ShadowFrog
Moderators
Gotta Go
Very OLD music – i.e. I want Candy & Mikki – Bleah!
Keep
ShowGirl victory high-kicks on the field.
Bring back 2nd half pep band run around to East side & Upper Deck to play fight song back & forth to main band on East Side.
Change/Update
New music – maybe Santana but NOT Black Magic Woman, Oye como Va, etc.
Rule – if I played it in the 80’s, it ain’t new!
Return/Renew the lone trumpeter in the front corner upper deck, echoing back to the band on the field, a la Apollo 13 music.
Add chimes to the percussion ensemble – pick the phonetically correct note that matches/resembles a boxing bell, use that for defensive stops that result in our opponents punting or turnover on downs (…couldn’t answer the bell).
Shameless self-promotion - Every week we do not have a visiting team band travel to ACS we could/should invite 3-5 BIG local high schools to come, play & perform. Share the pre-game with them; keep halftime for us. Teaching our Fight Song to the next generation can’t be a bad thing. Also helps recruiting & attendance when they come, with parents, friends, etc. all at a reasonably discounted rate (NOT free, just discounted).
Radical Suggestion
Add some bottom – I know we can’t draft flute players to be Tuba players so….go long. Add on a couple electric guitars, one bass, both amped, sit in the front row in the stands, later put them on the sidelines in front with the rest of the percussion ensemble.
Add some rumble – Get some 55 gallon steel drums or Hefty big plastic garbage “cans”, turn’em upside down and use as Klingon battle drums. Outta people or not enough volunteers? Ask the HyperFrogs to help. Yeah, yeah, that’s why this is in the Radical category. Any Percussion Section Leader worth his/her salt can whip this up in no time – plenty of recent examples: Gladiator, King Arthur, 300, any of the Batmans, IronMan, etc. Doesn’t have to be fancy, just intimidating.
Thoughts?
h34r:
Very OLD music – i.e. I want Candy & Mikki – Bleah!
Keep
ShowGirl victory high-kicks on the field.
Bring back 2nd half pep band run around to East side & Upper Deck to play fight song back & forth to main band on East Side.
Change/Update
New music – maybe Santana but NOT Black Magic Woman, Oye como Va, etc.
Rule – if I played it in the 80’s, it ain’t new!
Return/Renew the lone trumpeter in the front corner upper deck, echoing back to the band on the field, a la Apollo 13 music.
Add chimes to the percussion ensemble – pick the phonetically correct note that matches/resembles a boxing bell, use that for defensive stops that result in our opponents punting or turnover on downs (…couldn’t answer the bell).
Shameless self-promotion - Every week we do not have a visiting team band travel to ACS we could/should invite 3-5 BIG local high schools to come, play & perform. Share the pre-game with them; keep halftime for us. Teaching our Fight Song to the next generation can’t be a bad thing. Also helps recruiting & attendance when they come, with parents, friends, etc. all at a reasonably discounted rate (NOT free, just discounted).
Radical Suggestion
Add some bottom – I know we can’t draft flute players to be Tuba players so….go long. Add on a couple electric guitars, one bass, both amped, sit in the front row in the stands, later put them on the sidelines in front with the rest of the percussion ensemble.
Add some rumble – Get some 55 gallon steel drums or Hefty big plastic garbage “cans”, turn’em upside down and use as Klingon battle drums. Outta people or not enough volunteers? Ask the HyperFrogs to help. Yeah, yeah, that’s why this is in the Radical category. Any Percussion Section Leader worth his/her salt can whip this up in no time – plenty of recent examples: Gladiator, King Arthur, 300, any of the Batmans, IronMan, etc. Doesn’t have to be fancy, just intimidating.
Thoughts?
h34r:
