The Phonez have one of the most prestigious (let alone visible!) positions in the band, leading it during its signature wedge formation during the band's pregame performance. Every year, there is a healthy competition between the Phonez and the Tenors to see who gets to lead the wedge. The position has always been held traditionally by a saxophonist. See who's led the wedge, since its inception in 1961, here. The list also features what instrument the points have played.

• See the list of wedge leaders here. (You may have to turn off your pop-up blocker to view this window.)

On Game Day Saturdays, the Cal Band marches up from Sather Gate through campus to California Memorial Stadium after a pre-game rally at Upper Sproul Plaza, bringing fans in tow as well as spreading and exuding Cal Spirit as the Pride of California. During this march up to the stadium, each section does continuities which set them apart from the entire band, and the Phonez are no exception. The continuities draw from references alluding to television shows, mathematics, and even current and past members.

The continuities are divided per drum cadence, and a brief explanation follows all non-obvious continuities.

• View the list of march-up continuities here. (You may have to turn off your pop-up blocker to view this window.)

Check out all the cool stuff we make for ourselves! From polo shirts to beanies to mesh hats, the Phonez are the essence of style in the Cal Band. Everyone, to be sure, wants to be a Phonez. (To view the images, you may have to turn off your pop-up blocker.)

2007-2008 The Phonez tackled local politics in their fake shirts this year. Inspired by the tree-sitters who were trying to save the oak trees outside the stadium, which were to be demolished because of renovations, the Phonez expressed what they would really like to save. The answers varied from pokemon to purity to a list of all the characters who died in the final Harry Potter book. Needless to say it was a tremendous success. The phonez again got t-shirts this year, which were based off the popular movie 300. Because the phonez were the most numerous section in the Cal Band for the third year in a row, we celebrated by putting the number 38 (there were 38 of us) in the bloody font of 300 on the front. On the back we recreated the scene where King Leonidas kicks a Persian emmisary into a giant pit saying "This is SPARTA!!!". The Phonez instead say "This is HIGHSTEP!!!" and we highstep a USC (Sucks) trojan into a giant pit instead of an emmisary. The design was created by the tenacious Colin Hawley-Snow.

2006-2007 Inspired by the movie Snakes on a Plane, the phonez decided to base their fake shirts on the famous Samuel L. Jackson quote from that same movie (which will not be repeated here). The Phonez went with black again this year, getting the baseball themed shirts seen to the left. This design was expertly crafted by Ian Bushong.

2005-2006

The "fake" shirt theme this year was "The Phonez are Bananas", inspired by excellent speller Gwen Stefani. Everyone chose their own 7 letter word to spell in lyrical form. The Phonez departed from traditional t-shirts this year to get black zip-hoodies that featured the quote "Cal Band Phonez, blindingly awesome" (with Phonez conveniently written in braille).

2004-2005

The Phonez decided to return to camp for their shirts this year, getting ringer tees with a camp logo designed by Miguel de Leon. The Phonez "fake" Shirt returned with a vengeance, as well as the Mesh Hat. To celebrate the election year, the "fake" shirt theme was "Phonez Indecision 2004". On the shirts, phonez expressed what they really wanted to vote for.

2003-2004

This year featured three awesome keepsakes: the Phonez Mesh Hat, designed by the awesome Toby Hocking; another Phonez "fake" Shirt, agreed upon traditionally by the section; and the Phonez Polo Shirt, designed by Miguel de Leon.

2002-2003 The previous year's spray-painted t-shirts were quite a hit with the phonez, so much so that we decided to make another 'fake' shirt again this year.The featured theme was "Frat Rush!".Our second shirt from this year, professionally made, featured a simple guide on how to be a Cal Band Phonez. The design came to us from the legendary Toby Hocking.

2001-2002

This year featured not one, but two shirts! The first was handmade by us with cheap white t-shirts and spray paint. We had had a rivalry going with the clarinet section for some time, but previous attempts to insult them seemed to fly right over their heads. So we broke it down to the basics and spray painted the quote "If you play clarinet, you are a bad person" onto the shirts. We then attributed this quote to various characters, historical and fictional, ranging from Pope John Paul II to The Dead Sea Scrolls to Confucious to Benny Goodman. Unfortunately, the joke still went over the clarinets' heads, and instead of taking the joke in good humor, the shirts mostly resulted in a lot of whining and complaining by the clarinet section. Sick and tired of this behavior, they are no longer our rivals, as we no longer feel rivaled by them in any way. Oh well. Go Bears.

Now, after the bad taste our first shirts left in our mouths, we needed to make another shirt that would serve as a real keepsake for this year. We originally wanted a shirt to trumpet the fact that three of the five members of the executive committee were Phonez, but after all the controversy our shirts had generated (see above, the '98-99 shirt, the '96-97 shirt), we decided to go with the least controversy possible. Thus, we got a baseball tee, which there had been some calls for previously, with a highstepper on the front, and our pregame spot numbers on the back.

2000-2001 This year, the strongest support was for a long-sleeved shirt, so that's what we got. It features a highstepper, designed by Miguel Barrera, and the slogan "If you're not a phonez, you're a follower," which refers to the fact that phonez are traditionally in the front of the wedge that begins our pregame show. (See our page on the the Point of the Wedge.)

1997-1998 Bob, in his infinite judgement, decided that the Phonez would rejoin the ranks of those bound by neckstraps. So, why not get sectional neckstraps and a matching shirt? But more than just a shirt, it's a work shirt!

1998-1999

This year had a divergence: blue shirts versus yellow shirts. This developed because previous years had featured a strong call for yellow shirts as they were unique, but the calls were outnumbered. Thus, two shirts were made of the same design (design by Ethaan Boyer). The blue shirts had gold writing while the yellow shirts had blue text.

There were pictures of this t-shirt posted on this site. However, the shirt's concept, "Absolut Phonez," a clever reworking of a popular ad campaign at the time, appeared to some University officials to promote the alcohol that the original ads were promoting. Thus, they ordered the site shut down until the pictures could be removed. Unfortunately, since the website's maintainer had only just recently graduated, it was more than a year before someone stepped forward to actually update the site, and thus we were shut off the web for more than a year.

1997-1998 What to do, what to do? If you read about the 1996-1997 shirt (below), you can see why another shirt was not made for this year. Instead, we chose custom-made beanies for the unusually cold weather. Left, Lisa Goddard ('97-98 PRD), dons her beanie during a cold and wet road trip to Seattle. Notice the unassuming bear paw with the Cal logo. Opposite of the bear paw is an embroidered "Phonez 1997-1998". As such, one may wear the beanie straight on as Lisa, or one could tilt beanie to depart from the norm.

1996-1997

As with most public groups, the Cal Band has its own groupies. One such individual is one we refer to as "The Weird Guy" because he follows the band with a microphone that just leads to an empty plastic bag. For Christmas of 1995, Ron Queson and Ron Rapport with a few others sent a postcard that has a picture of the said fellow wielding a Tenor sax (a rival section). And because we had hoped to share this with the rest of the band, we put the postcard's picture on the back of the shirt captioned with "No Dorks!" (similar to a "No Fear!" tee). However, because our fairly new conductor thought that the "Weird Guy" would take offense to our shirts, they were banned.

1995-1996

The shirt idea was simple...why not show others what people in the front of the wedge would see? Thus, our talented artist and future point, Larry Wu, drew what he saw each and every game for the back of the shirts. In keeping with the theme, the front pocket area stated: "Did he catch it? Don't know! I was looking at the sky." Note that if one holds their phonez fairly high, they generally see the sky and nothing in front of them, which can be done during the first half of "Big C".