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<Battle Hymn of the Republic>
I spent four years in the Pep Band at UVA, 1993-1997. Best four years of my life. During that time, the Banned went through the infamous Revolution of '93 (I actually joined the band while it was in exile outside of Scott Stadium), where we walked out of the stadium rather than accept the massive clamp down on our privledges the AD wanted to impose. After returning to the stadium for the final game of the football season, the Band won our major demand - the use of the Stadium microphone for jokes during halftime shows - for portions of two seasons. During the second of those seasons, 1995, the Band performed the infamous Peach Bowl Show. We took the field in Atlanta to the joke "Like General Sherman through Georgia, it's the Virginia Pep Band!" and were booed by 50,000 Georgia fans.

It was one of the greatest moments of my scrambling life.

During those four years, we met up with, and scrambled beside, a number of OTHER scramble bands, our brothers in irreverence and insanity. The cameradery among scramble bands has given me a network of friends around the country, and memories of roadtrips unparalleled. My fourth year was capped by a trip to Missoula, Montana and a rally with the infamous Leland Stanford Junior, University Marching Band.

During my four years, I served as the Music Committee Chair (Co-Kahuna), second Webbastard of the Pep Band homepage, Bard, unofficial Pep Band parliamentarian and online archivist, and a memeber of the GLC Sr. Committee. In my fourth year, I was honored to be the Bearer of The Gun. When performing, I played BANG ON DRUM!!!, an incredibly wonderful 27" bass drum. My beloved drum was retired after the CarQuest Bowl my fourth year. Her frame is kept atop the highest shelf in the Band instrument closet, and the one head that survived four years of scrambling with me hangs in my apartment, covered with the signatures of all those who scrambled beside her at that last game.

I believe that BANG ON DRUM and I will scramble one final time. I believe there is one more Show in us. On the day the Banned again wins back the Microphone; at that game when our jokes ring across Scott Stadium again, BANG ON DRUM shall arise from her broken state, and again I shall carry her onto the field without a harness. And we will scramble one last time. Futuaris Non Irresus Ridebis.
</Battle Hymn of the Republic>

The (official) Virginia Pep Band Webpage. Maintained by various undergrads at this point. I was this page's second Webbastard.

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