LSJUMB at Stanford Stadium before a game

LSJUMB rallying fans at Stanford Stadium

LSJUMB pre-game show at Stanford Stadium

The Leland Stanford Junior University Marching Band (LSJUMB) is the student marching band of Stanford University. Billing itself as "The World's Largest Rock and Roll Band," it performs at sporting events, student activities, and other functions. Technically, it is not actually a marching band but rather a scatter band. Image File history File linksMetadata 11-04-06-LSJUMB-001. ... Image File history File linksMetadata 11-04-06-LSJUMB-001. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (937x705, 496 KB) The Stanford Band rallying fans at Stanford Stadium. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (937x705, 496 KB) The Stanford Band rallying fans at Stanford Stadium. ... Image File history File linksMetadata 11-04-06-LSJUMB-002. ... Image File history File linksMetadata 11-04-06-LSJUMB-002. ... An American college marching band on the field (University of Texas) A marching band is a group of instrumental musicians who generally perform outdoors, and who incorporate movement â€“ usually some type of marching â€“ with their musical performance. ... “Stanford” redirects here. ... A scramble band is a particular type of field-performing marching band with distinct characteristics that set it apart from other common forms of marching bands; most notably, scramble bands do not normally march. ...

A Rolling Stone writer once said of the band, "It's hard for anyone raised on rock to imagine that a band could sound this loud without thousands of watts of amplification." ^[1] This article is about the magazine. ...

History

The modern LSJUMB was formed in 1963 when members of the university marching band went on strike to protest the firing of the band director. According to band lore, the new director, Arthur P. Barnes, immediately won the loyalty of the band by ceding any meaningful control over it.^[2] The band and its new director also clicked over his arrangement of "The Star-Spangled Banner," which featured the striking effect of a single trumpet playing the first half of the song, joined later by soft woodwinds and tuba, and finally bringing the full power of the brass only in the final verse. Played at the "Big Game" against Cal, just eight days after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Barnes said, "I've never heard such a loud silence." Year 1963 (MCMLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Arthur Barnes conducting the Stanford Band Dr. Arthur P. Barnes spent thirty five years as the director of the Leland Stanford Junior University Marching Band, from 1963 to 1997 Career After teaching band and music theory at Fresno State University, he came to Stanford to get his doctorate, and took... The Star-Spangled Banner is the national anthem of the United States, with lyrics written in 1814 by Francis Scott Key. ... The Big Game is the annual football game between Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley (known simply as California or Cal), held in November. ... Sather tower (the Campanile) looking out over the San Francisco Bay and Mount Tamalpais. ... John Kennedy and JFK redirect here. ...

Empowered, the student-led band threw away the traditional marching music and costumes, eventually settling for a mostly rock and roll repertoire and a simplified uniform consisting of a white fishing hat with red trim (and as many buttons as will fit), red blazer, black pants, and "the ugliest tie you can get your hands on."^[3] In the springtime and at non-athletic events, band members appear at performances (and sometimes even at rehearsals) wearing "rally" attire, which can range from swim suits to Halloween costumes to furniture and pets, always displaying their freedom from the usual rules of fashion. The Badonkadonk Land Cruiser is used as a band support vehicle. Rock and roll (also spelled Rock n Roll, especially in its first decade), also called rock, is a form of popular music, usually featuring vocals (often with vocal harmony), electric guitars and a strong back beat; other instruments, such as the saxophone, are common in some styles. ... It has been suggested that Sportcoat be merged into this article or section. ... College students dressed up for Halloween. ...

