Pine Leaf Boys: Get Off My Lawn

[Turbine]

They've come a long way since the Authement administration had them kicked off campus.

http://www.theadvertiser.com/story/n...ment/89257284/

[CajunEXPRESS]

Looks like we attack everything creative.

[Turbine]

The current mascot stance reminds me of the Pine Leaf Boys on campus.

Early 21st Century: Pine Leaf Boys "Get off my Lawn" your music does not align with the University’s brand, its values or interests.

2024: We love the Pine Leaf Boys.

[RedTails]

The current mascot stance reminds me of the Pine Leaf Boys on campus.

Early 21st Century: Pine Leaf Boys "Get off my Lawn" your music does not align with the University’s brand, its values or interests.

2024: We love the Pine Leaf Boys.

"For us, we’ve always loved music. My parents are musicians; all of our friends are musicians. We grew up in a very musical place here, and it’s something we started as young people, and as we got older, we began to meet other young musicians that were into it, and we just decided to start a band ten years ago. And what happened with us is we were playing on the campus … at the University of Louisiana in Lafayette, just playing on the street, trying to entertain the students. And one day, a cop came and said, “You guys have got to get out of here. Y’all are disturbing the peace,” and I left, and I was pretty upset about that. I wrote a letter saying, you know these guys call themselves the Ragin’ Cajun campus. I think they should allow … young people to play music. The students love it, you know, and so everybody in Lafayette — all these bars and different venues and dance halls got really upset about this and said, “Hey, if UL won’t have you, come play for us.” And within a year, we took it from just being like a street busking band to playing in bars and dance halls. And within a year, we had an agent and a record and we were doing our first European tour. So it just kind of blew up that way. ... And we’re very fortunate for that, and so we just kept kind of doing what we were doing. We just took it to a bigger audience ... and made it all the way to England and then over to Saudi Arabia, and the U.S. State Department found out about it, and so the government started to invite us out on different tours."
-Wilson Savoy, 2016

Not much has changed with how our University treats opportunities as threats.

[JamesTheJeweler]

"For us, we’ve always loved music. My parents are musicians; all of our friends are musicians. We grew up in a very musical place here, and it’s something we started as young people, and as we got older, we began to meet other young musicians that were into it, and we just decided to start a band ten years ago. And what happened with us is we were playing on the campus … at the University of Louisiana in Lafayette, just playing on the street, trying to entertain the students. And one day, a cop came and said, “You guys have got to get out of here. Y’all are disturbing the peace,” and I left, and I was pretty upset about that. I wrote a letter saying, you know these guys call themselves the Ragin’ Cajun campus. I think they should allow … young people to play music. The students love it, you know, and so everybody in Lafayette — all these bars and different venues and dance halls got really upset about this and said, “Hey, if UL won’t have you, come play for us.” And within a year, we took it from just being like a street busking band to playing in bars and dance halls. And within a year, we had an agent and a record and we were doing our first European tour. So it just kind of blew up that way. ... And we’re very fortunate for that, and so we just kept kind of doing what we were doing. We just took it to a bigger audience ... and made it all the way to England and then over to Saudi Arabia, and the U.S. State Department found out about it, and so the government started to invite us out on different tours."
-Wilson Savoy, 2016

Not much has changed with how our University treats opportunities as threats.

Well said, Red!

[JamesTheJeweler]

The current mascot stance reminds me of the Pine Leaf Boys on campus.

Early 21st Century: Pine Leaf Boys "Get off my Lawn" your music does not align with the University’s brand, its values or interests.

2024: We love the Pine Leaf Boys.

It's not surprising that no one in the administration thought, ok there's some noise complaints there, but what a representation of our culture. Group of students playing cajun French music on campus! Imagine how cool that looks for students and visitors from outside our culture to see organically on campus. Let's let them know they can't play there, but give them a spot where they can.
No. Let's just roll up with lights and sirens and demand they leave or get arrested. Unreal. It reminds me of the "pop copy" skit on Chappelle show.

[Turbine]

It's not surprising that no one in the administration thought, ok there's some noise complaints there, but what a representation of our culture. Group of students playing cajun French music on campus! Imagine how cool that looks for students and visitors from outside our culture to see organically on campus. Let's let them know they can't play there, but give them a spot where they can.
No. Let's just roll up with lights and sirens and demand they leave or get arrested. Unreal. It reminds me of the "pop copy" skit on Chappelle show.

All based on one single solitary complaint.

Could have been someone with a vendetta. Who knows?

[Louisiana84]

Our university was a lot more fun when it was a lot more fun.

[Cajunrunner]

It's not surprising that no one in the administration thought, ok there's some noise complaints there, but what a representation of our culture. Group of students playing cajun French music on campus! Imagine how cool that looks for students and visitors from outside our culture to see organically on campus. Let's let them know they can't play there, but give them a spot where they can.
No. Let's just roll up with lights and sirens and demand they leave or get arrested. Unreal. It reminds me of the "pop copy" skit on Chappelle show.

Yeah…that was some dumb ____.

[JamesTheJeweler]

Yeah…that was some dumb ____.

Yeah, well that dumb s___ made him over 100 million dollars, sooooooo....

[RaisingCajun08]

Yeah, well that dumb s___ made him over 100 million dollars, sooooooo....

My opinion, most comedy is dumb. That is what makes it funny. I love some dumb slapstick comedy any day.

On a serious note for you, have you ever done any stand-up? I think you would be a lot funnier than a lot of the local comedians on the local scene here.

[Cajunrunner]

Yeah, well that dumb s___ made him over 100 million dollars, sooooooo....

I was referring to the university’s reaction to Pine Leaf Boys playing free music on campus.