, you know, is kind of problematic. There was a junior high band also from China who did a Cats the Musical Show with like fursuits. There was a drum corps from Malaysia from a military school who had a bagpipe feature in the show. Such strange bands.
This retreat setup was quite stressful in Show Finals, as we were one of 4 bands that they awarded gold and were 3rd in Prelims. So it was quite stressful waiting for the announcement of the winner, knowing that there was a chance it could be us (it wasn't)
You'd think that after 2 weeks of eating basically nothing but unusual Taiwan food, 150 teenagers would have problems, no? Well, we were fine until we got to our last day, and we go to Pizza Hut, and one of the pizza gives the members that ate it awful food poisoning, with the spewing out of both ends. There were concerns that some of them may need to be left behind so hey can get an IV.
Finally, we fly home from Taipei to Vancouver, with our 3 flights from Vancouver to Calgary. We'll our flight comes in late. And at this time in Vancouver, to connect, you have to get your bags, recheck them, and go through security again. Well, the luggage got the first two flights does not come in time. So Air Canada has to get 100 kids, each with piece of luggage and like a tuba or a bundle of harnesses, their luggage back after the fact. The next time I connected through Vancouver we did not have to do this, so I feel like we single handedly changed the luggage operations at Vancouver International Airport.
When we (Avon) went to the Copper Bowl in 1996, I didn't have to worry about memorizing my music because I made a shrunk copy of it and put it in a flip folder. I think most of our band members who went on that trip did that. I do know that the band competition there was optional because we didn't do it due to about fifty people in our band not being able to go on that trip. We also forgot our parade banner and one of the other flute player's band uniform. She ended up having to wear a color guard uniform whose owner got sick and had to bow out of the trip. Our massed band halftime show was okay. The Copper Bowl All-Star band played a cadence for us to march out onto the field to, and then we played our show while being drowned out by the amplified fiddle player. It was a fun trip for me, even though I got sick during it and had to miss white water rafting. It did have enough problems and made a bad impression on our director that Avon didn't go to another Bowl game until they were invited to the Rose Bowl in 2012.
You went to Avon, that school is an idol to bands like my school
@@morgancason6876 Avon wasn't a powerhouse yet when I went there. Every powerhouse band was a normal marching band at some point who had to work their way up. We did terrible at Grand Nats in 1996. Our first State Championship and Grand Nats finals appearance were still five years away at that point. Five years of a lot of work on the part of the students, staff, parents and band boosters.
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Band and theme parks are literally my two fav things omg
TOWNSHIP!!! That’s where we (raiders) had our home show! Great housing site
I performed in the Alamo bowl which was also the Oklahoma sooner beating Oregon
Teehee
I literally got back from Universal Studios and Island of Adventure!!!! I just remember one thing about the Hulk, that it looked terrifying and didn’t go on it……. But our band’s trip was super fun!!!!!
We had a similar band trip to Hershey Park for a band competition. Our marching and jazz bands were competing. It was my first and only major band competition and I had a blast. It was the mid-90s and we were not angels but such are those teen years. We spent a day at Hershey Park and met other band students from all over the nation. Our Jazz band actually placed 3rd. Thanks for the stroll down memory lane. :-) BTW I played tri-toms in marching band and we had these heavy Ludwig Tri-toms that were Heavy. It was a bit comical because I was the smallest drummer in the band and carried one of the biggest instruments. Those were the days! Great memories Eric, thanks for sharing.
I did the holiday bowl in 2005 at the chargers stadium. Awesome experience.
That Japanese chick school was amazing ! I hated the Christmas parade too lol. The halftime show was decent a bunch of beach boys tunes. I think they just played tracks over the whole thing. I was on snare for that lol.
I'm an orchestra kid. Sadly didn't know about the field trips until now 😔😔
I'm a freshman in high school and I'm in band. Some 15 of my band mates and I got to go to a northern state university wolves football game last Saturday evening. Brother's marching band is really cool and talented. I enjoyed playing with the two alto saxophone players I was shared music with!
I’m a tenor for my Highschool! We do lots of band trips, and they are pretty chaotic, but they’re all fun in the end!
