OT: Stanford Band Banned from Halftime Show
Dammit. Orange Bowl has it all wrong here. Sure, LB might well be offended. But that's entertainment. And the Stanford bank snark is pretty much the coolest non-Harbaugh thing about Stanford.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/hottopics/detail?entry_id=80205&tsp…
January 3rd, 2011 at 6:43 PM ^
RR has NEVER had his band banned from a halftime show. THIS IS WHAT YOU GET WHEN YOU HIRE HARBAUGH. BANNED BANDS.
January 3rd, 2011 at 6:56 PM ^
I'll take a banned band once in awhile! :0)
January 3rd, 2011 at 9:25 PM ^
January 3rd, 2011 at 6:44 PM ^
The Stanford band is one of my favorites (after the MMB, of course). Their lack of seriousness is pure genius.
January 3rd, 2011 at 6:46 PM ^
i think there's a value to having a satire element to a show to push the "don't take this too seriously" but half the things listed in that article are just shock value "omg they went there" stuff. the OJ thing is just ridiculous.
January 3rd, 2011 at 6:53 PM ^
Agree the OJ prank was over-the-top. Here is a more detailed report from Wikipedia. (Apparently, some of them skipped practice before the game to pay "She's Not There" outside an LA courtroom during jury selection.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_Band
Fits the "Stanford as scrappy upstart" image, but not really the "Stanford as power football program" incarnation. When SC is kicking your tail, it's a (rather sophomoric) way of sticking it to them.
January 3rd, 2011 at 6:45 PM ^
It's probably because they do things like this.......
January 3rd, 2011 at 7:19 PM ^
January 3rd, 2011 at 7:39 PM ^
That's a riot!!! That's seriously some funny shit!
January 3rd, 2011 at 6:46 PM ^
January 3rd, 2011 at 7:07 PM ^
It's one thing to be clever. They're often clever.
It's another thing entirely when you're clearly trying too hard. I think they try too hard in a Stuff White People Like (http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/) sort of way.
I get the sense that, for many of them, it's important to be considered *cool* by other people. Real artists wouldn't worry about that.
January 3rd, 2011 at 7:16 PM ^
I disagree. Being cool is pretty much the coolest ever thing, ever.
January 3rd, 2011 at 6:48 PM ^
This must mean that JH is leaving OMG!
January 3rd, 2011 at 6:49 PM ^
HE LEFT THA BAND BEHIND THAT MUST MEAN HES FLYING STRAIGHT 2 ANN ARBOR FROM MIAMI & WANTED 2 PACK LIGHT
January 3rd, 2011 at 6:51 PM ^
I AM THE SAVIOR OF THIS BLOG!
January 3rd, 2011 at 6:49 PM ^
Band Banned Band Banned Band Banned Band Banned Band Banned
January 3rd, 2011 at 6:50 PM ^
Does this mean Stanford left behind their red band trailer due to adult content?
January 3rd, 2011 at 6:57 PM ^
(Me): This is clever
(Internal Editor in my Head): This is stupid.
(Me): You're right. (Hits save button).
January 3rd, 2011 at 6:50 PM ^
Might as well be a lifetime achievement award.
January 3rd, 2011 at 6:57 PM ^
At least they aren't as boring as our band.
We gotten less boring in the last couple years, but how many times are you going to play Lady Gaga?
January 3rd, 2011 at 7:40 PM ^
That would be awesome. Although I don't agree the MMB is boring.
January 3rd, 2011 at 8:32 PM ^
As far as marching bands go its one thing to be clever and show the world you have talent at the same time. However, with Stanford's band you only get the clever. The talent never gets to the surface.
January 3rd, 2011 at 9:15 PM ^
yes I know that I am old, the MMB rocked. They had the uniqueness of Stanford's band without the total flakiness. Okay and less sarcasm. They started their slide towards boring in 80 when they replaced their band director, who retired, of 27 years with a guy from OU. They started to perform more sedate pieces without the flare of the past. more lines and diamonds/drum and bugle core, less complicated forms with motion.
January 3rd, 2011 at 9:23 PM ^
Eric Becher, who was the MMB director from 1980 through 1989 was a native of Ann Arbor and a graduate of the University of Michigan and a former member of the MMB.
