Funny!

[Louisiana84]

I'm constitutional conservative. I don't believe it needs to be updated for 2018 period. This country has had a history of self correcting from slavery, women's rights to civil rights. But had the ruling class lived by the very words in the Declaration of Independence, self correction would have never been necessary. We can debate this another day, but I cringed when I hear it needs to be amended. To what, for whom? Will we still have a Constitutional Republic or a Democracy? Questions for another day.

My man. The Mark Levin of RP.

[barisaxman]

I must admit that the pregame show since 2013 has been more consistent, to the point, and a lot better than before. I remember for a while, we would change up the pregame show many times with different songs every year before going into the "UL" formation with the fight song. I like that fact that we now know start it with the "Respect" fanfare and then march right into the fight song. It has a more "traditional" feel to it. I hope we keep it that way.

To clarify—the music for pre-game was NOT changed—it’s that the DRILL was re-written
from 170 members to 300! For the few other ex-band nerds on RP—the PoA has a VERY
strong mellophone and low brass sound that we havent heard in a good while!! 🤓

[barisaxman]

About time you showed up for a band thread!! LOL 😎

Not to worry, Good Citizen, I'm ALWAYS here!

[Balanced_view]

I'm constitutional conservative. I don't believe it needs to be updated for 2018 period. This country has had a history of self correcting from slavery, women's rights to civil rights. But had the ruling class lived by the very words in the Declaration of Independence, self correction would have never been necessary. We can debate this another day, but I cringed when I hear it needs to be amended. To what, for whom? Will we still have a Constitutional Republic or a Democracy? Questions for another day.

i really would like the thread to stay band related, so i wont attempt to answer all those questions, but i just want to say one last thing to T. its perfectly ok that you dont think the original constitution needed to be updated. but it has already been, i believe like 27 times. so to her point, not considering if it should have or not, there were 27 instances where the original was considered old and outdated. i dont want to seem as if you cant feel like the original was the best version, only that the original was in fact changed many times in our history.

[Geaux]

That is what I observed during this past season's Bayou Classic. Southern was the larger band, has that been the case historically?

Yes, Southern has always had a larger band. It wasn't until the mid 90's that Southern allowed females in the band. Most musicians consider Grambling to be musically superior to Southern. Grambling has a lot more wind instruments in their band.

Grambling has one of college football's best chants. Their fans go nuts when the band plays "We Ready". Very similar to LSU and their love for the song "Neck". I wish we had something like this at UL.

https://youtu.be/U3OpJp700Mo

[fanof71]

To clarify—the music for pre-game was NOT changed—it’s that the DRILL was re-written
from 170 members to 300! For the few other ex-band nerds on RP—the PoA has a VERY
strong mellophone and low brass sound that we havent heard in a good while!! 🤓

So, the POA is now 300 strong? Is that just the musicians or does that # include flags, rifles, bass player, girls waving sticks, etc?

[RaginFan2]

i really would like the thread to stay band related, so i wont attempt to answer all those questions, but i just want to say one last thing to T. its perfectly ok that you dont think the original constitution needed to be updated. but it has already been, i believe like 27 times. so to her point, not considering if it should have or not, there were 27 instances where the original was considered old and outdated. i dont want to seem as if you cant feel like the original was the best version, only that the original was in fact changed many times in our history.

Just to be clear, it hasn't been "changed", only amended. To me changed sounds like re-written.

[RaginFan2]

Looking forward to hearing how the band sounds this year! Geaux PoA!

[CharlieK]

A band thread based on a JOKE evolving into a debate on amending the constitution is the most Ragin Pagin thing ever. All it's missing is Boomer claiming the constitution was written by a Jesuit High School guy.

[CajunT]

Just to be clear, it hasn't been "changed", only amended. To me changed sounds like re-written.

Yes, amended to address serious human rights violations like Slavery, Citizenship for descendants of Slaves, Women's Voting Rights and Civil Rights of Minorities. France has re-written is constitution at least 15 times over the past 300 plus years. Anyone want to be France?

[CajunT]

i really would like the thread to stay band related, so i wont attempt to answer all those questions, but i just want to say one last thing to T. its perfectly ok that you dont think the original constitution needed to be updated. but it has already been, i believe like 27 times. so to her point, not considering if it should have or not, there were 27 instances where the original was considered old and outdated. i dont want to seem as if you cant feel like the original was the best version, only that the original was in fact changed many times in our history.

Amended is self-correcting, not re-written. That is historically incorrect. But I'm interested in hearing what amendments are needed to modernize our constitution today. Perhaps Turbine can create a forum for such discussions.

[CajunT]

Yes, Southern has always had a larger band. It wasn't until the mid 90's that Southern allowed females in the band. Most musicians consider Grambling to be musically superior to Southern. Grambling has a lot more wind instruments in their band.

Grambling has one of college football's best chants. Their fans go nuts when the band plays "We Ready". Very similar to LSU and their love for the song "Neck". I wish we had something like this at UL.

https://youtu.be/U3OpJp700Mo

I've always watched the Bayou Classic,I have attended two games in my lifetime. I guess I just never noticed the difference in numbers between the two school's bands.