[jacket3ree]

I'm in violent agreement with Goose other than how productive a member I would have been of LSJUMB. They take grad students as far as I recall but by then my chops were long gone because it does take work to be a musician. It takes practice with the band to learn the music and formations, and practice alone to master the music beyond the memorization and keep those chops up. 

In high school, we had an hour of class time and daily sessions after school. Those were serious sessions because we took a lot of pride in our craft and the after school part including games and other performances were a brobdingnagian social part of life with spinoffs to garage bands and gigging. I was part of a brass quintet that did baroque music (took second at "state") and some of us were trying to be the next Blood Sweat and Tears or Chicago with Kath. We weren't but that was a lot of fun. Just never found the right vocalist. So engineering it is. 

In college, we got an hour of credit for probably 16 hours of work per week in season. All home games plus a road game in Knoxville freshman year, which was fun and I did book some sessions in those soundproof booths over at the student center (can't play in your dorm room and the band room was locked at night) but it was clearly going to fade, social life was going to revolve around the fraternity, and honestly the students running the show were kind of weird and power hungry. And flasks were frowned upon, so regular old student in Upper East it is. We started flinging frisbees at the band starting on the frisbee give away day. (Brilliant idea someone!) I didn't do it because I know how much work band entails but I'll admit I hive fived my roommate when he placed a 60-yeard forehand right into a sousaphone. In ultimate he was a "QB" while I was a go long and snag it guy.

I do hope they get it together. I can take stupid jokes if the music is good.

[jacket3ree]

I'm in violent agreement with Goose other than how productive a member I would have been of LSJUMB. They take grad students as far as I recall but by then my chops were long gone because it does take work to be a musician. It takes practice with the band to learn the music and formations, and practice alone to master the music beyond the memorization and keep those chops up. 

In high school, we had an hour of class time and daily sessions after school. Those were serious sessions because we took a lot of pride in our craft and the after school part including games and other performances were a brobdingnagian social part of life with spinoffs to garage bands and gigging. I was part of a brass quintet that did baroque music (took second at "state") and some of us were trying to be the next Blood Sweat and Tears or Chicago with Kath. We weren't but that was a lot of fun. Just never found the right vocalist. So engineering it is. 

In college, we got an hour of credit for probably 16 hours of work per week in season. All home games plus a road game in Knoxville freshman year, which was fun and I did book some sessions in those soundproof booths over at the student center (can't play in your dorm room and the band room was locked at night) but it was clearly going to fade, social life was going to revolve around the fraternity, and honestly the students running the show were kind of weird and power hungry. And flasks were frowned upon, so regular old student in Upper East it is. We started flinging frisbees at the band starting on the frisbee give away day. (Brilliant idea someone!) I didn't do it because I know how much work band entails but I'll admit I hive fived my roommate when he placed a 60-yeard forehand right into a sousaphone. In ultimate he was a "QB" while I was a go long and snag it guy.

I do hope they get it together. I can take stupid jokes if the music is good.