USC Band: They Practice That Song?!?
I was at a USC football practice last week, and the marching band was practicing just across the street, in the track and field stadium.
OK, so that's where they work. Since the only football field on the campus already is used by the football team.
What surprised me?
You know that particularly insidious riff (think "It's a Small World") the USC band plays ... over and over ... and over and over?
They PRACTICE that "song."
I heard them doing it ... more than once.
It's the "tune" that's NOT "Fight On" or "Conquest." It's the one they play after a nice play or a big hit ... or just to remind people they're at a USC game.
You know the one ... it begins with drums ... and then a lot of brass ... DUM duh duh DUH duh duh DEE duh ...
Cal fans mock it by singing over it. "Its the only song you know ... it is boring and it's slow ... we really wish you'd go ..."
Anyway, I'm watching football practice, and here comes that roll of drums and the brass blaring, from just across the street, and I'm thinking, "Haven't they played that thing about 1,000 times at the Coliseum already this year?"
And I said to a USC official next to me, "They need to PRACTICE that thing?"
And he said, wearily, "All the time ... ALL the time ..."