One time is was leaving practice and I waved to my friend as I turned around, I accidentally slapped my drum major on the thigh. This was freshmen year. I died inside
Not super cringy, but one time in Drum Corps we were all showering and I found a spider in the shower. Well, I began to bless the spider with a golden shower and pretty soon 5+ other dudes waddled over and joined me in the showering of this poor spider. Good times man.
It's my freshman year of high school and I'm marching 4th bass. First home game of the year, we're just in shorts and t-shirts because it's Florida and it's still hot when football season starts. We go out for half time, just do our first song as that's all we've gotten down at that point and march off the field. Then we all turn to the right and start walking back over to the band seats. Next thing I know, I'm on the ground, my bass has come off, and a flute player is screaming. And I've got a big cut on my shin. Being unable to see anything over my bass, I walked straight into the box that the coaches plug their head sets into. Ended up needing 15 stitches to close it up. On Monday back in class, we're watching the video tape of half time and we get right to the end and it's been paused. The Band Colonel goes up, starts it playing again, points me out, and goes "And... there goes George..." and the video ended literally right as I started falling down.
Freshman bass 4 gang 👌🏼🤙🏼 and I tripped over a drum major stand on the way to do cadences in 4th qtr with drum on, not nearly as bad as yours cuz I ran into bass 3 and could stay on my feet, but I still cut up my shin lol, just wanted to reply cuz of the huge coincidence
I have a story of one if the percussionists in my band he was playing bass for the Veterans day parade and tripped over a fire hydrant and rolled down the hill just want to put that out there😂
I was bass drum 3 for my freshman year of high school, while we were marching off the field after our pregame show, I couldn’t see over my drum, where there was a tire from an earlier football practice. I tripped over the side of the tire and fell in, drum first. Luckily, I was on the far side of the field from the main stands, but everyone in the visitor stands got a clear view.
I was 3rd bass and tripped over the football bench at a home game. Packed house. Bass went flying... SMH ROFL this was 21 years ago. Still good memories. :D
My 2nd year of marching band, we marched in the Memorial Day parade. As we started down the hill, my band director (really big and chunky guy) tripped and started rolling down the hill. Luckily, we were near the end of the parade route so not a lot of people saw, but those of us band members who did see it happen had a hard time trying not to laugh
Thanks for the shout out Eric! My pleasure to help. Btw, most awkward story for me has to be my first summer of DCI in 2008. We were in Michigan City, IN and had just returned to the school from our rehearsal field. We were in the middle of doing some visual exercises in a hallway at the school when a tornado warning went out due to a severe thunderstorm in the area. With this, our drum major ordered us to go to the basement of the school where the locker rooms were so we all went downstairs, guys in the guys locker room, and girls in the girls locker room. When we got down there, I started getting really nervous for some reason to the point where I pulled out my phone and started calling my parents to tell them what was going on. Got a lot of awkward looks from everyone in the room....
Your last one reminded me of something- My friend came over, and I needed to go to the bathroom, and apparently SHE DIDNT HEAR ME And so I was doing my business and she runs all over the house looking for me then sees the bathroom door closed It was daytime so I didn’t need the light on, and guess what? She kicks it open. That was the most awkward 30 seconds of staring I’ve ever had in my life
8:00 - probably the reason you didn't need a CDL (commercial driver's license) is because the truck was probably single axle in the rear. DOT only requires a CDL if it's a rear multi-axle truck and under (I think) 40' ...
One time, i was at a golden coral, and I was going to the bathroom, snd I was really tired. I open the bathroom and turns out it's a women's room. I swear I saw a whole sofa lol. It was awkward
For my junior year homecoming week, one of the costume themes was Soccer Moms vs Grill Dads. I dressed up as a grill dad. One of the seniors (his name is Dominic this is important for later) had dressed up as a soccer mom, and he had really gone all out. He wore a wig, a stuffed sports bra (huge honkers btw), and two small spherical beanie objects in his pants for his butt. He comes in and starts a conversation with some people and the assistant band director walks in and is like “look, I hope you won the settlement with the plastic surgeon”. God that was so funny. The main band director come out of his office, stares at him for about 12 seconds trying not to laugh, and the only word he uttered was “Dominique?” LMAO. His girlfriend called him Mommy Dommy the whole entire day and it was so freaking funny.
I got hurt so I got switched from trumpet to pit, and now I respect you as a percussionist even more. I’ve had to learn an entire show for a BOA event in 3 days. I’ve learned a lot about percussion in the past few days.
One time during indoor season, I accidentally rolled my ankle while crabbing and fell over, and I was directly behind the set player when this happened, while everyone else saw me fall, my director told me afterwards he thought I had just forgot where we were stopping because I was behind the drummer, and I just sit there thinking, dang he didn't hear the drum fall either?
OMG Eric. Was killing time at work and trying to be subtle about it because my office is full of people. Totally got busted while laughing like hell at this. Nice vid.
