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Do You Want to Play NFL

[Chorus]
The NFL is here today
Doin’ it for their fans and what they want to say
Is do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

[Verse 1]
We’re gonna stand up (stand up)
Not sit down sit down
Ain’t tired of all this running around
We’re gonna D up (D up)
And block run (block runs)
Ain’t no touchdowns to be givin away

[Chorus]
The NFL is here today
Doin’ it for their fans and what they want to say
Is do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

[Verse 2]
There’s a scrimmage (line scrimmage line)
And overtime (overtime)
Ain’t backin down from either side
There’s warrior cries (warrior cries)
And aggressive eyes (aggressive eyes)
Ain’t letting fear get in our minds

[Chorus]
The NFL is here today
Doin’ it for their fans and what they want to say
Is do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

[Verse 3]
We got a special class (special class)
And fancy flash (fancy flash)
Staking our claim while talkin some trash
We got some new blood (new blood)
And some great ones (great ones)
Pushing the edge to get that championship

[Chorus]
The NFL is here today
Doin’ it for their fans and what they want to say
Is do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

Do you (do you)
Do you (do you)
Do you (do you)
Do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

Song Length: 3:15

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:
1. Original version was created for the WPFL – Women’s Professional Football League, it never got off the ground.
2. All the versions came from an idea of liking several pro sports and teams.

Copyright: 2007/02/01

ISRC: US32P1000100

ISWC: T9055767232

SESAC Song ID: 699434

Harry Fox ID: D9116A
Harry Fox Publisher ID: P8938Q

UPC: 654433002232

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Do You Want to Play San Francisco 49ers

[Chorus]
The 49ers are here today
Doin’ it for their fans and what they want to say
Is do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

[Verse 1]
We’re gonna stand up (stand up)
Not sit down sit down
Ain’t tired of all this running around
We’re gonna D up (D up)
And block run (block runs)
Ain’t no touchdowns to be givin away

[Chorus]
The 49ers are here today
Doin’ it for their fans and what they want to say
Is do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

[Verse 2]
There’s a scrimmage (line scrimmage line)
And overtime (overtime)
Ain’t backin down from either side
There’s warrior cries (warrior cries)
And aggressive eyes (aggressive eyes)
Ain’t letting fear get in our minds

[Chorus]
The 49ers are here today
Doin’ it for their fans and what they want to say
Is do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

[Verse 3]
We got a special class (special class)
And fancy flash (fancy flash)
Staking our claim while talkin some trash
We got some new blood (new blood)
And some great ones (great ones)
Pushing the edge to get that championship

[Chorus]
The 49ers are here today
Doin’ it for their fans and what they want to say
Is do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

Do you (do you)
Do you (do you)
Do you (do you)
Do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

Song Length: 3:15

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:
1. Original version was created for the WPFL – Women’s Professional Football League, it never got off the ground.
2. All the versions came from an idea of liking several pro sports and teams.

Copyright: 2007/02/01

ISRC: US32P1000101

ISWC: T9055766911

SESAC Song ID: 699402

Harry Fox ID: D9117P
Harry Fox Publisher ID: P8938Q

UPC: 654433002232

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Do You Want to Play Chicago Bears

[Chorus]
The Bears are here today
Doin’ it for their fans and what they want to say
Is do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

[Verse 1]
We’re gonna stand up (stand up)
Not sit down sit down
Ain’t tired of all this running around
We’re gonna D up (D up)
And block run (block runs)
Ain’t no touchdowns to be givin away

[Chorus]
The Bears are here today
Doin’ it for their fans and what they want to say
Is do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

[Verse 2]
There’s a scrimmage (line scrimmage line)
And overtime (overtime)
Ain’t backin down from either side
There’s warrior cries (warrior cries)
And aggressive eyes (aggressive eyes)
Ain’t letting fear get in our minds

[Chorus]
The Bears are here today
Doin’ it for their fans and what they want to say
Is do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

[Verse 3]
We got a special class (special class)
And fancy flash (fancy flash)
Staking our claim while talkin some trash
We got some new blood (new blood)
And some great ones (great ones)
Pushing the edge to get that championship

[Chorus]
The Bears are here today
Doin’ it for their fans and what they want to say
Is do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

Do you (do you)
Do you (do you)
Do you (do you)
Do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

Song Length: 3:15

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:
1. Original version was created for the WPFL – Women’s Professional Football League, it never got off the ground.
2. All the versions came from an idea of liking several pro sports and teams.

Copyright: 2007/02/01

ISRC: US32P1000102

ISWC: T9055766922

SESAC Song ID: 699403

Harry Fox ID: D9117W
Harry Fox Publisher ID: P8938Q

UPC: 654433002232

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Do You Want to Play Cincinnati Bengals

[Chorus]
The Bengals are here today
Doin’ it for their fans and what they want to say
Is do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

[Verse 1]
We’re gonna stand up (stand up)
Not sit down sit down
Ain’t tired of all this running around
We’re gonna D up (D up)
And block run (block runs)
Ain’t no touchdowns to be givin away

[Chorus]
The Bengals are here today
Doin’ it for their fans and what they want to say
Is do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

[Verse 2]
There’s a scrimmage (line scrimmage line)
And overtime (overtime)
Ain’t backin down from either side
There’s warrior cries (warrior cries)
And aggressive eyes (aggressive eyes)
Ain’t letting fear get in our minds

[Chorus]
The Bengals are here today
Doin’ it for their fans and what they want to say
Is do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

[Verse 3]
We got a special class (special class)
And fancy flash (fancy flash)
Staking our claim while talkin some trash
We got some new blood (new blood)
And some great ones (great ones)
Pushing the edge to get that championship

[Chorus]
The Bengals are here today
Doin’ it for their fans and what they want to say
Is do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

Do you (do you)
Do you (do you)
Do you (do you)
Do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

Song Length: 3:15

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:
1. Original version was created for the WPFL – Women’s Professional Football League, it never got off the ground.
2. All the versions came from an idea of liking several pro sports and teams.

