Get A Life Marching Band

Get A Life Marching Band
Portland, Oregon

Welcome to the home page of the Get A Life Marching Band, based in Portland, Oregon.

Founded in 1994 by Bob Pulido and John Lind, Get A Life is an all-adult band whose members have three things in common:

We were all in high school or college marching bands.
We still haven't gotten over it.
We'd rather miss a note than a meal!

The band performs regularly in parades and other events throughout the region; see the Performances page for a full schedule. We've also traveled widely; see our Awards page for a list of major parades that have received that special GAL touch.

2008 Motto:

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Walt Disney World Parade
Lake Buena Vista, FL
January 25, 2008

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Fiesta Flambeau Parade
San Antonio, TX
April 28, 2007

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Sweepstakes Award
Loyalty Days Parade
Long Beach, WA
May 6, 2007

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Into the Maelstrom
Gasparilla Pirate Parade
Tampa, Florida
January 26, 2008

Next scheduled performance:

May 4, 2008
at
Loyalty Days Parade
(Long Beach, WA)

See you along the parade route -- We'll be the ones having more fun than anyone else in the parade!

New Members Welcome!
Instruments and Twirlers click above;
Color Guard & Dance Team click here.

UPDATED staging info posted for Long Beach Loyalty Days, including new list of standstill tunes and possible change to parade tunes.

Recordings of the two new street tunes (Get Down Tonight and That's the Way) are posted on the Rehearsal Music page.

MP3 version of Louie Louie with a Groove is now available on the Rehearsal Music page; try listening and playing along to start learning the rhythms.

Wanna know where we'll be? Our 2008 Performance Schedule is now posted.

Here's a 2008 challenge: Let's double the size of the band! It's possible if we each bring in one new member. A colorful GAL recruiting poster is available to use with friends, bulletin boards, or wherever else you'd find it handy on our new Recruiting Materials page (permanent link at bottom of page). UPDATE: File for printing business cards has been added.

New rehearsals scheduled for April-June.

ROAD TRIP PIX: First few pix from the Florida trip are available right here. More to come when I get time!

BAND MEMBERS PLEASE NOTE: If you haven't been getting email from me lately, it's because I no longer have a valid email address for you! Several of you have addresses that are now bouncing back to me as "unknown". Please update me with your latest info! Click here to email me.

Awards page reorganized; major events section added.

Many thanks to the folks at Making Music Magazine for a terrific story on GAL in their July/Aug 2007 issue.

Nice article and photos about the band ran in the Tigard Times July 19, 2007 newspaper issue on THPRD's Party in the Park. Click here to check it out!

GAL wins "Furthest Entry" award at San Antonio's 2006 Fiesta Flambeau Parade. Click here for full list of Flambeau awards or here for GAL's awards gallery.

Want to hear what the band sounds like these days? We've got some new recordings on the Sound & Video page, so check it out. We think it's our best sound yet!

New! Awards & Honors section added to the website.

GAL's first International Road Trip was a blast - let us share the fun in these Victoria pix .