Florida Tournament of Bands - Field Show Competition -1983 LHS Band

[luvin40]

I hear it's supposed to rain saturday.  Ick.

[luvin40]

I guess what makes that amazing is, although we had only 10th-12th grade, our band was still that huge!

[TheDreadnaughtBand]

wow

[luvin40]

They became middle schools. Our main feeders were Southwest Junior High, Crystal Lake Junior High, and Lakeland Highlands Junior High. Junior high was 7th thru 9th grade. Elementary was K-6 and high school was 10-12. Junior high schools had football teams, just like high school, so we were able to go to football games, play in stands, and even march (a little) on the field. In the early nineties, they did away with the whole "jr high" concept and moved 9th to HS and 6th to MS.

[luvin40]

There were playing rehearsals throughout the summer (not sure which nights) then 2 weeks of crank-up. There were some crank-up days that were 7:30am-11:30am, 1pm-3-pm, and 6pm-9pm. Yes, 10 hour days and yes, we had our share of kids passing out on the field. Then when school started, it was 2 to 3 hours on Mon and Thurs nights.

[TheDreadnaughtBand]

Not much has changed there its about the same now. were deffinitly not easy on us wich is is good Tenoroc(BOO!) only practices once a week and there not very good during our performance at a game a few weeks ago they had their jaw dropped O: when we play(:

[luvin40]

I heard your show is outstanding! I think I might have to catch a game and see it! :)

[TheDreadnaughtBand]

Thanks! Marching MPA is this saturday @ WHHS at like 2 or 3pm were like the first to play we are normaly near the end but the harrison kids have a performance.

[luvin40]

Oh wow! I'll have to go and see it. I don't think I have anything planned.

[TheDreadnaughtBand]

I just found out we play at 5:30 but i think there are a few bands before us im not sure

[luvin40]

I saw an ad that said it started at 5:30, so you must be first.

[luvin40]

If that's the case, I can't make it. I have tickets to Brigadoon. Hmmmm.... I'll see you guys sometime.

[TheDreadnaughtBand]

oh ok well we got plenty of games plus were going to film it.

[luvin40]

Awesome!  Thanks.

[TheDreadnaughtBand]

How where your rehersals like how long and what days of the week were they?

[luvin40]

haha....i don't think the harrison kids would like that. Most of them are more interested in concert play. They are not considered LHS students, so I guess they have the choice. ???? Not sure the McKeel thing could work out either, but I think it's a super idea. :)

[luvin40]

One thing that irritated me about this competition (besides marching on a baseball field) was the judges. They had field judges that would walk right up and look in your eyes to see if you flinched or if you were playing correctly.

[luvin40]

It was so much better when we had "junior high" bands that marched at their football games. They made great "feeder bands" for us.

[tomcatf145]

We should get the band kids from Mckeel Academy(since they don't have a marching band) and have it manditory for the harrison kids to be in the LHS band

[TheDreadnaughtBand]

what happend to the Junior Highs

[thebestfrenchhornman]

The crowd will never cheer like that again...

[luvin40]

How sad that you feel that way. Remember, this was a marching competition and most of the audience members were bands who were very supportive of each other.

[luvin40]

Al Lang Stadium, St. Petersburg, Florida

[tomcatf145]

Where are they playing?

[luvin40]

They open with "Hall of the Mountain King", park-n-blow "Boogie Down", drum feature "Shoshana" (sp?), ballad "You'll Never Walk Alone"

[TheDreadnaughtBand]

"Shoshana" is it Shenandoah? if it is Wind Symphony played it at the Winter Concert.