ADR3-N 2018-05-02 15:38:53

Yep -- or you can follow the submission thread here
https://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/1431735

Would you like to join the crew?

Also, yes. @RealFaction has done a ton of organizing this year, but sometimes I wish we could have awards for these competitions, trophies and badges or something that show up on the user stat page.

ADR3-N 2018-05-02 15:39:45

I mean, I hated it until 6th grade, and then I still hated it until it was time for band! LOL

I'll have to find the video some time, but you might be able to find it under EMCC Mighty Lion Band. It's a full overhead shot of the band completely still, for a couple seconds, in the middle of the promo. You can't see it too well, but we're in a chevron formation, I'm near one of the ends, and, well, I don't wiggle, so there's not really anything to notice! I was awake when the close up cams rolled around but they didn't use that footage. We were standing out there like that for a couple hours!

Maybe it might work on knees and elbows? In band, we called it hiding (from the sun), and it did make me drowsy.

ADR3-N 2018-05-02 17:31:48

It probably was 2014-2015 or something like that. It's the one with the two girls in the shiny red and black sequin things, doing some kind of salute. Our drum majors were some fiiiine ladies.

ADR3-N 2018-05-07 22:54:13

I'll be setting a weekday to review all of them, tbh, just so as not to fall behind. You're welcome to do as you like

ADR3-N 2018-05-17 12:51:26

https://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/cb5f50744d43557de8d3e83084897f0a

Here ya go, assorted band pics. 2 zips. One for each vid. Bonuses in 2nd folder too for shiggles

ADR3-N 2018-05-17 16:24:19

Yeah, I freaking loved band. Rare they actually got a close up shot of me ever, since the band was so big. In our 2013-14 show, you can actually hear a solo by me, our last song. It's the same show as the one with my phone obviously lighting up in my pocket LOL. I was also about to die the day that picture was taken. Literally, like, the black people were turning white. The turf was turning yellow. The white people looked like angels. My tonsil was going septic and we didn't know it until they did a biopsy that night on this huge freaking black mass. That's why I look like shit in the face LOL. Couldn't even see straight.

I always felt weird that my instrument was about 1/3 to 1/2 as tall as me, sticking out of my face practically farther than I could reach.

ADR3-N 2018-05-18 07:20:45

I haven't played since last homecoming when I came and fixed up everyone's instruments -- or maybe it was a basketball game. I'm sad to report I've been told the euphonium section sounds almost nonexistent without me -- and can confirm. I remember having to actually teach some of them their music, and it was the end of the season! I'd heard the band program sagged a bit with our director's illness, but I had no idea it was that bad, or the euph section so forgotten. Maybe it was just me, but Stringer and King lit our asses up when I was there. Maybe could just hear us better ig LOL.

I also couldn't believe I could still hit that high ass G at a good fff on "Neck," as in, "Talking out the side of your neck." It's a particular arrangement I'd have to find to show ya, but the C to G gliss at that SWAC-type volume is rough on a large bore euphonium, and the G is easy to overshoot. I was surprised that it was just as easy after two years of not touching my sweet baby as it was mid-season before I graduated.

I really was disappointed about the new blood.

I always recall my directors motioning specifically and me and giving me the "up finger," probably because if I hadn't had a battery up my ass, the rest of the band wouldn't just sit on top of the euph line; they'd flatten us.

My first year, I was lucky enough to have a section that would listen to me and play out. Second year, one of the guys was a stand in, and the other had all the lung capacity of a wet paper bag, complete with the gumption of a dead horse. He flew hot air balloons though, and I understood that was what he'd much rather be doing. I was just happy he had a decent horn angle and looked in-step most of the time.

Third year there were four of us, and two hardly played, but between me and Tony (we were together enough that people thought he was cheating on his gf oddly enough), I had a little more freedom to catch my breath. That solo you heard was my first year, our first time on the field, with Tony on a completely different instrument (trumpet), and we only got mics later in the season, aside from maybe the vibes, glock, and marimba. I remember the band had just got a new building, too, and the carpet glue was too fresh to even go in for two straight weeks while they worked on the place -- so that it smelled like rotten cat vagina our first couple weeks there -- and we had to practice our whole show in an auditorium before running across campus to the practice field, the old football stadium, which has now been deconstructed and turned into a frisbee field slash future dormitory, haha.

Also, gonna check out that link. It sounds cool af. Mostly because anything euphonium is cool. I miss it dearly.