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Subject: Re: Immortal Ram Band Moments Author: Kim Kuentz Melchert [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 21:36:11 01/14/03 Tue In reply to: Diego Pena 's message, "Immortal Ram Band Moments" on 21:08:01 01/14/03 Tue I forget who the drum major was (Kurt Dullnig or Paul Stumpff)and what stadium (I think NS), but it was the time when the band entered the field from the endzones.... Remember when 1/2 the band "heard" a whistle, thinking it was the drum major and began to march out, while the other half remained at attention in their places, not hearing a thing? The band totally fell apart and had to restart ourselves. Turned out, it was a fan in the visitors' grandstand using a whistle just like the drum major used, trying to "trickstart" the band. It worked. Another memory.... marching contest at NS when it had rained steadily for a few days prior, and the field was all muddy. I marched out of my shoes, leaving them stuck in the mud. They were never retrieved. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

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[> [> Subject: Re: Immortal Ram Band Moments Author: Mike Groves [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 03:36:44 01/26/03 Sun How funny you have that memory...If mine serves me correct, in '75 we had a similar occurance...Alamo Stadium, Trinity game, Mike Bryson DM, anyone else remember that? Guess it shows history DOES repeat itself! [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> [> Subject: Re: Immortal Ram Band Moments Author: Robin [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 11:01:23 01/26/03 Sun I remember that time. That was horrible. A much better memory is of the tremendous applause we received when we did The Fanfare* (well done, trumpets!) before the shows at football games. Always had to be careful about going sharp during the final crescendo. *from Also Sprach Zarathustra, I believe [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> Subject: Re: Immortal Ram Band Moments Author: Susan Taylor Jolly [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 19:06:37 01/27/03 Mon Several things stand out for me: + the goosebumps upon entering the field and subsequent fanfare; + the fanfare fiasco Kim K. mentioned (it was the year Kurt D. was drum major - I bet he remembers too...) and the lack of goosebumps on that occasion; + looking up to find Mr. Kuentz glaring at you while directing (you'd so hoped no one had heard/seen your mistake...) or hearing same bellow at you: "if you're early, you're on time, if you're on time, you're late, and if you're late, you're NOTHIN'!!!"; + and last but not least - anyone remember huddling under the overpass downtown waiting for the Fiesta Parade Sniper incident to end? [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> [> Subject: Re: Immortal Ram Band Moments Author: Kim Kuentz Melchert [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 20:09:12 01/28/03 Tue I *do* remember the sniper incident.... Huddling around a 3 wheeled police/escort vehicle listening to the police radio.....Seeing my dad walking toward, what seemed the direction the gunfire was coming from, trying to round up "stray" Ram Band members.... The mass running of band members from various schools in different directions, and finally, the *long* scrape on a car a brass player left from his instrument while running too close it. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]