I hate talking to weird people...

hulkcoaster · Post by **hulkcoaster** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 3:11 pm

You hate all parade CMs because they all got togehter and said, lets make a management decision and put this trailer here just to piss you off? :roll: I doubt it.

lovethefuzzies · Post by **lovethefuzzies** » Tue Aug 31, 2004 2:21 am

Wizard69 wrote:I hate parade CMs. Why do you have to put your damn trailers blocking our break room? You should put one of the trailers across the way in front of the conference room and get it the hell out of in front of our break room. I hate having to go around your stupid trailers every day just to get to the break room. I know it would fit across the way from the end of the marked fire area in front of the conference room and it won't even block any of the floats. They hardly use those storage sheds anyways. And it wouldn't be in the traffic of vehicles either.

Oh my gosh. So you have to walk a few extra steps after they've been dancing their sweaty asses through the park for 30 minutes while wearing furry lockers.

BirdMom · Post by **BirdMom** » Fri Sep 03, 2004 3:33 pm

IDTDD wrote: I'm an ex-costuming cast member (yes, I know you all hate(d) us) and I worked on parades and in the character "headroom" for quite some time while I was there.

Oh you poor thing! My sister-in-law used to be Mickey in parades, but sometimes they would stick her in one of the little monkey costumes or she'd be Dopey. She was talking about one parade where some dancer literally vomited inside her costume and the parade captains wanted her to just go ahead and put the thing on and get out the gate! She had all kinds of stories about the younger dancers coming in drunk or stoned and getting sick or extra-sweaty inside their costumes. Gag!!! So, you, you poor IDTDD had to deal with the after effects of those fools....

The idiot referred to in the first post of this thread must have heard a variation on the Florida Tigger incident. At least the poor c.m. got acquitted.... Isn't it funny how those fools don't know what they're talking about, yet they insist that they are right?

GMC · Post by **GMC** » Sat Sep 04, 2004 3:46 am

a few things, one, if someone tried to tell me a wang pooped out of a costume, i would have had a few responses.. "well did you pop it back in for the guy, he probly didn't know!" or "pooh, wang, no, pooh and tigger and all them are plush toys, no wangs, not costumes, if they ripped open you probly saw questionably shaped stuffing " and i would have continuted to insist that pooh was a giant moving stuffed animal, until the guy got mad and left.

two, YOU ACTUALLY GO AROUND THOSE!? i just squeeze by, or go through the middle if they look like they're pretty much done changing, there's always enough room to go between that tree, and the carts, and when they look at the random conductor squeezing through, "their" area, i say hello, or get a very serious look on my face and nod.

3 the parade route isn't so bad, i've marched it, then agian, every time i've marched it it's rained. i've done worse parades,though, and feild shows, in 105 degree (dry heat, and probly an underestimate) in a wool uniform, made of mostly dark colors, carrying a large metal instrument that requires mass quanitites of air, and has to be kept parallel to the ground at all times, unless we're "to the box" which requires 45 degree angle and sometimes twisting the upper half of your body in the opposite direction of the feet, even if it means, you're almost completly turned around. You're playing and you WANT to puke, but that horn and that uniform are you life, and you're not going to do anything to ruin them, and if it comes up you swollow it back down, and take it up an octave! You're doing all this while all movement happens below the hips, your shoulders are square and back, your chest is broad, your chin is up, and the look on your face can freeze beer in the Mojave Desert! and the only thing that should make those chicken feathers on your head ruffle, is the wind, and if you can find a way to prevent that, THAN BY GOLLY YOU BETTER! And VPHS was probly one of the most relaxed band in scsoba, but they've changed "leauges" and are now working on being more hardcore.

