Pine Leaf Boys: Get Off My Lawn

[BabbForHeisman]

All I really know is that I keep trying to get in touch with them, leaving messages offering to try to do something about the situation. Being that I went to middle school with one of them, I thought I would at least get a call back, but that has not happened yet. And then I read that they are playing at LSU since they can't play here. So I don't know what that means about their weekend schedule or anything, but I'll keep trying.

[mickzat]

Free The Pine Leaf Boys! I haven't had a cause to really fight about in 30 years! These kids looks like fine young men. Let's get behind them.

[Crawfish]

"Free The Pine Leaf Boys! I haven't had a cause to really fight about in 30 years! These kids looks like fine young men. Let's get behind them."

Hippie rabble rouser! (just kidding )

PS: Hi

[ragincajun4life]

Thanks Chris... I think they really represent a Cajun culture and were creating a positive influence on the University. The Dean of Students should definitely find more crimes on campus bothering the student body, such as the loud music played by workers in the quad near the Moody Building (although it doesnt bother anyone, I dont think that the Pine Leaf Boys should be removed from campus for playing). Thanks and have a good one!!

[Zeebart21]

Free The Pine Leaf Boys! I haven't had a cause to really fight about in 30 years! These kids looks like fine young men. Let's get behind them.

Right on MICK!!!!

somethin' tells me in your younger days you were one hell of a "rabble rouser"!!!!

is it football season yet? LOL!!

Z.

[BabbForHeisman]

I saw two music students practicing on campus yesterday and found myself wondering why the UP's weren't after them too.

[CajunCharlie]

I saw two music students practicing on campus yesterday and found myself wondering why the UP's weren't after them too.

No Cajun musical instruments!!!!

[RaginEsquire06]

Hmmm...This is an interesting topic. "The right to assemble peacefully?" Maybe the first Amendment? Hmmmm...How about "Speech in public forums?" Maybe....Food for thought, "While the government has the power to regulate the time, place, and manner of speech, the scope of this power depends in part on the governmental interest asserted. The government has a legitmate interest in maintaining public order and safety, but this interest may not be used to ban public expression entirely, or to regulate it in an arbitrary manner that it may allow censorship." Just a little food for thought!

[Tripple Threat]

That was beautiful...really. I wonder if the Dean is aware of these freedom's.

[Corndog308]

Let me give ya'll something to think about. Being a former bus driver for UL for 4 years, i can tell you that the UP's are a waste of a blue uniform. They look for anything and i mean ANYTHING to enforce their "power of the blue uni" on you. If someone scratches their arm, the whole force is there, they think they are more powerful than state troopers, the FBI, etc. And no, I am not exaggerating. I know because we dealt with them a lot. They're the bullies on campus, and they will always be.

[NewsCopy]

If you don’t know the name Wilson Savoy, you will. A Eunice native and son of master accordionist and squeezebox builder Marc Savoy, Wilson is making a huge impact as a musician, cultural advocate and filmmaker. He’s only 24. Wilson’s band, the Pine Leaf Boys, has literally become an overnight sensation. The Boys, who are all in their early 20s and late teens, became media darlings last spring when they were kicked off the University of Louisiana campus for playing their energetic Cajun and Creole music. A few months later, they signed a record deal with Arhoolie Records of El Cerrito, Calif. and released their debut CD, "La Musique." Gigs stretching from Maryland to Fort Lauderdale to the New Orleans Jazz Fest await the Boys during the next two months. The rest of the story Herman Fuselier hfuselier@theadvertiser.com

[NewsCopy]

The Pine Leaf Boys Bring Some Irreverence to Cajun Music with La Musique The Pine Leaf Boys are a funny bunch. Even their name is irreverently funny (think about it for a second if you don't get the joke). They're a group of young guys whose non-musical behavior brings to mind the frathouse in college - you know the one, with the burning furniture in their lawn and the nonstop keg parties. Okay, they're not that bad, but they did get thrown off of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette Campus once (they were playing music on the quad... apparently a no-no). In any case, they are a bunch of mischievious youngsters who play by far some of the best Cajun music out there today. When the music starts, the hilarity stops. There's no Caribbean-Cajun fusion (a la Beausoleil) or Swamp Pop slickness (a la Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys).... this is pure, unbridled, straight-up Cajun and Creole music, played carefully and lovingly in the old style. The rest of the story