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[Fiery Minx]

Attended the Parkway/DSJ game last night...Parkway's pepband did an Awesome job! Just curious what people like most for halftime entertainment: Pepband playing or music played over speakers. If you enjoy pepbands - which high schools are your top picks?

[kaizen]

interesting - i had always liked music over the speakers. however, last week in spencerville their pepband was the best Ive heard in a long time. good variety of new and old - unlike the pepband in elida last night - all buckeye tunes, would be nice to hear some new stuff since it was my 3rd or 4th game at elida this year.

[Bobby]

I always prefer pep bands over canned music. Most pep bands do a pretty good job. One of the best is the DSJ Alumni Pep Band which plays at every home DSJ girls game. Great variety of music that sounds really good.

[Fiery Minx]

Agreed Bobby...DSJ Alumni Pep Band does a great job...alot of the songs they play are oldies - but still goodies!

[lepiota]

I like the canned music, but it doesn't matter. It's an activity for the band, so they gotta do it.

[DC/MS]

stick in the mud

[Colt45]

kaizen, on 23 February 2013 - 10:22 AM, said:

interesting - i had always liked music over the speakers. however, last week in spencerville their pepband was the best Ive heard in a long time. good variety of new and old - unlike the pepband in elida last night - all buckeye tunes, would be nice to hear some new stuff since it was my 3rd or 4th game at elida this year.

I agree the Elida pep band needed to change it up because after 2 games the same stuff gets old.

[flounder]

I always enjoyed Celina's pep band.....in the past, they were one of the best!!!!

[Teddy Malone]

Bands. There's always a chance the loudspeakers will play ( c)rap or something similar.

Edited by Teddy Malone, 23 February 2013 - 04:42 PM.

[Maltese Falcon]

Pep band, those kids put in their time and practice and deserve to be a small part of the show.

I know of at least one school where the pep band only plays the national anthem and the fight song, the rest of the night all that is played is music over the loudspeakers and the band members just sit there.

[lepiota]

DC/MS, on 23 February 2013 - 11:29 AM, said:

stick in the mud

Lol. I posted that before I had my coffee. I am an asshat before I have my coffee

[Fiery Minx]

Lol...Gotta love that caffeine....

I know everyone generally comes to the games - to watch the games.... but I think it's good to allow the pepbands to showcase their talents as well. I admit I'd rather hear a pepband than loudspeaker...tho my reasons are that I usually recognize the band music and sometimes can music is blaring over the speakers so much that I leave with a headache. Maybe that's just showing my age...lol

[flounder]

I always love DC/MS posts.......short, sweet, and to the point!!!!

[Traveling Home]

Pep bands are better by far.....hate the crappy music over the loud speakers!

[Common Sense]

Maltese Falcon, on 23 February 2013 - 12:45 PM, said:

Pep band, those kids put in their time and practice and deserve to be a small part of the show.

I know of at least one school where the pep band only plays the national anthem and the fight song, the rest of the night all that is played is music over the loudspeakers and the band members just sit there.

This is a topic where you don't get a consensus. Many people like to sit and visit with others in the community, and the band or music over the speakers are so loud you can't talk.
Some like band music, but I think your asking alot of a pep band to commit to 11 home games, and some schools now due to equality, want to include the girls games, so that's 22 home games. And believe it or not, many of the kids in the pep band would rather be regular students and sit in the regular stands.
Personally, I can be just fine without any of it. I go to watch the game, but I'm weird.

[Maltese Falcon]

I'm with you common sense, I go to watch the game and usually don't even notice what music is playing.

But the players make the 4 month in season 22 game commitment, though a commitment, pep band is only 11 games, and they are all home games and a lot of times they come out toward the end of the JV game and leave during the 3rd/ 4th quarter of the varsity. Much less time commitment than say, the marching band at football games.

[bluestreaksfever]

Archbold's pep band only plays at halftime, which means the kids can sit with the students until about two minutes to go in halftime and then sit with them for all of the 3rd and 4th quarter. I far prefer the band over the crappy music other school's play. Archbold's pep band is actually very good and the best I have seen in the NWOAL and even some of the other non league opponents they play.

[PHSfan_1023]

bluestreaksfever, on 23 February 2013 - 04:57 PM, said:

Archbold's pep band only plays at halftime, which means the kids can sit with the students until about two minutes to go in halftime and then sit with them for all of the 3rd and 4th quarter. I far prefer the band over the crappy music other school's play. Archbold's pep band is actually very good and the best I have seen in the NWOAL and even some of the other non league opponents they play.

I second that. Archbold has a great pep band and is probably the best I've heard in the area. Personally I prefer the regular music but that might be because I've heard some truly awful pep bands lol

[slingblade]

Im a little old school and have always enjoyed a good pep band. More and more schools are going to loud music as i beleive the kids like it more than pep bands.

[BlueJay]

I only like the music over the speakers for tournaments because it adds to the feeling IMO