Party at Julie’s House!

This year, instead of going to The Palms after the game, Julie Hathaway has invited all of us to her house for the after party.

Julie and Dean live at

5462 El Carro Lane

Julie’s phone, 805.886-9143.

My parents live on the same street, so I’m thinking we should leave our instruments in our cars. Speaking of cars, there should be tons of free parking on Casitas Pass Road, which is very close.

BYOB | No T.P.

2010 Reunion Information

The 2010 Warrior Band and Drill Team Reunion and Halftime Show will be Friday, September 10th at Carpinteria High School Memorial Stadium.

This season will mark more than 10 years for the annual alumni half-time show and fundraiser. Even if you haven't picked up an instrument in years, we still want you to come and have fun and support the high school’s Warrior Band. If you can drag the thing from the closet or the garage and produce some sort of sound, that's even better. But not required. You'll be surprised how it will come back to you. It’s just like falling off a bike.

There will be two music rehearsals in the CHS Band Room:

• Thursday, Sept 2, 7:00pm to 8:00pm

• Thursday, Sept 9, 7:00pm to 8:00pm

We will meet at about 3:30 in the afternoon of Friday Sept 10 to run through the marching part of the halftime show, before the game. That practice will be followed by pizza for all, at the band room. Game time is generally 7:00pm and it has become a tradition to “hit The Palms” after the game.

The songs haven't been chosen yet, so keep an eye on this website or Facebook for further info. If you need copies of tunes from previous years, use the Download Music link in the right column on this website. Or click here to send an email.

Hope to see you at the show!

Facebook for Band Geeks

Last September, after the reunion, the suggestion was made that we get the Alumni Band and Drill Team on Facebook (FB). The point was made that there are alumni on FB who don't know about this blog, and we want to contact them.

I set up 2 things for us there, which I think was a mistake. I should have done just 1.

I made this Facebook Group.

I also made a Facebook Page.

The difference between a Group and a Page had me confused. But I think what we actually wanted was a Group. It's more of a feature to send out announcements to a group of people, less of a web site that they come and look at. We already have this blog as our Web site. What we wanted to do was get the message out to alumni on FB about upcoming events.

So as we march into a new year, I'm suggesting we focus on using the group to share announcements, and continue using this blog. The FB Page is redundant, right?

Discussions and Photos

The Group site has a Discussions function which is cool, and a Photos function too.

But it's not necessary to use the Group thing I set up to have discussions with other alumni. As long as they are FB Friends, they can see what you post on your wall. And you can post on their wall, and send them private messages through FB. 

Please make sure you've joined up.

If you are on Facebook, please go to the Facebook Group. There should be a link to Join This Group.

I'm going to work on developing e-mail subscription function for this blog, so that people who are not on FB can subscribe to this blog by e-mail. That way, they'll get announcements automatically. No more YahooGroups, is my point.

That Was Fun

Well that was good time, wasn't it? I had fun, and hope you did too. If you couldn't make it, you were missed.

I didn't take the chance to ask very many people what it sounded like, but I guess we pulled it off as usual. It's amazing how it comes back to you, even if your ax has been in a locker in your garage since last year.

I took a few photos.

And here are two very short videos, shot while we were on the field before the game. Watch for the little kid getting his hand smacked by the players as they run by - pretty cute.





If you have any photos or videos, I'd like to link to them or post them here. Please send me a link if you have them in an online album, or just send me the files and I'll post them.

2009 Reunion Date Set

The annual reunion and halftime show will be Friday, September 18th at Carpinteria High.

Even if you haven't picked up an instrument in years, we still want you to come and have fun and support the Warrior Band. If you can drag the thing from the closet or the garage and produce some sort of sound, that's even better. But not required. You'll be surprised how it will come back to you. Just like falling off a bike.

There will be two music rehearsals:

Thursday, Sept 10 Thursday, Sept 17th at 7:00 p.m. in the CHS Band Room.

We will meet in the afternoon of Friday Sept 18 to run through the marching part of the halftime show.

