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  Cadillac ATS Vs. The Wind

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We all know the Brigham Young University's new sports battlecry for year with the song Rise Up.But what isn't yet known is how four local musicians, one of them a BYU graduate, now scattered across the country have united as BYU football fans to contribute the new rock and roll song to celebrate this year's "Rise Up" theme.
And they gave the song to BYU to use for free!
The musicians have never been in the same room together and have never laid eyes on one another while writing and recording the song.
The musicians first reunited in 2010 at the Rock and Roll Fantasy Camp and performed live in San Francisco with one of their teenage influences, Mark Farner of Grand Funk Railroad.
In San Francisco, Farner and the musicians wrote and performed 2 original songs and also covered Grand Funk's top 40 charting hits from the early 70s "Rock and Roll Soul" to a packed audience.
Discussing the reaction received on their song version of "Rise Up," Kevin Wright, bass guitarist from Texas, said he was proud of the song and happy it has been received well.
I hope it is used in whatever way fires-up the fan base and adds even more excitement to the games," he added.
Other musicians include guitarist/songwriter Ken Van Wagenen, a BYU alumna now residing in Los Angeles, musician Doug Lyman, Marc Allen, keyboard player in Nashville, David Thomas, Utah vocalist, and Todd Mitchell, drummer, producer, and sound engineer.
To view the "BYU Football Cougars Rise Up" on youtube, click this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch v=rp2bkPB5ZF4