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Beat of a different drum
I had a recurring nightmare over the sum
mer months
The time: January 1, 1982
The place: Pasadena, Calif
Just before the wave of green jerseys
flooded the field, signaling the University of
Oregon’s long-awaited return to the Rose
Bowl, the stadium announcer chokes out the
words
“Ladies and gentlemen Now for our na
tional anthem by the Michigan Wolverine and
Daisy Duck marching bands ''
I caught myself in the double-take Wasn't
that supposed to be the Fighting Duck march
ing band7
Not this time The University, in a financial
mess from the previous year and who knows
how many years before that, had said good
bye to the costly marching band But with all of
the bowl talk eminating from the football camp,
is compared to, say, the University of
Washington’s 'Tequila Players."
Nevertheless, the band is out there
I, for one, commend the band for being out
on the field, out in the rain during the Husky
game And the fans? So few of them ap
preciated the efforts of the volunteers that I
could probably have picked out each in
dividual hand clap in the confines of Autzen
stadium
One of the problems, admittedly, is the
band is not as flashy as other bands around the
conference
The boring halftime show, I believe, is a
result of the crowd not getting into the band’s
performance. Even Oregon State students find
occasion to support the crazy antics of their
marching band (excuses that they have, little
else to get excited about at a football game are
beginning to lose some support)
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trator had a backup
plan
We could prob
ably get the Daisy
Ducks They out
number the band
anyway, and if the
Oregon crowd took
notice, it would be
better than having
real musicians out
there that few in the
crowd ever cared
about
So, those great
ladies, who have
been supporting
Oregon sports for
10 years, decided to
don all of the
required parapher
nalia and pound the
The solution to
this is to get the
band members to
look like they are
enjoying themselves
out there
I can't believe
that this university,
with a lunatic fringe
very much in evi
dence, has such a
hard time getting
band members who
march to the beat of
a somewhat differ
ent drum — people
who can have a
good time, no mat
ter what the score,
no matter how much
rain fills the tubas
Marching band
grassy tun ot the Rose Bowl
Most of the women had never even played
a musical instrument before But then again,
neither had many of them been to Pasadena
before, so the Daisy Ducks gave the green light
to the administration
It actually went quite well The Daisy
Ducks went through the motions while the
mighty Wolverine band provided the music
Nobody noticed a thing
Back to reality The chances of Oregon
making it into Pasadena New Year’s Day are
not very good It's too bad, because Oregon
does have a marching band
It's true that the University's marching
band is understaffed and underfinanced It
doesn't have many people in it either — not if it
director Gerald Poe can go ahead and say his
program was hurt by bad press coverage — it
was But for the three years I have been here,
the marching band has been an object of
ridicule in the bleachers
People at Washington and Oregon State
have discovered what it takes to have a well
liked band It takes a little craziness
University marching band members might
feel foolish doing head bops and rolling
around on the football field, but, given time,
Oregon football fans would respond with ap
proval
Of course, there is another alternative
What do the Daisy Ducks do on Saturdays, but
watch the Ducks at Autzen Stadium?
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