Anecdotes of collapses and droppings

[itsstephenyo]

  Aegis Fang said:

sounded like Medea's Dance of Vengeance, but I could be wrong

HA! That's what it is. Good call, my friend.

[manuel_pablo]

  psi_87 said:

 

the video speaks for itself lol

LOL I remember watching this a couple weeks back. I like how the guy at the right digs in his pocket trying to find his phone and then takes a picture lol

[BassoonPadwan]

We had this freshman tuba player last year who couldn't to save his life, get through atleast two weeks of marching band without falling atleast once. He fell many time throughout the season, and one of the times he fell, he got his tuba bell to kind of be, folded over itself.

 

He only fell once though at an actual performance. The one time he did fall though during a performance, we were in our second movement(there were four) which had a lot of velocity, and direction changes. Needless to say he didn't have the experience yet to get back in the drill. So he backwards marched to the back sideline and just stood at attention the rest of the show. Talk about EMBARASSING . A lot of people had a field day that night when we were watching the video.

[BassoonPadwan]

  supermanuel said:

i fell at state, twice

 

big steps forward to bigger steps back + a slick spot on the turf =  embarassing.

 

and then i slipped trying to get up, embarassing (squared)

Hahahaha, ouch.

[Nancy08]

This wasn't a fall, but last year we were at practice and I was running back to our opening set. Usually I hold my tenor with one hand to keep it from putting alot of pressure on my neck, but i decided i could run faster if I didn't. I let go but when I did the hook on the end of the neckstrap snapped in half and my horn did cartwheels down the field. It never worked the same after that.

[cinco_4_life811]

During finals at SHSU I was in the stands watching the remaining bands perform, and as Pearland was playing we noticed that there was a shoe on the field (lost by some poor marcher). The funny part was watching people march over it, stumbling because they are unaware that it was there. Nobody ever fell, but it sure was fun watching

[PearlandB8908]

  the_DRUM_MAJOR said:

hmm it was Pearland 05-06 when i saw a bass clarinet faint at the Alief marching contest and everyone marched over her i think

uh........ yea she was in my section uh wel the was in the middle of the formation and uh wel it was the 1st part of machine near the begining and we are in the back w/ the line of the tubas and she fell right behind me and steped on her face on accident my section leader who right next to me tripped and fell but got up fast the basically it was the domino effect the whole way throu and the last thing that triped was a 30 inch bass drum .... it was funny after but during the whole rest of the show we were all scared thinken she died or somthing on a brighter side the audience thought she was doing a visual by jumping up and acting like a machine that made my day after all that mess

[gavinrh]

pearland marched machine? was it anything like the cavalier's show?

[PrideOfPearland]

no it was nothing like the cavalier's show because we did that show before the cavis did. the songs we used were whitacre's ghost train and william bolcoms "machine" (which the cavies used in one of their previous show).