Copyright: 2007/02/01

ISRC: US32P1000103

ISWC: T9055766933

SESAC Song ID: 699404

Harry Fox ID: D9117V
Harry Fox Publisher ID: P8938Q

UPC: 654433002232

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Do You Want to Play Buffalo Bills

[Chorus]
The Bills are here today
Doin’ it for their fans and what they want to say
Is do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

[Verse 1]
We’re gonna stand up (stand up)
Not sit down sit down
Ain’t tired of all this running around
We’re gonna D up (D up)
And block run (block runs)
Ain’t no touchdowns to be givin away

[Chorus]
The Bills are here today
Doin’ it for their fans and what they want to say
Is do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

[Verse 2]
There’s a scrimmage (line scrimmage line)
And overtime (overtime)
Ain’t backin down from either side
There’s warrior cries (warrior cries)
And aggressive eyes (aggressive eyes)
Ain’t letting fear get in our minds

[Chorus]
The Bills are here today
Doin’ it for their fans and what they want to say
Is do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

[Verse 3]
We got a special class (special class)
And fancy flash (fancy flash)
Staking our claim while talkin some trash
We got some new blood (new blood)
And some great ones (great ones)
Pushing the edge to get that championship

[Chorus]
The Bills are here today
Doin’ it for their fans and what they want to say
Is do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

Do you (do you)
Do you (do you)
Do you (do you)
Do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

Song Length: 3:15

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:
1. Original version was created for the WPFL – Women’s Professional Football League, it never got off the ground.
2. All the versions came from an idea of liking several pro sports and teams.

Copyright: 2007/02/01

ISRC: US32P1000104

ISWC: T9055766944

SESAC Song ID: 699405

Harry Fox ID: D9117U
Harry Fox Publisher ID: P8938Q

UPC: 654433002232

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Do You Want to Play Denver Broncos

[Chorus]
The Broncos are here today
Doin’ it for their fans and what they want to say
Is do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

[Verse 1]
We’re gonna stand up (stand up)
Not sit down sit down
Ain’t tired of all this running around
We’re gonna D up (D up)
And block run (block runs)
Ain’t no touchdowns to be givin away

[Chorus]
The Broncos are here today
Doin’ it for their fans and what they want to say
Is do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

[Verse 2]
There’s a scrimmage (line scrimmage line)
And overtime (overtime)
Ain’t backin down from either side
There’s warrior cries (warrior cries)
And aggressive eyes (aggressive eyes)
Ain’t letting fear get in our minds

[Chorus]
The Broncos are here today
Doin’ it for their fans and what they want to say
Is do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

[Verse 3]
We got a special class (special class)
And fancy flash (fancy flash)
Staking our claim while talkin some trash
We got some new blood (new blood)
And some great ones (great ones)
Pushing the edge to get that championship

[Chorus]
The Broncos are here today
Doin’ it for their fans and what they want to say
Is do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

Do you (do you)
Do you (do you)
Do you (do you)
Do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

Song Length: 3:15

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:
1. Original version was created for the WPFL – Women’s Professional Football League, it never got off the ground.
2. All the versions came from an idea of liking several pro sports and teams.

Copyright: 2007/02/01

ISRC: US32P1000105

ISWC: T9055766955

SESAC Song ID: 699406

Harry Fox ID: D9117T
Harry Fox Publisher ID: P8938Q

UPC: 654433002232

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Do You Want to Play Cleveland Browns

[Chorus]
The Browns are here today
Doin’ it for their fans and what they want to say
Is do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

[Verse 1]
We’re gonna stand up (stand up)
Not sit down sit down
Ain’t tired of all this running around
We’re gonna D up (D up)
And block run (block runs)
Ain’t no touchdowns to be givin away

[Chorus]
The Browns are here today
Doin’ it for their fans and what they want to say
Is do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

[Verse 2]
There’s a scrimmage (line scrimmage line)
And overtime (overtime)
Ain’t backin down from either side
There’s warrior cries (warrior cries)
And aggressive eyes (aggressive eyes)
Ain’t letting fear get in our minds

[Chorus]
The Browns are here today
Doin’ it for their fans and what they want to say
Is do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

[Verse 3]
We got a special class (special class)
And fancy flash (fancy flash)
Staking our claim while talkin some trash
We got some new blood (new blood)
And some great ones (great ones)
Pushing the edge to get that championship

[Chorus]
The Browns are here today
Doin’ it for their fans and what they want to say
Is do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

Do you (do you)
Do you (do you)
Do you (do you)
Do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

Song Length: 3:15

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:
1. Original version was created for the WPFL – Women’s Professional Football League, it never got off the ground.
2. All the versions came from an idea of liking several pro sports and teams.

Copyright: 2007/02/01

ISRC: US32P1000106

ISWC: T9055766966

SESAC Song ID: 699407

Harry Fox ID: D91170
Harry Fox Publisher ID: P8938Q

UPC: 654433002232

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Do You Want to Play Tampa Bay Buccaneers

[Chorus]
The Buccaneers are here today
Doin’ it for their fans and what they want to say
Is do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

[Verse 1]
We’re gonna stand up (stand up)
Not sit down sit down
Ain’t tired of all this running around
We’re gonna D up (D up)
And block run (block runs)
Ain’t no touchdowns to be givin away

[Chorus]
The Buccaneers are here today
Doin’ it for their fans and what they want to say
Is do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

[Verse 2]
There’s a scrimmage (line scrimmage line)
And overtime (overtime)
Ain’t backin down from either side
There’s warrior cries (warrior cries)
And aggressive eyes (aggressive eyes)
Ain’t letting fear get in our minds

[Chorus]
The Buccaneers are here today
Doin’ it for their fans and what they want to say
Is do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

[Verse 3]
We got a special class (special class)
And fancy flash (fancy flash)
Staking our claim while talkin some trash
We got some new blood (new blood)
And some great ones (great ones)
Pushing the edge to get that championship

[Chorus]
The Buccaneers are here today
Doin’ it for their fans and what they want to say
Is do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

Do you (do you)
Do you (do you)
Do you (do you)
Do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

Song Length: 3:15

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:
1. Original version was created for the WPFL – Women’s Professional Football League, it never got off the ground.
2. All the versions came from an idea of liking several pro sports and teams.

