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Do You Want To Play G League Mixes

[hook]
The G League is here today
Doing it for their fans and what they want to say
Is Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

[verse]
We’re gonna stand up (stand up)
Not sit down (sit down)
Ain’t tired of all this running around
We’re gonna jump up (jump up)
And block shots (block shots)
Ain’t no baskets to be giving away

[hook]
The G League is here today
Doing it for their fans and what they want to say
Is Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

[verse]
There’s a foul line (foul line)
And overtime (overtime)
Ain’t backin down from either side
There’s warrior cries (warrior cries)
And aggressive eyes (aggressive eyes)
Ain’t lettin fear get in our minds

[hook]
The G League is here today
Doing it for their fans and what they want to say
Is Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

[verse]
We got a special class (special class)
And Fancy Flash (fancy flash)
Staking our claim while we’re talking some trash
We got some new blood (new blood)
And great one (great ones)
Pushing the edge to get that championship

[hook]
The G League is here today
Doing it for their fans and what they want to say
Is Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

[outro]
Do You (Do You)
Do You (Do You)
Do You (Do You)
Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

Song Length: 3:14

Writer: Jody Whitesides IPI/CAE 00196306650
Publisher: Too Much Music IPI/CAE 00456952518
Admin Publisher (Outside U.S.): Bluewater Music

Jody Whitesides: Lead Vocals, Backing Vocals, Guitars, Bass, Drum Programming, Claps, Synths
Chris Hellstrom: Additional Synths

Recording Info:
Cover Art: Jody Whitesides
Recording Engineer: Jody Whitesides
Mixing Engineer: Jody Whitesides
Mastering Engineer 2025: Jody Whitesides
Mastering Engineer 2007: George Leger III
Vocal Engineer: Jody Whitesides
Additional Production: Chris Hellstrom
Producer: Jody Whitesides Guitar(s): Left side guitar: Desert Guitar: my first guitar which was a Fender “Japocaster” as it used to be referred as, the only original thing is the body. Everything else has been replaced or modified. Think of the Van Halen Frankenstein guitar only this one has a Desert landscape for a paint job. A single Seymour Duncan Custom Custom hum-bucker pickup. Standard bridge. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steels medium gauge.

Right side guitar: Joe’s Guitar with Jesus paint job: This guitar has a Seymour Duncan Custom Custom pickup and a Cool Rails in the neck position. It has a Wilkinson Tremelo installed by Trev Wilkinson himself. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steel medium gauge strings. I used the bridge pickup for this sound.

Vibrato lick guitar: Joe’s Guitar Whitesides Viper 7 Redwood: This is a custom 7-string guitar that Justin built for me to specifications for the neck. The body is two different woods, the back of the body is alder with a redwood top. The neck is maple with a bubinga fingerboard, jumbo frets. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steels. The bridge pickup is a custom built Seymour Duncan Custom Custom, made specifically for me prior to 7-string guitar pickups becoming an actual line. Thus it’s pieced together by Seymour’s custom pickup department. The neck is a stacked humbucker, also created by Seymour Duncan’s custom pickup department. This was voiced to be more like a custom.

Extra guitar chorus: Joe’s Guitar with Jesus paint job: This guitar has a Seymour Duncan Custom Custom pickup and a Cool Rails. It also has a Wilkinson Tremelo installed by Trev Wilkinson himself. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steel medium gauge strings. This part is using the Cool Rails pickup in the neck position.

The Amp Setup:
GrooveTubes Solo 150 head
GrooveTubes Dual 75 Poweramp that has been modified to be true stereo
GrooveTubes 2 x 10″ cabs
I had KT88’s on one side of the Dual 75 and EL34’s on the other side

The cab was mic’d with an SM57 Beta on the grill center of the cone

Bass(s): Hohner B Bass V. Strings were Dean Markley Blue Steels. This was run thru a Line 6 Bass Pod Pro. Two outputs, one that was direct out and one that was an amp sim from the Line 6 Bass Pod Pro to give it some grit.

Additional Bass sounds were done with the ESM from Logic Pro

Drums: Drums are sequenced from samples out of Stylus RMX by SpectraSonics.
Kicks are from the Kicks Boomy and Kicks Punchy menus.
Snares are from the Snares Vinyl menu.

Vocal: Lead vocals in this were recorded using a Telefunken C12.

Background vocals were recorded using a Neumann 87a.

Synths: The synth parts were created using Logic Pro’s ES2.

Misc Instruments: Handclaps are created from me doing about 40 different takes of handclaps from various different positions around the studio to create more depth.

Song Story:
There’s a bit of history behind this song and it’s long…

In the late 90’s there was a group of investors that were starting up a football league for women. Someone reached out to me and asked if I would write a song that would be a theme for the league. I was given a set of values and ideas that I had to hit on in order for it to be uplifting for the female football league.

Within a couple of days I had whipped up the song. Musically I had envisioned a stadium anthem. Which meant keeping the drums simple, making it easy for people to clap and or stomp along with the song as it could be played over the loud system. For the chorus, I came up with that pretty quick. I wanted it to be easy to sing for anyone, including those who claim to be tone-deaf.

The guitar parts were kept quite simple for the same reason. I wanted any guitar player to be able to pick up a guitar and be able to play it within a matter of minutes. Plus I layered several simple parts to give it a bit more change to it. The hardest part to play likely the lead lick with the vibrato. But even then, it’s not difficult to play.

The verse lyrics took a bit more time. Working on incorporating those values and ideas I had to spend a little time working it so that they would rhyme and work in more of a storyline aspect. It wasn’t overly troublesome, but I did make sure there was progression.

Once it was all put together I sent it along to the contact. The league worked on getting underway, but never got to a point where the song was used for the theme. They never ended up doing a theme and we never signed a deal for it.

Fast forward a few years and I’m going to an LA Kings hockey game with my good buddy Chris Hellstrom. He wanted to get me into hockey, and the best way is for me to go to a live game. I was having a great time. During the game every so often (who am I kidding, very often), they were playing a semi-musical thing that kept shouting “Go Kings Go!”* I told Chris, dude, I have a song that is substantially better than that.

That night when I got home, I pulled out the WPFL theme I had written. I started looking at the files and then went to bed. The next day I started retooling the verse lyrics. I needed them to work for hockey instead of the football. Which required me to pester Chris with questions about hockey and some of the various terms used to talk about what happens on the ice.

A day later, I had it re-tooled. Updated the vocals. Asked Chris to add some bits to the arrangement, then I made a mix of it. Shortly after that I opted to do a version for each major league team in LA at the time. Which mean tweaking it for Basketball as well. A few more days later and I had versions for each team.

Basketball had a huge following and my decision was to use a basketball related photo that I took at a park to be the cover of the release. Then I put the various versions out under the title Do You Want to Play.

Another year or two later I was linked up with Jerry Davis from Fox Sports. I was going to be doing a lot of music for their sports network. During the course of getting the deal done, Jerry asked me how much music I have and in turn I told him how many production music CDs I had. The deal changed in my favor as they would just license my library instead of me writing stuff and them owning it.

While doing that deal I mentioned the song for all the LA teams. Jerry liked it, but felt Fox couldn’t make use of it. He felt strongly about it, and pushed it out to the head of marketing for the NBA, then gave her my contact info. She contacted me and we spoke about the song and what else I was doing musically. She asked me if I could do a version of the song for the WNBA and the D League. I had to ask what the D League was. She explained and I said sure I can. She also wanted to have me come play at halftime events at various live games; based on a tour that I was supposed to be doing at that time. It was going to be a huge plus.

While pulling the song out again for doing those two versions, I got a wild notion that I should just do a version for every team in all 3 of the basketball leagues. That’s what I did. I started keeping track of each team, and swapping out vocals for each one.

Once done, I sent them all to her and it was a bit overwhelming for her.

Unfortunately the tour didn’t happen, and thus the live halftimes didn’t materialize. But I had the ability to use the songs as I owned it. So I started releasing the versions for each league. They did well on their own without me pushing them.

Years later, I’m still occasionally updating the song for new teams that arise over time. Much like this one for the Lehi Pioneers. The question might be, why would you do a version for a High School team? The answer is, for my girlfriend who is the assistant principal at Lehi High. You know, the place, kinda made famous by the original Footloose movie starring Kevin Bacon. Oddly, I’ve been to more of their games than I attended in my own high school.

Factoids:

Copyright: 20070201

ISRC: USONR1900003
ISRC: USONR1900031

ISWC: T9281493752

SESAC Song ID: 59496127

Harry Fox ID: DA1FGW
Harry Fox Publisher ID: P8938Q

UPC: 193829730972
UPC: 193829729457

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Do You Want To Play Raptors 905

[hook]
The 905 are here today
Doing it for their fans and what they want to say
Is Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

[verse]
We’re gonna stand up (stand up)
Not sit down (sit down)
Ain’t tired of all this running around
We’re gonna jump up (jump up)
And block shots (block shots)
Ain’t no baskets to be giving away

[hook]
The 905 are here today
Doing it for their fans and what they want to say
Is Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

[verse]
There’s a foul line (foul line)
And overtime (overtime)
Ain’t backin down from either side
There’s warrior cries (warrior cries)
And aggressive eyes (aggressive eyes)
Ain’t lettin fear get in our minds

[hook]
The 905 are here today
Doing it for their fans and what they want to say
Is Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

[verse]
We got a special class (special class)
And Fancy Flash (fancy flash)
Staking our claim while we’re talking some trash
We got some new blood (new blood)
And great one (great ones)
Pushing the edge to get that championship

[hook]
The 905 are here today
Doing it for their fans and what they want to say
Is Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

[outro]
Do You (Do You)
Do You (Do You)
Do You (Do You)
Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

Song Length: 3:14

Writer: Jody Whitesides IPI/CAE 00196306650
Publisher: Too Much Music IPI/CAE 00456952518
Admin Publisher (Outside U.S.): Bluewater Music

Jody Whitesides: Lead Vocals, Backing Vocals, Guitars, Bass, Drum Programming, Claps, Synths
Chris Hellstrom: Additional Synths

Recording Info:
Cover Art: Jody Whitesides
Recording Engineer: Jody Whitesides
Mixing Engineer: Jody Whitesides
Mastering Engineer 2025: Jody Whitesides
Mastering Engineer 2007: George Leger III
Vocal Engineer: Jody Whitesides
Additional Production: Chris Hellstrom
Producer: Jody Whitesides Guitar(s): Left side guitar: Desert Guitar: my first guitar which was a Fender “Japocaster” as it used to be referred as, the only original thing is the body. Everything else has been replaced or modified. Think of the Van Halen Frankenstein guitar only this one has a Desert landscape for a paint job. A single Seymour Duncan Custom Custom hum-bucker pickup. Standard bridge. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steels medium gauge.

Right side guitar: Joe’s Guitar with Jesus paint job: This guitar has a Seymour Duncan Custom Custom pickup and a Cool Rails in the neck position. It has a Wilkinson Tremelo installed by Trev Wilkinson himself. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steel medium gauge strings. I used the bridge pickup for this sound.

Vibrato lick guitar: Joe’s Guitar Whitesides Viper 7 Redwood: This is a custom 7-string guitar that Justin built for me to specifications for the neck. The body is two different woods, the back of the body is alder with a redwood top. The neck is maple with a bubinga fingerboard, jumbo frets. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steels. The bridge pickup is a custom built Seymour Duncan Custom Custom, made specifically for me prior to 7-string guitar pickups becoming an actual line. Thus it’s pieced together by Seymour’s custom pickup department. The neck is a stacked humbucker, also created by Seymour Duncan’s custom pickup department. This was voiced to be more like a custom.

Extra guitar chorus: Joe’s Guitar with Jesus paint job: This guitar has a Seymour Duncan Custom Custom pickup and a Cool Rails. It also has a Wilkinson Tremelo installed by Trev Wilkinson himself. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steel medium gauge strings. This part is using the Cool Rails pickup in the neck position.

The Amp Setup:
GrooveTubes Solo 150 head
GrooveTubes Dual 75 Poweramp that has been modified to be true stereo
GrooveTubes 2 x 10″ cabs
I had KT88’s on one side of the Dual 75 and EL34’s on the other side

The cab was mic’d with an SM57 Beta on the grill center of the cone

Bass(s): Hohner B Bass V. Strings were Dean Markley Blue Steels. This was run thru a Line 6 Bass Pod Pro. Two outputs, one that was direct out and one that was an amp sim from the Line 6 Bass Pod Pro to give it some grit.

Additional Bass sounds were done with the ESM from Logic Pro

Drums: Drums are sequenced from samples out of Stylus RMX by SpectraSonics.
Kicks are from the Kicks Boomy and Kicks Punchy menus.
Snares are from the Snares Vinyl menu.

Vocal: Lead vocals in this were recorded using a Telefunken C12.

Background vocals were recorded using a Neumann 87a.

Synths: The synth parts were created using Logic Pro’s ES2.

Misc Instruments: Handclaps are created from me doing about 40 different takes of handclaps from various different positions around the studio to create more depth.

Song Story:
There’s a bit of history behind this song and it’s long…

In the late 90’s there was a group of investors that were starting up a football league for women. Someone reached out to me and asked if I would write a song that would be a theme for the league. I was given a set of values and ideas that I had to hit on in order for it to be uplifting for the female football league.

Within a couple of days I had whipped up the song. Musically I had envisioned a stadium anthem. Which meant keeping the drums simple, making it easy for people to clap and or stomp along with the song as it could be played over the loud system. For the chorus, I came up with that pretty quick. I wanted it to be easy to sing for anyone, including those who claim to be tone-deaf.

The guitar parts were kept quite simple for the same reason. I wanted any guitar player to be able to pick up a guitar and be able to play it within a matter of minutes. Plus I layered several simple parts to give it a bit more change to it. The hardest part to play likely the lead lick with the vibrato. But even then, it’s not difficult to play.

The verse lyrics took a bit more time. Working on incorporating those values and ideas I had to spend a little time working it so that they would rhyme and work in more of a storyline aspect. It wasn’t overly troublesome, but I did make sure there was progression.

Once it was all put together I sent it along to the contact. The league worked on getting underway, but never got to a point where the song was used for the theme. They never ended up doing a theme and we never signed a deal for it.

Fast forward a few years and I’m going to an LA Kings hockey game with my good buddy Chris Hellstrom. He wanted to get me into hockey, and the best way is for me to go to a live game. I was having a great time. During the game every so often (who am I kidding, very often), they were playing a semi-musical thing that kept shouting “Go Kings Go!”* I told Chris, dude, I have a song that is substantially better than that.

That night when I got home, I pulled out the WPFL theme I had written. I started looking at the files and then went to bed. The next day I started retooling the verse lyrics. I needed them to work for hockey instead of the football. Which required me to pester Chris with questions about hockey and some of the various terms used to talk about what happens on the ice.

A day later, I had it re-tooled. Updated the vocals. Asked Chris to add some bits to the arrangement, then I made a mix of it. Shortly after that I opted to do a version for each major league team in LA at the time. Which mean tweaking it for Basketball as well. A few more days later and I had versions for each team.

Basketball had a huge following and my decision was to use a basketball related photo that I took at a park to be the cover of the release. Then I put the various versions out under the title Do You Want to Play.

Another year or two later I was linked up with Jerry Davis from Fox Sports. I was going to be doing a lot of music for their sports network. During the course of getting the deal done, Jerry asked me how much music I have and in turn I told him how many production music CDs I had. The deal changed in my favor as they would just license my library instead of me writing stuff and them owning it.

While doing that deal I mentioned the song for all the LA teams. Jerry liked it, but felt Fox couldn’t make use of it. He felt strongly about it, and pushed it out to the head of marketing for the NBA, then gave her my contact info. She contacted me and we spoke about the song and what else I was doing musically. She asked me if I could do a version of the song for the WNBA and the D League. I had to ask what the D League was. She explained and I said sure I can. She also wanted to have me come play at halftime events at various live games; based on a tour that I was supposed to be doing at that time. It was going to be a huge plus.

While pulling the song out again for doing those two versions, I got a wild notion that I should just do a version for every team in all 3 of the basketball leagues. That’s what I did. I started keeping track of each team, and swapping out vocals for each one.

Once done, I sent them all to her and it was a bit overwhelming for her.

Unfortunately the tour didn’t happen, and thus the live halftimes didn’t materialize. But I had the ability to use the songs as I owned it. So I started releasing the versions for each league. They did well on their own without me pushing them.

Years later, I’m still occasionally updating the song for new teams that arise over time. Much like this one for the Lehi Pioneers. The question might be, why would you do a version for a High School team? The answer is, for my girlfriend who is the assistant principal at Lehi High. You know, the place, kinda made famous by the original Footloose movie starring Kevin Bacon. Oddly, I’ve been to more of their games than I attended in my own high school.

Factoids:

Copyright: 20070201

ISRC: USONR1900004
ISRC: USONR1900032

ISWC: T9298558824

SESAC Song ID: 59085346

Harry Fox ID: DA2EVU
Harry Fox Publisher ID: P8938Q

UPC: 193829730972
UPC: 193829729457

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Do You Want To Play Erie Bayhawks

[hook]
The Bayhawks are here today
Doing it for their fans and what they want to say
Is Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

[verse]
We’re gonna stand up (stand up)
Not sit down (sit down)
Ain’t tired of all this running around
We’re gonna jump up (jump up)
And block shots (block shots)
Ain’t no baskets to be giving away

[hook]
The Bayhawks are here today
Doing it for their fans and what they want to say
Is Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

[verse]
There’s a foul line (foul line)
And overtime (overtime)
Ain’t backin down from either side
There’s warrior cries (warrior cries)
And aggressive eyes (aggressive eyes)
Ain’t lettin fear get in our minds

[hook]
The Bayhawks are here today
Doing it for their fans and what they want to say
Is Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

[verse]
We got a special class (special class)
And Fancy Flash (fancy flash)
Staking our claim while we’re talking some trash
We got some new blood (new blood)
And great one (great ones)
Pushing the edge to get that championship

[hook]
The Bayhawks are here today
Doing it for their fans and what they want to say
Is Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

[outro]
Do You (Do You)
Do You (Do You)
Do You (Do You)
Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

Song Length: 3:14

Writer: Jody Whitesides IPI/CAE 00196306650
Publisher: Too Much Music IPI/CAE 00456952518
Admin Publisher (Outside U.S.): Bluewater Music

Jody Whitesides: Lead Vocals, Backing Vocals, Guitars, Bass, Drum Programming, Claps, Synths
Chris Hellstrom: Additional Synths

Recording Info:
Cover Art: Jody Whitesides
Recording Engineer: Jody Whitesides
Mixing Engineer: Jody Whitesides
Mastering Engineer 2025: Jody Whitesides
Mastering Engineer 2007: George Leger III
Vocal Engineer: Jody Whitesides
Additional Production: Chris Hellstrom
Producer: Jody Whitesides Guitar(s): Left side guitar: Desert Guitar: my first guitar which was a Fender “Japocaster” as it used to be referred as, the only original thing is the body. Everything else has been replaced or modified. Think of the Van Halen Frankenstein guitar only this one has a Desert landscape for a paint job. A single Seymour Duncan Custom Custom hum-bucker pickup. Standard bridge. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steels medium gauge.

Right side guitar: Joe’s Guitar with Jesus paint job: This guitar has a Seymour Duncan Custom Custom pickup and a Cool Rails in the neck position. It has a Wilkinson Tremelo installed by Trev Wilkinson himself. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steel medium gauge strings. I used the bridge pickup for this sound.

Vibrato lick guitar: Joe’s Guitar Whitesides Viper 7 Redwood: This is a custom 7-string guitar that Justin built for me to specifications for the neck. The body is two different woods, the back of the body is alder with a redwood top. The neck is maple with a bubinga fingerboard, jumbo frets. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steels. The bridge pickup is a custom built Seymour Duncan Custom Custom, made specifically for me prior to 7-string guitar pickups becoming an actual line. Thus it’s pieced together by Seymour’s custom pickup department. The neck is a stacked humbucker, also created by Seymour Duncan’s custom pickup department. This was voiced to be more like a custom.

Extra guitar chorus: Joe’s Guitar with Jesus paint job: This guitar has a Seymour Duncan Custom Custom pickup and a Cool Rails. It also has a Wilkinson Tremelo installed by Trev Wilkinson himself. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steel medium gauge strings. This part is using the Cool Rails pickup in the neck position.

The Amp Setup:
GrooveTubes Solo 150 head
GrooveTubes Dual 75 Poweramp that has been modified to be true stereo
GrooveTubes 2 x 10″ cabs
I had KT88’s on one side of the Dual 75 and EL34’s on the other side

The cab was mic’d with an SM57 Beta on the grill center of the cone

Bass(s): Hohner B Bass V. Strings were Dean Markley Blue Steels. This was run thru a Line 6 Bass Pod Pro. Two outputs, one that was direct out and one that was an amp sim from the Line 6 Bass Pod Pro to give it some grit.

Additional Bass sounds were done with the ESM from Logic Pro

Drums: Drums are sequenced from samples out of Stylus RMX by SpectraSonics.
Kicks are from the Kicks Boomy and Kicks Punchy menus.
Snares are from the Snares Vinyl menu.

Vocal: Lead vocals in this were recorded using a Telefunken C12.

Background vocals were recorded using a Neumann 87a.

Synths: The synth parts were created using Logic Pro’s ES2.

Misc Instruments: Handclaps are created from me doing about 40 different takes of handclaps from various different positions around the studio to create more depth.

Song Story:
There’s a bit of history behind this song and it’s long…

In the late 90’s there was a group of investors that were starting up a football league for women. Someone reached out to me and asked if I would write a song that would be a theme for the league. I was given a set of values and ideas that I had to hit on in order for it to be uplifting for the female football league.

Within a couple of days I had whipped up the song. Musically I had envisioned a stadium anthem. Which meant keeping the drums simple, making it easy for people to clap and or stomp along with the song as it could be played over the loud system. For the chorus, I came up with that pretty quick. I wanted it to be easy to sing for anyone, including those who claim to be tone-deaf.

The guitar parts were kept quite simple for the same reason. I wanted any guitar player to be able to pick up a guitar and be able to play it within a matter of minutes. Plus I layered several simple parts to give it a bit more change to it. The hardest part to play likely the lead lick with the vibrato. But even then, it’s not difficult to play.

The verse lyrics took a bit more time. Working on incorporating those values and ideas I had to spend a little time working it so that they would rhyme and work in more of a storyline aspect. It wasn’t overly troublesome, but I did make sure there was progression.

Once it was all put together I sent it along to the contact. The league worked on getting underway, but never got to a point where the song was used for the theme. They never ended up doing a theme and we never signed a deal for it.

Fast forward a few years and I’m going to an LA Kings hockey game with my good buddy Chris Hellstrom. He wanted to get me into hockey, and the best way is for me to go to a live game. I was having a great time. During the game every so often (who am I kidding, very often), they were playing a semi-musical thing that kept shouting “Go Kings Go!”* I told Chris, dude, I have a song that is substantially better than that.

That night when I got home, I pulled out the WPFL theme I had written. I started looking at the files and then went to bed. The next day I started retooling the verse lyrics. I needed them to work for hockey instead of the football. Which required me to pester Chris with questions about hockey and some of the various terms used to talk about what happens on the ice.

A day later, I had it re-tooled. Updated the vocals. Asked Chris to add some bits to the arrangement, then I made a mix of it. Shortly after that I opted to do a version for each major league team in LA at the time. Which mean tweaking it for Basketball as well. A few more days later and I had versions for each team.

Basketball had a huge following and my decision was to use a basketball related photo that I took at a park to be the cover of the release. Then I put the various versions out under the title Do You Want to Play.

Another year or two later I was linked up with Jerry Davis from Fox Sports. I was going to be doing a lot of music for their sports network. During the course of getting the deal done, Jerry asked me how much music I have and in turn I told him how many production music CDs I had. The deal changed in my favor as they would just license my library instead of me writing stuff and them owning it.

While doing that deal I mentioned the song for all the LA teams. Jerry liked it, but felt Fox couldn’t make use of it. He felt strongly about it, and pushed it out to the head of marketing for the NBA, then gave her my contact info. She contacted me and we spoke about the song and what else I was doing musically. She asked me if I could do a version of the song for the WNBA and the D League. I had to ask what the D League was. She explained and I said sure I can. She also wanted to have me come play at halftime events at various live games; based on a tour that I was supposed to be doing at that time. It was going to be a huge plus.

While pulling the song out again for doing those two versions, I got a wild notion that I should just do a version for every team in all 3 of the basketball leagues. That’s what I did. I started keeping track of each team, and swapping out vocals for each one.

Once done, I sent them all to her and it was a bit overwhelming for her.

Unfortunately the tour didn’t happen, and thus the live halftimes didn’t materialize. But I had the ability to use the songs as I owned it. So I started releasing the versions for each league. They did well on their own without me pushing them.

Years later, I’m still occasionally updating the song for new teams that arise over time. Much like this one for the Lehi Pioneers. The question might be, why would you do a version for a High School team? The answer is, for my girlfriend who is the assistant principal at Lehi High. You know, the place, kinda made famous by the original Footloose movie starring Kevin Bacon. Oddly, I’ve been to more of their games than I attended in my own high school.

Factoids:

Copyright: 20070201

ISRC: USONR1900005
ISRC: USONR1900033

ISWC: T9055766148

SESAC Song ID: 51778354

Harry Fox ID: D91196
Harry Fox Publisher ID: P8938Q

UPC: 193829730972
UPC: 193829729457

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Do You Want To Play Oklahoma City Blue

[hook]
The Blue are here today
Doing it for their fans and what they want to say
Is Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

[verse]
We’re gonna stand up (stand up)
Not sit down (sit down)
Ain’t tired of all this running around
We’re gonna jump up (jump up)
And block shots (block shots)
Ain’t no baskets to be giving away

[hook]
The Blue are here today
Doing it for their fans and what they want to say
Is Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

[verse]
There’s a foul line (foul line)
And overtime (overtime)
Ain’t backin down from either side
There’s warrior cries (warrior cries)
And aggressive eyes (aggressive eyes)
Ain’t lettin fear get in our minds

[hook]
The Blue are here today
Doing it for their fans and what they want to say
Is Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

[verse]
We got a special class (special class)
And Fancy Flash (fancy flash)
Staking our claim while we’re talking some trash
We got some new blood (new blood)
And great one (great ones)
Pushing the edge to get that championship

[hook]
The Blue are here today
Doing it for their fans and what they want to say
Is Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

[outro]
Do You (Do You)
Do You (Do You)
Do You (Do You)
Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

Song Length: 3:14

Writer: Jody Whitesides IPI/CAE 00196306650
Publisher: Too Much Music IPI/CAE 00456952518
Admin Publisher (Outside U.S.): Bluewater Music

Jody Whitesides: Lead Vocals, Backing Vocals, Guitars, Bass, Drum Programming, Claps, Synths
Chris Hellstrom: Additional Synths

Recording Info:
Cover Art: Jody Whitesides
Recording Engineer: Jody Whitesides
Mixing Engineer: Jody Whitesides
Mastering Engineer 2025: Jody Whitesides
Mastering Engineer 2007: George Leger III
Vocal Engineer: Jody Whitesides
Additional Production: Chris Hellstrom
Producer: Jody Whitesides Guitar(s): Left side guitar: Desert Guitar: my first guitar which was a Fender “Japocaster” as it used to be referred as, the only original thing is the body. Everything else has been replaced or modified. Think of the Van Halen Frankenstein guitar only this one has a Desert landscape for a paint job. A single Seymour Duncan Custom Custom hum-bucker pickup. Standard bridge. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steels medium gauge.

Right side guitar: Joe’s Guitar with Jesus paint job: This guitar has a Seymour Duncan Custom Custom pickup and a Cool Rails in the neck position. It has a Wilkinson Tremelo installed by Trev Wilkinson himself. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steel medium gauge strings. I used the bridge pickup for this sound.

Vibrato lick guitar: Joe’s Guitar Whitesides Viper 7 Redwood: This is a custom 7-string guitar that Justin built for me to specifications for the neck. The body is two different woods, the back of the body is alder with a redwood top. The neck is maple with a bubinga fingerboard, jumbo frets. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steels. The bridge pickup is a custom built Seymour Duncan Custom Custom, made specifically for me prior to 7-string guitar pickups becoming an actual line. Thus it’s pieced together by Seymour’s custom pickup department. The neck is a stacked humbucker, also created by Seymour Duncan’s custom pickup department. This was voiced to be more like a custom.

Extra guitar chorus: Joe’s Guitar with Jesus paint job: This guitar has a Seymour Duncan Custom Custom pickup and a Cool Rails. It also has a Wilkinson Tremelo installed by Trev Wilkinson himself. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steel medium gauge strings. This part is using the Cool Rails pickup in the neck position.

The Amp Setup:
GrooveTubes Solo 150 head
GrooveTubes Dual 75 Poweramp that has been modified to be true stereo
GrooveTubes 2 x 10″ cabs
I had KT88’s on one side of the Dual 75 and EL34’s on the other side

The cab was mic’d with an SM57 Beta on the grill center of the cone

Bass(s): Hohner B Bass V. Strings were Dean Markley Blue Steels. This was run thru a Line 6 Bass Pod Pro. Two outputs, one that was direct out and one that was an amp sim from the Line 6 Bass Pod Pro to give it some grit.

Additional Bass sounds were done with the ESM from Logic Pro

Drums: Drums are sequenced from samples out of Stylus RMX by SpectraSonics.
Kicks are from the Kicks Boomy and Kicks Punchy menus.
Snares are from the Snares Vinyl menu.

Vocal: Lead vocals in this were recorded using a Telefunken C12.

Background vocals were recorded using a Neumann 87a.

Synths: The synth parts were created using Logic Pro’s ES2.

