Basketball Atmosphere

[fastbow]

As some of you know, I graduated and moved to San Antonio. Now, I can only watch on TV or listen on the radio. So me and my wife are trying to make a list of those stadium atmosphere songs, since they remind us so much of going to the games. Can you guys help?

What songs does the band play?
What does the DJ have a habit of playing on PA during the pre-game?

I'd ask someone to mail us some CKA nachos, but the chips just get too soggy in the mail...

[SoulStar]

"25 or 6 to 4" by Chicago is one of the more recognizable numbers that the band plays regularly:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLiuMkGCOC4&feature=related

[ABC]

"25 or 6 to 4" by Chicago is one of the more recognizable numbers that the band plays regularly:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLiuM...eature=related

I am a huge Chicago fan, but the band needs to quit playing that song. Immediately.

[ShockerFan87]

I am a huge Chicago fan, but the band needs to quit playing that song. Immediately.

I played in the band last year, and I completely agree with you.

In terms of songs that the band plays, here's a list of tunes I remember:

-Johnny B Goode
-Pretty Fly (For a White Guy)
-Bend Me, Shape Me
-Vehicle
-Train, Train
-Hold On, I'm Comin
-Respect
-Think
-In a Young Man's Mind
-Thriller
-We're Not Gonna Take It
-Chameleon
-I Can't Turn You Loose
-Them Changes
-You Shook Me All Night Long

There's a few others, but I remember playing those a lot. Hope it helps!

[Kung Wu]

I played in the band last year, and I completely agree with you.

In terms of songs that the band plays, here's a list of tunes I remember:

-Johnny B Goode
-Pretty Fly (For a White Guy)
-Bend Me, Shape Me
-Vehicle
-Train, Train
-Hold On, I'm Comin
-Respect
-Think
-In a Young Man's Mind
-Thriller
-We're Not Gonna Take It
-Chameleon
-I Can't Turn You Loose
-Them Changes
-You Shook Me All Night Long

There's a few others, but I remember playing those a lot. Hope it helps!

Atta kid! Good job supporting the Shox too!

Can you please, please, purdy please talk to anyone that will listen about doing a halftime show that is a kick-*** drum solo? That would get the place so rev'd up I can't even tell you. I'll keep asking once a year until I get my way and can say "see -- I told you so".

[Snapshot9]

Remember the old song 'Wipeout', it is hard to beat for a drum solo.

[Kung Wu]

Yes, what a killer song to play by a live band! But if you ask them to let the band play it, they will just get a freaking 8-track version of it and play it over the intercom and it will suck terrible. Frustrating.

[RoyalShock]

I played in the band last year, and I completely agree with you.

In terms of songs that the band plays, here's a list of tunes I remember:

-Johnny B Goode
-Pretty Fly (For a White Guy)
-Bend Me, Shape Me
-Vehicle
-Train, Train
-Hold On, I'm Comin
-Respect
-Think
-In a Young Man's Mind
-Thriller
-We're Not Gonna Take It
-Chameleon
-I Can't Turn You Loose
-Them Changes
-You Shook Me All Night Long

There's a few others, but I remember playing those a lot. Hope it helps!

Chameleon is one of my favs. At HCC we added a solo section and that was fun!

Remember the old song 'Wipeout', it is hard to beat for a drum solo.

At first I said to myself, "Wipeout should be a pep band standard". Then I thought about it and added, "in high school." Now, if you're Pepperdine, it would be perfect!

[im4wsu]

I played in the band last year, and I completely agree with you.

In terms of songs that the band plays, here's a list of tunes I remember:

-Johnny B Goode
-Pretty Fly (For a White Guy)
-Bend Me, Shape Me
-Vehicle
-Train, Train
-Hold On, I'm Comin
-Respect
-Think
-In a Young Man's Mind
-Thriller
-We're Not Gonna Take It
-Chameleon
-I Can't Turn You Loose
-Them Changes
-You Shook Me All Night Long

There's a few others, but I remember playing those a lot. Hope it helps!

Didn't the band have a tuba for the first few games last year, and then it disappeared? Somewhere I heard it had been banned. Is that correct? Or did the tuba player decide to no longer participate?Or some other reason?

[BCSCat]

No tuba? Most pep bands have several - KSU pep band has 5 or 6 usually and the marching band has 26 tubas this year. Very, very important in getting a full sound.

[MoValley John]

No tuba? Most pep bands have several - KSU pep band has 5 or 6 usually and the marching band has 26 tubas this year. Very, very important in getting a full sound.

It takes certain physical characteristics to play the tuba. Not just anybody can do it. That said, Kansas State is loaded with enough fatties to field tuba sections for every band in the country.

[BCSCat]

It takes certain physical characteristics to play the tuba. Not just anybody can do it. That said, Kansas State is loaded with enough fatties to field tuba sections for every band in the country.

One does not have to be large to play tuba. Many women do these days and many are not large women at all. A girl that our daughter ran XC and track with at Goddard played tuba in the KSUMB for 4 years and she's maybe 5'5" and 110 pounds.

But thanks for offering info from your vast knowledge of music.

[Ricardo del Rio]

And thank you BCSCat for finding some minutiae over which to criticize.

[MoValley John]

Really?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uqj5qYqkjn4

[MoValley John]

http://youtu.be/d0aIqx1McVI