Copyright: 2007/02/01

ISRC: US32P1000107

ISWC: T9055766977

SESAC Song ID: 699408

Harry Fox ID: D9117Z
Harry Fox Publisher ID: P8938Q

UPC: 654433002232

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Do You Want to Play Arizona Cardinals

[Chorus]
The Cardinals are here today
Doin’ it for their fans and what they want to say
Is do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

[Verse 1]
We’re gonna stand up (stand up)
Not sit down sit down
Ain’t tired of all this running around
We’re gonna D up (D up)
And block run (block runs)
Ain’t no touchdowns to be givin away

[Chorus]
The Cardinals are here today
Doin’ it for their fans and what they want to say
Is do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

[Verse 2]
There’s a scrimmage (line scrimmage line)
And overtime (overtime)
Ain’t backin down from either side
There’s warrior cries (warrior cries)
And aggressive eyes (aggressive eyes)
Ain’t letting fear get in our minds

[Chorus]
The Cardinals are here today
Doin’ it for their fans and what they want to say
Is do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

[Verse 3]
We got a special class (special class)
And fancy flash (fancy flash)
Staking our claim while talkin some trash
We got some new blood (new blood)
And some great ones (great ones)
Pushing the edge to get that championship

[Chorus]
The Cardinals are here today
Doin’ it for their fans and what they want to say
Is do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

Do you (do you)
Do you (do you)
Do you (do you)
Do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

Song Length: 3:15

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:
1. Original version was created for the WPFL – Women’s Professional Football League, it never got off the ground.
2. All the versions came from an idea of liking several pro sports and teams.

Copyright: 2007/02/01

ISRC: US32P1000108

ISWC: T9055766988

SESAC Song ID: 699409

Harry Fox ID: D9117Y
Harry Fox Publisher ID: P8938Q

UPC: 654433002232

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Do You Want to Play San Diego Chargers

[Chorus]
The Chargers are here today
Doin’ it for their fans and what they want to say
Is do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

[Verse 1]
We’re gonna stand up (stand up)
Not sit down sit down
Ain’t tired of all this running around
We’re gonna D up (D up)
And block run (block runs)
Ain’t no touchdowns to be givin away

[Chorus]
The Chargers are here today
Doin’ it for their fans and what they want to say
Is do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

[Verse 2]
There’s a scrimmage (line scrimmage line)
And overtime (overtime)
Ain’t backin down from either side
There’s warrior cries (warrior cries)
And aggressive eyes (aggressive eyes)
Ain’t letting fear get in our minds

[Chorus]
The Chargers are here today
Doin’ it for their fans and what they want to say
Is do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

[Verse 3]
We got a special class (special class)
And fancy flash (fancy flash)
Staking our claim while talkin some trash
We got some new blood (new blood)
And some great ones (great ones)
Pushing the edge to get that championship

[Chorus]
The Chargers are here today
Doin’ it for their fans and what they want to say
Is do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

Do you (do you)
Do you (do you)
Do you (do you)
Do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

Song Length: 3:15

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:
1. Original version was created for the WPFL – Women’s Professional Football League, it never got off the ground.
2. All the versions came from an idea of liking several pro sports and teams.

Copyright: 2007/02/01

ISRC: US32P1000109

ISWC: T9055766999

SESAC Song ID: 699410

Harry Fox ID: D9117X
Harry Fox Publisher ID: P8938Q

UPC: 654433002232

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Do You Want to Play Kansas City Chiefs

[Chorus]
The Chiefs are here today
Doin’ it for their fans and what they want to say
Is do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

[Verse 1]
We’re gonna stand up (stand up)
Not sit down sit down
Ain’t tired of all this running around
We’re gonna D up (D up)
And block run (block runs)
Ain’t no touchdowns to be givin away

[Chorus]
The Chiefs are here today
Doin’ it for their fans and what they want to say
Is do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

[Verse 2]
There’s a scrimmage (line scrimmage line)
And overtime (overtime)
Ain’t backin down from either side
There’s warrior cries (warrior cries)
And aggressive eyes (aggressive eyes)
Ain’t letting fear get in our minds

[Chorus]
The Chiefs are here today
Doin’ it for their fans and what they want to say
Is do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

[Verse 3]
We got a special class (special class)
And fancy flash (fancy flash)
Staking our claim while talkin some trash
We got some new blood (new blood)
And some great ones (great ones)
Pushing the edge to get that championship

[Chorus]
The Chiefs are here today
Doin’ it for their fans and what they want to say
Is do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

Do you (do you)
Do you (do you)
Do you (do you)
Do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

Song Length: 3:15

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:
1. Original version was created for the WPFL – Women’s Professional Football League, it never got off the ground.
2. All the versions came from an idea of liking several pro sports and teams.

Copyright: 2007/02/01

ISRC: US32P1000110

ISWC: T9055767005

SESAC Song ID: 699411

Harry Fox ID: D91174
Harry Fox Publisher ID: P8938Q

UPC: 654433002232

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Do You Want to Play Indianapolis Colts

[Chorus]
The Colts are here today
Doin’ it for their fans and what they want to say
Is do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

[Verse 1]
We’re gonna stand up (stand up)
Not sit down sit down
Ain’t tired of all this running around
We’re gonna D up (D up)
And block run (block runs)
Ain’t no touchdowns to be givin away

[Chorus]
The Colts are here today
Doin’ it for their fans and what they want to say
Is do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

[Verse 2]
There’s a scrimmage (line scrimmage line)
And overtime (overtime)
Ain’t backin down from either side
There’s warrior cries (warrior cries)
And aggressive eyes (aggressive eyes)
Ain’t letting fear get in our minds

[Chorus]
The Colts are here today
Doin’ it for their fans and what they want to say
Is do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

[Verse 3]
We got a special class (special class)
And fancy flash (fancy flash)
Staking our claim while talkin some trash
We got some new blood (new blood)
And some great ones (great ones)
Pushing the edge to get that championship

[Chorus]
The Colts are here today
Doin’ it for their fans and what they want to say
Is do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

Do you (do you)
Do you (do you)
Do you (do you)
Do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

Song Length: 3:15

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:
1. Original version was created for the WPFL – Women’s Professional Football League, it never got off the ground.
2. All the versions came from an idea of liking several pro sports and teams.

Copyright: 2007/02/01

ISRC: US32P1000111

ISWC: T9055767016

SESAC Song ID: 699412

Harry Fox ID: D91173
Harry Fox Publisher ID: P8938Q

UPC: 654433002232

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Do You Want to Play Dallas Cowboys

[Chorus]
The Cowboys are here today
Doin’ it for their fans and what they want to say
Is do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

[Verse 1]
We’re gonna stand up (stand up)
Not sit down sit down
Ain’t tired of all this running around
We’re gonna D up (D up)
And block run (block runs)
Ain’t no touchdowns to be givin away

[Chorus]
The Cowboys are here today
Doin’ it for their fans and what they want to say
Is do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

[Verse 2]
There’s a scrimmage (line scrimmage line)
And overtime (overtime)
Ain’t backin down from either side
There’s warrior cries (warrior cries)
And aggressive eyes (aggressive eyes)
Ain’t letting fear get in our minds

[Chorus]
The Cowboys are here today
Doin’ it for their fans and what they want to say
Is do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

[Verse 3]
We got a special class (special class)
And fancy flash (fancy flash)
Staking our claim while talkin some trash
We got some new blood (new blood)
And some great ones (great ones)
Pushing the edge to get that championship

[Chorus]
The Cowboys are here today
Doin’ it for their fans and what they want to say
Is do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

Do you (do you)
Do you (do you)
Do you (do you)
Do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

Song Length: 3:15

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:
1. Original version was created for the WPFL – Women’s Professional Football League, it never got off the ground.
2. All the versions came from an idea of liking several pro sports and teams.