Misc Instruments: Handclaps are created from me doing about 40 different takes of handclaps from various different positions around the studio to create more depth.

Song Story:
There’s a bit of history behind this song and it’s long…

In the late 90’s there was a group of investors that were starting up a football league for women. Someone reached out to me and asked if I would write a song that would be a theme for the league. I was given a set of values and ideas that I had to hit on in order for it to be uplifting for the female football league.

Within a couple of days I had whipped up the song. Musically I had envisioned a stadium anthem. Which meant keeping the drums simple, making it easy for people to clap and or stomp along with the song as it could be played over the loud system. For the chorus, I came up with that pretty quick. I wanted it to be easy to sing for anyone, including those who claim to be tone-deaf.

The guitar parts were kept quite simple for the same reason. I wanted any guitar player to be able to pick up a guitar and be able to play it within a matter of minutes. Plus I layered several simple parts to give it a bit more change to it. The hardest part to play likely the lead lick with the vibrato. But even then, it’s not difficult to play.

The verse lyrics took a bit more time. Working on incorporating those values and ideas I had to spend a little time working it so that they would rhyme and work in more of a storyline aspect. It wasn’t overly troublesome, but I did make sure there was progression.

Once it was all put together I sent it along to the contact. The league worked on getting underway, but never got to a point where the song was used for the theme. They never ended up doing a theme and we never signed a deal for it.

Fast forward a few years and I’m going to an LA Kings hockey game with my good buddy Chris Hellstrom. He wanted to get me into hockey, and the best way is for me to go to a live game. I was having a great time. During the game every so often (who am I kidding, very often), they were playing a semi-musical thing that kept shouting “Go Kings Go!”* I told Chris, dude, I have a song that is substantially better than that.

That night when I got home, I pulled out the WPFL theme I had written. I started looking at the files and then went to bed. The next day I started retooling the verse lyrics. I needed them to work for hockey instead of the football. Which required me to pester Chris with questions about hockey and some of the various terms used to talk about what happens on the ice.

A day later, I had it re-tooled. Updated the vocals. Asked Chris to add some bits to the arrangement, then I made a mix of it. Shortly after that I opted to do a version for each major league team in LA at the time. Which mean tweaking it for Basketball as well. A few more days later and I had versions for each team.

Basketball had a huge following and my decision was to use a basketball related photo that I took at a park to be the cover of the release. Then I put the various versions out under the title Do You Want to Play.

Another year or two later I was linked up with Jerry Davis from Fox Sports. I was going to be doing a lot of music for their sports network. During the course of getting the deal done, Jerry asked me how much music I have and in turn I told him how many production music CDs I had. The deal changed in my favor as they would just license my library instead of me writing stuff and them owning it.

While doing that deal I mentioned the song for all the LA teams. Jerry liked it, but felt Fox couldn’t make use of it. He felt strongly about it, and pushed it out to the head of marketing for the NBA, then gave her my contact info. She contacted me and we spoke about the song and what else I was doing musically. She asked me if I could do a version of the song for the WNBA and the D League. I had to ask what the D League was. She explained and I said sure I can. She also wanted to have me come play at halftime events at various live games; based on a tour that I was supposed to be doing at that time. It was going to be a huge plus.

While pulling the song out again for doing those two versions, I got a wild notion that I should just do a version for every team in all 3 of the basketball leagues. That’s what I did. I started keeping track of each team, and swapping out vocals for each one.

Once done, I sent them all to her and it was a bit overwhelming for her.

Unfortunately the tour didn’t happen, and thus the live halftimes didn’t materialize. But I had the ability to use the songs as I owned it. So I started releasing the versions for each league. They did well on their own without me pushing them.

Years later, I’m still occasionally updating the song for new teams that arise over time. Much like this one for the Lehi Pioneers. The question might be, why would you do a version for a High School team? The answer is, for my girlfriend who is the assistant principal at Lehi High. You know, the place, kinda made famous by the original Footloose movie starring Kevin Bacon. Oddly, I’ve been to more of their games than I attended in my own high school.

Factoids:

Copyright: 20070201

ISRC: USONR1900006
ISRC: USONR1900034

ISWC: T9298558813

SESAC Song ID: 59085349

Harry Fox ID: DA2EVQ
Harry Fox Publisher ID: P8938Q

UPC: 193829730972
UPC: 193829729457

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Do You Want To Play Delaware Blue Coats

[hook]
The Blue Coats are here today
Doing it for their fans and what they want to say
Is Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

[verse]
We’re gonna stand up (stand up)
Not sit down (sit down)
Ain’t tired of all this running around
We’re gonna jump up (jump up)
And block shots (block shots)
Ain’t no baskets to be giving away

[hook]
The Blue Coats are here today
Doing it for their fans and what they want to say
Is Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

[verse]
There’s a foul line (foul line)
And overtime (overtime)
Ain’t backin down from either side
There’s warrior cries (warrior cries)
And aggressive eyes (aggressive eyes)
Ain’t lettin fear get in our minds

[hook]
The Blue Coats are here today
Doing it for their fans and what they want to say
Is Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

[verse]
We got a special class (special class)
And Fancy Flash (fancy flash)
Staking our claim while we’re talking some trash
We got some new blood (new blood)
And great one (great ones)
Pushing the edge to get that championship

[hook]
The Blue Coats are here today
Doing it for their fans and what they want to say
Is Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

[outro]
Do You (Do You)
Do You (Do You)
Do You (Do You)
Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

Song Length: 3:14

Writer: Jody Whitesides IPI/CAE 00196306650
Publisher: Too Much Music IPI/CAE 00456952518
Admin Publisher (Outside U.S.): Bluewater Music

Jody Whitesides: Lead Vocals, Backing Vocals, Guitars, Bass, Drum Programming, Claps, Synths
Chris Hellstrom: Additional Synths

Recording Info:
Cover Art: Jody Whitesides
Recording Engineer: Jody Whitesides
Mixing Engineer: Jody Whitesides
Mastering Engineer 2025: Jody Whitesides
Mastering Engineer 2007: George Leger III
Vocal Engineer: Jody Whitesides
Additional Production: Chris Hellstrom
Producer: Jody Whitesides Guitar(s): Left side guitar: Desert Guitar: my first guitar which was a Fender “Japocaster” as it used to be referred as, the only original thing is the body. Everything else has been replaced or modified. Think of the Van Halen Frankenstein guitar only this one has a Desert landscape for a paint job. A single Seymour Duncan Custom Custom hum-bucker pickup. Standard bridge. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steels medium gauge.

Right side guitar: Joe’s Guitar with Jesus paint job: This guitar has a Seymour Duncan Custom Custom pickup and a Cool Rails in the neck position. It has a Wilkinson Tremelo installed by Trev Wilkinson himself. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steel medium gauge strings. I used the bridge pickup for this sound.

Vibrato lick guitar: Joe’s Guitar Whitesides Viper 7 Redwood: This is a custom 7-string guitar that Justin built for me to specifications for the neck. The body is two different woods, the back of the body is alder with a redwood top. The neck is maple with a bubinga fingerboard, jumbo frets. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steels. The bridge pickup is a custom built Seymour Duncan Custom Custom, made specifically for me prior to 7-string guitar pickups becoming an actual line. Thus it’s pieced together by Seymour’s custom pickup department. The neck is a stacked humbucker, also created by Seymour Duncan’s custom pickup department. This was voiced to be more like a custom.

Extra guitar chorus: Joe’s Guitar with Jesus paint job: This guitar has a Seymour Duncan Custom Custom pickup and a Cool Rails. It also has a Wilkinson Tremelo installed by Trev Wilkinson himself. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steel medium gauge strings. This part is using the Cool Rails pickup in the neck position.

The Amp Setup:
GrooveTubes Solo 150 head
GrooveTubes Dual 75 Poweramp that has been modified to be true stereo
GrooveTubes 2 x 10″ cabs
I had KT88’s on one side of the Dual 75 and EL34’s on the other side

The cab was mic’d with an SM57 Beta on the grill center of the cone

Bass(s): Hohner B Bass V. Strings were Dean Markley Blue Steels. This was run thru a Line 6 Bass Pod Pro. Two outputs, one that was direct out and one that was an amp sim from the Line 6 Bass Pod Pro to give it some grit.

Additional Bass sounds were done with the ESM from Logic Pro

Drums: Drums are sequenced from samples out of Stylus RMX by SpectraSonics.
Kicks are from the Kicks Boomy and Kicks Punchy menus.
Snares are from the Snares Vinyl menu.

Vocal: Lead vocals in this were recorded using a Telefunken C12.

Background vocals were recorded using a Neumann 87a.

Synths: The synth parts were created using Logic Pro’s ES2.

Misc Instruments: Handclaps are created from me doing about 40 different takes of handclaps from various different positions around the studio to create more depth.

Song Story:
There’s a bit of history behind this song and it’s long…

In the late 90’s there was a group of investors that were starting up a football league for women. Someone reached out to me and asked if I would write a song that would be a theme for the league. I was given a set of values and ideas that I had to hit on in order for it to be uplifting for the female football league.

Within a couple of days I had whipped up the song. Musically I had envisioned a stadium anthem. Which meant keeping the drums simple, making it easy for people to clap and or stomp along with the song as it could be played over the loud system. For the chorus, I came up with that pretty quick. I wanted it to be easy to sing for anyone, including those who claim to be tone-deaf.

The guitar parts were kept quite simple for the same reason. I wanted any guitar player to be able to pick up a guitar and be able to play it within a matter of minutes. Plus I layered several simple parts to give it a bit more change to it. The hardest part to play likely the lead lick with the vibrato. But even then, it’s not difficult to play.

The verse lyrics took a bit more time. Working on incorporating those values and ideas I had to spend a little time working it so that they would rhyme and work in more of a storyline aspect. It wasn’t overly troublesome, but I did make sure there was progression.

Once it was all put together I sent it along to the contact. The league worked on getting underway, but never got to a point where the song was used for the theme. They never ended up doing a theme and we never signed a deal for it.

Fast forward a few years and I’m going to an LA Kings hockey game with my good buddy Chris Hellstrom. He wanted to get me into hockey, and the best way is for me to go to a live game. I was having a great time. During the game every so often (who am I kidding, very often), they were playing a semi-musical thing that kept shouting “Go Kings Go!”* I told Chris, dude, I have a song that is substantially better than that.

That night when I got home, I pulled out the WPFL theme I had written. I started looking at the files and then went to bed. The next day I started retooling the verse lyrics. I needed them to work for hockey instead of the football. Which required me to pester Chris with questions about hockey and some of the various terms used to talk about what happens on the ice.

A day later, I had it re-tooled. Updated the vocals. Asked Chris to add some bits to the arrangement, then I made a mix of it. Shortly after that I opted to do a version for each major league team in LA at the time. Which mean tweaking it for Basketball as well. A few more days later and I had versions for each team.

Basketball had a huge following and my decision was to use a basketball related photo that I took at a park to be the cover of the release. Then I put the various versions out under the title Do You Want to Play.

Another year or two later I was linked up with Jerry Davis from Fox Sports. I was going to be doing a lot of music for their sports network. During the course of getting the deal done, Jerry asked me how much music I have and in turn I told him how many production music CDs I had. The deal changed in my favor as they would just license my library instead of me writing stuff and them owning it.

While doing that deal I mentioned the song for all the LA teams. Jerry liked it, but felt Fox couldn’t make use of it. He felt strongly about it, and pushed it out to the head of marketing for the NBA, then gave her my contact info. She contacted me and we spoke about the song and what else I was doing musically. She asked me if I could do a version of the song for the WNBA and the D League. I had to ask what the D League was. She explained and I said sure I can. She also wanted to have me come play at halftime events at various live games; based on a tour that I was supposed to be doing at that time. It was going to be a huge plus.

While pulling the song out again for doing those two versions, I got a wild notion that I should just do a version for every team in all 3 of the basketball leagues. That’s what I did. I started keeping track of each team, and swapping out vocals for each one.

Once done, I sent them all to her and it was a bit overwhelming for her.

Unfortunately the tour didn’t happen, and thus the live halftimes didn’t materialize. But I had the ability to use the songs as I owned it. So I started releasing the versions for each league. They did well on their own without me pushing them.

Years later, I’m still occasionally updating the song for new teams that arise over time. Much like this one for the Lehi Pioneers. The question might be, why would you do a version for a High School team? The answer is, for my girlfriend who is the assistant principal at Lehi High. You know, the place, kinda made famous by the original Footloose movie starring Kevin Bacon. Oddly, I’ve been to more of their games than I attended in my own high school.

Factoids:

Copyright: 20070201

ISRC: USONR1900007
ISRC: USONR1900035

ISWC: T9298558722

SESAC Song ID: 59085350

Harry Fox ID: DA2EV1
Harry Fox Publisher ID: P8938Q

UPC: 193829730972
UPC: 193829729457

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Do You Want To Play Windy City Bulls

[hook]
The Bulls are here today
Doing it for their fans and what they want to say
Is Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

[verse]
We’re gonna stand up (stand up)
Not sit down (sit down)
Ain’t tired of all this running around
We’re gonna jump up (jump up)
And block shots (block shots)
Ain’t no baskets to be giving away

[hook]
The Bulls are here today
Doing it for their fans and what they want to say
Is Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

[verse]
There’s a foul line (foul line)
And overtime (overtime)
Ain’t backin down from either side
There’s warrior cries (warrior cries)
And aggressive eyes (aggressive eyes)
Ain’t lettin fear get in our minds

[hook]
The Bulls are here today
Doing it for their fans and what they want to say
Is Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

[verse]
We got a special class (special class)
And Fancy Flash (fancy flash)
Staking our claim while we’re talking some trash
We got some new blood (new blood)
And great one (great ones)
Pushing the edge to get that championship

[hook]
The Bulls are here today
Doing it for their fans and what they want to say
Is Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

[outro]
Do You (Do You)
Do You (Do You)
Do You (Do You)
Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

Song Length: 3:14

Writer: Jody Whitesides IPI/CAE 00196306650
Publisher: Too Much Music IPI/CAE 00456952518
Admin Publisher (Outside U.S.): Bluewater Music

Jody Whitesides: Lead Vocals, Backing Vocals, Guitars, Bass, Drum Programming, Claps, Synths
Chris Hellstrom: Additional Synths

Recording Info:
Cover Art: Jody Whitesides
Recording Engineer: Jody Whitesides
Mixing Engineer: Jody Whitesides
Mastering Engineer 2025: Jody Whitesides
Mastering Engineer 2007: George Leger III
Vocal Engineer: Jody Whitesides
Additional Production: Chris Hellstrom
Producer: Jody Whitesides Guitar(s): Left side guitar: Desert Guitar: my first guitar which was a Fender “Japocaster” as it used to be referred as, the only original thing is the body. Everything else has been replaced or modified. Think of the Van Halen Frankenstein guitar only this one has a Desert landscape for a paint job. A single Seymour Duncan Custom Custom hum-bucker pickup. Standard bridge. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steels medium gauge.

Right side guitar: Joe’s Guitar with Jesus paint job: This guitar has a Seymour Duncan Custom Custom pickup and a Cool Rails in the neck position. It has a Wilkinson Tremelo installed by Trev Wilkinson himself. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steel medium gauge strings. I used the bridge pickup for this sound.

Vibrato lick guitar: Joe’s Guitar Whitesides Viper 7 Redwood: This is a custom 7-string guitar that Justin built for me to specifications for the neck. The body is two different woods, the back of the body is alder with a redwood top. The neck is maple with a bubinga fingerboard, jumbo frets. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steels. The bridge pickup is a custom built Seymour Duncan Custom Custom, made specifically for me prior to 7-string guitar pickups becoming an actual line. Thus it’s pieced together by Seymour’s custom pickup department. The neck is a stacked humbucker, also created by Seymour Duncan’s custom pickup department. This was voiced to be more like a custom.

Extra guitar chorus: Joe’s Guitar with Jesus paint job: This guitar has a Seymour Duncan Custom Custom pickup and a Cool Rails. It also has a Wilkinson Tremelo installed by Trev Wilkinson himself. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steel medium gauge strings. This part is using the Cool Rails pickup in the neck position.

The Amp Setup:
GrooveTubes Solo 150 head
GrooveTubes Dual 75 Poweramp that has been modified to be true stereo
GrooveTubes 2 x 10″ cabs
I had KT88’s on one side of the Dual 75 and EL34’s on the other side

The cab was mic’d with an SM57 Beta on the grill center of the cone

Bass(s): Hohner B Bass V. Strings were Dean Markley Blue Steels. This was run thru a Line 6 Bass Pod Pro. Two outputs, one that was direct out and one that was an amp sim from the Line 6 Bass Pod Pro to give it some grit.

Additional Bass sounds were done with the ESM from Logic Pro

Drums: Drums are sequenced from samples out of Stylus RMX by SpectraSonics.
Kicks are from the Kicks Boomy and Kicks Punchy menus.
Snares are from the Snares Vinyl menu.

Vocal: Lead vocals in this were recorded using a Telefunken C12.

Background vocals were recorded using a Neumann 87a.

Synths: The synth parts were created using Logic Pro’s ES2.

Misc Instruments: Handclaps are created from me doing about 40 different takes of handclaps from various different positions around the studio to create more depth.

Song Story:
There’s a bit of history behind this song and it’s long…

In the late 90’s there was a group of investors that were starting up a football league for women. Someone reached out to me and asked if I would write a song that would be a theme for the league. I was given a set of values and ideas that I had to hit on in order for it to be uplifting for the female football league.

Within a couple of days I had whipped up the song. Musically I had envisioned a stadium anthem. Which meant keeping the drums simple, making it easy for people to clap and or stomp along with the song as it could be played over the loud system. For the chorus, I came up with that pretty quick. I wanted it to be easy to sing for anyone, including those who claim to be tone-deaf.

The guitar parts were kept quite simple for the same reason. I wanted any guitar player to be able to pick up a guitar and be able to play it within a matter of minutes. Plus I layered several simple parts to give it a bit more change to it. The hardest part to play likely the lead lick with the vibrato. But even then, it’s not difficult to play.

The verse lyrics took a bit more time. Working on incorporating those values and ideas I had to spend a little time working it so that they would rhyme and work in more of a storyline aspect. It wasn’t overly troublesome, but I did make sure there was progression.

Once it was all put together I sent it along to the contact. The league worked on getting underway, but never got to a point where the song was used for the theme. They never ended up doing a theme and we never signed a deal for it.

Fast forward a few years and I’m going to an LA Kings hockey game with my good buddy Chris Hellstrom. He wanted to get me into hockey, and the best way is for me to go to a live game. I was having a great time. During the game every so often (who am I kidding, very often), they were playing a semi-musical thing that kept shouting “Go Kings Go!”* I told Chris, dude, I have a song that is substantially better than that.

That night when I got home, I pulled out the WPFL theme I had written. I started looking at the files and then went to bed. The next day I started retooling the verse lyrics. I needed them to work for hockey instead of the football. Which required me to pester Chris with questions about hockey and some of the various terms used to talk about what happens on the ice.

A day later, I had it re-tooled. Updated the vocals. Asked Chris to add some bits to the arrangement, then I made a mix of it. Shortly after that I opted to do a version for each major league team in LA at the time. Which mean tweaking it for Basketball as well. A few more days later and I had versions for each team.

Basketball had a huge following and my decision was to use a basketball related photo that I took at a park to be the cover of the release. Then I put the various versions out under the title Do You Want to Play.

Another year or two later I was linked up with Jerry Davis from Fox Sports. I was going to be doing a lot of music for their sports network. During the course of getting the deal done, Jerry asked me how much music I have and in turn I told him how many production music CDs I had. The deal changed in my favor as they would just license my library instead of me writing stuff and them owning it.

While doing that deal I mentioned the song for all the LA teams. Jerry liked it, but felt Fox couldn’t make use of it. He felt strongly about it, and pushed it out to the head of marketing for the NBA, then gave her my contact info. She contacted me and we spoke about the song and what else I was doing musically. She asked me if I could do a version of the song for the WNBA and the D League. I had to ask what the D League was. She explained and I said sure I can. She also wanted to have me come play at halftime events at various live games; based on a tour that I was supposed to be doing at that time. It was going to be a huge plus.

While pulling the song out again for doing those two versions, I got a wild notion that I should just do a version for every team in all 3 of the basketball leagues. That’s what I did. I started keeping track of each team, and swapping out vocals for each one.

Once done, I sent them all to her and it was a bit overwhelming for her.

Unfortunately the tour didn’t happen, and thus the live halftimes didn’t materialize. But I had the ability to use the songs as I owned it. So I started releasing the versions for each league. They did well on their own without me pushing them.

Years later, I’m still occasionally updating the song for new teams that arise over time. Much like this one for the Lehi Pioneers. The question might be, why would you do a version for a High School team? The answer is, for my girlfriend who is the assistant principal at Lehi High. You know, the place, kinda made famous by the original Footloose movie starring Kevin Bacon. Oddly, I’ve been to more of their games than I attended in my own high school.

Factoids:

Copyright: 20070201

ISRC: USONR1900008
ISRC: USONR1900036

ISWC: T9298558891

SESAC Song ID: 59085351

Harry Fox ID: DA2EVJ
Harry Fox Publisher ID: P8938Q

UPC: 193829730972
UPC: 193829729457

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Do You Want To Play Canton Charge

[hook]
The Charge are here today
Doing it for their fans and what they want to say
Is Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

[verse]
We’re gonna stand up (stand up)
Not sit down (sit down)
Ain’t tired of all this running around
We’re gonna jump up (jump up)
And block shots (block shots)
Ain’t no baskets to be giving away

[hook]
The Charge are here today
Doing it for their fans and what they want to say
Is Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

[verse]
There’s a foul line (foul line)
And overtime (overtime)
Ain’t backin down from either side
There’s warrior cries (warrior cries)
And aggressive eyes (aggressive eyes)
Ain’t lettin fear get in our minds

[hook]
The Charge are here today
Doing it for their fans and what they want to say
Is Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

[verse]
We got a special class (special class)
And Fancy Flash (fancy flash)
Staking our claim while we’re talking some trash
We got some new blood (new blood)
And great one (great ones)
Pushing the edge to get that championship

[hook]
The Charge are here today
Doing it for their fans and what they want to say
Is Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

[outro]
Do You (Do You)
Do You (Do You)
Do You (Do You)
Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

Song Length: 3:14

Writer: Jody Whitesides IPI/CAE 00196306650
Publisher: Too Much Music IPI/CAE 00456952518
Admin Publisher (Outside U.S.): Bluewater Music

Jody Whitesides: Lead Vocals, Backing Vocals, Guitars, Bass, Drum Programming, Claps, Synths
Chris Hellstrom: Additional Synths

Recording Info:
Cover Art: Jody Whitesides
Recording Engineer: Jody Whitesides
Mixing Engineer: Jody Whitesides
Mastering Engineer 2025: Jody Whitesides
Mastering Engineer 2007: George Leger III
Vocal Engineer: Jody Whitesides
Additional Production: Chris Hellstrom
Producer: Jody Whitesides Guitar(s): Left side guitar: Desert Guitar: my first guitar which was a Fender “Japocaster” as it used to be referred as, the only original thing is the body. Everything else has been replaced or modified. Think of the Van Halen Frankenstein guitar only this one has a Desert landscape for a paint job. A single Seymour Duncan Custom Custom hum-bucker pickup. Standard bridge. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steels medium gauge.

Right side guitar: Joe’s Guitar with Jesus paint job: This guitar has a Seymour Duncan Custom Custom pickup and a Cool Rails in the neck position. It has a Wilkinson Tremelo installed by Trev Wilkinson himself. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steel medium gauge strings. I used the bridge pickup for this sound.

Vibrato lick guitar: Joe’s Guitar Whitesides Viper 7 Redwood: This is a custom 7-string guitar that Justin built for me to specifications for the neck. The body is two different woods, the back of the body is alder with a redwood top. The neck is maple with a bubinga fingerboard, jumbo frets. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steels. The bridge pickup is a custom built Seymour Duncan Custom Custom, made specifically for me prior to 7-string guitar pickups becoming an actual line. Thus it’s pieced together by Seymour’s custom pickup department. The neck is a stacked humbucker, also created by Seymour Duncan’s custom pickup department. This was voiced to be more like a custom.

Extra guitar chorus: Joe’s Guitar with Jesus paint job: This guitar has a Seymour Duncan Custom Custom pickup and a Cool Rails. It also has a Wilkinson Tremelo installed by Trev Wilkinson himself. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steel medium gauge strings. This part is using the Cool Rails pickup in the neck position.

The Amp Setup:
GrooveTubes Solo 150 head
GrooveTubes Dual 75 Poweramp that has been modified to be true stereo
GrooveTubes 2 x 10″ cabs
I had KT88’s on one side of the Dual 75 and EL34’s on the other side

The cab was mic’d with an SM57 Beta on the grill center of the cone

Bass(s): Hohner B Bass V. Strings were Dean Markley Blue Steels. This was run thru a Line 6 Bass Pod Pro. Two outputs, one that was direct out and one that was an amp sim from the Line 6 Bass Pod Pro to give it some grit.

Additional Bass sounds were done with the ESM from Logic Pro

Drums: Drums are sequenced from samples out of Stylus RMX by SpectraSonics.
Kicks are from the Kicks Boomy and Kicks Punchy menus.
Snares are from the Snares Vinyl menu.

Vocal: Lead vocals in this were recorded using a Telefunken C12.

Background vocals were recorded using a Neumann 87a.

Synths: The synth parts were created using Logic Pro’s ES2.

Misc Instruments: Handclaps are created from me doing about 40 different takes of handclaps from various different positions around the studio to create more depth.

Song Story:
There’s a bit of history behind this song and it’s long…

In the late 90’s there was a group of investors that were starting up a football league for women. Someone reached out to me and asked if I would write a song that would be a theme for the league. I was given a set of values and ideas that I had to hit on in order for it to be uplifting for the female football league.

Within a couple of days I had whipped up the song. Musically I had envisioned a stadium anthem. Which meant keeping the drums simple, making it easy for people to clap and or stomp along with the song as it could be played over the loud system. For the chorus, I came up with that pretty quick. I wanted it to be easy to sing for anyone, including those who claim to be tone-deaf.

The guitar parts were kept quite simple for the same reason. I wanted any guitar player to be able to pick up a guitar and be able to play it within a matter of minutes. Plus I layered several simple parts to give it a bit more change to it. The hardest part to play likely the lead lick with the vibrato. But even then, it’s not difficult to play.

The verse lyrics took a bit more time. Working on incorporating those values and ideas I had to spend a little time working it so that they would rhyme and work in more of a storyline aspect. It wasn’t overly troublesome, but I did make sure there was progression.

Once it was all put together I sent it along to the contact. The league worked on getting underway, but never got to a point where the song was used for the theme. They never ended up doing a theme and we never signed a deal for it.

Fast forward a few years and I’m going to an LA Kings hockey game with my good buddy Chris Hellstrom. He wanted to get me into hockey, and the best way is for me to go to a live game. I was having a great time. During the game every so often (who am I kidding, very often), they were playing a semi-musical thing that kept shouting “Go Kings Go!”* I told Chris, dude, I have a song that is substantially better than that.

That night when I got home, I pulled out the WPFL theme I had written. I started looking at the files and then went to bed. The next day I started retooling the verse lyrics. I needed them to work for hockey instead of the football. Which required me to pester Chris with questions about hockey and some of the various terms used to talk about what happens on the ice.

A day later, I had it re-tooled. Updated the vocals. Asked Chris to add some bits to the arrangement, then I made a mix of it. Shortly after that I opted to do a version for each major league team in LA at the time. Which mean tweaking it for Basketball as well. A few more days later and I had versions for each team.

Basketball had a huge following and my decision was to use a basketball related photo that I took at a park to be the cover of the release. Then I put the various versions out under the title Do You Want to Play.

Another year or two later I was linked up with Jerry Davis from Fox Sports. I was going to be doing a lot of music for their sports network. During the course of getting the deal done, Jerry asked me how much music I have and in turn I told him how many production music CDs I had. The deal changed in my favor as they would just license my library instead of me writing stuff and them owning it.

While doing that deal I mentioned the song for all the LA teams. Jerry liked it, but felt Fox couldn’t make use of it. He felt strongly about it, and pushed it out to the head of marketing for the NBA, then gave her my contact info. She contacted me and we spoke about the song and what else I was doing musically. She asked me if I could do a version of the song for the WNBA and the D League. I had to ask what the D League was. She explained and I said sure I can. She also wanted to have me come play at halftime events at various live games; based on a tour that I was supposed to be doing at that time. It was going to be a huge plus.

While pulling the song out again for doing those two versions, I got a wild notion that I should just do a version for every team in all 3 of the basketball leagues. That’s what I did. I started keeping track of each team, and swapping out vocals for each one.

Once done, I sent them all to her and it was a bit overwhelming for her.

Unfortunately the tour didn’t happen, and thus the live halftimes didn’t materialize. But I had the ability to use the songs as I owned it. So I started releasing the versions for each league. They did well on their own without me pushing them.

Years later, I’m still occasionally updating the song for new teams that arise over time. Much like this one for the Lehi Pioneers. The question might be, why would you do a version for a High School team? The answer is, for my girlfriend who is the assistant principal at Lehi High. You know, the place, kinda made famous by the original Footloose movie starring Kevin Bacon. Oddly, I’ve been to more of their games than I attended in my own high school.