The “OOOOOO-U!” Thing is the University of Oklahoma (Sooners) thing. I go to a lot of their football games, and it’s just a fun thing that fans do every game.
I just got back from a Marching band trip to Chicago..WOW
I have a story
So I was in my 8th grade year as last bass and we started playing time travel, the kid in front of me (another bass) drops one of his sticks down the stands all the way to the bottom of stands and the other beneath his feet, and instead taking off his drum to grab the sticks or grabbing them after the cadence he tries to grab them with the drum, the harness became loose and the drum started falling down the bleachers into the other marching band students. He yelled that it was falling and surprisingly within our 200 person marching only 5 broke any bones. When we finally got the Bass Drum back we discovered one of the bass drum heads had a hole in it from landing on someones arm after they tried to catch it. The bass drum player was suspended from the Marching band for several months
3:33 That's the Woodlands High School Band. They're one of the top 5 best Texas Marching Bands in the state and one of the top 10 best Marching Bands in BOA Grand Nats. We've played against them before and we got destroyed, not just in football, but in contests also. Although, we beat them in Area one time, but that was it.
Oh people know us yay
I went to Branson Missouri for a band trip. That was fun and recently announced my band is going to Disney world next year for a band trip.
My husband promised to transfer some old VHS tapes to digital, which made me quite excited because I hadn't watched my 2000 NYC St. Patrick's Day Parade (my sole real marching experience!) video since.... well, since it was new, and there isn't anything even about just the parade in general online that I could find. He still hasn't gotten to it:-P Band trips were the best.
It is my first year of marching band. I am first trumpet right next in rank to my section leader. I'm in 7th grade and have autism. I am wishing to play quads
I marched the Tournament of Roses Parade with Mira Mesa Sapphire Sound on January 1, 2022. A few days before we did Bandfest in Pasadena where we played our field show and parade music. Unfortunately, we got rained on, so we played an abbreviated show standing still with raingear on. All our notes were almost a half step lower due to how flat we were from the cold. We went to Disneyland the next day where we also got rained on. We were set to do the Main Street holiday parade, but that got canceled, so we had a free day. I was in the middle of the Space Mountain queue when I found out. It was still a fun day because the rain cleared up and the fireworks show happened.
Fortunately, it was a beautiful day on New Years Day in Pasadena and we marched the parade in full uniform. There was a massive chicken UPS Store float right in front of us that stopped twice in the middle of the 110 degree turn at the start, so we stopped multiple times. I was the front center guide for my school, so I had a big chicken butt right in front of me.
As a result, most channels did not capture us on TV. However, KTLA covered us for an entire 7 minutes, more than all the other bands. We marched 5.5 miles playing two songs over and over again. Afterwards, we ate in-n-out burgers and reeses peanut butter cups. Overall, this was a memorable experience.
Bandfest: ruclips.net/video/EK-iWi30khg/видео.htmlsi=dDAU4EYufWNqaVkr
Parade: ruclips.net/video/JXtnKGXhYL8/видео.htmlsi=pMI3rRxaYJPileFM
This was awesome to hear, and it must've been such a wonderful time for you! I remember back when I was in marching band, we got to go to the various football games and competitions, as well as state finals. Well, during the 2017-2018 season, we got to go to Disney World down in Orlando. I live here in Ohio, so it was about a 22 and a half hour trip by bus, including rest stops. We had over 200 students, so it took 6 buses to get us all there. I was on the 5th bus, and they just happened to be those very luxurious buses. We had to sleep overnight on those buses, though, which wasn't necessarily the coziest. But we made it. We spent about 6 days down there, and we got a pass to go to every park that Disney World had, including Universal Studios. That was in March of 2018. Later that year, during the 2018-2019 season, we got to have one of our competitions at the OSU football field down in Columbus, which was such an amazing opportunity. Their band was after ours, and they played an arrangement of songs by Queen. We then went back to Columbus a second time that season, where we had our marching band state finals, which went well. The trips from marching band are some of the greatest adventures I've ever gotten to experience, for sure. :)
I’m super exited to do something similar to this at the rose bowl. We have to memorize stand tunes and it’s not gonna be amazing
NGL Band & Themeparks (among others) are my favorite things to do
We travel from Pennsylvania to Florida every other year for the magical kingdom parade, and our budget is mostly spent on good techs, good instruments, and really good props, so instead of traveling by plane, we have to travel by a 12 out bus ride. Feels like DCI.
