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In reply to the discussion: I Was a High School Band Geek. [View all]MineralMan
(146,286 posts)19. It always seemed to me that the band members were fairly
serious people, despite our reputation for being sort of weird. Some friends and I got together in 1960 and made up a small band to greet Bobby Kennedy, whose train came to town on a whistle-stop tour, campaigning for JFK. We played the train into town, got a thumbs up from RFK, and got hassled by the town's Republicans for showing up to support JFK.
There were complaints about using some school instruments for political purposes. I was teaching myself the tuba, so I took one of the school's sousaphones to meet the train. The band director just said, "Who cares what they think? Good job!"
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