Songs and shows

The band's repertoire is heavy on classic rock of the 1970s, particularly songs by Tower of Power, Santana, and The Who. In the '90s, more modern music was introduced, including songs by Green Day and The Offspring. The de facto fight song is "All Right Now," originally performed by Free. The band prides itself on its vast song selection, never playing the same song twice in one day, and has a library of over one thousand songs at its disposal, nearly one hundred of which are in active rotation. One of the first collegiate marching bands to record and release their music, the band has produced twelve albums since 1967. Arrangements focus on the loudest brass instruments—trumpets, mellophones, and trombones—and percussion—one bass drum (called the Axis of Rhythm), snare drums, and single tenor drums. Many traditional band instruments like bells and glockenspiels are altogether absent. For the magazine, see Classic Rock (magazine). ... The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979, also called The Seventies. ... Tower of Power is a horn-based soul band from Oakland, California. ... Devadip Carlos Augusto Alves Santana (born July 20, 1947), known simply as Carlos Santana or Santana, is a Grammy Award-winning Mexican-born American Latin rock musician and guitarist. ... The Who are an English rock band that first formed in 1964, and grew to be considered one of the greatest[1] and most influential[2] bands in the world. ... This article is about the band Green Day. ... For other uses, see Offspring (disambiguation). ... All Right Now is a rock single by the English band Free. ... Free was a British R&B-style rock band which formed in London in 1968 best known for their popular song All Right Now. Lead singer Paul Rodgers went on to become lead singer of the rock band Bad Company along with Simon Kirke on drums, while lead guitarist Paul... The trumpet is a musical instrument in the brass family. ... The mellophone is a brass instrument that is typically used in place of the French horn in marching bands or drum and bugle corps. ... The trombone is a musical instrument in the brass family. ... A bass drum is a large drum that produces a note of low definite or indefinite pitch. ... The snare drum or side drum is a tubular drum made of wood or metal with skins, or heads, stretched over the top and bottom openings, and with a set of snares (cords) stretched across the bottom head. ... A tenor drum is a cylindrical drum, much higher pitched than a bass drum. ... Most orchestral glockenspiels are mounted in a case. ...

Traditional "marching" is also missing, as the band "scatters" from one formation to the next. The halftime field shows feature formations that are silly or suggestive shapes, as well as words (sometimes of the obscene variety). A team of Stanford students, generally not band members, writes a script for the halftime show explaining to some degree what the band is doing in any given formation. The announcer reads this script over the public address system.

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Controversial actions by the band

Irreverence has been a mainstay of the band throughout its over 40-year history. In the 1970s, one halftime show lampooned Cal student Patty Hearst's kidnapping with a formation called the "Hearst Burger": two buns and no patty. The band gave a tribute for the anniversary of Jayne Mansfield's death, by announcing over the PA the urban legend of how she had been decapitated in an automobile accident. The band then played the song "Another Saturday Night and I Ain't Got No Body." The band is also reputed to have performed a "Tribute to abortion" halftime show featuring a coat hanger formation.^{[citation needed]} In 1999, when UCLA football players were caught in a handicapped parking scandal, the Band formed a handicapped symbol on the field, and wheeled the Tree in on a wheelchair. Patricia Hearst. ... Jayne Mansfield (born Vera Jayne Palmer, April 19, 1933—29 June 1967) was an American actress and Playboy centerfold. ... An urban legend or urban myth is similar to a modern folklore consisting of stories often thought to be factual by those circulating them. ...

The LSJUMB (background) doing the Hitler salute to USC's fight song being played by the Spirit of Troy (foreground), in mockery of the Trojans' victory salute and the heavily regimented and militarized nature of the Trojan band marching routines.

In 1972, the Band went from an all male band to co-ed. The band's popularity during this time period is best reflected by an alumni who sent a million dollar donation to the University with the stipulation that the Band be criticized. The President ripped up the check and returned it stating "We love the Band". This letter was proudly hung in the shak for many years.^{[citation needed]} Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1146x746, 536 KB) The Stanford Band doing the Nazi salute to the fight song of the Spirit of Troy at Stanford Stadium. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1146x746, 536 KB) The Stanford Band doing the Nazi salute to the fight song of the Spirit of Troy at Stanford Stadium. ... Adolf Hitler walking out of the Brown House after the 1930 elections, being saluted with the Nazi salute. ... The Spirit of Troy drumline at Navy Pier in Chicago October 14, 2005 The Spirit of Troy giving a traditional post-game concert, this time celebrating the defeat of the University of Arkansas in Razorback Stadium The Spirit of Troy take the field at Stanford Stadium The Spirit of Troy...

The LSJUMB has been disciplined for controversial performances on several occasions:

• In 1986, the University suspended the band from traveling to the UCLA football game scheduled on November 8th, 1986 after incidents in previous games that season. First, on October 11th, 1986, an infamous incident of public urination happened following the home football game against the University of Washington. (Although many swear that this incident occurred during the halftime show, actually two band members were caught urinating outside the stadium after the game, when the bathrooms were locked.) Second, during the halftime show of the home USC game on October 19th, 1986, the band spelled out "NO BALLZ". Finally, for the next game they performed an anagram show and spelled out an anagrammed four-letter word ("NCUT"). (The "NCUT" formation was written to be "NEUT," an anagram of "TUNE"--but Band members did not form the crossbar to the "E", changing it to a "C" and thus drastically changing the anagrammed word.) After the UCLA game suspension was served, the band appeared at the Cal game wearing angel halos in an attempt to apologize and get invited to travel with the football team to a bowl game. The band attended the Gator Bowl that year, amid very close scrutiny. ^[4]