Lol I saw that on your favorite thing list, the hub🤣
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My band did the peach bowl this year and I now understand the struggle
My band just marched in the Philly parade🎉 I was the tenor drummer for the pride of Salem
I recently went to watch Grand nationals. We didn't go to the full thing because we had to get ready for our veterans day program, so we didn't get to see some of the best bands like nearby Carmel, and Avon, but we still got to see some cool bands we never heard of before. We went to the mall for lunch, and we messed around the mall being dumb little high schoolers for over an hour. Definitely a good trip to start off my freshman year. It excites me to see what's to come over the next few years for band. I've already had great experiences like marching in the Indy 500 festival parade, and winning 1st place at my first contest.
I also went to grand nats
What school?
The drumline is on the verge of quitting every week. It seems like the director hates us. I was drum Captain, it was a trial to keep people from just leaving this year
I miss big band trips. My highschool went to Grand Nationals my senior year, and we were out of finals by .2
Later in college, the marching band went to the thanksgiving macys parade which was a blast, especially being on a band trip as an adult lmao. I still do the college marching band because I enjoy it, but we havent had a big trip in years
The photo with the guy in the blue shirt with the bison on it is from my school, that was before the covid year
I haven't had a band trip in hs yet but were going to new orleans later this year it should be epic
I just go to go to the peach bowl for band, crazy time as a high schooler
Also the parade thing, we marched in a parade through pittsburgh, its so bad, it was about an hour long parade which was, well, bad
That flight cancellation sounds like a nightmare for your poor director! 😂😂
Hahaha, Indianapolis 2022, we stopped off at this Kroger to buy things we’d want for the week and while in there there was this highly intoxicated individual that first came up to me and was being weird then to other individuals in our band and finally a pack of girls who then got a chaperone and told the manager, then getting him kicked out. After this while we were loading busses I was standing outside the busses and about thirty yards away from the Kroger when I hear this cars horn blaring and getting closer, then about a second later this car comes crashing into the Kroger, the airbag and glass ridden car with the bumper fully off lodged into the building was being driven by guess who ….🥁…. The high dude! Who we learned stole that car in the parking lot! He then stumbled away into the night but was caught minutes later by the state trooper who was in the parking lot!! 😂. We had to give statements and do so many things that we were in that parking lot for an hour and a half. The whole trip was a mess 🤦🏻♂️. I hope next year goes a lot smoother.
butts n stuff is number 5, i find that hilarious
We have a thing that the band busses do every time we go on an away game/competition where we go down the little hill behind the highschool and the bus driver brake check as many times as he wants while we sit on the back of the seats and we go flying sometimes
It's like you're telling the story of my trip! 😆 I went to the 2022 Outback Bowl in Tampa Florida and got to go to Busch Gardens! Not many of the bands knew their music. 😅 Go WCHS Warrior Marching Band!
Oklahoma University does the “OOOOOOOOOOOOOOO-U” thing during kickoffs. That might be what you are referring to
Dang my marching band is going to hawaii for that one parade in December 2023
That "Oooo-U!" chant is from Oklahoma University. They do it while the drumline plays the beat from Led Zeppelin's "Immigrant Song." I love hearing them do it, but I always wished that the trumpets would play out the "ah-ah-aaaaah-ah!" part so I arranged it for the horn line of a band whose drumline I was coaching at the time. The school's initials are C-O so the rest of the band, and the cheerleaders, chant that. 👍🏾
UO does that ;)
3:30 hey that’s the woodlands high school!
