I was in the band, eight-nine years ago. We rocked! We had a kazoo, four tubas, a rubber band, and a bunch of those annoying plastic horns at the Old Ralph. And we didn't worry if you knew how to play or not; or, be in some lame marching band.
We were having fun, had the student section in it with us, and the back of the band (the tubas and the drummers) were plowed. (I bet they have stopped playing the "Beer Song?" I think tUMD has taken credit for that innovation?)
You couldn't have asked for a better senario or band to be in back then. I would never have been in "today's" hockey band, and that's too bad.
--> I like Redwing77's comment about the crap the director has them trowling out now. Hootie? WTF?
--> They (tUniversity) did away with "Fight On Sioux" due to PC in the early '90s. We weren't even to think about playing it until... 1997 after we won the nat'l championship. And it is still probably outlawed.
--> "I still say they should have put the benches from the Old Ralph into the New Ralph for the students and the band. It's about 'atmosphere.'"
