Reacting to "The World's WORST Marching Band"
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- Опубліковано 29 сер 2024
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"World's Worst Marching Band"
• World's Worst Marching...
V** I decided to leave this one alone and delete my comment. Based on everyone's responses and doing some research, these guys strive to be the 'worst' and take pride in that fact. I suppose it's ok to be labeled as the worst if you're actively seeking the title! **V
"Worst Marching Band in the world"
• Worst Marching Band in...
"WORLD'S WORST MARCHING BAND"
• WORLD'S WORST MARCHING...
"Worst I&E solo i've seen..."
• Worst I&E solo i've se...
v**looks like the creator deleted my comment on this one **v
"Worst marching band ever"
• Worst marching band ever
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I would love to see you react to my school’s marching band (north jersey). It’s our 4th year in open class
I would recommend to tell the audience not to dislike the video and comment as well because UA-cam sees ANY interaction as good interaction unfortunately.
In case anyone manages to read this, "the worst soloist" guy is now teaching his own indoor percussion line and is a very accomplished musician. Don't give up guys
Katherine Cheshire it wasn’t bad at all, it was just different and people didn’t like that for some reason
Katherine Cheshire which group?
I’m genuinely curious as to who that was, cuz the solo was really cool
@@kitkatkid1976 I agree
I kinda think the I&E was uploaded as a joke. I think the description is satirical. Perhaps an inside joke with that musician, but who knows.
I love the video! The second band you reacted to is Stanford University’s marching band. They exist to be a satire of traditional collegiate marching band and everything they do is intentionally “bad”
I was entertained. TBH, it reminded me of some of the DCI finals with Blue Devils running around playing with swords. Sure... no where near as polished. but...
Also most of their halftime shows Mock the opponent’s Band
Yes thats Stanford's stick.
Yep, they are one of the few scramble bands. They entertain people through their chaos.
This must be why they ran on the field while Cal was still lateraling the ball down the field.
I’m now the director of the McAdams High School Band. Many of the people in this video are older siblings of my students, and I know the drum major personally. Like you said in this video, you never know what adversity a band is experiencing. The band almost completely disappeared around 2019, but thankfully, now, my staff, the students, and I have built a program that the whole community is proud of. Also, like you said, every year, one of my kid searches up our school and finds this, and it is always heartbreaking for them. Thank you for doing us a justice with this review!
I think you'll give the blue devils a run for their money
Are there any recordings of any recent performances? I'm curious to see where the program has ended up.
Are you actually the director of this high school?? I really want to see any recent stuff and also the performance wasn’t even that bad like I’m not saying it was great but I feel like it’s over exaggerating to say it was the “worst” please update if you post any recent performances or smth 😁
Keep your Spirits up and hold your heads HIGH!! Its not easy to bring a program back like that!! KUDOS to you all and Best of Luck in all future endeavors!!
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@EMCproductions I finally got around to watching this video. I'm the performer from the "Worst I&E Solo Ever." As someone who has continued on as an educator in this activity, I have so much respect for this initiative. I wish you had reached out to me, and we could have broken the solo down a little further. Anyway, love your content and you're a monster player. Keep doing the thing.
Glad to hear you stuck with the activity! We could maybe do an in-depth, behind-the-scenes analysis in a different video. Lmk!
Yooooo its ninjas brother/cousin
I really, really liked your solo! Just wanted to tell you.
I saw somewhere that you’re teaching your own drumline now, what the name of the drumline
I don't even understand the title of that video, it's such a creative and cool thing
McAdams was our first football game, they improved a lot now
That's good to hear! 👍🏻
Kevin Favela just how good I can’t find anything about them
Kevin Favela sorry to say but they don’t have a band anymore
ForeverEric not to mention the fact that it said championships
My daughter is in band and she plays the French horn at twelve years old. Of course, she just started but she's improving she practices a lot
The second band is the Stanford College band. They are known as the craziest marching band. They always run onto the field and they have been suspended from some games before. So they are a fun marching band
I think they suck and should be much better than they are, since it's a major MAJOR school with an endowment to match but they obviously dig their mission.
yeah i’m kind of surprised he didn’t know that
I'm SO relieved at how this video went!
I've seen this in my recommended for a few days but I've avoided - as a band director, this stuff is too close to me. I've always hated these videos where people slam these groups, and you made the great point that people have NO IDEA what a school/band program is going through. Director switches, bad admins, s**t budgets, tragedies within the student body, so many things could be happening that we don't see. I'd also bet that some of these groups are bands that were just started at their schools, and may be full of beginners. And behind all of it is a group of students and teachers just trying to do their best.