Our drum senior told me about the time he was in pit and they had nothing to do so they built a shrine around a coffee cup, then proceed to worship it until our director said "pit, play your part" then eventually got a very angry glare since all the equipment was surrounding a cup
I was in pit last year and I wouldn’t doubt that something like this happened in pit. Like pit sits out a bunch during rehearsal and, in my pit, people would do funny dances and take pictures of each other until our director told us to start playing lmao
Elevator wall thumb roll...EPIC! haha My most awkward DCI moment was while on tour traveling overnight on the bus, I accidentally slept through a rest stop...stop... and only awoke as we were leaving...to discover that I had to pee...REALLY badly. I held it and held it...and held it...until I was in full-on sweats and chills agony. Finally begged the bus driver to find a place to pull off... So the ENTIRE Cadets convoy had to prematurely pull-off so little ol' ME could limp to the edge of the parking lot and pee (I literally could not walk the 100 yards to the actual rest rooms). And of course, the entire corps was standing behind me cheering. hahaha oh it's funny NOW! :P
I was walking off the field after a rehearsal, and this kid yells "watch out!!" but i didnt know he was talking to me, and my next step, i flattened his trombone because i couldnt see over the top of my bass drum. the band director picked up the trombone and face palmed as i kinda tip-toed away like i didnt do anything
I was marching in the Magic Kingdom parade at Disney World and my clothespin became undone holding my pants up. I had to play one handed while my pants up the whole damn parade... I never heard the end of it for a week. lol
Great stories! It shows the difference between drum corps in the last 20 years vs drum corps when I marched in the early 90s. When I marched, they probably would not set times and just had us all shower together. I HATED the bathrooms with no doors on the stalls. If I had to poop, I'd try to go in the middle of the night when we stayed at those schools.😂
I’ve been enjoying your vids but this is the one that got me to finally subscribe. Nice job! #4 and #1 were the best. I literally lol’d at your director just calling out “I saw that” that’s such a corps thing to do! 😂😂. I marched Scouts mid 90’s and one day we shared housing sites with the Colts for some reason. As an all male corps we always just used both men’s and women’s locker rooms because duh, we had no girls. I always used the girls because they were always nicer and usually had doors on the stalls! (Haha, totally relate to that to that one too) so at this school I went to go shower and go into the girls and there’s a bunch of my scout brothers there and there’s a bunch of naked girls showering too. I just stop and look for awhile and everyone’s acting like this is normal. I decide this is probably not going to end well once someone figures out what is happening so I just turned around and left. Speaking of awkward no stall doors situations. At Allentown there has never been doors on the stalls of course. Before the show I take the biggest dump of my life. I have to show someone so I call out to my friend who was right there to take a look. He sees it and laughs so hard the brass caption head sees him and asks what’s so funny. So he tells him and he has to come take a look. I haven’t even wiped yet when the brass caption head yells to the rest of the entire staff who was over in the locker room to come have a look at this thing. I mean, it was impressive, it looked like soft served ice cream and filled the bowl with the top poking out of the water. So the entire staff line up and take a look in queue. Everyone was very impressed and there was much rejoicing but yeah, it ended up being very awkward! I totally forgot these stories until I watched your vid. Good times!!
Hey. I have bit of a random question. Have you ever gone into detail about the quick stick click technique you do occasionally, such as here 14:37? If not, is there any chance you could? That would be neat to know how to do.
It was like the first day of band camp my sophomore year and during break my friend had said he was going to the bath room and then I lost him so I went anyways and I saw some dude in the stall so I decided to make a fart noise and then the dude flushed and walked out and it was my new front ensemble tech.
That last one kindda of happened when I marched. We got out of last block early and the visual staff was showering. Be a quad guy, all 5 of us went to shower at the same time, probably to touch each other or something. Regardless, we walked in and the whole male AND female visual staff was in there. Now why the female staff was in there, I have 0 clue. But they were. P.S. we were all fully nude...
One of the years I marched DCI, the housing site had ancient bathrooms. All they put between the toilets in the locker room were dividers about three feet high. Why even bother with that??!!
That’s so reminds me of being in marching band in high school. Short version whole middle of practice field going backwards caught the edge of it and took out three other bandmembers that was a danger of playing the trombone in matching band, very easy to take other people out with you
Title: Don't play with "bells on" at Hays high school (Texas). I was a sousaphone player, sophomore in high school with good chops and horrible marching skills. Minutes before halftime as the band was moving down the stands a mild storm front came in. The director said it was a go and we all moved onto the field. Midway through the second song winds picked up at 40 miles per hour and created cross winds on the football field. The drum line and sousaphones toppled like dominoes. Band parents ran in from the stands to help pick us up while the rest of the band was playing. The director finally got the drum majors to call us and we had to leave carrying the sousaphone bells in our hands...which is something the rest of the sousaphone was not designed for. 2 years later, I was the rank leader and we met those Hays high school cross winds again. I order all of the sousaphone players to leave their bells on the sideline and run the "no bells" slide tuning we practiced over summer band camp. We prob looked like six chickens with our heads cut off.
My freshman year of high school i happen to be allowed to play 5th bass in the stands. As I am walking down the bleachers (which was pretty high up ) I accidentally trip up and literally tumble all the way down to the bottom. With a 5th bass drum...it sucked lol more embarrassed than in actual pain. No drums were injured in this story which as we all know is the important part.
At cross country in 7th grade we had a free run which ment we could run anywhere on the property -plus it was night time- we were chasing someone but he was on the other side of the 18 foot fence seoarating the parking lot from the foot ball feild. so we decided to scale the fence. So Jeff* climed up the fence hopled over got his pants stuck roy* took 10 minutes to get him down. Then Roy hopped over the fence and got stuck so I helped him down then aiden yells HEY THERES A HOLE UNDER OVER HERE all that for nothing.
When I was in college, we made it to a bowl game, and as a freshman I had to assist in setting up the drum stands in the stadium. Well a couple of us piled in the back of the box truck that had all the drum equipment in it to transport to the stadium. Well, one of the assistants were driving the truck and went under a walkway and hit it with the top of the truck, peeled it back like a sardine can with about 5 of us in the back of the truck. We all fell over the equipment in the back of truck, but then had to rush out like we were never in there! Quite an experience!
The most awkward thing I’ve ever seen on drum corps tour was a shower room with those vertical 6-pack shower poles AND shameless shitters...all in the same place!
