Just curious if there is a link or email address where you send comments to our band director?

I went to basketball games all the time when I was a student and have had season tickets since graduation and I have been getting tired of hearing some of the same "popular radio" songs at the games and some of the songs I actually liked they don't play anymore (2 years ago when the played Eye of Tiger in close games I thought was great). My wife and I and the fans around us always talk about this at the games during timeouts when we hear the band play the Mighty Mighty Bosstones (that song should be retired) in particular. They don't have to listen to my suggestions but at least I figured I could let somebody know what some of the fans think.

1/28/2009 7:42:22 PM

maybe they can play some everclear

1/28/2009 7:46:50 PM

http://www.ncsu.edu/music/faculty/index.html

Look up Dr. Paul Garcia and Wes Parker. Garcia is the band director and i think Wes is the assistant.

1/28/2009 7:50:11 PM

^thanks

1/28/2009 7:51:53 PM

eh i don't mind them changing up the songs. What makes me REALLY REALLY FUCKING is when they'll start playing when the cheerleaders are getting a WOLFFFF...PACCKKK chant going. The band started playing in the middle of the chant at least twice last night.

1/28/2009 7:53:20 PM

If you don't like this year's music, wait for next year. He puts some songs on the shelf for a few years so they don't get stale too quickly. He also tries to have a large folder of music during one season so he can break out a different song each game. Problem is we are trying to please 15,000+ people, not one.

1/28/2009 8:45:05 PM

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"Problem is we are trying to please 15,000+ people, not one."

make that two

1/28/2009 8:49:11 PM

band has never been the same since the red trumpets left (brandon and landon)

1/28/2009 8:50:39 PM

Do the red trombones not do it for you??

1/28/2009 8:53:11 PM

The football games aren't any better. Yes some of the songs change from season to season but every game within a single season is almost like the same script being used over and over again. The first time out of the second half will be this song, the end of the third quarter will be that song. It gets too redundant.

1/28/2009 8:57:01 PM

oh please, he doesn't try to have a large folder of music. All the Small Things...Holiday? HOLIDAY? REALLY?!

I was at the Duke/State game, and they play some way more current stuff, and they don't play the fight song, etc a billion times. They played "Everytime We Touch" (gay, but different) and the Crazies do this ridiculous dance.

and fuckin Hey Baby. For football AND basketball??

1/28/2009 9:48:15 PM

being a member of the band:

Dr Garcia is the director for both the marching band and the pepband and gladly welcomes comments on song choices.

paul_garcia@ncsu.edu is his email.

we normally get several requests a year and do try to honor them. And yes we are aware of some songs repeated. some are tradition, so we are highly against changing them, like championship is always the first song we play. but many others we take in and out.

1/28/2009 9:48:51 PM

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"eh i don't mind them changing up the songs. What makes me REALLY REALLY FUCKING is when they'll start playing when the cheerleaders are getting a WOLFFFF...PACCKKK chant going. The band started playing in the middle of the chant at least twice last night."

We're told to play during all timeouts taken by our team no matter what. It is normally the cheerleaders that start while we're playing.

And if you don't like the limited music selection, pony up the cash to the music department to buy more music because we're kind of broke right now.

1/28/2009 9:49:48 PM

^They should get rid of the dance team and give their budget to the band. I don't get why we need a fucking dance team at basketball games when we have a cheerleading squad. All the dancers do is the same thing over and over again no matter what the music is and I find no entertainment value in it whatsoever.

1/28/2009 10:06:26 PM

^You can just leave your man card on the table, thanks.

1/28/2009 10:10:41 PM

dance team is a club i think. not sure how all that budget works or if they raise their own. i know they dont operate like the cheerleaders, as they dont go anywhere, just us and the cheerleaders and whatever team.

1/28/2009 10:15:59 PM

^Dance team is part of the athletic department.

