re: History of "Neck" - LSU Band

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The bottom line is that it sucks and the fans doing the swimming motions look silly.

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The worst thing to ever happen to LSU football. Losing every game for a full season would be better than hearing Neck one time.

Stay Strong, lsuj. You're right.

In pre-season new songs are given to the band to play through. Some of them are immediately voted off the island. Others are inserted into the repertoire. In 2006, the band directors passed out a sheet of music with four different songs on it. I think they were called "Time Out Fillers" or something like that. "Neck" was one of them, I think "Jump On It" may have been another one on there as well. I don't even remember what the other two were, so the must have sucked. (Paging Picc for confirmation).

The band, crowd and team immediately responded well to the song, so it stuck as a permanent song played by TGBFTL.

Southern did play it before Tiger Band, and probably other schools before that, and Cameo before that, but that's pretty much the history of "Neck" regarding the LSU Band.

So basically, from the confirmation today, I was right back in January of 2008. If people would just read my post (about 3rd on here) I had it all sorted out.

Also, I have video of the last time Tiger Rag was played in the pregame. I snuck a camera (before cell phone cams were everywhere) into Tiger Stadium and filmed the pregame vs Arkansas in 2005. I should post that video on youtube sometime. In my video, shot from East Upper Deck, you can clearly hear the A-hole chants that go with the Tiger Rag. It was not just the student section, many Tigerfans around the stadium would chant it.

the band started playing neck in 2007.

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i both hate and love the fact that this thread is a bump from january of 2008.

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Not everybody has caught on to that.

I was in the band during the 2006-2007 school year;

I was not in the band beyond the January 3, 2007 Sugar Bowl game;

I played Neck as a member of Tiger Band;

= 2006.

Neck is one of my favorite things. The entire student section loves it. And I never thought it looked "thuggish" or "ghetto". I guess I'm just not the kind of person to find race in a hand motion.

I think everyone looks awesome waving their hands around. Just look like they look great moving them up and down during Bandits.

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Neck is one of my favorite things. The entire student section loves it. And I never thought it looked "thuggish" or "ghetto". I guess I'm just not the kind of person to find race in a hand motion.

I think everyone looks awesome waving their hands around. Just look like they look great moving them up and down during Bandits.

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i agree 100% with everything you said.

Tiger Band played Gigolo in the early 2000s. I still liked it in 2006, wish it wouldn't have gotten voted down. I can definitely do without Time Warp, although I'm not sure LRM feels the same way.