WrongWay 0 #1 March 3, 2005 SHARE YOUR BAND GEEK STORIES!! So as some of you know, I was a band geek in high school, and we used to pull nice little pranks every now and again on other teams or members of our beloved faculty. To give some examples..... When our new Asst. Band Director moved into his new house, one night we wrapped 30 rolls (no I'm not exaggerating, we actually bought 30 rolls) of Caution tape and ran around his house with them until they wrapped around his whole house (including the doors so he had some trouble getting out....we got his car too lol), then taped up Quarantine signs all over his doors. Moving road blocks from random places in town and putting them on the main strip in front of the high school was an almost everyday activity, along with picking up cars and turning them sideways in their spots. There was a kid who was known for being a flat out asshole just cuz he liked being in control. He had a habit of starting shit with a certain Senior in my section. One day he was running his mouth as usual when a girl tried to break it up....this dumbass makes the mistake of threatening to beat the shit out of this girl in front my us and the rest of the band. Being in my section, himself being a Freshman, myself being a Senior, we decided it was time to take action.....after all, he was our responsibility. Sooooo......I just happened to own a Jeep Wrangler, and another guy just happened to have some of that nylon rope thats all pokey and stuff.......so long story short, "Scared Straight" didn't have shit on us. We tied him by his hands and ankles to the back of my Jeep by the roll bars (tightly so he was only making contact with the roll bars, he wasn't dragging the ground or even off the tailgate so don't go ), and we took him for a little joyride down the highway. Sure he took it a little hard, but he never threatened another person with violence again, and later that year he actually thanked us for it cuz apparently people started thinking better of him once he stopped being a dick. I was never so happy to provide a service. We formed an official Percussion Cult (after remarks made by the principal that our percussion section was more of a cult than a group of students). We had our own logo, tshirts, a laminated cult schedule displayed proudly above our section with events such involving blood drinking and animal sacrifice, and somewhere hidden deep in a box I'm sure I still have my membership card. Our rival team were the Wellston Rockets....the night before the big game, a large group of us went to their field with some kerosene and spelled out WELLSTON SUCKITS covering their field......you can only imagine what happened next, and the arrests involved afterwards (I was one of the lucky few who didn't go home in the back of a police car), and even better were the expressions on the faces of their players the next night when they saw it. This one time....at band camp......there was a kid who was asleep in this tent he had set up....it was old school, the tall ones that the boy scouts use. So we go in there and do the old shaving cream thing and cover him in it, had a few laughs......until something unexpected happened. One of the guys was smoking, and amidst all the laughter dropped the cigarette out of his mouth and onto the kid.....guess what, shaving cream contains alcohol.....alcohol is flamable. So here we are, 3 guys jumping on this kid to put out the Freshman BBQ, and he wakes up saying "What the hell just happened.....what's that smell?". We all busted out laughing, walked out, and never told him why he was covered in a strange substance that smelled like something had been cooked in it. SO ANYWAY, my reason for posting this?? I just happen to drive by the practice field last night, and the principal lives across the street from it. In his yard are what must be over a hundred pink flamingos. They were everywhere, of course covering his yard, several on his porch, even about 6 on his roof. The best part is the sign they put in the middle of it.... "You have been FLOCKED. Signed, the JHS Percussion Section" I don't remember the last time I laughed like that....and I'm very proud that they carried on the Traditions of Mischief. So here I am, once known as the "Drum God of JHS", giving a big pat on the back to the youngsters, and PLEASE, if YOU have any good stories like this......POST 'EM!!!!! Wrong Way D #27371 Mal Manera Rodriguez Cajun Chicken Ø Hellfish #451 The wiser wolf prevails. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pleifer 0 #2 March 3, 2005 Oh man did you bring some memories back Some of our pranks on the band director….. Putting condoms on his exhaust of a old Volkswagen bug. When he started it to leave, I swear to god they blew up to 1000 times the original size…. They were about 5 foot long and one foot in diameter. He was really into cars, he once excused absences so I could pull a transmission for him. One of his other cars we wrapped in saran wrap. All around and underneath… One of my favorites, was when he got a Geo Metro… you know to save on gas… We picked it up (10 of us) and put it up a flight of stairs on a landing wedged between both railings. When somebody was remodeling their bathroom, they placed the old fixtures… read, bathtub, toilet, sink… ect… on their front lawn with a free sign… We took them up on that offer and took them all and put them on his front yard… There is so many more, but these are some of my favorites. That and my brain has not fully engaged yet this morning…. Good post my man….. memories _________________________________________ The Angel of Duh has spoke Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SarahC07 0 #3 March 3, 2005 Wow. I suppose I'm a band geek to the extreme .... I held leadership positions and the whole thing... we rarely ever pulled pranks.... our head director was a scary scary *mean* man.... I know other people pulled pranks... like some really weird ass phone calls to other band members and sometimes chaperones at weird hours of the night while we were all staying in a hotel... But man, other than that.... I'm at a loss for memories.... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Acensky 0 #4 March 3, 2005 I thought that our band was out there with the pranks but we didn't even scratch the surface of what you and pleifer did. We did the saran wrap around the house to all the prissy girls. We would get like 50 boxes of plastic forks, spoons and knifes and stick them in the front lawns of the assholes. On one of the houses we got attacked by one of their dogs. If we had a sub we always knew about it, either the teacher would tell us that he would not be there the next day or his wife would come in and tell us, but the drummers again would throw their sticks up and lodge them in the ceiling. And almost on cue they would fall form the ceiling and scare the sub. I probly didn't know about half the pranks that went down. I like your pranks better. HeatherGarbage bags do not make good parachutes. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tailgate 0 #5 March 3, 2005 I WAS a band director (middle school)and I am glad I didn't have y'all as students. Although there were time that the students did things that were quite imaginative, but I couldn't admit it. _________________________________________________ Let me live in my house by the side of the road and be a friend to man- Sam Walter Foss Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pleifer 0 #6 March 3, 2005 Those were just some of my fav's... We were a bunch of pranksters, and that included the band director... He was the one who jacked up the back of my truck by the axle so it I did not notice it was sitting higher, went to leave, and my tires just spun... That was my band director... He is now one of my best friends. Point being he was not an honry old man... but just one of the boysOne more prank: Jazz band was held after school, and there was two sections.... the beginers went first, then an hour later the 'better' band went. During that hour it gave us a chance after school to get something to eat or raise hell... In the old building we were in... (and we were the only class held there) the downstairs was head start, and then the upstairs was storage in the old classrooms, we would climb up in the ceiling, crawl over the band room, and drop stuff on Allen (Our band director) then drop the tile before he looked up. first was chunks of the ceiling... then popcorn... then the finally was underwear Landed right over his face Yes and that was my freshman year only got better after that _________________________________________ The Angel of Duh has spoke Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
WrongWay 0 #7 March 3, 2005 QuoteI WAS a band director (middle school)and I am glad I didn't have y'all as students. Although there were time that the students did things that were quite imaginative, but I couldn't admit it. Haha, you think that was bad.....you should've heard some of our band directors stories.....we thought we were lame!! He was in the OSU Marching Band, and man, those stories would knock your socks off. Wrong Way D #27371 Mal Manera Rodriguez Cajun Chicken Ø Hellfish #451 The wiser wolf prevails. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
WrongWay 0 #8 March 4, 2005 Quote I am glad I didn't have y'all as students. Oh, one more thing.....I was Band President. Wrong Way D #27371 Mal Manera Rodriguez Cajun Chicken Ø Hellfish #451 The wiser wolf prevails. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
