OK, she's my daughter.

She's in the marching band at high school.

They're having their annual magazine drive fund-raiser.

My subscription to Road & Track goes till June, 2007.

2007!

If you PM me with a request for a magazine subscription, maybe she'll let me live in peace. (That is, in as much peace as one with a wife, three kids (two of them teenagers), two horses, two dogs, two rabbits, and a guinea pig can get.)

 

what does she play?

I used to be a tromboner...I was in the jazz band, and we were required to march. it was fun for the most part, but marching in that damn uniform in 100*F 90% humidity was as far from fun that i can imagine.

 

As a Freshman she played a clarinet.

Last year and this year she's playing a bass clarinet. There were five bass clarinets in the band last year; this year there are seven!

You're right about the heat and the uniforms; the kids can get pretty sick if they're not careful, and high school kids are rarely careful.

 

University of Southern California Trojan Marching Band Trumpet Section Leaders '93 & '94.



TrojanHorse (left) and Eku (right).

I did 55+ games with hours of rehearsal before each one and survived. It is not so bad. The key is to be completely drunk and naked under the uniform. (Known as freeballing in USC vernacular). If you gut the interior of your jacket and line it with ice cold beers it keeps you cool and then you can drink them as a bonus! Of course this was all before the political correctness police ruined any sort of fun. Strictly milk and cookies these days for those sorry bastards.

Ps Josh: F*ck the bones!

 

Fight On Trojan Horse. I never saw you in the gear before. Great pic.

 

TrojanHorse-

You are awesome, fellow Trojan.

Magician-

You need more rabbits, probably Netherland Dwarfs. And you need to let them sleep in bed with you.

 

Man I did Marching Band in High school, but i was a snare drummer in the drumline. Those things could get heavy, but not as heavy as some of the bass drums. We did these parades at like Disney World and our wool uniforms were killer down there in the heat and humidity of the south. They were more suited for the cold fall nights we would wear them back up here in Chicago...

 

I did Disney World too! I played Trumpet. We were in our woll uniforms, and I was completely sunburned from the day before at the water park.......what pain!!!!