marching band in texas

Casey Tucker · Post by **Casey Tucker** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 1:15 pm

im usually not one to complain since i've done it for a while and i've marched drum corps, but this is ridiculous. i had to ring my hat and shirt out after morning rehearsal. the heat wasn't so bad (about 92... oh wait, bad) but the humidity. god must hate houston because when the humidity set in i felt like i took a shower with my clothes on. do you think deodorant producers make tubs of it to dip your entire body because this insane. ok, im done ranting. feel free to rant some more if you like.

TexTuba · Post by **TexTuba** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 1:27 pm

Yes, Houston is hated.

Ralph

djwesp · Post by **djwesp** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 2:59 pm

-Sam Houston State Principal Tuba

TubaRay · Post by **TubaRay** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 3:58 pm

djwesp wrote:-Sam Houston State Principal Tuba

I was under the impression that most newbies already knew everything they needed to know. Could Yoda be wrong?

djwesp · Post by **djwesp** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 4:27 pm

TubaRay wrote:Could Yoda be wrong?

He could be. But who am I to question yoda?

This forum is full of them [yodas]. The only thing I KNOW is that I know nothing.

And I know how to polka. Forgot that one.

Rick Denney · Post by **Rick Denney** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 6:15 pm

Casey Tucker wrote:im usually not one to complain since i've done it for a while and i've marched drum corps, but this is ridiculous. i had to ring my hat and shirt out after morning rehearsal. the heat wasn't so bad (about 92... oh wait, bad) but the humidity. god must hate houston because when the humidity set in i felt like i took a shower with my clothes on. do you think deodorant producers make tubs of it to dip your entire body because this insane. ok, im done ranting. feel free to rant some more if you like.

Stop whimpering. These are the trials that you will use to hold yourself above young'uns when 30 more years have passed.

I grew up in Houston. I attended Robert E. Lee High School and marched in band wearing a uniform with about 100 layers that imitated the good general's confederate uniform (I bet THAT has changed since then!). I'm convinced the material was sheet plastic with a pattern of woven cloth molded into its surface. I carried a sousaphone throughout those years. After band practice, I then went and stocked groceries for five hours, often unloading the truck on the back dock.

Hang in there, it gets better as you get older. 15+ years later, I played an outdoor gig in San Antonio. What made it better was that we got to wear imitation leather shorts and felt hats with approximately 4000 pins in them. Our job was to entertain people who were waiting in line in 105-degree temperatures so they wouldn't riot.

Rick "who remembers frequently sitting in front of the AC vent between sets and drooling on himself uncontrollably" Denney

TexTuba · Post by **TexTuba** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 8:11 pm

Ok, I'll be honest with you(

), I don't know what yer gripin about. When I did summer band, for some reason I wore dark jeans and long sleeve shirts all the time. Weird? More than likely. BUT...it DID help me when some people decided to "pass out" from the "heat" at football games. It probably didn't hurt too much that during that same time I was helping my dad install burglar alarms. That requires going into attics, if you have one, and messing with wiring. Talk about HOT!!!

Ralph

TubaRay · Post by **TubaRay** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 10:42 pm

TexTuba wrote:I was helping my dad install burglar alarms. That requires going into attics, if you have one, and messing with wiring. Talk about HOT!!!
Ralph

Now that is one thing I certainly won't argue with. An attic in the summer time is a really, really hot place.

Chadtuba · Post by **Chadtuba** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 12:20 am

richland tuba 01 wrote:felt good, gave me a nice tan actually. I would much rather march in good old Texas heat than freezing cold. But what do I know? I'm one of the three people on this board that likes marching band.

I agree with you completely. I love marching band and had a killer tan by the end of band camp.

Casey Tucker · Post by **Casey Tucker** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 9:03 am

huntsville = 30 min north houston = same climate. everything you're getting down there we're getting right here (minus the upcoming tropical storm.)