Thanks for spreading positivity!
Glad to see band directors are seeing this video. The band I’m in also suffers from a bad budget distributed to us by the student body treasurer and our district administrators, so a huge portion of our funds that allow us to go to events is fundraised throughout the entire school year. There’s little to no downtime in my band where there isn’t a fundraiser happening, and everyone puts a ton of time and effort into it, but nobody catches wind of it so we still get the short end of the stick with the budget. It’s frustrating when your department puts in so much work, and it doesn’t get the funding or support it needs to excel further, it’s a school to nurture talent for crying out loud!
I had a girl in my marching band kill herself, very sad.
JackThe Commenter alright
hey Mr.yeats nice to find you on youtube
Politics about killed our school's band program. Somehow they hired the laziest guy to replace the retiring director over a much better alumni candidate. And so the decline began. When you have bandmembers BEGGING for more challenging music, there's an issue. When summer "marching" band practices are held SITTING under trees for the majority of rehearsals, there's a problem. When the director himself is morbidly obese, there's a problem. When the music is so DUMBED down, even non-musical audience members notice, there's a problem. When administration continues to keep this slob employed and the bar is lowered to the ground, there's a problem. The alumni candidate went on to lead another marching band to such greatness, I can only shake my head at the stupidity (or the "let's hire the principal's nephew, cousin, etc." mentality) of the district. This comment is coming from someone who benefitted from the retiring director, who set that bar HIGH!
"Theres about 50 kids in this program..."
Stops and squints at screen*
Theres only 29 chief
Cynical Judgement I knew I wasn’t the only person who thought it was about 20-30 kids
I was also confused by that comment since my marching band is about 40-50 people and we cover way more space then the band at the beginning
I agree. I heard he said 50 of them & I was like "hol up."
He's a Marine. We're not known for counting.
Counted 'em myself
"It's very hard to play a wind instrument in that kind of weather"
TELL ME ABOUT IT. COMPETITION WAS LAST WEEK. THANKS WIND FOR PLAYING FOR ME!
Lmao our run Friday was so bad everybody was flat and it had been over a week since we matched the full show
Always keep in mind that crappy microphones completely distort sound and pitch. Many of my jazz band and concert band concerts have sounded amazing but even news castors microphones have made band sound like complete garbo.
that happened to me
Happens to musicians in church all the time
The dude from the 'wORSt I&e sOlo' is actually a pretty successful quad player now. He's teched for a few corps and stuff, he's doing well.
*taught
@@b0r00uw I meant teched. He did tech. Not teaching.
@@lifeontheledgerlines8394 Oh okay! My bad. I guess I’m out of touch.
That’s the Stanford band, I can tell because the tree
Right?? Lol. Yes college, and "the worst" is fair because they've been banned from other college stadiums. 🤣
They have been banned because they are intentionally rude and have inappropriate shows
i thought the same thing
Apparently from what I heard, they have no director or leadership.
Rudy Rubio it’s all student run at this point
The second video is Stanford University (my school's rival). They intentionally try to be rowdy and not like a cohesive marching band. They actually call themselves "The World's Largest Rock and Roll Band"
Jon Hillery are they really a rival, I mean... if they are your rival then that would be just sad if they beat you
Andrew Fitch does your band sound good
Hello fellow bear 🐻
@@gerrymartin5662 Go bearz
Boop Bop why so?
Exactly! As a music educator myself I HATE seeing content like that on the internet (even outside the marching arts) because it’s so toxic. Thank you for taking the time to make content that addresses problems like this.
The drum major turned into a power ranger
BRO💀💀💀💀💀💀💀🤜🍆
You should do a “rate my marching band”series
3:32 Your voice turned into a demon for a second there buddy.
He's revealed his true self >:0
How else could he play at the level he does? He made a deal with the devil 😈.
Alright, so the first video you watched, my band director and my friend Amy were at the competition where this was hosted, live, and OH BOY they had tea to spill on that band. The school is McAdams High School in McAdams, Mississippi, it's a 1A school.
I was there as well. I was a student in the stands (they had to perform this in front of all the 6a bands that had arrived early, which would be extremely scary).
Can you please explain 1A to those of us not in the MHSAA?
