USC Trumpet Library
Essential Readings for the bandsman
Being A Trojan

"Of course it is only a game, but somehow the Trojans, bursting out of that stadium tunnel, have come to stand for a way of life. The sight of those USC teams rolling across the Coliseum grass, dominating their opponents - and without a single penny of government aid that the UCLA's and Oklahomas and Nebraskas depended on, damn it. All of it happened, year after year because the school annually turned out a phalanx of new achievers, men who pulled themselves up by the bootstraps and went on to be the cream of their crops and the captains of their industries, men who started companies and expanded businesses that created jobs and took people off the welfare rolls, men who took care to plow back their superabundance into the institution that launched them, so that the Trojan tradition of independence and excellence would go on and on. Yes, the sight of that wave of cardinal and gold articulates everything. Maybe you cannot comprehend that. But a Trojan can. It is a little like being a Marine. You know you are one of the elite."

- Sports Illustrated, November 28, 1988; Gunning for No. 1

Rules of the Old Trojan Band
1. When able, defy authority.
2. Don't get caught.
3. If you do get caught, deny everything.
4. If you can't deny everything (the evidence is overwhelming) don't volunteer information.
5. When you're being subjected to disciplinary action by the authorities, tell them to fuck off and/or quit.

"For pure drums and brass, USC is peerless."
- Athlon Sports College Football Annual 1998

(In)Famous Moments in USC Trumpet History

The USC vs. fucla Blood Bowl

All new band, politically correct, self-righteous assholes DO NOT follow this link. Everyone else with a sense of humor come to the

Lyre Archives

Rules for Rooting - A few simple rules

Trojan Trumpet Drinking Games
I Floozed
- The way bandcamp used to be in the good old days. Quoted from the 1984 El Rodeo.

The Complete, Unabridged, Un-Censored Hymenal

"We grow up hearing that trumpeters blew down the walls of Jericho, that Gabriel's trumpet announces the will of God, and that the largest, and hippest, of all animals, the elephant, has a trunk mostly for trumpeting. These grandiose images shape the classic trumpet persona: brash, impetuous, cocky, cool, in command. Anyone who has ever played in a band knows that if the conductor stops rehearsal because a fight breaks out, if somebody takes your girlfriend, if a tasteless practical joke is pulled, if someone challenges every executive decision no matter how trivial, it's got to be a trumpet player. That's just how we are."
---Wynton Marsalis

"The LORD said to Moses,
'Make two silver trumpets; of hammered work you shall make them; and you shall use them for summoning the congregation... And the sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow the trumpets. The trumpets shall be to you for a perpetual statute throughout your generations. And when you go to war in your land against the adversary who oppresses you, then you shall sound an alarm with the trumpets, that you may be remembered before the LORD your God, and you shall be saved from your enemies. On the day of your gladness also, and at your appointed feasts, and at the beginnings of your months, you shall blow the trumpets...; they shall serve you for remembrance before your God...'" 
-- Numbers 10:1-2, 8-10

P.S. God didn't say anything to Moses about trombones. Or woodwinds.

Trojan Band Evolutionary Chain
Rick Cox
Other trumpet old members
Drummer/tuba/bone old members
Tony Fox
Woodwind/silk old members
Leeches and cockroaches
Trumpet freshmen
Horndorks
Lee Carlson
Fresh shit
Tapeworms
Other freshmen
Old shit teeming with maggots
bRuins

A little Quicktime movie provided by the Fat Boy.

Fuck ucla

2004 Rose Bowl commentary from a Michigan Band loser.

Michigan sucks