#5... Same experience at a middle school in South Dakota, but we also had the showers on the wall . Two shower heads.... Only one worked. So we had a line to the shower running between the wall-less, and Shameless ####ers Oh and if you wanted to brush your teeth, the two sinks where opposite sides of each other... Beside the toliets
Okay, I'm in eighth grade,but here are my top 3 most embarrassing band moments. *inhales* okay 3: this was in seventh grade. We had played this piece so many times, and I never had much trouble with it. Well, it just so happens that about five people would consistently play an extra note at the end of the song. On like the seventh try, everyone got it right. Except for me. I freaking played super loud on my flute at the very end, and OMG I was SO embarrassed. To make it worse, EVERYONE started clapping. I was just sitting there, with my head in my hands, and the clapping went on for a solid ten to fifteen seconds until the band director cut them off. This is just number 3. 2. Okay, this one has haunted me. Also in seventh grade, I just so happened to make the all county band. We got this one piece by John Phillip Sousa (sorry I can't spelllll). The director asked, "does anyone know what this man did?" And the smartass I was, I raised my hand. Well you know what, I thought he said John Wilkes Booth . I said, "HE KILLED ABRAHAM LINCOLN" no one laughed or clapped this time, thankfully, but I was mortified when I realized what I had done. To this day that memory still haunts me. 1. At the end of seventh grade during testing, there were no bells. My hand director, for whatever reason, had us pack up early. So just so you know, he dismissed us by saying like "First row have a great day" or sometimes just "bye". So I was sitting there and he said "hi". Well you know what I heard? I heard "bye". I didn't think anything of it at first, but then I remembered how we have no bells. So i- I go- I GOT UP AND LEFT. He had to come get me and EVERYONE SAW IT. People were laughing and shit, and I was so embarrassed. I can't even put this situation into words you don't understand. This should probably just be called incidents where Anna couldn't hear in seventh grade. Seventh grade me was a deaf dork.
Wish you lived in ohio I can't find a good teacher around here to help me become better at the tenor drum and I can watch videos and everything but idk it's not the same feeling for me
When you said you ran into the yellow pole I heard it play in my head because I had the same thing happen to me driving a forklift at work. There was almost no damage, just a bloodcurdling bang.
I was marching bass 5 and I was playing with noobs and turned to check on them see how they were holding up and ran straight into a yellow parking pole
If it makes you feel any better... I've done your #1 before by accident as well... stupid corps prank... really embarrassing... I understand... still not my personal #1, that still has to be losing my pants in front of about 500-600 people during a halftime show in high school - that one I promptly came off the field at the end of the show with the unit, and then peeled off while they went back to the bleachers, I went on to a bus and hyperventilated for about 10 minutes...
Our corps had the benefit of having our own housing site that was an old school. The problem was the guy's shower ran out of hot water after a few minutes but the girls always had it. My now-wife was showering once and after rinsing the soap out of her hair, look next to her and saw the drumline section leader standing next to her. The guys on occasion would get fed up of the water situation and go to the girls shower.
I had the last but kinda opposite. Some of the showers were broken, so staff and members had to use the same ones. Decided that members would get till 10, staff would go after. Didn't get told that, so I go to shower at like 10:30 and walk in on most of the staff naked. Fun stuff
I love band trip stories! Band directors STILL talk about that crazy time on that one trip.. but I gotta say, "I had a drumline that INSISTED you use "THE CODE WORD" to excuse yourself if you had to fart. We were always stuck in tiny rooms - even outside, it was hard to find space that wouldn't bother classes AND wouldn't interfere with the horns... the two girls approached me and posed this solution to the problem... they were SO embarrassed about bringing it up, however - when I addressed the boys, couldn't they "excuse" themselves for a moment? Man, it was so funny - I gave them a nod just before wrap up the following rehearsal, and they took the bells and snare and left. I'm standing there with another snare, quads, four basses and a set of crash cymbals (all boys, ) and I've GOT to introduce the problem, declare the solution (a "tradition" now, from here on out... and (being a young woman, ) I too, am mortified that I have to speak to this, in public - to my drumline.... it started with "ok, so...." (my husband - being a man, of course,) had suggested that BLUNT and to the point would be the best route, AND expect laughing...(well I knew I was gonna laugh,) so I said, "at ease. Take a moment to laugh..." (oh boy, we sure DID laugh...) and finally, I called attention and - amid suppressed snickers - we went back in to put the drums away... the band and director had a quizzical look when we walked in (trying REAL hard not to laugh, now...) and we put up, came to attention... upon dismissal, the drummers hurried over to their compadres in the flags and winds to tell them how funny this was - each section erupted in laughter in turn - which raised the eyebrows of the director - who, then asked me in front of the brass and flag instructor WHAT was so funny?! Omg - they're all Male - and I'm beetred (still trying so hard NOT to laugh - but maintain my professional composure,) explaining THE code... and we ALL just bust out laughing! I mean, at least a full 60 seconds of gut busting guffaw! Finally, the flag coach says, "man - I'm glad I got all girls!" (More laughter from the director and I...) But the brass coach (by far, the most serious personality under the director,) says "actually - that is a BRILLIANT idea, because WE get stuck in that little alcove off the cafeteria sometimes, ya know?" Only a few seconds pause... and then.... ANOTHER gut busting (hurts to even REMEMBER it, ) round of laughter!
I have a cool delivery truck story. So I was in the shop at the work bench. There's a pickup truck already in the shop. I suddenly hear this loud BANG and the shop door literally bends a couple feet and then goes back. I'm like "Hey guys, Purolator is here." I guess the guy backed straight into the door at speed. Bent the rails that the door is on. If someone was standing at that shop door they likely wouldn't have legs anymore.
Freshman bass 4 here💯🔥 during a rehearsal on our show, it was the first run through of one of our dot chunks. Bass line was separated in our section ( drumline made a cross cross form it was soo cool) and while I was marching back. The tempo changed. (It goes from 82 bpm to 160 in that measure so imagine doing a oblique to straight down in that change) and I ran into bass 3 and bass 5 was supposed to oblique backwards and ended up pulling me for 2 measure straight. It wasn’t that bad though because a tuba player slammed a clarinet player.
