Since I have many friends who are not fans of marching band like me, I will use this first entry to explain my hobby, why it is so important to me, and what to expect from future entries in this blog.
As many of my friends know, I was in marching band in high school. What you may not know is that in high school, I had some very fresh emotional scars from the 2 years I spent in the inner city school systems in Charleston, West Virginia before I moved to Richmond, Kentucky. It's a long story for a different blog entry, but basically, my brother and I had to deal with a lot of bullies who terrorized us for the entire time we were there, and it caused us to close in on ourselves. So for much of our time in high school, we were both withdrawn and guarded. However, the music programs at the schools I attended in Richmond were so good that they helped heal those wounds and mold me into a much better person. After seeing the impact the activity had on me, I fell in love with it, and I made it a point to be involved with it from then on, no matter what.
In my efforts to remain involved with high school band, I found a forum that discusses just that. It focuses mainly on marching band, which happens generally during football season. This forum has allowed me to express, share, interpret, and refine my views regarding marching band. Since the state is such a big place, there are many fans of the activity who live in all corners of it; some of us, especially those live closer to the eastern or western tip, cannot get over to the opposite side of the state just to watch some marching bands, so members of the forum tend to write reviews of their experiences at marching band competitions they attend. I started to do this myself, and over time, my personality traits bled into it: my reviews have become very meticulous and detailed. I love writing these detailed reviews, so I try to do so every time I go to a marching band competition.
In the last few weeks, however, recent upgrades to the marching band forum (possibly added by the site's web host) have prevented me from posting these long, detailed reviews there like I usually do. Therefore, I have started this blog so that I can have a place to post my reviews. Occasionally, I will also get an idea about a topic related to marching band, or something will happen in the marching band world about which I have a strong opinion. I will be writing about all of these things in this blog.
Thank you for visiting my blog, and I hope you visit again soon as I add more stuff to it.
Tim
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