Question To The Green Brigade People

[the green rokemi]

How come everytime an opposing team brings their band (normally with less members), they play louder, more often, and sometimes better song selections than ours?

An honest question, but I'm sure someone will want to flame away

FYI, I sit on the Alumni side and have for about 10 years...

[TheColonyEagle]

I've wondered that too.

And I know I wasn't the only one that heard the cheerleaders yell "block that kick!" on a third down...

[TheTastyGreek]

Troy brings pretty much nothing but heavy brass and drums.

If we had a group of 40 kindergartners banging pots and pans together, it would be louder than our band, too.

[Green Dozer]

I've wondered that too.

And I know I wasn't the only one that heard the cheerleaders yell "block that kick!" on a third down...

Everybody around me thought the same thing!

[forevereagle]

Troy brings pretty much nothing but heavy brass and drums.

If we had a group of 40 kindergartners banging pots and pans together, it would be louder than our band, too.

Agreed, what they did tonight had nothing to do with music and everything to do with loud. Did anyone else notice that they played 5 songs over and over and over and over? As loud as they were, they sucked. Also, their fight song lasts an eternity.

[eulessismore]

I thought I saw two battles tonight; their football team won by a score. Our band won by scores.

[the green rokemi]

Agreed, what they did tonight had nothing to do with music and everything to do with loud. Did anyone else notice that they played 5 songs over and over and over and over? As loud as they were, they sucked. Also, their fight song lasts an eternity.

Um, we were at a football game, not a concert. It is about being loud and involved. And as far as myself and the group around me thought, it wasn't their band that sucked

[forevereagle]

Um, we were at a football game, not a concert. It is about being loud and involved. And as far as myself and the group around me thought, it wasn't their band that sucked

Yeah, you're right, why should you try to be good at things, just be loud and sound like garbage. How does the old saying go? If something isn't worth doing loud, it isn't worth doing. The group around me was ready to stop hearing the same five songs. They practiced 5 songs and played them repeatedly. Our band didn't play as loud, but they were much more entertaining.

[UNT 90 Grad]

As many times as I've heard the Green Brigade get drowned out by opposing bands, I'm starting to wonder if it has anything to do with accoustics in Fouts. I give it one more home game and if it happens again, we should just move to a new stadium.

Edited November 7, 2010 by UNT 90 Grad

[Quoner]

Yeah, you're right, why should you try to be good at things, just be loud and sound like garbage. How does the old saying go? If something isn't worth doing loud, it isn't worth doing. The group around me was ready to stop hearing the same five songs. They practiced 5 songs and played them repeatedly. Our band didn't play as loud, but they were much more entertaining.

Each of those songs were exciting football numbers easily found in the Lamar Middle School pep band catalog. Basically, preferring that simple, easy music over the work of the Green Brigade is the equivalent of choosing the comedic stylings of Two and a Half Men over Arrested Development.

[THOR]

Yeah, you're right, why should you try to be good at things, just be loud and sound like garbage. How does the old saying go? If something isn't worth doing loud, it isn't worth doing. The group around me was ready to stop hearing the same five songs. They practiced 5 songs and played them repeatedly. Our band didn't play as loud, but they were much more entertaining.

the green brigade plays all the same songs as well. they aren't loud, the tiny troy band outplayed them tonight. i don't see how our band was more entertaining than theirs.

[forevereagle]

the green brigade plays all the same songs as well. they aren't loud, the tiny troy band outplayed them tonight. i don't see how our band was more entertaining than theirs.

Give me the name of one of the songs that Troy played tonight besides their fight song.

[THOR]

i can't...i don't know the names of songs, but you said they played at least 5 songs

[Rudy]

The troy band was extremely classless today. They played over our band several times and even played over our fight song and alma mater multiple times. According to their band director, he "had no idea they were doing that." Which,is of course, bullsh.

As to why they were louder, they had a bass guitar plugged into multiple amplifiers. Not sure about the guitar, but I did see the amps.