Factoids:

Copyright: 20070201

ISRC: USONR1900009
ISRC: USONR1900037

ISWC: T9298558700

SESAC Song ID: 59085352

Harry Fox ID: DA2EVG
Harry Fox Publisher ID: P8938Q

UPC: 193829730972
UPC: 193829729457

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Do You Want To Play Agua Caliente Clippers

[hook]
The Clippers are here today
Doing it for their fans and what they want to say
Is Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

[verse]
We’re gonna stand up (stand up)
Not sit down (sit down)
Ain’t tired of all this running around
We’re gonna jump up (jump up)
And block shots (block shots)
Ain’t no baskets to be giving away

[hook]
The Clippers are here today
Doing it for their fans and what they want to say
Is Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

[verse]
There’s a foul line (foul line)
And overtime (overtime)
Ain’t backin down from either side
There’s warrior cries (warrior cries)
And aggressive eyes (aggressive eyes)
Ain’t lettin fear get in our minds

[hook]
The Clippers are here today
Doing it for their fans and what they want to say
Is Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

[verse]
We got a special class (special class)
And Fancy Flash (fancy flash)
Staking our claim while we’re talking some trash
We got some new blood (new blood)
And great one (great ones)
Pushing the edge to get that championship

[hook]
The Clippers are here today
Doing it for their fans and what they want to say
Is Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

[outro]
Do You (Do You)
Do You (Do You)
Do You (Do You)
Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

Song Length: 3:14

Writer: Jody Whitesides IPI/CAE 00196306650
Publisher: Too Much Music IPI/CAE 00456952518
Admin Publisher (Outside U.S.): Bluewater Music

Jody Whitesides: Lead Vocals, Backing Vocals, Guitars, Bass, Drum Programming, Claps, Synths
Chris Hellstrom: Additional Synths

Recording Info:
Cover Art: Jody Whitesides
Recording Engineer: Jody Whitesides
Mixing Engineer: Jody Whitesides
Mastering Engineer 2025: Jody Whitesides
Mastering Engineer 2007: George Leger III
Vocal Engineer: Jody Whitesides
Additional Production: Chris Hellstrom
Producer: Jody Whitesides Guitar(s): Left side guitar: Desert Guitar: my first guitar which was a Fender “Japocaster” as it used to be referred as, the only original thing is the body. Everything else has been replaced or modified. Think of the Van Halen Frankenstein guitar only this one has a Desert landscape for a paint job. A single Seymour Duncan Custom Custom hum-bucker pickup. Standard bridge. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steels medium gauge.

Right side guitar: Joe’s Guitar with Jesus paint job: This guitar has a Seymour Duncan Custom Custom pickup and a Cool Rails in the neck position. It has a Wilkinson Tremelo installed by Trev Wilkinson himself. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steel medium gauge strings. I used the bridge pickup for this sound.

Vibrato lick guitar: Joe’s Guitar Whitesides Viper 7 Redwood: This is a custom 7-string guitar that Justin built for me to specifications for the neck. The body is two different woods, the back of the body is alder with a redwood top. The neck is maple with a bubinga fingerboard, jumbo frets. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steels. The bridge pickup is a custom built Seymour Duncan Custom Custom, made specifically for me prior to 7-string guitar pickups becoming an actual line. Thus it’s pieced together by Seymour’s custom pickup department. The neck is a stacked humbucker, also created by Seymour Duncan’s custom pickup department. This was voiced to be more like a custom.

Extra guitar chorus: Joe’s Guitar with Jesus paint job: This guitar has a Seymour Duncan Custom Custom pickup and a Cool Rails. It also has a Wilkinson Tremelo installed by Trev Wilkinson himself. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steel medium gauge strings. This part is using the Cool Rails pickup in the neck position.

The Amp Setup:
GrooveTubes Solo 150 head
GrooveTubes Dual 75 Poweramp that has been modified to be true stereo
GrooveTubes 2 x 10″ cabs
I had KT88’s on one side of the Dual 75 and EL34’s on the other side

The cab was mic’d with an SM57 Beta on the grill center of the cone

Bass(s): Hohner B Bass V. Strings were Dean Markley Blue Steels. This was run thru a Line 6 Bass Pod Pro. Two outputs, one that was direct out and one that was an amp sim from the Line 6 Bass Pod Pro to give it some grit.

Additional Bass sounds were done with the ESM from Logic Pro

Drums: Drums are sequenced from samples out of Stylus RMX by SpectraSonics.
Kicks are from the Kicks Boomy and Kicks Punchy menus.
Snares are from the Snares Vinyl menu.

Vocal: Lead vocals in this were recorded using a Telefunken C12.

Background vocals were recorded using a Neumann 87a.

Synths: The synth parts were created using Logic Pro’s ES2.

Misc Instruments: Handclaps are created from me doing about 40 different takes of handclaps from various different positions around the studio to create more depth.

Song Story:
There’s a bit of history behind this song and it’s long…

In the late 90’s there was a group of investors that were starting up a football league for women. Someone reached out to me and asked if I would write a song that would be a theme for the league. I was given a set of values and ideas that I had to hit on in order for it to be uplifting for the female football league.

Within a couple of days I had whipped up the song. Musically I had envisioned a stadium anthem. Which meant keeping the drums simple, making it easy for people to clap and or stomp along with the song as it could be played over the loud system. For the chorus, I came up with that pretty quick. I wanted it to be easy to sing for anyone, including those who claim to be tone-deaf.

The guitar parts were kept quite simple for the same reason. I wanted any guitar player to be able to pick up a guitar and be able to play it within a matter of minutes. Plus I layered several simple parts to give it a bit more change to it. The hardest part to play likely the lead lick with the vibrato. But even then, it’s not difficult to play.

The verse lyrics took a bit more time. Working on incorporating those values and ideas I had to spend a little time working it so that they would rhyme and work in more of a storyline aspect. It wasn’t overly troublesome, but I did make sure there was progression.

Once it was all put together I sent it along to the contact. The league worked on getting underway, but never got to a point where the song was used for the theme. They never ended up doing a theme and we never signed a deal for it.

Fast forward a few years and I’m going to an LA Kings hockey game with my good buddy Chris Hellstrom. He wanted to get me into hockey, and the best way is for me to go to a live game. I was having a great time. During the game every so often (who am I kidding, very often), they were playing a semi-musical thing that kept shouting “Go Kings Go!”* I told Chris, dude, I have a song that is substantially better than that.

That night when I got home, I pulled out the WPFL theme I had written. I started looking at the files and then went to bed. The next day I started retooling the verse lyrics. I needed them to work for hockey instead of the football. Which required me to pester Chris with questions about hockey and some of the various terms used to talk about what happens on the ice.

A day later, I had it re-tooled. Updated the vocals. Asked Chris to add some bits to the arrangement, then I made a mix of it. Shortly after that I opted to do a version for each major league team in LA at the time. Which mean tweaking it for Basketball as well. A few more days later and I had versions for each team.

Basketball had a huge following and my decision was to use a basketball related photo that I took at a park to be the cover of the release. Then I put the various versions out under the title Do You Want to Play.

Another year or two later I was linked up with Jerry Davis from Fox Sports. I was going to be doing a lot of music for their sports network. During the course of getting the deal done, Jerry asked me how much music I have and in turn I told him how many production music CDs I had. The deal changed in my favor as they would just license my library instead of me writing stuff and them owning it.

While doing that deal I mentioned the song for all the LA teams. Jerry liked it, but felt Fox couldn’t make use of it. He felt strongly about it, and pushed it out to the head of marketing for the NBA, then gave her my contact info. She contacted me and we spoke about the song and what else I was doing musically. She asked me if I could do a version of the song for the WNBA and the D League. I had to ask what the D League was. She explained and I said sure I can. She also wanted to have me come play at halftime events at various live games; based on a tour that I was supposed to be doing at that time. It was going to be a huge plus.

While pulling the song out again for doing those two versions, I got a wild notion that I should just do a version for every team in all 3 of the basketball leagues. That’s what I did. I started keeping track of each team, and swapping out vocals for each one.

Once done, I sent them all to her and it was a bit overwhelming for her.

Unfortunately the tour didn’t happen, and thus the live halftimes didn’t materialize. But I had the ability to use the songs as I owned it. So I started releasing the versions for each league. They did well on their own without me pushing them.

Years later, I’m still occasionally updating the song for new teams that arise over time. Much like this one for the Lehi Pioneers. The question might be, why would you do a version for a High School team? The answer is, for my girlfriend who is the assistant principal at Lehi High. You know, the place, kinda made famous by the original Footloose movie starring Kevin Bacon. Oddly, I’ve been to more of their games than I attended in my own high school.

Factoids:

Copyright: 20070201

ISRC: USONR1900010
ISRC: USONR1900038

ISWC: T9298558686

SESAC Song ID: 59085353

Harry Fox ID: DA2EVW
Harry Fox Publisher ID: P8938Q

UPC: 193829730972
UPC: 193829729457

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Do You Want To Play Grand Rapids Drive

[hook]
The Drive are here today
Doing it for their fans and what they want to say
Is Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

[verse]
We’re gonna stand up (stand up)
Not sit down (sit down)
Ain’t tired of all this running around
We’re gonna jump up (jump up)
And block shots (block shots)
Ain’t no baskets to be giving away

[hook]
The Drive are here today
Doing it for their fans and what they want to say
Is Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

[verse]
There’s a foul line (foul line)
And overtime (overtime)
Ain’t backin down from either side
There’s warrior cries (warrior cries)
And aggressive eyes (aggressive eyes)
Ain’t lettin fear get in our minds

[hook]
The Drive are here today
Doing it for their fans and what they want to say
Is Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

[verse]
We got a special class (special class)
And Fancy Flash (fancy flash)
Staking our claim while we’re talking some trash
We got some new blood (new blood)
And great one (great ones)
Pushing the edge to get that championship

[hook]
The Drive are here today
Doing it for their fans and what they want to say
Is Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

[outro]
Do You (Do You)
Do You (Do You)
Do You (Do You)
Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

Song Length: 3:14

Writer: Jody Whitesides IPI/CAE 00196306650
Publisher: Too Much Music IPI/CAE 00456952518
Admin Publisher (Outside U.S.): Bluewater Music

Jody Whitesides: Lead Vocals, Backing Vocals, Guitars, Bass, Drum Programming, Claps, Synths
Chris Hellstrom: Additional Synths

Recording Info:
Cover Art: Jody Whitesides
Recording Engineer: Jody Whitesides
Mixing Engineer: Jody Whitesides
Mastering Engineer 2025: Jody Whitesides
Mastering Engineer 2007: George Leger III
Vocal Engineer: Jody Whitesides
Additional Production: Chris Hellstrom
Producer: Jody Whitesides Guitar(s): Left side guitar: Desert Guitar: my first guitar which was a Fender “Japocaster” as it used to be referred as, the only original thing is the body. Everything else has been replaced or modified. Think of the Van Halen Frankenstein guitar only this one has a Desert landscape for a paint job. A single Seymour Duncan Custom Custom hum-bucker pickup. Standard bridge. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steels medium gauge.

Right side guitar: Joe’s Guitar with Jesus paint job: This guitar has a Seymour Duncan Custom Custom pickup and a Cool Rails in the neck position. It has a Wilkinson Tremelo installed by Trev Wilkinson himself. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steel medium gauge strings. I used the bridge pickup for this sound.

Vibrato lick guitar: Joe’s Guitar Whitesides Viper 7 Redwood: This is a custom 7-string guitar that Justin built for me to specifications for the neck. The body is two different woods, the back of the body is alder with a redwood top. The neck is maple with a bubinga fingerboard, jumbo frets. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steels. The bridge pickup is a custom built Seymour Duncan Custom Custom, made specifically for me prior to 7-string guitar pickups becoming an actual line. Thus it’s pieced together by Seymour’s custom pickup department. The neck is a stacked humbucker, also created by Seymour Duncan’s custom pickup department. This was voiced to be more like a custom.

Extra guitar chorus: Joe’s Guitar with Jesus paint job: This guitar has a Seymour Duncan Custom Custom pickup and a Cool Rails. It also has a Wilkinson Tremelo installed by Trev Wilkinson himself. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steel medium gauge strings. This part is using the Cool Rails pickup in the neck position.

The Amp Setup:
GrooveTubes Solo 150 head
GrooveTubes Dual 75 Poweramp that has been modified to be true stereo
GrooveTubes 2 x 10″ cabs
I had KT88’s on one side of the Dual 75 and EL34’s on the other side

The cab was mic’d with an SM57 Beta on the grill center of the cone

Bass(s): Hohner B Bass V. Strings were Dean Markley Blue Steels. This was run thru a Line 6 Bass Pod Pro. Two outputs, one that was direct out and one that was an amp sim from the Line 6 Bass Pod Pro to give it some grit.

Additional Bass sounds were done with the ESM from Logic Pro

Drums: Drums are sequenced from samples out of Stylus RMX by SpectraSonics.
Kicks are from the Kicks Boomy and Kicks Punchy menus.
Snares are from the Snares Vinyl menu.

Vocal: Lead vocals in this were recorded using a Telefunken C12.

Background vocals were recorded using a Neumann 87a.

Synths: The synth parts were created using Logic Pro’s ES2.

Misc Instruments: Handclaps are created from me doing about 40 different takes of handclaps from various different positions around the studio to create more depth.

Song Story:
There’s a bit of history behind this song and it’s long…

In the late 90’s there was a group of investors that were starting up a football league for women. Someone reached out to me and asked if I would write a song that would be a theme for the league. I was given a set of values and ideas that I had to hit on in order for it to be uplifting for the female football league.

Within a couple of days I had whipped up the song. Musically I had envisioned a stadium anthem. Which meant keeping the drums simple, making it easy for people to clap and or stomp along with the song as it could be played over the loud system. For the chorus, I came up with that pretty quick. I wanted it to be easy to sing for anyone, including those who claim to be tone-deaf.

The guitar parts were kept quite simple for the same reason. I wanted any guitar player to be able to pick up a guitar and be able to play it within a matter of minutes. Plus I layered several simple parts to give it a bit more change to it. The hardest part to play likely the lead lick with the vibrato. But even then, it’s not difficult to play.

The verse lyrics took a bit more time. Working on incorporating those values and ideas I had to spend a little time working it so that they would rhyme and work in more of a storyline aspect. It wasn’t overly troublesome, but I did make sure there was progression.

Once it was all put together I sent it along to the contact. The league worked on getting underway, but never got to a point where the song was used for the theme. They never ended up doing a theme and we never signed a deal for it.

Fast forward a few years and I’m going to an LA Kings hockey game with my good buddy Chris Hellstrom. He wanted to get me into hockey, and the best way is for me to go to a live game. I was having a great time. During the game every so often (who am I kidding, very often), they were playing a semi-musical thing that kept shouting “Go Kings Go!”* I told Chris, dude, I have a song that is substantially better than that.

That night when I got home, I pulled out the WPFL theme I had written. I started looking at the files and then went to bed. The next day I started retooling the verse lyrics. I needed them to work for hockey instead of the football. Which required me to pester Chris with questions about hockey and some of the various terms used to talk about what happens on the ice.

A day later, I had it re-tooled. Updated the vocals. Asked Chris to add some bits to the arrangement, then I made a mix of it. Shortly after that I opted to do a version for each major league team in LA at the time. Which mean tweaking it for Basketball as well. A few more days later and I had versions for each team.

Basketball had a huge following and my decision was to use a basketball related photo that I took at a park to be the cover of the release. Then I put the various versions out under the title Do You Want to Play.

Another year or two later I was linked up with Jerry Davis from Fox Sports. I was going to be doing a lot of music for their sports network. During the course of getting the deal done, Jerry asked me how much music I have and in turn I told him how many production music CDs I had. The deal changed in my favor as they would just license my library instead of me writing stuff and them owning it.

While doing that deal I mentioned the song for all the LA teams. Jerry liked it, but felt Fox couldn’t make use of it. He felt strongly about it, and pushed it out to the head of marketing for the NBA, then gave her my contact info. She contacted me and we spoke about the song and what else I was doing musically. She asked me if I could do a version of the song for the WNBA and the D League. I had to ask what the D League was. She explained and I said sure I can. She also wanted to have me come play at halftime events at various live games; based on a tour that I was supposed to be doing at that time. It was going to be a huge plus.

While pulling the song out again for doing those two versions, I got a wild notion that I should just do a version for every team in all 3 of the basketball leagues. That’s what I did. I started keeping track of each team, and swapping out vocals for each one.

Once done, I sent them all to her and it was a bit overwhelming for her.

Unfortunately the tour didn’t happen, and thus the live halftimes didn’t materialize. But I had the ability to use the songs as I owned it. So I started releasing the versions for each league. They did well on their own without me pushing them.

Years later, I’m still occasionally updating the song for new teams that arise over time. Much like this one for the Lehi Pioneers. The question might be, why would you do a version for a High School team? The answer is, for my girlfriend who is the assistant principal at Lehi High. You know, the place, kinda made famous by the original Footloose movie starring Kevin Bacon. Oddly, I’ve been to more of their games than I attended in my own high school.

Factoids:

Copyright: 20070201

ISRC: USONR1900011
ISRC: USONR1900011

ISWC: T9298558733

SESAC Song ID: 59085354

Harry Fox ID: DA2EVO
Harry Fox Publisher ID: P8938Q

UPC: 193829730972
UPC: 193829729457

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Do You Want To Play Capital City Go-Go

[hook]
The Go-Go are here today
Doing it for their fans and what they want to say
Is Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

[verse]
We’re gonna stand up (stand up)
Not sit down (sit down)
Ain’t tired of all this running around
We’re gonna jump up (jump up)
And block shots (block shots)
Ain’t no baskets to be giving away

[hook]
The Go-Go are here today
Doing it for their fans and what they want to say
Is Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

[verse]
There’s a foul line (foul line)
And overtime (overtime)
Ain’t backin down from either side
There’s warrior cries (warrior cries)
And aggressive eyes (aggressive eyes)
Ain’t lettin fear get in our minds

[hook]
The Go-Go are here today
Doing it for their fans and what they want to say
Is Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

[verse]
We got a special class (special class)
And Fancy Flash (fancy flash)
Staking our claim while we’re talking some trash
We got some new blood (new blood)
And great one (great ones)
Pushing the edge to get that championship

[hook]
The Go-Go are here today
Doing it for their fans and what they want to say
Is Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

[outro]
Do You (Do You)
Do You (Do You)
Do You (Do You)
Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

Song Length: 3:14

Writer: Jody Whitesides IPI/CAE 00196306650
Publisher: Too Much Music IPI/CAE 00456952518
Admin Publisher (Outside U.S.): Bluewater Music

Jody Whitesides: Lead Vocals, Backing Vocals, Guitars, Bass, Drum Programming, Claps, Synths
Chris Hellstrom: Additional Synths

Recording Info:
Cover Art: Jody Whitesides
Recording Engineer: Jody Whitesides
Mixing Engineer: Jody Whitesides
Mastering Engineer 2025: Jody Whitesides
Mastering Engineer 2007: George Leger III
Vocal Engineer: Jody Whitesides
Additional Production: Chris Hellstrom
Producer: Jody Whitesides Guitar(s): Left side guitar: Desert Guitar: my first guitar which was a Fender “Japocaster” as it used to be referred as, the only original thing is the body. Everything else has been replaced or modified. Think of the Van Halen Frankenstein guitar only this one has a Desert landscape for a paint job. A single Seymour Duncan Custom Custom hum-bucker pickup. Standard bridge. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steels medium gauge.

Right side guitar: Joe’s Guitar with Jesus paint job: This guitar has a Seymour Duncan Custom Custom pickup and a Cool Rails in the neck position. It has a Wilkinson Tremelo installed by Trev Wilkinson himself. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steel medium gauge strings. I used the bridge pickup for this sound.

Vibrato lick guitar: Joe’s Guitar Whitesides Viper 7 Redwood: This is a custom 7-string guitar that Justin built for me to specifications for the neck. The body is two different woods, the back of the body is alder with a redwood top. The neck is maple with a bubinga fingerboard, jumbo frets. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steels. The bridge pickup is a custom built Seymour Duncan Custom Custom, made specifically for me prior to 7-string guitar pickups becoming an actual line. Thus it’s pieced together by Seymour’s custom pickup department. The neck is a stacked humbucker, also created by Seymour Duncan’s custom pickup department. This was voiced to be more like a custom.

Extra guitar chorus: Joe’s Guitar with Jesus paint job: This guitar has a Seymour Duncan Custom Custom pickup and a Cool Rails. It also has a Wilkinson Tremelo installed by Trev Wilkinson himself. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steel medium gauge strings. This part is using the Cool Rails pickup in the neck position.

The Amp Setup:
GrooveTubes Solo 150 head
GrooveTubes Dual 75 Poweramp that has been modified to be true stereo
GrooveTubes 2 x 10″ cabs
I had KT88’s on one side of the Dual 75 and EL34’s on the other side

The cab was mic’d with an SM57 Beta on the grill center of the cone

Bass(s): Hohner B Bass V. Strings were Dean Markley Blue Steels. This was run thru a Line 6 Bass Pod Pro. Two outputs, one that was direct out and one that was an amp sim from the Line 6 Bass Pod Pro to give it some grit.

Additional Bass sounds were done with the ESM from Logic Pro

Drums: Drums are sequenced from samples out of Stylus RMX by SpectraSonics.
Kicks are from the Kicks Boomy and Kicks Punchy menus.
Snares are from the Snares Vinyl menu.

Vocal: Lead vocals in this were recorded using a Telefunken C12.

Background vocals were recorded using a Neumann 87a.

Synths: The synth parts were created using Logic Pro’s ES2.

Misc Instruments: Handclaps are created from me doing about 40 different takes of handclaps from various different positions around the studio to create more depth.

Song Story:
There’s a bit of history behind this song and it’s long…

In the late 90’s there was a group of investors that were starting up a football league for women. Someone reached out to me and asked if I would write a song that would be a theme for the league. I was given a set of values and ideas that I had to hit on in order for it to be uplifting for the female football league.

Within a couple of days I had whipped up the song. Musically I had envisioned a stadium anthem. Which meant keeping the drums simple, making it easy for people to clap and or stomp along with the song as it could be played over the loud system. For the chorus, I came up with that pretty quick. I wanted it to be easy to sing for anyone, including those who claim to be tone-deaf.

The guitar parts were kept quite simple for the same reason. I wanted any guitar player to be able to pick up a guitar and be able to play it within a matter of minutes. Plus I layered several simple parts to give it a bit more change to it. The hardest part to play likely the lead lick with the vibrato. But even then, it’s not difficult to play.

The verse lyrics took a bit more time. Working on incorporating those values and ideas I had to spend a little time working it so that they would rhyme and work in more of a storyline aspect. It wasn’t overly troublesome, but I did make sure there was progression.

Once it was all put together I sent it along to the contact. The league worked on getting underway, but never got to a point where the song was used for the theme. They never ended up doing a theme and we never signed a deal for it.

Fast forward a few years and I’m going to an LA Kings hockey game with my good buddy Chris Hellstrom. He wanted to get me into hockey, and the best way is for me to go to a live game. I was having a great time. During the game every so often (who am I kidding, very often), they were playing a semi-musical thing that kept shouting “Go Kings Go!”* I told Chris, dude, I have a song that is substantially better than that.

That night when I got home, I pulled out the WPFL theme I had written. I started looking at the files and then went to bed. The next day I started retooling the verse lyrics. I needed them to work for hockey instead of the football. Which required me to pester Chris with questions about hockey and some of the various terms used to talk about what happens on the ice.

A day later, I had it re-tooled. Updated the vocals. Asked Chris to add some bits to the arrangement, then I made a mix of it. Shortly after that I opted to do a version for each major league team in LA at the time. Which mean tweaking it for Basketball as well. A few more days later and I had versions for each team.

Basketball had a huge following and my decision was to use a basketball related photo that I took at a park to be the cover of the release. Then I put the various versions out under the title Do You Want to Play.

Another year or two later I was linked up with Jerry Davis from Fox Sports. I was going to be doing a lot of music for their sports network. During the course of getting the deal done, Jerry asked me how much music I have and in turn I told him how many production music CDs I had. The deal changed in my favor as they would just license my library instead of me writing stuff and them owning it.

While doing that deal I mentioned the song for all the LA teams. Jerry liked it, but felt Fox couldn’t make use of it. He felt strongly about it, and pushed it out to the head of marketing for the NBA, then gave her my contact info. She contacted me and we spoke about the song and what else I was doing musically. She asked me if I could do a version of the song for the WNBA and the D League. I had to ask what the D League was. She explained and I said sure I can. She also wanted to have me come play at halftime events at various live games; based on a tour that I was supposed to be doing at that time. It was going to be a huge plus.

While pulling the song out again for doing those two versions, I got a wild notion that I should just do a version for every team in all 3 of the basketball leagues. That’s what I did. I started keeping track of each team, and swapping out vocals for each one.

Once done, I sent them all to her and it was a bit overwhelming for her.

Unfortunately the tour didn’t happen, and thus the live halftimes didn’t materialize. But I had the ability to use the songs as I owned it. So I started releasing the versions for each league. They did well on their own without me pushing them.

Years later, I’m still occasionally updating the song for new teams that arise over time. Much like this one for the Lehi Pioneers. The question might be, why would you do a version for a High School team? The answer is, for my girlfriend who is the assistant principal at Lehi High. You know, the place, kinda made famous by the original Footloose movie starring Kevin Bacon. Oddly, I’ve been to more of their games than I attended in my own high school.

Factoids:

Copyright: 20070201

ISRC: USONR1900012
ISRC: USONR1900040

ISWC: T9298558711

SESAC Song ID: 59085355

Harry Fox ID: DA2EVM
Harry Fox Publisher ID: P8938Q

UPC: 193829730972
UPC: 193829729457

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Do You Want To Play Wisconsin Herd

[hook]
The Herd are here today
Doing it for their fans and what they want to say
Is Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

[verse]
We’re gonna stand up (stand up)
Not sit down (sit down)
Ain’t tired of all this running around
We’re gonna jump up (jump up)
And block shots (block shots)
Ain’t no baskets to be giving away

[hook]
The Herd are here today
Doing it for their fans and what they want to say
Is Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

[verse]
There’s a foul line (foul line)
And overtime (overtime)
Ain’t backin down from either side
There’s warrior cries (warrior cries)
And aggressive eyes (aggressive eyes)
Ain’t lettin fear get in our minds

[hook]
The Herd are here today
Doing it for their fans and what they want to say
Is Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

[verse]
We got a special class (special class)
And Fancy Flash (fancy flash)
Staking our claim while we’re talking some trash
We got some new blood (new blood)
And great one (great ones)
Pushing the edge to get that championship

[hook]
The Herd are here today
Doing it for their fans and what they want to say
Is Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

[outro]
Do You (Do You)
Do You (Do You)
Do You (Do You)
Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

Song Length: 3:14

Writer: Jody Whitesides IPI/CAE 00196306650
Publisher: Too Much Music IPI/CAE 00456952518
Admin Publisher (Outside U.S.): Bluewater Music

Jody Whitesides: Lead Vocals, Backing Vocals, Guitars, Bass, Drum Programming, Claps, Synths
Chris Hellstrom: Additional Synths

Recording Info:
Cover Art: Jody Whitesides
Recording Engineer: Jody Whitesides
Mixing Engineer: Jody Whitesides
Mastering Engineer 2025: Jody Whitesides
Mastering Engineer 2007: George Leger III
Vocal Engineer: Jody Whitesides
Additional Production: Chris Hellstrom
Producer: Jody Whitesides Guitar(s): Left side guitar: Desert Guitar: my first guitar which was a Fender “Japocaster” as it used to be referred as, the only original thing is the body. Everything else has been replaced or modified. Think of the Van Halen Frankenstein guitar only this one has a Desert landscape for a paint job. A single Seymour Duncan Custom Custom hum-bucker pickup. Standard bridge. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steels medium gauge.

Right side guitar: Joe’s Guitar with Jesus paint job: This guitar has a Seymour Duncan Custom Custom pickup and a Cool Rails in the neck position. It has a Wilkinson Tremelo installed by Trev Wilkinson himself. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steel medium gauge strings. I used the bridge pickup for this sound.

Vibrato lick guitar: Joe’s Guitar Whitesides Viper 7 Redwood: This is a custom 7-string guitar that Justin built for me to specifications for the neck. The body is two different woods, the back of the body is alder with a redwood top. The neck is maple with a bubinga fingerboard, jumbo frets. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steels. The bridge pickup is a custom built Seymour Duncan Custom Custom, made specifically for me prior to 7-string guitar pickups becoming an actual line. Thus it’s pieced together by Seymour’s custom pickup department. The neck is a stacked humbucker, also created by Seymour Duncan’s custom pickup department. This was voiced to be more like a custom.

Extra guitar chorus: Joe’s Guitar with Jesus paint job: This guitar has a Seymour Duncan Custom Custom pickup and a Cool Rails. It also has a Wilkinson Tremelo installed by Trev Wilkinson himself. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steel medium gauge strings. This part is using the Cool Rails pickup in the neck position.

The Amp Setup:
GrooveTubes Solo 150 head
GrooveTubes Dual 75 Poweramp that has been modified to be true stereo
GrooveTubes 2 x 10″ cabs
I had KT88’s on one side of the Dual 75 and EL34’s on the other side

The cab was mic’d with an SM57 Beta on the grill center of the cone

Bass(s): Hohner B Bass V. Strings were Dean Markley Blue Steels. This was run thru a Line 6 Bass Pod Pro. Two outputs, one that was direct out and one that was an amp sim from the Line 6 Bass Pod Pro to give it some grit.

Additional Bass sounds were done with the ESM from Logic Pro

Drums: Drums are sequenced from samples out of Stylus RMX by SpectraSonics.
Kicks are from the Kicks Boomy and Kicks Punchy menus.
Snares are from the Snares Vinyl menu.

Vocal: Lead vocals in this were recorded using a Telefunken C12.

Background vocals were recorded using a Neumann 87a.

Synths: The synth parts were created using Logic Pro’s ES2.

