Bucky!
Bucky Badger shreds a guitar
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Bucky dazzles the audience with an electrifying guitar performance of “Wipeout.”
In this clip from the 2005 UW Varsity Band concert, Bucky Badger dazzles the audience with an electrifying live guitar performance of “Wipeout.” Tom Hoban — this performance's featured Bucky — altered the costume’s fingers to give himself the dexterity needed to play. Bucky also joins the crowd to dance to “The Chicken Dance” and “Tequila.”
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Bucky! is a local public television program presented by PBS Wisconsin
Funding for Bucky! is provided by The Dancing Goat Distillery, Robert J. Lenz, Charles H. and Barb A. Merry, Dr. Henry Anderson, Lau and Bea Christensen, Cynthia and David Shaw,...
Bucky!
Bucky Badger shreds a guitar
Clip | 8m 28sVideo has Closed Captions
In this clip from the 2005 UW Varsity Band concert, Bucky Badger dazzles the audience with an electrifying live guitar performance of “Wipeout.” Tom Hoban — this performance's featured Bucky — altered the costume’s fingers to give himself the dexterity needed to play. Bucky also joins the crowd to dance to “The Chicken Dance” and “Tequila.”
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[audience applauds] - Mike Leckrone: Wait, wait, wait.
Wait, wait a minute.
Wait, wait a minute.
You're not supposed to come on until later, you know, and cheer the crowd on, but... No, no.
[electric guitar riffs] We only have real musicians playing here tonight.
You really can't play that thing, can you?
[Bucky plays "If You Want to Be a Badger"] [audience applauds and cheers] I'd expect you to know that song.
That's your song.
But you probably don't know anything else.
[Bucky plays "On, Wisconsin"] The real test is, can you do a fifth-quarter tune?
Can you do, like, "Wipeout?"
We'll find out.
One, two, one, two, three, four!
["Wipeout"] ["Wipeout"] ["Wipeout"] - Mike: Bucky Badger!
[audience applauds and cheers] Guitar virtuoso!
Thanks to his teacher, Tom Hoban.
Without Tom, he'd be nothing.
How about it, how about a little, I think we oughta do a little more fifth quarter stuff, don't you, Bucky?
How about a little "Tequila?"
You can play along for a while.
Here we go, here we go!
A little "Tequila!"
One, two, three, four!
["Tequila"] ["Tequila"] - Band: Tequila!
- Yeah, but wait a minute.
I distinctly remember saying "fifth quarter."
And you're sitting there.
You don't sit during the fifth quarter!
Everybody on your feet, everybody on your feet.
If you're going to be that way, we're gonna do the "Chicken Dance."
[audience cheers] Now, everybody has to do the "Chicken Dance!"
Now, we'll start nice and slow to get you going.
["Chicken Dance"] ["Chicken Dance"] Okay, now, now, I wanna tell you, now, last night, last night, we had a 25.2 chorus.
I hear you.
I don't think it can be done any faster.
So, I don't think we should really even try to do it again tonight.
[audience exclaims] What?
You wanna try and do it faster than 25.2?
[audience exclaims] We'll try it, we'll try it.
One, two... ["Chicken Dance" tempo increases] Twenty-five flat!
Twenty-five flat!
[audience cheers and applauds] ["You've Said it All"] - Band: When you say, "Wisconsin," you've said it all!
[marching band ending note] [audience cheers and applauds]
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Clip | 5m 11s | RoseAnn Donovan recounts her time as one of the few women ever to play Bucky Badger. (5m 11s)
What happens when Bucky goes missing?
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Clip | 3m 25s | Retired UW band director Mike Leckrone reveals his secret turn as the world-famous mascot. (3m 25s)
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Clip | 3m 24s | Bassam Shakhashiri gets a jolly visit from Bucky during his holiday chemistry lecture. (3m 24s)
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Clip | 8m 28s | Bucky dazzles the audience with an electrifying guitar performance of “Wipeout.” (8m 28s)
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Bucky! is a local public television program presented by PBS Wisconsin
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