Parents can be such dicks. I play drums but never competed. I did, however, compete in piano and keyboard (sequencer) for eight years (until I graduated from HS). Anyway, I guess I'd won so many first place trophies that parents approached the president of the American Guild of Music AND Michigan Music Association (MMA prez. happened to be my instructor) and told them that I was registering in a younger age group just so I'd have an upper hand over the "younger kids". NOPE! I was actually one of the younger kids in my age group. Needless to say, the parents didn't get anywhere with that one. Adults are scary.
I was marching our 1st movement AND KEEP IN MIND THIS IS 120BTS and this girl behind me was going so slow so I stepped on her shoe, she fell back and pushed another guy and thankfully that guy did not fall on the ground and to make matters worse it was infront of an entire crowd so we were very embarrassed.. But me and that girl are not on the same page and i think we will never be on the same page.. She also tries to flirt with the director sometimes for some reason even though he is WAYY older..
So my school hosts a marching band show every other year and when we host we play the national anthem and I play bass normally but I play cymbals for the national anthem and so we’re all about to march onto the field when this other cymbal player turns to me and goes “I need to pee” and then slowly more and more percussionists realize they also need to use the bathroom. our band uniforms cannot be removed easily and nobody can just leave because we’re a really small section so the entire percussion section had to just wait until we A: finish playing for all these people or B: somebody to pee in their pants in front of everyone’s friends parents and several other schools (it ended up being ok, but it isn’t something we’re looking to turn into a percussion tradition)
1985 Geneseo Knights show, Kankakee Il. The only available toilet to use was near the field. a 6'x6' room with a urinal, toilet and sink. The toilet stall was removed so the toilet was exposed. As I sat to poop, no less than 10 people came in. Some would just walk in and turn around and walk out, and some would use the urinal and/or wash their hand....so close...awkwardly pretending not to notice each other. Very traumatic for 17 year old me.
I will try to explain it (I dont speak english good) but the director was angry with us because we didn't clean the bass drums and he gave us an old instruments to practice, then I posted in Facebook that we were selling the Old instruments... That was not funny for all the band and I got suspended for the joke ☠️
bus driver broke the cardinal rule "no shittin on the bus"......also I guess drum corps completely mellowed out by the time you were teaching cause there often was no big deal with coed showering back in the late 90s early 00s if there were shower issues.
I’m sitting here waiting for the “sexual stories” laughing my ass off 10 through 2 like nothing like “this one time at band camp...” and then 1 happened 😂😂
“Oh crap! There’s a pole there.”
Joe, from the snare line
Pole*
Who is Joe?
@@jgamesgeno4966 "Joe Mama! OOOOH!"
- Eric Carr, "3 Guys Named Joe"
TheAvirus who’s joe mama
dylken 569 same as yuri
One time is was leaving practice and I waved to my friend as I turned around, I accidentally slapped my drum major on the thigh. This was freshmen year. I died inside
... and that's how you ended up going to prom with the drum major? --- just kidding, I could see that being pretty embarrassing..
That's awesome😂so they were on the ladder?
James Thatcher lol I wish. She actually marched Boston last summer. She didn’t like me very much.
@@benrosasco2667 that's ok... most DMs didn't like me either... the important part is to just try hard and have fun, otherwise what's the point?
I'm a sophomore in high school, and I accidentally slapped one of the freshmen (this was in orchestra). Whoops.
The pause in the beginning after you said "I'm awkward" 😂😂😂
Yes😂
I thought it was my WiFi lagging again
Not super cringy, but one time in Drum Corps we were all showering and I found a spider in the shower. Well, I began to bless the spider with a golden shower and pretty soon 5+ other dudes waddled over and joined me in the showering of this poor spider. Good times man.
@@g0ne520 legit, but spiders suck
BOYS’ LOCKERROOM:
That's legit
Took me a minute and thats pretty weird
Th fuck
It's my freshman year of high school and I'm marching 4th bass. First home game of the year, we're just in shorts and t-shirts because it's Florida and it's still hot when football season starts. We go out for half time, just do our first song as that's all we've gotten down at that point and march off the field. Then we all turn to the right and start walking back over to the band seats. Next thing I know, I'm on the ground, my bass has come off, and a flute player is screaming. And I've got a big cut on my shin. Being unable to see anything over my bass, I walked straight into the box that the coaches plug their head sets into. Ended up needing 15 stitches to close it up.
On Monday back in class, we're watching the video tape of half time and we get right to the end and it's been paused. The Band Colonel goes up, starts it playing again, points me out, and goes "And... there goes George..." and the video ended literally right as I started falling down.
Freshman bass 4 gang 👌🏼🤙🏼 and I tripped over a drum major stand on the way to do cadences in 4th qtr with drum on, not nearly as bad as yours cuz I ran into bass 3 and could stay on my feet, but I still cut up my shin lol, just wanted to reply cuz of the huge coincidence
What band
I have a story of one if the percussionists in my band he was playing bass for the Veterans day parade and tripped over a fire hydrant and rolled down the hill just want to put that out there😂
I was bass drum 3 for my freshman year of high school, while we were marching off the field after our pregame show, I couldn’t see over my drum, where there was a tire from an earlier football practice. I tripped over the side of the tire and fell in, drum first. Luckily, I was on the far side of the field from the main stands, but everyone in the visitor stands got a clear view.
