I suspect that it was kind of a random event that “Like a Rolling Stone” was played at that time. It’s a great song, but not necessarily appropriate to go along with the chairman’s award announcement.
It was surreal, like when you are dreaming, and your radio alarm clock goes off, and for a minute you hear the music on the radio in your dream, and in your dream you realize “wait a minute, where is that music coming from?” and you wake up.
it was like that. Everyone was walking around, picking up their stuff in the bleechers, teams were finishing up crating their robots, teams heading home
and Bob was singing away
“Now you dont talk so loud
now you dont seem so proud
about having to be scrounging your next meal
How does it feel?”
I was wondering if I would wake up at home, and the whole regional was only a dream, with Dylan on my clock radio :^)
IRT:
The DJ was kinda disappointing… playing rather mellowing and irrelevant music. Our CEO asked him if he could play more upbeat exciting music the rest of the competition, and found out he wasnt a real DJ. He only plays on on TV.
I didn’t mind the WBER playlist on Thursday but FIRST has this weakness for the Electric Slide, the Chicken Dance, YMCA, The Macerena and Cha Cha. There are other songs in existance. They should give them a spin once in a while.
Ed, next time I will come up in the stands and bring you down to the field. I can’t believe that you are so old that you couldn’t join in. Let’s all just have some fun. It is a party you know(but no “dancing”). I found that things livened up with those songs and sort of died with the rap “music”.
It’s all going to be a matter of taste in the end anyways. I think Koko is right, every regional no matter where it is will always have a collection of “hokey” songs that are played over and over again in an effort to bring the crowd forward; but that again is part of what makes FIRST endearing, to always see the mascots doing the YMCA and what not. I thought the playlist was fine at Rochester. I love hip hop, and was rather surprised at the amount they did play as well, it had a pretty good mix as far as I am concerned. I also heard some P.O.D in the midst of it as well.
