Hey guys

Hey everyone in the West Band Community. I know it may be hard for you to let go, but both of our band directors are moving on in the career. And it is a good reasons too. There shouldn't be any hate between people cussing and saying bad things about either of them. They are still part of us, even though they won't be here next year.

We must all look at this as an opprotunity to grow musically. We have new opinions, new point of views. I will not tolerate people saying that band is not going to be the same. Of course it won't. It isn't the same every two days. No pessimism in the band. We all must take this maturely and greet the new directors with 100% of our devotion to them. And I know that people worshipped Adams like god. I certainly was one of them. But we now have two new directors and we must (and this sounds crazy) worship them.

I'm sure whoever is going to be directing the band will know our talent within the first couple of weeks. We have marching band to prove that we are good musicians. That we are a good ENSEMBLE. And we have a heck of a show to prove that, for those who have not heard it yet.

It may take them months to settle in, but we need to make it seem like weeks or even days. We cannot be on the "you took Adams job I hate you" bandwagon because that is absolutely absurd. Adams left at his own disgression. Now we must do whatever we can to make the new band directors feel comfortable so tensions are lowered in the band. You will not see me act hostily to the new band directors. I am going on rookie day to set an example of how everyone should act. Many people understand this, but some do not. We need to be open minded at this time in our band career. I don't want to hear talks of quitting or dropping band, and ESPECIALLY NOT talks of not giving 100%. We need to give 150% times 10.

Now, I don't know what to expect. I don't know what kind of pieces we are going to play. But I guarentee that Mr. Adams is giving them a good clue of where we are at level wise...Grade 3-5 pieces. And the same with the jazz band. So, if you think about it, nothing is going to change musically.

So let's show them. So let's show ourselves. We can do this.