I was 3rd bass and tripped over the football bench at a home game. Packed house. Bass went flying... SMH ROFL this was 21 years ago. Still good memories. :D
My 2nd year of marching band, we marched in the Memorial Day parade. As we started down the hill, my band director (really big and chunky guy) tripped and started rolling down the hill. Luckily, we were near the end of the parade route so not a lot of people saw, but those of us band members who did see it happen had a hard time trying not to laugh
Lmaoo
"im awkward"
we know. thats why we watch you lmao
😂
It’s nice to be with your own awkward kind
I want to like your comment but its at 69
"Blasting a duce"😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 also I love the bus band director he's a pretty spicy looking dude
Gotta love Chip eh?
Chip tOOOth
*deuce
last story made fucking laugh in hard in the bathroom broo. Everyone in the bathroom said “you good man”. Thanks that was awkward lmao
I just had a seizure trying to read that
Daniil Oxyuk sorry, English is my 5th language
@@tinomurillo7360 For real? Polyglot squad bro
5th language dang you smart asf
@@oldchannel987 stop being a jerk
Random gong lick?
Yea! Or random marracca lick
Random tam-tam lick.
@@lifeontheledgerlines8394 if they don't have a gong. Don't worry, I know there's a difference between the two
Random timpani lick?
Random ice cream lick.
7:09 That is literally my high school’s band room, made me do a double take 😂
Bridgwater raritan regional high school??
Theo Anthony yep!
@@jasonkirshner I knew it, I had my region and All-state reading rehearsals there
Theo Anthony Yep, I was there too
@@jasonkirshner what instrument and ensemble?
Stevie T's brother is a drummer?
That's hilarious 😂
Who can Djent harder 20 sting guitar or Bass Drum 6?????
Bass drum 6
😂
Michael Kirk Lmao thas rite 😎
My section leader is the most awkward person to ever live so I’m gonna make sure to send this video to her.
Drumline section leaders are interesting humans😂in a good way lol
Leigh Dles facts
@@fizzylemonleaf as a alum drumline section leader I can confirm, we r indeed very “interesting” beings.
Oh no... :( I can only imagine your pain for the last one
Thanks for the shout out Eric! My pleasure to help. Btw, most awkward story for me has to be my first summer of DCI in 2008. We were in Michigan City, IN and had just returned to the school from our rehearsal field. We were in the middle of doing some visual exercises in a hallway at the school when a tornado warning went out due to a severe thunderstorm in the area. With this, our drum major ordered us to go to the basement of the school where the locker rooms were so we all went downstairs, guys in the guys locker room, and girls in the girls locker room. When we got down there, I started getting really nervous for some reason to the point where I pulled out my phone and started calling my parents to tell them what was going on. Got a lot of awkward looks from everyone in the room....
1st comment
Your last one reminded me of something-
My friend came over, and I needed to go to the bathroom, and apparently SHE DIDNT HEAR ME
And so I was doing my business and she runs all over the house looking for me then sees the bathroom door closed
It was daytime so I didn’t need the light on, and guess what?
She kicks it open.
That was the most awkward 30 seconds of staring I’ve ever had in my life
You stared at her, for a solid 30 seconds, with no words being said? I would've collapsed of heat exhaustion.
@@Herobryce1075 I would’ve just fell over dead
8:00 - probably the reason you didn't need a CDL (commercial driver's license) is because the truck was probably single axle in the rear. DOT only requires a CDL if it's a rear multi-axle truck and under (I think) 40' ...
James Thatcher it all depends on what weight the truck is rated for and if it has air breaks or not
@@Alanb6 I thought it had to do with the number of axles as well....
@@Alanb6 huh... TIL....
More axles you have more weight you can haul
Wha
I couldn't even cringe at the last story because I was too busy laughing
One time, i was at a golden coral, and I was going to the bathroom, snd I was really tired. I open the bathroom and turns out it's a women's room. I swear I saw a whole sofa lol. It was awkward
For my junior year homecoming week, one of the costume themes was Soccer Moms vs Grill Dads. I dressed up as a grill dad. One of the seniors (his name is Dominic this is important for later) had dressed up as a soccer mom, and he had really gone all out. He wore a wig, a stuffed sports bra (huge honkers btw), and two small spherical beanie objects in his pants for his butt. He comes in and starts a conversation with some people and the assistant band director walks in and is like “look, I hope you won the settlement with the plastic surgeon”. God that was so funny. The main band director come out of his office, stares at him for about 12 seconds trying not to laugh, and the only word he uttered was “Dominique?” LMAO. His girlfriend called him Mommy Dommy the whole entire day and it was so freaking funny.
That dividerless toilet one should've been #2
I got hurt so I got switched from trumpet to pit, and now I respect you as a percussionist even more. I’ve had to learn an entire show for a BOA event in 3 days. I’ve learned a lot about percussion in the past few days.
Depending on what instruments you played in pit, that's gotta be the most stressful 3 days of your life
Great! Perfect! That was wonderful, you’re done! Let’s get you out of here !
Go
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GET OUT
*GET OUT!*
One time during indoor season, I accidentally rolled my ankle while crabbing and fell over, and I was directly behind the set player when this happened, while everyone else saw me fall, my director told me afterwards he thought I had just forgot where we were stopping because I was behind the drummer, and I just sit there thinking, dang he didn't hear the drum fall either?
18:35 did you just thumb roll on the elevator wall
OMG Eric. Was killing time at work and trying to be subtle about it because my office is full of people. Totally got busted while laughing like hell at this. Nice vid.
