Watcha Being for Halloween?

[CBgaragebassist]

Nice, what college do you go to? and what instrument?

I will be playing Friday night in the marching band. We always dress up for the Halloween games. Any ideas for good costumes that I could wear while playing a sousaphone?

You could be a sousaphone. I mean you're pretty much wearing it when you play it. Or you could be one of the things from Aliens and have a Face Hugger pop out of the bell.




(btw, sousaphone is great. When you play off the field, do you do any kind of moves with the tuba?) At my school, the sousaphones and basses do alot of moves whilst playing. it involves rotating and kind of swinging it.

neither of them are me, friends of mine. I play bass in marching band, i'd play sousa if i didn't.
[What the freak with the girl in lower left hand corner? ]

 

[Joe Gress]

Nice, what college do you go to? and what instrument?

CSU-Pueblo

Bass drum. I joined this year with absolutely no experience whatsoever in marching or marching band. It's been so much fun though, and I'm going to be joining the winterline percussion ensemble once football season is over.

 

[Grizzly700]

You could be a sousaphone. i mean you're pretty much wearing it when you play it. you could be one of the things from Aliens and have a face hugger pop out of the bell.




(btw, sousaphone is great. When you play off the field, do you do any kind of moves with the tuba? At my school, the sousaphones and basses do alot of moves whilst playing)

That is a good idea, I could have a monster or something jumping out of the bell. And yeah, while we play in the stands then we do horn flashes, and do the Thriller dance when play it ( very difficult to do while playing, and I knocked out our bari sax player already this season). During Land Of 1000 Dances and the Hey Song, we get really intense and basically flip our sousaphones around our shoulders while wailing out quarter notes as loud as we can ( when all you get is quarter notes you have to find some way to make it fun)

 

[CBgaragebassist]

That is a good idea, I could have a monster or something jumping out of the bell. And yeah, while we play in the stands then we do horn flashes, and do the Thriller dance when play it ( very difficult to do while playing, and I knocked out our bari sax player already this season). During Land Of 1000 Dances and the Hey Song, we get really intense and basically flip our sousaphones around our shoulders while wailing out quarter notes as loud as we can ( when all you get is quarter notes you have to find some way to make it fun)

Oh dear sweet odin, the Hey Song? 'F' for nearly the whole song. Basses do 'the bump' which is kind of like swinging the bass while doing a slight hump.

 

[Grizzly700]

Oh dear sweet odin, the Hey Song? 'F' for nearly the whole song. Basses do 'the bump' which is kind of like swinging the bass while doing a slight hump.

F F F F F F F F F F ( read as WHOMP WHOMP WHOMP WHOMP WHOMP WHOMP)

 

[CBgaragebassist]

F F F F F F F F F F ( read as WHOMP WHOMP WHOMP WHOMP WHOMP WHOMP)

once i did a slap and pop version of it with octaves going with the drum beat. boom-ba-ka-boom-ba-ka, and so on. But they said slap and pop drowns out the chanting the woodwinds do.

 

[Grizzly700]

once i did a slap and pop version of it with octaves going with the drum beat. boom-ba-ka-boom-ba-ka, and so on. But they said slap and pop drowns out the chanting the woodwinds do.

woodwinds *facepalm*


I want to try out for a DCI band, no woodwinds to deal with, only brass and drums. Perfect

 

[CBgaragebassist]

woodwinds *facepalm*


I want to try out for a DCI band, no woodwinds to deal with, only brass and drums. Perfect

We have way too many woodwinds. Clarinets and sazes out number every other instrument.

Let's see:
2 sousas
1 trombone
2 trumpets
5 Saxes
5 Clarinets
3 Flutes
1 Piccolo
2 Guitars
3 Basses

 

[Grizzly700]

We have way too many woodwinds. Clarinets and sazes out number every other instrument.

Let's see:
2 sousas
1 trombone
2 trumpets
5 Saxes
5 Clarinets
3 Flutes
1 Piccolo
2 Guitars
3 Basses

That is the tiniest band ever.

My band has about 120 people in it.

 

[Joe Gress]

That is the tiniest band ever.

My band has about 120 people in it.

Our band is brand new this year (after a twenty year hiatus), and we have I think fifty or sixty.

 

[CBgaragebassist]

That is the tiniest band ever.

My band has about 120 people in it.

I'm forgetting some people. more woodwinds, theres about 30 something people in the band. and i didn't count the drumline, there's 6 of them.

 

[jrthebassguy]

I've got one friend providing me the headset and another to let me borrow his ShamWow (yes, he actually has one). Just gotta order a cheap navy blue polo and get some yellow fabric paint and I'm set.

 

[spark_chaser]

I wish I had the initiative and time for this costume

from red fang video

 

[Ziltoid]

PBR powa

 

[kcamsdog1387]

I'm thinkin of using my friends old phallus costume, but wear kanye glasses and sharpie his maze haircut on the ahem... you know. I'm debating on wearing it to the Halloween show we're playing but am totally wearing to the party the day before.

 

[thejrace]

thinking about being jack bruce from that cream vid where he has on that fur hat.

 

[mrpackerguy]

Jake Blues will be playing bass in his top 40 country band at a country venue. Should be interesting. The irony. 2nd choice was a punk rocker.

 

[MatticusMania]

it may turn out that you're into that, and that becomes a common occurrence. Just make sure you play the Tool song Stinkfist when you do.

I wouldnt have said it so matter-of-factly if I werent.
Tool is always in constant rotation.

 

[CBgaragebassist]

5string slightly gave me this idea-

 

[Vic Winters]

I'm lazy. Last year I bought a $5 cane and went as House.

This year I'm thinking: