About midway through the season last year "progress" struck at a Lakers
home game.  Up to this point the Pep Band played during every break in
action and in between periods.  Then one night at the first break in
action the pep band started to play, also, over the PA system came the
loud strains of a current popular tune.
 
I don't know how many people noticed this, but it was obvious that the
Pep Band had no idea then were going to get "outplayed."  For that first
game the band kept up there playing at all the usual times battling it
out with the music coming over the PA.  Alas, in the long run it would
seem to be a losing proposition.  In the next game is where you really
saw it, the music over the PA had taken the Pep out of our Band.  There
were many times during this game that the band didn't fight the
inevitable and just didn't play during the breaks in action.
 
It wasn't much better for the rest of our home games.  At one time the
Pep Band had many people coming to play.  Unfortunately by the end of the
season the attendence in the Pep Band went way down.
 
Who knows if they will even show up this year.
 
Has any other schools still have active Pep Bands.  Are there still
schools out there that DON'T have rock music playing during the breaks?
 
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