What is your favorite high school band ?

• Thinthickbigred

  I think these boys and girls deserve our appreciation . I am not talking about one of them robot contests, Which band gets you fired up at a high school game?
• Thinthickbigred

  Steubenville Big Red is the best that I know of
• outdoorsman

  Creek at 140 kids is the best in the valley.
• Bigred1995

  

  http://www.wtov9.com/video/25201246/index.html - Big Red (Brooke/Big Red game)
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Al8-DtBD5ok - Indian Creek
  
  This is ridiculous, but I guess the band geeks need something to argue about too! LOL
  I know the sound quality is different, but the only performance WTOV9 has for Indian Creek for Band of the week was when they played the WTOV9 corny theme song!
• queencitybuckeye

  Thinthickbigred;501159 wrote:I am not talking about one of them robot contests

  
  Show bands are a joke.
• FairwoodKing

  I was very disappointed when Morgantown failed to bring their band to the Rally in Death Valley. I understand that their band has more than 200 members and that it has won all sorts of awards. Their excuse for not bringing the band was pretty feeble. They said they didn't have the money. This is BS because their school received $25K to play in the rally.
• Art Modell

  

  Thinthickbigred;501162 wrote:Steubenville Big Red is the best that I know of

  
  Big Red has the best band,football team,cheerleaders,players,coaches,stadium,bleachers,pressbox,restrooms,lockerooms,lights,scoreboard,schools,teachers,pa system,school buses,cafetarias,boosters,fans,concession stands, and parking lots. Oh I forgot, they have the best goalposts also. If you dont believe me just ask Thinthickbigred.
• FairwoodKing

  Of all the bands I've seen this year (Brooke, Parkersburg, St. Ignatius, McKeesport, Pittsburgh Central Catholic), Big Red was definitely the best. What really surprised me was that the Big Red Band has more members than any of the Div. I teams that I saw. Iggy's band was especially disappointing. Harding Middle School has more members in its band.
• TheQ

  Massillon and BR are always entertaining. Poland always had a large and very good band, but I haven't seen them in quite a few years.
• ts1227

  

  Art Modell;501294 wrote:Big Red has the best band,football team,cheerleaders,players,coaches,stadium,bleachers,pressbox,restrooms,lockerooms,lights,scoreboard,schools,teachers,pa system,school buses,cafetarias,boosters,fans,concession stands, and parking lots. Oh I forgot, they have the best goalposts also. If you dont believe me just ask Thinthickbigred.

  
  You finally made me laugh Capone.
  
  
  Big Red is one of the better ones I have seen, they're one of the few high schools that do what my alma mater (Ohio University) does, and actually do it well.
  
  As TheQ mentioned, Poland has always been good in the past.
  
  Salem used to field a REALLY good band when I was coming through school... it started to decline some once I got to high school (2000) and has completely fallen apart since then. Numbers went from 250 or so in the band in the 1990s to about 40 now, and I have farts that are more in tune than them anymore. Some of it has to do with some internal issues they had in 2006 (I won't get into it, but it's all information that is readily available through news sources, not rumor) that resulted in numbers dwindling and new directors.
• Bigred1995

  

  Does everyone from Big Red remember Boardman's band from back in the day? They would line up from goal line to goal line and play. That was a huge band!
• outdoorsman

  Art Modell;501294 wrote:Big Red has the best band,football team,cheerleaders,players,coaches,stadium,bleachers,pressbox,restrooms,lockerooms,lights,scoreboard,schools,teachers,pa system,school buses,cafetarias,boosters,fans,concession stands, and parking lots. Oh I forgot, they have the best goalposts also. If you dont believe me just ask Thinthickbigred.

  
  But they dont have the 25 seconds clocks at the endzones. Go figure.
• TheQ

  ts1227;501317 wrote:You finally made me laugh Capone.
  
  
  Big Red is one of the better ones I have seen, they're one of the few high schools that do what my alma mater (Ohio University) does, and actually do it well.
  
  As TheQ mentioned, Poland has always been good in the past.
  
  Salem used to field a REALLY good band when I was coming through school... it started to decline some once I got to high school (2000) and has completely fallen apart since then. Numbers went from 250 or so in the band in the 1990s to about 40 now, and I have farts that are more in tune than them anymore. Some of it has to do with some internal issues they had in 2006 (I won't get into it, but it's all information that is readily available through news sources, not rumor) that resulted in numbers dwindling and new directors.

