My second year of marching band was pretty much a direct continuation of the first year.  I was still playing snare drum, but I had moved up a couple spots.  I say that it was like a continuation because although marching band is only officially in the fall, the band does things throughout the entire school year and sometimes during the summer too.  The drumline camp and band camp is in fact, during the summer. 

There's a couple extra cool things I got to do this year for the band though that was different from last year.  One, I got to help work on one of Dave's drumline projects and now there are pictures of me in Dave's book which is sold on tapspace.com.  This is really a cool book. 

http://www.tapspace.com/Stadium-54-pr-1.html

Two, I got to be involved in another of Dave's projects.  This one was an instructional marching percussion DVD that will be sold in Japan.  This is sort of silly because I might not know it, but in a few years... I might be big in Japan.

Marching band my freshman year.  How can I describe this...

It was so different than what I had been used to in high school.  Both high schools I went to were corps-style marching bands.  Not a traditional high-stepping band.  I was totally turned off by the fact the Husky Band is traditional style, but I joined anyhow...mostly because I knew I would be working with Dave Reeves, the God of drumming. 

These were good times though.  Difficult, stressful... long hours, long rehearsals, etc., but nonetheless, good times. 

Some of my closest friendships bloomed out of Husky Band, so I'm really glad I joined.