Lassiter HS Band 2002 - Full Video

Liturgical Sketches - Some silent parts cut out to keep it under ten minutes: nothing too important. One of the best high school bands in the country. National championship show. Enjoy!

[@sweetpotato3950]

Still arguably one of the best high school shows of the past two decades. I've probably watched it 100 times

[@adkii07]

Wes Bush couldn't agree more

[@johnnychikko3800]

I agree. Lassiter 2002 and Spring 1993 co Champs!

[@shileah27]

if someone told me i had just watched a drum core, i just possibly might've believed them. best high school marching band show i think i may have ever watched.

[@ceraangelucci1394]

My brother played trumpet and sister in law played flute here :) both graduated 2004. Best darn marching band ever! The director was hands down the most incredible, talented person I ever met!

[@gtjackets09]

Thank you for whoever put this up. I was a trumpet player in this band from 2001-2004. I still remember this show like it was yesterday. It brings back so many memories. The horn line at the end sent chills up my spine then and it still does 5 years later. Best season ever.

[@bizkitjpeg]

Wow

[@kaiserlorax413]

We performed immediately after them in prelims at BOA this year... I remember hearing this whole show in the RCA dome airlock jaw dropped.

[@johnnychikko3800]

Westfield 2003, Spring 93’ and Lassiter 2002 are the Trinity of HS Marching Band G.O.A.T’s!

[@CCGarland]

Here's a man of good taste. Tip of the cap, sir.

[@k.coleman8483]

...and to those deservedly amazing shows we can now add Hebron 2021.

[@johnnychikko3800]

@@k.coleman8483 💯

[@guitars14]

My brother and a lot of my friends marched in that show. I was up in the stands watching. I had two friends in the drumline and they said they changed a huge part about 30 minutes before finals when they were practicing. A lot of hard work paid off.

[@dirkpitt8895]

Those horns!!! It's so beautiful...

[@1049berkeley]

Despite a blurry pic they sound incredible, even in the old echo chamber.

[@mhughet]

This is still the best I've ever heard a high school marching band sound as well as the best arrangement I've ever heard. I'm glad I was there to experience it in person.

[@rml4uk]

I love this show! Lassiter did this my senior year. You can see my band, Lafayette, in the stands in the background. Lassiter freaking blew everyone away. My favorite part is when the mellophones switch to concert french horns and play the doxology. Amazing...

[@rocketfan86]

this show won grand nationals in 2002

[@andrewthepokerchamp]

To me this is the best show ever. I wish Lassiter could be the way it used to be. But all one can do is hope that happens. Would love to see them back on top where they belong.

[@burdrchitect1680]

I agree. I've been crossing my fingers for a while now.

[@samtegethoff7225]

@@burdrchitect1680 i go to lassiter and theyve dropped practice time to only 5 hours a week. so sad

[@burdrchitect1680]

@@samtegethoff7225 Wow!!😔. I honestly feel like music education is slowly dying. Although Texas is keeping it alive even with this plandemic.

[@pearcegraber6511]

Mind you this was before Kell High School opened. The Lassiter student body isn’t as large as it was then.

[@CDNslicker09]

A. Watkins was truly the primary reason for the Lassiter band's success back then. As a director, he was and still is to this day admired for all of his accomplishments. He definitely was a hard ass when he needed to be and would have us run the show 5-6 times a night trying to make it as perfect as possible. I was in this show and can honestly say without that man, we wouldn't have even been a part of this competition.

[@terrellwalker11]

This opener definitely set the tone for the rest of the performance. ⚡️

[@gtjackets09]

Thanks for the post. I was in that band as a junior. This coming from a trumpet player, the horns and low brass are phenomenal. I can't believe this was over 6 years ago!

[@AirplaneSlave]

this is the best show i have ever seen. and i've seen a lot of shows. it makes so much more sense in multicam.

[@christopherauert6634]

Wow!!! I just watched that with my mouth dropped. So good!! High school kids!!!

[@sylvesterjohns7968]

WOW!!! THAT'S ALL I CAN SAY!!! My God this is phenomenal!!

[@tblade92]

this show, especially the marching and manuevering was so ahead of its time...bands are still doing many of the movements in 2010

[@ashakir622]

this show was kick-ass!!! this was 3 years before i came to the lassiter band.

[@mojojojo88]

YAY!!! best experience of my LIFE this was my freshman year and i got to become the national champs! simply amazing!

[@cgarsndipboy]

JediBMar and fretless0925...The Band has always been great memories for me as well...but I was part of the "Old School" band program (1986-1990). I still remember our first appearance at the Bands of America Southern Regional Championships in 1988...what a rush that was, but never competed at Grand Nationals. -Brian Perriello LHS Band Alumni - Class of 1990

[@tootmyhorn8295]

I have never seen or heard a band achieve this level of cleanliness with the difficulty of this drill. In recent years bands have been oversimplifying the drill in order to be clean, which is just wrong. Definitely not the hardest show, but the best executed hard show. Great job Lassiter! I hope one day you will return to your former glory!

[@gtjackets09]

It was the greatest experience of my life...

[@Spartan016]

Yeah. This is my second year in the Lassiter program. That there comes from the 10+ hours a week of practice. That, on top of having a great staff. This year we're dealing with a lot of new staff members and a sizable 9th grade class, and the music this year is incredible. This year's show is called "Tonight" and is based around Bernstein's West Side Story. We'll be performing at the BOA Regional at Hofstra University in New York City.

