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(Taken from the Pep Band website.) Scramble
(or "scatter") bands perform humorous halftime shows with a voiced
over script and include skits, jokes, parodies, and satire. They do not march,
but rather scramble from place to place in an inefficient fashion. The
formations and songs presented on the field are generally related to the jokes,
if they are not the actual punchlines themselves. Scramble bands tend to play
arrangements of rock and roll, blues, or soul songs, television theme songs,
beer commercial music, etc. - they avoid Sousa marches, Latin fanfares, and
classical arrangements like the Plague. Scramble bands are likely to have people
playing non-traditional instruments such as mailboxes (Columbia), mannequins
(Princeton), or violins, slide whistles, and Poulan Weedwackers (us). These
people, referred to variously as miscellaneous (or miscies), trash percussion,
or managers, often do not play at all - they might dance, juggle, or just
cavort. Scramble bands are prone to dressing strangely and looking wacky -
definitions of the uniforms tend to be spacious, and are generally supplemented
and customized by distinctive hats, pins and buttons, creative individual
fashion statements, and often outright costumes. Scramble bands overwhelmingly
tend to be run by the students in them (and not by some faculty member). The other scramble bands are:
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