Copyright: 2007/02/01

ISRC: US32P1000112

ISWC: T9055767027

SESAC Song ID: 699413

Harry Fox ID: D91172
Harry Fox Publisher ID: P8938Q

UPC: 654433002232

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Do You Want to Play Miami Miami Dolphins

[Chorus]
The Miami Dolphins are here today
Doin’ it for their fans and what they want to say
Is do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

[Verse 1]
We’re gonna stand up (stand up)
Not sit down sit down
Ain’t tired of all this running around
We’re gonna D up (D up)
And block run (block runs)
Ain’t no touchdowns to be givin away

[Chorus]
The Miami Dolphins are here today
Doin’ it for their fans and what they want to say
Is do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

[Verse 2]
There’s a scrimmage (line scrimmage line)
And overtime (overtime)
Ain’t backin down from either side
There’s warrior cries (warrior cries)
And aggressive eyes (aggressive eyes)
Ain’t letting fear get in our minds

[Chorus]
The Miami Dolphins are here today
Doin’ it for their fans and what they want to say
Is do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

[Verse 3]
We got a special class (special class)
And fancy flash (fancy flash)
Staking our claim while talkin some trash
We got some new blood (new blood)
And some great ones (great ones)
Pushing the edge to get that championship

[Chorus]
The Miami Dolphins are here today
Doin’ it for their fans and what they want to say
Is do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

Do you (do you)
Do you (do you)
Do you (do you)
Do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

Song Length: 3:15

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:
1. Original version was created for the WPFL – Women’s Professional Football League, it never got off the ground.
2. All the versions came from an idea of liking several pro sports and teams.

Copyright: 2007/02/01

ISRC: US32P1000113

ISWC: T9055767038

SESAC Song ID: 699414

Harry Fox ID: D91171
Harry Fox Publisher ID: P8938Q

UPC: 654433002232

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Do You Want to Play Philadelphia Eagles

[Chorus]
The Eagles are here today
Doin’ it for their fans and what they want to say
Is do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

[Verse 1]
We’re gonna stand up (stand up)
Not sit down sit down
Ain’t tired of all this running around
We’re gonna D up (D up)
And block run (block runs)
Ain’t no touchdowns to be givin away

[Chorus]
The Eagles are here today
Doin’ it for their fans and what they want to say
Is do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

[Verse 2]
There’s a scrimmage (line scrimmage line)
And overtime (overtime)
Ain’t backin down from either side
There’s warrior cries (warrior cries)
And aggressive eyes (aggressive eyes)
Ain’t letting fear get in our minds

[Chorus]
The Eagles are here today
Doin’ it for their fans and what they want to say
Is do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

[Verse 3]
We got a special class (special class)
And fancy flash (fancy flash)
Staking our claim while talkin some trash
We got some new blood (new blood)
And some great ones (great ones)
Pushing the edge to get that championship

[Chorus]
The Eagles are here today
Doin’ it for their fans and what they want to say
Is do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

Do you (do you)
Do you (do you)
Do you (do you)
Do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

Song Length: 3:15

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:
1. Original version was created for the WPFL – Women’s Professional Football League, it never got off the ground.
2. All the versions came from an idea of liking several pro sports and teams.

Copyright: 2007/02/01

ISRC: US32P1000114

ISWC: T9055767049

SESAC Song ID: 699415

Harry Fox ID: D9117C
Harry Fox Publisher ID: P8938Q

UPC: 654433002232

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Do You Want to Play Atlanta Falcons

[Chorus]
The Atlanta Falcons are here today
Doin’ it for their fans and what they want to say
Is do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

[Verse 1]
We’re gonna stand up (stand up)
Not sit down sit down
Ain’t tired of all this running around
We’re gonna D up (D up)
And block run (block runs)
Ain’t no touchdowns to be givin away

[Chorus]
The Atlanta Falcons are here today
Doin’ it for their fans and what they want to say
Is do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

[Verse 2]
There’s a scrimmage (line scrimmage line)
And overtime (overtime)
Ain’t backin down from either side
There’s warrior cries (warrior cries)
And aggressive eyes (aggressive eyes)
Ain’t letting fear get in our minds

[Chorus]
The Atlanta Falcons are here today
Doin’ it for their fans and what they want to say
Is do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

[Verse 3]
We got a special class (special class)
And fancy flash (fancy flash)
Staking our claim while talkin some trash
We got some new blood (new blood)
And some great ones (great ones)
Pushing the edge to get that championship

[Chorus]
The Atlanta Falcons are here today
Doin’ it for their fans and what they want to say
Is do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

Do you (do you)
Do you (do you)
Do you (do you)
Do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

Song Length: 3:15

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:
1. Original version was created for the WPFL – Women’s Professional Football League, it never got off the ground.
2. All the versions came from an idea of liking several pro sports and teams.

Copyright: 2007/02/01

ISRC: US32P1000115

ISWC: T9055767050

SESAC Song ID: 699416

Harry Fox ID: D9117D
Harry Fox Publisher ID: P8938Q

UPC: 654433002232

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Do You Want to Play New York New York Giants

[Chorus]
The Giants are here today
Doin’ it for their fans and what they want to say
Is do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

[Verse 1]
We’re gonna stand up (stand up)
Not sit down sit down
Ain’t tired of all this running around
We’re gonna D up (D up)
And block run (block runs)
Ain’t no touchdowns to be givin away

[Chorus]
The Giants are here today
Doin’ it for their fans and what they want to say
Is do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

[Verse 2]
There’s a scrimmage (line scrimmage line)
And overtime (overtime)
Ain’t backin down from either side
There’s warrior cries (warrior cries)
And aggressive eyes (aggressive eyes)
Ain’t letting fear get in our minds

[Chorus]
The Giants are here today
Doin’ it for their fans and what they want to say
Is do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

[Verse 3]
We got a special class (special class)
And fancy flash (fancy flash)
Staking our claim while talkin some trash
We got some new blood (new blood)
And some great ones (great ones)
Pushing the edge to get that championship

[Chorus]
The Giants are here today
Doin’ it for their fans and what they want to say
Is do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

Do you (do you)
Do you (do you)
Do you (do you)
Do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

Song Length: 3:15

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:
1. Original version was created for the WPFL – Women’s Professional Football League, it never got off the ground.
2. All the versions came from an idea of liking several pro sports and teams.

