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Jim Carr
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Jim Carr
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I played tuba in marching band, so you got me beat on the coolness factor. Played tuba for 9 years, Middle school, High School and college. Didn't start bass till my Soph. year college. Figured there were more gig opportunities on bass
I played tuba in marching band, so you got me beat on the coolness factor. Played tuba for 9 years, Middle school, High School and college. Didn't start bass till my Soph. year college. Figured there were more gig opportunities on bass
Nothing... NOTHING... is cooler than marching tuba.
I played tuba in HS, studied in college... only started playing bass about 2.5 yrs ago... in my 12th (?) year of teaching when my jazz band did not have a bassist. Still love tuba, but love the bass, and my basses...
I don't have marchig bands (of that I am glad... I am old lol) but we play pep bands at home FB and BB games. I play bass with my kids (small band) and I have 2 young bassists that will (hopefully?) take my place...
I do recall at one band director conference in TX seeing a guy strolling around with an amp on his back backpack style playing bass... Not sure how it was powered but it WAS cordless... I did not play bass, so did not care then...
Played bass in marching all through high school until this year when I was needed on sax again so I had to relearn alot of sax. I stood in the pit with all the auxiliary percussionists.
Our band never had any tubas until this year so they needed me to provide the low end. It did tend to suck most of the years cause I was alone in the pit most of the time .
Our band never had any tubas until this year so they needed me to provide the low end. It did tend to suck most of the years cause I was alone in the pit most of the time .
I played bass in Marching band my senior year in HS, 1984...sooooo cool. Our coming on ;the field music was "innagodda divida" (spelling) my HS drummer for our rock band played the "triples" and we had a blast...hungover for contest at the Dome in Syracuse...lolz, those were the days.
There was a marching band in California in the late 80s that had a guy that would roll/push/march the bass players amp next to the bass player as they both marched across the field.
scottbass
Bass lines like a big, funky giant
I played sousaphone (marching), tuba (concert) and upright, aka "string bass" (orchestra) in various combinations for over 20 years through jr. high, high school, college and beyond. To this day the most fun gigs I ever had were playing tuba in dixieland jazz bands. The most lucrative gigs (and coming in at #2 on the fun scale) were playing "old time" music, aka polkas, aka "oompah" music at winter fests, spring fests, sommer fests (yes, it's spelled correctly) and especially at OKTOBERFESTS! Talk about people who are there to drink and dance!!! I shudder to think how much beer vapor - and beer condensation - went through my old Miraphone!
How do you march with a (make sure we're talking about the same thing) bass guitar..? Now back in the late sixties/seventies when I was in HS..I had a battery pack that powered my B-15N that I'd play in the stands for the "Pep Band," but never tried to march with the thing..
That was what we did in the early 90s too. When I wanted to march with my friends in the annual memorial day parade as a senior, I had to pick up Tuba after 4 years off. And yes, it was a tuba (little shotgun tuba on the shoulder), not a sousaphone.
I want a tuba.
The band I saw had a large battery powered amp on casters. One guy was a full time "amp pusher". He and the bass player would both march on the field in formation...not stationary in the pit.
It may have been Arvin High School near Bakersfield, CA.
Our marching band in Horseheads NY, thats right, Horseheads...had an amp pusher for me. He was one of my good buddies and it was alot of fun to do..can't remember the amp we used, but the bass was a Peavey T-40. I had talked the band director to buy it for the school. We had a cart with car batteries on it for the amp.
i actually marched a bell front tuba in high school....didn't march sousaphone until college