The songs haven't been chosen yet, so keep an eye on this site for further info. If you need copies of tunes from previous years, send an me an e-mail at kimberlin@cox.net. I'll get you linked up. Or use the Download Music link in the right column.

Hope to see you at the show!

One Week to the Reunion Halftime

Hope you can join us for this next week alumni halftime.

Here's the schedule:

Thursday, September 11 - Rehearsal, 7:00pm, CANALINO SCHOOL.

The elementary band room is in a portable classroom in the center of the Canalino campus.

Friday, September 12 - Meet at about 3:00pm at the CHS band room for a walk thru on the half-time show.

Pizza and soft drinks immediately to follow and then the football game.

We had a short and good rehearsal last night!

Reunion Halftime and Practices Scheduled

The annual reunion halftime has been scheduled for Friday 9.12.2008.

Rehearsals will be Thursday September 4, 7:00pm
and Thursday September 11, 7:00pm
in the band room at CHS.

And as usual, we'll practice before the game at 3:00pm, Friday 9.12, in the band room.

Questions? You can e-mail me, or call, and I'll get the answer for you.

____________
Kyle Kimberlin
Class of 79
805.684-3717

CARPINTERIA INDEPENDENCE DAY PARADE, JUNE 28

A message from Elise Unruh, CHS band director:

We do appear to have enough interest to make a showing at the parade this year, especially if we get some additional alumni besides the Class of 2008. I haven’t heard back from Mr. Nevens yet, so if YOU know some alumni (parents, friends and/or siblings), please bring them along! It will be really good PR for us to show up, so if you said you’d do the parade, PLEASE try to follow through. Here’s the plan:

· Rehearsal at the high school at 2:30 PM on Saturday June 28, the same day as the parade. We will learn a very easy patriotic march on the spot and figure out a parade formation and routine.

· After an hour or so of practice, head down to Linden for the start of the parade. Share rides, get parents to help drive, walk --- whatever works for you.

· I’ll bring my wagon to transport instruments. If you or your parents drive a big vehicle and can also help, great!

· Wear band shirts, alumni shirts, or red, white and blue shirts. Jeans or shorts on the bottom are fine.

· Parade line-up is at 4 PM; parade starts at 5 PM.

· If you originally said you were available for this parade and your plans have changed so that you WON’T be there, please contact me ASAP (see contact info at bottom of page).

CONTACTING ME

• The BEST way to contact me over the summer is by email . I read those every morning. Please use that address instead of the cusd.net one.
• You can also call CHS and leave a voice mail message: 684-4107 x249. If you happen to have my cell phone number, don’t use it because I don’t keep it turned on and I won’t get your message for weeks!

If I don’t see you at any of our summer activities, have a great summer.

Ms. Unruh

1970s Photos!

Jim Parker has scanned and posted an album of Band photos from various years and events in the 1970s. Very cool stuff.

Click Here.

The War on the Shore

A good time was had by all at yesterday's War on the Shore Alumni football game vs. Bishop. Believe it or not, 6200 people were in attendance as Bishop squeaked out a 10-9 victory over our alma mater. More to the point, that many people watched and listened as the good ol' Warrior Band and Alumni Band took the field at halftime.

I think that's the largest crowd the Warrior (Alumni) Band has played for - at least with your humble webmaster among the trombones - in over 30 years. I'm thinking about USC Band Day, which would have been mid-1970s. That was a huge crowd, and several large bands. I'm not sure of the year, but I remember Lalo Schifrin conducted, and the Trojan band did their Fleetwood Mac "Tusk" thing, which was cool.

I don't know how we sounded yesterday from where Langdon was standing, but I thought we sounded alright. But I wonder if anyone else among the ancient venerable band geeks found him or herself on the field, suddenly trying to read the music at lyre- distance, and realizing he or she was wearing the wrong glasses for anything that close. Dang.

Jim Parker and I took some photos. If you have any you'd like to share, please e-mail them to me and I'll add them.

Photos here - grid format. | Same photos - slideshow.

If you have comments on the game or the performance, add them to the comments on this post. Or e-mail me, and I'll post them for you.

Here's a little video.