6:00 AM…Alarm sounds
6:15…shower shave and the other stuff you know…
6:50…head to work
7:00…Stop at McDonalds for a sausage and cheese bisquit and a cup of coffee. They see me coming through the windows and and have it ready by the time I get to the pay window.
7:15…Unlock the band hall and my office. Sit down and eat the sausage and cheese and read the Daily Oklahoman ( I call it the Daily Disappointment.)
7:50…Marching band students and flag corp girls arrive. We hike to the football field, play and march until 9:30. (Currently we are featuring Smoke on the Water and Wooly Bully.)
9:30-10:05…Planning. I use this time to make calls and check the office mail and unwind from teaching 45 band members.
10:05-1045- I teach intermediate band. Mostly 7th and 8th graders.
11:00 to 11:40 LUNCH!!! The highlight of my day!
11:45-1:15 Teach Humanities. ( this is an hour and a half block course). We are currently studying the great composers. Consist mostly of Juniors and Seniors.
1:15- 2:05 Planning again. Go up to the office and check the mail, phone messages and correct servere discipline problems if any.
2:05-2:50 Beginning band. The biggest challenge of the day. I have 29 6th graders enrolled in that class. Some of them can barely identify an instrument much less play one.
2:50-3:25…Time off (Bus duty on Wednesdays).
3:30-4:30 recliner and straightdope time at home. ahhhh
5:00 Suppertime ( The wIife and I usually eat out. Tonight it was pizza hut)
7:00-10:00 on Monday nights I teach computer classes to faculty and comnunity. Fridays I take the band to football games. Last friday we went to Tulsa Central ( 8 hours on the bus round trip got home at 2:45 AM.)
10:30 PM-Most nights I am in the bed dead to the world.
A marching band in the band hall where there is electricity.
Electric…dunuhhh dunuhhh dunuhhhhhhhhhhhh dun da da-uhhhhhh dunuhhh dunuhhh daummm daum da-ummmmmmmmmm
It will make sense if you just hum along with it ok?
Dude that song was meant to be played through a wall of 200-watt Marshalls.
I love music, aha. When I was in high school the guitar was my best friend. When I was a senior I decided to join the advanced jazz band. It was a lot of fun. I’d play infront of the school (our HS had 3,000 students) and the teacher would let me do 20 bar solos. It’s like I was a nobody all-the-way through high school, but when I performed with jazz band everyone was like “you’re the man!” It was pretty cool.
Anyways, where can I find an MP3 of this “Western Union” song? I don’t think I’ve ever heard it.
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Smoke On The Water acoustic???
Yeah, yeah, CP quotes self. Fine.
When I was adjusting the impeadence between preamplifiers and the 400 Watt quads I built in my younger years with no oscilloscope, I used Smoke On The Water and Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto to test for distortion at maximum amplification. It was cool. Furniture melted.
