Marching Band
... In case you haven’t guessed, I’m talking about High School Marching Band. I had been absolutely apposed to the idea of marching band, because it wasn’t required for my level of band. ... So was the case in my decision about marching band. ... Now there’s something very odd about the idea of marching band, and that is since it’s not really a display of how militaristic we can be, the drill designers try to be creative. ... First off, it had a series of unrelated songs, most without recognizable names, as is everything in the band world, but in the known repertoire was “Old Man River,” and “Turn Turn. ... When you’re marching backwards, you can’t see if the people behind you are ok, and you’re marching towards them. ... In short, I loved the band, but not the marching, and I repeatedly went back to Hell for two more years until my job got in the way, and even then I went every home game. I met the best friend I ever had in marching band, and he used to laugh at me. ... I made friends with an elite group of people that even the normal band couldn’t relate to. You can always tell who was in marching band after a concert, because they were the only ones that would change into street clothes out in the open in the band room instead in the bathrooms.