tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6232479.post755543355705647077..comments2023-10-05T10:19:06.886-05:00Comments on Blogonomicon: But my life, my love and my lady is the sea...AlanDPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00910363728370240226noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6232479.post-51449147530060413532008-06-09T18:57:00.000-05:002008-06-09T18:57:00.000-05:00The songs I hated because we played them so much:-...The songs I hated because we played them so much:<BR/><BR/>- "On Wisconsin" (I think this is the ubiquitous "fight song")<BR/>- "On Broadway"<BR/>- Anything by John Williams<BR/><BR/>But, I did kind of like "Basin Street Blues", even though we played the crap out of that, too.Albatrosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02156254141379602471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6232479.post-31074340882554348292008-06-06T19:10:00.000-05:002008-06-06T19:10:00.000-05:00I was in "stage band" in high school. Alto sax. ...I was in "stage band" in high school. Alto sax. I was also in two jazz bands in college, playing bari sax in the #1 band and alto in the #2.<BR/><BR/>We played Zacatacas in HS marching band also.AlanDPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00910363728370240226noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6232479.post-84222050241097137462008-06-06T18:57:00.000-05:002008-06-06T18:57:00.000-05:00This one time, at band camp ...Yeah, I was band ne...This one time, at band camp ...<BR/><BR/>Yeah, I was band nerd. Actually, I was a damn good trumpet player. While some of the tunes we played in 7th and 8th grade were a bit lame, I can't say any of them where that bad. Or maybe I'm not quite as sensitive to that. Our director was a jazz musician. In addition to the regular school band, I played in what was called "stage band", where we did stuff that was usually a bit more difficult, and more fun. Watermelon Man, for example.<BR/><BR/>Now high school band was a different story, and I've mostly blotted it from my memory. Complete fogey stuff, boring as hell, simplistic arrangements, no challenge. The only title that I can remember is Zacatacas. Hell, played by a decent band, it might even be a good tune, but I wouldn't know it from high school band. I'm pretty sure we massacred something by Grofe as well. And god forbid we would play anything at all contemporary.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com