Gonna Fly Now/Gary Glitter

[Trotsky]

When you talk to the band please tell them the Jeopardy theme during a review has to dieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.  It's endless, dumb, ridiculous, awful.  It's the self-indulgence of the band amusing itself at top volume and the rest of us have to listen to it.  The band is there for the crowd; not the other way.

Other than that I love this incarnation of the band and think they are doing a fantastic job.  But for fuck's sake, enough with the Jeopardy theme.  We get it.  You're ohsoclever you can do a bit I'd expect from Brown.  Fine.  Now stop.

Totally disagree.

Opinions vary.  But you have to listen to it way more often than I so I'll withdraw my complaint.

If you don't mind me asking, what do you think it adds to the atmosphere?

[Trotsky]

I think the fans picking up when the band stops is one of the coolest traditions at any sporting events I attend, let alone Cornell hockey.  After the 2003 playoffs and FF, I was humming it in my head for most of the next year.

Agree.  I love the ghostliness of the fans continuing a cheer.  It's eerie and creepy.  It's even better when there's a quick stoppage and the band then picks up right on the note the fans are singing.  It ties the band and the fans together and makes the building feel like ours.

[upprdeck]

from my side of the house it seems like the band is really struggling. My kid who has been to many a game and is in a pep band at her school has noticed it as well.

i do wonder how the clarkson band interaction will be now that they have moved them off in a far corner.. wont be nearly as fun when they cant feed off each other.

[marty]

When you talk to the band please tell them the Jeopardy theme during a review has to dieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.  It's endless, dumb, ridiculous, awful.  It's the self-indulgence of the band amusing itself at top volume and the rest of us have to listen to it.  The band is there for the crowd; not the other way.

Other than that I love this incarnation of the band and think they are doing a fantastic job.  But for fuck's sake, enough with the Jeopardy theme.  We get it.  You're ohsoclever you can do a bit I'd expect from Brown.  Fine.  Now stop.

Totally disagree.

Opinions vary.  But you have to listen to it way more often than I so I'll withdraw my complaint.

If you don't mind me asking, what do you think it adds to the atmosphere?

What it does add in some cases is an exclamation point on the reviews going on too long.  Longer than 5 minutes means it almost by definition shouldn't overrule the on ice decision.

[upprdeck]

it isnt the review taking 5 min.. its the getting  the software sometimes to get the proper spot back into sync to review it.

[Jim Hyla]

When you talk to the band please tell them the Jeopardy theme during a review has to dieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.  It's endless, dumb, ridiculous, awful.  It's the self-indulgence of the band amusing itself at top volume and the rest of us have to listen to it.  The band is there for the crowd; not the other way.

Other than that I love this incarnation of the band and think they are doing a fantastic job.  But for fuck's sake, enough with the Jeopardy theme.  We get it.  You're ohsoclever you can do a bit I'd expect from Brown.  Fine.  Now stop.

Totally disagree.

Opinions vary.  But you have to listen to it way more often than I so I'll withdraw my complaint.

If you don't mind me asking, what do you think it adds to the atmosphere?

I don't know that it adds much of anything. But neither do many of the particular songs that the band plays. They could easily change 50% of their songs and have just as good an atmosphere. The one thing that I do like about it is the ability to judge how long the review is taking. When they have to start over from the beginning, you know it's too long.

Having said that, I wouldn't care at all if they decided to quit playing it. However I would want them to come up with something that points out the time that is being taken. Sort of like the "Let's play hockey." cheer that gets started when the refs are taking too long to come up with a decision, or to explain it to the coaches. It adds something, albeit not a lot.

[Tom Lento]

I first noticed it at MSG, so I am sure it has been happening all/most of the season. They actually didn't play Gonna Fly Now at all and started Gary Glitter with 2.5 minutes to go in intermission.  Half the crowd missed it.

Oh, that makes me sad. The horns opening Gonna Fly Now right when the team stepped on the ice at the start of the third is probably my favorite "regular band moment" from when I was able to actually go to the games. There was something about the rhythm and volume of the band combined with the pace of the players streaming onto the ice and doing their skate-around that added a jolt of excitement to the start of the period. I'll be sad if it stops, although I suppose I'll never notice unless I get to another game sometime.

[Swampy]

I first noticed it at MSG, so I am sure it has been happening all/most of the season. They actually didn't play Gonna Fly Now at all and started Gary Glitter with 2.5 minutes to go in intermission.  Half the crowd missed it.

Oh, that makes me sad. The horns opening Gonna Fly Now right when the team stepped on the ice at the start of the third is probably my favorite "regular band moment" from when I was able to actually go to the games. There was something about the rhythm and volume of the band combined with the pace of the players streaming onto the ice and doing their skate-around that added a jolt of excitement to the start of the period. I'll be sad if it stops, although I suppose I'll never notice unless I get to another game sometime.

Interesting. At my very first game at Lynah the band played the Theme from Peter Gunn as the team skated out onto the ice before the rink lights went on. It was wonderful, both as a rhythmic tune to skate to and as an ominous warning to the opposing team regarding what they're about to face. Over fifty years later, I'll never forget it.

IMHO, it would be a really good thing if the band payed self-conscious attention to its own history. I wouldn't argue against changing things, but I would want changes to be done with full consciousness of what went before and why. Also, every now and then, I'd like to see revivals of older practices: as salutes to tradition, for nostalgia, for specific appropriate moments, etc.

[redice]

IMHO, it would be a really good thing if the band payed self-conscious attention to its own history. I wouldn't argue against changing things, but I would want changes to be done with full consciousness of what went before and why. Also, every now and then, I'd like to see revivals of older practices: as salutes to tradition, for nostalgia, for specific appropriate moments, etc.

Well said...   There are some good ones that have fallen by the wayside...   I miss them!

[Trotsky]

I vote to bring back Fight, Maim, Kill.

Peter Gunn is great but you need a kickin' horn section to pull it off.

[kevdog8]

Sorry I hadn't logged in in a while. But as the recent band alum who posted earlier, I largely agree with most of the thoughts here. And I arranged Jeopardy for the band, so I was really happy that I was able to get the band to 1. play it and 2. play it at the appropriate time (a goal replay.) But I do agree that playing it repeatedly is an instance of one of the worst things about us: we indulge in ourselves at times instead of playing for the crowd.