Misc Instruments: Handclaps are created from me doing about 40 different takes of handclaps from various different positions around the studio to create more depth.

Song Story:
There’s a bit of history behind this song and it’s long…

In the late 90’s there was a group of investors that were starting up a football league for women. Someone reached out to me and asked if I would write a song that would be a theme for the league. I was given a set of values and ideas that I had to hit on in order for it to be uplifting for the female football league.

Within a couple of days I had whipped up the song. Musically I had envisioned a stadium anthem. Which meant keeping the drums simple, making it easy for people to clap and or stomp along with the song as it could be played over the loud system. For the chorus, I came up with that pretty quick. I wanted it to be easy to sing for anyone, including those who claim to be tone-deaf.

The guitar parts were kept quite simple for the same reason. I wanted any guitar player to be able to pick up a guitar and be able to play it within a matter of minutes. Plus I layered several simple parts to give it a bit more change to it. The hardest part to play likely the lead lick with the vibrato. But even then, it’s not difficult to play.

The verse lyrics took a bit more time. Working on incorporating those values and ideas I had to spend a little time working it so that they would rhyme and work in more of a storyline aspect. It wasn’t overly troublesome, but I did make sure there was progression.

Once it was all put together I sent it along to the contact. The league worked on getting underway, but never got to a point where the song was used for the theme. They never ended up doing a theme and we never signed a deal for it.

Fast forward a few years and I’m going to an LA Kings hockey game with my good buddy Chris Hellstrom. He wanted to get me into hockey, and the best way is for me to go to a live game. I was having a great time. During the game every so often (who am I kidding, very often), they were playing a semi-musical thing that kept shouting “Go Kings Go!”* I told Chris, dude, I have a song that is substantially better than that.

That night when I got home, I pulled out the WPFL theme I had written. I started looking at the files and then went to bed. The next day I started retooling the verse lyrics. I needed them to work for hockey instead of the football. Which required me to pester Chris with questions about hockey and some of the various terms used to talk about what happens on the ice.

A day later, I had it re-tooled. Updated the vocals. Asked Chris to add some bits to the arrangement, then I made a mix of it. Shortly after that I opted to do a version for each major league team in LA at the time. Which mean tweaking it for Basketball as well. A few more days later and I had versions for each team.

Basketball had a huge following and my decision was to use a basketball related photo that I took at a park to be the cover of the release. Then I put the various versions out under the title Do You Want to Play.

Another year or two later I was linked up with Jerry Davis from Fox Sports. I was going to be doing a lot of music for their sports network. During the course of getting the deal done, Jerry asked me how much music I have and in turn I told him how many production music CDs I had. The deal changed in my favor as they would just license my library instead of me writing stuff and them owning it.

While doing that deal I mentioned the song for all the LA teams. Jerry liked it, but felt Fox couldn’t make use of it. He felt strongly about it, and pushed it out to the head of marketing for the NBA, then gave her my contact info. She contacted me and we spoke about the song and what else I was doing musically. She asked me if I could do a version of the song for the WNBA and the D League. I had to ask what the D League was. She explained and I said sure I can. She also wanted to have me come play at halftime events at various live games; based on a tour that I was supposed to be doing at that time. It was going to be a huge plus.

While pulling the song out again for doing those two versions, I got a wild notion that I should just do a version for every team in all 3 of the basketball leagues. That’s what I did. I started keeping track of each team, and swapping out vocals for each one.

Once done, I sent them all to her and it was a bit overwhelming for her.

Unfortunately the tour didn’t happen, and thus the live halftimes didn’t materialize. But I had the ability to use the songs as I owned it. So I started releasing the versions for each league. They did well on their own without me pushing them.

Years later, I’m still occasionally updating the song for new teams that arise over time. Much like this one for the Lehi Pioneers. The question might be, why would you do a version for a High School team? The answer is, for my girlfriend who is the assistant principal at Lehi High. You know, the place, kinda made famous by the original Footloose movie starring Kevin Bacon. Oddly, I’ve been to more of their games than I attended in my own high school.

Factoids:

Copyright: 20070201

ISRC: USONR1900013
ISRC: USONR1900041

ISWC: T9298558904

SESAC Song ID: 59085356

Harry Fox ID: DA2EV2
Harry Fox Publisher ID: P8938Q

UPC: 193829730972
UPC: 193829729457

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Do You Want To Play Memphis Hustle

[hook]
The Hustle are here today
Doing it for their fans and what they want to say
Is Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

[verse]
We’re gonna stand up (stand up)
Not sit down (sit down)
Ain’t tired of all this running around
We’re gonna jump up (jump up)
And block shots (block shots)
Ain’t no baskets to be giving away

[hook]
The Hustle are here today
Doing it for their fans and what they want to say
Is Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

[verse]
There’s a foul line (foul line)
And overtime (overtime)
Ain’t backin down from either side
There’s warrior cries (warrior cries)
And aggressive eyes (aggressive eyes)
Ain’t lettin fear get in our minds

[hook]
The Hustle are here today
Doing it for their fans and what they want to say
Is Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

[verse]
We got a special class (special class)
And Fancy Flash (fancy flash)
Staking our claim while we’re talking some trash
We got some new blood (new blood)
And great one (great ones)
Pushing the edge to get that championship

[hook]
The Hustle are here today
Doing it for their fans and what they want to say
Is Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

[outro]
Do You (Do You)
Do You (Do You)
Do You (Do You)
Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

Song Length: 3:14

Writer: Jody Whitesides IPI/CAE 00196306650
Publisher: Too Much Music IPI/CAE 00456952518
Admin Publisher (Outside U.S.): Bluewater Music

Jody Whitesides: Lead Vocals, Backing Vocals, Guitars, Bass, Drum Programming, Claps, Synths
Chris Hellstrom: Additional Synths

Recording Info:
Cover Art: Jody Whitesides
Recording Engineer: Jody Whitesides
Mixing Engineer: Jody Whitesides
Mastering Engineer 2025: Jody Whitesides
Mastering Engineer 2007: George Leger III
Vocal Engineer: Jody Whitesides
Additional Production: Chris Hellstrom
Producer: Jody Whitesides Guitar(s): Left side guitar: Desert Guitar: my first guitar which was a Fender “Japocaster” as it used to be referred as, the only original thing is the body. Everything else has been replaced or modified. Think of the Van Halen Frankenstein guitar only this one has a Desert landscape for a paint job. A single Seymour Duncan Custom Custom hum-bucker pickup. Standard bridge. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steels medium gauge.

Right side guitar: Joe’s Guitar with Jesus paint job: This guitar has a Seymour Duncan Custom Custom pickup and a Cool Rails in the neck position. It has a Wilkinson Tremelo installed by Trev Wilkinson himself. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steel medium gauge strings. I used the bridge pickup for this sound.

Vibrato lick guitar: Joe’s Guitar Whitesides Viper 7 Redwood: This is a custom 7-string guitar that Justin built for me to specifications for the neck. The body is two different woods, the back of the body is alder with a redwood top. The neck is maple with a bubinga fingerboard, jumbo frets. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steels. The bridge pickup is a custom built Seymour Duncan Custom Custom, made specifically for me prior to 7-string guitar pickups becoming an actual line. Thus it’s pieced together by Seymour’s custom pickup department. The neck is a stacked humbucker, also created by Seymour Duncan’s custom pickup department. This was voiced to be more like a custom.

Extra guitar chorus: Joe’s Guitar with Jesus paint job: This guitar has a Seymour Duncan Custom Custom pickup and a Cool Rails. It also has a Wilkinson Tremelo installed by Trev Wilkinson himself. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steel medium gauge strings. This part is using the Cool Rails pickup in the neck position.

The Amp Setup:
GrooveTubes Solo 150 head
GrooveTubes Dual 75 Poweramp that has been modified to be true stereo
GrooveTubes 2 x 10″ cabs
I had KT88’s on one side of the Dual 75 and EL34’s on the other side

The cab was mic’d with an SM57 Beta on the grill center of the cone

Bass(s): Hohner B Bass V. Strings were Dean Markley Blue Steels. This was run thru a Line 6 Bass Pod Pro. Two outputs, one that was direct out and one that was an amp sim from the Line 6 Bass Pod Pro to give it some grit.

Additional Bass sounds were done with the ESM from Logic Pro

Drums: Drums are sequenced from samples out of Stylus RMX by SpectraSonics.
Kicks are from the Kicks Boomy and Kicks Punchy menus.
Snares are from the Snares Vinyl menu.

Vocal: Lead vocals in this were recorded using a Telefunken C12.

Background vocals were recorded using a Neumann 87a.

Synths: The synth parts were created using Logic Pro’s ES2.

Misc Instruments: Handclaps are created from me doing about 40 different takes of handclaps from various different positions around the studio to create more depth.

Song Story:
There’s a bit of history behind this song and it’s long…

In the late 90’s there was a group of investors that were starting up a football league for women. Someone reached out to me and asked if I would write a song that would be a theme for the league. I was given a set of values and ideas that I had to hit on in order for it to be uplifting for the female football league.

Within a couple of days I had whipped up the song. Musically I had envisioned a stadium anthem. Which meant keeping the drums simple, making it easy for people to clap and or stomp along with the song as it could be played over the loud system. For the chorus, I came up with that pretty quick. I wanted it to be easy to sing for anyone, including those who claim to be tone-deaf.

The guitar parts were kept quite simple for the same reason. I wanted any guitar player to be able to pick up a guitar and be able to play it within a matter of minutes. Plus I layered several simple parts to give it a bit more change to it. The hardest part to play likely the lead lick with the vibrato. But even then, it’s not difficult to play.

The verse lyrics took a bit more time. Working on incorporating those values and ideas I had to spend a little time working it so that they would rhyme and work in more of a storyline aspect. It wasn’t overly troublesome, but I did make sure there was progression.

Once it was all put together I sent it along to the contact. The league worked on getting underway, but never got to a point where the song was used for the theme. They never ended up doing a theme and we never signed a deal for it.

Fast forward a few years and I’m going to an LA Kings hockey game with my good buddy Chris Hellstrom. He wanted to get me into hockey, and the best way is for me to go to a live game. I was having a great time. During the game every so often (who am I kidding, very often), they were playing a semi-musical thing that kept shouting “Go Kings Go!”* I told Chris, dude, I have a song that is substantially better than that.

That night when I got home, I pulled out the WPFL theme I had written. I started looking at the files and then went to bed. The next day I started retooling the verse lyrics. I needed them to work for hockey instead of the football. Which required me to pester Chris with questions about hockey and some of the various terms used to talk about what happens on the ice.

A day later, I had it re-tooled. Updated the vocals. Asked Chris to add some bits to the arrangement, then I made a mix of it. Shortly after that I opted to do a version for each major league team in LA at the time. Which mean tweaking it for Basketball as well. A few more days later and I had versions for each team.

Basketball had a huge following and my decision was to use a basketball related photo that I took at a park to be the cover of the release. Then I put the various versions out under the title Do You Want to Play.

Another year or two later I was linked up with Jerry Davis from Fox Sports. I was going to be doing a lot of music for their sports network. During the course of getting the deal done, Jerry asked me how much music I have and in turn I told him how many production music CDs I had. The deal changed in my favor as they would just license my library instead of me writing stuff and them owning it.

While doing that deal I mentioned the song for all the LA teams. Jerry liked it, but felt Fox couldn’t make use of it. He felt strongly about it, and pushed it out to the head of marketing for the NBA, then gave her my contact info. She contacted me and we spoke about the song and what else I was doing musically. She asked me if I could do a version of the song for the WNBA and the D League. I had to ask what the D League was. She explained and I said sure I can. She also wanted to have me come play at halftime events at various live games; based on a tour that I was supposed to be doing at that time. It was going to be a huge plus.

While pulling the song out again for doing those two versions, I got a wild notion that I should just do a version for every team in all 3 of the basketball leagues. That’s what I did. I started keeping track of each team, and swapping out vocals for each one.

Once done, I sent them all to her and it was a bit overwhelming for her.

Unfortunately the tour didn’t happen, and thus the live halftimes didn’t materialize. But I had the ability to use the songs as I owned it. So I started releasing the versions for each league. They did well on their own without me pushing them.

Years later, I’m still occasionally updating the song for new teams that arise over time. Much like this one for the Lehi Pioneers. The question might be, why would you do a version for a High School team? The answer is, for my girlfriend who is the assistant principal at Lehi High. You know, the place, kinda made famous by the original Footloose movie starring Kevin Bacon. Oddly, I’ve been to more of their games than I attended in my own high school.

Factoids:

Copyright: 20070201

ISRC: USONR1900014
ISRC: USONR1900042

ISWC: T9298558799

SESAC Song ID: 59085273

Harry Fox ID: DA2EVV
Harry Fox Publisher ID: P8938Q

UPC: 193829730972
UPC: 193829729457

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Do You Want To Play Stockton Kings

[hook]
The Kings are here today
Doing it for their fans and what they want to say
Is Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

[verse]
We’re gonna stand up (stand up)
Not sit down (sit down)
Ain’t tired of all this running around
We’re gonna jump up (jump up)
And block shots (block shots)
Ain’t no baskets to be giving away

[hook]
The Kings are here today
Doing it for their fans and what they want to say
Is Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

[verse]
There’s a foul line (foul line)
And overtime (overtime)
Ain’t backin down from either side
There’s warrior cries (warrior cries)
And aggressive eyes (aggressive eyes)
Ain’t lettin fear get in our minds

[hook]
The Kings are here today
Doing it for their fans and what they want to say
Is Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

[verse]
We got a special class (special class)
And Fancy Flash (fancy flash)
Staking our claim while we’re talking some trash
We got some new blood (new blood)
And great one (great ones)
Pushing the edge to get that championship

[hook]
The Kings are here today
Doing it for their fans and what they want to say
Is Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

[outro]
Do You (Do You)
Do You (Do You)
Do You (Do You)
Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

Song Length: 3:14

Writer: Jody Whitesides IPI/CAE 00196306650
Publisher: Too Much Music IPI/CAE 00456952518
Admin Publisher (Outside U.S.): Bluewater Music

Jody Whitesides: Lead Vocals, Backing Vocals, Guitars, Bass, Drum Programming, Claps, Synths
Chris Hellstrom: Additional Synths

Recording Info:
Cover Art: Jody Whitesides
Recording Engineer: Jody Whitesides
Mixing Engineer: Jody Whitesides
Mastering Engineer 2025: Jody Whitesides
Mastering Engineer 2007: George Leger III
Vocal Engineer: Jody Whitesides
Additional Production: Chris Hellstrom
Producer: Jody Whitesides Guitar(s): Left side guitar: Desert Guitar: my first guitar which was a Fender “Japocaster” as it used to be referred as, the only original thing is the body. Everything else has been replaced or modified. Think of the Van Halen Frankenstein guitar only this one has a Desert landscape for a paint job. A single Seymour Duncan Custom Custom hum-bucker pickup. Standard bridge. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steels medium gauge.

Right side guitar: Joe’s Guitar with Jesus paint job: This guitar has a Seymour Duncan Custom Custom pickup and a Cool Rails in the neck position. It has a Wilkinson Tremelo installed by Trev Wilkinson himself. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steel medium gauge strings. I used the bridge pickup for this sound.

Vibrato lick guitar: Joe’s Guitar Whitesides Viper 7 Redwood: This is a custom 7-string guitar that Justin built for me to specifications for the neck. The body is two different woods, the back of the body is alder with a redwood top. The neck is maple with a bubinga fingerboard, jumbo frets. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steels. The bridge pickup is a custom built Seymour Duncan Custom Custom, made specifically for me prior to 7-string guitar pickups becoming an actual line. Thus it’s pieced together by Seymour’s custom pickup department. The neck is a stacked humbucker, also created by Seymour Duncan’s custom pickup department. This was voiced to be more like a custom.

Extra guitar chorus: Joe’s Guitar with Jesus paint job: This guitar has a Seymour Duncan Custom Custom pickup and a Cool Rails. It also has a Wilkinson Tremelo installed by Trev Wilkinson himself. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steel medium gauge strings. This part is using the Cool Rails pickup in the neck position.

The Amp Setup:
GrooveTubes Solo 150 head
GrooveTubes Dual 75 Poweramp that has been modified to be true stereo
GrooveTubes 2 x 10″ cabs
I had KT88’s on one side of the Dual 75 and EL34’s on the other side

The cab was mic’d with an SM57 Beta on the grill center of the cone

Bass(s): Hohner B Bass V. Strings were Dean Markley Blue Steels. This was run thru a Line 6 Bass Pod Pro. Two outputs, one that was direct out and one that was an amp sim from the Line 6 Bass Pod Pro to give it some grit.

Additional Bass sounds were done with the ESM from Logic Pro

Drums: Drums are sequenced from samples out of Stylus RMX by SpectraSonics.
Kicks are from the Kicks Boomy and Kicks Punchy menus.
Snares are from the Snares Vinyl menu.

Vocal: Lead vocals in this were recorded using a Telefunken C12.

Background vocals were recorded using a Neumann 87a.

Synths: The synth parts were created using Logic Pro’s ES2.

Misc Instruments: Handclaps are created from me doing about 40 different takes of handclaps from various different positions around the studio to create more depth.

Song Story:
There’s a bit of history behind this song and it’s long…

In the late 90’s there was a group of investors that were starting up a football league for women. Someone reached out to me and asked if I would write a song that would be a theme for the league. I was given a set of values and ideas that I had to hit on in order for it to be uplifting for the female football league.

Within a couple of days I had whipped up the song. Musically I had envisioned a stadium anthem. Which meant keeping the drums simple, making it easy for people to clap and or stomp along with the song as it could be played over the loud system. For the chorus, I came up with that pretty quick. I wanted it to be easy to sing for anyone, including those who claim to be tone-deaf.

The guitar parts were kept quite simple for the same reason. I wanted any guitar player to be able to pick up a guitar and be able to play it within a matter of minutes. Plus I layered several simple parts to give it a bit more change to it. The hardest part to play likely the lead lick with the vibrato. But even then, it’s not difficult to play.

The verse lyrics took a bit more time. Working on incorporating those values and ideas I had to spend a little time working it so that they would rhyme and work in more of a storyline aspect. It wasn’t overly troublesome, but I did make sure there was progression.

Once it was all put together I sent it along to the contact. The league worked on getting underway, but never got to a point where the song was used for the theme. They never ended up doing a theme and we never signed a deal for it.

Fast forward a few years and I’m going to an LA Kings hockey game with my good buddy Chris Hellstrom. He wanted to get me into hockey, and the best way is for me to go to a live game. I was having a great time. During the game every so often (who am I kidding, very often), they were playing a semi-musical thing that kept shouting “Go Kings Go!”* I told Chris, dude, I have a song that is substantially better than that.

That night when I got home, I pulled out the WPFL theme I had written. I started looking at the files and then went to bed. The next day I started retooling the verse lyrics. I needed them to work for hockey instead of the football. Which required me to pester Chris with questions about hockey and some of the various terms used to talk about what happens on the ice.

A day later, I had it re-tooled. Updated the vocals. Asked Chris to add some bits to the arrangement, then I made a mix of it. Shortly after that I opted to do a version for each major league team in LA at the time. Which mean tweaking it for Basketball as well. A few more days later and I had versions for each team.

Basketball had a huge following and my decision was to use a basketball related photo that I took at a park to be the cover of the release. Then I put the various versions out under the title Do You Want to Play.

Another year or two later I was linked up with Jerry Davis from Fox Sports. I was going to be doing a lot of music for their sports network. During the course of getting the deal done, Jerry asked me how much music I have and in turn I told him how many production music CDs I had. The deal changed in my favor as they would just license my library instead of me writing stuff and them owning it.

While doing that deal I mentioned the song for all the LA teams. Jerry liked it, but felt Fox couldn’t make use of it. He felt strongly about it, and pushed it out to the head of marketing for the NBA, then gave her my contact info. She contacted me and we spoke about the song and what else I was doing musically. She asked me if I could do a version of the song for the WNBA and the D League. I had to ask what the D League was. She explained and I said sure I can. She also wanted to have me come play at halftime events at various live games; based on a tour that I was supposed to be doing at that time. It was going to be a huge plus.

While pulling the song out again for doing those two versions, I got a wild notion that I should just do a version for every team in all 3 of the basketball leagues. That’s what I did. I started keeping track of each team, and swapping out vocals for each one.

Once done, I sent them all to her and it was a bit overwhelming for her.

Unfortunately the tour didn’t happen, and thus the live halftimes didn’t materialize. But I had the ability to use the songs as I owned it. So I started releasing the versions for each league. They did well on their own without me pushing them.

Years later, I’m still occasionally updating the song for new teams that arise over time. Much like this one for the Lehi Pioneers. The question might be, why would you do a version for a High School team? The answer is, for my girlfriend who is the assistant principal at Lehi High. You know, the place, kinda made famous by the original Footloose movie starring Kevin Bacon. Oddly, I’ve been to more of their games than I attended in my own high school.

Factoids:

Copyright: 20070201

ISRC: USONR1900015
ISRC: USONR1900043

ISWC: T9298558868

SESAC Song ID: 59085274

Harry Fox ID: DA2EVR
Harry Fox Publisher ID: P8938Q

UPC: 193829730972
UPC: 193829729457

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Do You Want To Play Westchester Knicks

[hook]
The Knicks are here today
Doing it for their fans and what they want to say
Is Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

[verse]
We’re gonna stand up (stand up)
Not sit down (sit down)
Ain’t tired of all this running around
We’re gonna jump up (jump up)
And block shots (block shots)
Ain’t no baskets to be giving away

[hook]
The Knicks are here today
Doing it for their fans and what they want to say
Is Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

[verse]
There’s a foul line (foul line)
And overtime (overtime)
Ain’t backin down from either side
There’s warrior cries (warrior cries)
And aggressive eyes (aggressive eyes)
Ain’t lettin fear get in our minds

[hook]
The Knicks are here today
Doing it for their fans and what they want to say
Is Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

[verse]
We got a special class (special class)
And Fancy Flash (fancy flash)
Staking our claim while we’re talking some trash
We got some new blood (new blood)
And great one (great ones)
Pushing the edge to get that championship

[hook]
The Knicks are here today
Doing it for their fans and what they want to say
Is Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

[outro]
Do You (Do You)
Do You (Do You)
Do You (Do You)
Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

Song Length: 3:14

Writer: Jody Whitesides IPI/CAE 00196306650
Publisher: Too Much Music IPI/CAE 00456952518
Admin Publisher (Outside U.S.): Bluewater Music

Jody Whitesides: Lead Vocals, Backing Vocals, Guitars, Bass, Drum Programming, Claps, Synths
Chris Hellstrom: Additional Synths

Recording Info:
Cover Art: Jody Whitesides
Recording Engineer: Jody Whitesides
Mixing Engineer: Jody Whitesides
Mastering Engineer 2025: Jody Whitesides
Mastering Engineer 2007: George Leger III
Vocal Engineer: Jody Whitesides
Additional Production: Chris Hellstrom
Producer: Jody Whitesides Guitar(s): Left side guitar: Desert Guitar: my first guitar which was a Fender “Japocaster” as it used to be referred as, the only original thing is the body. Everything else has been replaced or modified. Think of the Van Halen Frankenstein guitar only this one has a Desert landscape for a paint job. A single Seymour Duncan Custom Custom hum-bucker pickup. Standard bridge. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steels medium gauge.

Right side guitar: Joe’s Guitar with Jesus paint job: This guitar has a Seymour Duncan Custom Custom pickup and a Cool Rails in the neck position. It has a Wilkinson Tremelo installed by Trev Wilkinson himself. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steel medium gauge strings. I used the bridge pickup for this sound.

Vibrato lick guitar: Joe’s Guitar Whitesides Viper 7 Redwood: This is a custom 7-string guitar that Justin built for me to specifications for the neck. The body is two different woods, the back of the body is alder with a redwood top. The neck is maple with a bubinga fingerboard, jumbo frets. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steels. The bridge pickup is a custom built Seymour Duncan Custom Custom, made specifically for me prior to 7-string guitar pickups becoming an actual line. Thus it’s pieced together by Seymour’s custom pickup department. The neck is a stacked humbucker, also created by Seymour Duncan’s custom pickup department. This was voiced to be more like a custom.

Extra guitar chorus: Joe’s Guitar with Jesus paint job: This guitar has a Seymour Duncan Custom Custom pickup and a Cool Rails. It also has a Wilkinson Tremelo installed by Trev Wilkinson himself. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steel medium gauge strings. This part is using the Cool Rails pickup in the neck position.

The Amp Setup:
GrooveTubes Solo 150 head
GrooveTubes Dual 75 Poweramp that has been modified to be true stereo
GrooveTubes 2 x 10″ cabs
I had KT88’s on one side of the Dual 75 and EL34’s on the other side

The cab was mic’d with an SM57 Beta on the grill center of the cone

Bass(s): Hohner B Bass V. Strings were Dean Markley Blue Steels. This was run thru a Line 6 Bass Pod Pro. Two outputs, one that was direct out and one that was an amp sim from the Line 6 Bass Pod Pro to give it some grit.

Additional Bass sounds were done with the ESM from Logic Pro

Drums: Drums are sequenced from samples out of Stylus RMX by SpectraSonics.
Kicks are from the Kicks Boomy and Kicks Punchy menus.
Snares are from the Snares Vinyl menu.

Vocal: Lead vocals in this were recorded using a Telefunken C12.

Background vocals were recorded using a Neumann 87a.

Synths: The synth parts were created using Logic Pro’s ES2.

Misc Instruments: Handclaps are created from me doing about 40 different takes of handclaps from various different positions around the studio to create more depth.

Song Story:
There’s a bit of history behind this song and it’s long…

In the late 90’s there was a group of investors that were starting up a football league for women. Someone reached out to me and asked if I would write a song that would be a theme for the league. I was given a set of values and ideas that I had to hit on in order for it to be uplifting for the female football league.

Within a couple of days I had whipped up the song. Musically I had envisioned a stadium anthem. Which meant keeping the drums simple, making it easy for people to clap and or stomp along with the song as it could be played over the loud system. For the chorus, I came up with that pretty quick. I wanted it to be easy to sing for anyone, including those who claim to be tone-deaf.

The guitar parts were kept quite simple for the same reason. I wanted any guitar player to be able to pick up a guitar and be able to play it within a matter of minutes. Plus I layered several simple parts to give it a bit more change to it. The hardest part to play likely the lead lick with the vibrato. But even then, it’s not difficult to play.

The verse lyrics took a bit more time. Working on incorporating those values and ideas I had to spend a little time working it so that they would rhyme and work in more of a storyline aspect. It wasn’t overly troublesome, but I did make sure there was progression.

Once it was all put together I sent it along to the contact. The league worked on getting underway, but never got to a point where the song was used for the theme. They never ended up doing a theme and we never signed a deal for it.

Fast forward a few years and I’m going to an LA Kings hockey game with my good buddy Chris Hellstrom. He wanted to get me into hockey, and the best way is for me to go to a live game. I was having a great time. During the game every so often (who am I kidding, very often), they were playing a semi-musical thing that kept shouting “Go Kings Go!”* I told Chris, dude, I have a song that is substantially better than that.

That night when I got home, I pulled out the WPFL theme I had written. I started looking at the files and then went to bed. The next day I started retooling the verse lyrics. I needed them to work for hockey instead of the football. Which required me to pester Chris with questions about hockey and some of the various terms used to talk about what happens on the ice.

A day later, I had it re-tooled. Updated the vocals. Asked Chris to add some bits to the arrangement, then I made a mix of it. Shortly after that I opted to do a version for each major league team in LA at the time. Which mean tweaking it for Basketball as well. A few more days later and I had versions for each team.

Basketball had a huge following and my decision was to use a basketball related photo that I took at a park to be the cover of the release. Then I put the various versions out under the title Do You Want to Play.

Another year or two later I was linked up with Jerry Davis from Fox Sports. I was going to be doing a lot of music for their sports network. During the course of getting the deal done, Jerry asked me how much music I have and in turn I told him how many production music CDs I had. The deal changed in my favor as they would just license my library instead of me writing stuff and them owning it.

While doing that deal I mentioned the song for all the LA teams. Jerry liked it, but felt Fox couldn’t make use of it. He felt strongly about it, and pushed it out to the head of marketing for the NBA, then gave her my contact info. She contacted me and we spoke about the song and what else I was doing musically. She asked me if I could do a version of the song for the WNBA and the D League. I had to ask what the D League was. She explained and I said sure I can. She also wanted to have me come play at halftime events at various live games; based on a tour that I was supposed to be doing at that time. It was going to be a huge plus.

While pulling the song out again for doing those two versions, I got a wild notion that I should just do a version for every team in all 3 of the basketball leagues. That’s what I did. I started keeping track of each team, and swapping out vocals for each one.

Once done, I sent them all to her and it was a bit overwhelming for her.

Unfortunately the tour didn’t happen, and thus the live halftimes didn’t materialize. But I had the ability to use the songs as I owned it. So I started releasing the versions for each league. They did well on their own without me pushing them.

Years later, I’m still occasionally updating the song for new teams that arise over time. Much like this one for the Lehi Pioneers. The question might be, why would you do a version for a High School team? The answer is, for my girlfriend who is the assistant principal at Lehi High. You know, the place, kinda made famous by the original Footloose movie starring Kevin Bacon. Oddly, I’ve been to more of their games than I attended in my own high school.

