re: Tiger Band was meh....

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When the band director and the grad students were sitting around a table filled with half-empty beer bottles and pizza boxes, it no doubt seemed like a "great idea" to incorporate a video of the “history” of Mike the Tiger into the performance. But this only shows the limitations of drunken music majors.

Two things stand out: First was the incomprehensibility of the video and the story it told. (What do dinosaurs have to do with the Hobbit or the racing scene from Grease?!?)

Second was the fact that—with the exception of those who had excused themselves to powder their noses or visit the Chute—all eyes in the stadium were glued to the Jumbotron. They saw the video, they understood the individual scenes, but could make neither heads nor tails of what they were seeing. What they were NOT doing was actually looking at the band.

If that was the band director’s intention, then only one thing remains to be said: Well done, Lad….well done.

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