Question about Gameday music??

[BelieveNBG]

Now, I know the Coach liked the atmosphere, but all of our students aren't drunk before the game llike UW.

Are you sure about that? hmmmm While entering the game with a ton of students, there were some things that were quite obvious. Wasn't BG ranked high on the Playboy party school list at one time?

[Metz]

Can you point out a good spot for me to get this version on-line, I need to listen to this song before I play NCAA 2006 to get fired up!!!!!!

It's uploaded on the Animals site for now...I'll probably leave it there for a week so if anyone wants it, dl it now.

http://www.andersonanimals.com/sounds/weready.mp3

[transfer2BGSU]

Wasn't BG ranked high on the Playboy party school list at one time?

That's another one of those Urban Legneds - according to Playboy, they don't publish such a list.

I think we should play the Time Warp!

[04forheisman]

Can you point out a good spot for me to get this version on-line, I need to listen to this song before I play NCAA 2006 to get fired up!!!!!!

It's uploaded on the Animals site for now...I'll probably leave it there for a week so if anyone wants it, dl it now.

http://www.andersonanimals.com/sounds/weready.mp3

Thanks, you are the man

[MACMAN]

The music is better than the band, i think

I have about two hundred friends to whom them would be fightin' words.

Fortunately, I don't care if you personally don't like the band. *shrugs* There are enough who do.

And yes, to always a falcon's post... it was kind of surprising to be marching on the field and still hear music over the loudspeaker.

Dont get me wrong its not that I dont llike the band or any band for that matter, I do fully apreciate musical ability.
I am however very very tired of bands at football games. They are not inspiring as a player...seriously do you think the bands songs get players fired up...or fans.
Bands used to be the thing, but there are now better options. Yes there are very good bands, BGSu has a very good band...but if the band were to make the switch to PIPE and DRUMS, they would be a better ally to the team....have you ever heard a 100, 150 200 piece pipe and drum band....very loud, very cool very different and I feel that would provide more of a home field edge, and be far more interesting than the theem to jaws, star wars or a tribute to broadway.
I know others dont feel this way but I do...

[momtartin]

Wisconsin's Jump around is cool. But it is a tradition that is handed down. I know they have to start somewhere! But just playing random music and expecting kids to understand is strange. One thing Wisconsin has is A PA ANNOUNCER WITH SOME PIZZAZZ! If our guy would get "into it" with the kids and say "hey it's the 3rd quarter let's rock the Doyt" (don't hold your breath!)...maybe we would start something too.

I just think the band looked really surprised at the canned music playing so much. I personally missed the band.

If you want the kids to get excited....let the band play the "HEY" song. But we don't do that here.......

That's just my first 2 cents!

I always enjoyed the HEY song, it was pretty fun. And as for the cowbell idea, I like it, it suits BG well

[MACMAN]

Well i forget who ...is it BAll that uses "In the air tonight"....could have been good....for that matter why not go all out on BIG 80's and use the Miami Vice theem....lol
or when a flag is thrown the Jeprody music, followed by "fianl answer" when the ref gives the call.

or some sound bits from Howard Cosell

or the brady bunch....
Heres a story
about a coach named Brandon....

[FliccGirl]

They are not inspiring as a player...seriously do you think the bands songs get players fired up...or fans.

Huh, I thought I heard several thousand voices yelling "B! G! S! U!" after we played Ay-Zig. Guess I was hearing things.

but if the band were to make the switch to PIPE and DRUMS, they would be a better ally to the team....

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Excuse me while I stop paying attention to what you say.

No offense, man. But bagpipes? Yup, that'll fire up the students, and it sure says small-town America to me.




Incidentally, put me in the group of those who like the cowbell and tractor idea.

[Shakeatailfeather04]

I seriously doubt Urban Meyer would have starting having the football players come over to the band at the end of every game to sing the Alma Mater and Ay Zig if he didn't think it got them fired up.
Also, at the start of every season the band goes to the stadium to play for the team and the players tell us how instrumental we are to the game day atmosphere. So YOU might not like it, but the players do. And I care a lot more about their opinion than about yours.

Sue me, but I thought the "Jump Around" thing in Wisky was pretty lame. They just...jump up and down. Sure, there are a lot of them, but it's not really that cool and it has nothing to do with WI whatsoever. The tractor and cowbell would be so much better.

[BelieveNBG]

Dont get me wrong its not that I dont llike the band or any band for that matter, I do fully apreciate musical ability.
I am however very very tired of bands at football games. They are not inspiring as a player...seriously do you think the bands songs get players fired up...or fans.

You obviously never saw the movie Drumline, but that's a different type of band. Fans don't leave the stadium and go to the concession stand until the halftime show is over. Those bands are more important than the game...but back to BG. You are correct in the fact that something is needed that gets everyone fired up. The first way is to have a good/exciting team and that's a done deal. Now, something else is needed. Some folks may not like what Wisky is doing, but those students didn't leave that section until sometime after that song. The song was not played until right before the 4th quarter, so by then, you may as well stay til the end.

[Bleeding Orange]

Uhhh, MACMAN, I am going to relate to you a story from the GMAC Bowl banquet to you, and tell me what you think of our marching band's effect on the players.

So, the bowl banquet was being held in the Mobile Convo. Ctr. (can't remember its exact name, but it was a phenomenal facility) in a very large hall with between 2 and 3 thousand people there for lunch. As part of the pre-event festivities, both schools marching bands were there getting prepped in a walled-off back room as everyone was arriving. When everyone sat down, Memphis' marching band marched out down one side of the hall, played their fight song and alma mater and marched back out. Their players all stood out of respect and sat down after the band marched out.