Our drum senior told me about the time he was in pit and they had nothing to do so they built a shrine around a coffee cup, then proceed to worship it until our director said "pit, play your part" then eventually got a very angry glare since all the equipment was surrounding a cup
I was in pit last year and I wouldn’t doubt that something like this happened in pit. Like pit sits out a bunch during rehearsal and, in my pit, people would do funny dances and take pictures of each other until our director told us to start playing lmao
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#2 was hands down the funniest one and I am dying of laughter XD
Elevator wall thumb roll...EPIC! haha My most awkward DCI moment was while on tour traveling overnight on the bus, I accidentally slept through a rest stop...stop... and only awoke as we were leaving...to discover that I had to pee...REALLY badly. I held it and held it...and held it...until I was in full-on sweats and chills agony. Finally begged the bus driver to find a place to pull off... So the ENTIRE Cadets convoy had to prematurely pull-off so little ol' ME could limp to the edge of the parking lot and pee (I literally could not walk the 100 yards to the actual rest rooms). And of course, the entire corps was standing behind me cheering. hahaha oh it's funny NOW! :P
I was walking off the field after a rehearsal, and this kid yells "watch out!!" but i didnt know he was talking to me, and my next step, i flattened his trombone because i couldnt see over the top of my bass drum. the band director picked up the trombone and face palmed as i kinda tip-toed away like i didnt do anything
I was marching in the Magic Kingdom parade at Disney World and my clothespin became undone holding my pants up. I had to play one handed while my pants up the whole damn parade... I never heard the end of it for a week. lol
Great stories! It shows the difference between drum corps in the last 20 years vs drum corps when I marched in the early 90s. When I marched, they probably would not set times and just had us all shower together.
I HATED the bathrooms with no doors on the stalls. If I had to poop, I'd try to go in the middle of the night when we stayed at those schools.😂
I couldn't stop laughing more than once. Thanks for sharing those moments with us.
I laughed more than I cringed lmao
I’ve been enjoying your vids but this is the one that got me to finally subscribe. Nice job! #4 and #1 were the best. I literally lol’d at your director just calling out “I saw that” that’s such a corps thing to do! 😂😂. I marched Scouts mid 90’s and one day we shared housing sites with the Colts for some reason. As an all male corps we always just used both men’s and women’s locker rooms because duh, we had no girls. I always used the girls because they were always nicer and usually had doors on the stalls! (Haha, totally relate to that to that one too) so at this school I went to go shower and go into the girls and there’s a bunch of my scout brothers there and there’s a bunch of naked girls showering too. I just stop and look for awhile and everyone’s acting like this is normal. I decide this is probably not going to end well once someone figures out what is happening so I just turned around and left.
Speaking of awkward no stall doors situations. At Allentown there has never been doors on the stalls of course. Before the show I take the biggest dump of my life. I have to show someone so I call out to my friend who was right there to take a look. He sees it and laughs so hard the brass caption head sees him and asks what’s so funny. So he tells him and he has to come take a look. I haven’t even wiped yet when the brass caption head yells to the rest of the entire staff who was over in the locker room to come have a look at this thing. I mean, it was impressive, it looked like soft served ice cream and filled the bowl with the top poking out of the water. So the entire staff line up and take a look in queue. Everyone was very impressed and there was much rejoicing but yeah, it ended up being very awkward! I totally forgot these stories until I watched your vid. Good times!!
I'm having flash backs to the band bus video.
The cowbell was my favorite
"He's blastin' a DEUCE" lmao
You really missed an opportunity to pull down like 5 pairs of underwear in that last skit
When are we getting a face reveal?
is his face not already part of the video? lol
Killian Deaton for the masked man, probs 100k :v
The number 2 spot went to a kid who went number 2
This was one of the best videos I've ever seen. Thank you!!
Hey. I have bit of a random question. Have you ever gone into detail about the quick stick click technique you do occasionally, such as here 14:37? If not, is there any chance you could? That would be neat to know how to do.
"Oh no a pokerchip!!!"-Band staff
This was born from a practice when a pokerchip went flying across the field XD
It was like the first day of band camp my sophomore year and during break my friend had said he was going to the bath room and then I lost him so I went anyways and I saw some dude in the stall so I decided to make a fart noise and then the dude flushed and walked out and it was my new front ensemble tech.
That last one kindda of happened when I marched. We got out of last block early and the visual staff was showering. Be a quad guy, all 5 of us went to shower at the same time, probably to touch each other or something. Regardless, we walked in and the whole male AND female visual staff was in there. Now why the female staff was in there, I have 0 clue. But they were. P.S. we were all fully nude...
One of the years I marched DCI, the housing site had ancient bathrooms. All they put between the toilets in the locker room were dividers about three feet high. Why even bother with that??!!
“Eric Carr I saw that whole thing” That is totally something that one of my my band directors would say
That’s so reminds me of being in marching band in high school. Short version whole middle of practice field going backwards caught the edge of it and took out three other bandmembers that was a danger of playing the trombone in matching band, very easy to take other people out with you
Title: Don't play with "bells on" at Hays high school (Texas).
I was a sousaphone player, sophomore in high school with good chops and horrible marching skills. Minutes before halftime as the band was moving down the stands a mild storm front came in. The director said it was a go and we all moved onto the field. Midway through the second song winds picked up at 40 miles per hour and created cross winds on the football field. The drum line and sousaphones toppled like dominoes. Band parents ran in from the stands to help pick us up while the rest of the band was playing. The director finally got the drum majors to call us and we had to leave carrying the sousaphone bells in our hands...which is something the rest of the sousaphone was not designed for.
2 years later, I was the rank leader and we met those Hays high school cross winds again. I order all of the sousaphone players to leave their bells on the sideline and run the "no bells" slide tuning we practiced over summer band camp. We prob looked like six chickens with our heads cut off.
My freshman year of high school i happen to be allowed to play 5th bass in the stands. As I am walking down the bleachers (which was pretty high up ) I accidentally trip up and literally tumble all the way down to the bottom. With a 5th bass drum...it sucked lol more embarrassed than in actual pain. No drums were injured in this story which as we all know is the important part.
