Music during the flow of the game

[steger_3434]

My wife mentioned it to me last night and I have to agree with her. What is with the music at the BC? I watch other teams and they play music with a hip hop feel to it that gets teh crowd pumped. The BC uses "dayo" WTF????

Is this a Kohl decision? Also, how bad is Jenson as a PA guy? On Bob and Brian he's the "sports guy" yet doesn't know a damn thing about any of the major sports. He has no personality during a game and coninually gets players names wrong.

While we're doing a fire sale on players, coaches, and GM's, we should just clean house and get a new DJ/music guy and a new PA guy.

[LISTEN2JAZZ]

NY is #1 because they have an organist (Knicks and Yankees games) who plays Coltrane songs. He usually cheeses them up so that nobody notices and assumes they're just stadium cheer kind of songs. And you'll notice that the Yankees and Knicks both sit at the top of their leagues in terms of revenue. The formula is pretty simple.

[MickeyDavis]

They hired a new director of game day operations last year and he has done what he can to change things but everything still goes through Steiny and the inner circle. Same reason the horrible Eric Jensen is still employed (in Eric's defense he does the games the way he's told to do the games).

[kebzach]

So basically 90% of the things that are wrong with the Bucks are the result of the inner circle?

[THE DINJ]

A lot of the music sucks (especially "Dayo") but if you think music with a "hip hop feel" is going to get Wisconsin people excited, you're nuts.

[Mags FTW]

Is there anything good about this organization right now?

[icat2000]

The whole organisation has that dated look and sound to it. Right down to the cheerleaders and their tacky costumes, the introduction music and the music during the game.
It doesn't need to be hip hop. But surely there are better selections than DAYO.

[WEFFPIM]

Add into this that the Bradley Center might possibly have the worst lighting I've seen. The atmosphere is just dull to look at.

[paulpressey25]

The whole organisation has that dated look and sound to it. Right down to the cheerleaders and their tacky costumes.

Actually that is a misconception. The Energee girls and their outfits and routines have taken a major, major step forward here the last two seasons.....I think they are pretty good. The website photos you guys see in Australia don't do justice.....a number of them are pretty hot up close in person.

As for the in game music, they do appear to have completely phased out Streetlife which is fine with me. I think the music selections aren't bad.....the problem is the team sucks so all music seems bad.

[paulpressey25]

Add into this that the Bradley Center might possibly have the worst lighting I've seen. The atmosphere is just dull to look at.

That's part of that "designed for Hockey" thing. The whole lower bowl is designed to be lit up over a large area ecompassing the size of a full NHL rink.

Although there is no question they could take steps to dim the lights in the bowl. That would be much, much better. New York does this in violation of supposed league rules and now I see LA doing it as well.

[DanoMac]

We should just get someone to nuke Milwaukee altogether, minus Miller Brewing and Miller Park.

You want to get the Bucks fans excited? Play "Bang on my Drum All Day" and get more Packer players to sit at courtside, that'll get them excited.

[kebzach]

New York does this in violation of supposed league rules and now I see LA doing it as well.

LA has done it for a few seasons now.

[kebzach]

As for the in game music, they do appear to have completely phased out Streetlife which is fine with me.

No, Streetlife has been at the BC for some games, and they still have some more on their schedule. They just aren't being asked to be at all 41 home games.

http://www.streetlifejazz.com/schedule/

[schweig]

I wonder whether Bogut loves hearing Land Down Under so much. Really everything they do, they do so often. If they can't find someone to pick music who can get the crowd into it, it'd definitely be worth thinking about ways someone could play some stuff live. Polka might not do it, but organ works a lot, whatever, throw some ideas around.

If we're getting a little OT talking about the whole experience, the Bango blimp is kind of a cool thing.

Priority #1 should be trying anything necessary to make the interest rival the t-shirt toss more often. I know free stuff is cool, but come on. Maybe they should put together some 20-second Jumbotron clips of some "fun" education about the game. "Now Charlie's going to show how to defend a pick and roll." "Here's how an iso works, it's not always selfish basketball and we use it when our guy can beat the other man."

