I know theres a snowball's chance in hell of this happening, but here's an idea for the Longhorn Band: The Theme from Inception!!!
You read my mind. I've thought for a while that this would be a good song to play after a 3rd down stop or big defensive play ("Drive is Collpasing").
I always thought the LHB should play the "Deguello" for about the last 10 minutes before the kickoff. Of course, that would mean shutting up the damn ads, gongs, PSAs, weather reports, and crappy music played on the Godzillatron before the game for more than 10 seconds.... Of course, Plonsky's head would explode if anything that actually contributed to the fun of a game happened during a game...
Heck, I agree with Galloping, play it right before the smoke entrance, teach those boys what Texas is all about and play it. Hookem and remember the Alamo!!! It's about time we took tradition to the max. "This is our House" and we defend it!!
Guess I'm too old school...still like after a big defensive stand the first few bars of '"he Eyes" played slowly. And after a first down the first few bars of "Texas Fight".
As long as they don't whip out another rendition of Malaguena. The most overplayed marching band piece. Ever. And, I'm an LHB alum.
THIS would get people ready to go. Hats off to the George Washington Band who did this for hoops games along with other titles. Full of RAGE
The Deguello music there is not what the Mexican army played at the Alamo, which was a bugle call. The music we all think of was actually written by Dimitri Tiomkin, the expatriate Russian who wrote the music for the Alamo, The High and the Mighty, a hundred other films and Rio Bravo, where he first introduced his version of Deguello. If you want to hear the actuall deguello, watch the version of the Alamo made a few years ago with Billy Bob Thornton. The fellow who did the score, Carter Burwell, went to the trouble of finding the Mexican bugle call and incorporated it into the film. It was the music that prompted Thornton's Crockett to pull out his fiddle and do a solo response, which is one of the few non historical things in that film---along with how David died. Tiomkin was a great composer for films and also wrote High Noon and its song. He studied music at the St. Petersburg Conservatory along with Prokofiev before coming here. Great man. He also managed to repeatedly work bars of the Eyes of Texas into the main score of the Alamo, which I didn't pick up on for decades.
