Traditions

• Chinese buffet before the first and last Tuesday rehearsals.
• "pre-gaming"
• Throwing broken sticks on top of Barton
• Bringing tasty beverages on road trips (in Gaspar Cooler)
• Food after Tuesday night rehearsals, either Hot Truck, or Wings Over Ithaca
• pissing off the band
• leaning right while the rest of the band leans left (Pinball Wizard, Chimes/Evening Song)
• anti-sociality, or more accurately, intra-sociality
• "Oh we are percussion ____ ___"
• no aardvarking
• acapella cadences
• Election Signs
• Trying to get Gaspar Cooley elected as drum major
• Being Awesome

Stories

• Well, there's the time drumline tackled the Princeton mascot and bruised the tiger's trachea. (The newspaper clipping is posted in the band room closet.) See definition of "tiger" under the Princetonian Dictionary.
• I guess there's also the time Godfrey did a shot of pam...
• There was a peppermint schnapps incident involving Ruben his freshman year.
• At Columbia in 2004, Steve ("Fights Dirty") got punched by a drunk alum before Salerno forcibly took him off the bus.
• As dictated by tradition, (and by "tradition," I mean it's happened twice), a percussion-sax happy hour was held in March 2006, where we watched movies...about (ahem) Pirates!...
• In 2006, MTV called us up and wanted to know if we wanted to be part of a music video. No, really, we're just that good. You can see 6 of us playing snare (and dressed up as skeletons, no less) at the beginning of the video for My Chemical Romance's "Black Parade," which was broadcasted for the 2006 MTV Video Music Awards.

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