This July my marching band was invited to march in D.C. and boy did my back hurt after. I had slept on the floor the night previous because it was four kids to a room and only two beds.
we had a 4 hour bus ride for a marching band comp (which we got 2nd but best in our state) and you had all the flute players kissing and like 5 people got asked out and in our hotel me and the girls in my room were crying over pie so that’s fun
We did something like one of those massive conglomerate bands for the 1996 NCAA Div-I AA national championship game at Marshall University, except instead of a bunch of full bands doing the whole paid-invite thing, Marshall invited band directors in the region to send their upperclassmen. For players of divided-part instruments (eg, 1st-3rd trumpet), the Marshall director randomly assigned parts to each school delegation. Being juniors and seniors who had been playing 1st parts and solos, our school's trumpeters weren't too happy with being assigned 3rd parts. Our big idea was to show up the morning of the game and claim we'd lost our school's music and needed replacement 1st parts. Of course, when we tracked down the director's office, as soon as we walked in, he said, "Let me guess. You lost your music and need 1st trumpet music." Apparently every other school's trumpet and clarinet players had had the same idea. They'd been coming in with the same story all morning!
Also, Randy Moss had had some sort of legendary performance that day to close his college years, receiving 220 yards and 4 TDs. I don't remember that at all!
This year for marching band my school band is going to state for the first time in 8-10 years!
Man the Gator Bowl thing reminds me kinda of when my high school and a bunch of other high schools in Washington went to the University of Washington for the 69th (nice) band day to play at the halftime show. It was really cool and my first performance in HS. I'm a freshman btw. The part about not knowing the music is also kinda relatable, because I didn't know the cymbal part to Bow Down to Washington, so I just had the UW band handle that.
Huck the fuskies
Best top 10 i've ever seen!
Did you play American celebration in the holiday bowl parade?
Washington Township is where the Raiders did their home show last year and they are gonna be back this year
i had a band trip and my bus didnt have air conditioning. we are in a northern state and we traveled to florida. that was a painful ride.
The Gator Bowl is one of the most prestigious baseball 🏈 contests in the country and it is an honor to be invited to play there. I’m jealous.
Him talking about how many long trips he’s been in in marching band makes me realize how broke my school is
That was the Woodlands hs you were talking about at 3:30. That’s my school
0:30 we were gonna go to Disney world with our marching band in 2020, but… Covid happened, I was so mad for a few days lol.
Let’s goo the drummming king uploaded!
Dude, I’m half convinced Seiko girls school would trounce Blue Devils in an even contest. They’re freaking ridiculous
Their drill is insane. The craziest part is that the show they did here is like easy level compared to their Japanese competition stuff.
I love band stories
This year we were at an away football game, and I’m playing bass 4 which I can’t see over and the guy I asked to spot me ran away, and I smashed my band directors taillight
I love story videos. Best of luck with the fundraiser btw! Only wish I could partake but… living in Canada and all😅
The day this was posted, the window fell off during my band trip, about 8 hours ago it fell off again, I'm surprisingly alive rn
Bro I just had a football game where I played with my prep band today. The timing is unreal.
I love your videos they have really inspired me to start drumming. I hope you can see this😊
Let me tell you my marching band went Disneyland too and we went to both parks which was nice
OU usually refers to the University of Oklahoma while the University of Oregon is usually referred to as UO. So they were cheering for the University of Oklahoma. Or they were being typical Band Kids and being silly by thinking they're cheering for both.
God damn right
about a month ago my highschool attended the state marching contest. it was a four hour drive but it was totally worth winning first place 🤠
I sadly didn't have any band trips, as when I started high school covid had hit, then I graduated and the next year they are now currently going to Disney land and stuff and I'm very sad 😢
I'm still in high school, but I went to grand nationals just recently and just barely didn't make finals. We are going to Ireland in two years though so I'm excited for that
The massive Texas Highschool doing the high kicks was proably the woodlands highschool.
Here in Philippines we call a marching band here a DXC
Basically Drum and Xylophone Corps
I love marching band, I do color guard :)
I play the drumset in my marching band and for the parade I have to play snare drum
Just saw your review on the 2021 Hebron HS show. I was wondering if you would check out the Kiski Area HS 2022 finals performance. I would love to hear your review of it