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So not everyone has a band camp story, becuase its seems like many of us had band camp at our schools, but i bet there are some interesting BUS stories so, post away…

one time for indoor drumline we shared a bus with another school to save money, we ended up creating our own bartering system that compared the value of a cheeto to a pringle, and then we started to race signs up and down the bus.

ill also never forget my old directors main bus rules…. the 3 p's…no poopin, no pukin', and no perfume.

on my band bus, it was always "No two people underneath the same blanket"

we had religious arguments … and the chaperones got mad at us.
and then our bus broke down so we had to drive from kamloops back to edmonton divvied up on the other three buses… it was very crowded.
I saw it coming back into Edmonton a couple days later while walking home from school. Made me warm and fuzzy inside. It said "Don't Worry, Be Happy."

on a trip back from the ncaa regional finals …. which we won… the band and the cheerleaders were on one bus… while the basketball team was on their bus…. and we had an impromptu dance party… started on the basketball bus … then it moved to our bus.. then it moved to the parking lot……. where we couldn't hear the music from inside the buses so instead we sang….. at like 3 am… in the middle of nowhere outside a sketchy airport…. probably the best band bus story i have…….. probably the best band day of my life….

but in terms of back in the day band bus nonsense….. had my first kiss on the band bus :)

lol.

i loved band bus time! we sang non stop..most of us proving why we were in band and not choir….no..i was drum major..and like on every other bus, there were numerous times where we had to turn on the lights on the way home…one time this guy spilled egg nog…..yes egg nog on the floor….it was bad..it smelled horrible!

On the way to the OVC tournament in Nashville, we rode the bus with the cheerleaders and dance team…no fun right? Well, they insisted on watching JERSEY GIRL (though the trip was only about 45 minutes) on the way there, and BRING IT ON on the way back….or something like that. So, we won our game against Tennessee Tech and had to drive down again to play Eastern KY the next day. Again, riding with the cheerleaders and dance team. This time we were going to take a stand against them (including our band director) aside from generally annoying the piss out of them and yelling that the movie sucked and they should all go and die somewhere. I don't quite remember if we were forced to watch anything on the way there, but the fun comes from the trip back. The band returned to the bus about five minutes before the cheerleaders/dance team, and we decide….there will be NO movie this time. One of my friends simply reaches around the DVD player and pulls out the audio cable. They come back to the bus and put on a movie….BRING IT ON AGAIN. Somehow they managed to watch ALL of the previews without realizing that there was no sound. They start the movie over…..no sound. They clean off the disk…..no sound. They start the movie over again…..no sound. They even decided to change the batteries in the remote to see if that would help (the guy that pulled the cable out actually gave them new batteries..LOL)…..no sound. Finally, when we were about 5 minutes from returning to school, we hooked it back up. We had a hell of a laugh about that one. Cheerleaders are stupid.

okay,so this definitely isnt band. but on the way to the chorus festival, we had a girl that absolutely had to pee. so she did. or tried to. she ended up spraying the entire back window of the bus. hahahaha,…..

Two words…Hand Check!

You can all read about UW Madison's band bus stories in the news papers printed over the last week.

we just have jerky kids that scream "hand check" every twenty minutes, or sing "the song that never ends"…at which we must remind them that they play instruments for a reason – they are all blatently tone deaf.

That's the joy of going to a (although public) basically music school…even our band kids can sing! So sing alongs on the bus actually worked.

A group of my friends and I always sang showtunes in the back of the bus, but the best time was on the way back from getting grand champs at this halloween parade/comp. Someone had a boombox and we all had glowsticks and glow in the dark makeup on, so we cranked some techno and had our own rave on the way home! So great!

wow band bus stories, where to begin 3 years of touing and numerous odd events. Like in Europe our VERY italian bus driver got us lost at mignight after a 24 hour bus ride from germany, buses breaking down in switzerland and very very cranky teenagers. our bus driver finally finds the hotel, gets out of the [short] bus kisses the ground and yells "f*** thee hotel!" and gets back on the bus. we had many interesting experiences on that short bus, yes a short bus it held about 25 people and 2 chaps. we drove it everywhere and it became our home for 2 weeks.

other band bus storied include pretty much anything that happend in eurupe, on the way to band camp airplanes too to cali and germany, even red deer for aba. there are so many i cant even remember them except when we went to seattle we have 3 big busses and i was ont eh bus that wasnt completly full and of course a bus breaks down and eveyone has to come onto our bus! at 1am and we are still forced to do homework.

well thats enough band bus stories for now, im sure youll hear more.