Factoids:

Copyright: 20070201

ISRC: USONR1900016
ISRC: USONR1900044

ISWC: T9298558880

SESAC Song ID: 59085275

Harry Fox ID: DA2EVS
Harry Fox Publisher ID: P8938Q

UPC: 193829730972
UPC: 193829729457

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Do You Want To Play South Bay Lakers

[hook]
The Lakers are here today
Doing it for their fans and what they want to say
Is Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

[verse]
We’re gonna stand up (stand up)
Not sit down (sit down)
Ain’t tired of all this running around
We’re gonna jump up (jump up)
And block shots (block shots)
Ain’t no baskets to be giving away

[hook]
The Lakers are here today
Doing it for their fans and what they want to say
Is Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

[verse]
There’s a foul line (foul line)
And overtime (overtime)
Ain’t backin down from either side
There’s warrior cries (warrior cries)
And aggressive eyes (aggressive eyes)
Ain’t lettin fear get in our minds

[hook]
The Lakers are here today
Doing it for their fans and what they want to say
Is Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

[verse]
We got a special class (special class)
And Fancy Flash (fancy flash)
Staking our claim while we’re talking some trash
We got some new blood (new blood)
And great one (great ones)
Pushing the edge to get that championship

[hook]
The Lakers are here today
Doing it for their fans and what they want to say
Is Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

[outro]
Do You (Do You)
Do You (Do You)
Do You (Do You)
Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

Song Length: 3:14

Writer: Jody Whitesides IPI/CAE 00196306650
Publisher: Too Much Music IPI/CAE 00456952518
Admin Publisher (Outside U.S.): Bluewater Music

Jody Whitesides: Lead Vocals, Backing Vocals, Guitars, Bass, Drum Programming, Claps, Synths
Chris Hellstrom: Additional Synths

Recording Info:
Cover Art: Jody Whitesides
Recording Engineer: Jody Whitesides
Mixing Engineer: Jody Whitesides
Mastering Engineer 2025: Jody Whitesides
Mastering Engineer 2007: George Leger III
Vocal Engineer: Jody Whitesides
Additional Production: Chris Hellstrom
Producer: Jody Whitesides Guitar(s): Left side guitar: Desert Guitar: my first guitar which was a Fender “Japocaster” as it used to be referred as, the only original thing is the body. Everything else has been replaced or modified. Think of the Van Halen Frankenstein guitar only this one has a Desert landscape for a paint job. A single Seymour Duncan Custom Custom hum-bucker pickup. Standard bridge. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steels medium gauge.

Right side guitar: Joe’s Guitar with Jesus paint job: This guitar has a Seymour Duncan Custom Custom pickup and a Cool Rails in the neck position. It has a Wilkinson Tremelo installed by Trev Wilkinson himself. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steel medium gauge strings. I used the bridge pickup for this sound.

Vibrato lick guitar: Joe’s Guitar Whitesides Viper 7 Redwood: This is a custom 7-string guitar that Justin built for me to specifications for the neck. The body is two different woods, the back of the body is alder with a redwood top. The neck is maple with a bubinga fingerboard, jumbo frets. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steels. The bridge pickup is a custom built Seymour Duncan Custom Custom, made specifically for me prior to 7-string guitar pickups becoming an actual line. Thus it’s pieced together by Seymour’s custom pickup department. The neck is a stacked humbucker, also created by Seymour Duncan’s custom pickup department. This was voiced to be more like a custom.

Extra guitar chorus: Joe’s Guitar with Jesus paint job: This guitar has a Seymour Duncan Custom Custom pickup and a Cool Rails. It also has a Wilkinson Tremelo installed by Trev Wilkinson himself. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steel medium gauge strings. This part is using the Cool Rails pickup in the neck position.

The Amp Setup:
GrooveTubes Solo 150 head
GrooveTubes Dual 75 Poweramp that has been modified to be true stereo
GrooveTubes 2 x 10″ cabs
I had KT88’s on one side of the Dual 75 and EL34’s on the other side

The cab was mic’d with an SM57 Beta on the grill center of the cone

Bass(s): Hohner B Bass V. Strings were Dean Markley Blue Steels. This was run thru a Line 6 Bass Pod Pro. Two outputs, one that was direct out and one that was an amp sim from the Line 6 Bass Pod Pro to give it some grit.

Additional Bass sounds were done with the ESM from Logic Pro

Drums: Drums are sequenced from samples out of Stylus RMX by SpectraSonics.
Kicks are from the Kicks Boomy and Kicks Punchy menus.
Snares are from the Snares Vinyl menu.

Vocal: Lead vocals in this were recorded using a Telefunken C12.

Background vocals were recorded using a Neumann 87a.

Synths: The synth parts were created using Logic Pro’s ES2.

Misc Instruments: Handclaps are created from me doing about 40 different takes of handclaps from various different positions around the studio to create more depth.

Song Story:
There’s a bit of history behind this song and it’s long…

In the late 90’s there was a group of investors that were starting up a football league for women. Someone reached out to me and asked if I would write a song that would be a theme for the league. I was given a set of values and ideas that I had to hit on in order for it to be uplifting for the female football league.

Within a couple of days I had whipped up the song. Musically I had envisioned a stadium anthem. Which meant keeping the drums simple, making it easy for people to clap and or stomp along with the song as it could be played over the loud system. For the chorus, I came up with that pretty quick. I wanted it to be easy to sing for anyone, including those who claim to be tone-deaf.

The guitar parts were kept quite simple for the same reason. I wanted any guitar player to be able to pick up a guitar and be able to play it within a matter of minutes. Plus I layered several simple parts to give it a bit more change to it. The hardest part to play likely the lead lick with the vibrato. But even then, it’s not difficult to play.

The verse lyrics took a bit more time. Working on incorporating those values and ideas I had to spend a little time working it so that they would rhyme and work in more of a storyline aspect. It wasn’t overly troublesome, but I did make sure there was progression.

Once it was all put together I sent it along to the contact. The league worked on getting underway, but never got to a point where the song was used for the theme. They never ended up doing a theme and we never signed a deal for it.

Fast forward a few years and I’m going to an LA Kings hockey game with my good buddy Chris Hellstrom. He wanted to get me into hockey, and the best way is for me to go to a live game. I was having a great time. During the game every so often (who am I kidding, very often), they were playing a semi-musical thing that kept shouting “Go Kings Go!”* I told Chris, dude, I have a song that is substantially better than that.

That night when I got home, I pulled out the WPFL theme I had written. I started looking at the files and then went to bed. The next day I started retooling the verse lyrics. I needed them to work for hockey instead of the football. Which required me to pester Chris with questions about hockey and some of the various terms used to talk about what happens on the ice.

A day later, I had it re-tooled. Updated the vocals. Asked Chris to add some bits to the arrangement, then I made a mix of it. Shortly after that I opted to do a version for each major league team in LA at the time. Which mean tweaking it for Basketball as well. A few more days later and I had versions for each team.

Basketball had a huge following and my decision was to use a basketball related photo that I took at a park to be the cover of the release. Then I put the various versions out under the title Do You Want to Play.

Another year or two later I was linked up with Jerry Davis from Fox Sports. I was going to be doing a lot of music for their sports network. During the course of getting the deal done, Jerry asked me how much music I have and in turn I told him how many production music CDs I had. The deal changed in my favor as they would just license my library instead of me writing stuff and them owning it.

While doing that deal I mentioned the song for all the LA teams. Jerry liked it, but felt Fox couldn’t make use of it. He felt strongly about it, and pushed it out to the head of marketing for the NBA, then gave her my contact info. She contacted me and we spoke about the song and what else I was doing musically. She asked me if I could do a version of the song for the WNBA and the D League. I had to ask what the D League was. She explained and I said sure I can. She also wanted to have me come play at halftime events at various live games; based on a tour that I was supposed to be doing at that time. It was going to be a huge plus.

While pulling the song out again for doing those two versions, I got a wild notion that I should just do a version for every team in all 3 of the basketball leagues. That’s what I did. I started keeping track of each team, and swapping out vocals for each one.

Once done, I sent them all to her and it was a bit overwhelming for her.

Unfortunately the tour didn’t happen, and thus the live halftimes didn’t materialize. But I had the ability to use the songs as I owned it. So I started releasing the versions for each league. They did well on their own without me pushing them.

Years later, I’m still occasionally updating the song for new teams that arise over time. Much like this one for the Lehi Pioneers. The question might be, why would you do a version for a High School team? The answer is, for my girlfriend who is the assistant principal at Lehi High. You know, the place, kinda made famous by the original Footloose movie starring Kevin Bacon. Oddly, I’ve been to more of their games than I attended in my own high school.

Factoids:

Copyright: 20070201

ISRC: USONR1900017
ISRC: USONR1900045

ISWC: T9298558857

SESAC Song ID: 59085276

Harry Fox ID: DA2EVT
Harry Fox Publisher ID: P8938Q

UPC: 193829730972
UPC: 193829729457

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Do You Want To Play Texas Legends

[hook]
The Legends are here today
Doing it for their fans and what they want to say
Is Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

[verse]
We’re gonna stand up (stand up)
Not sit down (sit down)
Ain’t tired of all this running around
We’re gonna jump up (jump up)
And block shots (block shots)
Ain’t no baskets to be giving away

[hook]
The Legends are here today
Doing it for their fans and what they want to say
Is Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

[verse]
There’s a foul line (foul line)
And overtime (overtime)
Ain’t backin down from either side
There’s warrior cries (warrior cries)
And aggressive eyes (aggressive eyes)
Ain’t lettin fear get in our minds

[hook]
The Legends are here today
Doing it for their fans and what they want to say
Is Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

[verse]
We got a special class (special class)
And Fancy Flash (fancy flash)
Staking our claim while we’re talking some trash
We got some new blood (new blood)
And great one (great ones)
Pushing the edge to get that championship

[hook]
The Legends are here today
Doing it for their fans and what they want to say
Is Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

[outro]
Do You (Do You)
Do You (Do You)
Do You (Do You)
Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

Song Length: 3:14

Writer: Jody Whitesides IPI/CAE 00196306650
Publisher: Too Much Music IPI/CAE 00456952518
Admin Publisher (Outside U.S.): Bluewater Music

Jody Whitesides: Lead Vocals, Backing Vocals, Guitars, Bass, Drum Programming, Claps, Synths
Chris Hellstrom: Additional Synths

Recording Info:
Cover Art: Jody Whitesides
Recording Engineer: Jody Whitesides
Mixing Engineer: Jody Whitesides
Mastering Engineer 2025: Jody Whitesides
Mastering Engineer 2007: George Leger III
Vocal Engineer: Jody Whitesides
Additional Production: Chris Hellstrom
Producer: Jody Whitesides Guitar(s): Left side guitar: Desert Guitar: my first guitar which was a Fender “Japocaster” as it used to be referred as, the only original thing is the body. Everything else has been replaced or modified. Think of the Van Halen Frankenstein guitar only this one has a Desert landscape for a paint job. A single Seymour Duncan Custom Custom hum-bucker pickup. Standard bridge. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steels medium gauge.

Right side guitar: Joe’s Guitar with Jesus paint job: This guitar has a Seymour Duncan Custom Custom pickup and a Cool Rails in the neck position. It has a Wilkinson Tremelo installed by Trev Wilkinson himself. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steel medium gauge strings. I used the bridge pickup for this sound.

Vibrato lick guitar: Joe’s Guitar Whitesides Viper 7 Redwood: This is a custom 7-string guitar that Justin built for me to specifications for the neck. The body is two different woods, the back of the body is alder with a redwood top. The neck is maple with a bubinga fingerboard, jumbo frets. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steels. The bridge pickup is a custom built Seymour Duncan Custom Custom, made specifically for me prior to 7-string guitar pickups becoming an actual line. Thus it’s pieced together by Seymour’s custom pickup department. The neck is a stacked humbucker, also created by Seymour Duncan’s custom pickup department. This was voiced to be more like a custom.

Extra guitar chorus: Joe’s Guitar with Jesus paint job: This guitar has a Seymour Duncan Custom Custom pickup and a Cool Rails. It also has a Wilkinson Tremelo installed by Trev Wilkinson himself. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steel medium gauge strings. This part is using the Cool Rails pickup in the neck position.

The Amp Setup:
GrooveTubes Solo 150 head
GrooveTubes Dual 75 Poweramp that has been modified to be true stereo
GrooveTubes 2 x 10″ cabs
I had KT88’s on one side of the Dual 75 and EL34’s on the other side

The cab was mic’d with an SM57 Beta on the grill center of the cone

Bass(s): Hohner B Bass V. Strings were Dean Markley Blue Steels. This was run thru a Line 6 Bass Pod Pro. Two outputs, one that was direct out and one that was an amp sim from the Line 6 Bass Pod Pro to give it some grit.

Additional Bass sounds were done with the ESM from Logic Pro

Drums: Drums are sequenced from samples out of Stylus RMX by SpectraSonics.
Kicks are from the Kicks Boomy and Kicks Punchy menus.
Snares are from the Snares Vinyl menu.

Vocal: Lead vocals in this were recorded using a Telefunken C12.

Background vocals were recorded using a Neumann 87a.

Synths: The synth parts were created using Logic Pro’s ES2.

Misc Instruments: Handclaps are created from me doing about 40 different takes of handclaps from various different positions around the studio to create more depth.

Song Story:
There’s a bit of history behind this song and it’s long…

In the late 90’s there was a group of investors that were starting up a football league for women. Someone reached out to me and asked if I would write a song that would be a theme for the league. I was given a set of values and ideas that I had to hit on in order for it to be uplifting for the female football league.

Within a couple of days I had whipped up the song. Musically I had envisioned a stadium anthem. Which meant keeping the drums simple, making it easy for people to clap and or stomp along with the song as it could be played over the loud system. For the chorus, I came up with that pretty quick. I wanted it to be easy to sing for anyone, including those who claim to be tone-deaf.

The guitar parts were kept quite simple for the same reason. I wanted any guitar player to be able to pick up a guitar and be able to play it within a matter of minutes. Plus I layered several simple parts to give it a bit more change to it. The hardest part to play likely the lead lick with the vibrato. But even then, it’s not difficult to play.

The verse lyrics took a bit more time. Working on incorporating those values and ideas I had to spend a little time working it so that they would rhyme and work in more of a storyline aspect. It wasn’t overly troublesome, but I did make sure there was progression.

Once it was all put together I sent it along to the contact. The league worked on getting underway, but never got to a point where the song was used for the theme. They never ended up doing a theme and we never signed a deal for it.

Fast forward a few years and I’m going to an LA Kings hockey game with my good buddy Chris Hellstrom. He wanted to get me into hockey, and the best way is for me to go to a live game. I was having a great time. During the game every so often (who am I kidding, very often), they were playing a semi-musical thing that kept shouting “Go Kings Go!”* I told Chris, dude, I have a song that is substantially better than that.

That night when I got home, I pulled out the WPFL theme I had written. I started looking at the files and then went to bed. The next day I started retooling the verse lyrics. I needed them to work for hockey instead of the football. Which required me to pester Chris with questions about hockey and some of the various terms used to talk about what happens on the ice.

A day later, I had it re-tooled. Updated the vocals. Asked Chris to add some bits to the arrangement, then I made a mix of it. Shortly after that I opted to do a version for each major league team in LA at the time. Which mean tweaking it for Basketball as well. A few more days later and I had versions for each team.

Basketball had a huge following and my decision was to use a basketball related photo that I took at a park to be the cover of the release. Then I put the various versions out under the title Do You Want to Play.

Another year or two later I was linked up with Jerry Davis from Fox Sports. I was going to be doing a lot of music for their sports network. During the course of getting the deal done, Jerry asked me how much music I have and in turn I told him how many production music CDs I had. The deal changed in my favor as they would just license my library instead of me writing stuff and them owning it.

While doing that deal I mentioned the song for all the LA teams. Jerry liked it, but felt Fox couldn’t make use of it. He felt strongly about it, and pushed it out to the head of marketing for the NBA, then gave her my contact info. She contacted me and we spoke about the song and what else I was doing musically. She asked me if I could do a version of the song for the WNBA and the D League. I had to ask what the D League was. She explained and I said sure I can. She also wanted to have me come play at halftime events at various live games; based on a tour that I was supposed to be doing at that time. It was going to be a huge plus.

While pulling the song out again for doing those two versions, I got a wild notion that I should just do a version for every team in all 3 of the basketball leagues. That’s what I did. I started keeping track of each team, and swapping out vocals for each one.

Once done, I sent them all to her and it was a bit overwhelming for her.

Unfortunately the tour didn’t happen, and thus the live halftimes didn’t materialize. But I had the ability to use the songs as I owned it. So I started releasing the versions for each league. They did well on their own without me pushing them.

Years later, I’m still occasionally updating the song for new teams that arise over time. Much like this one for the Lehi Pioneers. The question might be, why would you do a version for a High School team? The answer is, for my girlfriend who is the assistant principal at Lehi High. You know, the place, kinda made famous by the original Footloose movie starring Kevin Bacon. Oddly, I’ve been to more of their games than I attended in my own high school.

Factoids:

Copyright: 20070201

ISRC: USONR1900018
ISRC: USONR1900046

ISWC: T9298558879

SESAC Song ID: 59085277

Harry Fox ID: DA2EVN
Harry Fox Publisher ID: P8938Q

UPC: 193829730972
UPC: 193829729457

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Do You Want To Play Fort Wayne Mad Ants

[hook]
The Mad Ants are here today
Doing it for their fans and what they want to say
Is Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

[verse]
We’re gonna stand up (stand up)
Not sit down (sit down)
Ain’t tired of all this running around
We’re gonna jump up (jump up)
And block shots (block shots)
Ain’t no baskets to be giving away

[hook]
The Mad Ants are here today
Doing it for their fans and what they want to say
Is Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

[verse]
There’s a foul line (foul line)
And overtime (overtime)
Ain’t backin down from either side
There’s warrior cries (warrior cries)
And aggressive eyes (aggressive eyes)
Ain’t lettin fear get in our minds

[hook]
The Mad Ants are here today
Doing it for their fans and what they want to say
Is Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

[verse]
We got a special class (special class)
And Fancy Flash (fancy flash)
Staking our claim while we’re talking some trash
We got some new blood (new blood)
And great one (great ones)
Pushing the edge to get that championship

[hook]
The Mad Ants are here today
Doing it for their fans and what they want to say
Is Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

[outro]
Do You (Do You)
Do You (Do You)
Do You (Do You)
Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

Song Length: 3:14

Writer: Jody Whitesides IPI/CAE 00196306650
Publisher: Too Much Music IPI/CAE 00456952518
Admin Publisher (Outside U.S.): Bluewater Music

Jody Whitesides: Lead Vocals, Backing Vocals, Guitars, Bass, Drum Programming, Claps, Synths
Chris Hellstrom: Additional Synths

Recording Info:
Cover Art: Jody Whitesides
Recording Engineer: Jody Whitesides
Mixing Engineer: Jody Whitesides
Mastering Engineer 2025: Jody Whitesides
Mastering Engineer 2007: George Leger III
Vocal Engineer: Jody Whitesides
Additional Production: Chris Hellstrom
Producer: Jody Whitesides Guitar(s): Left side guitar: Desert Guitar: my first guitar which was a Fender “Japocaster” as it used to be referred as, the only original thing is the body. Everything else has been replaced or modified. Think of the Van Halen Frankenstein guitar only this one has a Desert landscape for a paint job. A single Seymour Duncan Custom Custom hum-bucker pickup. Standard bridge. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steels medium gauge.

Right side guitar: Joe’s Guitar with Jesus paint job: This guitar has a Seymour Duncan Custom Custom pickup and a Cool Rails in the neck position. It has a Wilkinson Tremelo installed by Trev Wilkinson himself. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steel medium gauge strings. I used the bridge pickup for this sound.

Vibrato lick guitar: Joe’s Guitar Whitesides Viper 7 Redwood: This is a custom 7-string guitar that Justin built for me to specifications for the neck. The body is two different woods, the back of the body is alder with a redwood top. The neck is maple with a bubinga fingerboard, jumbo frets. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steels. The bridge pickup is a custom built Seymour Duncan Custom Custom, made specifically for me prior to 7-string guitar pickups becoming an actual line. Thus it’s pieced together by Seymour’s custom pickup department. The neck is a stacked humbucker, also created by Seymour Duncan’s custom pickup department. This was voiced to be more like a custom.

Extra guitar chorus: Joe’s Guitar with Jesus paint job: This guitar has a Seymour Duncan Custom Custom pickup and a Cool Rails. It also has a Wilkinson Tremelo installed by Trev Wilkinson himself. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steel medium gauge strings. This part is using the Cool Rails pickup in the neck position.

The Amp Setup:
GrooveTubes Solo 150 head
GrooveTubes Dual 75 Poweramp that has been modified to be true stereo
GrooveTubes 2 x 10″ cabs
I had KT88’s on one side of the Dual 75 and EL34’s on the other side

The cab was mic’d with an SM57 Beta on the grill center of the cone

Bass(s): Hohner B Bass V. Strings were Dean Markley Blue Steels. This was run thru a Line 6 Bass Pod Pro. Two outputs, one that was direct out and one that was an amp sim from the Line 6 Bass Pod Pro to give it some grit.

Additional Bass sounds were done with the ESM from Logic Pro

Drums: Drums are sequenced from samples out of Stylus RMX by SpectraSonics.
Kicks are from the Kicks Boomy and Kicks Punchy menus.
Snares are from the Snares Vinyl menu.

Vocal: Lead vocals in this were recorded using a Telefunken C12.

Background vocals were recorded using a Neumann 87a.

Synths: The synth parts were created using Logic Pro’s ES2.

Misc Instruments: Handclaps are created from me doing about 40 different takes of handclaps from various different positions around the studio to create more depth.

Song Story:
There’s a bit of history behind this song and it’s long…

In the late 90’s there was a group of investors that were starting up a football league for women. Someone reached out to me and asked if I would write a song that would be a theme for the league. I was given a set of values and ideas that I had to hit on in order for it to be uplifting for the female football league.

Within a couple of days I had whipped up the song. Musically I had envisioned a stadium anthem. Which meant keeping the drums simple, making it easy for people to clap and or stomp along with the song as it could be played over the loud system. For the chorus, I came up with that pretty quick. I wanted it to be easy to sing for anyone, including those who claim to be tone-deaf.

The guitar parts were kept quite simple for the same reason. I wanted any guitar player to be able to pick up a guitar and be able to play it within a matter of minutes. Plus I layered several simple parts to give it a bit more change to it. The hardest part to play likely the lead lick with the vibrato. But even then, it’s not difficult to play.

The verse lyrics took a bit more time. Working on incorporating those values and ideas I had to spend a little time working it so that they would rhyme and work in more of a storyline aspect. It wasn’t overly troublesome, but I did make sure there was progression.

Once it was all put together I sent it along to the contact. The league worked on getting underway, but never got to a point where the song was used for the theme. They never ended up doing a theme and we never signed a deal for it.

Fast forward a few years and I’m going to an LA Kings hockey game with my good buddy Chris Hellstrom. He wanted to get me into hockey, and the best way is for me to go to a live game. I was having a great time. During the game every so often (who am I kidding, very often), they were playing a semi-musical thing that kept shouting “Go Kings Go!”* I told Chris, dude, I have a song that is substantially better than that.

That night when I got home, I pulled out the WPFL theme I had written. I started looking at the files and then went to bed. The next day I started retooling the verse lyrics. I needed them to work for hockey instead of the football. Which required me to pester Chris with questions about hockey and some of the various terms used to talk about what happens on the ice.

A day later, I had it re-tooled. Updated the vocals. Asked Chris to add some bits to the arrangement, then I made a mix of it. Shortly after that I opted to do a version for each major league team in LA at the time. Which mean tweaking it for Basketball as well. A few more days later and I had versions for each team.

Basketball had a huge following and my decision was to use a basketball related photo that I took at a park to be the cover of the release. Then I put the various versions out under the title Do You Want to Play.

Another year or two later I was linked up with Jerry Davis from Fox Sports. I was going to be doing a lot of music for their sports network. During the course of getting the deal done, Jerry asked me how much music I have and in turn I told him how many production music CDs I had. The deal changed in my favor as they would just license my library instead of me writing stuff and them owning it.

While doing that deal I mentioned the song for all the LA teams. Jerry liked it, but felt Fox couldn’t make use of it. He felt strongly about it, and pushed it out to the head of marketing for the NBA, then gave her my contact info. She contacted me and we spoke about the song and what else I was doing musically. She asked me if I could do a version of the song for the WNBA and the D League. I had to ask what the D League was. She explained and I said sure I can. She also wanted to have me come play at halftime events at various live games; based on a tour that I was supposed to be doing at that time. It was going to be a huge plus.

While pulling the song out again for doing those two versions, I got a wild notion that I should just do a version for every team in all 3 of the basketball leagues. That’s what I did. I started keeping track of each team, and swapping out vocals for each one.

Once done, I sent them all to her and it was a bit overwhelming for her.

Unfortunately the tour didn’t happen, and thus the live halftimes didn’t materialize. But I had the ability to use the songs as I owned it. So I started releasing the versions for each league. They did well on their own without me pushing them.

Years later, I’m still occasionally updating the song for new teams that arise over time. Much like this one for the Lehi Pioneers. The question might be, why would you do a version for a High School team? The answer is, for my girlfriend who is the assistant principal at Lehi High. You know, the place, kinda made famous by the original Footloose movie starring Kevin Bacon. Oddly, I’ve been to more of their games than I attended in my own high school.

Factoids:

Copyright: 20070201

ISRC: USONR1900019
ISRC: USONR1900047

ISWC: T9055766206

SESAC Song ID: 51778348

Harry Fox ID: D91190
Harry Fox Publisher ID: P8938Q

UPC: 193829730972
UPC: 193829729457

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Do You Want To Play Lakeland Magic

[hook]
The Magic are here today
Doing it for their fans and what they want to say
Is Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

[verse]
We’re gonna stand up (stand up)
Not sit down (sit down)
Ain’t tired of all this running around
We’re gonna jump up (jump up)
And block shots (block shots)
Ain’t no baskets to be giving away

[hook]
The Magic are here today
Doing it for their fans and what they want to say
Is Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

[verse]
There’s a foul line (foul line)
And overtime (overtime)
Ain’t backin down from either side
There’s warrior cries (warrior cries)
And aggressive eyes (aggressive eyes)
Ain’t lettin fear get in our minds

[hook]
The Magic are here today
Doing it for their fans and what they want to say
Is Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

[verse]
We got a special class (special class)
And Fancy Flash (fancy flash)
Staking our claim while we’re talking some trash
We got some new blood (new blood)
And great one (great ones)
Pushing the edge to get that championship

[hook]
The Magic are here today
Doing it for their fans and what they want to say
Is Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

[outro]
Do You (Do You)
Do You (Do You)
Do You (Do You)
Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

Song Length: 3:14

Writer: Jody Whitesides IPI/CAE 00196306650
Publisher: Too Much Music IPI/CAE 00456952518
Admin Publisher (Outside U.S.): Bluewater Music

Jody Whitesides: Lead Vocals, Backing Vocals, Guitars, Bass, Drum Programming, Claps, Synths
Chris Hellstrom: Additional Synths

Recording Info:
Cover Art: Jody Whitesides
Recording Engineer: Jody Whitesides
Mixing Engineer: Jody Whitesides
Mastering Engineer 2025: Jody Whitesides
Mastering Engineer 2007: George Leger III
Vocal Engineer: Jody Whitesides
Additional Production: Chris Hellstrom
Producer: Jody Whitesides Guitar(s): Left side guitar: Desert Guitar: my first guitar which was a Fender “Japocaster” as it used to be referred as, the only original thing is the body. Everything else has been replaced or modified. Think of the Van Halen Frankenstein guitar only this one has a Desert landscape for a paint job. A single Seymour Duncan Custom Custom hum-bucker pickup. Standard bridge. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steels medium gauge.

Right side guitar: Joe’s Guitar with Jesus paint job: This guitar has a Seymour Duncan Custom Custom pickup and a Cool Rails in the neck position. It has a Wilkinson Tremelo installed by Trev Wilkinson himself. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steel medium gauge strings. I used the bridge pickup for this sound.

Vibrato lick guitar: Joe’s Guitar Whitesides Viper 7 Redwood: This is a custom 7-string guitar that Justin built for me to specifications for the neck. The body is two different woods, the back of the body is alder with a redwood top. The neck is maple with a bubinga fingerboard, jumbo frets. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steels. The bridge pickup is a custom built Seymour Duncan Custom Custom, made specifically for me prior to 7-string guitar pickups becoming an actual line. Thus it’s pieced together by Seymour’s custom pickup department. The neck is a stacked humbucker, also created by Seymour Duncan’s custom pickup department. This was voiced to be more like a custom.

Extra guitar chorus: Joe’s Guitar with Jesus paint job: This guitar has a Seymour Duncan Custom Custom pickup and a Cool Rails. It also has a Wilkinson Tremelo installed by Trev Wilkinson himself. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steel medium gauge strings. This part is using the Cool Rails pickup in the neck position.

The Amp Setup:
GrooveTubes Solo 150 head
GrooveTubes Dual 75 Poweramp that has been modified to be true stereo
GrooveTubes 2 x 10″ cabs
I had KT88’s on one side of the Dual 75 and EL34’s on the other side

The cab was mic’d with an SM57 Beta on the grill center of the cone

Bass(s): Hohner B Bass V. Strings were Dean Markley Blue Steels. This was run thru a Line 6 Bass Pod Pro. Two outputs, one that was direct out and one that was an amp sim from the Line 6 Bass Pod Pro to give it some grit.

Additional Bass sounds were done with the ESM from Logic Pro

Drums: Drums are sequenced from samples out of Stylus RMX by SpectraSonics.
Kicks are from the Kicks Boomy and Kicks Punchy menus.
Snares are from the Snares Vinyl menu.

Vocal: Lead vocals in this were recorded using a Telefunken C12.

Background vocals were recorded using a Neumann 87a.

Synths: The synth parts were created using Logic Pro’s ES2.