Copyright: 2007/02/01

ISRC: US32P1000116

ISWC: T9055767061

SESAC Song ID: 699417

Harry Fox ID: D9117E
Harry Fox Publisher ID: P8938Q

UPC: 654433002232

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Do You Want to Play Jacksonville Jaguars

[Chorus]
The Jaguars are here today
Doin’ it for their fans and what they want to say
Is do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

[Verse 1]
We’re gonna stand up (stand up)
Not sit down sit down
Ain’t tired of all this running around
We’re gonna D up (D up)
And block run (block runs)
Ain’t no touchdowns to be givin away

[Chorus]
The Jaguars are here today
Doin’ it for their fans and what they want to say
Is do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

[Verse 2]
There’s a scrimmage (line scrimmage line)
And overtime (overtime)
Ain’t backin down from either side
There’s warrior cries (warrior cries)
And aggressive eyes (aggressive eyes)
Ain’t letting fear get in our minds

[Chorus]
The Jaguars are here today
Doin’ it for their fans and what they want to say
Is do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

[Verse 3]
We got a special class (special class)
And fancy flash (fancy flash)
Staking our claim while talkin some trash
We got some new blood (new blood)
And some great ones (great ones)
Pushing the edge to get that championship

[Chorus]
The Jaguars are here today
Doin’ it for their fans and what they want to say
Is do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

Do you (do you)
Do you (do you)
Do you (do you)
Do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

Song Length: 3:15

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:
1. Original version was created for the WPFL – Women’s Professional Football League, it never got off the ground.
2. All the versions came from an idea of liking several pro sports and teams.

Copyright: 2007/02/01

ISRC: US32P1000117

ISWC: T9055767072

SESAC Song ID: 699418

Harry Fox ID: D9117F
Harry Fox Publisher ID: P8938Q

UPC: 654433002232

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Do You Want to Play New York Jets

[Chorus]
The Jets are here today
Doin’ it for their fans and what they want to say
Is do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

[Verse 1]
We’re gonna stand up (stand up)
Not sit down sit down
Ain’t tired of all this running around
We’re gonna D up (D up)
And block run (block runs)
Ain’t no touchdowns to be givin away

[Chorus]
The Jets are here today
Doin’ it for their fans and what they want to say
Is do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

[Verse 2]
There’s a scrimmage (line scrimmage line)
And overtime (overtime)
Ain’t backin down from either side
There’s warrior cries (warrior cries)
And aggressive eyes (aggressive eyes)
Ain’t letting fear get in our minds

[Chorus]
The Jets are here today
Doin’ it for their fans and what they want to say
Is do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

[Verse 3]
We got a special class (special class)
And fancy flash (fancy flash)
Staking our claim while talkin some trash
We got some new blood (new blood)
And some great ones (great ones)
Pushing the edge to get that championship

[Chorus]
The Jets are here today
Doin’ it for their fans and what they want to say
Is do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

Do you (do you)
Do you (do you)
Do you (do you)
Do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

Song Length: 3:15

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:
1. Original version was created for the WPFL – Women’s Professional Football League, it never got off the ground.
2. All the versions came from an idea of liking several pro sports and teams.

Copyright: 2007/02/01

ISRC: US32P1000118

ISWC: T9055767083

SESAC Song ID: 699419

Harry Fox ID: D9117G
Harry Fox Publisher ID: P8938Q

UPC: 654433002232

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Do You Want to Play Detroit Lions

[Chorus]
The Lions are here today
Doin’ it for their fans and what they want to say
Is do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

[Verse 1]
We’re gonna stand up (stand up)
Not sit down sit down
Ain’t tired of all this running around
We’re gonna D up (D up)
And block run (block runs)
Ain’t no touchdowns to be givin away

[Chorus]
The Lions are here today
Doin’ it for their fans and what they want to say
Is do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

[Verse 2]
There’s a scrimmage (line scrimmage line)
And overtime (overtime)
Ain’t backin down from either side
There’s warrior cries (warrior cries)
And aggressive eyes (aggressive eyes)
Ain’t letting fear get in our minds

[Chorus]
The Lions are here today
Doin’ it for their fans and what they want to say
Is do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

[Verse 3]
We got a special class (special class)
And fancy flash (fancy flash)
Staking our claim while talkin some trash
We got some new blood (new blood)
And some great ones (great ones)
Pushing the edge to get that championship

[Chorus]
The Lions are here today
Doin’ it for their fans and what they want to say
Is do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

Do you (do you)
Do you (do you)
Do you (do you)
Do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

Song Length: 3:15

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:
1. Original version was created for the WPFL – Women’s Professional Football League, it never got off the ground.
2. All the versions came from an idea of liking several pro sports and teams.

Copyright: 2007/02/01

ISRC: US32P1000119

ISWC: T9055767094

SESAC Song ID: 699420

Harry Fox ID: D9117H
Harry Fox Publisher ID: P8938Q

UPC: 654433002232

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Do You Want to Play Green Bay Packers

[Chorus]
The Packers are here today
Doin’ it for their fans and what they want to say
Is do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

[Verse 1]
We’re gonna stand up (stand up)
Not sit down sit down
Ain’t tired of all this running around
We’re gonna D up (D up)
And block run (block runs)
Ain’t no touchdowns to be givin away

[Chorus]
The Packers are here today
Doin’ it for their fans and what they want to say
Is do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

[Verse 2]
There’s a scrimmage (line scrimmage line)
And overtime (overtime)
Ain’t backin down from either side
There’s warrior cries (warrior cries)
And aggressive eyes (aggressive eyes)
Ain’t letting fear get in our minds

[Chorus]
The Packers are here today
Doin’ it for their fans and what they want to say
Is do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

[Verse 3]
We got a special class (special class)
And fancy flash (fancy flash)
Staking our claim while talkin some trash
We got some new blood (new blood)
And some great ones (great ones)
Pushing the edge to get that championship

[Chorus]
The Packers are here today
Doin’ it for their fans and what they want to say
Is do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

Do you (do you)
Do you (do you)
Do you (do you)
Do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

Song Length: 3:15

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:
1. Original version was created for the WPFL – Women’s Professional Football League, it never got off the ground.
2. All the versions came from an idea of liking several pro sports and teams.

