![]() Rammer Jammer, Yellowhammer, give 'em hell, Alabama! (Postgame) Rammer Jammer, Yellowhammer, give 'em hell, Alabama! (Pregame) Depending on what team Alabama is playing, the Million Dollar Band and fans will call out to the opposing team by chanting the team's name for example, a victory over Auburn University would have this cheer chanted as written below. After Alabama's victory over the Florida Gators in the 2009 SEC Championship Game, as well as after Alabama's victory over the Texas Longhorns in the 2010 Citi BCS National Championship Game, the cheer was played nine times. On at least one occasion (during Alabama's victory over Auburn in the 2008 Iron Bowl, Alabama's first in the series since 2001), it was repeated an additional three times. The cheer is now only played in the closing minutes when victory is certain, and is traditionally chanted twice. Before the university's attempt to remove the cheer, it was played before kickoff and at the end of the game. 98% of students voted in favor of keeping the cheer. In a vote at Homecoming 2005, the question was posed to students of whether the cheer should be banned. The move was met with a significant amount of criticism. The university also briefly forbade the Million Dollar Band from playing it after games, because of its taunting nature. The cheer was a pregame ritual until the early 2000s, chanting "We're gonna' beat the hell out of you!", but this was considered unsportsmanlike and banned. Here’s Magic Dick in 2009 performing his famous “Whammer Jammer” instrumental, with Tommy Castro on guitar, Chris Sandoval on drums, and Scot Sutherland on bass.The "Rammer Jammer Cheer" is a traditional cheer. patent for an improved harp they call the “Magic Harmonica.” In 1992, he and musician Pierre Beauregard were awarded a U.S. “My mother bought me a Marine Band harmonica, which is the very same harp that I play today.” He’s been in love with the instrument all his life. ![]() ![]() ![]() “When I was three years old, I had a pretty bad case of the flu,” Magic Dick told in 2009. The band fused Chicago blues with classic jazz, and released two albums: “Bluestime” (1994) and “Little Car Blues” (1996). In the early ’90s, Salwitz formed Bluestime with John Geils, his former college schoolmate from Worcester Polytechnic Institute. If lightweight tunes like “Centerfold” and “Freeze Frame” are the only songs that come to mind when you think J.Geils Band, then you need to discover the roof-raising music that made this group one of the hottest good-time bar bands of the ’70s. Other members included founder and guitarist John Geils (who passed away on April 11, 2017), bassist Danny Klein, drummer Stephen Jo Bladd, and keyboardist Seth Justman. In The Rolling Stone Record Guide, music journalist Dave Marsh described Magic Dick as possibly “the best white musician to ever play blues harmonica.” His harp playing, coupled with the jiving vocals and showmanship of frontman Peter Wolf, fueled the J. In the early days, they jammed with such blues greats as James Cotton, Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Buddy Guy and Junior Wells. ![]() Today’s the 72nd birthday of the man who helped put the whammer in the jammer of the J.Geils Band - from the group’s 1965 origins in Worcester, Massachusetts, through their breakup in 1985. And Richard Salwitz is one of the best - harmonica players, that is. With a nickname like “Magic Dick” you’d better be damn good at what you do. ![]()
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