People bitching about the music last week.......

[TilloDawg]

From Veazey's blog.....

<font size="2"><font face="Georgia">Musical selections: The 40,000-plus fans at State's home opener against Southeastern Louisiana Saturday heard a little louder and more eclectic musical selection over the speakers. And they heard it more often, too, with portions of songs sometimes played between plays.</font></font>

<font face="Georgia" size="2">Athletic department spokesman Mike Nemeth said there might be some slight changes in store for Saturday's game against Auburn, but nothing significant.</font></p>

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"We got e-mails on all sides," he said. "We received complaints about the loudness, we received complaints about the type. We also received compliments about the fact that it was a different atmosphere than what's normal, than what they've come to expect. ... You're never going to make 40,000 people happy with your musical selections."</font></p>

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Nemeth said that a new sound system that'll come with the stadium's soon-to-be-completed video board will hopefully help alleviate some of the problems. As part of the installation of the system, crews will take a laptop computer to each section of the stadium and digitally fine-tune the speakers so that the sound is distributed more evenly, Nemeth said.
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[pete1973]

Rap is Crap!

 

[FlabLoser]

It began to feel like a legitimate game time atmosphere.

 

[TilloDawg]

As did I.....and I won't mind if they change it up a bit to satisfy some of the older crowd. But to write in and ***** about it being too loud is ******** !

 

[Croomp]

there are more important things to ***** about like our team than the music.</p>

 

[DesotoCountyDawg]

I bet 75% of the music they played was rap.

 

[AzzurriDawg4]

I didnt say anything when people were bitching about it on here, but all this bitching about the music is GD ridiculous. I thought it was awesome that A) we could finally hear the music and B) we actually played stuff that post-dates the 1990's. Now, I like rap and pretty much everything else for that matter, and maybe they did play a little too much rap...but who cares - the music made the game more entertaining. Have these people ever been to an NFL game or worse, an NBA game? They need to STFU and lean wit it rock wit it. This **** is played at every other college stadium, the PLAYERS love it - so I dont give a 17 if it offended the sensitive ears of a bunch of baby boomers and a few select whiners on this board.

 

[dawgatUSM]

i liked that it was actually louder, but the selection was pretty awful. also, did i hear the band mic'd up at one point? or was i just imagining that.

 

[Porkchop.sixpack]

veritable age of reason. Like at an Atlanta Falcons game.

 

[irondawg007]

I hate that people are e-mailing and complaining about how loud it was when for years it's been quieter than any SEC stadium. I remember going to Baylor back in the 90's and the atmosphere was electric just because of how loud and perfect the music was. It really brought the fans into the game.

The only complaint I really have about last Saturday's music was that --- although they did play small segments of music -- as you would hear at a professional game -- when it was time to stop the music, it sounded as if they just hit stop on a tape deck. The cut off's were too severe. Someone needs to introduce the music guy to a fader. </p>

 

[birdZdawg]

A couple of times it was extremely loud right when it came on, then they backed it down. Seems like the control guys just need to get a handle on what they are doing.

 

[ArrowDawg]

.......appease a wider range of people in the stands, but 75%?

I saw someone mention Kanye West being played at the game.Was he rapping about how George Bush hates black people?

 

[dudehead]

and I generally don't care for rap or urban music. But it does go well with football to me.

One thing I don't like is the alma mater(sp??) hymn that is sung just before kickoff - kind of a sloooooowwwwww downer to me when I'm getting excited about kickoff. I don't object to the song - it just seems playing it at half or much earlier before the game would avoid dulling the excitement buzz right before kickoff and still let folks enjoy the song.

 

[dawgstudent]

music is played at the games as much as political signatures.

 

[kired]

They can't leave out the Baja Men.... I mean that always got me soooo pumped...

Didn't hear it Saturday - maybe we've heard the last of that, finally.

 

[studentdawg87]

The older crowd was bitching up a storm on swan lake over the music. I can't stand people who say the music is too loud or tell you to sit down because they can't see.

 

[Sutterkane]

Has to be the worst thing ever yelled at a sporting event.

 

[MrHooch]

They can't leave out the Baja Men.... I mean that always got me soooo pumped...

Didn't hear it Saturday - maybe we've heard the last of that, finally.

Thank god you're not in charge. That song, and everyone who likes it, should be shot out of a cannon into deep space, never to be heard from aGAIN.

 

[VegasDawg13]

They can't leave out the Baja Men.... I mean that always got me soooo pumped...

Didn't hear it Saturday - maybe we've heard the last of that, finally.

Thank god you're not in charge. That song, and everyone who likes it, should be shot out of a cannon into deep space, never to be heard from aGAIN.

I'm pretty sure he was being sarcastic. Either way, we never played the Baja Men at our games; we played the original version of the song by Chuck Smooth (who, if you aren't familiar with, is a "neighborhood mutt, chasing after that butt").

 

[vhdawg]

....usually it's directed toward a particular former baseball player several rows forward.