Copyright: 2007/02/01

ISRC: US32P1000120

ISWC: T9055767107

SESAC Song ID: 699421

Harry Fox ID: D9117I
Harry Fox Publisher ID: P8938Q

UPC: 654433002232

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Do You Want to Play Carolina Panthers

[Chorus]
The Panthers are here today
Doin’ it for their fans and what they want to say
Is do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

[Verse 1]
We’re gonna stand up (stand up)
Not sit down sit down
Ain’t tired of all this running around
We’re gonna D up (D up)
And block run (block runs)
Ain’t no touchdowns to be givin away

[Chorus]
The Panthers are here today
Doin’ it for their fans and what they want to say
Is do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

[Verse 2]
There’s a scrimmage (line scrimmage line)
And overtime (overtime)
Ain’t backin down from either side
There’s warrior cries (warrior cries)
And aggressive eyes (aggressive eyes)
Ain’t letting fear get in our minds

[Chorus]
The Panthers are here today
Doin’ it for their fans and what they want to say
Is do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

[Verse 3]
We got a special class (special class)
And fancy flash (fancy flash)
Staking our claim while talkin some trash
We got some new blood (new blood)
And some great ones (great ones)
Pushing the edge to get that championship

[Chorus]
The Panthers are here today
Doin’ it for their fans and what they want to say
Is do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

Do you (do you)
Do you (do you)
Do you (do you)
Do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

Song Length: 3:15

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:
1. Original version was created for the WPFL – Women’s Professional Football League, it never got off the ground.
2. All the versions came from an idea of liking several pro sports and teams.

Copyright: 2007/02/01

ISRC: US32P1000121

ISWC: T9055767118

SESAC Song ID: 699422

Harry Fox ID: D9117J
Harry Fox Publisher ID: P8938Q

UPC: 654433002232

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Do You Want to Play New England Patriots

[Chorus]
The Patriots are here today
Doin’ it for their fans and what they want to say
Is do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

[Verse 1]
We’re gonna stand up (stand up)
Not sit down sit down
Ain’t tired of all this running around
We’re gonna D up (D up)
And block run (block runs)
Ain’t no touchdowns to be givin away

[Chorus]
The Patriots are here today
Doin’ it for their fans and what they want to say
Is do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

[Verse 2]
There’s a scrimmage (line scrimmage line)
And overtime (overtime)
Ain’t backin down from either side
There’s warrior cries (warrior cries)
And aggressive eyes (aggressive eyes)
Ain’t letting fear get in our minds

[Chorus]
The Patriots are here today
Doin’ it for their fans and what they want to say
Is do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

[Verse 3]
We got a special class (special class)
And fancy flash (fancy flash)
Staking our claim while talkin some trash
We got some new blood (new blood)
And some great ones (great ones)
Pushing the edge to get that championship

[Chorus]
The Patriots are here today
Doin’ it for their fans and what they want to say
Is do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

Do you (do you)
Do you (do you)
Do you (do you)
Do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

Song Length: 3:15

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:
1. Original version was created for the WPFL – Women’s Professional Football League, it never got off the ground.
2. All the versions came from an idea of liking several pro sports and teams.

Copyright: 2007/02/01

ISRC: US32P1000122

ISWC: T9055767129

SESAC Song ID: 699423

Harry Fox ID: D9117K
Harry Fox Publisher ID: P8938Q

UPC: 654433002232

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Do You Want to Play Oakland Raiders

[Chorus]
The Raiders are here today
Doin’ it for their fans and what they want to say
Is do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

[Verse 1]
We’re gonna stand up (stand up)
Not sit down sit down
Ain’t tired of all this running around
We’re gonna D up (D up)
And block run (block runs)
Ain’t no touchdowns to be givin away

[Chorus]
The Raiders are here today
Doin’ it for their fans and what they want to say
Is do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

[Verse 2]
There’s a scrimmage (line scrimmage line)
And overtime (overtime)
Ain’t backin down from either side
There’s warrior cries (warrior cries)
And aggressive eyes (aggressive eyes)
Ain’t letting fear get in our minds

[Chorus]
The Raiders are here today
Doin’ it for their fans and what they want to say
Is do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

[Verse 3]
We got a special class (special class)
And fancy flash (fancy flash)
Staking our claim while talkin some trash
We got some new blood (new blood)
And some great ones (great ones)
Pushing the edge to get that championship

[Chorus]
The Raiders are here today
Doin’ it for their fans and what they want to say
Is do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

Do you (do you)
Do you (do you)
Do you (do you)
Do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

Song Length: 3:15

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:
1. Original version was created for the WPFL – Women’s Professional Football League, it never got off the ground.
2. All the versions came from an idea of liking several pro sports and teams.

Copyright: 2007/02/01

ISRC: US32P1000123

ISWC: T9055767130

SESAC Song ID: 699424

Harry Fox ID: D9117L
Harry Fox Publisher ID: P8938Q

UPC: 654433002232

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Do You Want to Play St. Louis Rams

[Chorus]
The Rams are here today
Doin’ it for their fans and what they want to say
Is do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

[Verse 1]
We’re gonna stand up (stand up)
Not sit down sit down
Ain’t tired of all this running around
We’re gonna D up (D up)
And block run (block runs)
Ain’t no touchdowns to be givin away

[Chorus]
The Rams are here today
Doin’ it for their fans and what they want to say
Is do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

[Verse 2]
There’s a scrimmage (line scrimmage line)
And overtime (overtime)
Ain’t backin down from either side
There’s warrior cries (warrior cries)
And aggressive eyes (aggressive eyes)
Ain’t letting fear get in our minds

[Chorus]
The Rams are here today
Doin’ it for their fans and what they want to say
Is do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

[Verse 3]
We got a special class (special class)
And fancy flash (fancy flash)
Staking our claim while talkin some trash
We got some new blood (new blood)
And some great ones (great ones)
Pushing the edge to get that championship

[Chorus]
The Rams are here today
Doin’ it for their fans and what they want to say
Is do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

Do you (do you)
Do you (do you)
Do you (do you)
Do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

Song Length: 3:15

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:
1. Original version was created for the WPFL – Women’s Professional Football League, it never got off the ground.
2. All the versions came from an idea of liking several pro sports and teams.

