(09-13-2016 01:10 PM)GullLake Wrote: [ -> ]Get the drumline and/or brass to do cheers around the stadium with the cheerleaders in the 3rd Q.
I like this idea. We have a 'small' stadium so it'd be easy for cheerleaders and band members to pump up the crowd in the stands.
I personally don't have a problem with the music they play. They're playing modern songs. I'd rather that then have it be dead silence.
But yes! Move the band. If half the students are going to leave anyways, open up that part of the stadium up for the community. Word off the street says people don't like sitting in the end zone. Move the band
(09-13-2016 04:31 PM)Flashboski Wrote: [ -> ]Only access is by boat and oars. I like it! Row the Boat!
#brocoach #movetheband
(09-13-2016 02:27 PM)Moomba Wrote: [ -> ]It would have been SICK to have "The Who" piped in back then. hahahahaha.
"don't you know that the hypnotized never lie........DO YA" 
Coincidence: The Who was the first Texas concert I saw - in the Cotton Bowl, shortly after I moved here - like a month after I got here. Some have said this was one of their best concerts ever. Went with 3 chicks who graduated from WMU the year before and had moved here before me. Check out this set list:
Dec 4 1982
The Who at Cotton Bowl, Dallas, TX, USA Tour: It's Hard Tour
Setlist
1. Substitute
2. Dangerous
3. Sister Disco
4. The Quiet One
5. It's Hard
6. Eminence Front
7. Behind Blue Eyes
8. Baba O'Riley
9. I Can See for Miles
10. Drowned
11. Tattoo
12. Cry If You Want
13. My Generation
14. Who Are You
15. Pinball Wizard
16. See Me, Feel Me
17. 5:15
18. Love Ain't for Keepin'
19. Love, Reign O'er Me
20. Long Live Rock
21. Won't Get Fooled Again
Encore:
22. Magic Bus
23. Squeeze Box
24. Twist and Shout
25. Naked Eye
26. Summertime Blues
The next week they took me to see some hot Texas Guitar player named Stevie Ray Vaughn at the Greenville Ave Bar and Grill. It was hard to leave Texas after that start.
(09-13-2016 05:06 PM)texasbronco1 Wrote: [ -> ] (09-13-2016 02:27 PM)Moomba Wrote: [ -> ]It would have been SICK to have "The Who" piped in back then. hahahahaha.
"don't you know that the hypnotized never lie........DO YA"
Coincidence: The Who was the first Texas concert I saw - in the Cotton Bowl, shortly after I moved here - like a month after I got here. Some have said this was one of their best concerts ever. Went with 3 chicks who graduated from WMU the year before and had moved here before me. Check out this set list:
Dec 4 1982
The Who at Cotton Bowl, Dallas, TX, USA Tour: It's Hard Tour
Setlist
1. Substitute
2. Dangerous
3. Sister Disco
4. The Quiet One
5. It's Hard
6. Eminence Front
7. Behind Blue Eyes
8. Baba O'Riley
9. I Can See for Miles
10. Drowned
11. Tattoo
12. Cry If You Want
13. My Generation
14. Who Are You
15. Pinball Wizard
16. See Me, Feel Me
17. 5:15
18. Love Ain't for Keepin'
19. Love, Reign O'er Me
20. Long Live Rock
21. Won't Get Fooled Again
Encore:
22. Magic Bus
23. Squeeze Box
24. Twist and Shout
25. Naked Eye
26. Summertime Blues
The next week they took me to see some hot Texas Guitar player named Stevie Ray Vaughn at the Greenville Ave Bar and Grill. It was hard to leave Texas after that start.
I saw the Who at the silver dome I think same year. I could have passed on that concert. But seeing Stevie Ray would have been perhaps my favorite concert ever. He is amongst the absolute greatest, and for sure the most underrated musician ever. Obviously his electric guitar mastery is legendary, but one of my favorite songs of his is Life by the drop. That old mtv acoustic concert is the best of that mtv series ever.
For what it's worth, I attended the Navy game on Saturday and during my entire time there I heard two songs with references to marijuana smoking. Both were during pregame. First was Rick Derringer's Rock and Roll Hoochie Koo. I didn't know the second song, but I know what I heard.
(09-13-2016 07:23 PM)brovol Wrote: [ -> ] (09-13-2016 05:06 PM)texasbronco1 Wrote: [ -> ] (09-13-2016 02:27 PM)Moomba Wrote: [ -> ]It would have been SICK to have "The Who" piped in back then. hahahahaha.
