Marching Band Videos

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  DaEdge1 Productions June 26, 2011 at 9:30am

  @number1 when we marched it i was like WOW. The only atmosphere that was even close to that was when i went to the Boombox Classic this past year
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  mlmkwm June 25, 2011 at 9:41pm

  @NewOrleansDiesel I agree with you, bruh. You are absolutely right, it was the directors that killed the N.O. music programs. I just hate when I hear my N.O. folks talk about Pre-Katrina (2000-2005 era) this and that when St. Aug was the only band the N.O. could truly depend on to compete. I hear people talking about how good Carver, Kennedy, Reed, 35, and others were during this time, but when bands like LLI or SWD came to town, if St. Aug wasn't there the city was put to shame. This was even the case when I was in school (1994-98)--Kennedy was the ONLY other band that could do a proper fieldshow, and even they fell off in 2000. And yet these kats are still on here talking about Pre-Katrina N.O. (speaking of the 2000-2005 era) were the best bands in the southern region. I was simply pointing out the fact that this is not true. The only band that had the ability to make that claim is St. Aug, simply because they were the only band that was able to compete. For everybody else to do a fieldshow was kryptonite--a serious and quite laughable weakness.
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  number1 June 25, 2011 at 9:32pm

  I must say, out of all of the band events I went to in high school, the atmosphere in that stadium was hard to match.
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  number1 June 25, 2011 at 5:36pm

  Yeah, I was disappointed that St. Aug didn't come. That would have been my first time seeing them in person. Thankfully, we saw them in Houston.
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  DaEdge1 Productions June 25, 2011 at 5:22pm

  LLI came and did their thing but one piece was missing. They did deal with every band that was there but the one that could out drill anybody in the country wasn't there
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  number1 June 25, 2011 at 5:21pm

  Baton Rouge bands fell off in 2006 and are just now starting to recover.
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  number1 June 25, 2011 at 5:17pm

  That is not true at all. That time period you named 2000-2005, Baker, Glen Oaks, Mckinley, Clinton, and Jackson were all doing big things. Baker and Glen Oaks were strong in both marching and concert band. You are correct in saying that you didn't know much about BR bands. Your statements proved it. My high school would have come there and done the same thing on our own. The only difference would have been the volume because we only marched 64.
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  NewOrleansDiesel June 25, 2011 at 4:13pm

  @mlmkwm what you are saying is true, but take this into consideration:

  The reason most bands in tha N.O. were like that was because the directors allowed their bands not to have pride in doing good field shows. Bands down here in that era had the talent to learn and execute field shows better than this, but it was the (most of) the directors' laziness that resulted in what most of us saw in that time.

   

  Props to LLI cuz they came down there and handled their business, but it took an ALL-STAR band from Baton Rouge to come down here and "embarrass" us. Why couldn't any of individual high schools from that area come down and do what LLI did? Because they (individual schools) were in real bad shape band wise. I dont really know too much history on BR bands, but I know from 2000 to spring 2005 (well after LLI was established and after a good # of Katrina evacuees got to Baton Rouge) bands up there were HURTING. I know my era of New Orleans isn't nessesarily better than other eras of N.O. bands, but dont just put us down like we wasnt shit...Purple Knight to Purple Knight
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  number1 June 25, 2011 at 2:10pm

  The crowd reaction was priceless.
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  number1 June 25, 2011 at 2:10pm

  Finally, a video of when I was in high school!!!! Now to get some Baker clips.