Thank you for the information Lug Nut. Never knew this or even suspected it. Utterly absurd that a college band at a college event has playing time controlled and limited. Granted, no one is going to confuse the pep band with the London Symphony Orchestra anytime soon, but their musical deficiencies is precisely what makes them delightfully entertaining. As for that piped in stuff, whatever it is, nothing short of totally annoying and absolutely terrible.
Piped in music works best at the minor league level for any sport. The biggest reason for that is that those are not college events and both the atmosphere and crowd are totally different. An even bigger reason it works there is that those people do a FAR BETTER job of preparing the music mix. Virtually everything they play will be liked by at least a segment of the crowd. However, in all fairness, those organization do pay a fee annually that grants them the rights to play almost any copyrighted music they wish to play. None the less, the Fieldhouse piped in music is nothing short of abysmal. Whoever is choosing it (person or persons unknown) should either go get the wax removed from their ears or have their hearing checked period.
How is this for a suggestion to the band. Resist, revolt and ignore the powers to be. Show up and play most of your numbers regardless of what is going on except for the actual game (a band playing during the action is actually a penalty to the home team). What would happen to the band if they do precisely that??? Are they going to get ejected??? Will they be banned from future games??? Should either of those things actually ever happen, it will not be the band that looks band. What would happen is more of what the brass of that place appears to seek out intentionally and that is MORE BAD PRESS.
My take was Pirri was a one-dimensional player, which he has parlayed quite well. D'Amigo also had a good year on the USNDTP, where a lot of his peers have gone on to decent careers. He wasn't ready for the next step.
