Band ... Music ... musings

[RaginRash]

_ I cant do anything but read this thread and laugh... This is good stuff, haha.. _

Drum majors should be able to do the "Worm" on demand. Period.

[Cajunbander]

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Drum majors should be able to do the "Worm" on demand. Period. _

I agree!!

[CajunCharlie]

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Kill the piped in music and mike the band


igeaux.mobi _

Please! Pretty please!!

[CDeb]

You don't see me criticize football much, because I've never played it, I don't know it that well to be able to do that. I love to watch it, but I' not going to try and criticize something I don't know that well. I'm tired of criticism of the band by people who've never put an instrument to their face, or marched in a marching band. _

Amen. Westfield High School c/o 95 band nerd here.

[rhineaux]

You don't see me criticize football much, because I've never played it, I don't know it that well to be able to do that. I love to watch it, but I' not going to try and criticize something I don't know that well. I'm tired of criticism of the band by people who've never put an instrument to their face, or marched in a marching band. _

Again, I don't think anyone is crticizing you or your mates. But, you said it yourself that the Director is the one who controls what is played and everything else, which is what people are saying could be improved. I think a lot of people agree that the overall atmosphere during the game could use a few adjustments, and some of the things that you guys do, controlled by the Director, is included in that.

[cajunref]

_ I like band.

Kill the piped in music and mike the band

AMEN!!!

[UL Alum93]

Oh yeah, kill the piped in music, that's the most I've seen little kids enjoy themselves in a long time. Sorry but the band music doesn't make the atmosphere for young Cajun's (kids) jump up and down and have a good time. The atmosphere has been great, kind of like the Ice Gator games, remember how many supported them, good product on the ice, but more importantly great time watching the game. We have a good product developing on the field, keep up the atmospere, sorry but if the band can't get it, which they haven't the pa music is the next best thing...not knocking the band, like someone sayed it's the directors.

[Cajunbander]

_ Again, I don't think anyone is crticizing you or your mates. But, you said it yourself that the Director is the one who controls what is played and everything else, which is what people are saying could be improved. I think a lot of people agree that the overall atmosphere during the game could use a few adjustments, and some of the things that you guys do, controlled by the Director, is included in that. _

Well, that was more a response to someone telling me that we shouldn't be tired. I said that fatigue plays a factor in what we can play and how much we can play, to which I was told that since a high school band can do it, we should be able to do. The fact is that we play twice as loud, play much harder music, and do twice as much as a high school band. We also don't have the numbers of a bigger band like at LSU A&M, so when their players can take a rest and still sound good, we can't. We have to play all the time.

That's what I was complaining about on that particular post, but I know where you're coming from, and you're right.

[Turbine]

_ Oh yeah, kill the piped in music, that's the most I've seen little kids enjoy themselves in a long time.

The Ice Gators had more piped in music than the Alaskan pipeline could handle, we now know that is not the answer to sustainability.

[UL Alum93]

Turbine,

I disagree, they brought a product to Lafayette that no one knew about and made a family type fun atmospere game in and game out. We could totally care about the actual game of hockey, the music, the excitement on the ice (yes the fighting) is what kept it around. The problem came when the "game of hockey" started getting played and the fan based became BORED!! When things become boring, you find something else to spend your money on. All I'm saying is keep your fans having fun, if it means music (up beat music) so be it, just like the NBA, NHL, NFL, etc. I would love to have a college football tradition like BCS schools of bands playing and pumping up the crowd, do we have that in the Swamp, not at this time!