1/28/2009 10:17:56 PM

^^^AHAHA

1/28/2009 10:26:18 PM

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"(2 years ago when the played Eye of Tiger in close games I thought was great)"

that has not been played in at least the last four years boss

but we added a lot of new stuff this season in particular, hearing the same shit all the time is just what happens when you're a season ticket holder honestly; and you're preaching to the choir here, what do you think it's like to play a lot of the same lineup for every football and men's and women's basketball games for four years

I can't complain though, it just means by sheer repetition I've got just about all of the songs more or less memorized by now, and on a side note we never march lyres and sheet music unlike those faggots down the road

Most of the band is ready to retire 'Online' after only half a season, if you're into that kind of pop garbage

and yeah I'll bet you did hear a lot of different tunes when you went to x team's basketball game, but I'm sure their season ticket holders have the same complaints as you do, that's just the nature of it

but I agree and don't like playing over top of you guys when there's a huge WOLF PACK chant going, but what is even gayer is that athletics not only forced us to move away from the opponents bench side of the baseline but has started piping in weak music over the speakers during the opposing team's time-outs instead of letting us play into their faces

probably some P.C. sportsmanship bullshit

/rambling response to multiple posts

[Edited on January 28, 2009 at 10:42 PM. Reason : ]

1/28/2009 10:33:11 PM

the dance team seems to have gone downhill... and im talking purely looks here

1/28/2009 10:35:25 PM

Fuller is where it was at

1/28/2009 10:38:53 PM

TELL THE BAND TO PLAY:

JOURNEY- DON'T STOP BELIEVING!

1/28/2009 11:13:05 PM

^^^^ damn, even the band guys are getting some shots in against UNC

but I hear you. they really are fags.

[Edited on January 28, 2009 at 11:13 PM. Reason : ^]

1/28/2009 11:13:32 PM

AGAIN, JOURNEY DON'T STOP BELIEVING....EVERYONE KNOWS THAT SONG, AND WILL SING ALONG. FACT.

1/28/2009 11:16:14 PM

^ thats been said... i forget what became of it. a lot of us want to play it

1/28/2009 11:21:11 PM

EA Sports' NCAA March Madness 2005 had some good pep band mixes of popular songs.

1/28/2009 11:22:52 PM

^^ i have a large group of people that go to every game football and basketball and all of us keep wishing the band would play that. make it happen for the carolina game. its totally fitting. the students and alumni would all get a kick out of it.

1/28/2009 11:29:12 PM

Heeeeeeeeeeeey Baby
Please, for the love of God, stop playing this.

1/28/2009 11:43:44 PM

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"the dance team seems to have gone downhill... and im talking purely looks here"

I, too, have noticed this.

Don't get me wrong most would still get it.

1/29/2009 12:17:56 AM

whatever you guys do, never, EVER stop playing the final countdown

1/29/2009 12:29:19 AM

Damn. Every year there is a band thread...

1/29/2009 12:32:53 AM

for the record the dance team does not get funding, they have to raise their own funds

1/29/2009 12:36:10 AM

play tonight, tonight by the smashing pumpkins

1/29/2009 12:37:46 AM

play Apple Bottom Jeans/Boots with Furrrrr

and I will grab the trombone out of my closet and join in.

1/29/2009 12:38:49 AM

^And I would pack up my trombone. You could take my spot.

1/29/2009 12:54:18 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcqkrAmcjmI&feature=related

or

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9PqKRT8gKI&feature=related

or

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNnGTD2L6aU&feature=related




[Edited on January 29, 2009 at 4:00 AM. Reason : . ]

1/29/2009 3:54:02 AM

Try In Storm and Sunshine, 76 trombones, various FAMU punches, Wimbledon, and learn all your major scales. Then maybe the trombone section in State's band will be worthwhile. Also, just to clarify, you are much better than the trumpets. Tell them to play most songs, esp. the Star-Spangled Banner, an octave lower than they presume they are capable of playing. That way they will stop hurting my ears so goddamn much.

