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Beagle147 (profile) wrote,
on 9-20-2003 at 2:27pm
Current mood: pensive
Music: Hey Baby! -Atlantic High Marching War Eagle Band
Umm...today should be a short journal entry, or so I say now. Not a whole lot going on since Thursday. I thought the game last night went pretty well. I mean, the football team won, but besides that.. I think we did pretty well marching/playing, from what I heard. I didnt really see it, kinda had my back turned, and nobody in pit can hear the band AT ALL. Amy can't either, I don't think. It's kinda a problem I would guess, since it will lead to separation of pit and band as far as sound goes. I think part of the problem is that hardly anyone is surrounded by people in their own section, or so everybody tells me, so I wouldnt imagine that they would be playing to their full ability like that. There actually is a point to sitting with your section in class.. I think Lerner's just an idiot. Although, much as I hate to admit it, he earned huge points in my book last night. When Gabe almost passed out, and scared the CRAP out of me and krystle, we were lined up to go running frantically around the field, and lerner actually went up and sat with gabe for a few. It was at that point that I thought, hmmm, maybe he does care somewhat about our well being.. Dunno. Just an observation. I still dont like him though. I'm closer, but not there yet. Pit so did an awesome job last night. Way to go guys! And I actually hit my 3 note solo! lol. I was so afraid to screw that up.. It's not like an actual solo, but I'm still the only one playing. You guys know how bad I am at playing anything by myself in front of people, and...thats a lot of people!! I was so nervous before the show though. We were just kind of standing around. We were trying to find people in the stands that we knew, we only found the youngman family. All of them. It's kind of funny that they bring their daughter to ATL football games.

So anyway, I talked to nikki on the phone last night for like an hour. I laughed at her because her band is so weird. They sing all the time. Haha. Northwestern band is even more of a cult than Atlantic's. Nikki, there's always room for you at uf band! ;-) I think Ryan's still saving you a seat! hehehe. But I am expecting more updates AFTER classes start! (grrr....they have not even started yet. -.- ) Oh, and I so dedicate today's song selection to Nikki!!!

Well, this is a short journal entry for me, but that's really about all that's happened, other than the fact that everyone is now calling me skillet.. hm. So...uhh..I'll post more someday when I feel like it.
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DragonSpeaker

09-20-03 3:12pm

Muahaha. Skillet!

Awesome job with pit last night, and I wish I could hear you better. o.0 Part of the problem is that the band is really spread out, so the sounds we do get tend to be delayed. -.- Rawk on though! (As much as you can 'rawk' when you're playing Les Miserables, lol.)

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Anonymous

09-20-03 5:33pm

i can hear the pit! well... i can tell when the pit and the battery are not together ;-) j/k... no i really can hear u play because at the back of the field it's me, chris o'brien, and kristen (hill) playing... and that's about it... u guys sounded well/good [insert proper english word here]

and i agree... that was kinda weird to see lerner go up there to help gabe... i mean i know he's not a horrible person but still... i was kinda like... hmm... that's interesting

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Beagle147

Re:, 09-20-03 8:16pm

Thanks Krystle! :-P You know it's all the battery's fault! lol. (good) And you know the last time someone said "that's interesting"? WHEN JOHNNY DEPP TURNED INTO A GHOST SKELETON LIKE THE MONKEY!

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Anonymous

Re: Re:, 09-20-03 10:35pm

*AHEM* Battery is rarely off. Pit plays too slow and the band loses tempo. We follow the drum majors for the most part.
: P
Pit needs to listen to the rest of the band anyway. It is possible.. you just have to learn to listen behind you. You have to stay in beat with the band, not just with the drum majors.

Nice tie with Pirates! So preordering that DVD..

~*~

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Beagle147

Re: Re: Re:, 09-20-03 11:19pm

Ok, well, I'm not going to start a thing, but it's not always someone else's fault. We watch the drum majors all the time and no one can hear the band. It's got nothing to do with listening behind me, since amy cant hear you either, and she's facing you.

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Anonymous

Re: Re: Re: Re:, 09-21-03 1:14am

*edits rarely* Right, we do get off more than rarely. But it's a bit hard to speed with the kind of music we have this year. Occasionally it is our fault for messing the tempo or whatever up, sure.
Like I said, it's more than being with the drum major, it's being with the band. And it is very much about listening behind you. Why would you think Amy can't hear the band? Is there a sound proof wall in front of her or something?

~*~

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Beagle147

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:, 09-21-03 3:35pm

No, what I'm saying is that it's not that I can't listen behind me, it's that the show is so bad in terms of placement on the field that no one in the front of the field can hear anything.

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DragonSpeaker

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:, 09-21-03 9:30pm

Haha, no one in the back can either. XD We never get the about face or horns up right. And then Magda growls. o.0;

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