@@JamesThatcher 1A = less than 200 students in school
6A = over 1050 students in school
Evan Lin That’s because some states go off school size, others judge by band size, which I think is a little more fair. In Florida 1A is 45 and under while 5A is over 145. Florida’s bands aren’t very big so it’s hard to compete nationally because our bands are comparatively smaller
the fat controller laughed I go to a 1a school in Texas and we’ve been top 3 at state for 4 years in a row.. we have had higher scores than 5a’s before.. that 1a is just very ass
I'm pretty sure that second band was the Stanford band, I recognized the tree from the Volleyball national championship final last year.
Edit: I was in the Nebraska band at the game last year. They're members were pretty nice.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's Standford as well... They like to think of themselves as the anti-matching band band...
Stanford is a scramble band. It is a demanding school and the students don't have time to practice marching
TromboneLoki Their*
Ps. Not trying to be a dick, I’m just fixing a grammatical error.
I'm in the University of Iowa marching band and met their band at the 2016 Rose Bowl. They were pretty nice people off the field, didn't really get to interact with them during the game
If you look at the McAdam's High instruments, they're clearly really old and not in good repair. I'm willing to bet that they haven't had a lot of practice and possibly hasn't even been playing that long.
Underfunding is already a big deal for schools in general, and music and arts programs probably get the shortest end of an already short stick. Impacts practice time, instrument quality, class size and all of that. It's tragic really, though it is nice to see bands like that making the most of it.
Very few people who have never been in a Marching Band has NO idea how difficult it is. Memorising several pieces of music, learning all the steps you MUST hit at exact spots, staying in step and doing it ALL in front of sometimes, huge audiences. ANY time a mistake is made there is NO way to hide it! The pressure of Marching Band is immense, whether in HS, College or Professional DCs. I admire any person that has the GUTS to put themselves out there for ALL in attendance to see and hear. I had the privilege of being in a 200 member HS Band that won many State and National Awards (Trophies)....even if it was um...over 40 yrs ago lol. I even became a Drum Major and Head Drum Major in HS and College. Those years were some of the best and most fun I ever had. Contrary to belief, not every Band Member is a nerd lol. My only regret was not trying out for DC. Thanks for your positivity.
The scholars from McAdams put themselves out there despite having instruments in poor condition and being beginners. That took courage, and they earn my respect and kudos. We had a similar situation with a beginner band at one of our competitions. One thing we noticed was they also had little parental support probably because the parents had to work. We cheered for that band as loudly as we cheered for our own. These scholars deserve praise not insults!
I'm excited to see what "69er" means lol
"6s, 9s, and 69s" I bet there's gonna be a lot of licks
Infinity Spike he’s gonna write a cadence with only sixlets ninthlets and sixtyninethlets
Probably a knock off of the 49ers
@@adamnyreen9294 DEFGECD
I have tried repeatedly to have the McAdams HS band video pulled. I have reported it several times. I don't think the owner has even logged into his account in years. UA-cam did not G.A.S. when I reported it. This band competes against one that I work with. I have known kids in that program over the years. And I was at this show at Clinton HS near Jackson. The guy who posted it is sphincter. Good luck. I will try to help on all these. As a teacher I too hate seeing videos with titles like these. Thanks for doing this.
I think people forget just how hard marching band actually is. It sucks that people are calling them the "worst" just them showing up shows me that they're confident enough to compete
On behalf of those of us who suffered through some tough band seasons in high school, thanks for this vid!
Thank you for doing this and being dedicated to taking these slandering titles down.. Looking through the comments for each of these videos, there was SO much negativity towards these bands and the quality. I was outright shocked to see so much of this hateful energy towards groups of kids... It really made me discouraged as a music teacher. Good for you for showing us the reality of these situations and call us to action to fix these misleading title rather than suck us into the click-bait.
I ended up here because of the music teachers that made my school years tolerable. Now that I'm over the proverbial hill, I'm catching up on what modern marching bands are doing. Really enjoyed this man's ability to educate with humor. Thank you for tolerating the budgets, the parents, the attitudes of today and your dedication. A simple band teacher saved my life (HS was hell) & he never even knew it. ✌️
Thank you! The kids performance can only be a good as it is taught by a band director. Poor performance....poor band director. There are too many marching bands that are given poor leadership.
