OT: What halftime shows do you want to see next year?
Every offseason the Marching Band Director/Staff asks the current band members for suggestions for future shows. I don't have any suggestions that I'm particularly fond of this year, so I thought I would ask the MGOCommunity for suggestions. Basically what I need is a show title or "theme" and 3 or 4 songs that would actually be part of the show.
I'm counting on you guys to come up with some good ideas, I'm tried to hearing how the band doesn't play anything good.
EDIT: Of course, no guarantees that any suggestions will actually make it to the field, but I promise to propose them.
There were some good articles during the NCAA Basketball tournament about pep band moving out of 70s motown and doing Hip-Hop, etc. 'Lil Wayne, etc. Think Lollipop, Soulja Boy, etc. I don't know enough about arranging to come up with might be good.
Also, a best of Detroit show, doing music from classic Motown to Eminem.
Something from the movie drumline
a medley of some old school motown would be pretty sweet.
you'd have to leave kid rock out of the best of detroit bit
a medley of songs by the band muse. i think their stuff would translate fantastically well to the marching band and i'd like to associate them with michigan football.
I actually REALLY like this idea. I'm going to go listen to them now to try and figure out songs would translate well.
April 17th, 2009 at 12:16 AM ^
Knights of Cydonia comes immediately to mind, as it uses the trumpet quite awesomely; City of Delusion likewise employs big brass. Knights of Cydonia is a far more famous song, though. I own all of their albums; if you want a more substantive idea, we can do the emailz.
1. Superhero theme songs - batman, superman, Super Mario (86) etc.
2. Cartoon theme songs - Animaniacs, Spongebob, Super Mario (86), TMNT, Simpsons, Family Guy
3. Redo that Monty Python show from a few years ago, that was the most badass marching band show ever, maybe this time add in some stuff about all of the West Virginian coaches being the holy grail?
4. Collection of stupid dance songs, Macarena, chicken dance, soulja boy, jump on it
Most importantly, anyone who suggests La Cirque De Soilet (no clue how to spell it), please shoot them in the face
Superheroes I like. That said, we did an animation Domination show just a few years ago, I don't know how keen people would be on doing it again. Ditto with Monty Python.
April 17th, 2009 at 11:59 AM ^
or some kind of ska show could be good.
Redo the cartoon show from the 1990 season:
Hanky Panky (could be left out)
Jetsons
Bugs Bunny Medley (including Loony Tunes theme and Kill 'da Wabbit)
Charlie Brown Theme
Under the Sea (from Little Mermaid)
Best show we did my four years in the band. John Stout's arrangement of the Jetsons kicks serious @ss. There's enough cartoon stuff out there (as suggested above) to replace Hanky Panky. But seriously, go back and find the 1990 CD and listen to the Jetsons. I guarantee you'll want to play it (even if you're not old enough to know what "The Jetsons" is...).
a Jamie Foxx, Miley Cyrus duet?
Check Cal's video game show on youtube. It was well done.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2UaVcZPsYU
Plus the mario songs were all there, and all good.
Something funny. You know, something like Charleton Heston meets Elton John, or Brittany Spears meets Metal Church, or Peter Paul and Mary meets Rammstein...
FYI, within the last 4-5 years MMB has done:
A saturday morning show with a video game song (mario, tetris, zelda, pacman - available on the latest CD, btw), a superheros song (superman, spiderman, batman, TMNT), and a cartoons song (scooby doo, jetsons, flintstones, looney tunes theme, etc)
An animation domination show as mentioned above (family guy, simpsons, south park)
I'd think it's still a bit too soon to redo those.
April 16th, 2009 at 10:14 PM ^
I vote CAKE. That would make me smile.
April 16th, 2009 at 10:39 PM ^
I agree. So I suggested it. I have 4 suggestions remaining, if anyone still wants to make suggestions.
April 16th, 2009 at 10:43 PM ^
short skirt and a looooong jacket.
Istanbul would be sweet... I know they have a couple other songs that would work well, but I'm drawing a blank at the moment. I'll edit the post later if I think of any more.
cheerleader wardrobe malfunctions - wait better specify - female cheerleader wardrobe malfunctions.
Music could be a cheesy porno soundtrack - that way they could not only be on theme, but also honor former AA news columnist Jim Cnockheart.
Naked. Band. Chicks.
Wisconsin?
ZING!
Does Wisconsin have naked band chicks? If they do, then yes, let's be more like Wisconsin.