[DeUtCheaxelplaya]

watch this please. it was our last performance at aloha stadium for rainbow invitational. we are almost the smallest band in the state but we produce. im sure that all you marching band people will like it.

thank you!!!!!!

 

[gary]

Hey, very nicely done!

My sister is a Kailua grad and my mother taught there.
Is that a select group or is the program that small? If it's that small, why is that? It's not a criticism, I'm just curious.

 

[DeUtCheaxelplaya]

Hey, very nicely done!

My sister is a Kailua grad and my mother taught there.
Is that a select group or is the program that small? If it's that small, why is that? It's not a criticism, I'm just curious.

oh well the marching band is actually that small and our concert band is not much bigger.............we have about 40 people in our concert band

the talent has gone up just the numbers have dropped, but hopefully we get sent up more and more freshman from the intermediate school each year

there are more recordings on you tube if you feel like watching the same thing at a different place

and thank you for commenting so many people looked at my thread and you are the first to reply

how long ago was it that your mom was teaching at kailua?

 

[gary]

...how long ago was it that your mom was teaching at kailua?

Before you were born, I'm sure. Personally, I went over the Pali every day and am a McKinley grad but mom and my sister were there during the Hotoke and Baltazar era. (Ask your grandparents, LOL.)

 

[DeUtCheaxelplaya]

Before you were born, I'm sure. Personally, I went over the Pali every day and am a McKinley grad but mom and my sister were there during the Hotoke and Baltazar era. (Ask your grandparents, LOL.)

oh damn............yeah because i turn 17 in january. that is a long time ago........how long have you been playing _____ sax?

 

[hakukani]

Gary has played the sax a loooong time. Maybe even longer than me. For me that's 4/5 of my life.

 

[DeUtCheaxelplaya]

Gary has played the sax a loooong time. Maybe even longer than me. For me that's 4/5 of my life.

ahh i see. how did you like the recording?

 

[hakukani]

I'm probably the wrong person to ask, given my general antipathy to football, drum and bugle corps, and marching band in general.

Chalk it up to being an old curmudgeon.

 

[gary]

Gary has played the sax a loooong time. Maybe even longer than me. For me that's 4/5 of my life.

...so, could we chalk that the lost part of your life can up to a fifth? :twisted:

Actually, in them there days, I was a trumpet player. And, dude, it wasn't that long ago. (Although I do kind'a remember this gig in Jerico, once.)

 

[sonicthehedgehog]

Before you were born, I'm sure. Personally, I went over the Pali every day and am a McKinley grad but mom and my sister were there during the Hotoke and Baltazar era. (Ask your grandparents, LOL.)

I took lessons with Richard when I was 17, I think he's still the band director at Iolani. Great man and great musician. I should get back in touch with you.

 

[gary]

I took lessons with Richard when I was 17, I think he's still the band director at Iolani. Great man and great musician. I should get back in touch with you.

I think we have a disconnect. There are Shigeru Hotoke and Norman Baltazar. Who's Richard?

 

[sonicthehedgehog]

Richard Hotoke, the band director at Iolani. I guess Hotoke is a popular name for band directors in Oahu.