New Music and Pulse around Carver!
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Dude wants the University of Iowa to play the band “Tool” during Iowa basketball games. He thinks it will liven up the crowd.
All ACDC all the time. Played at Woodstock decibel levels. Just need four songs: Back in Black, Big Balls, Thunderstruck and Dirty Deeds.
When I was a student and wanted to hear music...we went to a concert, not listen to recordings over the PA system at the Field House. We went there to watch the great Hawkeye players go undefeated in Big Ten play.
Of course “social media” back then was heading to Donnelly’s after the game to rehash the victories.
Of course “social media” back then was heading to Donnelly’s after the game to rehash the victories.
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Carver is more of a "25 or 6 to 4" kind of place.
1. Sell beer
2. Put students around the court
3. Sell beer
4. Winning
2. Put students around the court
3. Sell beer
4. Winning
Light up an Art Linkletter show at halftime, and Carver will be on fire!!!
Tool is angry moody rock. Good for when you're alone in your car, not so much parties and crowds. Usually the only rock that gets played at family events is guys with high pitched voices singing about girls. Van Halen, AC/DC, Def Leppard, Guns and Roses, etc.
For those who bitch about Carver, SHOW UP OR SHUT UP! As has been noted ad nauseum, the place has plenty of empty seats. Put your butts (and mouths) in them. Until such time, reserve your judgement of those who do make the effort.
There is a reason those seats are empty and why this thread is open! Not doing it to piss you off. Speaking the truth.
Funny, I thought that fans went to a sporting event to watch the event.
Tool is solid but the idea of the silverhairs being serenaded by Prison Sex, Enema, or Hooker with a Penis makes me chuckle
So you're saying that if Carver plays your music that suddenly the crowds will appear/be better?
LOL
I don't live close enough to attend many events, but it gets very annoying to be told to sit down when cheering. Every Iowa basketball or football game I've been to, this has happened. It shouldn't stop me from wanting to attend more games, but it does.
That doesn’t even make sense. I’m only allowed to bitch about Carver if I regularly go? Why would I willingly go somewhere knowing that I’m going to have a mediocre experience and bitch about it?
I’m not driving from Omaha to Iowa City (which I have done) to sit in an atmosphere-less arena without booze, when I can get a better viewing experience at the bar three minutes from my house. I do appreciate those who regularly make the effort to attend games, but that doesn’t just make them better fans or give them a more important voice than the rest of us
Listen folks I'm not trying to be a jerk. Other colleges around the country are having fun. We sit and golf clap. This sucks and we need to turn it around. We know the problem. Can we find a mutual ground?
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What I said is that the bitching about the arena is meaningless when it is half-full. Complaining about the atmosphere or the people who do attend is hypocritical if you don't attend. Most of us go and cheer without needing extra music or alcohol. Getting drunk doesn't enhance the experience nor does it help the team. I can tell you that if you show up drunk and obnoxious, you will get tossed out and for good reason.
Just come and support the team!
Am I allowed to tell the old lady and her husband sitting behind me to kick rocks when they tell me to sit down because they can't see?
It makes the viewing experience poor when I'm being nagged at for standing and cheering.
Sure. I have been asked to tone it down myself. You can't change others, just do what you do. But show up!
We’ll have to agree to disagree some here. I enjoy having some drinks while watching sports (it enhances MY experience), and am fully capable of doing so without becoming obnoxious
Though, as others have commented, the best part of being a home fan is when you’re in a packed house and everybody is on their feet making noise and becoming a factor in the game. This happens maybe two or three games per year at Carver, depending on how good the Hawks are and how good of teams they play at home on the weekend. I see the home games against Maryland, Michigan, and Illinois as those games this year
You don't say! The pep band plays it during every game. Made me a fan of Chicago out of it.
Oh man....I'd open with Back in Black throughout warmups and intros.
Deep threes get the "We've got the biggest balls of them all" from Big Balls.
Steals and forced turnovers "dirty deeds done dirt cheap" from Dirty Deeds.
Big dunks and blocked shots "thunder" from Thunderstruck.
Play a kiddy song like "Everything's Pink" or some similar themed song about the color pink during the opponent's introduction.
Those would all be a good place to start on the music. Jimmy Hendrix version of the Star Spangled banner.
The ACDC part would be as loud as human ears can tolerate.
A few other changes. I'd clear off about 500 seats right behind the opposing team's bench and let the first 500 students to arrive have those seats. Not my idea originally but its a good one. I'd put the rest of the students in the first two rows behind the floor for the express purpose of intimidating the officials.
Give some reward for the most outrageous black and gold costumes. I want Iowa to be known as having the nastiest fans in the conference, like Oakland/Vegas Raiders (the nasty fans are about the only thing likeable about the modern Raiders). Iowa nice has just gotten us royally hosed for the last half century. Now its time to try New York nasty.
They have started playing Back in Black when the team is in the tunnel coming out. They play it briefly, then it cuts to the fight song.
You don't say! The pep band plays it during every game. Made me a fan of Chicago out of it.
I know, and "I Can't Turn You Loose" and Blues Brothers and Mortal Kombat and about a dozen other songs they play all the time, and have for decades. Which I don't mind necessarily--I like Chicago just fine--but at some point you've got to start playing music that students today can relate to. "25 or 6 to 4" is almost 50 years old. Even that Tool song is nearly 24 years old.
Pep band and Carver sound people both need to get with the times and play some music from this century.
Aston Kutcher can make that happen!Let me talk to the guys. Perhaps TOOL will play Carver after a game. Empty seats fixed.
Edit: This tool music sounds like what the low life construction workers on my project listen to...
Ashton knows Maynard? That would be Awesome! After that your comment has me lost. Did you call TOOL lowlifes?
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And play Tool. Bad boys of the BIG, even though they’re not and a finesse team. Works for me though.