The Wish app is using your merch designs to advertise on random websites. Wut
Hunter Dunshie I want proof
@@steveninfire3953 if I find it again I'll dm it to you. I think I saw it when I was on tetris.com or when I was researching for a school paper
Oh yeah, that's kind of annoying. Basically you've only ever visited RedBubble viewing 1 or 2 designes, and then only those pop up in the little ads they put. It's kinda weird.
Oh my gosh my this has been a running joke in our flatline ever since we watched it in a sectional one day lol
Omg I love you and your channel! 6:42 I am very thankful to see you defend our band. I wasn't old enough to be in band the year this was recorded, but now I am in my second year of being the Drum Major of this band. My first year of being Drum Major was in the 10th grade. That should really show how small we are and have really always been. It can really be a crutch sometimes, but we work very hard to sound as full as possible. Another thing is that our school definitely does not get proper funding, and not much money goes toward our band. Keep up the awesome videos.The first time I watched this I didn't realize it was our band, but some of our members recently informed me that our band came up when they searched "Worst marching band ever".
“Who doesn’t like Michael Jackson music?”
Little boys who can keep secrets probably don’t like his music anymore...
DANIIBOII2002 to soon
Aw man
I love Jackson!
Azaniah guthrie and he loves you, and little boys, a bit too much
griffin staib never too soon
hi! I'm from the area around McAdams (the band in the infamous world's worst marching band video). As of this season, I believe they do not have a competing band. They are a very small school and do not receive a lot of funding.
And this is the voice of an Educator. My respect for you just grew three sizes this day.
3:38 it’s so funny you mentioned that because two competitions ago (it was a bout a 4 hour drive) or semi that holds all the instruments and uniforms blew a tire then while resting on the curb waiting for the maintenance truck a car ran into then after getting in the spare tire the spare ended up blowing and the whole process repeated again(except didn’t get hit another time) we still managed to get first tho thanks to all the band parents who stuffed their cars full of everything we need and got to us about a half hour before we went on. Go Ray-Pec
My band director knew the man who controlled McAdams high said he was an idiot.
whos your director?
We live quite a ways away. Im in the same school district as McAdams, Ethel is whats its called, Im also Ethels percussion captain but. The band there in McAdams has fallen apart but they are rebuilding very very well
Nobody:
Band members when a percussion instrument is unintended:
*its free real estate*
2 years late? whatever... *ahem* *UnAtTeNdEd
I have a class called general music and we learn about music and we were studying marching bands and we watched this video and we just thought it was the best thing😂😂
3:42 That actually happened to my school’s marching band, our director got mad that he didn’t get a certain job at the school and proceeded to quit and take the staff with him. The band didn’t practice at all during the summer and had 1 week to memorize the whole shows music for band camp. They had a competition in 2-3 weeks and still hadn’t learned drill bc our school had to find new staff members and our busses would break down a lot as well. That year we were moved up to the highest division in the state for the 2016 season (we got dead last but we would’ve placed 2nd in small school 2 if we never moved up) the director went to another band near us. Their band was in small school 3 and we were bumped back down to small school 2 where we bounced back with a 2nd place finish in 2017 (my rookie season). His band got first that year in small school 3. They were bumped up to small school 2 for the 2018 season and we go on to place first in small school 2 while they place dfl. 2019 we placed first again while they came in 2nd (we were up 2 points on them too) now it’s 2021 my senior season and we are now back in small school 1, our home show was last weekend and we scored a 90.35, championships are this weekend and we’re currently in 2nd place in small school 2 while our old director is in 2nd place in small school 2. To think he would’ve won 2 championships and have success in the highest division if he didn’t try to implode our band for his own personal interests.
The first band is in my state. In a very rural and economically poor area. Many programs in my state at smaller schools are critically underfunded. As in $10 could be difference between them going to evaluation or not. I went through a program that went from the 1st video to performing at a superior level in less than 5 years. It's very hard to secure any sort of stability in my state unless you are a massive 6A school. Those guys are from the one of the smallest category of school in my state (less than 250 people in the whole school)
Glad to see you being positive about this. Adults who make fun of children are actually the worst. And I highly doubt any of the people saying the videos are the worst would dare perform in public.
Will you look up Fj reitz marching band 1992 it was regionals. We heard the tape he said we were to loud just how we were jamming. We were out by .01 I think
Check out “Blue coats 2020 show reveal”. It uses “World’s worst marching band”.
