Prompted by reading that this was the best high school show ever, this was my first time watching it. Best high school show ever? Perhaps a bit of a hype. Still incredible, though: Over the years, I had only gravitated to Lassiter's redesigned The Wind and the Lion show of 1998 - when they, of course, were also Grand National Champions but with a score of 97.55. That year, they dominated all scoring categories with the exception of a small lead in Ensemble Visual Performance by runner-up Plymouth-Canton Educational Park. Three comprehensive high schools on one campus, P-CEP marched away with a reputable second place score: 96.3. Lassiter remained victorious in the end, soaring safely above a one point lead. In 2002, runner-up Lawrence Central HS commanded both Visual Performance categories but only by a small margin for a total category average only two-tenths of a point over Lassiter. Lassiter swept the rest. Lawrence Central finished with a total of 93.95. Lassiter prevailed with a lofty 1.6 point lead: 95.55. Lassiter's 2002 production was exceedingly demanding with an extraordinary execution by its student performers. The clarinet and French horn features and vignettes were beyond a field show's dream and the drill designer must have reverse-designed the final formation to intricately, seamlessly, and - dare I say - borderline dangerously lock into place from the previous set with exceptional artistry and musicianship by the ensemble: all together a true validation from its previous championship in 1998. Congratulations to All

The ending to this show is one of my favorites

Goosebumps at 8:20 on

Debratimms Yes love 🎉🎉🥳🫕🎗️🎁🎤🥳🪘🥁❤️ Debra timms Pat

Do you know what competition this recording is from?? Just curious. 👀

In BOA we're all winners at the game of life!

Holy fireworks lol. Surprised anyone could hear after that

Can you post the 2001 awards ceremony?

So weird to see them do captions awards in the begining

Great post! Lots of awards ceremonies aren't found anywhere so it's great to see some of them are still out there

Unfortunately, I do not. just grand nationals

Do you have a video of Lafayette (KY) from the 2008 Indy Regional?

Fun fact about this show: The kids were notorious throughout the season for interacting directly with the on-field judges during the show while in-character. They would get right up in the judges' faces while yelling and crying out things like "Noooo~! It's not tiiiime!!". The judges described it as "Creepy". One judge mentioned that a kid crawling around on the ground reached out for him and grabbed his ankle as he walked past.

I love early 2000s L.D. Bell, but this show was such a dud to me.

PCMB and BD both rocking the train theme in '04! 😎

I think this show should have placed higher in finals in this particular year!!

Thank you so much for posting this! I was one of the tuba players in this and I was always sad there wasn’t a quality version of this up.

Vanderkolff was hot off of Hide and Seek and popped off with this one.. surely one of the hardest visual programs ever given to a high school?? would love to see the visually superb Woodlands of the 2020s tackle a beast like this.

I’ve been dying to see this show again, thank you for uploading it! The zigzagging woodwind feature at the very end is mind blowing.

The level of demand in this show is unreal

Can you do Jenison High School 2006 next plz?

Some nice drill in there. Thank you for sharing. Check out Broken Arrow 2006 Agua.

Simply one of the greatest high school marching band shows of all time.

I remember discovering LD BELL through this show. I live in Fort Worth and went to shitty ass Diamond Hill and I was in band too. When I saw this show... I was obsessed!!!!! I had never seen a band do show like this. This was iconic. Them to find out this school wasn't too far from me I felt honored lol

Do you have Carmel 2006?

The guard was constantly gagging everyone. Absolutely incredible.

Broken Arrow should have been in Finals in 2005. 😢

it is still beyond my head that this show did not win both state and nats LOL

This is SOOO nostalgic for me! I performed with Ayala in '07.

I still can play most of that show XD

This will always be my favorite marching band show

A battery of 8 snares, 6 basses, and 10 sets of plates...and it worked brilliantly! When I first came across this show a few years back, I was left scratching my head a lot, but coming back to it time and time again since that first viewing, it was the unconventional things (the battery composition, bassoon feature, live vocals which for the early 2000s wasn't too common) that made this show a classic, performed at such a high level. Worthy of being a national champion!

Classic Opener....that sax solo is a classic in HS marching history

Thanks for all my favorite shows! Top 3 probably: LDBell 2006, Westfield 2003, LD Bell 2007.

Been looking for this for years. Love this show musically so haunting. Can't get enough

I agree one of my favorite Avon shows. I haven't seen this music performed better by anyone even Drum Corp

I have been looking for this show for years!!

One of my all time favorites! Lost to Westfield by .05 points which got them second...

Classic!

they practiced at my high school and, to this day, its the best high school band show ever.

omg amazing! can imagine the director: “ok we need a giant white sheet to roll out onto the field”

Love this show! Great to have it in good quality and better audio now!

Such a great show!

The Guard Show

Thank you for uploading this.

Post SFA 2005 🙏🏼 dance symphony was my favorite show.

Churchill 2005. Do that one too.

GOATed show

If you don't mind me asking, where do you get all these videos? It sucks that any show for any school past 2015 nowadays is a treasure hunt to try and find. Thanks!

this was our best show. I was also part of the 2005 win, but this show should have won...but lassiter...