The Pride of the Southland

[zeppelin128]

Is that a new song they are playing running through the T?

Good stuff Zep.

OG fight song, our technical official fight song. We play it after touchdowns before Rocky Top, too. It gets drowned out by the noise of the crowd, which is a good thing.

Edit: I mean it is a good thing the crowd is loud. Down the Field is the official name of what we play when our guys come through the T.

Edit2:

 

[Volador]

Love the new Unis!! Tired of those old cream colored unis.

 

[VFL10]

Apparently this is the first year in quite sometime the band has decided to play Rocky Top without using saccato. It’s apparently a more traditional sound now with long notes and trills. Excited to hear them in Neyland soon!

 

[kckempf]

It's college. Students do dumbass things. I once dumped a large bucket of cold water on a bunch of girls sunbathing on an open patio outside my 3rd story dorm window. Personally, I enjoyed the Stanford clowns, probably because I like to clown around myself. A lot of accusations thrown their way are unjustified. Still, I take it back about POTS doing formations that even smack of Stanford. I must have confused a formation of red-hued marchers with Stanford. Now, if they're such bad people, why doesn't the university ban them?

Stanford has banned them multiple times, recently for sexual harassment and hazing:

The Stanford band won't be allowed to travel to road games for one year

They're one of those counter culture groups mostly populated by trust fund babies, and they do nothing musically interesting or even competent. Santa Clara Vanguard and Concord Blue Devils both perform at a show in Stanford's stadium every year in late June, and that's about the only time a great marching show happens there.

 

[kckempf]

Is that a new song they are playing running through the T?

Good stuff Zep.

That's "Down the Field", the fight song. Nobody can hear it over the fans but it hasn't changed in forever.

 

[zeppelin128]

That's "Down the Field", the fight song. Nobody can hear it over the fans but it hasn't changed in forever.

And some old timers will get quite angry if you tell them otherwise or bring up Rocky Top.

Glad we keep Down the Field for our older fans and for our tradition.

 

[Mightyvol]

Have it on real good authority the routine for the Ball State game is great !

 

[kckempf]

And some old timers will get quite angry if you tell them otherwise or bring up Rocky Top.

Glad we keep Down the Field for our older fans and for our tradition.

"Fight Vols Fight" and "March On Mighty Vols" make appearances in pregame as well, along with march arrangements of the alma mater and the "Tennessee Waltz". "Rocky Top" rotates with "Down the Field"/"Fight Vols Fight" on the march to the stadium as well, if nothing has changed.

I like keeping these songs around, since they're part of what makes the band uniquely Tennessean. Hopefully we'll do a good job of maintaining that tradition with the new director also moving things forward.

 

[fullerishot]

Have it on real good authority the routine for the Ball State game is great !

You are not wrong

 

[MAD]

OG fight song, our technical official fight song. We play it after touchdowns before Rocky Top, too. It gets drowned out by the noise of the crowd, which is a good thing.

Edit: I mean it is a good thing the crowd is loud. Down the Field is the official name of what we play when our guys come through the T.

Edit2:

Sounds almost the same as these two fight songs.

 

[WoodsmanVol]

Stanford has banned them multiple times, recently for sexual harassment and hazing:

The Stanford band won't be allowed to travel to road games for one year

They're one of those counter culture groups mostly populated by trust fund babies, and they do nothing musically interesting or even competent. Santa Clara Vanguard and Concord Blue Devils both perform at a show in Stanford's stadium every year in late June, and that's about the only time a great marching show happens there.

Trust fund babies? Well, long live capitalism, I suppose. And to quote myself:
I take it back about POTS doing formations that even smack of Stanford. I must have confused a formation of red-hued marchers with Stanford.

 

[feathersax]

Sounds almost the same as these two fight songs.

They are indeed the same song. The difference is the P.O.T.S. Band playing it in a superior manner. Music arrangement by the late, great Barry McDonald.