And to add, the solo, that was a very unique idea that guy had. It wasnt the worst. It was actually a great idea, it caught my attention and actually made me laugh a little. No one is truly the worst, rather they need to keep progressing to become better than yesterday and learn everything they can. Everyone is the best.
i just realized i dropped out of college and work full time so now i can afford to do drum corps
Surprisingly enough, the first band in this video was competing against some of the best in the country, including Petal HS. Back then these best bands were still kicking names and taking ass. It's truly sad that the director couldn't pull some local talent in to teach these kids.
Have you seen Petal's show this year? I saw it at the competition in Biloxi and it's quite good.
@@spencercamp9345 I haven't. I've mostly seen their indoor program. Is there a video up yet?
Godfrey Speed I haven’t seen one around, but there’d definitely be one after championships.
Notification squad! I’ve seen this video on UA-cam they are horrible!😂, but keep making up the good videos EMC, I may consider joining the core u are currently in for the marines one day because after u telling ur story, it sounds so fun and amazing!
McAdams in near my school they have gotten way better
Mr.Yeet Smith I need a video NOW
4 of our 6 directors left, and this year we have 4 brand new directors including a brand new head director, yet we still made finals in TEXAS area, al though we got last in finals, I couldn’t be more proud of my band
When the saints go marching in hit different 😍😍
Hi Eric, I really appreciate that you made this video. Honestly, not many people can stick up and do things like this, and it really takes courage sometimes.
Videos like those are one of the reasons I have so much difficulty getting my Jr. High students to actually participate in music class. They're terrified that their classmates will make fun of their voice, mistakes, etc.
They're still developing their abilities. Don't scare them away from even trying.
As a band director that has intentionally taken less than stellar situations, I admire you for this effort. You are absolutely correct, you do not know what adversity a band has to cope with.
3:33 This marching season my marching band didn't practice on a lined field once. We still made State.
Lol how do you guys do that?
My band is lucky enough to always have access to the football field when we need it and we recently had a reverse parade where we stay in place and cars drive by, and we could barely even get into our block right.
That is MY SCHOOL’S FOOTBALL FIELD OH MY GOD.
we have the excuse our band director got fired and now we cant find a sub who knows something about band (im in beginning band so one of the older high schoolers has been helping us) but our band is getting awards and doing amazing still :) good job to them
Ngl, this is pretty true. I'm glad you're doing this.
Hey emc productions today is my bday and I turned 13. I’m in my fine art school concert band and I need to work on some of my roll rudiments could you make a video on those.
“The scenic city” is Chattanooga TN btw
BEST CHANNEL EVER. I always can’t wait for your videos
I recently found your channel and I have to say... im in love with it... and big props to you for doing this 👏 👏👏👏 I was bullied pretty hard in school and a big part of it was because I was in the marching band. Youre awesome!
Thank you for doing this video. I also enjoy all of your content.
Semper Fidelis!!
We have to make our thumbs down thumbs up if they comply!
Agreed. I will mention that in a video 30 days from now.
Thank you for sharing your views and perspectives. Children are being bullied
Omg I was just watching this a couple hours ago
It’s nice seeing someone going out and doing something like this
Wait, so is Eric Carr proper a character in his own Carmen heights universe.
the second one they are just vibing,, let them vibe
Imagine being in 7th or 8th grade and being in high school
Haha litterally I'm in highschool in 8th grade
Lol my sister is in 7th and plays sousaphone in the high school band
In 6th grade I went to a school that was elementary through high school (different buildings, but same campus). Not a tiny school but a very tiny band program, so I ended up playing in the high school band as a 6th grader. Was a good time
The second one brought back my emo phase
these transitions , shut up and take my subscription
The comments on the video are turned off now :/
Do a world record drum roll !
like if agree!
Everybody gangsta until Eric gets a scooter
I've been wanting you to react to this vid since it came out!!!!
Good point... we’ve had three different band directors this season💀
Can you react to your sub’s bands? 😂 I’d love you to react to mine lol
You are doing good in this world, Eric! Much love, my man!
