Marching Band: How to fire up Students and Football Players

[bbhstiger5]

Introducing new stuff while doing the old is great. But they don’t become tradition until many years down the road of doing so. Sorta like R E S P E C T started in the 60s or 70s. Traditions don’t start today and become tradition over night.

At the very least, RESPECT needs to be rearranged musically. The version played now does not sound anything like the actual song - it’s very flat and the harmonies suck. I say rejuvenate RESPECT with a new arrangement.

[HoustonCajun]

At the very least, RESPECT needs to be rearranged musically. The version played now does not sound anything like the actual song - it’s very flat and the harmonies suck. I say rejuvenate RESPECT with a new arrangement.

And the ESPN theme is old, too.

[Big Poppa]

At the very least, RESPECT needs to be rearranged musically. The version played now does not sound anything like the actual song - it’s very flat and the harmonies suck. I say rejuvenate RESPECT with a new arrangement.

You need to make sound like the marching band has made it sound historical. This isn’t about who has the best rendition of Respect it’s staying consistent with history and tradition. I read earlier that respect, fight on Cajuns and do watcha wanna are the only things the band has that says tradition and I agree.

[Turbine]

SPECT is brain imaging.

RESPECT is a message to Martin Hall.

"What are y'all thinking"

[HelmutVII]

Does anybody want to know how respect got started?

[KajunKrazy]

Does anybody want to know how respect got started?

Not sure how it got started. But to people that grew up Cajuns fans 40 and under that song is not Respect by Aretha Franklin. It’s the song they grew up hearing at Cajuns ball games. To them it is as identifiable with Cajuns atheletics as Fifgt On Cajuns. If you ask my 22 year son if he ever heard Respect by AF he’d probably say no. But if you play it by a marching band, he would know immediately that is the song from Cajuns games.

[HelmutVII]

Not sure how it got started. But to people that grew up Cajuns fans 40 and under that song is not Respect by Aretha Franklin. It’s the song they grew up hearing at Cajuns ball games. To them it is as identifiable with Cajuns atheletics as Fifgt On Cajuns. If you ask my 22 year son if he ever heard Respect by AF he’d probably say no. But if you play it by a marching band, he would know immediately that is the song from Cajuns games.

That is correct. Respect was started in the 60's when Jack Arceneaux was the director. The band played at the halftime of the Grantland Rice bowl. They ended the program in the formation of a scale similar to the scale shown in the "blind justice" image. The scale was not balanced. The heavy side had dollar signs for LSU and the light side had dollar signs for USL. They played Respect when they made the formation because after all "all we want is just a little respect". And now you know the rest of the story. It has been played ever since. Now that you know that I don't think anybody should even come close to suggesting they stop playing it.

[Turbine]

Does anybody want to know how respect got started?

Aretha Franklin did a concert at Earl K. Long Gym.

The crowd went wild.

The band took it from there.

It went viral as they say.

[Big Poppa]

Aretha Franklin did a concert at Earl K. Long Gym.

The crowd went wild.

The band took it from there.

It went viral as they say.

I see we have conflicting stories. Where can we find the truth?

[HelmutVII]

I see we have conflicting stories. Where can we find the truth?

The band may have picked it up after the concert but I remember seeing the halftime show and the band playing Respect at the football game. I remember that because I thought to myself "that took some stones to do that.". No doubt Aretha Franklin was first to perform. The band got it from her.