• In 1990, Stanford suspended the band for a single game after their halftime show at the University of Oregon criticized the logging of the spotted owl's habitats in the northwest United States. Governor Neil Goldschmidt (D-OR) issued a decree that the band not return to Oregon for several years; the band did not return until 2001. [4] After the spotted owl incident, all halftime shows were reviewed and approved by Stanford's Athletic Department.
• In 1991, the University of Notre Dame banned the LSJUMB from visiting its campus after a halftime show at Stanford in which drum major Eric Selvik dressed as a nun and conducted the band using a wooden cross as a baton. (During the pregame show and first half of the game, the drum major had been dressed as an Orthodox Jew, where the wooden cross was part of a menorah-like baton.) After the halftime show, a female Notre Dame fan ran onto the field, approached from behind the unsuspecting Selvik, and forcibly ripped the nun habit off of his head. Selvik pursued and regained his habit from the attacker, who in the scuffle for the habit told the drum major he was "going to hell for this."[5]
• In 1992, the Athletic Department pressured the LSJUMB to fire its announcers after one used the phrase "No chuppah, no schtuppa" at a San Jose State University game halftime show.
• In 1994, the Band was disciplined after nineteen members of the band skipped a field rehearsal in Los Angeles to play outside the L.A. County Courthouse during jury selection for the O.J. Simpson trial. The band's song selection included an arrangement of The Zombies' "She's Not There." Defense lawyer Robert Shapiro described the incident to the media as "a new low in tasteless behavior."[6] During the halftime show of the football game against USC that year, band members drove a white Bronco with bloody handprints around the Stanford stadium track.[7]
• In 1997, the Band was again disciplined for shows lampooning Catholicism and the Irish at a game against Notre Dame. The Band put on a show entitled "These Irish, Why Must they Fight?" Besides the mocking supposedly stereotypical Irish-Catholic behavior, there was a Riverdance formation, and a Potato Famine joke, drawing criticism^[5] for its "tasteless" portrayal of Catholics. Both the band and the Stanford President Gerhard Casper subsequently apologized for the band's behavior. ^[6]
• In 2002 and 2006, the Band was sanctioned for off-the-field behavior, including violations of the University alcohol policy.
• In 2004, the Band drew national attention and Mormon ire for joking about polygamy, which was practiced by some Mormons until 1890 and is still practiced by certain splinter groups outside of the LDS Church. This occurred during a game against Brigham Young University. The Dollies appeared in wedding veils with the Band Manager of the time kneeling and "proposing" to each in turn as the announcer referred to marriage as "the sacred bond that exists between a man and a woman... and a woman... and a woman... and a woman... and a woman." [8] The joke was later used multiple times by Massachusetts Governor and Republican Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney, himself a Mormon.[9][10]
• The band's hijinks were given a wider audience when they became the subject of Alan Alda's appearance on the "Not My Job" segment on National Public Radio's Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! on September 9, 2006.(listen here)
• In 2006, the band was suspended by Stanford administrators when their former "Band Shak" was vandalized. After moving into a new $2.8 million facility, the previous Shak, a trailer that served as a temporary home for the band, was found with broken windows and profanities spray painted on the walls. Administrators believed members of the Band were responsible for the damage, as the band had believed the trailer was to be demolished the next day. The Band was placed on a provisional status for several months, and had many privileges taken away for the duration of the suspension, including the right to be freely student-run. ^[7]. The band was also barred from performing at Halftime of the 2006 Big Game as a result. In March 2007, the University exonerated the individual Band members involved in the incident. It also charged the Band $8,000 for damages (though it initially estimated damages of $50,000). ^[8]. In July 2007, the Band was fully reinstated, though they are still on alcohol probation. ^[9].