The positivity was appreciated. There's too many people on the top of their music careers punching down at people who aren't on top yet
#teamtrees
And I thought our band sucked
Edit: Issa joke
Search up South Gate rams band homecoming 2019 I want you to react to it please
9:40 I didn’t know Ninja played Tenors
His last name is Blevins just like ninja
Can I kiss yiu
no dislikes👏let’s keep it that way
HAHAHA GOT IN TROUBLE FOR COMMENTING THIS IN SCHOOL WOOOOOOOOO 2 DAYS DETENTION
Sleeping Anthony bruh were you in class
10th period bro
11:07 faster kicker in the Wild West
You should have a series where you react to high school bands and give comments
I wish you were my dad 😂
Tell me why this dude look like the small guy from the incredables
A first
Emc won’t pin this
xxoops _ your right
xxoops _ exactly
Yep
the first video is a school in my district of small schools. Around the past few years they have little to NO band anymore. I am the percussion captain for the only other high school in the district, We went down to McAdams for a football game back in october-ish, the band had a cadence that was well-ok and they played pep stuff but, they wont march on the field anymore (maybe cause of the competition). I went over and met the new band and the player, They have maybe around 10-14 people and its 35-40% battery percussion. They are all sweet and are only playing for fun and not for scholarships as far as I know. So seeing the video from 2010, and re looking at it, you can realize their path is bright and I expect them to be a full band by 2025.
Watch Ohio state university marching band plzz
Like so he can see.
I'm sure a band nerd like him has seen Ohio State's marching band. I would like to see him react to them, though.
Marching band is a hard process:
1: Arranging music
2: Paying for copyright
3: Arranging competitions
4: Uniform and equipment handling/props
5: Arranging Other Out-Of-State trips like Macy’s or Bands of America
6: Instrument Maintenance
7: Rehearsal and Visuals/technique
8: Memorization
9: Actually Preforming in front of an audience which gets more stressful
10: Tuning/Phasing/Weather
11: Team Management (i.e.: respect, maturity, discipline, etc (And according to my observations, the pandemic has lead us to be more independent and not to work as a team.)
(Also an add on, if you have electronic instrumentation like synth, Sound system setup)
P.S: Learned the hard way, you should always ALWAYS arrange chords after performances/rehearsals, and shut down the Laptop (for MIDI synths. (Me learning the laptop was during rehearsals, me during chords, during a performance.. Luckily we were the host band an were placed under exhibition bands. Took 1 minute after "Is your ensemble ready" for me to push that first sample and start the show. Embarrassing. The crowd cheered though. That was during prelims. Finals, everything was PERFECT.
(Prelims: Should've gotten a score of 50) (Finals: 94) We were being scored, but we weren't competing. So, 94 on our first performance, excellent.
And besides, we have 20 people in our pit section, a VERY large amount.
Also, in our band administration/conference (I think that's how you put it) added a Class A marching band with 1 single snare for percussion. think they did really good for their first ever competitive season. They never been to competitions before, and I think they started out super well. They had a good story, and that's what competitive marching bands should have. A story. What are the props for? What is the drill? What does the show symbolize? Relaxing, Sci-Fi, Energetic, Swing, Classical?
Im In marching band. Covid completely killed our marching band. With the old band director leaving and because most people in the marching band pre-covid graduated we had to start from ground 0 again. We used to be really good and have about 100 students participating in the band. Now we only have about 40 people. Its hard to re-establish a program without knowing anything about how it used to work. Because our program is new again we get basically no funding from the school either, so we have to rely on donations and our band director paying out of pocket for things like new drum heads, buses, competition fees, and completely new color guard uniforms. (as the old color guard uniforms were fitted to the old color guard members.) Its been tough but our marching band is slowly growing and figuring things out. Sadly I will not be at my school next year to be in the marching band when it is more established.
When it's an academic institution no holds are barred. If you suck, you suck. As someone who's attending what is quite possibly the worst academic institution for music in North America, it's super frustrating when the dean is trying to shutdown your program and refuses to hire professors to replace retired ones.
Oh boy. The comments are not getting it. Guys, stop revealing band names and “Spilling Tea” on these bands. Stop commenting things like “ omg me and my fiend used to watch these and die because it was so bad.” That’s not the point of the vid. No more hate for these bands. They tried, even that is a plus, and as Eric said in the video, you don’t know what their going through. Come on guys, be positive.
Update on the Mcadams High School Band. After doing some extensive research I managed to find the results for when they competed at the same contest in 2011 and they did a tiny bit better but were definitely not the best. After that they never competed again at any competition even in Concert Band. As of now they no longer have a band program or if they do it’s very hidden especially since the school website doesn’t even mention it.
I'm in one of the best high school marching band programs in my state, so I have no idea what the smaller bands do.
Just to be clear, we consistently placed 2nd in most of our competitions last year in the most competitive division (we also had the biggest marching band in my state so...).