TexTuba · Post by **TexTuba** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 1:52 pm

Not to be all snotty, but having studied weather for QUITE some time, I can tell you quite confidently that 30 min. DOES change the weather quite a bit. I'm from Corpus Christi, Texas. If I drove 30 minutes to Robstown, there was a noticeable difference in humidity. It's quite simple: the FARTHER you are from the water, the LOWER the humidity is. I always find it funny that the people up in north Texas find it "sticky" with humidity in the 30-40% range.

Ralph

TexTuba · Post by **TexTuba** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 2:29 pm

the elephant wrote:I am three hours from the gulf coast (Dallas-ish latitude) and 85% humidity is a daily way of life here, year round. At the coast here is it actually a little lower on a LOT of days.

Where do you live?! That makes NO sense!! I'm not saying I do not believe you, it's just been that way in Texas for quite some time. I mean, it's more dry here in San Antonio than Corpus Christi. Everytime I drive to Corpus, I find that I can feel the humidity difference once I get into Mathis. Could it be that what I'm saying is completely false? If so, then I need to shut my mouth!!!

Ralph

TexTuba · Post by **TexTuba** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 9:54 pm

I knew I should have kept my mouth shut!

I know that there are quite a few factors that dictate these things. I should have gone REALLY in depth, but I figured I'd bore everyone. That's why I love this place! I am constantly surprised by this board and the overall knowledge that is present.

Ralph

Casey Tucker · Post by **Casey Tucker** » Fri Aug 17, 2007 6:46 pm

thanks for all of the input. i must say that on the day that i posted this topic it was a rather nasty day and i was, for some reason, in a "not so great" mood. i will add to this conversation by pointing out my fault. my mother called me this morning saying that it was terribly hot but only 30 min away it was only around 85 even with all of this rain we've been getting. so i must admit my ignorance and thank you for pointing these things out for me.

Mark · Post by **Mark** » Sat Aug 18, 2007 2:06 am

I was in a high school marching band in Houston. The worst weather experience I had was the last game of the season in Conroe. It was 17 degrees and my mouthpiece kept threatening to stick to my lips.

On the hot days, I was glad to be playing sousaphone, because we didn't have to wear those heat-stroke inducing hats.

All this happened even before Rick was at Robert E. Lee, just after the sousaphone had been invented. BTW, Rick, I went to Spring Woods. Didn't we always beat your high school at all the marching band competitions?

Mark · Post by **Mark** » Sat Aug 18, 2007 2:17 am

Casey Tucker wrote:huntsville = 30 min north houston

Did they move Huntsville closer to Houston?

Casey Tucker · Post by **Casey Tucker** » Sat Aug 18, 2007 2:57 am

spring actually. everyone calls it houston.

Casey Tucker · Post by **Casey Tucker** » Sat Aug 18, 2007 9:40 am

he has it right. sam is 30 min from spring. spring has actually gotten rather large. the whole area has grown with the klein and woodlands development.

tubatooter1940 · Post by **tubatooter1940** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 7:25 am

bloke wrote:
Dash Riprock wrote: Hang in there, it gets better as you get older...
...and then, you die.

Rick Denney · Post by **Rick Denney** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 2:38 pm

Mark wrote:All this happened even before Rick was at Robert E. Lee, just after the sousaphone had been invented. BTW, Rick, I went to Spring Woods. Didn't we always beat your high school at all the marching band competitions?

Wow, Mark, you must be old.

Spring Woods was in the Spring Branch school district. You guys had all the money. I seem to recall a statistic from those days stating that band programs in the Spring Branch ISD were $50 per student, and in Houston ISD were 50 cents per student.

Our 4A (as high as it went in those days) high school had 75 band members, while you guys usually had a couple of hundred and could have a senior band and a junior band.

We were so bad that we usually didn't even compete with you guys. Instead of getting roasted in UIL competition, we had our own contests. Of course, HISD is one of the biggest school districts in the country and was big enough to do that. We were always at the top of that heap.

Rick "who recalls that we were very competitive in stage band competitions, however" Denney

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