my kilt fell down mid march.oops.

This isn't really MY most embarrassing moment but it's embarrassing nonetheless.

We were marching through Main Street USA in Disneyland and our #2 bass drum literally walks into a trash can, making the drum fall on the ground. It was SO embarrassing for her! In front of thousands of people.....

This isn't much as embarassing as amazingly hilarious.

It was the third day at band camp, and we were in indiviual section marching blocks, and my section leader does something stupid so he has to do pushups. We get counted off to do a mark time 8 backwards 16, and ends up, he is doing the pushups right behind me without me knowing. I got 4 seps and I fall backwards over him, Yahama quints and all. The drums flipped over me and landed right side up, and my section leader was laying on his stomach stunned. Both dirctors and some band parents (along with some of the danceline) were unloading some props off of a trailor. They saw it, so they all saw it, and I got right back up, and it was the funniest thing that happened all year (besides when we got rained on coming onto the field at halftime)

There we go, all fixed

Well two people have had to go and throw up in one of our winter rehearsals before haha. My most embarassing thing was either falling during a marching band drill block and taking about 5 seconds total before even hitting the ground and laying there stunned, or the time in winterline when after a big competition we were all folding the floor. You know how you do it real fast and just throw it back on itself and run back to the end kinda? Well I happened to trip on a big air bubble in the floor and slid about 5 feet on my stomach in front of the whole audience. A couple of them applauded :P

One of my most embarrassing moments in marching band... Wow. Okay, one time in high school, our drums were having some maintenance taken care of, and we still had rehearsal, right? Well, the band kept on having trouble locking in to the beat. Even with Dr. Beat blaring, it was still difficult. They complained about it sounding "unbalanced" without the line. That may be true, but it shouldn't be such a distraction. So, the director told the line to sing our parts.

The drum feature sounded like this mass of gibberish. Drum talk, but at the top of our lungs. And when he hit the big unison accents, dogs came running onto the field from next door, because it sounded like we were barking. To REALLY drive home just how silly the situation was, we air-drummed... And did it all with the most serious look on our faces. It was, after all, a direct order.

I swear, this isn't exaggerated.

well it isnt mine
but its the history gvhs lol
my freshman year my friend chad had bumped into a giant back prop which ruined our final winter show that year
my sophmore year all three of our snares had fallen during a comp over a pothole haha
my junior year our center snare had completly dropped all his sticks during finals which made him just stand there lol
my senior year during final field comp, we had just bought brand new dynasty the day before and my other tenor pal randy had dropped his entire tenor during finals fml

Tripping over myself in the last 20 seconds of the final runthrough of the rehearsal before a WGI show

I have had a few very embarrassing moments.

The only thing that happened while I was still marching was when my line was to far back and to the right, and the tuba line was too far forward and to the left. I ended up falling on top of the tuba player and ended up under the tuba, but the funniest thing about it was the noise the tuba/tuba player made when he fell.

I dropped my cymbals so many times during indoor my director moved me to bass one. Never could hold cymbals very well.

The only other embarrassing moments I have had have been as a drum major, but ill list them anyway.

After our band plays the National Anthem we run over to the gate that the football team runs out of and play Eye of The Tiger (school song). Well I was conducting and was standing a little too far into the middle. Well when the football team ran out, I was hit, literally lifted and carried about 10 yards before the football player stopped and set me down. On the positive, some of the yardage was intentional because the nice football player didn't wanna throw me down into a mob.

And my senior year, homecoming. The worst thing that ever happened was stepping onto the podeum and tripping on the last step, falling forward and causing me to roll off into the pit. Since I am a drummer battery decided to do drum roll when I was laying there, and started random banging when I stood up and bowed to the audience, and re-walked up the podeum.

I at least walked out of everything uninjured, it was never during a contest, and I always learned something in the process. Don't stand where the football team runs in, watch your step when going up ladders, and tuba players make funny noises when they fall.

How did you manage to do that? It's pretty darn hard to drop a cymbal using the common "Garfield" grip.