Link to the article that the following excerpts are from..................which helps to explain why at this point, the Gladiators present a superior game environment at the Gwin.

Music.........
CT: How do you decide on the music that gets played during the games? Are there certain standbys for certain situations that you just have to use?

CP: We have 3,780-something songs available. With technology now, it's all PC based and it's a mouse click away. The frustrating thing is there's only a certain amount that can fit on one screen.

For example, every goal, obviously, we have to play Gary Glitter's "Rock and Roll Part 2." Then the fans have their own chant to it and it's become another tradition here.

CT: What is it that they say?

CP: This is how amazing technology is (reaching for his laptop). "Goal!!!! Gladiators!!!!" And we hit the (computer generated) horn because we don't have a real horn. It sure would be nice to have a real horn ... if there's any marine contractors out there that would like to provide one. (Starting the song) now the fans are going crazy (chanting), "We're going to beat the hell out of you! You! You! You! You!"

Video....
CT: I've always been really impressed with the pregame video intros. You do those, combining the video highlights with a theme song, usually two a year, right?

CP: We try to do two with some sort of theme for the playoffs.

CT: How do you come up with those? Was it something you had done somewhere else and thought it could be done here?

CP: The one thing that was unique about Atlanta, I've got to give credit to NightGlass Media, because we've got access to national-level editors at a reasonable price that a minor-league team can afford. That partnership has really paid dividends in terms of the quality that we're putting in on these videos.

So it's a combination of that and my 25 years in radio that gives me contacts in the music industry. For example, Saliva's "Ladies and Gentlemen," we knew about that almost a year before anybody else did because of my relationship with a record rep who said, hey, you've got to hear this.

CT: That's been my second favorite so far.

CP: We technically got rights to use it before anybody else.

The combination of being able to take that to those kind of editors and come up with an idea that says, this is what I want to see, this is what I'd like to do and then have them execute at that level ... people need to realize what they're seeing is top of the line, award-winning stuff.

Because of the talent access here in Atlanta, it's not typical for a minor league team to have that quality.

You can sample the Gladiators opening video for the first half of the season from the link on this page.

Gladiator Opening Video Link

10.20.07

Duluth, Georgia- In its 5th year of partnership with ECHL professional hockey team Gwinnett Gladiators, NightGlass was again called upon to create the team’s Game Opening Video. Unlike the 30-second television spots NightGlass regularly produces for the Gladiators, the Opening Video is created to pump up the crowd (and players) before the introduction of the starting line-up.

NightGlass Post Production Supervisor, Steve Volpert, worked closely with Gladiator Director of Marketing, Chris Peace, to achieve the spine-tingling creation. As well as conceptualizing the video, Peace edited the music bed that Volpert used to build the visual component. Upon completion of the project Volpert stated, “Together we came up with striking imagery and heart pounding audio to create the desired level of excitement to properly welcome our team to the ice.”

Steve has just completed a new one done to a "Devil went down to Georgia" theme, which started at the games last week.

Disclaimer: Steve is my nephew.