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"The Play"

Main article: The Play

The Band's most infamous and controversial moment, however, had nothing to do with its irreverence. In the final four seconds of the 1982 Big Game against the University of California, Berkeley (Cal), band members (as well as players from both teams) ran out onto the field, thinking the game was over when ball-carrier Garner might have been "down". Despite this, Cal players continued to lateral back and forth, with Cal's Kevin Moen dodging through the band for a winning touchdown, which he ended by running over LSJUMB trombone player Gary Tyrrell in the end zone. ^[10] "The Play" is celebrated by Cal fans and inspires the ire of many Stanford fans. To this day, it remains one of the most famous plays in American football history. (The game does not end until the last play ends, even if the game clock runs out of time while the last play is still in progress. A penalty was called as a result of "The Play", but it was only because the spectators and band members had crowded onto the field while the game was in progress.) The Play refers to a last-second kickoff return during a college football game between the University of California, Berkeley (California or Cal) Golden Bears and the Stanford University Cardinal on November 20, 1982. ... Sather tower (the Campanile) looking out over the San Francisco Bay and Mount Tamalpais. ... The Play refers to a last-second kickoff return during a college football game between the University of California, Berkeley (California or Cal) Golden Bears and the Stanford University Cardinal on November 20, 1982. ...

In 2002, during the Big Game halftime show, the LSJUMB performed a humorous re-enactment of The Play. Special emphasis was placed on the allegation that Cal player Garner's knee touched the ground before his lateral; all band members performing the re-enactment froze in place at this stage, and a single member, carrying a large yellow arrow, ran out and repeatedly pointed at the "down" Garner. Officials at the time did not call Garner down and though no instant replay rule was in effect at the time, game tape appears inconclusive.

To this day the position of Band Manager is conferred from one generation to the next with 4 seconds left in the Big Game in commemoration of the play.

The Dollies

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Dollie try-outs are held on "Dollie Day," when potential Dollies demonstrate their ability in front of the entire assembled band. Each year's new Dollie cadre is revealed at the annual "Dollie Splash," where the Dollies give their debut dance for the public followed by a dunking in the Stanford Claw.

Dollies serve one-year terms, are managed by their Dollie Daddy/Mama (the Band's assistant manager or "ass-man"), and choreograph all their own routines and design their own costumes. Traditional costume colors are red for the fall, cardinal for the winter, and white for the spring.

Traditions

• When traveling on airplanes en masse, it is traditional for LSJUMB members to mimic the safety instructions of flight attendants in unison, including hand motions pointing to exits and demonstrating the oxygen masks by putting airsickness bags over the face and inhaling and exhaling. For example, on the trip to the January 1, 1993 Blockbuster Bowl, nearly all band members unclipped their safety belts from the seats to mimic the stewardess and clasp the belts over their heads. Also, legend tells of an experiment in which the band formed in the aisles and ran back and forth along the plane's length, attempting to change the flight path.

• When reciting the full name of the Band, it is traditional to leave a pause between "Leland Stanford Junior" and "University Marching Band", particularly when announcing at stadiums; more formal introductions include the prelude "The one, the only, the truly incomparable" followed by the aforementioned "Leland Stanford Junior, University Marching Band." The entirety of this phrase is affectionately referred to as TOTOTTILSJUMB in writing by members of the Band.

• The traditional pre-game breakfast is beer and doughnuts. Big games such as the Big Game with Cal merit beer, doughnuts, and stogies. Since the Band's alcohol suspension in 2004, however, beer has been eschewed in favor of Capri Sun as the breakfast drink of choice.

• Alcoholic "rank drinks", sneaked into the football stadium and drunk "in ranks", are as extravagant as possible and vary from good to deliberately awful. 1991 saw the debut of the "tuna colada", possibly the rankest drink ever conceived. As the Band is currently on alcohol suspension, rank drinks are no longer alcoholic.

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Albums of the LSJUMB

• This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things (2004)
• Ultrasound (1999)
• The Wind of Freedom Blow (Greatest Hits 1970-1998) (1998)
• Mirth Control (1995)
• The Band Is Not Helping (1991)
• Contraband (1987)
• Block S (1982)
• Starting Salary: $22,275.00 (1979)
• The Incomparables (1977)
• The Incomparable Leland Stanford Junior University Marching Band (1974)
• The Incomparable Leland Stanford Junior University Marching Band (1972)
• The Incomparable Leland Stanford Junior University Marching Band (1970)

External links

• Stanford Band website

Notes and References

1. ^ "Band on the Run", James B. Meigs, Rolling Stone 509, September 24, 1987, p. 153
2. ^ Meigs, op cit, p. 89
3. ^ Meigs, op cit, p. 89, 152
4. ^ Meigs, op cit, p. 89, 150, 152
5. ^ Stanford News
6. ^ [1]
7. ^ [2]
8. ^ University exonerates Stanford marching band in vandalism case, San Francisco Chronicle, March 12, 2007
9. ^ [3]
10. ^ YouTube