One of our buses broke down on the way to competition one time, so everyone from the other bus had to come pile in ours We had about 80 people in a bus made for about 40…not to mention fitting everyone's crap on there

And we hit a deer on the way home from a game once….

hahaha lets just say they ain't call it the " Dirty South" for nothing……once upon a time,there was this couple on the bus……so we're riding back from a game hours and hours away…..and we trying t' sleep even the ones that are with our girl,just sleeping..well the people around the couple couldnt get to sleep cuz..well there was this wet noise……so were all quitely sayin man wat the hell is that?….few seconds later we found out… we hit a bump in the road…and the girl yells out loud….."Aagghh my eyes"
hahahahahaha…….

this one kid, he and a friend decided to be like napoleon dynamite and put an action figure on fishing line and drag it behind the bus. it was awesome…until he got caught. it was hilarious though.

Our choir tour was in san fransisco, and so on the way back there was an epic battle using china town purchased bokens.

For us, there were no rules. As many under a blanket as possible, and races to the front, and races to the back.

well, there are the few exceptionally tone-deaf ones, and the other ones who are actually in select vocal groups that just feel like singing out of tune for the heck of it. or to bug those of us who care greatly about our ears.

YESSSSSSS – i was definately gonna post that

We used to play spin the bottle…only we used a drumstick on top of a trumpet case.

Good times on the band bus.

Band buses……*sighs as wonderful memories flow thru my head* let's see sing-a-longs, hand checks, puking incidents, too many to count.

so this happened after we got out of the bus, but it's funny. We were at a jazz competition at CWU, and we had just started warming up in the room the took us to, when our band director says it's too hot, and decides to open the door to the outside, well, that was not a regular door, it was the emergency exit……..needless to say, the college kids had a hoot when i went looking for one to turn off the alarm

On the cool bus, we had BAND STUDENTS GONE WILD! Well, sort of. We lifted our pant legs an inch or two, or if we felt really risque we would push our suspenders off one shoulder. All with mock-suggestive faces.

We never had hand checks though. But speaking of HAND CHECKS, there's something creepy when the driver participates too…

Well, on my band bus, they were obsessed with pulling down anyone & everyone's pants. Well let's say a guy in my band was standing in the aisle talking to me and wham-down they go-and he was commando! I got an eyefull!

We used to always have "Hand Checks" for couples and whatnot that were sharing a seat/blanket. Someone would randomly go "Hand Check!" and we'd put both our hands up. I used to always yell "HOLD ON!" and wait couple seconds before I'd put them up. Some people got really pissed about it, but I don't know why. Probably because they weren't getting any.

We had a big band so we used about 3 buses. Is it bad that, whatever bus my friends and I rode, the director ALWAYS made sure he was on that one?

I go to a Jesuit Catholic school, and once, while driving to an away basketball game with the underclassmen pep band, we decided to play a game of Sex, which, as we all know, is where when you see a car without its headlights on, you scream, "SEX!" and hit the top of the bus, and whoever is last has to take of one item of clothing. When it got down to quite a few people without either pants or a shirt on, we were pulling up to the school where the game was. One of the Jesuit novices was driving our bus, and he, without realizing what has been happening the previous half hour, looks back, and finds people in their skivvies. Right as a whole crowd of people from the (public) school we were pulling into are crossing in front of the bus, he forgets that he is opened EVERY window on the bus, and screams, "PUT YER F*CKING CLOTHES ON YOU'RE REPRESENTING PREP, YOU LITTLE SH!THEADS!" causing many stares.

He then proceeded to hit and break off the mirrors of a passing minivan and speed away.

Ahh, little Jes'.

sign on the bathroom:
"Rule #1: no #2"

This isn't really a crazy story, but whatever.

Back in high school–in Minnesota–we were taking a trip by bus to New York City. Why we weren't flying is a completely different story. Anyway, we decided to leave bright and early the first morning so we could avoid Chicago traffic in the afternoon. Unfortunately, just before we got to Chicago, our bus blew a tire. We ended waiting about two hours for a replacement, and then hit traffic. In the end, we got into our hotel (somewhere around Cleveland) at 2 or 3 in the morning.

Two years before that, the band was going to Japan and sat on the tarmac in Detroit for several hours (I wasn't there, but I think it was at least 4 hours, maybe 6). And one year before, coming back from Hawaii, we hit a snowstorm in Atlanta and spent over 20 hours in the airport after all the flights got cancelled. We concluded that band trips were cursed. Fortunately, we broke the curse the year after the NYC trip.

well there was the random hand checks and brake checks, the no guy and girl in same seat, the saying is that PDA(public display of affection) i see?, The buss running over ur band van almost several times, and as always me and others braiding all the auxx's hair in french and fish bone braids, (yeah I can braid hair i was in guard after all……)putting up the sheat for aux like me to change in the back of the bus and just acting mean and singing all the time till the caparones finally joined in r we bored them and they took the singing over.