Me and my brother are both in 8th grade in percussion I play snare he’s a triangle beater he tried to flex on my with his triangle
Don't be hating on that triangle
Dont underestimate the triangles power
This video was made 4 years ago today. Happy birthday
Thank you for telling the last story it made my day a lot better👍👍😂
When your first chair *but a percussionist* pssst I know the feeling lol
At cross country in 7th grade we had a free run which ment we could run anywhere on the property -plus it was night time- we were chasing someone but he was on the other side of the 18 foot fence seoarating the parking lot from the foot ball feild. so we decided to scale the fence. So Jeff* climed up the fence hopled over got his pants stuck roy* took 10 minutes to get him down. Then Roy hopped over the fence and got stuck so I helped him down then aiden yells HEY THERES A HOLE UNDER OVER HERE all that for nothing.
When I was in college, we made it to a bowl game, and as a freshman I had to assist in setting up the drum stands in the stadium. Well a couple of us piled in the back of the box truck that had all the drum equipment in it to transport to the stadium. Well, one of the assistants were driving the truck and went under a walkway and hit it with the top of the truck, peeled it back like a sardine can with about 5 of us in the back of the truck. We all fell over the equipment in the back of truck, but then had to rush out like we were never in there! Quite an experience!
The most awkward thing I’ve ever seen on drum corps tour was a shower room with those vertical 6-pack shower poles AND shameless shitters...all in the same place!
#5...
Same experience at a middle school in South Dakota, but we also had the showers on the wall .
Two shower heads....
Only one worked.
So we had a line to the shower running between the wall-less, and Shameless ####ers
Oh and if you wanted to brush your teeth, the two sinks where opposite sides of each other... Beside the toliets
Okay, I'm in eighth grade,but here are my top 3 most embarrassing band moments.
*inhales* okay
3: this was in seventh grade. We had played this piece so many times, and I never had much trouble with it. Well, it just so happens that about five people would consistently play an extra note at the end of the song. On like the seventh try, everyone got it right. Except for me. I freaking played super loud on my flute at the very end, and OMG I was SO embarrassed. To make it worse, EVERYONE started clapping. I was just sitting there, with my head in my hands, and the clapping went on for a solid ten to fifteen seconds until the band director cut them off. This is just number 3.
2. Okay, this one has haunted me. Also in seventh grade, I just so happened to make the all county band. We got this one piece by John Phillip Sousa (sorry I can't spelllll). The director asked, "does anyone know what this man did?" And the smartass I was, I raised my hand. Well you know what, I thought he said John Wilkes Booth . I said, "HE KILLED ABRAHAM LINCOLN" no one laughed or clapped this time, thankfully, but I was mortified when I realized what I had done. To this day that memory still haunts me.
1. At the end of seventh grade during testing, there were no bells. My hand director, for whatever reason, had us pack up early. So just so you know, he dismissed us by saying like "First row have a great day" or sometimes just "bye". So I was sitting there and he said "hi". Well you know what I heard? I heard "bye". I didn't think anything of it at first, but then I remembered how we have no bells. So i- I go- I GOT UP AND LEFT. He had to come get me and EVERYONE SAW IT. People were laughing and shit, and I was so embarrassed. I can't even put this situation into words you don't understand.
This should probably just be called incidents where Anna couldn't hear in seventh grade. Seventh grade me was a deaf dork.
Also one time I slipped on the marching band field but only my hand director was its that wasn't too embarrassing .
What flavor total war do you use? That preworkout is godly 💪🏼
5:37 the closing of the door sync with the cymbsls
This was a really funny video. Sorry 😂
Christmas Eve 2020 .... Always fun re-watching old EMCProduction videos! Must have watched this => at least
Wish you lived in ohio I can't find a good teacher around here to help me become better at the tenor drum and I can watch videos and everything but idk it's not the same feeling for me
When you said you ran into the yellow pole I heard it play in my head because I had the same thing happen to me driving a forklift at work. There was almost no damage, just a bloodcurdling bang.
I was marching bass 5 and I was playing with noobs and turned to check on them see how they were holding up and ran straight into a yellow parking pole
I'm a trumpet player, I've been doing it for 2 years, my best friend plays percussion, I like you channel. (I'm very awkward)
I forgot this was a try not to cringe challenge. I lost miserably😂
When we got the coach buses last time our bus driver almost ran a red light.
If it makes you feel any better... I've done your #1 before by accident as well... stupid corps prank... really embarrassing... I understand... still not my personal #1, that still has to be losing my pants in front of about 500-600 people during a halftime show in high school - that one I promptly came off the field at the end of the show with the unit, and then peeled off while they went back to the bleachers, I went on to a bus and hyperventilated for about 10 minutes...
@@EMCproductions meh - it was high school, I got over it and continued to embarrass myself up to this very day... Life is no fun being perfect :D
Our corps had the benefit of having our own housing site that was an old school. The problem was the guy's shower ran out of hot water after a few minutes but the girls always had it. My now-wife was showering once and after rinsing the soap out of her hair, look next to her and saw the drumline section leader standing next to her. The guys on occasion would get fed up of the water situation and go to the girls shower.
Bro the most awkward thing I've done in band is coming into band class late
Eric, your stories make my day.
