Profs. Boerma & Haithcock on the MMB & Stadium Atmosphere

I'm just glad our band is such an outspoken proponent of Dragon Ball Z and its famous green character. Also, thanks for the post. Good interview.

Lets hope they convince the Athletic Dept to move the band to the endzone so the entire stadium can hear them. But great job on the interview.

Their responses were somewhat encouraging, but if I were the Band Director, I'd say "piss off, we using amps and if you so strongly disagree then you'll have to stop us." Once 108,000 Victors-loving fans heard the MMB's awesome wall of sound in all of its amped-up, full-throated glory you could never take those amps away from the MMB.

Hooray RAWK is here to stay!!!

Some very interesting points were brought up. It appears that there still are some growing pains to be worked out regarding the RAWK music in the stadium.

it's interesting that they disagree with two points that seem to be in agreement from what I've read on mgoblog: 1. We can't hear the MMB 2. We can hear the other band I'm sure a lot of it is where you sit. For western I was on the top row, section 9 (south southeast part of the stadium). From there I can here the away band better, and the Michigan band faintly. For ND I was in section 26 (under the press box, around the south 40ish) and I could hear the notre dame band extremely well and the MMB barely at all. What have people sitting in other areas experienced? Oh! Also, there is one more set of ears on the field - the TV broadcast. I think it's plainly obvious from watching clips of the game that the TV microphones picked up the ND band much more than ours.

It's obvious they don't like the canned music either. Interesting that the canned music was apparently a part of hiring the new coach. I agree with much of what they had to say, especially about the volume of the canned music and way over the line length the canned music is played. I hope they make some headway. The piped-in music should have to maintain the same limits as the MMB. Using the PIM as a means to disrupt the opposition's offense seems like it would be a violation of the game rules.

I noticed in the comments section that someone commented that it is against Big Ten rules to mic the band. I find that interesting given that piped in music is permitted. My guess is this is an antiquated rule that will probably be done away with if stadiums continue to increase the amount of piped in music.

Maybe there can be two band sections, one for the overflow MMB members who don't get to march?