Posted October 19
The competition season is over and all that's left are the indoor concerts and that little parade in New York City. Roadies that were rookies are now veterans, and the veterans are just older, grayer and more scarred up. Volunteering for any bandparent committee is good, but here's the Top 10 Things We've Learned by being Roadies:
10. Loading instruments always beats doing yard work.
9. Turns out Pit Kids will gladly tell you where to put a bass drum!
8. Advil. Enough said.
7. Unstable ladders make our Drum Majors really testy.
6. You can fit a kid inside a tenor drum case.
5. "Prop" really IS a four-letter word.
4. The pit equipment alone weighs over 3 TONS (see number 8).
3. Knuckles bleed.
2. Roadies can beat the drumline off the field EVERY TIME!
1. You really can fix anything with duct tape!