Copyright: 2007/02/01

ISRC: US32P1000124

ISWC: T9055767141

SESAC Song ID: 699425

Harry Fox ID: D9117M
Harry Fox Publisher ID: P8938Q

UPC: 654433002232

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Do You Want to Play Baltimore Ravens

[Chorus]
The Ravens are here today
Doin’ it for their fans and what they want to say
Is do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

[Verse 1]
We’re gonna stand up (stand up)
Not sit down sit down
Ain’t tired of all this running around
We’re gonna D up (D up)
And block run (block runs)
Ain’t no touchdowns to be givin away

[Chorus]
The Ravens are here today
Doin’ it for their fans and what they want to say
Is do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

[Verse 2]
There’s a scrimmage (line scrimmage line)
And overtime (overtime)
Ain’t backin down from either side
There’s warrior cries (warrior cries)
And aggressive eyes (aggressive eyes)
Ain’t letting fear get in our minds

[Chorus]
The Ravens are here today
Doin’ it for their fans and what they want to say
Is do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

[Verse 3]
We got a special class (special class)
And fancy flash (fancy flash)
Staking our claim while talkin some trash
We got some new blood (new blood)
And some great ones (great ones)
Pushing the edge to get that championship

[Chorus]
The Ravens are here today
Doin’ it for their fans and what they want to say
Is do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

Do you (do you)
Do you (do you)
Do you (do you)
Do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

Song Length: 3:15

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:
1. Original version was created for the WPFL – Women’s Professional Football League, it never got off the ground.
2. All the versions came from an idea of liking several pro sports and teams.

Copyright: 2007/02/01

ISRC: US32P1000125

ISWC: T9055767152

SESAC Song ID: 699426

Harry Fox ID: D9117N
Harry Fox Publisher ID: P8938Q

UPC: 654433002232

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Do You Want to Play Washington Redskins

[Chorus]
The Redskins are here today
Doin’ it for their fans and what they want to say
Is do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

[Verse 1]
We’re gonna stand up (stand up)
Not sit down sit down
Ain’t tired of all this running around
We’re gonna D up (D up)
And block run (block runs)
Ain’t no touchdowns to be givin away

[Chorus]
The Redskins are here today
Doin’ it for their fans and what they want to say
Is do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

[Verse 2]
There’s a scrimmage (line scrimmage line)
And overtime (overtime)
Ain’t backin down from either side
There’s warrior cries (warrior cries)
And aggressive eyes (aggressive eyes)
Ain’t letting fear get in our minds

[Chorus]
The Redskins are here today
Doin’ it for their fans and what they want to say
Is do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

[Verse 3]
We got a special class (special class)
And fancy flash (fancy flash)
Staking our claim while talkin some trash
We got some new blood (new blood)
And some great ones (great ones)
Pushing the edge to get that championship

[Chorus]
The Redskins are here today
Doin’ it for their fans and what they want to say
Is do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

Do you (do you)
Do you (do you)
Do you (do you)
Do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

Song Length: 3:15

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:
1. Original version was created for the WPFL – Women’s Professional Football League, it never got off the ground.
2. All the versions came from an idea of liking several pro sports and teams.

Copyright: 2007/02/01

ISRC: US32P1000126

ISWC: T9055767163

SESAC Song ID: 699427

Harry Fox ID: D9117O
Harry Fox Publisher ID: P8938Q

UPC: 654433002232

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Do You Want to Play New Orleans Saints

[Chorus]
The Saints are here today
Doin’ it for their fans and what they want to say
Is do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

[Verse 1]
We’re gonna stand up (stand up)
Not sit down sit down
Ain’t tired of all this running around
We’re gonna D up (D up)
And block run (block runs)
Ain’t no touchdowns to be givin away

[Chorus]
The Saints are here today
Doin’ it for their fans and what they want to say
Is do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

[Verse 2]
There’s a scrimmage (line scrimmage line)
And overtime (overtime)
Ain’t backin down from either side
There’s warrior cries (warrior cries)
And aggressive eyes (aggressive eyes)
Ain’t letting fear get in our minds

[Chorus]
The Saints are here today
Doin’ it for their fans and what they want to say
Is do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

[Verse 3]
We got a special class (special class)
And fancy flash (fancy flash)
Staking our claim while talkin some trash
We got some new blood (new blood)
And some great ones (great ones)
Pushing the edge to get that championship

[Chorus]
The Saints are here today
Doin’ it for their fans and what they want to say
Is do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

Do you (do you)
Do you (do you)
Do you (do you)
Do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

Song Length: 3:15

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:
1. Original version was created for the WPFL – Women’s Professional Football League, it never got off the ground.
2. All the versions came from an idea of liking several pro sports and teams.

Copyright: 2007/02/01

ISRC: US32P1000127

ISWC: T9055767174

SESAC Song ID: 699428

Harry Fox ID: D9116O
Harry Fox Publisher ID: P8938Q

UPC: 654433002232

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Do You Want to Play Seattle Seahawks

[Chorus]
The Seahawks are here today
Doin’ it for their fans and what they want to say
Is do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

[Verse 1]
We’re gonna stand up (stand up)
Not sit down sit down
Ain’t tired of all this running around
We’re gonna D up (D up)
And block run (block runs)
Ain’t no touchdowns to be givin away

[Chorus]
The Seahawks are here today
Doin’ it for their fans and what they want to say
Is do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

[Verse 2]
There’s a scrimmage (line scrimmage line)
And overtime (overtime)
Ain’t backin down from either side
There’s warrior cries (warrior cries)
And aggressive eyes (aggressive eyes)
Ain’t letting fear get in our minds

[Chorus]
The Seahawks are here today
Doin’ it for their fans and what they want to say
Is do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

[Verse 3]
We got a special class (special class)
And fancy flash (fancy flash)
Staking our claim while talkin some trash
We got some new blood (new blood)
And some great ones (great ones)
Pushing the edge to get that championship

[Chorus]
The Seahawks are here today
Doin’ it for their fans and what they want to say
Is do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

Do you (do you)
Do you (do you)
Do you (do you)
Do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

Song Length: 3:15

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:
1. Original version was created for the WPFL – Women’s Professional Football League, it never got off the ground.
2. All the versions came from an idea of liking several pro sports and teams.