I like the dim lights idea a lot too.

They did a pretty poor job "overhauling" the logo, I know it's not that relevant but a better one still would've helped a lot. I'm not saying I'd want it to be polarizing like the Ads logo, but that was the most anyone's talked about the Ads, not for anything they do on the ice.

How much do section giveaways really help? Everyone else is just like "oh okay" and even the people who win, that brings me to the next point icat brought up, their giveaway stuff often fits in with that style that could probably be better.

I don't have complaints about the cheerleaders, hoop troop or anything, they all do a yeoman's job with the fans they have to work with. If anything maybe they should bring some of them up to the upper deck at points in the game with some kind of plan, kind of like how the UW band (tubas) goes around at Camp Randall.

The Packers actually play a lot of current hip hop, I was surprised.

I have to bump Priority #1 down to #2, to solve the problem you have to understand it. So the new #1 is to ask "why do we create the environment where fans are discouraged by the arena and other fans from getting into the game?" If it's all about not dealing with drunk rowdies they've really taken it too far. Even the things they do try are crippled by that, half the time I catch myself thinking twice before yelling "Go! Bucks! Go!" You shouldn't have to be really un-self-conscious or a "nonconformist" to cheer on the home team.

[jerrod]

A lot of the music sucks (especially "Dayo") but if you think music with a "hip hop feel" is going to get Wisconsin people excited, you're nuts.

[bigkurty]

The Energee dance team is probably the only thing the team seems to be getting better with. The overall quality of the girls has gone up a bunch and the outfits are getting really good. If those little christmas outfits, the naughty school girl outfits, or the sexy lingerie outfits they have started pulling out don't get you excited as a man, you might want to check your sexual status.

[jokeboy86]

Or how bout playing a specific song everytime a Bucks player scores. It was alright at first but hearing men at work and sweet emotion everytime Bogut and Yi scores is played out. I am a little surprised by how little they play today's hip-hop or at least something from this decade. After seeing how much Attanasio has done for the Brewers on and off the field(including the block parties in inner city), it would be interesting to see how different things would be if the Bucks came under new ownership. As of right now the way the Bucks are run like the Brewers of the 90s except with no arena to guarantee they'll be here.

It seems like Milwaukee in general, is still stuck and run by people who loved the 80s.

[LISTEN2JAZZ]

It's weird that Stree Life calls themselves a jazz band. They're a top-40 band. In NY they'd be called a wedding band or a club date band; in Boston they'd be called a GB (general business) band. In those cities, there are dozens of bands just like them, due to the abundance of big-budget weddings. I hope I don't have to play that stuff ever again .

[Comet]

Although there is no question they could take steps to dim the lights in the bowl. That would be much, much better. New York does this in violation of supposed league rules and now I see LA doing it as well.

Yeah, like they did at the Mecca. That would be awesome.

As for the main topic at hand, this team is really disappointing when it comes to the BC. The BC sucks, the music sucks, Eric Jensen sucks, everything sucks.

But props to the Energee dance team.

[schweig]

Agreed about the player songs. Say a guy has a nice game about gets 20, your program puts you on place to play the same clip about 10 times, why would you do that? If anything we should have something else to associate with these players besides "he must've had a good game cause I heard that song a lot."

Also you reminded me indirectly, what's the point having 60s night, 80s, whatever, if you're not going to sell at least say hot dogs at the price they were back then? Calling it a whole "night" so you can have Chubby Checker in the halftime show is stupid. Maybe this beef is a little misplaces now that so many ticket prices are slashed. Maybe they should have a concert right after the game some time, I saw Kareem on TV talking about how in NY back when, they played in a dance hall, they'd have a band at halftime and then a whole concert after the game.

I was lucky enough to see the GB/San Diego game this year and people were yelling and starting cheers all down the ramp the whole way out. It's pointless to compare their gameday experience and support to the Bucks, but leaving the BC even after a win can be closer to leaving some lecture.