Back to the drawing board for . . .

[Vuitton]

25 minutes ago, Mello Dude said:

88 was hell on Earth.  Valves would dry out.  Put your horn down in the sun for a minute and you were getting burned.  Grass evaporated from practice fields.   Fun...

Yeah, brutal. And we were doing sectionals some where in Texas and all the sudden a chunk of the horn line started getting bitten by fire ants. 

[Tim K]

4 hours ago, craiga said:

Yes but you guys had no air conditioning on your busses.  😀

With the way 27th Lancer stories about busses get exaggerated over time, they had no air conditioning, no seats, no steering wheel, no engine, and had to be pushed from Revere to wherever the corps was competing!🙂

[KVG_DC]

7 minutes ago, Vuitton said:

Yeah, brutal. And we were doing sectionals some where in Texas and all the sudden a chunk of the horn line started getting bitten by fire ants. 

My band had a new campground my senior year that had an alternate field on a marshy area.  It was considered the 'cool field' because if you jumped hard enough in spots, you could see the land ripple a bit.  Marshy.

Anyway, brass and saxes were kept on the main field to run drill (because our drill was together for the section of the show we were working on that morning). Other woodwinds were sent to the practice field to work on music.  As they're clarinets and flutes and pics...they were allowed to sit/kneel I guess as the story went.  All we knew was all of a sudden, they were all running back like hell over the hill screaming like Jason popped out of the lake in his mask.  

Turns out the marshy filed was infested with jumping wolf spiders.

[Vuitton]

1 hour ago, KVG_DC said:

Turns out the marshy filed was infested with jumping wolf spiders.

I was about to laugh until I saw your last sentence. I would have crapped my pants and had a complete meltdown. Mice, rats, bats, no problem, spiders and snakes no no no no!

[FromThePitline]

12 minutes ago, Vuitton said:

I was about to laugh until I saw your last sentence. I would have crapped my pants and had a complete meltdown. Mice, rats, bats, no problem, spiders and snakes no no no no!

💯 with you.  I was raised in Houston TX and we knew a thing or two about spiders and snakes. Unfortunately I was a little kid and knew NOTHING about the sheer terror of water moccasins and rattlesnakes!!  No. No. Never. No. Wrong. Bad. Run!!! F*ck that- I’m outta here!!!

[Vuitton]

5 minutes ago, FromThePitline said:

💯 with you.  I was raised in Houston TX and we knew a thing or two about spiders and snakes. Unfortunately I was a little kid and knew NOTHING about the sheer terror of water moccasins and rattlesnakes!!  No. No. Never. No. Wrong. Bad. Run!!! F*ck that- I’m outta here!!!

I know we're getting off topic here, but it's the offseason, so who cares?

About 10 years ago I did a friend trip to New Orleans. We went on a swamp tour. Our guide was this big, burley guy who could probably knock me out in 2 seconds flat. During the tour, on the boat, I asked him if he sees snakes a lot out here. He said, "Oh, hell no. I don't do snakes." Then proceeded to tell us one time a cottonmouth (water moccasin) fell out of a tree and into the boat. He said he didn't even hesitate for a second and jumped into the water. He said he'd take his chances with an alligator over a snake any day, LOL I would have fainted. Neither staying in the boat or jumping into the water are viable options.

Edited August 13, 2024 by Vuitton

[FromThePitline]

6 minutes ago, Vuitton said:

I know we're getting off topic here, but it's the offseason, so who cares?

About 10 years ago I did a friend trip to New Orleans. We went on a swamp tour. Our guide was this big, burley guy who could probably knock me out in 2 seconds flat. During the tour, on the boat, I asked him if he sees snakes a lot out here. He said, "Oh, hell no. I don't do snakes." Then proceeded to tell us one time a cottonmouth (water moccasin) fell out of a tree and into the boat. He said he didn't even hesitate for a second and jumped into the water. He said he'd take his chances with an alligator over a snake any day, LOL I would have fainted. Neither staying in the boat or jumping into the water are viable options.

Hard pass. I won’t pay money for that experience and would rather get a beer instead.

Yeah, like no one seems to understand why Australia is off my bucket list.  Have you see the large spiders that eat snakes? WTF?  No really… that’s some James Cameron nightmare #### that I ain’t gonna f*ck with. That’s a continent I will never go to thankyouverymuch!

I’m actually good in LA, CA believe it or not… hehehehehe!

 

[ranintothedoor]

To wrangle things back, I'd say the group that should not go to the drawing board was Madison.  I felt a tinge of what I loved about them from the 90s.  🙂 I enjoy Madison most years, but I LOVED their vibe this year.  

[LabMaster]

2 hours ago, Tim K said:

With the way 27th Lancer stories about busses get exaggerated over time, they had no air conditioning, no seats, no steering wheel, no engine, and had to be pushed from Revere to wherever the corps was competing!🙂

I get an Image of a Flintstones bus.

[bluecoats88]

10 minutes ago, ranintothedoor said:

To wrangle things back, I'd say the group that should not go to the drawing board was Madison.  I felt a tinge of what I loved about them from the 90s.  🙂 I enjoy Madison most years, but I LOVED their vibe this year.  

I will agree with you there,  they were able to capture that old Madison feel but still stay fresh and updated