Copyright: 2007/02/01

ISRC: US32P1000128

ISWC: T9055767185

SESAC Song ID: 699429

Harry Fox ID: D9116P
Harry Fox Publisher ID: P8938Q

UPC: 654433002232

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Do You Want to Play Pittsburgh Steelers

[Chorus]
The Steelers are here today
Doin’ it for their fans and what they want to say
Is do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

[Verse 1]
We’re gonna stand up (stand up)
Not sit down sit down
Ain’t tired of all this running around
We’re gonna D up (D up)
And block run (block runs)
Ain’t no touchdowns to be givin away

[Chorus]
The Steelers are here today
Doin’ it for their fans and what they want to say
Is do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

[Verse 2]
There’s a scrimmage (line scrimmage line)
And overtime (overtime)
Ain’t backin down from either side
There’s warrior cries (warrior cries)
And aggressive eyes (aggressive eyes)
Ain’t letting fear get in our minds

[Chorus]
The Steelers are here today
Doin’ it for their fans and what they want to say
Is do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

[Verse 3]
We got a special class (special class)
And fancy flash (fancy flash)
Staking our claim while talkin some trash
We got some new blood (new blood)
And some great ones (great ones)
Pushing the edge to get that championship

[Chorus]
The Steelers are here today
Doin’ it for their fans and what they want to say
Is do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

Do you (do you)
Do you (do you)
Do you (do you)
Do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

Song Length: 3:15

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:
1. Original version was created for the WPFL – Women’s Professional Football League, it never got off the ground.
2. All the versions came from an idea of liking several pro sports and teams.

Copyright: 2007/02/01

ISRC: US32P1000129

ISWC: T9055767196

SESAC Song ID: 699430

Harry Fox ID: D9116Q
Harry Fox Publisher ID: P8938Q

UPC: 654433002232

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Do You Want to Play Houston Texans

[Chorus]
The Texans are here today
Doin’ it for their fans and what they want to say
Is do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

[Verse 1]
We’re gonna stand up (stand up)
Not sit down sit down
Ain’t tired of all this running around
We’re gonna D up (D up)
And block run (block runs)
Ain’t no touchdowns to be givin away

[Chorus]
The Texans are here today
Doin’ it for their fans and what they want to say
Is do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

[Verse 2]
There’s a scrimmage (line scrimmage line)
And overtime (overtime)
Ain’t backin down from either side
There’s warrior cries (warrior cries)
And aggressive eyes (aggressive eyes)
Ain’t letting fear get in our minds

[Chorus]
The Texans are here today
Doin’ it for their fans and what they want to say
Is do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

[Verse 3]
We got a special class (special class)
And fancy flash (fancy flash)
Staking our claim while talkin some trash
We got some new blood (new blood)
And some great ones (great ones)
Pushing the edge to get that championship

[Chorus]
The Texans are here today
Doin’ it for their fans and what they want to say
Is do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

Do you (do you)
Do you (do you)
Do you (do you)
Do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

Song Length: 3:15

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:
1. Original version was created for the WPFL – Women’s Professional Football League, it never got off the ground.
2. All the versions came from an idea of liking several pro sports and teams.

Copyright: 2007/02/01

ISRC: US32P1000130

ISWC: T9055767209

SESAC Song ID: 699431

Harry Fox ID: D91159
Harry Fox Publisher ID: P8938Q

UPC: 654433002232

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Do You Want to Play Tennessee Titans

[Chorus]
The Titans are here today
Doin’ it for their fans and what they want to say
Is do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

[Verse 1]
We’re gonna stand up (stand up)
Not sit down sit down
Ain’t tired of all this running around
We’re gonna D up (D up)
And block run (block runs)
Ain’t no touchdowns to be givin away

[Chorus]
The Titans are here today
Doin’ it for their fans and what they want to say
Is do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

[Verse 2]
There’s a scrimmage (line scrimmage line)
And overtime (overtime)
Ain’t backin down from either side
There’s warrior cries (warrior cries)
And aggressive eyes (aggressive eyes)
Ain’t letting fear get in our minds

[Chorus]
The Titans are here today
Doin’ it for their fans and what they want to say
Is do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

[Verse 3]
We got a special class (special class)
And fancy flash (fancy flash)
Staking our claim while talkin some trash
We got some new blood (new blood)
And some great ones (great ones)
Pushing the edge to get that championship

[Chorus]
The Titans are here today
Doin’ it for their fans and what they want to say
Is do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

Do you (do you)
Do you (do you)
Do you (do you)
Do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

Song Length: 3:15

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:
1. Original version was created for the WPFL – Women’s Professional Football League, it never got off the ground.
2. All the versions came from an idea of liking several pro sports and teams.

Copyright: 2007/02/01

ISRC: US32P1000131

ISWC: T9055767210

SESAC Song ID: 699432

Harry Fox ID: D91158
Harry Fox Publisher ID: P8938Q

UPC: 654433002232

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Do You Want to Play Minnesota Vikings

[Chorus]
The Vikings are here today
Doin’ it for their fans and what they want to say
Is do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

[Verse 1]
We’re gonna stand up (stand up)
Not sit down sit down
Ain’t tired of all this running around
We’re gonna D up (D up)
And block run (block runs)
Ain’t no touchdowns to be givin away

[Chorus]
The Vikings are here today
Doin’ it for their fans and what they want to say
Is do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

[Verse 2]
There’s a scrimmage (line scrimmage line)
And overtime (overtime)
Ain’t backin down from either side
There’s warrior cries (warrior cries)
And aggressive eyes (aggressive eyes)
Ain’t letting fear get in our minds

[Chorus]
The Vikings are here today
Doin’ it for their fans and what they want to say
Is do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

[Verse 3]
We got a special class (special class)
And fancy flash (fancy flash)
Staking our claim while talkin some trash
We got some new blood (new blood)
And some great ones (great ones)
Pushing the edge to get that championship

[Chorus]
The Vikings are here today
Doin’ it for their fans and what they want to say
Is do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

Do you (do you)
Do you (do you)
Do you (do you)
Do you (do you)
Do You Want To Play (do you want to play)
Do You Want To Play

Song Length: 3:15

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:
1. Original version was created for the WPFL – Women’s Professional Football League, it never got off the ground.
2. All the versions came from an idea of liking several pro sports and teams.

Copyright: 2007/02/01

ISRC: US32P1000132

ISWC: T9055767221

SESAC Song ID: 699433

Harry Fox ID: D9116B
Harry Fox Publisher ID: P8938Q

UPC: 654433002232

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