Shortly thereafter the Falcon Marching Band comes marching out down the other side of the room (to the coolest cadence I have ever heard in my life, btw). They played the Alma Mater and everyone that was there with BG, including the players, stood and sang along. They then broke into a very LOUD rendition of Ay Zig and our entire football team started dancing around, bumping into one another, singing along at the top of their lungs and pumping their fists in the air. I looked over at the Memphis side of the house and people were shocked at how our players were acting. I have never been more proud in my life.

That FMB performance was the best I have ever seen. They only played for about ten or fifteen minutes, but man did they SHOW UP! I had several Memphis alums afterwards comment to me how good our band was. That aside, though, the FMB means more to our football players than marching bands do to most schools. You wouldn't think it because we are just a "mid-major," but we honestly do have one of the best marching bands in the country, and we are extremely lucky to have them.

One more quick memory from the GMAC Bowl, I thought it was awesome after the game when Keon was on the award platform surrounded by the team and the marching band and he looked down at a small part of the band and started screaming "PLAY AY ZIG!!! PLAY AY ZIG!!!" The band obliged and the football team, again, went nuts. Awesome.

I want to go to the GMAC Bowl again!

[always a falcon]

all of our students aren't drunk before the game llike UW.

That's a bold statement

I agree we really need to make something of our own. Something that the crowd can be a part of.

Sorry- that was a very generalized statement- not my usual MO.

I still like the band!

[Godsgirlerific]

Bleeding Orange, you are my favorite.

And your post seriously calmed me down after reading what MACMAN had to say; I NEEDED that.

[MACMAN]

Now that you have vented, go back and reread my post. It is all about me, my time and expericences as a player. i never once said our team or our players dont enjoy it.
I have found our teams interaction with band interesting esp on such a regular basis. i can not recall any team hhiting the stands to be with band before. Our team has very interesting relationship with the band...much like the lambo leap...this interaction is unique to BGSU, as far as I know.

Ziggy is cool and if that were all that was played that would be great, it is very participatory, and as such does get the fans going. The movie sound tracks the broadway Gershwin...can you honestly say that any of those renditions by a band get the crowd realy going, or are motivating...and want make rip the head off the other teams QB after runing over top the mad man in front of you. Should you answer anything but NO your lieing. The half time shows are cool, the whole sceen of the marching band doing thier thing is and always been very cool...very hard...very well planed and excecuted. but that is very seperate from the game.


Pipes are wild and funky and much much louder than a marching band twice thier size...imagine this... playing in the horseshoe...your getting pounded, your sore and hurting. Your searching your soul for that extra little bit that will keep you going one more play....and then playing over top the crowd, over top the OSU band you hear your schools pipes playing...orange and brown kilts waving inthe air, as you make your way to the line. As the sounds of jaws, Darth vader and the OSU fight song fad to the back all you hear are the pipes of Doyt..then you hear Ziggy on the pipes (one must wonder what that would be like).

Sound systems are replacing bands...why many reasons are llikely...the sounds of swing are from our parents generation, our times and generations are musicly defiend by modern music. hockey organs are being replaced.
Bands are however part of the strong and rich tradition that is COLLEGE FOOTBALL. I dont see a day in the near future where big schools dont have a band...infact right now i would guess that band numbers are rising with more children being exposed to music in school and insturments being more afordable to more people.

i just prefer some of the alternatives, and am looking for something more progressive than conservative in this area.

[Schadenfreude]

I'm really getting hung up on the idea Schade & I were discussing in another thread. It doesn't involve the students jumping up and down, but it would be BG's own "thing."

What would that be?

Sorry, wasn't sure if anyone wanted to hear the rehash.

This grew out of a discussion about the third down "Bell" thing they started. I wasn't there for it, of course, so I'm going on what I can glean.

Anyway, instead of that, here's my suggestion...

When the defense faces a third down (and maybe at the beginning of the fourth quarter), the announcer roars out "Fulllll Pullll!!!" followed by a roaring tractor engine and the crowd erupting with about 10,000 cowbells.

This gives us a sense of place. BG is a farming community. It's home to the National Tractor Pulling Championship. It's goofy, it's fun and it would be loud as he**!

And it would be unique to Bowling Green State University.

I know many folks here dislike the cowbell idea. Sorry, I love it. I like the marketing opportunities - Hello, John Deere? Want your logo on 50,000 cowbells?

Anyway, there it is.

Well, I've been chewing on this.

I like the full pull idea, a lot. I wonder, though, if it would work better when Bowling Green gets first downs. "That's another FULL PULL by Bowling Green!!!"

Just a thought.

I like it. Sense of place, reaching out to the community, all that.

I'm sure some students here are gagging at the idea (even if they aren't posting), thinking farmers are so uncool, that they don't want BGSU identified with that, and that 87 and I must be rubes.

I can't speak for 87, but I ain't no rube. I just see farmers as cops or autoworkers or snow plower drivers in different clothing -- people who work hard, haven't had life handed to them on a silver platter, and who deserve our respect.

As far as coming up with a verision of "Jump Around," my only convictions are:

1. We shouldn't do "Jump Around." That's Wisconsin.
2. Whatever we come up will have to be student-driven -- probably based on an insanely trendy song. My freshman year, it would have been "Welcome to the Jungle." (It was the pre-Nirvana era, and rock music was in a really bad way then. As my buddy said at the time, and accurately, a college party wasn't a college party unless Steve Miller was on the radio).