I'm glad our band picked up on Troy's crap and played over them

[forevereagle]

i can't...i don't know the names of songs, but you said they played at least 5 songs

And each song was a generic type of sports song. That's my point, they don't have names. As Quoner pointed out, these are songs that middle school bands can play.

[THOR]

who cares what they were called or how much they practiced them. the troy band was louder than our band, at half the size. this should not happen. it doesn't matter if they were "classless" and played over our fight song, big deal! if our band played louder, it wouldn't matter.

green brigade member 95-97, disclaimer

[Shuke-D]

And each song was a generic type of sports song. That's my point, they don't have names. As Quoner pointed out, these are songs that middle school bands can play.

Look. The Lamar Middle School band has won countless UIL 1st place awards and totally dominates its level of competition. It's not a high school or college plan; it's just a band plan. We should immediately hire their director to take over the Green Brigade. Success is success at any level, and volume equals success. What could go wrong?

Edited November 7, 2010 by Shuke-D

[THOR]

The troy band was extremely classless today. They played over our band several times and even played over our fight song and alma mater multiple times. According to their band director, he "had no idea they were doing that." Which,is of course, bullsh.

As to why they were louder, they had a bass guitar plugged into multiple amplifiers. Not sure about the guitar, but I did see the amps.

I'm glad our band picked up on Troy's crap and played over them

if our band played louder, then it wouldn't matter that they played over our fight song. no opposing school should be louder than the home teams fight song, period! the fight song is the FIGHT SONG!!! LOUD AND PROUD!!!

i never heard any bass guitar...i heard loud brass and drums...something that didn't come from our band.

[TheTastyGreek]

People... It's time to stop focusing on minor concerns like band volume.

Osama Bin Laden stole $2 TRILLION from the City of Indianapolis this week. Where is the outrage???

[the green rokemi]

I'm glad our band picked up on Troy's crap and played over them

were you sitting next to them? From the alumni side that never happened. It was very frustrating as I really wanted to hear our band but couldn't

[MeanGreenTexan]

Look. The Lamar Middle School band has won countless UIL 1st place awards and totally dominates its level of competition. It's not a high school or college plan; it's just a band plan. We should immediately hire their director to take over the Green Brigade. Success is success at any level, and volume equals success. What could go wrong?

I heard the Lamar Middle School drum major is the directors son. He's a phenomenal drum major, but if he comes to UNT to play under his dad, then we'll never be able to get another decent drum major while he's here. Do we really want to re-live this fiasco?

[Rudy]

Ok, so maybe they didn't play OVER them, but they did play at the same time.

[UNT 90 Grad]

I recall them playing the ESPN theme and that popular sports song that I think is called "Dr. Who and the torteous" or something like that.

Regarding the bass guitar, I did notice hearing that as well, though I didn't notice the speakers.

[eulessismore]

Look. The Lamar Middle School band has won countless UIL 1st place awards and totally dominates its level of competition. It's not a high school or college plan; it's just a band plan. We should immediately hire their director to take over the Green Brigade. Success is success at any level, and volume equals success. What could go wrong?

Look, I can tell where you're going with this, and yes, there is a record of a high school director of bands coming to North Texas, and creating a world class program, but those were special circumstances; he had directed at the college, then professional level, then returned to Texas to a high school position because of illness in the family, and when the time was right, he was given his opportunity here, and boy did he ever make the most of it:

Leon Breeden bio

I doubt that will ever happen again, but who really knows?

[stebo]

I have always wondered why our band always sounds so muffled and unenthusiastic. The Sound of the South showed the Green Brigade up last night, plain and simple. The were louder, more excited, into "the game", and just sounded better. They had fun - and when they played their version of the ESPN song, it really was original and I took it as - they will be on ESPN over that last play,etc... We played over them right before the half - they were playing and here our band comes with the 5,000,000th try at Fly Like an Eagle or something... This comes up every year and every year someone says that our band is using better "technique" or some crud.... I don't care about technique, I just want a loud, fun, into-the-game marching (or standing) band...