January 3rd, 2011 at 9:35 PM ^
I'm old, but there was a guy between Becher and Cavender; he was Richter, who lasted one year. In spite of him, I still went to OU; I just didn't watch the band at half time.
I have been trying to forget him for over 30+ years; I really did not want to google his name....
January 3rd, 2011 at 7:02 PM ^
I always loved the Stanford band shows, even when they crossed the line. What the hell, it's a college prank when they put on a show. Most shows could have been used in Animal House.
My favorite...the Irish Potato Famine spoof at the Notre Dame game. The band actually got banned from playing at ND games for a few years.
p.s. I was at the Illinois game this year and loved the MMB's show of Wizard of Oz. What a ton of laughes and creativity!
January 3rd, 2011 at 9:10 PM ^
the band geeks. The Wizard of Oz was the best show I have ever seen MMB perform. I have been to many game over the years and I have to say, I am going to start channeling my contributions to the MMB. Way to go MMB.
January 3rd, 2011 at 9:17 PM ^
that Wizard of Oz was reminiscent of the old 70's MMB stuff that I grew up with. More of that, less of the drum and bugle stuff.
January 3rd, 2011 at 7:03 PM ^
I think they were just worried that the band would try to enter the field for the Halftime show early and might get run over. Apparently they have issues discerning when a half of football is over.
January 3rd, 2011 at 9:20 PM ^
just because a trombone player nearly lost his life and the trombone was totaled.....
So What???
</snark>
January 3rd, 2011 at 7:11 PM ^
1. Band lines up in the shape of a cannibis leaf and the number 34, while playing "Born to Run" by Springsteen.
2. Dress up in fatigues, University of Miami hats, and snort large quantities of white powder while playing "2 Live Crew"'s greatest hits.
3. Introduce three vertically challenged band members dressed as LeBron, DWade, and Chris Bosh while playing the theme song to "The Three Stooges".
4. Change into vintage Michael Vick Virginia Tech jerseys while playing "Three Dog Nights"' greatest hits.
and finally...
5. Play Josh Groban's "You Raise Me Up"...
January 3rd, 2011 at 8:02 PM ^
Probably would have been exceptionally entertaining.
Can't believe they've been denied what would have been their biggest stage... maybe ever.
January 3rd, 2011 at 9:04 PM ^
Their halftime show at Michigan Stadium in '99 could have been the funniest show I've ever seen in my life. Genius stuff. Just about the biggest ovation I've ever seen a band get, too.
They went to East Lansing the next season and did something similar, and got viciously booed.
You do the math.
January 3rd, 2011 at 10:54 PM ^
Are you sure?
The last time Stanford played in AA was 1976 and the last time Stanford went to EL was 1961.
January 3rd, 2011 at 10:58 PM ^
Perhaps you are browsing the site from a Dick Tracy watch/walkietalkie/smartphone, but Bando is responding to a comment about Rice's band.
January 3rd, 2011 at 8:14 PM ^
Noooo! The game is meaningless without a dancing tree!
January 3rd, 2011 at 8:32 PM ^
That's it ... NOW I don't like the BCS
January 3rd, 2011 at 8:44 PM ^
Had a friend in the Stanford band in the late 1980's. He was in the MMB as an undergrad, then went to Stanford for grad school. He said they had a keg in the band hall at each rehearsal, and a big sign at the front of the room read, "No Fat Chicks!"
January 3rd, 2011 at 9:03 PM ^
man, I should have went to Stanford. That is my kind of band.
January 3rd, 2011 at 9:12 PM ^
has a beautiful campus too. But the "no fat chicks" sign is awesome.
January 3rd, 2011 at 10:00 PM ^
Update: Goo Goo Dolls doing HT Show. Like a band named after a sex toy is any less scandalous?
January 3rd, 2011 at 10:04 PM ^
they marched on to the field while the football game was still being played? They completely helped California score the touchdown that lost Stanford the game! Hilarious!
Although the trombone player has never recovered fully from that hit.
January 3rd, 2011 at 10:49 PM ^
Their band website is pretty funny.