Misc Instruments: Handclaps are created from me doing about 40 different takes of handclaps from various different positions around the studio to create more depth.

Song Story:
There’s a bit of history behind this song and it’s long…

In the late 90’s there was a group of investors that were starting up a football league for women. Someone reached out to me and asked if I would write a song that would be a theme for the league. I was given a set of values and ideas that I had to hit on in order for it to be uplifting for the female football league.

Within a couple of days I had whipped up the song. Musically I had envisioned a stadium anthem. Which meant keeping the drums simple, making it easy for people to clap and or stomp along with the song as it could be played over the loud system. For the chorus, I came up with that pretty quick. I wanted it to be easy to sing for anyone, including those who claim to be tone-deaf.

The guitar parts were kept quite simple for the same reason. I wanted any guitar player to be able to pick up a guitar and be able to play it within a matter of minutes. Plus I layered several simple parts to give it a bit more change to it. The hardest part to play likely the lead lick with the vibrato. But even then, it’s not difficult to play.

The verse lyrics took a bit more time. Working on incorporating those values and ideas I had to spend a little time working it so that they would rhyme and work in more of a storyline aspect. It wasn’t overly troublesome, but I did make sure there was progression.

Once it was all put together I sent it along to the contact. The league worked on getting underway, but never got to a point where the song was used for the theme. They never ended up doing a theme and we never signed a deal for it.

Fast forward a few years and I’m going to an LA Kings hockey game with my good buddy Chris Hellstrom. He wanted to get me into hockey, and the best way is for me to go to a live game. I was having a great time. During the game every so often (who am I kidding, very often), they were playing a semi-musical thing that kept shouting “Go Kings Go!”* I told Chris, dude, I have a song that is substantially better than that.

That night when I got home, I pulled out the WPFL theme I had written. I started looking at the files and then went to bed. The next day I started retooling the verse lyrics. I needed them to work for hockey instead of the football. Which required me to pester Chris with questions about hockey and some of the various terms used to talk about what happens on the ice.

A day later, I had it re-tooled. Updated the vocals. Asked Chris to add some bits to the arrangement, then I made a mix of it. Shortly after that I opted to do a version for each major league team in LA at the time. Which mean tweaking it for Basketball as well. A few more days later and I had versions for each team.

Basketball had a huge following and my decision was to use a basketball related photo that I took at a park to be the cover of the release. Then I put the various versions out under the title Do You Want to Play.

Another year or two later I was linked up with Jerry Davis from Fox Sports. I was going to be doing a lot of music for their sports network. During the course of getting the deal done, Jerry asked me how much music I have and in turn I told him how many production music CDs I had. The deal changed in my favor as they would just license my library instead of me writing stuff and them owning it.

While doing that deal I mentioned the song for all the LA teams. Jerry liked it, but felt Fox couldn’t make use of it. He felt strongly about it, and pushed it out to the head of marketing for the NBA, then gave her my contact info. She contacted me and we spoke about the song and what else I was doing musically. She asked me if I could do a version of the song for the WNBA and the D League. I had to ask what the D League was. She explained and I said sure I can. She also wanted to have me come play at halftime events at various live games; based on a tour that I was supposed to be doing at that time. It was going to be a huge plus.

While pulling the song out again for doing those two versions, I got a wild notion that I should just do a version for every team in all 3 of the basketball leagues. That’s what I did. I started keeping track of each team, and swapping out vocals for each one.

Once done, I sent them all to her and it was a bit overwhelming for her.

Unfortunately the tour didn’t happen, and thus the live halftimes didn’t materialize. But I had the ability to use the songs as I owned it. So I started releasing the versions for each league. They did well on their own without me pushing them.

Years later, I’m still occasionally updating the song for new teams that arise over time. Much like this one for the Lehi Pioneers. The question might be, why would you do a version for a High School team? The answer is, for my girlfriend who is the assistant principal at Lehi High. You know, the place, kinda made famous by the original Footloose movie starring Kevin Bacon. Oddly, I’ve been to more of their games than I attended in my own high school.

Factoids:

Copyright: 20070201

ISRC: USONR1900020
ISRC: USONR1900048

ISWC: T9298558766

SESAC Song ID: 59085280

Harry Fox ID: DA2EVK
Harry Fox Publisher ID: P8938Q

UPC: 193829730972
UPC: 193829729457

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Do You Want To Play Long Island Nets

[hook]
The Nets are here today
Doing it for their fans and what they want to say
Is Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

[verse]
We’re gonna stand up (stand up)
Not sit down (sit down)
Ain’t tired of all this running around
We’re gonna jump up (jump up)
And block shots (block shots)
Ain’t no baskets to be giving away

[hook]
The Nets are here today
Doing it for their fans and what they want to say
Is Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

[verse]
There’s a foul line (foul line)
And overtime (overtime)
Ain’t backin down from either side
There’s warrior cries (warrior cries)
And aggressive eyes (aggressive eyes)
Ain’t lettin fear get in our minds

[hook]
The Nets are here today
Doing it for their fans and what they want to say
Is Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

[verse]
We got a special class (special class)
And Fancy Flash (fancy flash)
Staking our claim while we’re talking some trash
We got some new blood (new blood)
And great one (great ones)
Pushing the edge to get that championship

[hook]
The Nets are here today
Doing it for their fans and what they want to say
Is Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

[outro]
Do You (Do You)
Do You (Do You)
Do You (Do You)
Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

Song Length: 3:14

Writer: Jody Whitesides IPI/CAE 00196306650
Publisher: Too Much Music IPI/CAE 00456952518
Admin Publisher (Outside U.S.): Bluewater Music

Jody Whitesides: Lead Vocals, Backing Vocals, Guitars, Bass, Drum Programming, Claps, Synths
Chris Hellstrom: Additional Synths

Recording Info:
Cover Art: Jody Whitesides
Recording Engineer: Jody Whitesides
Mixing Engineer: Jody Whitesides
Mastering Engineer 2025: Jody Whitesides
Mastering Engineer 2007: George Leger III
Vocal Engineer: Jody Whitesides
Additional Production: Chris Hellstrom
Producer: Jody Whitesides Guitar(s): Left side guitar: Desert Guitar: my first guitar which was a Fender “Japocaster” as it used to be referred as, the only original thing is the body. Everything else has been replaced or modified. Think of the Van Halen Frankenstein guitar only this one has a Desert landscape for a paint job. A single Seymour Duncan Custom Custom hum-bucker pickup. Standard bridge. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steels medium gauge.

Right side guitar: Joe’s Guitar with Jesus paint job: This guitar has a Seymour Duncan Custom Custom pickup and a Cool Rails in the neck position. It has a Wilkinson Tremelo installed by Trev Wilkinson himself. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steel medium gauge strings. I used the bridge pickup for this sound.

Vibrato lick guitar: Joe’s Guitar Whitesides Viper 7 Redwood: This is a custom 7-string guitar that Justin built for me to specifications for the neck. The body is two different woods, the back of the body is alder with a redwood top. The neck is maple with a bubinga fingerboard, jumbo frets. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steels. The bridge pickup is a custom built Seymour Duncan Custom Custom, made specifically for me prior to 7-string guitar pickups becoming an actual line. Thus it’s pieced together by Seymour’s custom pickup department. The neck is a stacked humbucker, also created by Seymour Duncan’s custom pickup department. This was voiced to be more like a custom.

Extra guitar chorus: Joe’s Guitar with Jesus paint job: This guitar has a Seymour Duncan Custom Custom pickup and a Cool Rails. It also has a Wilkinson Tremelo installed by Trev Wilkinson himself. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steel medium gauge strings. This part is using the Cool Rails pickup in the neck position.

The Amp Setup:
GrooveTubes Solo 150 head
GrooveTubes Dual 75 Poweramp that has been modified to be true stereo
GrooveTubes 2 x 10″ cabs
I had KT88’s on one side of the Dual 75 and EL34’s on the other side

The cab was mic’d with an SM57 Beta on the grill center of the cone

Bass(s): Hohner B Bass V. Strings were Dean Markley Blue Steels. This was run thru a Line 6 Bass Pod Pro. Two outputs, one that was direct out and one that was an amp sim from the Line 6 Bass Pod Pro to give it some grit.

Additional Bass sounds were done with the ESM from Logic Pro

Drums: Drums are sequenced from samples out of Stylus RMX by SpectraSonics.
Kicks are from the Kicks Boomy and Kicks Punchy menus.
Snares are from the Snares Vinyl menu.

Vocal: Lead vocals in this were recorded using a Telefunken C12.

Background vocals were recorded using a Neumann 87a.

Synths: The synth parts were created using Logic Pro’s ES2.

Misc Instruments: Handclaps are created from me doing about 40 different takes of handclaps from various different positions around the studio to create more depth.

Song Story:
There’s a bit of history behind this song and it’s long…

In the late 90’s there was a group of investors that were starting up a football league for women. Someone reached out to me and asked if I would write a song that would be a theme for the league. I was given a set of values and ideas that I had to hit on in order for it to be uplifting for the female football league.

Within a couple of days I had whipped up the song. Musically I had envisioned a stadium anthem. Which meant keeping the drums simple, making it easy for people to clap and or stomp along with the song as it could be played over the loud system. For the chorus, I came up with that pretty quick. I wanted it to be easy to sing for anyone, including those who claim to be tone-deaf.

The guitar parts were kept quite simple for the same reason. I wanted any guitar player to be able to pick up a guitar and be able to play it within a matter of minutes. Plus I layered several simple parts to give it a bit more change to it. The hardest part to play likely the lead lick with the vibrato. But even then, it’s not difficult to play.

The verse lyrics took a bit more time. Working on incorporating those values and ideas I had to spend a little time working it so that they would rhyme and work in more of a storyline aspect. It wasn’t overly troublesome, but I did make sure there was progression.

Once it was all put together I sent it along to the contact. The league worked on getting underway, but never got to a point where the song was used for the theme. They never ended up doing a theme and we never signed a deal for it.

Fast forward a few years and I’m going to an LA Kings hockey game with my good buddy Chris Hellstrom. He wanted to get me into hockey, and the best way is for me to go to a live game. I was having a great time. During the game every so often (who am I kidding, very often), they were playing a semi-musical thing that kept shouting “Go Kings Go!”* I told Chris, dude, I have a song that is substantially better than that.

That night when I got home, I pulled out the WPFL theme I had written. I started looking at the files and then went to bed. The next day I started retooling the verse lyrics. I needed them to work for hockey instead of the football. Which required me to pester Chris with questions about hockey and some of the various terms used to talk about what happens on the ice.

A day later, I had it re-tooled. Updated the vocals. Asked Chris to add some bits to the arrangement, then I made a mix of it. Shortly after that I opted to do a version for each major league team in LA at the time. Which mean tweaking it for Basketball as well. A few more days later and I had versions for each team.

Basketball had a huge following and my decision was to use a basketball related photo that I took at a park to be the cover of the release. Then I put the various versions out under the title Do You Want to Play.

Another year or two later I was linked up with Jerry Davis from Fox Sports. I was going to be doing a lot of music for their sports network. During the course of getting the deal done, Jerry asked me how much music I have and in turn I told him how many production music CDs I had. The deal changed in my favor as they would just license my library instead of me writing stuff and them owning it.

While doing that deal I mentioned the song for all the LA teams. Jerry liked it, but felt Fox couldn’t make use of it. He felt strongly about it, and pushed it out to the head of marketing for the NBA, then gave her my contact info. She contacted me and we spoke about the song and what else I was doing musically. She asked me if I could do a version of the song for the WNBA and the D League. I had to ask what the D League was. She explained and I said sure I can. She also wanted to have me come play at halftime events at various live games; based on a tour that I was supposed to be doing at that time. It was going to be a huge plus.

While pulling the song out again for doing those two versions, I got a wild notion that I should just do a version for every team in all 3 of the basketball leagues. That’s what I did. I started keeping track of each team, and swapping out vocals for each one.

Once done, I sent them all to her and it was a bit overwhelming for her.

Unfortunately the tour didn’t happen, and thus the live halftimes didn’t materialize. But I had the ability to use the songs as I owned it. So I started releasing the versions for each league. They did well on their own without me pushing them.

Years later, I’m still occasionally updating the song for new teams that arise over time. Much like this one for the Lehi Pioneers. The question might be, why would you do a version for a High School team? The answer is, for my girlfriend who is the assistant principal at Lehi High. You know, the place, kinda made famous by the original Footloose movie starring Kevin Bacon. Oddly, I’ve been to more of their games than I attended in my own high school.

Factoids:

Copyright: 20070201

ISRC: USONR1900021
ISRC: USONR1900049

ISWC: T9298558777

SESAC Song ID: 59085281

Harry Fox ID: DA2EVY
Harry Fox Publisher ID: P8938Q

UPC: 193829730972
UPC: 193829729457

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Do You Want To Play Maine Red Claws

[hook]
The Red Claws are here today
Doing it for their fans and what they want to say
Is Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

[verse]
We’re gonna stand up (stand up)
Not sit down (sit down)
Ain’t tired of all this running around
We’re gonna jump up (jump up)
And block shots (block shots)
Ain’t no baskets to be giving away

[hook]
The Red Claws are here today
Doing it for their fans and what they want to say
Is Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

[verse]
There’s a foul line (foul line)
And overtime (overtime)
Ain’t backin down from either side
There’s warrior cries (warrior cries)
And aggressive eyes (aggressive eyes)
Ain’t lettin fear get in our minds

[hook]
The Red Claws are here today
Doing it for their fans and what they want to say
Is Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

[verse]
We got a special class (special class)
And Fancy Flash (fancy flash)
Staking our claim while we’re talking some trash
We got some new blood (new blood)
And great one (great ones)
Pushing the edge to get that championship

[hook]
The Red Claws are here today
Doing it for their fans and what they want to say
Is Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

[outro]
Do You (Do You)
Do You (Do You)
Do You (Do You)
Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

Song Length: 3:14

Writer: Jody Whitesides IPI/CAE 00196306650
Publisher: Too Much Music IPI/CAE 00456952518
Admin Publisher (Outside U.S.): Bluewater Music

Jody Whitesides: Lead Vocals, Backing Vocals, Guitars, Bass, Drum Programming, Claps, Synths
Chris Hellstrom: Additional Synths

Recording Info:
Cover Art: Jody Whitesides
Recording Engineer: Jody Whitesides
Mixing Engineer: Jody Whitesides
Mastering Engineer 2025: Jody Whitesides
Mastering Engineer 2007: George Leger III
Vocal Engineer: Jody Whitesides
Additional Production: Chris Hellstrom
Producer: Jody Whitesides Guitar(s): Left side guitar: Desert Guitar: my first guitar which was a Fender “Japocaster” as it used to be referred as, the only original thing is the body. Everything else has been replaced or modified. Think of the Van Halen Frankenstein guitar only this one has a Desert landscape for a paint job. A single Seymour Duncan Custom Custom hum-bucker pickup. Standard bridge. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steels medium gauge.

Right side guitar: Joe’s Guitar with Jesus paint job: This guitar has a Seymour Duncan Custom Custom pickup and a Cool Rails in the neck position. It has a Wilkinson Tremelo installed by Trev Wilkinson himself. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steel medium gauge strings. I used the bridge pickup for this sound.

Vibrato lick guitar: Joe’s Guitar Whitesides Viper 7 Redwood: This is a custom 7-string guitar that Justin built for me to specifications for the neck. The body is two different woods, the back of the body is alder with a redwood top. The neck is maple with a bubinga fingerboard, jumbo frets. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steels. The bridge pickup is a custom built Seymour Duncan Custom Custom, made specifically for me prior to 7-string guitar pickups becoming an actual line. Thus it’s pieced together by Seymour’s custom pickup department. The neck is a stacked humbucker, also created by Seymour Duncan’s custom pickup department. This was voiced to be more like a custom.

Extra guitar chorus: Joe’s Guitar with Jesus paint job: This guitar has a Seymour Duncan Custom Custom pickup and a Cool Rails. It also has a Wilkinson Tremelo installed by Trev Wilkinson himself. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steel medium gauge strings. This part is using the Cool Rails pickup in the neck position.

The Amp Setup:
GrooveTubes Solo 150 head
GrooveTubes Dual 75 Poweramp that has been modified to be true stereo
GrooveTubes 2 x 10″ cabs
I had KT88’s on one side of the Dual 75 and EL34’s on the other side

The cab was mic’d with an SM57 Beta on the grill center of the cone

Bass(s): Hohner B Bass V. Strings were Dean Markley Blue Steels. This was run thru a Line 6 Bass Pod Pro. Two outputs, one that was direct out and one that was an amp sim from the Line 6 Bass Pod Pro to give it some grit.

Additional Bass sounds were done with the ESM from Logic Pro

Drums: Drums are sequenced from samples out of Stylus RMX by SpectraSonics.
Kicks are from the Kicks Boomy and Kicks Punchy menus.
Snares are from the Snares Vinyl menu.

Vocal: Lead vocals in this were recorded using a Telefunken C12.

Background vocals were recorded using a Neumann 87a.

Synths: The synth parts were created using Logic Pro’s ES2.

Misc Instruments: Handclaps are created from me doing about 40 different takes of handclaps from various different positions around the studio to create more depth.

Song Story:
There’s a bit of history behind this song and it’s long…

In the late 90’s there was a group of investors that were starting up a football league for women. Someone reached out to me and asked if I would write a song that would be a theme for the league. I was given a set of values and ideas that I had to hit on in order for it to be uplifting for the female football league.

Within a couple of days I had whipped up the song. Musically I had envisioned a stadium anthem. Which meant keeping the drums simple, making it easy for people to clap and or stomp along with the song as it could be played over the loud system. For the chorus, I came up with that pretty quick. I wanted it to be easy to sing for anyone, including those who claim to be tone-deaf.

The guitar parts were kept quite simple for the same reason. I wanted any guitar player to be able to pick up a guitar and be able to play it within a matter of minutes. Plus I layered several simple parts to give it a bit more change to it. The hardest part to play likely the lead lick with the vibrato. But even then, it’s not difficult to play.

The verse lyrics took a bit more time. Working on incorporating those values and ideas I had to spend a little time working it so that they would rhyme and work in more of a storyline aspect. It wasn’t overly troublesome, but I did make sure there was progression.

Once it was all put together I sent it along to the contact. The league worked on getting underway, but never got to a point where the song was used for the theme. They never ended up doing a theme and we never signed a deal for it.

Fast forward a few years and I’m going to an LA Kings hockey game with my good buddy Chris Hellstrom. He wanted to get me into hockey, and the best way is for me to go to a live game. I was having a great time. During the game every so often (who am I kidding, very often), they were playing a semi-musical thing that kept shouting “Go Kings Go!”* I told Chris, dude, I have a song that is substantially better than that.

That night when I got home, I pulled out the WPFL theme I had written. I started looking at the files and then went to bed. The next day I started retooling the verse lyrics. I needed them to work for hockey instead of the football. Which required me to pester Chris with questions about hockey and some of the various terms used to talk about what happens on the ice.

A day later, I had it re-tooled. Updated the vocals. Asked Chris to add some bits to the arrangement, then I made a mix of it. Shortly after that I opted to do a version for each major league team in LA at the time. Which mean tweaking it for Basketball as well. A few more days later and I had versions for each team.

Basketball had a huge following and my decision was to use a basketball related photo that I took at a park to be the cover of the release. Then I put the various versions out under the title Do You Want to Play.

Another year or two later I was linked up with Jerry Davis from Fox Sports. I was going to be doing a lot of music for their sports network. During the course of getting the deal done, Jerry asked me how much music I have and in turn I told him how many production music CDs I had. The deal changed in my favor as they would just license my library instead of me writing stuff and them owning it.

While doing that deal I mentioned the song for all the LA teams. Jerry liked it, but felt Fox couldn’t make use of it. He felt strongly about it, and pushed it out to the head of marketing for the NBA, then gave her my contact info. She contacted me and we spoke about the song and what else I was doing musically. She asked me if I could do a version of the song for the WNBA and the D League. I had to ask what the D League was. She explained and I said sure I can. She also wanted to have me come play at halftime events at various live games; based on a tour that I was supposed to be doing at that time. It was going to be a huge plus.

While pulling the song out again for doing those two versions, I got a wild notion that I should just do a version for every team in all 3 of the basketball leagues. That’s what I did. I started keeping track of each team, and swapping out vocals for each one.

Once done, I sent them all to her and it was a bit overwhelming for her.

Unfortunately the tour didn’t happen, and thus the live halftimes didn’t materialize. But I had the ability to use the songs as I owned it. So I started releasing the versions for each league. They did well on their own without me pushing them.

Years later, I’m still occasionally updating the song for new teams that arise over time. Much like this one for the Lehi Pioneers. The question might be, why would you do a version for a High School team? The answer is, for my girlfriend who is the assistant principal at Lehi High. You know, the place, kinda made famous by the original Footloose movie starring Kevin Bacon. Oddly, I’ve been to more of their games than I attended in my own high school.

Factoids:

Copyright: 20070201

ISRC: USONR1900022
ISRC: USONR1900050

ISWC: T9298558788

SESAC Song ID: 59085282

Harry Fox ID: DA2EVP
Harry Fox Publisher ID: P8938Q

UPC: 193829730972
UPC: 193829729457

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Do You Want To Play Sioux Falls Skyforce

[hook]
The Skyforce are here today
Doing it for their fans and what they want to say
Is Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

[verse]
We’re gonna stand up (stand up)
Not sit down (sit down)
Ain’t tired of all this running around
We’re gonna jump up (jump up)
And block shots (block shots)
Ain’t no baskets to be giving away

[hook]
The Skyforce are here today
Doing it for their fans and what they want to say
Is Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

[verse]
There’s a foul line (foul line)
And overtime (overtime)
Ain’t backin down from either side
There’s warrior cries (warrior cries)
And aggressive eyes (aggressive eyes)
Ain’t lettin fear get in our minds

[hook]
The Skyforce are here today
Doing it for their fans and what they want to say
Is Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

[verse]
We got a special class (special class)
And Fancy Flash (fancy flash)
Staking our claim while we’re talking some trash
We got some new blood (new blood)
And great one (great ones)
Pushing the edge to get that championship

[hook]
The Skyforce are here today
Doing it for their fans and what they want to say
Is Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

[outro]
Do You (Do You)
Do You (Do You)
Do You (Do You)
Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

Song Length: 3:14

Writer: Jody Whitesides IPI/CAE 00196306650
Publisher: Too Much Music IPI/CAE 00456952518
Admin Publisher (Outside U.S.): Bluewater Music

Jody Whitesides: Lead Vocals, Backing Vocals, Guitars, Bass, Drum Programming, Claps, Synths
Chris Hellstrom: Additional Synths

Recording Info:
Cover Art: Jody Whitesides
Recording Engineer: Jody Whitesides
Mixing Engineer: Jody Whitesides
Mastering Engineer 2025: Jody Whitesides
Mastering Engineer 2007: George Leger III
Vocal Engineer: Jody Whitesides
Additional Production: Chris Hellstrom
Producer: Jody Whitesides Guitar(s): Left side guitar: Desert Guitar: my first guitar which was a Fender “Japocaster” as it used to be referred as, the only original thing is the body. Everything else has been replaced or modified. Think of the Van Halen Frankenstein guitar only this one has a Desert landscape for a paint job. A single Seymour Duncan Custom Custom hum-bucker pickup. Standard bridge. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steels medium gauge.

Right side guitar: Joe’s Guitar with Jesus paint job: This guitar has a Seymour Duncan Custom Custom pickup and a Cool Rails in the neck position. It has a Wilkinson Tremelo installed by Trev Wilkinson himself. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steel medium gauge strings. I used the bridge pickup for this sound.

Vibrato lick guitar: Joe’s Guitar Whitesides Viper 7 Redwood: This is a custom 7-string guitar that Justin built for me to specifications for the neck. The body is two different woods, the back of the body is alder with a redwood top. The neck is maple with a bubinga fingerboard, jumbo frets. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steels. The bridge pickup is a custom built Seymour Duncan Custom Custom, made specifically for me prior to 7-string guitar pickups becoming an actual line. Thus it’s pieced together by Seymour’s custom pickup department. The neck is a stacked humbucker, also created by Seymour Duncan’s custom pickup department. This was voiced to be more like a custom.

Extra guitar chorus: Joe’s Guitar with Jesus paint job: This guitar has a Seymour Duncan Custom Custom pickup and a Cool Rails. It also has a Wilkinson Tremelo installed by Trev Wilkinson himself. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steel medium gauge strings. This part is using the Cool Rails pickup in the neck position.

The Amp Setup:
GrooveTubes Solo 150 head
GrooveTubes Dual 75 Poweramp that has been modified to be true stereo
GrooveTubes 2 x 10″ cabs
I had KT88’s on one side of the Dual 75 and EL34’s on the other side

The cab was mic’d with an SM57 Beta on the grill center of the cone

Bass(s): Hohner B Bass V. Strings were Dean Markley Blue Steels. This was run thru a Line 6 Bass Pod Pro. Two outputs, one that was direct out and one that was an amp sim from the Line 6 Bass Pod Pro to give it some grit.

Additional Bass sounds were done with the ESM from Logic Pro

Drums: Drums are sequenced from samples out of Stylus RMX by SpectraSonics.
Kicks are from the Kicks Boomy and Kicks Punchy menus.
Snares are from the Snares Vinyl menu.

Vocal: Lead vocals in this were recorded using a Telefunken C12.

Background vocals were recorded using a Neumann 87a.

Synths: The synth parts were created using Logic Pro’s ES2.

Misc Instruments: Handclaps are created from me doing about 40 different takes of handclaps from various different positions around the studio to create more depth.

Song Story:
There’s a bit of history behind this song and it’s long…

In the late 90’s there was a group of investors that were starting up a football league for women. Someone reached out to me and asked if I would write a song that would be a theme for the league. I was given a set of values and ideas that I had to hit on in order for it to be uplifting for the female football league.

Within a couple of days I had whipped up the song. Musically I had envisioned a stadium anthem. Which meant keeping the drums simple, making it easy for people to clap and or stomp along with the song as it could be played over the loud system. For the chorus, I came up with that pretty quick. I wanted it to be easy to sing for anyone, including those who claim to be tone-deaf.

The guitar parts were kept quite simple for the same reason. I wanted any guitar player to be able to pick up a guitar and be able to play it within a matter of minutes. Plus I layered several simple parts to give it a bit more change to it. The hardest part to play likely the lead lick with the vibrato. But even then, it’s not difficult to play.

The verse lyrics took a bit more time. Working on incorporating those values and ideas I had to spend a little time working it so that they would rhyme and work in more of a storyline aspect. It wasn’t overly troublesome, but I did make sure there was progression.

Once it was all put together I sent it along to the contact. The league worked on getting underway, but never got to a point where the song was used for the theme. They never ended up doing a theme and we never signed a deal for it.

Fast forward a few years and I’m going to an LA Kings hockey game with my good buddy Chris Hellstrom. He wanted to get me into hockey, and the best way is for me to go to a live game. I was having a great time. During the game every so often (who am I kidding, very often), they were playing a semi-musical thing that kept shouting “Go Kings Go!”* I told Chris, dude, I have a song that is substantially better than that.

That night when I got home, I pulled out the WPFL theme I had written. I started looking at the files and then went to bed. The next day I started retooling the verse lyrics. I needed them to work for hockey instead of the football. Which required me to pester Chris with questions about hockey and some of the various terms used to talk about what happens on the ice.

A day later, I had it re-tooled. Updated the vocals. Asked Chris to add some bits to the arrangement, then I made a mix of it. Shortly after that I opted to do a version for each major league team in LA at the time. Which mean tweaking it for Basketball as well. A few more days later and I had versions for each team.

Basketball had a huge following and my decision was to use a basketball related photo that I took at a park to be the cover of the release. Then I put the various versions out under the title Do You Want to Play.

Another year or two later I was linked up with Jerry Davis from Fox Sports. I was going to be doing a lot of music for their sports network. During the course of getting the deal done, Jerry asked me how much music I have and in turn I told him how many production music CDs I had. The deal changed in my favor as they would just license my library instead of me writing stuff and them owning it.

While doing that deal I mentioned the song for all the LA teams. Jerry liked it, but felt Fox couldn’t make use of it. He felt strongly about it, and pushed it out to the head of marketing for the NBA, then gave her my contact info. She contacted me and we spoke about the song and what else I was doing musically. She asked me if I could do a version of the song for the WNBA and the D League. I had to ask what the D League was. She explained and I said sure I can. She also wanted to have me come play at halftime events at various live games; based on a tour that I was supposed to be doing at that time. It was going to be a huge plus.

While pulling the song out again for doing those two versions, I got a wild notion that I should just do a version for every team in all 3 of the basketball leagues. That’s what I did. I started keeping track of each team, and swapping out vocals for each one.

Once done, I sent them all to her and it was a bit overwhelming for her.

Unfortunately the tour didn’t happen, and thus the live halftimes didn’t materialize. But I had the ability to use the songs as I owned it. So I started releasing the versions for each league. They did well on their own without me pushing them.

Years later, I’m still occasionally updating the song for new teams that arise over time. Much like this one for the Lehi Pioneers. The question might be, why would you do a version for a High School team? The answer is, for my girlfriend who is the assistant principal at Lehi High. You know, the place, kinda made famous by the original Footloose movie starring Kevin Bacon. Oddly, I’ve been to more of their games than I attended in my own high school.

