HippyKritz Music and More in Abilene Texas

Good day folks, hope everyone is well.  Well summer is almost over and school is back in session and we have noticed the lack of school- aged people in the store in the early morning and afternoon hours.  I am remembering the days of high school band when I had to be on the field at 7am for marching band practice and then my first class of the day was band…good times.  My trombone and I were joined at the hip for much of my high school career and band was fun stuff, even considering our director was somewhat of a dictator, and honestly a little scary most of the time.  But marching at the football games was cool and the long bus trips out of town on Fridays was fun too.  We would usually leave Abilene for the out of town games early in the day on Fridays so we missed our regular classes that afternoon and normally the fleet of Greyhound buses would drop us off at the mall in the city the game was in that night.  So imagine 450 band geeks invading the local mall like a crazed army of dorks ready to pillage and plunder whichever establishment we happened to be in.  After about 2 hours we would load the busses again and head to the stadium for the game.  Heaven help anyone who made it to the busses late, but this usually only happened once, lol.  When we would get to the game we would put on our ridicoulosly hot marching uniforms and line up like a good group of soldiers ready for a musical battle between us and the opposing band.  The game started with the National Anthem and then both bands would tear into the school fight song.  There were dueling songs between both bands during the game and then we would take the field at half-time for the show.  Back in 85-87 Cooper High School had the biggest marching band in TX so our half-time show was always impressive and the crowd always loved it.  After the game we would pile back into the busses and head back to Abilene, a lot of times getting home in the early morning hours.  Hopefully a lot of people reading this are members of a school band and will have a lifetime of instrument toting band geek memories!!  Remember to be safe, have fun and remember the good times, and play music!!!   Kenny