honestly, idk when it started. It's been here and was a thing from the first day of band camp when i got here 3 years ago. really we only play it in the second half if the game is out of hand or in between quarters due to length (it's like a 3 minute song in whole). I love it though, and don't expect it to go anywhere. I kinda wish that more of the students/general crowd would join in though... or know what the **** we're doing...
honestly, idk when it started. It's been here and was a thing from the first day of band camp when i got here 3 years ago. really we only play it in the second half if the game is out of hand or in between quarters due to length (it's like a 3 minute song in whole). I love it though, and don't expect it to go anywhere. I kinda wish that more of the students/general crowd would join in though... or know what the **** we're doing...
Cowbell is old as dirt. I have a recording of it from 1994, and it was already well-established by then. Pretty sure it was written in the early 1980s, and became a tradition sometime at the end of that decade.
As for the students joining in... that's what I'm here for. I left the band after 2006, the first season in the new north endzone seating. I was the cymbal player that was always WAAAY hyped up during games, and pandering to the student section/trying to get students to catch on to the band traditions. I still love the ISUCF'V'MB, and now that I'm in the student section, I do a lot to get the band cheers to catch on. As a drummer, Cowbell was my big project the last two years. (I even had a poster, so that they'd know to yell between the 3rd and 4th quarters!) We didn't start getting it until the last game or two of 2007, but all through last season, most of the students picked it up pretty well. By the end of the season, it looked pretty dang good! Of course, we'll keep working on it. You students that are reading this, make sure you're doing it, too! We can't just have leaders up front, we need them everywhere throughout the whole section to really keep it effective.
Remember, when the clock hits 0:00 in the 3rd quarter, it's time for COWBEEEEELLLLLLLLL!!!