"don't you know that the hypnotized never lie........DO YA"
Coincidence: The Who was the first Texas concert I saw - in the Cotton Bowl, shortly after I moved here - like a month after I got here. Some have said this was one of their best concerts ever. Went with 3 chicks who graduated from WMU the year before and had moved here before me. Check out this set list:
Dec 4 1982
The Who at Cotton Bowl, Dallas, TX, USA Tour: It's Hard Tour
Setlist
1. Substitute
2. Dangerous
3. Sister Disco
4. The Quiet One
5. It's Hard
6. Eminence Front
7. Behind Blue Eyes
8. Baba O'Riley
9. I Can See for Miles
10. Drowned
11. Tattoo
12. Cry If You Want
13. My Generation
14. Who Are You
15. Pinball Wizard
16. See Me, Feel Me
17. 5:15
18. Love Ain't for Keepin'
19. Love, Reign O'er Me
20. Long Live Rock
21. Won't Get Fooled Again
Encore:
22. Magic Bus
23. Squeeze Box
24. Twist and Shout
25. Naked Eye
26. Summertime Blues
The next week they took me to see some hot Texas Guitar player named Stevie Ray Vaughn at the Greenville Ave Bar and Grill. It was hard to leave Texas after that start.
I saw the Who at the silver dome I think same year. I could have passed on that concert. But seeing Stevie Ray would have been perhaps my favorite concert ever. He is amongst the absolute greatest, and for sure the most underrated musician ever. Obviously his electric guitar mastery is legendary, but one of my favorite songs of his is Life by the drop. That old mtv acoustic concert is the best of that mtv series ever.
I was at the dome for The Who that tour too.
Nothing to do with SRV whom I saw with Clapton shortly before he died. UGH.
I like cans. I like music. Thus, I like canned music.
For what it's worth, the sound reinforcement system has been fine tuned and sounds pretty good. The one at NU was awful, much too loud, massive distortion. I don't know what they played, the sound was so bad I couldn't really identify the artists. Their band was terrible too.
(09-14-2016 05:09 AM)Dirty Ernie Wrote: [ -> ]For what it's worth, the sound reinforcement system has been fine tuned and sounds pretty good. The one at NU was awful, much too loud, massive distortion. I don't know what they played, the sound was so bad I couldn't really identify the artists. Their band was terrible too.
Sparty's is awesome. Big dolla.
When the Stones played in Sparten Stadium, the speaker towers were like 200 feet tall. When they turned on the system, it was reported the lights dimmed in East Lansing. Perfect high fidelity sound with massive volume. At one point I looked down, my chest cavity was moving in and out in sync with the bass notes. Wierd at the time. Looked at my woman and her chest was bouncing around too. Good times. Todd?
(09-14-2016 09:12 AM)Dirty Ernie Wrote: [ -> ]When the Stones played in Sparten Stadium, the speaker towers were like 200 feet tall. When they turned on the system, it was reported the lights dimmed in East Lansing. Perfect high fidelity sound with massive volume. At one point I looked down, my chest cavity was moving in and out in sync with the bass notes. Wierd at the time. Looked at my woman and her chest was bouncing around too. Good times. Todd?
Never bring Todd to a Stones concert with your wife.
DE and Bill Wyman had a menage.
Quote:Never bring Todd to a Stones concert with your wife.
It's all fun and games... until somebody gets a hardon.
Then it's hilarious. :)
"You'll poke her eye out, kid!"
(09-14-2016 04:58 PM)toddjnsn Wrote: [ -> ]Quote:Never bring Todd to a Stones concert with your wife.
It's all fun and games... until somebody gets a hardon.
Then it's hilarious. :)
"You'll poke her eye out, kid!"
You have a way of making a point!
Quote:You have a way of making a point!
That's what She said. :)
(09-12-2016 06:07 PM)brovol Wrote: [ -> ]When wmu runs into the problem of not having enough good seats to accommodate the masses, then I will join the push to move the band elsewhere. But as it is, and has been forever, we don't even fill the student section, and I see no harm in allowing some of the most spirited and committed students at the school sit in that section. They stay involved in the game, and remain at the stadium until the end of the game. Frankly, when we are on tv it is that side of the field that is the backdrop for the game, and it can be embarrassing when the stands look empty, so the band does us a service there.
The reason the big football schools put the band and the students in the less desirable seats is because they want to keep the more desirable and expensive seats to sell. It is, after all, "college" football. The schools team. The students ought to be the focus.
Most of the games that I have gone to (and that is most of the home games), we do fill the student section. Getting them to stay after the half is another thing.
(09-15-2016 02:33 PM)westernwilly Wrote: [ -> ] (09-12-2016 06:07 PM)brovol Wrote: [ -> ]When wmu runs into the problem of not having enough good seats to accommodate the masses, then I will join the push to move the band elsewhere. But as it is, and has been forever, we don't even fill the student section, and I see no harm in allowing some of the most spirited and committed students at the school sit in that section. They stay involved in the game, and remain at the stadium until the end of the game. Frankly, when we are on tv it is that side of the field that is the backdrop for the game, and it can be embarrassing when the stands look empty, so the band does us a service there.
The reason the big football schools put the band and the students in the less desirable seats is because they want to keep the more desirable and expensive seats to sell. It is, after all, "college" football. The schools team. The students ought to be the focus.
Most of the games that I have gone to (and that is most of the home games), we do fill the student section. Getting them to stay after the half is another thing.
And there's that unsightly bald spot in the stands up and to the right of the students.
(09-15-2016 05:46 PM)Moomba Wrote: [ -> ]Put the band there.