Stduck · Post by **Stduck** » Sat Sep 04, 2004 10:43 am

GMC wrote:3 the parade route isn't so bad, i've marched it, then agian, every time i've marched it it's rained. i've done worse parades,though, and feild shows, in 105 degree (dry heat, and probly an underestimate) in a wool uniform, made of mostly dark colors, carrying a large metal instrument that requires mass quanitites of air, and has to be kept parallel to the ground at all times, unless we're "to the box" which requires 45 degree angle and sometimes twisting the upper half of your body in the opposite direction of the feet, even if it means, you're almost completly turned around. You're playing and you WANT to puke, but that horn and that uniform are you life, and you're not going to do anything to ruin them, and if it comes up you swollow it back down, and take it up an octave! You're doing all this while all movement happens below the hips, your shoulders are square and back, your chest is broad, your chin is up, and the look on your face can freeze beer in the Mojave Desert! and the only thing that should make those chicken feathers on your head ruffle, is the wind, and if you can find a way to prevent that, THAN BY GOLLY YOU BETTER! And VPHS was probly one of the most relaxed band in scsoba, but they've changed "leauges" and are now working on being more hardcore.

Former band geek I take it. I know and have felt all the pain you have described in the above quote. (Except the horns parallel to the ground I marched clarinet.) People don't realise how much hard work goes into performing whether its music, actors, singers etc. I give cudos to our fuzzies for taking the beating they do every day. I also give cudos to our face characters for the unbelievable amount of patience they have. People with "wang revieling stories" just want attention cause they either have been rejected as a performer or feel they aren't good enough.

lovethefuzzies · Post by **lovethefuzzies** » Sun Sep 05, 2004 2:41 am

I was never a "band geek" (you said it, not me) nor do I do parades. I do know, however, that even after doing two parades a day (now it's one per day) 5+ times per week, for lord knows how many weeks straight, every one of those CMs STILL comes off set out of breath and sweating like hell. It's not easy stuff.

Stduck · Post by **Stduck** » Sun Sep 05, 2004 12:33 pm

Oh I can imagine. I've done that parade root from a marching band perspective. It wasn't fun and we had to march all the way back to the dressing rooms after the parade. As for dancing down the parade root in the POS. I was a guest performer and I was sweating and dying and I could only imagine how poor Meeko (my dance partner) was doing. I give kudos again to all our fuzzies. They put up with a lot of crap but we love them and they make the guests happy.

GMC · Post by **GMC** » Mon Sep 06, 2004 12:34 am

second parade has got to be the hardest though, when we had one... it's up hill, we did that one year, and luckily it was a frigid winter day, but my legs were so sore after that, espicailly trying not to slip and fall flat on my (trom)bone, it was also very interesting being the guide for the entire block of people and having one of our drum majors in a wheel chair, pushed by a less compotent member, get stuck in the street car track half the blok tried to go around, the other half followed ettiqute and slowed to my pace, and that third half that always manages to get in there, starts yell at everybody... the only people talking should have been me, and the section leaders, and the drum majors, but no everybody had to say something, so the orders that were called were drown out, then the drums cued our horns up. anyway back to the story, my legs really hurt after trudging the entire route.

Doing parade crossing for trains on a busy day, i've heard what some of those characters say when they get to the top of the park, and it isn't always all that great.

corrinhorn · Post by **corrinhorn** » Fri Sep 10, 2004 4:30 pm

Ah...A fellow bone, Did You do anything playing-wise After Villa Park? I have marched that parade route so many times, it isn't even funny. I think that my middle school holds the record for the fastest time down the parade route. We had a Middle School center guide who was 6'3" and a nervous DM who whistled us off at about 1 1/2 speed. It probably took us about 12 minutes from Small World to Firehouse. (we got in so much trouble from our Director) :D

That Parade route is tough, but nothing like doing 3 RCC Field Shows in one night. But I still respect the paraders for doing their job.

GMC · Post by **GMC** » Fri Sep 10, 2004 5:12 pm

not doing anything right now, just got out of high school, and i'm taking a semester off from school, well witht he exception of an ROP class. but yeah, every time we went to go march, we'd be announced, the gates would open, and it would start to rain, the other gates would open, the rear color gaurd would go through, and the rain would stop... it's probly a good thing i'm not in POTS because at disneyland, it always rains on my parade. Oh the day we had planned on going to DL but couldn't due to disciplinary reasons... rain was in the forecast, however, i don't think it actually ever rained.