lukeneyland
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I always like the star wars darth vadar theme, when our team is trying to get bowl eligible, seemingly to strike fear in the opponent..."oh no, here comes the last rated offense in the SEC...please, NO...they're playing THAT music!"P.O.T.S. Band has a great SONG library. Unfortunately, they play mostly mindless riffs during the games rather than actual arrangements. It's laziness IMO.
They also play the opening riff from Black Sabbath's Iron Man.
But I'm wondering why you think there's some significance to it. My guess is that it's just a riff that they've been playing forever.
To me, the best innovation the Pride has done in the last few years is the circle thing the drummers do around the team at the conclusion of pre-game warmups.
I love the band but I do wish they'd change up the music they play in the March to the Stadium and Salute to the Hill. That's gotten stale
I am one of those old fogey POTS members and I agree with the current halftime shows. At least we tried to do something completely different for every home game back in the 80s.Me personally, I love the pregame routine. But there definitely needs to be changes to the routines everywhere else.
I wish they would actually start trying to entertain at halftime instead of paying tribute to something different every week. It is stale and boring.
And if they were allowed to discuss it publicly, most of the POTSB members would tell you the same thing. IMO of course.
I am one of those old fogey POTS members and I agree with the current halftime shows. At least we tried to do something completely different for every home game back in the 80s.
TThe Wisconsin band breaks up into lots of mini-bands after the games that spread out into the tailgaters and play for food/drinks. It is an excellent tradition. They also have a 5th quarter immediately after the game where the band returns to the field and people stay and “dance”. Used to be cool now most people just leave.Every year when I was in POTS, we’d add new songs. Then we’d still play the same stuff 98% of the time. There was a ton of different music available to play, we just didn’t for some reason.
You are very correct. My last year, I was section leader of the Saxophone section and first chair in the concert band. I had a good relationship with Dr. Julian.....and believe me that was not an easy thing to accomplish. He made being in the band fun, frightening, hard, exciting and DEFINITELY never boring. Not many band directors use a physicist to design their shows.Sounds like you are a Dr. Julian protege. I would love for some of his students take the program over and return it to it's glory and discipline.
Friends and I have talked about suggesting that the band stop on the bridge during the March to the Stadium.Turn toward the stadium and play some sort of strong brass Fan Fare announcing the gladiators (football) team has arrived...then return to the normal march .....shouldn't have any adverse effect on the Salute to Hill from the street below to follow......just a refreshing touch that might be well received by the fans..
JMO