Band Geeks Going Pop

For those of you treating this blog as one big "I Spy" game- you may have noticed my saxophone case rotate through the room.This is one of those heftier items (both literally and figuratively) that probably isn't going anywhere anytime soon.  For those of you who haven't spotted it, once you know what you're looking for, it's kind of hard to miss. I put giant flower power stickers on it back in the 7th grade (1995 for those of you keeping track). There are also a few Blues Clues stickers, as per my ironic fandom of the show. I joined band in middle school and played all through college. Like dance classes, basketball, and learning the German language, this was one of the many time consuming hobbies of my youth that I have rarely used in my adult life. And as such, I have a lot of crap associated with it at my parent's house. 

If you were in band as a middle schooler, music books were the cool things to have.

I know you're still trying to wrap your head around the paradoxical location of the word "cool" right after the phrase "in band as a middle schooler". I'll give you a moment. 

This is the kind of thing we did for fun on our down time. You would spend all fall learning to play Sleigh Ride. In the spring you'd devote large chunks of time to fumbling through Stars and Stripes Forever while marching through the school parking lot. In the mid 90's, nothing said summer fun to a band kid like letting loose with the latest Disney movie hits.  The pop music on the right is from late middle school/ early high school, when I got really cool. 

28 Top Hits for the Alto Sax

Smash Pop Hit

I'm a little sad to see these gems go, but hopefully some young kid has picked them up from the Bennington Transfer station and is so excited that she can finally learn to play "Every Heartbeat". The table of contents on the left might be worth clicking on to enlarge. I'm pretty sure I marked off all the songs I was working on. Apparently I've blocked out that I was an avid Ricky Martin fan.