  Hey TS1227, You better find someone to start your car for you after the game on Friday. There's a rumor going around that some of the Salem band parents can get pretty nasty when they hear talk like that, lol!! :rolleyes:
• ts1227

  

  The band moms are (or at least were, I don't know any of them now) rabid/insufferable. If you ask them, the band never skipped a beat and the fans still don't come for the football team!
  
  When I was in school, they were also outspoken and gigantic, so the chances of them walking far enough to find my car would be nil, haha,
• d.woods50fan.

  

  Art Modell;501294 wrote:Big Red has the best band,football team,cheerleaders,players,coaches,stadium,bleachers,pressbox,restrooms,lockerooms,lights,scoreboard,schools,teachers,pa system,school buses,cafetarias,boosters,fans,concession stands, and parking lots. Oh I forgot, they have the best goalposts also. If you dont believe me just ask Thinthickbigred.

  
  You finally posted something that makes sense !!!
• FairwoodKing

  Bigred1995;501319 wrote:Does everyone from Big Red remember Boardman's band from back in the day? They would line up from goal line to goal line and play. That was a huge band!

  
  Yes, I remember them. They put on a hell of a show.
• skank

  

  The original HS performing band....Yes, that's right, THE ORIGINAL HS BAND. The Massillon Tiger Swing Band. Nobody else compares. In the early thirties, Paul Brown got together with George 'Red' Bird, the band director at Massillon HS and decided that at halftime of these games, they needed to do something to keep the fans busy, hence the original HS performing band. At EVERY halftime, they perform, Fanfare, Tiger Rag & Carry On, something they have done at every game since 1938, it was performed at halftime during the Red Bird era, then changed to pregame, and recently, moved back to halftime.
• skank

  

  Art Modell;501294 wrote:Big Red has the best band,football team,cheerleaders,players,coaches,stadium,bleachers,pressbox,restrooms,lockerooms,lights,scoreboard,schools,teachers,pa system,school buses,cafetarias,boosters,fans,concession stands, and parking lots. Oh I forgot, they have the best goalposts also. If you dont believe me just ask Thinthickbigred.

  
  Parking lots? I didn't know Big Red owns Krogers.
• outdoorsman

  News 9 was at Creek today. Gonna be some thing on the news about the best band in the valley.
• Thinthickbigred

  Art Modell;501294 wrote:Big Red has the best band,football team,cheerleaders,players,coaches,stadium,bleachers,pressbox,restrooms,lockerooms,lights,scoreboard,schools,teachers,pa system,school buses,cafetarias,boosters,fans,concession stands, and parking lots. Oh I forgot, they have the best goalposts also. If you dont believe me just ask Thinthickbigred.

  
  In the OVAC you about covered it I think . You might know more about cheerleaders having been one yourself. and I do like the goalpost at Wheeling Island better because they are pro style "higher" and they have better parking . Dont know about the buses . You might know better about that as well having rode the short one .
• Thinthickbigred

  outdoorsman;501559 wrote:News 9 was at Creek today. Gonna be some thing on the news about the best band in the valley.

  
  Is it the best band or the Creek band ? It cant be about both .
• Dover

  Actually Dover had the first high school marching band in Ohio, and the first high school to have a band preform at a high school football game.
• Bigred1995

  

  skank;501514 wrote:The original HS performing band....Yes, that's right, THE ORIGINAL HS BAND. The Massillon Tiger Swing Band. Nobody else compares. In the early thirties, Paul Brown got together with George 'Red' Bird, the band director at Massillon HS and decided that at halftime of these games, they needed to do something to keep the fans busy, hence the original HS performing band. At EVERY halftime, they perform, Fanfare, Tiger Rag & Carry On, something they have done at every game since 1938, it was performed at halftime during the Red Bird era, then changed to pregame, and recently, moved back to halftime.

  Dover;501618 wrote:Actually Dover had the first high school marching band in Ohio, and the first high school to have a band preform at a high school football game.

  Wow! Now I think proof is in order!!!
• skank

  

  Thinthickbigred;501601 wrote:In the OVAC you about covered it I think . You might know more about cheerleaders having been one yourself. and I do like the goalpost at Wheeling Island better because they are pro style "higher" and they have better parking . Dont know about the buses . You might know better about that as well having rode the short one .

  
  Based on the highlighted sentences....I think I have a new favorite poster....GREAT post Tt84. Hahahaha.
  
  Modell being owned.
• skank

  

  Dover;501618 wrote:Actually Dover had the first high school marching band in Ohio, and the first high school to have a band preform at a high school football game.

  
  A rubberband wrapped around a shoe box and a stick beating on the bottom of an oatmeal container does not a band make.