A Day in the Life of a High School Band Geek :P

[blue-october-fan]

Had this idea for a looooooooong time to post here, just now (about 3 weeks later) getting around to actually posting it, so here it goes... Pictures from the Bands of America Marching Band Competition...

(by the way, all of these are straight out of the camera... and I was mainly doing this for fun, no technique practiced here :/ )

Polishing our drums at 7 am the day of BOA... drumline's always the first ones there...






Drum Captain Ellen showing off her sparkling clean bass drum:


Classic Kareem "take a picture of meeeeeeeee!!!!":


Focus.


An encouraging hug:


Super Band Man Kyle:


Getting locked out of the percussion studio (our sanctuary)


On the bus, leaving the school (I have now concluded that it is near impossible to get any good pictures out of a bus window... I doubt they ever wash them...


On the bus...






WHAT?!?!?! *NOW* IT RAINS?!?!?!


My two best friends being weird...




Getting lost... again :/


Checking out the competition...


After the performacne... to the stands!!!








Watching our drum majors walk out onto the field for judging...




Andrew, my band photography buddy:


we didn't make finals (we were up against some of the nation's best bands), but Mr. Munoz always tells us he's proud...


Waiting for the bus home to leave, and watching the sunset...


Passing downtown on our way home...


Thanks for looking!

[Outlander]

what do you call someone who wishes they were a musician ? A drummer......baboom!

[blue-october-fan]

Blast! Drumline Battery Battle - YouTube

Blast! Drumline Battery Battle - YouTube

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nuff said. :P

[Abel]

Great series of photos lauryn! Love blue on the iPod. :)

[TheFantasticG]

Andrew needs to work on his hand holding technique...

Nice snapshots. I graduated from Clear Lake HS in 2001. Much has changed there since then.

[texkam]

Band geeks are awesome kids.

[blue-october-fan]

i thought you'd like that, Abel :) haha

thanks guys! Yeah a lot has definitely changed, just by looking at the old yearbooks in the photojournalism room... that's what the ten of us spend most of our time doing...

and yes, Band Geeks are amazing. And we know it

thanks for looking!!!

[Stargazer77517]

Enjoyable series, Thought the landscape looked familar.

[BeccaJ]

man oh man i spent a lot of time at that field. funny they're still doing all the competitions there! ahhhh memories

[craigb456]

If i remember right I have preformed on that field as well. I was in the "Lake Hamilton Power Band" from Hot Springs, AR we always did fairly well and if i say so the best in the state in AR. Carrying 40lb. Quints up and down a field was hard work :P

[Flores]

brings back good memories... Yellow Jacket Band (alvin) 84-88...

[blue-october-fan]

Yeah this was at the woodlands hs. One of my band directors taught at Alvin but that was like 08-10. Yeah quints are heavy. I played bass 4 my freshman year, and I'm pretty short, and I was the only girl on the line then. :/

Thanks for the replies :)

[craigb456]

Our bass line was girls only for awhile

[blue-october-fan]

Wow that's cool. This year we had 4 girls on the line, me on snare, my friend Camille on tenors, and two other girls on bass.