Factoids:

Copyright: 20070201

ISRC: USONR1900023
ISRC: USONR1900051

ISWC: T9055766217

SESAC Song ID: 51778383

Harry Fox ID: D9119Z
Harry Fox Publisher ID: P8938Q

UPC: 193829730972
UPC: 193829729457

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Do You Want To Play Austin Spurs

[hook]
The Spurs are here today
Doing it for their fans and what they want to say
Is Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

[verse]
We’re gonna stand up (stand up)
Not sit down (sit down)
Ain’t tired of all this running around
We’re gonna jump up (jump up)
And block shots (block shots)
Ain’t no baskets to be giving away

[hook]
The Spurs are here today
Doing it for their fans and what they want to say
Is Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

[verse]
There’s a foul line (foul line)
And overtime (overtime)
Ain’t backin down from either side
There’s warrior cries (warrior cries)
And aggressive eyes (aggressive eyes)
Ain’t lettin fear get in our minds

[hook]
The Spurs are here today
Doing it for their fans and what they want to say
Is Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

[verse]
We got a special class (special class)
And Fancy Flash (fancy flash)
Staking our claim while we’re talking some trash
We got some new blood (new blood)
And great one (great ones)
Pushing the edge to get that championship

[hook]
The Spurs are here today
Doing it for their fans and what they want to say
Is Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

[outro]
Do You (Do You)
Do You (Do You)
Do You (Do You)
Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

Song Length: 3:14

Writer: Jody Whitesides IPI/CAE 00196306650
Publisher: Too Much Music IPI/CAE 00456952518
Admin Publisher (Outside U.S.): Bluewater Music

Jody Whitesides: Lead Vocals, Backing Vocals, Guitars, Bass, Drum Programming, Claps, Synths
Chris Hellstrom: Additional Synths

Recording Info:
Cover Art: Jody Whitesides
Recording Engineer: Jody Whitesides
Mixing Engineer: Jody Whitesides
Mastering Engineer 2025: Jody Whitesides
Mastering Engineer 2007: George Leger III
Vocal Engineer: Jody Whitesides
Additional Production: Chris Hellstrom
Producer: Jody Whitesides Guitar(s): Left side guitar: Desert Guitar: my first guitar which was a Fender “Japocaster” as it used to be referred as, the only original thing is the body. Everything else has been replaced or modified. Think of the Van Halen Frankenstein guitar only this one has a Desert landscape for a paint job. A single Seymour Duncan Custom Custom hum-bucker pickup. Standard bridge. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steels medium gauge.

Right side guitar: Joe’s Guitar with Jesus paint job: This guitar has a Seymour Duncan Custom Custom pickup and a Cool Rails in the neck position. It has a Wilkinson Tremelo installed by Trev Wilkinson himself. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steel medium gauge strings. I used the bridge pickup for this sound.

Vibrato lick guitar: Joe’s Guitar Whitesides Viper 7 Redwood: This is a custom 7-string guitar that Justin built for me to specifications for the neck. The body is two different woods, the back of the body is alder with a redwood top. The neck is maple with a bubinga fingerboard, jumbo frets. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steels. The bridge pickup is a custom built Seymour Duncan Custom Custom, made specifically for me prior to 7-string guitar pickups becoming an actual line. Thus it’s pieced together by Seymour’s custom pickup department. The neck is a stacked humbucker, also created by Seymour Duncan’s custom pickup department. This was voiced to be more like a custom.

Extra guitar chorus: Joe’s Guitar with Jesus paint job: This guitar has a Seymour Duncan Custom Custom pickup and a Cool Rails. It also has a Wilkinson Tremelo installed by Trev Wilkinson himself. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steel medium gauge strings. This part is using the Cool Rails pickup in the neck position.

The Amp Setup:
GrooveTubes Solo 150 head
GrooveTubes Dual 75 Poweramp that has been modified to be true stereo
GrooveTubes 2 x 10″ cabs
I had KT88’s on one side of the Dual 75 and EL34’s on the other side

The cab was mic’d with an SM57 Beta on the grill center of the cone

Bass(s): Hohner B Bass V. Strings were Dean Markley Blue Steels. This was run thru a Line 6 Bass Pod Pro. Two outputs, one that was direct out and one that was an amp sim from the Line 6 Bass Pod Pro to give it some grit.

Additional Bass sounds were done with the ESM from Logic Pro

Drums: Drums are sequenced from samples out of Stylus RMX by SpectraSonics.
Kicks are from the Kicks Boomy and Kicks Punchy menus.
Snares are from the Snares Vinyl menu.

Vocal: Lead vocals in this were recorded using a Telefunken C12.

Background vocals were recorded using a Neumann 87a.

Synths: The synth parts were created using Logic Pro’s ES2.

Misc Instruments: Handclaps are created from me doing about 40 different takes of handclaps from various different positions around the studio to create more depth.

Song Story:
There’s a bit of history behind this song and it’s long…

In the late 90’s there was a group of investors that were starting up a football league for women. Someone reached out to me and asked if I would write a song that would be a theme for the league. I was given a set of values and ideas that I had to hit on in order for it to be uplifting for the female football league.

Within a couple of days I had whipped up the song. Musically I had envisioned a stadium anthem. Which meant keeping the drums simple, making it easy for people to clap and or stomp along with the song as it could be played over the loud system. For the chorus, I came up with that pretty quick. I wanted it to be easy to sing for anyone, including those who claim to be tone-deaf.

The guitar parts were kept quite simple for the same reason. I wanted any guitar player to be able to pick up a guitar and be able to play it within a matter of minutes. Plus I layered several simple parts to give it a bit more change to it. The hardest part to play likely the lead lick with the vibrato. But even then, it’s not difficult to play.

The verse lyrics took a bit more time. Working on incorporating those values and ideas I had to spend a little time working it so that they would rhyme and work in more of a storyline aspect. It wasn’t overly troublesome, but I did make sure there was progression.

Once it was all put together I sent it along to the contact. The league worked on getting underway, but never got to a point where the song was used for the theme. They never ended up doing a theme and we never signed a deal for it.

Fast forward a few years and I’m going to an LA Kings hockey game with my good buddy Chris Hellstrom. He wanted to get me into hockey, and the best way is for me to go to a live game. I was having a great time. During the game every so often (who am I kidding, very often), they were playing a semi-musical thing that kept shouting “Go Kings Go!”* I told Chris, dude, I have a song that is substantially better than that.

That night when I got home, I pulled out the WPFL theme I had written. I started looking at the files and then went to bed. The next day I started retooling the verse lyrics. I needed them to work for hockey instead of the football. Which required me to pester Chris with questions about hockey and some of the various terms used to talk about what happens on the ice.

A day later, I had it re-tooled. Updated the vocals. Asked Chris to add some bits to the arrangement, then I made a mix of it. Shortly after that I opted to do a version for each major league team in LA at the time. Which mean tweaking it for Basketball as well. A few more days later and I had versions for each team.

Basketball had a huge following and my decision was to use a basketball related photo that I took at a park to be the cover of the release. Then I put the various versions out under the title Do You Want to Play.

Another year or two later I was linked up with Jerry Davis from Fox Sports. I was going to be doing a lot of music for their sports network. During the course of getting the deal done, Jerry asked me how much music I have and in turn I told him how many production music CDs I had. The deal changed in my favor as they would just license my library instead of me writing stuff and them owning it.

While doing that deal I mentioned the song for all the LA teams. Jerry liked it, but felt Fox couldn’t make use of it. He felt strongly about it, and pushed it out to the head of marketing for the NBA, then gave her my contact info. She contacted me and we spoke about the song and what else I was doing musically. She asked me if I could do a version of the song for the WNBA and the D League. I had to ask what the D League was. She explained and I said sure I can. She also wanted to have me come play at halftime events at various live games; based on a tour that I was supposed to be doing at that time. It was going to be a huge plus.

While pulling the song out again for doing those two versions, I got a wild notion that I should just do a version for every team in all 3 of the basketball leagues. That’s what I did. I started keeping track of each team, and swapping out vocals for each one.

Once done, I sent them all to her and it was a bit overwhelming for her.

Unfortunately the tour didn’t happen, and thus the live halftimes didn’t materialize. But I had the ability to use the songs as I owned it. So I started releasing the versions for each league. They did well on their own without me pushing them.

Years later, I’m still occasionally updating the song for new teams that arise over time. Much like this one for the Lehi Pioneers. The question might be, why would you do a version for a High School team? The answer is, for my girlfriend who is the assistant principal at Lehi High. You know, the place, kinda made famous by the original Footloose movie starring Kevin Bacon. Oddly, I’ve been to more of their games than I attended in my own high school.

Factoids:

Copyright: 20070201

ISRC: USONR1900024
ISRC: USONR1900052

ISWC: T9298558697

SESAC Song ID: 59085284

Harry Fox ID: DA2EVZ
Harry Fox Publisher ID: P8938Q

UPC: 193829730972
UPC: 193829729457

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Do You Want To Play Salt Lake City Stars

[hook]
The Stars are here today
Doing it for their fans and what they want to say
Is Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

[verse]
We’re gonna stand up (stand up)
Not sit down (sit down)
Ain’t tired of all this running around
We’re gonna jump up (jump up)
And block shots (block shots)
Ain’t no baskets to be giving away

[hook]
The Stars are here today
Doing it for their fans and what they want to say
Is Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

[verse]
There’s a foul line (foul line)
And overtime (overtime)
Ain’t backin down from either side
There’s warrior cries (warrior cries)
And aggressive eyes (aggressive eyes)
Ain’t lettin fear get in our minds

[hook]
The Stars are here today
Doing it for their fans and what they want to say
Is Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

[verse]
We got a special class (special class)
And Fancy Flash (fancy flash)
Staking our claim while we’re talking some trash
We got some new blood (new blood)
And great one (great ones)
Pushing the edge to get that championship

[hook]
The Stars are here today
Doing it for their fans and what they want to say
Is Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

[outro]
Do You (Do You)
Do You (Do You)
Do You (Do You)
Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

Song Length: 3:14

Writer: Jody Whitesides IPI/CAE 00196306650
Publisher: Too Much Music IPI/CAE 00456952518
Admin Publisher (Outside U.S.): Bluewater Music

Jody Whitesides: Lead Vocals, Backing Vocals, Guitars, Bass, Drum Programming, Claps, Synths
Chris Hellstrom: Additional Synths

Recording Info:
Cover Art: Jody Whitesides
Recording Engineer: Jody Whitesides
Mixing Engineer: Jody Whitesides
Mastering Engineer 2025: Jody Whitesides
Mastering Engineer 2007: George Leger III
Vocal Engineer: Jody Whitesides
Additional Production: Chris Hellstrom
Producer: Jody Whitesides Guitar(s): Left side guitar: Desert Guitar: my first guitar which was a Fender “Japocaster” as it used to be referred as, the only original thing is the body. Everything else has been replaced or modified. Think of the Van Halen Frankenstein guitar only this one has a Desert landscape for a paint job. A single Seymour Duncan Custom Custom hum-bucker pickup. Standard bridge. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steels medium gauge.

Right side guitar: Joe’s Guitar with Jesus paint job: This guitar has a Seymour Duncan Custom Custom pickup and a Cool Rails in the neck position. It has a Wilkinson Tremelo installed by Trev Wilkinson himself. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steel medium gauge strings. I used the bridge pickup for this sound.

Vibrato lick guitar: Joe’s Guitar Whitesides Viper 7 Redwood: This is a custom 7-string guitar that Justin built for me to specifications for the neck. The body is two different woods, the back of the body is alder with a redwood top. The neck is maple with a bubinga fingerboard, jumbo frets. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steels. The bridge pickup is a custom built Seymour Duncan Custom Custom, made specifically for me prior to 7-string guitar pickups becoming an actual line. Thus it’s pieced together by Seymour’s custom pickup department. The neck is a stacked humbucker, also created by Seymour Duncan’s custom pickup department. This was voiced to be more like a custom.

Extra guitar chorus: Joe’s Guitar with Jesus paint job: This guitar has a Seymour Duncan Custom Custom pickup and a Cool Rails. It also has a Wilkinson Tremelo installed by Trev Wilkinson himself. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steel medium gauge strings. This part is using the Cool Rails pickup in the neck position.

The Amp Setup:
GrooveTubes Solo 150 head
GrooveTubes Dual 75 Poweramp that has been modified to be true stereo
GrooveTubes 2 x 10″ cabs
I had KT88’s on one side of the Dual 75 and EL34’s on the other side

The cab was mic’d with an SM57 Beta on the grill center of the cone

Bass(s): Hohner B Bass V. Strings were Dean Markley Blue Steels. This was run thru a Line 6 Bass Pod Pro. Two outputs, one that was direct out and one that was an amp sim from the Line 6 Bass Pod Pro to give it some grit.

Additional Bass sounds were done with the ESM from Logic Pro

Drums: Drums are sequenced from samples out of Stylus RMX by SpectraSonics.
Kicks are from the Kicks Boomy and Kicks Punchy menus.
Snares are from the Snares Vinyl menu.

Vocal: Lead vocals in this were recorded using a Telefunken C12.

Background vocals were recorded using a Neumann 87a.

Synths: The synth parts were created using Logic Pro’s ES2.

Misc Instruments: Handclaps are created from me doing about 40 different takes of handclaps from various different positions around the studio to create more depth.

Song Story:
There’s a bit of history behind this song and it’s long…

In the late 90’s there was a group of investors that were starting up a football league for women. Someone reached out to me and asked if I would write a song that would be a theme for the league. I was given a set of values and ideas that I had to hit on in order for it to be uplifting for the female football league.

Within a couple of days I had whipped up the song. Musically I had envisioned a stadium anthem. Which meant keeping the drums simple, making it easy for people to clap and or stomp along with the song as it could be played over the loud system. For the chorus, I came up with that pretty quick. I wanted it to be easy to sing for anyone, including those who claim to be tone-deaf.

The guitar parts were kept quite simple for the same reason. I wanted any guitar player to be able to pick up a guitar and be able to play it within a matter of minutes. Plus I layered several simple parts to give it a bit more change to it. The hardest part to play likely the lead lick with the vibrato. But even then, it’s not difficult to play.

The verse lyrics took a bit more time. Working on incorporating those values and ideas I had to spend a little time working it so that they would rhyme and work in more of a storyline aspect. It wasn’t overly troublesome, but I did make sure there was progression.

Once it was all put together I sent it along to the contact. The league worked on getting underway, but never got to a point where the song was used for the theme. They never ended up doing a theme and we never signed a deal for it.

Fast forward a few years and I’m going to an LA Kings hockey game with my good buddy Chris Hellstrom. He wanted to get me into hockey, and the best way is for me to go to a live game. I was having a great time. During the game every so often (who am I kidding, very often), they were playing a semi-musical thing that kept shouting “Go Kings Go!”* I told Chris, dude, I have a song that is substantially better than that.

That night when I got home, I pulled out the WPFL theme I had written. I started looking at the files and then went to bed. The next day I started retooling the verse lyrics. I needed them to work for hockey instead of the football. Which required me to pester Chris with questions about hockey and some of the various terms used to talk about what happens on the ice.

A day later, I had it re-tooled. Updated the vocals. Asked Chris to add some bits to the arrangement, then I made a mix of it. Shortly after that I opted to do a version for each major league team in LA at the time. Which mean tweaking it for Basketball as well. A few more days later and I had versions for each team.

Basketball had a huge following and my decision was to use a basketball related photo that I took at a park to be the cover of the release. Then I put the various versions out under the title Do You Want to Play.

Another year or two later I was linked up with Jerry Davis from Fox Sports. I was going to be doing a lot of music for their sports network. During the course of getting the deal done, Jerry asked me how much music I have and in turn I told him how many production music CDs I had. The deal changed in my favor as they would just license my library instead of me writing stuff and them owning it.

While doing that deal I mentioned the song for all the LA teams. Jerry liked it, but felt Fox couldn’t make use of it. He felt strongly about it, and pushed it out to the head of marketing for the NBA, then gave her my contact info. She contacted me and we spoke about the song and what else I was doing musically. She asked me if I could do a version of the song for the WNBA and the D League. I had to ask what the D League was. She explained and I said sure I can. She also wanted to have me come play at halftime events at various live games; based on a tour that I was supposed to be doing at that time. It was going to be a huge plus.

While pulling the song out again for doing those two versions, I got a wild notion that I should just do a version for every team in all 3 of the basketball leagues. That’s what I did. I started keeping track of each team, and swapping out vocals for each one.

Once done, I sent them all to her and it was a bit overwhelming for her.

Unfortunately the tour didn’t happen, and thus the live halftimes didn’t materialize. But I had the ability to use the songs as I owned it. So I started releasing the versions for each league. They did well on their own without me pushing them.

Years later, I’m still occasionally updating the song for new teams that arise over time. Much like this one for the Lehi Pioneers. The question might be, why would you do a version for a High School team? The answer is, for my girlfriend who is the assistant principal at Lehi High. You know, the place, kinda made famous by the original Footloose movie starring Kevin Bacon. Oddly, I’ve been to more of their games than I attended in my own high school.

Factoids:

Copyright: 20070201

ISRC: USONR1900025
ISRC: USONR1900053

ISWC: T9298558835

SESAC Song ID: 59085285

Harry Fox ID: DA2EVX
Harry Fox Publisher ID: P8938Q

UPC: 193829730972
UPC: 193829729457

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Do You Want To Play Northern Arizona Suns

[hook]
The Suns are here today
Doing it for their fans and what they want to say
Is Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

[verse]
We’re gonna stand up (stand up)
Not sit down (sit down)
Ain’t tired of all this running around
We’re gonna jump up (jump up)
And block shots (block shots)
Ain’t no baskets to be giving away

[hook]
The Suns are here today
Doing it for their fans and what they want to say
Is Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

[verse]
There’s a foul line (foul line)
And overtime (overtime)
Ain’t backin down from either side
There’s warrior cries (warrior cries)
And aggressive eyes (aggressive eyes)
Ain’t lettin fear get in our minds

[hook]
The Suns are here today
Doing it for their fans and what they want to say
Is Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

[verse]
We got a special class (special class)
And Fancy Flash (fancy flash)
Staking our claim while we’re talking some trash
We got some new blood (new blood)
And great one (great ones)
Pushing the edge to get that championship

[hook]
The Suns are here today
Doing it for their fans and what they want to say
Is Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

[outro]
Do You (Do You)
Do You (Do You)
Do You (Do You)
Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

Song Length: 3:14

Writer: Jody Whitesides IPI/CAE 00196306650
Publisher: Too Much Music IPI/CAE 00456952518
Admin Publisher (Outside U.S.): Bluewater Music

Jody Whitesides: Lead Vocals, Backing Vocals, Guitars, Bass, Drum Programming, Claps, Synths
Chris Hellstrom: Additional Synths

Recording Info:
Cover Art: Jody Whitesides
Recording Engineer: Jody Whitesides
Mixing Engineer: Jody Whitesides
Mastering Engineer 2025: Jody Whitesides
Mastering Engineer 2007: George Leger III
Vocal Engineer: Jody Whitesides
Additional Production: Chris Hellstrom
Producer: Jody Whitesides Guitar(s): Left side guitar: Desert Guitar: my first guitar which was a Fender “Japocaster” as it used to be referred as, the only original thing is the body. Everything else has been replaced or modified. Think of the Van Halen Frankenstein guitar only this one has a Desert landscape for a paint job. A single Seymour Duncan Custom Custom hum-bucker pickup. Standard bridge. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steels medium gauge.

Right side guitar: Joe’s Guitar with Jesus paint job: This guitar has a Seymour Duncan Custom Custom pickup and a Cool Rails in the neck position. It has a Wilkinson Tremelo installed by Trev Wilkinson himself. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steel medium gauge strings. I used the bridge pickup for this sound.

Vibrato lick guitar: Joe’s Guitar Whitesides Viper 7 Redwood: This is a custom 7-string guitar that Justin built for me to specifications for the neck. The body is two different woods, the back of the body is alder with a redwood top. The neck is maple with a bubinga fingerboard, jumbo frets. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steels. The bridge pickup is a custom built Seymour Duncan Custom Custom, made specifically for me prior to 7-string guitar pickups becoming an actual line. Thus it’s pieced together by Seymour’s custom pickup department. The neck is a stacked humbucker, also created by Seymour Duncan’s custom pickup department. This was voiced to be more like a custom.

Extra guitar chorus: Joe’s Guitar with Jesus paint job: This guitar has a Seymour Duncan Custom Custom pickup and a Cool Rails. It also has a Wilkinson Tremelo installed by Trev Wilkinson himself. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steel medium gauge strings. This part is using the Cool Rails pickup in the neck position.

The Amp Setup:
GrooveTubes Solo 150 head
GrooveTubes Dual 75 Poweramp that has been modified to be true stereo
GrooveTubes 2 x 10″ cabs
I had KT88’s on one side of the Dual 75 and EL34’s on the other side

The cab was mic’d with an SM57 Beta on the grill center of the cone

Bass(s): Hohner B Bass V. Strings were Dean Markley Blue Steels. This was run thru a Line 6 Bass Pod Pro. Two outputs, one that was direct out and one that was an amp sim from the Line 6 Bass Pod Pro to give it some grit.

Additional Bass sounds were done with the ESM from Logic Pro

Drums: Drums are sequenced from samples out of Stylus RMX by SpectraSonics.
Kicks are from the Kicks Boomy and Kicks Punchy menus.
Snares are from the Snares Vinyl menu.

Vocal: Lead vocals in this were recorded using a Telefunken C12.

Background vocals were recorded using a Neumann 87a.

Synths: The synth parts were created using Logic Pro’s ES2.

Misc Instruments: Handclaps are created from me doing about 40 different takes of handclaps from various different positions around the studio to create more depth.

Song Story:
There’s a bit of history behind this song and it’s long…

In the late 90’s there was a group of investors that were starting up a football league for women. Someone reached out to me and asked if I would write a song that would be a theme for the league. I was given a set of values and ideas that I had to hit on in order for it to be uplifting for the female football league.

Within a couple of days I had whipped up the song. Musically I had envisioned a stadium anthem. Which meant keeping the drums simple, making it easy for people to clap and or stomp along with the song as it could be played over the loud system. For the chorus, I came up with that pretty quick. I wanted it to be easy to sing for anyone, including those who claim to be tone-deaf.

The guitar parts were kept quite simple for the same reason. I wanted any guitar player to be able to pick up a guitar and be able to play it within a matter of minutes. Plus I layered several simple parts to give it a bit more change to it. The hardest part to play likely the lead lick with the vibrato. But even then, it’s not difficult to play.

The verse lyrics took a bit more time. Working on incorporating those values and ideas I had to spend a little time working it so that they would rhyme and work in more of a storyline aspect. It wasn’t overly troublesome, but I did make sure there was progression.

Once it was all put together I sent it along to the contact. The league worked on getting underway, but never got to a point where the song was used for the theme. They never ended up doing a theme and we never signed a deal for it.

Fast forward a few years and I’m going to an LA Kings hockey game with my good buddy Chris Hellstrom. He wanted to get me into hockey, and the best way is for me to go to a live game. I was having a great time. During the game every so often (who am I kidding, very often), they were playing a semi-musical thing that kept shouting “Go Kings Go!”* I told Chris, dude, I have a song that is substantially better than that.

That night when I got home, I pulled out the WPFL theme I had written. I started looking at the files and then went to bed. The next day I started retooling the verse lyrics. I needed them to work for hockey instead of the football. Which required me to pester Chris with questions about hockey and some of the various terms used to talk about what happens on the ice.

A day later, I had it re-tooled. Updated the vocals. Asked Chris to add some bits to the arrangement, then I made a mix of it. Shortly after that I opted to do a version for each major league team in LA at the time. Which mean tweaking it for Basketball as well. A few more days later and I had versions for each team.

Basketball had a huge following and my decision was to use a basketball related photo that I took at a park to be the cover of the release. Then I put the various versions out under the title Do You Want to Play.

Another year or two later I was linked up with Jerry Davis from Fox Sports. I was going to be doing a lot of music for their sports network. During the course of getting the deal done, Jerry asked me how much music I have and in turn I told him how many production music CDs I had. The deal changed in my favor as they would just license my library instead of me writing stuff and them owning it.

While doing that deal I mentioned the song for all the LA teams. Jerry liked it, but felt Fox couldn’t make use of it. He felt strongly about it, and pushed it out to the head of marketing for the NBA, then gave her my contact info. She contacted me and we spoke about the song and what else I was doing musically. She asked me if I could do a version of the song for the WNBA and the D League. I had to ask what the D League was. She explained and I said sure I can. She also wanted to have me come play at halftime events at various live games; based on a tour that I was supposed to be doing at that time. It was going to be a huge plus.

While pulling the song out again for doing those two versions, I got a wild notion that I should just do a version for every team in all 3 of the basketball leagues. That’s what I did. I started keeping track of each team, and swapping out vocals for each one.

Once done, I sent them all to her and it was a bit overwhelming for her.

Unfortunately the tour didn’t happen, and thus the live halftimes didn’t materialize. But I had the ability to use the songs as I owned it. So I started releasing the versions for each league. They did well on their own without me pushing them.

Years later, I’m still occasionally updating the song for new teams that arise over time. Much like this one for the Lehi Pioneers. The question might be, why would you do a version for a High School team? The answer is, for my girlfriend who is the assistant principal at Lehi High. You know, the place, kinda made famous by the original Footloose movie starring Kevin Bacon. Oddly, I’ve been to more of their games than I attended in my own high school.

Factoids:

Copyright: 20070201

ISRC: USONR1900026
ISRC: USONR1900054

ISWC: T9298558802

SESAC Song ID: 59085286

Harry Fox ID: DA2EVH
Harry Fox Publisher ID: P8938Q

UPC: 193829730972
UPC: 193829729457

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Do You Want To Play Greensboro Swarm

[hook]
The Swarm are here today
Doing it for their fans and what they want to say
Is Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

[verse]
We’re gonna stand up (stand up)
Not sit down (sit down)
Ain’t tired of all this running around
We’re gonna jump up (jump up)
And block shots (block shots)
Ain’t no baskets to be giving away

[hook]
The Swarm are here today
Doing it for their fans and what they want to say
Is Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

[verse]
There’s a foul line (foul line)
And overtime (overtime)
Ain’t backin down from either side
There’s warrior cries (warrior cries)
And aggressive eyes (aggressive eyes)
Ain’t lettin fear get in our minds

[hook]
The Swarm are here today
Doing it for their fans and what they want to say
Is Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

[verse]
We got a special class (special class)
And Fancy Flash (fancy flash)
Staking our claim while we’re talking some trash
We got some new blood (new blood)
And great one (great ones)
Pushing the edge to get that championship

[hook]
The Swarm are here today
Doing it for their fans and what they want to say
Is Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

[outro]
Do You (Do You)
Do You (Do You)
Do You (Do You)
Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

Song Length: 3:14

Writer: Jody Whitesides IPI/CAE 00196306650
Publisher: Too Much Music IPI/CAE 00456952518
Admin Publisher (Outside U.S.): Bluewater Music

Jody Whitesides: Lead Vocals, Backing Vocals, Guitars, Bass, Drum Programming, Claps, Synths
Chris Hellstrom: Additional Synths

Recording Info:
Cover Art: Jody Whitesides
Recording Engineer: Jody Whitesides
Mixing Engineer: Jody Whitesides
Mastering Engineer 2025: Jody Whitesides
Mastering Engineer 2007: George Leger III
Vocal Engineer: Jody Whitesides
Additional Production: Chris Hellstrom
Producer: Jody Whitesides Guitar(s): Left side guitar: Desert Guitar: my first guitar which was a Fender “Japocaster” as it used to be referred as, the only original thing is the body. Everything else has been replaced or modified. Think of the Van Halen Frankenstein guitar only this one has a Desert landscape for a paint job. A single Seymour Duncan Custom Custom hum-bucker pickup. Standard bridge. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steels medium gauge.

Right side guitar: Joe’s Guitar with Jesus paint job: This guitar has a Seymour Duncan Custom Custom pickup and a Cool Rails in the neck position. It has a Wilkinson Tremelo installed by Trev Wilkinson himself. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steel medium gauge strings. I used the bridge pickup for this sound.

Vibrato lick guitar: Joe’s Guitar Whitesides Viper 7 Redwood: This is a custom 7-string guitar that Justin built for me to specifications for the neck. The body is two different woods, the back of the body is alder with a redwood top. The neck is maple with a bubinga fingerboard, jumbo frets. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steels. The bridge pickup is a custom built Seymour Duncan Custom Custom, made specifically for me prior to 7-string guitar pickups becoming an actual line. Thus it’s pieced together by Seymour’s custom pickup department. The neck is a stacked humbucker, also created by Seymour Duncan’s custom pickup department. This was voiced to be more like a custom.

Extra guitar chorus: Joe’s Guitar with Jesus paint job: This guitar has a Seymour Duncan Custom Custom pickup and a Cool Rails. It also has a Wilkinson Tremelo installed by Trev Wilkinson himself. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steel medium gauge strings. This part is using the Cool Rails pickup in the neck position.

The Amp Setup:
GrooveTubes Solo 150 head
GrooveTubes Dual 75 Poweramp that has been modified to be true stereo
GrooveTubes 2 x 10″ cabs
I had KT88’s on one side of the Dual 75 and EL34’s on the other side

The cab was mic’d with an SM57 Beta on the grill center of the cone

Bass(s): Hohner B Bass V. Strings were Dean Markley Blue Steels. This was run thru a Line 6 Bass Pod Pro. Two outputs, one that was direct out and one that was an amp sim from the Line 6 Bass Pod Pro to give it some grit.

Additional Bass sounds were done with the ESM from Logic Pro

Drums: Drums are sequenced from samples out of Stylus RMX by SpectraSonics.
Kicks are from the Kicks Boomy and Kicks Punchy menus.
Snares are from the Snares Vinyl menu.

Vocal: Lead vocals in this were recorded using a Telefunken C12.

Background vocals were recorded using a Neumann 87a.

Synths: The synth parts were created using Logic Pro’s ES2.

Misc Instruments: Handclaps are created from me doing about 40 different takes of handclaps from various different positions around the studio to create more depth.