I had the last but kinda opposite. Some of the showers were broken, so staff and members had to use the same ones. Decided that members would get till 10, staff would go after. Didn't get told that, so I go to shower at like 10:30 and walk in on most of the staff naked. Fun stuff
I love band trip stories! Band directors STILL talk about that crazy time on that one trip.. but I gotta say, "I had a drumline that INSISTED you use "THE CODE WORD" to excuse yourself if you had to fart. We were always stuck in tiny rooms - even outside, it was hard to find space that wouldn't bother classes AND wouldn't interfere with the horns... the two girls approached me and posed this solution to the problem... they were SO embarrassed about bringing it up, however - when I addressed the boys, couldn't they "excuse" themselves for a moment? Man, it was so funny - I gave them a nod just before wrap up the following rehearsal, and they took the bells and snare and left. I'm standing there with another snare, quads, four basses and a set of crash cymbals (all boys, ) and I've GOT to introduce the problem, declare the solution (a "tradition" now, from here on out... and (being a young woman, ) I too, am mortified that I have to speak to this, in public - to my drumline.... it started with "ok, so...." (my husband - being a man, of course,) had suggested that BLUNT and to the point would be the best route, AND expect laughing...(well I knew I was gonna laugh,) so I said, "at ease. Take a moment to laugh..." (oh boy, we sure DID laugh...) and finally, I called attention and - amid suppressed snickers - we went back in to put the drums away... the band and director had a quizzical look when we walked in (trying REAL hard not to laugh, now...) and we put up, came to attention... upon dismissal, the drummers hurried over to their compadres in the flags and winds to tell them how funny this was - each section erupted in laughter in turn - which raised the eyebrows of the director - who, then asked me in front of the brass and flag instructor WHAT was so funny?! Omg - they're all Male - and I'm beetred (still trying so hard NOT to laugh - but maintain my professional composure,) explaining THE code... and we ALL just bust out laughing! I mean, at least a full 60 seconds of gut busting guffaw! Finally, the flag coach says, "man - I'm glad I got all girls!" (More laughter from the director and I...) But the brass coach (by far, the most serious personality under the director,) says "actually - that is a BRILLIANT idea, because WE get stuck in that little alcove off the cafeteria sometimes, ya know?" Only a few seconds pause... and then.... ANOTHER gut busting (hurts to even REMEMBER it, ) round of laughter!
These aren't all awkward... One of them is just completely gross and a couple are just... Not awkward but weird.
I have a cool delivery truck story. So I was in the shop at the work bench. There's a pickup truck already in the shop. I suddenly hear this loud BANG and the shop door literally bends a couple feet and then goes back. I'm like "Hey guys, Purolator is here." I guess the guy backed straight into the door at speed. Bent the rails that the door is on. If someone was standing at that shop door they likely wouldn't have legs anymore.
What liberty Bell am I ringing?
Me: watches the whole ad to support my dude
My friend: SKIP IT *tries to skip*
That kid shat his pants
But still came back to finish the session
That’s determination
Freshman bass 4 here💯🔥 during a rehearsal on our show, it was the first run through of one of our dot chunks. Bass line was separated in our section ( drumline made a cross cross form it was soo cool) and while I was marching back. The tempo changed. (It goes from 82 bpm to 160 in that measure so imagine doing a oblique to straight down in that change) and I ran into bass 3 and bass 5 was supposed to oblique backwards and ended up pulling me for 2 measure straight. It wasn’t that bad though because a tuba player slammed a clarinet player.
2:23
Plot twist: The bus driver was, in fact, cranking one out
Parents can be such dicks. I play drums but never competed. I did, however, compete in piano and keyboard (sequencer) for eight years (until I graduated from HS). Anyway, I guess I'd won so many first place trophies that parents approached the president of the American Guild of Music AND Michigan Music Association (MMA prez. happened to be my instructor) and told them that I was registering in a younger age group just so I'd have an upper hand over the "younger kids". NOPE! I was actually one of the younger kids in my age group. Needless to say, the parents didn't get anywhere with that one.
Adults are scary.
I was marching our 1st movement AND KEEP IN MIND THIS IS 120BTS
and this girl behind me was going so slow so I stepped on her shoe, she fell back and pushed another guy and thankfully that guy did not fall on the ground and to make matters worse it was infront of an entire crowd so we were very embarrassed..
But me and that girl are not on the same page and i think we will never be on the same page.. She also tries to flirt with the director sometimes for some reason even though he is WAYY older..
So my school hosts a marching band show every other year and when we host we play the national anthem and I play bass normally but I play cymbals for the national anthem and so we’re all about to march onto the field when this other cymbal player turns to me and goes “I need to pee” and then slowly more and more percussionists realize they also need to use the bathroom. our band uniforms cannot be removed easily and nobody can just leave because we’re a really small section so the entire percussion section had to just wait until we A: finish playing for all these people or B: somebody to pee in their pants in front of everyone’s friends parents and several other schools (it ended up being ok, but it isn’t something we’re looking to turn into a percussion tradition)
Woo for awkwardness!
1985 Geneseo Knights show, Kankakee Il. The only available toilet to use was near the field. a 6'x6' room with a urinal, toilet and sink. The toilet stall was removed so the toilet was exposed. As I sat to poop, no less than 10 people came in. Some would just walk in and turn around and walk out, and some would use the urinal and/or wash their hand....so close...awkwardly pretending not to notice each other. Very traumatic for 17 year old me.
I will try to explain it (I dont speak english good) but the director was angry with us because we didn't clean the bass drums and he gave us an old instruments to practice, then I posted in Facebook that we were selling the Old instruments... That was not funny for all the band and I got suspended for the joke ☠️
You are a great story teller. 😂
Marching Bushwackers this summer, I think I know exactly what fence you’re talking about
I have the tenor stand from the second story. I HATE IT SO MUCH; WORST STAND DESIGN EVER
bus driver broke the cardinal rule "no shittin on the bus"......also I guess drum corps completely mellowed out by the time you were teaching cause there often was no big deal with coed showering back in the late 90s early 00s if there were shower issues.
I’m sitting here waiting for the “sexual stories” laughing my ass off 10 through 2 like nothing like “this one time at band camp...” and then 1 happened 😂😂
When my dad marched phantom regiment in 96,97,98 many of the housing sites had a row of toilets with no dividers
We have the same exact problem in my band. I don’t know who, but somebody keeps ripping @$$
Was that an elevator thumb roll? 🤦🏽♂️
As my band director would say MORE COWBELL!!!!
Could you please turn the cymbal money, it’s staring into my soul😂