new cheers and old cheers

[DeltaOne81]

O'Byrne baby, burn! Defense inferno!
O'Byrne baby, burn!

[jy3]

i remember those days of cheering "Auger!"

i knew the band was not the group singing the Baby cheer since I was surrounded with the section A'ers who were doing it.

no one likes my Kibbles an' Bitz idea

[cornelldavy]

That 'Byron Bitz' song has to be done...that's great.

[Jeff Hopkins \'82]

I personally like,

(Pointing at Byron)....Bitz!  (Pointing at an opposition player)....Bites!

Ad infinitum.

JH

[Adam]

And in the same spirit:

(Pointing at McKee)...McKee!  (Pointing at other goalie)...Ugly!

[angry \"A\"]

I always hoped that with careful attention, the instant Hornby stepped onto the ice a "Here comes Hornby!" chant could be yelled.  (said kinda slowly, maybe like how we ask "how much time is left?")  The idea being that Hornby usually goes straight for someone and, in my dream world, this chant could cause all of the opposing players to stop for a second and look up.

In other news, I was pretty disappointed with the cheering from the lower part of section B on Saturday.  Every player on Western Mich was notified of their sucking status multiple times.  Also, starting a "goalie, sieve," chant when we're down a goal makes very little sense, especially when 30 seconds later we hit a post, creating the perfect opportunity for a "goalie, sieve, post" chant.  Too bad we blew our load early.  We've got plenty of cheers in our arsenal and room for more, let's just make sure to pull them out at the right time.

[jtwcornell91]

Jeff Hopkins '82 wrote:
(Pointing at Byron)....Bitz!  (Pointing at an opposition player)....Bites!

Too bad the Elves aren't around any more; we could do "Kibbles ... Bitz!"

[Jeff Hopkins \'82]

Actually, I thought of

(Pointing at McKee)...McKee!   (Pointing at other goalie)...Goofy!

but it could be misconstrued that we're referring to McKee as Mickey.

JH

[Robb \'94]

While we're on the subject of new cheers for specific players, here's a Clarkson recruit to start salivating over for next year:

Name: Grant Clitsome 14
Birthday: April 14, 1985
Height 6'0
Weights: 200 lbs.
Position: Defense
Last School Attended: Samuel-Genest High School
Nickname: Clits
Favourite Music: Everything
Favourite NHL Team: Atlanta Thrashers
Future Goals: NCAA Scholarship

Egad.

VicB already called it, though:  Round Table Thread

[Ben Rocky \'04]

Delta-
That song sounds great.  I'll bug my friends in the pep band about it.

-Ben Rocky '04

[Ben Rocky \'04]

I like the Ugly one.  I'll see if i can get others to try it out at Bowling Green / Ohio state.

[djk26]

How about a song by Taco: instead of "Puttin' on the Ritz"..."Puttin' on the Bitz."

No?

I didn't think so.

[DeltaOne81]

Ben Rocky (and whomever else it may concern),

I'm glad the pep band will hear of this stuff. Feel free to edit words, but we definitely need some new cheers for the new guys.

Also, I had a thought that we might want to put papers on the seats to 'teach' people the new cheers, once they're finalized :-D - ala the key printout a couple years back, but much more friendly :-).

Does anyone have any opinion on that? If so, I work at a lab and can provide all the free printing required.

-Fred

[Mike \'03]

Many pepband members regularly peruse the forum, including both current conductors and some of the alumni arranger types.
They/We've developed a large level of skeptiscm for requests from the 'peanut gallery' because for every person who has a 'good' request, there are 25 changing lyrics to 'wittily' fit some player and telling us "wouldn't it be cool if the entire crowd sang this?" and 50 others requesting Louie Louie, not to mention those in the band demanding Hogan's Heroes become the new Alma Mater.
In short, unless you're about to offer gratification in the ways of a certain um, cousin, Krispy Kreme, take a friend hostage, or in some other fashion 'convince' the arrangers/leaders of the band to do something, they'll do whatever they want on their own. Most of the time (key word, most), they've got a better idea of what the band can, and will play (or at least, will not refuse to play) and better ideas of what will fit into the 12 or so seconds each break lasts without sounding cheesy or stupid.

So speaketh I, now start with the heaping of money lest I unleash another arrangement of Macho Man upon ye.

And what the hell's up with Section B dancing to Rock & Roll Pt2?

[DeltaOne81]

Hey, I completely understand that the band conductors know better what the band can play, and they're more musically inclined than I am, but I'd be surprised if any of them really felt that the band's job doesn't include coming up with new cheers for our new players, and I'm just trying to get the process going. Some ideas can never hurt. I have a hunch the band leaders *are* the band leaders because they know that continuing to play the Baby and LeNevue cheers are not the best Lynah can do :-D.