Song Story:
There’s a bit of history behind this song and it’s long…

In the late 90’s there was a group of investors that were starting up a football league for women. Someone reached out to me and asked if I would write a song that would be a theme for the league. I was given a set of values and ideas that I had to hit on in order for it to be uplifting for the female football league.

Within a couple of days I had whipped up the song. Musically I had envisioned a stadium anthem. Which meant keeping the drums simple, making it easy for people to clap and or stomp along with the song as it could be played over the loud system. For the chorus, I came up with that pretty quick. I wanted it to be easy to sing for anyone, including those who claim to be tone-deaf.

The guitar parts were kept quite simple for the same reason. I wanted any guitar player to be able to pick up a guitar and be able to play it within a matter of minutes. Plus I layered several simple parts to give it a bit more change to it. The hardest part to play likely the lead lick with the vibrato. But even then, it’s not difficult to play.

The verse lyrics took a bit more time. Working on incorporating those values and ideas I had to spend a little time working it so that they would rhyme and work in more of a storyline aspect. It wasn’t overly troublesome, but I did make sure there was progression.

Once it was all put together I sent it along to the contact. The league worked on getting underway, but never got to a point where the song was used for the theme. They never ended up doing a theme and we never signed a deal for it.

Fast forward a few years and I’m going to an LA Kings hockey game with my good buddy Chris Hellstrom. He wanted to get me into hockey, and the best way is for me to go to a live game. I was having a great time. During the game every so often (who am I kidding, very often), they were playing a semi-musical thing that kept shouting “Go Kings Go!”* I told Chris, dude, I have a song that is substantially better than that.

That night when I got home, I pulled out the WPFL theme I had written. I started looking at the files and then went to bed. The next day I started retooling the verse lyrics. I needed them to work for hockey instead of the football. Which required me to pester Chris with questions about hockey and some of the various terms used to talk about what happens on the ice.

A day later, I had it re-tooled. Updated the vocals. Asked Chris to add some bits to the arrangement, then I made a mix of it. Shortly after that I opted to do a version for each major league team in LA at the time. Which mean tweaking it for Basketball as well. A few more days later and I had versions for each team.

Basketball had a huge following and my decision was to use a basketball related photo that I took at a park to be the cover of the release. Then I put the various versions out under the title Do You Want to Play.

Another year or two later I was linked up with Jerry Davis from Fox Sports. I was going to be doing a lot of music for their sports network. During the course of getting the deal done, Jerry asked me how much music I have and in turn I told him how many production music CDs I had. The deal changed in my favor as they would just license my library instead of me writing stuff and them owning it.

While doing that deal I mentioned the song for all the LA teams. Jerry liked it, but felt Fox couldn’t make use of it. He felt strongly about it, and pushed it out to the head of marketing for the NBA, then gave her my contact info. She contacted me and we spoke about the song and what else I was doing musically. She asked me if I could do a version of the song for the WNBA and the D League. I had to ask what the D League was. She explained and I said sure I can. She also wanted to have me come play at halftime events at various live games; based on a tour that I was supposed to be doing at that time. It was going to be a huge plus.

While pulling the song out again for doing those two versions, I got a wild notion that I should just do a version for every team in all 3 of the basketball leagues. That’s what I did. I started keeping track of each team, and swapping out vocals for each one.

Once done, I sent them all to her and it was a bit overwhelming for her.

Unfortunately the tour didn’t happen, and thus the live halftimes didn’t materialize. But I had the ability to use the songs as I owned it. So I started releasing the versions for each league. They did well on their own without me pushing them.

Years later, I’m still occasionally updating the song for new teams that arise over time. Much like this one for the Lehi Pioneers. The question might be, why would you do a version for a High School team? The answer is, for my girlfriend who is the assistant principal at Lehi High. You know, the place, kinda made famous by the original Footloose movie starring Kevin Bacon. Oddly, I’ve been to more of their games than I attended in my own high school.

Factoids:

Copyright: 20070201

ISRC: USONR1900027
ISRC: USONR1900055

ISWC: T9298558744

SESAC Song ID: 59085287

Harry Fox ID: DA2EVI
Harry Fox Publisher ID: P8938Q

UPC: 193829730972
UPC: 193829729457

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Do You Want To Play Rio Grande Valley Vipers

[hook]
The Valley Vipers are here today
Doing it for their fans and what they want to say
Is Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

[verse]
We’re gonna stand up (stand up)
Not sit down (sit down)
Ain’t tired of all this running around
We’re gonna jump up (jump up)
And block shots (block shots)
Ain’t no baskets to be giving away

[hook]
The Valley Vipers are here today
Doing it for their fans and what they want to say
Is Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

[verse]
There’s a foul line (foul line)
And overtime (overtime)
Ain’t backin down from either side
There’s warrior cries (warrior cries)
And aggressive eyes (aggressive eyes)
Ain’t lettin fear get in our minds

[hook]
The Valley Vipers are here today
Doing it for their fans and what they want to say
Is Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

[verse]
We got a special class (special class)
And Fancy Flash (fancy flash)
Staking our claim while we’re talking some trash
We got some new blood (new blood)
And great one (great ones)
Pushing the edge to get that championship

[hook]
The Valley Vipers are here today
Doing it for their fans and what they want to say
Is Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

[outro]
Do You (Do You)
Do You (Do You)
Do You (Do You)
Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

Song Length: 3:14

Writer: Jody Whitesides IPI/CAE 00196306650
Publisher: Too Much Music IPI/CAE 00456952518
Admin Publisher (Outside U.S.): Bluewater Music

Jody Whitesides: Lead Vocals, Backing Vocals, Guitars, Bass, Drum Programming, Claps, Synths
Chris Hellstrom: Additional Synths

Recording Info:
Cover Art: Jody Whitesides
Recording Engineer: Jody Whitesides
Mixing Engineer: Jody Whitesides
Mastering Engineer 2025: Jody Whitesides
Mastering Engineer 2007: George Leger III
Vocal Engineer: Jody Whitesides
Additional Production: Chris Hellstrom
Producer: Jody Whitesides Guitar(s): Left side guitar: Desert Guitar: my first guitar which was a Fender “Japocaster” as it used to be referred as, the only original thing is the body. Everything else has been replaced or modified. Think of the Van Halen Frankenstein guitar only this one has a Desert landscape for a paint job. A single Seymour Duncan Custom Custom hum-bucker pickup. Standard bridge. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steels medium gauge.

Right side guitar: Joe’s Guitar with Jesus paint job: This guitar has a Seymour Duncan Custom Custom pickup and a Cool Rails in the neck position. It has a Wilkinson Tremelo installed by Trev Wilkinson himself. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steel medium gauge strings. I used the bridge pickup for this sound.

Vibrato lick guitar: Joe’s Guitar Whitesides Viper 7 Redwood: This is a custom 7-string guitar that Justin built for me to specifications for the neck. The body is two different woods, the back of the body is alder with a redwood top. The neck is maple with a bubinga fingerboard, jumbo frets. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steels. The bridge pickup is a custom built Seymour Duncan Custom Custom, made specifically for me prior to 7-string guitar pickups becoming an actual line. Thus it’s pieced together by Seymour’s custom pickup department. The neck is a stacked humbucker, also created by Seymour Duncan’s custom pickup department. This was voiced to be more like a custom.

Extra guitar chorus: Joe’s Guitar with Jesus paint job: This guitar has a Seymour Duncan Custom Custom pickup and a Cool Rails. It also has a Wilkinson Tremelo installed by Trev Wilkinson himself. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steel medium gauge strings. This part is using the Cool Rails pickup in the neck position.

The Amp Setup:
GrooveTubes Solo 150 head
GrooveTubes Dual 75 Poweramp that has been modified to be true stereo
GrooveTubes 2 x 10″ cabs
I had KT88’s on one side of the Dual 75 and EL34’s on the other side

The cab was mic’d with an SM57 Beta on the grill center of the cone

Bass(s): Hohner B Bass V. Strings were Dean Markley Blue Steels. This was run thru a Line 6 Bass Pod Pro. Two outputs, one that was direct out and one that was an amp sim from the Line 6 Bass Pod Pro to give it some grit.

Additional Bass sounds were done with the ESM from Logic Pro

Drums: Drums are sequenced from samples out of Stylus RMX by SpectraSonics.
Kicks are from the Kicks Boomy and Kicks Punchy menus.
Snares are from the Snares Vinyl menu.

Vocal: Lead vocals in this were recorded using a Telefunken C12.

Background vocals were recorded using a Neumann 87a.

Synths: The synth parts were created using Logic Pro’s ES2.

Misc Instruments: Handclaps are created from me doing about 40 different takes of handclaps from various different positions around the studio to create more depth.

Song Story:
There’s a bit of history behind this song and it’s long…

In the late 90’s there was a group of investors that were starting up a football league for women. Someone reached out to me and asked if I would write a song that would be a theme for the league. I was given a set of values and ideas that I had to hit on in order for it to be uplifting for the female football league.

Within a couple of days I had whipped up the song. Musically I had envisioned a stadium anthem. Which meant keeping the drums simple, making it easy for people to clap and or stomp along with the song as it could be played over the loud system. For the chorus, I came up with that pretty quick. I wanted it to be easy to sing for anyone, including those who claim to be tone-deaf.

The guitar parts were kept quite simple for the same reason. I wanted any guitar player to be able to pick up a guitar and be able to play it within a matter of minutes. Plus I layered several simple parts to give it a bit more change to it. The hardest part to play likely the lead lick with the vibrato. But even then, it’s not difficult to play.

The verse lyrics took a bit more time. Working on incorporating those values and ideas I had to spend a little time working it so that they would rhyme and work in more of a storyline aspect. It wasn’t overly troublesome, but I did make sure there was progression.

Once it was all put together I sent it along to the contact. The league worked on getting underway, but never got to a point where the song was used for the theme. They never ended up doing a theme and we never signed a deal for it.

Fast forward a few years and I’m going to an LA Kings hockey game with my good buddy Chris Hellstrom. He wanted to get me into hockey, and the best way is for me to go to a live game. I was having a great time. During the game every so often (who am I kidding, very often), they were playing a semi-musical thing that kept shouting “Go Kings Go!”* I told Chris, dude, I have a song that is substantially better than that.

That night when I got home, I pulled out the WPFL theme I had written. I started looking at the files and then went to bed. The next day I started retooling the verse lyrics. I needed them to work for hockey instead of the football. Which required me to pester Chris with questions about hockey and some of the various terms used to talk about what happens on the ice.

A day later, I had it re-tooled. Updated the vocals. Asked Chris to add some bits to the arrangement, then I made a mix of it. Shortly after that I opted to do a version for each major league team in LA at the time. Which mean tweaking it for Basketball as well. A few more days later and I had versions for each team.

Basketball had a huge following and my decision was to use a basketball related photo that I took at a park to be the cover of the release. Then I put the various versions out under the title Do You Want to Play.

Another year or two later I was linked up with Jerry Davis from Fox Sports. I was going to be doing a lot of music for their sports network. During the course of getting the deal done, Jerry asked me how much music I have and in turn I told him how many production music CDs I had. The deal changed in my favor as they would just license my library instead of me writing stuff and them owning it.

While doing that deal I mentioned the song for all the LA teams. Jerry liked it, but felt Fox couldn’t make use of it. He felt strongly about it, and pushed it out to the head of marketing for the NBA, then gave her my contact info. She contacted me and we spoke about the song and what else I was doing musically. She asked me if I could do a version of the song for the WNBA and the D League. I had to ask what the D League was. She explained and I said sure I can. She also wanted to have me come play at halftime events at various live games; based on a tour that I was supposed to be doing at that time. It was going to be a huge plus.

While pulling the song out again for doing those two versions, I got a wild notion that I should just do a version for every team in all 3 of the basketball leagues. That’s what I did. I started keeping track of each team, and swapping out vocals for each one.

Once done, I sent them all to her and it was a bit overwhelming for her.

Unfortunately the tour didn’t happen, and thus the live halftimes didn’t materialize. But I had the ability to use the songs as I owned it. So I started releasing the versions for each league. They did well on their own without me pushing them.

Years later, I’m still occasionally updating the song for new teams that arise over time. Much like this one for the Lehi Pioneers. The question might be, why would you do a version for a High School team? The answer is, for my girlfriend who is the assistant principal at Lehi High. You know, the place, kinda made famous by the original Footloose movie starring Kevin Bacon. Oddly, I’ve been to more of their games than I attended in my own high school.

Factoids:

Copyright: 20070201

ISRC: USONR1900028
ISRC: USONR1900056

ISWC: T9055766251

SESAC Song ID: 51778378

Harry Fox ID: D9119U
Harry Fox Publisher ID: P8938Q

UPC: 193829730972
UPC: 193829729457

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Do You Want To Play Santa Cruz Warriors

[hook]
The Warriors are here today
Doing it for their fans and what they want to say
Is Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

[verse]
We’re gonna stand up (stand up)
Not sit down (sit down)
Ain’t tired of all this running around
We’re gonna jump up (jump up)
And block shots (block shots)
Ain’t no baskets to be giving away

[hook]
The Warriors are here today
Doing it for their fans and what they want to say
Is Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

[verse]
There’s a foul line (foul line)
And overtime (overtime)
Ain’t backin down from either side
There’s warrior cries (warrior cries)
And aggressive eyes (aggressive eyes)
Ain’t lettin fear get in our minds

[hook]
The Warriors are here today
Doing it for their fans and what they want to say
Is Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

[verse]
We got a special class (special class)
And Fancy Flash (fancy flash)
Staking our claim while we’re talking some trash
We got some new blood (new blood)
And great one (great ones)
Pushing the edge to get that championship

[hook]
The Warriors are here today
Doing it for their fans and what they want to say
Is Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

[outro]
Do You (Do You)
Do You (Do You)
Do You (Do You)
Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

Song Length: 3:14

Writer: Jody Whitesides IPI/CAE 00196306650
Publisher: Too Much Music IPI/CAE 00456952518
Admin Publisher (Outside U.S.): Bluewater Music

Jody Whitesides: Lead Vocals, Backing Vocals, Guitars, Bass, Drum Programming, Claps, Synths
Chris Hellstrom: Additional Synths

Recording Info:
Cover Art: Jody Whitesides
Recording Engineer: Jody Whitesides
Mixing Engineer: Jody Whitesides
Mastering Engineer 2025: Jody Whitesides
Mastering Engineer 2007: George Leger III
Vocal Engineer: Jody Whitesides
Additional Production: Chris Hellstrom
Producer: Jody Whitesides Guitar(s): Left side guitar: Desert Guitar: my first guitar which was a Fender “Japocaster” as it used to be referred as, the only original thing is the body. Everything else has been replaced or modified. Think of the Van Halen Frankenstein guitar only this one has a Desert landscape for a paint job. A single Seymour Duncan Custom Custom hum-bucker pickup. Standard bridge. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steels medium gauge.

Right side guitar: Joe’s Guitar with Jesus paint job: This guitar has a Seymour Duncan Custom Custom pickup and a Cool Rails in the neck position. It has a Wilkinson Tremelo installed by Trev Wilkinson himself. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steel medium gauge strings. I used the bridge pickup for this sound.

Vibrato lick guitar: Joe’s Guitar Whitesides Viper 7 Redwood: This is a custom 7-string guitar that Justin built for me to specifications for the neck. The body is two different woods, the back of the body is alder with a redwood top. The neck is maple with a bubinga fingerboard, jumbo frets. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steels. The bridge pickup is a custom built Seymour Duncan Custom Custom, made specifically for me prior to 7-string guitar pickups becoming an actual line. Thus it’s pieced together by Seymour’s custom pickup department. The neck is a stacked humbucker, also created by Seymour Duncan’s custom pickup department. This was voiced to be more like a custom.

Extra guitar chorus: Joe’s Guitar with Jesus paint job: This guitar has a Seymour Duncan Custom Custom pickup and a Cool Rails. It also has a Wilkinson Tremelo installed by Trev Wilkinson himself. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steel medium gauge strings. This part is using the Cool Rails pickup in the neck position.

The Amp Setup:
GrooveTubes Solo 150 head
GrooveTubes Dual 75 Poweramp that has been modified to be true stereo
GrooveTubes 2 x 10″ cabs
I had KT88’s on one side of the Dual 75 and EL34’s on the other side

The cab was mic’d with an SM57 Beta on the grill center of the cone

Bass(s): Hohner B Bass V. Strings were Dean Markley Blue Steels. This was run thru a Line 6 Bass Pod Pro. Two outputs, one that was direct out and one that was an amp sim from the Line 6 Bass Pod Pro to give it some grit.

Additional Bass sounds were done with the ESM from Logic Pro

Drums: Drums are sequenced from samples out of Stylus RMX by SpectraSonics.
Kicks are from the Kicks Boomy and Kicks Punchy menus.
Snares are from the Snares Vinyl menu.

Vocal: Lead vocals in this were recorded using a Telefunken C12.

Background vocals were recorded using a Neumann 87a.

Synths: The synth parts were created using Logic Pro’s ES2.

Misc Instruments: Handclaps are created from me doing about 40 different takes of handclaps from various different positions around the studio to create more depth.

Song Story:
There’s a bit of history behind this song and it’s long…

In the late 90’s there was a group of investors that were starting up a football league for women. Someone reached out to me and asked if I would write a song that would be a theme for the league. I was given a set of values and ideas that I had to hit on in order for it to be uplifting for the female football league.

Within a couple of days I had whipped up the song. Musically I had envisioned a stadium anthem. Which meant keeping the drums simple, making it easy for people to clap and or stomp along with the song as it could be played over the loud system. For the chorus, I came up with that pretty quick. I wanted it to be easy to sing for anyone, including those who claim to be tone-deaf.

The guitar parts were kept quite simple for the same reason. I wanted any guitar player to be able to pick up a guitar and be able to play it within a matter of minutes. Plus I layered several simple parts to give it a bit more change to it. The hardest part to play likely the lead lick with the vibrato. But even then, it’s not difficult to play.

The verse lyrics took a bit more time. Working on incorporating those values and ideas I had to spend a little time working it so that they would rhyme and work in more of a storyline aspect. It wasn’t overly troublesome, but I did make sure there was progression.

Once it was all put together I sent it along to the contact. The league worked on getting underway, but never got to a point where the song was used for the theme. They never ended up doing a theme and we never signed a deal for it.

Fast forward a few years and I’m going to an LA Kings hockey game with my good buddy Chris Hellstrom. He wanted to get me into hockey, and the best way is for me to go to a live game. I was having a great time. During the game every so often (who am I kidding, very often), they were playing a semi-musical thing that kept shouting “Go Kings Go!”* I told Chris, dude, I have a song that is substantially better than that.

That night when I got home, I pulled out the WPFL theme I had written. I started looking at the files and then went to bed. The next day I started retooling the verse lyrics. I needed them to work for hockey instead of the football. Which required me to pester Chris with questions about hockey and some of the various terms used to talk about what happens on the ice.

A day later, I had it re-tooled. Updated the vocals. Asked Chris to add some bits to the arrangement, then I made a mix of it. Shortly after that I opted to do a version for each major league team in LA at the time. Which mean tweaking it for Basketball as well. A few more days later and I had versions for each team.

Basketball had a huge following and my decision was to use a basketball related photo that I took at a park to be the cover of the release. Then I put the various versions out under the title Do You Want to Play.

Another year or two later I was linked up with Jerry Davis from Fox Sports. I was going to be doing a lot of music for their sports network. During the course of getting the deal done, Jerry asked me how much music I have and in turn I told him how many production music CDs I had. The deal changed in my favor as they would just license my library instead of me writing stuff and them owning it.

While doing that deal I mentioned the song for all the LA teams. Jerry liked it, but felt Fox couldn’t make use of it. He felt strongly about it, and pushed it out to the head of marketing for the NBA, then gave her my contact info. She contacted me and we spoke about the song and what else I was doing musically. She asked me if I could do a version of the song for the WNBA and the D League. I had to ask what the D League was. She explained and I said sure I can. She also wanted to have me come play at halftime events at various live games; based on a tour that I was supposed to be doing at that time. It was going to be a huge plus.

While pulling the song out again for doing those two versions, I got a wild notion that I should just do a version for every team in all 3 of the basketball leagues. That’s what I did. I started keeping track of each team, and swapping out vocals for each one.

Once done, I sent them all to her and it was a bit overwhelming for her.

Unfortunately the tour didn’t happen, and thus the live halftimes didn’t materialize. But I had the ability to use the songs as I owned it. So I started releasing the versions for each league. They did well on their own without me pushing them.

Years later, I’m still occasionally updating the song for new teams that arise over time. Much like this one for the Lehi Pioneers. The question might be, why would you do a version for a High School team? The answer is, for my girlfriend who is the assistant principal at Lehi High. You know, the place, kinda made famous by the original Footloose movie starring Kevin Bacon. Oddly, I’ve been to more of their games than I attended in my own high school.

Factoids:

Copyright: 20070201

ISRC: USONR1900029
ISRC: USONR1900057

ISWC: T9298558846

SESAC Song ID: 59085290

Harry Fox ID: DA2EVL
Harry Fox Publisher ID: P8938Q

UPC: 193829730972
UPC: 193829729457

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Do You Want To Play Iowa Wolves

[hook]
The Wolves are here today
Doing it for their fans and what they want to say
Is Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

[verse]
We’re gonna stand up (stand up)
Not sit down (sit down)
Ain’t tired of all this running around
We’re gonna jump up (jump up)
And block shots (block shots)
Ain’t no baskets to be giving away

[hook]
The Wolves are here today
Doing it for their fans and what they want to say
Is Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

[verse]
There’s a foul line (foul line)
And overtime (overtime)
Ain’t backin down from either side
There’s warrior cries (warrior cries)
And aggressive eyes (aggressive eyes)
Ain’t lettin fear get in our minds

[hook]
The Wolves are here today
Doing it for their fans and what they want to say
Is Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

[verse]
We got a special class (special class)
And Fancy Flash (fancy flash)
Staking our claim while we’re talking some trash
We got some new blood (new blood)
And great one (great ones)
Pushing the edge to get that championship

[hook]
The Wolves are here today
Doing it for their fans and what they want to say
Is Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

[outro]
Do You (Do You)
Do You (Do You)
Do You (Do You)
Do You (Do You)
Do You Wanna Play (Do You Want To Play)
Do You Want To Play

Song Length: 3:14

Writer: Jody Whitesides IPI/CAE 00196306650
Publisher: Too Much Music IPI/CAE 00456952518
Admin Publisher (Outside U.S.): Bluewater Music

Jody Whitesides: Lead Vocals, Backing Vocals, Guitars, Bass, Drum Programming, Claps, Synths
Chris Hellstrom: Additional Synths

Recording Info:
Cover Art: Jody Whitesides
Recording Engineer: Jody Whitesides
Mixing Engineer: Jody Whitesides
Mastering Engineer 2025: Jody Whitesides
Mastering Engineer 2007: George Leger III
Vocal Engineer: Jody Whitesides
Additional Production: Chris Hellstrom
Producer: Jody Whitesides Guitar(s): Left side guitar: Desert Guitar: my first guitar which was a Fender “Japocaster” as it used to be referred as, the only original thing is the body. Everything else has been replaced or modified. Think of the Van Halen Frankenstein guitar only this one has a Desert landscape for a paint job. A single Seymour Duncan Custom Custom hum-bucker pickup. Standard bridge. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steels medium gauge.

Right side guitar: Joe’s Guitar with Jesus paint job: This guitar has a Seymour Duncan Custom Custom pickup and a Cool Rails in the neck position. It has a Wilkinson Tremelo installed by Trev Wilkinson himself. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steel medium gauge strings. I used the bridge pickup for this sound.

Vibrato lick guitar: Joe’s Guitar Whitesides Viper 7 Redwood: This is a custom 7-string guitar that Justin built for me to specifications for the neck. The body is two different woods, the back of the body is alder with a redwood top. The neck is maple with a bubinga fingerboard, jumbo frets. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steels. The bridge pickup is a custom built Seymour Duncan Custom Custom, made specifically for me prior to 7-string guitar pickups becoming an actual line. Thus it’s pieced together by Seymour’s custom pickup department. The neck is a stacked humbucker, also created by Seymour Duncan’s custom pickup department. This was voiced to be more like a custom.

Extra guitar chorus: Joe’s Guitar with Jesus paint job: This guitar has a Seymour Duncan Custom Custom pickup and a Cool Rails. It also has a Wilkinson Tremelo installed by Trev Wilkinson himself. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steel medium gauge strings. This part is using the Cool Rails pickup in the neck position.

The Amp Setup:
GrooveTubes Solo 150 head
GrooveTubes Dual 75 Poweramp that has been modified to be true stereo
GrooveTubes 2 x 10″ cabs
I had KT88’s on one side of the Dual 75 and EL34’s on the other side

The cab was mic’d with an SM57 Beta on the grill center of the cone

Bass(s): Hohner B Bass V. Strings were Dean Markley Blue Steels. This was run thru a Line 6 Bass Pod Pro. Two outputs, one that was direct out and one that was an amp sim from the Line 6 Bass Pod Pro to give it some grit.

Additional Bass sounds were done with the ESM from Logic Pro

Drums: Drums are sequenced from samples out of Stylus RMX by SpectraSonics.
Kicks are from the Kicks Boomy and Kicks Punchy menus.
Snares are from the Snares Vinyl menu.

Vocal: Lead vocals in this were recorded using a Telefunken C12.

Background vocals were recorded using a Neumann 87a.

Synths: The synth parts were created using Logic Pro’s ES2.

Misc Instruments: Handclaps are created from me doing about 40 different takes of handclaps from various different positions around the studio to create more depth.

Song Story:
There’s a bit of history behind this song and it’s long…

In the late 90’s there was a group of investors that were starting up a football league for women. Someone reached out to me and asked if I would write a song that would be a theme for the league. I was given a set of values and ideas that I had to hit on in order for it to be uplifting for the female football league.

Within a couple of days I had whipped up the song. Musically I had envisioned a stadium anthem. Which meant keeping the drums simple, making it easy for people to clap and or stomp along with the song as it could be played over the loud system. For the chorus, I came up with that pretty quick. I wanted it to be easy to sing for anyone, including those who claim to be tone-deaf.

The guitar parts were kept quite simple for the same reason. I wanted any guitar player to be able to pick up a guitar and be able to play it within a matter of minutes. Plus I layered several simple parts to give it a bit more change to it. The hardest part to play likely the lead lick with the vibrato. But even then, it’s not difficult to play.

The verse lyrics took a bit more time. Working on incorporating those values and ideas I had to spend a little time working it so that they would rhyme and work in more of a storyline aspect. It wasn’t overly troublesome, but I did make sure there was progression.

Once it was all put together I sent it along to the contact. The league worked on getting underway, but never got to a point where the song was used for the theme. They never ended up doing a theme and we never signed a deal for it.

Fast forward a few years and I’m going to an LA Kings hockey game with my good buddy Chris Hellstrom. He wanted to get me into hockey, and the best way is for me to go to a live game. I was having a great time. During the game every so often (who am I kidding, very often), they were playing a semi-musical thing that kept shouting “Go Kings Go!”* I told Chris, dude, I have a song that is substantially better than that.

That night when I got home, I pulled out the WPFL theme I had written. I started looking at the files and then went to bed. The next day I started retooling the verse lyrics. I needed them to work for hockey instead of the football. Which required me to pester Chris with questions about hockey and some of the various terms used to talk about what happens on the ice.

A day later, I had it re-tooled. Updated the vocals. Asked Chris to add some bits to the arrangement, then I made a mix of it. Shortly after that I opted to do a version for each major league team in LA at the time. Which mean tweaking it for Basketball as well. A few more days later and I had versions for each team.

Basketball had a huge following and my decision was to use a basketball related photo that I took at a park to be the cover of the release. Then I put the various versions out under the title Do You Want to Play.

Another year or two later I was linked up with Jerry Davis from Fox Sports. I was going to be doing a lot of music for their sports network. During the course of getting the deal done, Jerry asked me how much music I have and in turn I told him how many production music CDs I had. The deal changed in my favor as they would just license my library instead of me writing stuff and them owning it.

While doing that deal I mentioned the song for all the LA teams. Jerry liked it, but felt Fox couldn’t make use of it. He felt strongly about it, and pushed it out to the head of marketing for the NBA, then gave her my contact info. She contacted me and we spoke about the song and what else I was doing musically. She asked me if I could do a version of the song for the WNBA and the D League. I had to ask what the D League was. She explained and I said sure I can. She also wanted to have me come play at halftime events at various live games; based on a tour that I was supposed to be doing at that time. It was going to be a huge plus.

While pulling the song out again for doing those two versions, I got a wild notion that I should just do a version for every team in all 3 of the basketball leagues. That’s what I did. I started keeping track of each team, and swapping out vocals for each one.

Once done, I sent them all to her and it was a bit overwhelming for her.

Unfortunately the tour didn’t happen, and thus the live halftimes didn’t materialize. But I had the ability to use the songs as I owned it. So I started releasing the versions for each league. They did well on their own without me pushing them.

Years later, I’m still occasionally updating the song for new teams that arise over time. Much like this one for the Lehi Pioneers. The question might be, why would you do a version for a High School team? The answer is, for my girlfriend who is the assistant principal at Lehi High. You know, the place, kinda made famous by the original Footloose movie starring Kevin Bacon. Oddly, I’ve been to more of their games than I attended in my own high school.

Factoids:

Copyright: 20070201

ISRC: USONR1900030
ISRC: USONR1900058

ISWC: T9298558755

SESAC Song ID: 59085292

Harry Fox ID: DA2EV0
Harry Fox Publisher ID: P8938Q

UPC: 193829730972
UPC: 193829729457

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