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"we never march lyres and sheet music unlike those faggots down the road"

glad to hear this at least, I'll give ya'll marginal credit. However no lyres in the pep band either, those songs are even easier. And play In the Stone, that shit is badass even though trumpets blow.
[Edited on January 29, 2009 at 4:03 AM. Reason : fuck hey baby as well]

[Edited on January 29, 2009 at 4:13 AM. Reason : at least there are +3 attractive girls on the dance team. I've only met 3 total in CHE.]

1/29/2009 4:02:35 AM

http://home.roadrunner.com/~modlin/DSB.mp3

[Edited on January 29, 2009 at 9:46 AM. Reason : .]

1/29/2009 9:45:50 AM

^^^That is truly, truly awful

1/29/2009 9:59:46 AM

Correction: The Dance Team is NOT part of the Athletic Department. It is a club. That's why it's not on GoPack.com, whereas Cheerleading is.

1/29/2009 10:41:22 AM

the problem with the band is the following...


YOU WALKED
YOU TRAVELED
YOU TOOK TOOK TOOK TOO MANY STEPS
YOU WALKED
YOU TRAVELED
YOU TOOK TOOK TOOK TOO MANY STEPS
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
TWO DRIBBLE!


that is so bad its an embarrassment

[Edited on January 29, 2009 at 10:41 AM. Reason : .]

1/29/2009 10:41:47 AM

The end is "Learn to dribble"

1/29/2009 11:00:12 AM

whatever. thats even worse

1/29/2009 11:03:42 AM

WolfpckGrl17 posted three videos of bands from historically black colleges

That is shocking

1/29/2009 11:59:01 AM

^^I'm glad they're calling out people for traveling, trying to get in their head or what-not. But i agree. I cringe in embarassment everytime I hear it.

1/29/2009 12:11:21 PM

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"for the record the dance team does not get funding, they have to raise their own fund"

I'm sure we can raise some funds to go hire some professional "dancers" from Thee Dollhouse to be our dance team. I agree that the dance team has fallen off a little bit. I mean they aren't bad, but they aren't all gorgeous like they were when I was at State.

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"but what is even gayer is that athletics not only forced us to move away from the opponents bench side of the baseline but has started piping in weak music over the speakers during the opposing team's time-outs instead of letting us play into their faces probably some P.C. sportsmanship bullshit"

Yeah what is with that. You all should just annex those chairs for yourselves and tell anyone that has tickets for those seats that they have to sit in the other chairs. The fact that our band was so close to the other team's bench was a huge homecourt advantage during timeouts. I blame Lee Fowler!



I think Journey's "Don't Stop Believing" would be a good song to play. One song I think would be awesome for the band to play is Paul Simon's "You Can Call Me Al". I heard it on the way to work today and can't get it out of my head. Plus it is good for the trumpet section and other brass instruments. Also the student section can begin jumping and going oh oh oh oh, oh oh oh oh oh when the main trumpet hook occurs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejXrg3nTRxU

[Edited on January 29, 2009 at 3:43 PM. Reason : ]

1/29/2009 3:40:51 PM

^OK, that's pretty awesome, actually.

Don't stop believin' would be key, also. Classics, folks, classics, with some new stuff thrown into the rotation each year and pulled while it is still fresh (like maybe playing top 40 type stuff only within the year it's popular? I realize it may take a while for a band arrangement to show up, but...)

1/29/2009 4:30:58 PM

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"^^^That is truly, truly awful"

I was just joking.

1/29/2009 4:40:27 PM

I remember the band playing Outkast's "Hey Ya" and liking it b/c everyone would clap and dance along to it. That's a Top 40 song that I wouldn't mind them bringing back for a little while. It's somewhat of a classic.

1/29/2009 4:48:59 PM

^^I actually liked hate me now, it beats the shit out of hey baby and 75% of what the band is playing now. OH, i forgot, we can't play the black people music at state

[Edited on January 29, 2009 at 4:53 PM. Reason : ]

1/29/2009 4:52:58 PM