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Post by Allohak on Sept 16, 2021 18:12:38 GMT -6
If your bands leave at halftime, who plays the school song at the end of the game?! 😢🥺😔 Right? And the fight song. ...2 songs? |
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Post by Allohak on Sept 16, 2021 18:13:39 GMT -6
Is football even real outside of Texas? If Bishop Sycamore is any indication....no 😂 Ohio does fake football better than anyone |
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Post by dbalash on Sept 16, 2021 18:16:05 GMT -6
If your bands leave at halftime, who plays the school song at the end of the game?! 😢🥺😔 Recordings? |
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Post by hewhowaits on Sept 16, 2021 18:33:08 GMT -6
If your bands leave at halftime, who plays the school song at the end of the game?! 😢🥺😔 When the other school brings the full band (and at homecoming when there isn't time to do the full show), Mason has frequently performed their show after the game. They're one of the "third quarter off for food and non-band friends" groups. |
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Post by Subito Fortissimo on Sept 16, 2021 20:25:03 GMT -6
I can't speak for other bands in NC but the school I went to we would only travel to away games against the other schools in our district as there was no charge for the buses if we didn't leave the county. There was one year that we surprisingly made the playoffs and the band was not going to go until a well-off football parent offered to pay the cost for the band to travel to the game.
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Post by LeanderMomma on Sept 16, 2021 22:39:41 GMT -6
Right? And the fight song. ...2 songs? Absolutely! The school song and the fight song! |
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Post by hewhowaits on Sept 17, 2021 4:07:49 GMT -6
Absolutely! The school song and the fight song! I think the point being made was along the lines of "What? Only two songs?" BTW, in most of the country, we call "the school song" the alma mater. |
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Post by LeanderMomma on Sept 17, 2021 7:37:49 GMT -6
Absolutely! The school song and the fight song! I think the point being made was along the lines of "What? Only two songs?" BTW, in most of the country, we call "the school song" the alma mater. Sorry, I misunderstood. And yes, it’s also called the alma mater. |
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Post by principalagent on Sept 17, 2021 10:39:38 GMT -6
Absolutely! The school song and the fight song! I think the point being made was along the lines of "What? Only two songs?" BTW, in most of the country, we call "the school song" the alma mater. Well a variety of songs are played of course, but those two are crucial and important! Shouldn't be left to the devices of a stadium speaker system |
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Post by dbalash on Sept 17, 2021 10:47:34 GMT -6
It befuddles me that bands play music during the game as well.
Nope.
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Post by hewhowaits on Sept 17, 2021 10:54:47 GMT -6
It befuddles me that bands play music during the game as well. Nope. Well, to be fair, the football at your school was never known for its competitiveness. I had a coworker who played Illinois HS football and he said that when they played at MC, the coaches didn't bother to have the team go to the locker room for a halftime talk. Instead they took a knee and watched the band perform. |
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Post by MadScientist on Sept 17, 2021 11:03:33 GMT -6
I think the point being made was along the lines of "What? Only two songs?" BTW, in most of the country, we call "the school song" the alma mater. As far as I can remember, our high school (and even the college I went to) only had 1 song. Our high school fight song was actually 2 songs hitched together: a normal/standard fight song followed immediately by the old Budweiser song. Our band director would call "Fight Song and Bud!" when it was time to play. Never though much of it until we lost out on the Best Marching Unit at our homecoming parade one year to the middle school, because the judges didn't feel like a high school group should be playing a beer commercial. Come to think of it now, we probably shouldn't have been... |
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Post by dbalash on Sept 17, 2021 11:12:39 GMT -6
It befuddles me that bands play music during the game as well. Nope. Well, to be fair, the football at your school was never known for its competitiveness. I had a coworker who played Illinois HS football and he said that when they played at MC, the coaches didn't bother to have the team go to the locker room for a halftime talk. Instead they took a knee and watched the band perform. Damn you, I just spit out my tea!  |
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Post by 78haworth on Sept 17, 2021 11:23:16 GMT -6
This got me thinking of all the fun things the kids did during football games. Of course the cheerleaders had routines to certain songs the band would strike up and play. One of the best was the "band cheer". The old one was something about "Shift to the right" something like that...had to stop that because it came across as something else. So they came up with the Bob Ross cheer:
B-O-B R-O double S
Bob Ross Bob Ross
His Paintings are the best
Aaaahhhhaaa
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Post by LeanderMomma on Sept 18, 2021 22:19:43 GMT -6
This got me thinking of all the fun things the kids did during football games. Of course the cheerleaders had routines to certain songs the band would strike up and play. One of the best was the "band cheer". The old one was something about "Shift to the right" something like that...had to stop that because it came across as something else. So they came up with the Bob Ross cheer: B-O-B R-O double S Bob Ross Bob Ross His Paintings are the best Aaaahhhhaaa 🤣🤣🤣 |
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Post by N.E. Brigand on Sept 22, 2021 16:37:23 GMT -6
Here in northern Ohio, bands regularly perform at away football games, but glancing at a few schedules from southwest Ohio bands, I see that some are (e.g. Miamisburg) and others aren't (e.g., Centerville, Milford, the Lakotas). Central Ohio bands like Dublin Coffman and Hilliard Bradley apparently do perform at away games.
My high school and college had both an uptempo "fight song" and a slower "alma mater." The latter songs nominally had lyrics, which I can't recall ever hearing in high school and only rarely in college until our director, starting in my junior or senior year, had us sing one line. It appears that the band in later years went on to learn all the words.
My college also regularly played a 1970s Earth, Wind & Fire tune as part of the preshow performance. (I was once tasked to ask the retired director from that era why that became a tradition; he couldn't remember.) That was in the 1990s; Youtube indicates they were still doing so into the 2010s.
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Post by Samuel Culper on Sept 24, 2021 23:11:44 GMT -6
As we are on the eve of our first competition in Austin, it occurs to me that bands in the other states that don't travel to away games never get the fun/challenge of getting back to the band hall at midnight after an away game only to have a 6am call time to travel to a contest the next morning.
Good times. Good times....
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Post by jmike16 on Sept 24, 2021 23:39:27 GMT -6
As we are on the eve of our first competition in Austin, it occurs to me that bands in the other states that don't travel to away games never get the fun/challenge of getting back to the band hall at midnight after an away game only to have a 6am call time to travel to a contest the next morning. Good times. Good times.... Oh yeah! Getting up to the school at 7:30am Friday Morning, have an away game that night, come back around 1am and then call time on the field 7ish am Saturday morning, then contest all day. Sunday was all sleep/homework. I miss it all |
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