[@k8brit]

Wow great show! Love the low brass. :)

[@M4S1cM4N]

My band is using the closer "old one hundred"/"doxology" and this recording is being used as our inspiration for excellence

[@silversax22]

best high school marching band in the country right there, they're just so insane

[@JustKC30]

its good for that kind of band. love marching bands. bump bump bump

[@droobers1314]

As a Lassiter attendee, I can say the director right now is still amazing. His name is Mr Thompson, and if we had a show this year he would’ve proved the doubters wrong by winning state.

[@ashakir622]

Agreed. Mr. Thompson was one of the assistant directors when I was at Lassiter.

[@CJAtlanta2]

I love this show! Wow!

[@oruga101]

Hey, you guys are awesome. Especially with such a large band. Keep up the good work! -Lafayette Band Member

[@leebyrd68]

Im a BOA volunteer and this is the single best that Ive EVER seen,did you guys know that Wayne Downey helped with the hornline??

[@nkenney1]

I wish some of the people in this band would start a company where they went around the country showing this video and talking about their experiences... The world would be a better place.

[@XXsniperzzXX]

beautiful piece. ilove it so much. i commented on this before i love this soo much

[@AirplaneSlave]

best low brass and horns i have ever heard.

[@ashakir622]

Thanks! I liked ur show 2--American Dream -Lassiter Band member

[@PMFITZ003]

hey i wish i could see you guys, I'm and alum from '05 and i go to school in Kings Point, NY its bout half an hour west of where you guys are performing, but luck has it i'm going back to Marietta 2 days before you come up! lol

[@AirplaneSlave]

are you kidding me? they used like 200 props. literally, but i don't care. this is hands down the best show i have ever seen and probably will ever see. broken arrow's came close last year, but still....i'll always love lassiter.

[@cstahl24]

Man, The entire show was epic. They had to have won this contest because this is the best show I've ever seen. All the parts mesh together so perfectly and those horns did an amazing job.

[@brantgorham5955]

They got the highest score ever

[@melloneehedrick4596]

No special microphones for the horns. You'll notice when they first pick up their horns, they are facing the front, so the sound is going back. Toward the end, they move up to the front sideline and turn to the side, with bells up - so the sound is going straight toward the audience. Lassiter did not set up special mikes for the horns.

[@andnowtiger]

I was there when this was recorded!

[@DPaller12]

I'd like to see a football player do that..... Absolutely amazing. Just unreal!

[@chutdigadut]

that's some cool stuff! I can't believe this is a high school!

[@musicmaniac92992]

my college show wasnt even close to this incredible.

[@nuck81]

Amazing show

[@CJAtlanta2]

Stunning! What a treasure!

[@Spynosaurus]

this never gets old watching! and amen to music-orgasm!

[@TheHumorgod]

I fav part is when the French horns overpower the entire band. Incredible! I play frenchhorn no mellophone

[@CJAtlanta2]

I think Fasnek's point is that there is a ridiculous amount of hard work, passion and discipline that goes into a show like this. Money helps but drive and motivation are the secret ingredients. These kids have that drive in them and the staff was able to unlock it.

[@jirehguy]

All these years of BOA grand nationals and Lassiter is still the only band in Georgia to have ever one.

[@curtisoltmann152]

I have Harrison H.S winning their next one

[@jaylensmith2612]

Kennesaw mountain is next

[@curtisoltmann152]

Jaylen Smith I wish them well. I did see the BOA Regional Results. Last night. I have faith in an old high school bandmate that directs Harrison High School, so I'm pulling for them. I wish you and your band the best, however.

[@terrellwalker11]

@@biak8318 How about Walton?!! lmao

[@terrellwalker11]

@@biak8318 Walton placed 16th at St Louis BOA Regionals last year dude.

[@AirplaneSlave]

lassiter hasn't been to grand nationals since 02 and this past year they only attended one BOA regional and it was about 900 miles away from marietta. it was worth it though, because they won by 7 points.

[@gl0bald0mination]

moanalua high school's 2005 show "Pirates".......the entire show is great and the ending makes you want to watch it over and over again.

[@k.coleman8483]

When your opener pulls a Larry Bird: "Just seeing who's coming in 2nd..."

[@AirplaneSlave]

we had a rehearsal at lassiter this year before a USSBA competition near by. The place is like a marching band academy. the band's practice field is like professional. they have like a 4 story tower with video cameras all over it. they have money, but that's not what gets them shows like this one.

[@Kicheng110]

thank you for not being like every other band at BOA. You guys didn't use props to make your show better, it was genuine heart into your show, the music wasn't contemporary like all of the texas bands. Very well done, keep it up. I do feel bad for your 10 hour a week rehearsals though. :)

[@bradchild99]

@09000Jokers I love the fact that you can hear it! Shows just how much execution goes into it.

[@amandaclay246]

Best highschool band to ever march. 98 and 02 are very close but this show makes many drum corps look like spit, They stopped at McGavock and practiced on our blacktop before the ATL regional. emm emmm emmm rediculous

[@xthejordx]

There is so much power at 2:15. Love it.

[@ashakir622]

Thanks!

[@cstahl24]

one thing i don't get the horns mesh into the sound so perfectly and all of the sudden at the end they have a sound as big as the entire band. That must be one really strong horn section!

[@silversax22]

The echo at 5:32 made me cry tears of joy

[@LeahBuckley]

@papajohn5656 there are always 3 drum majors across the front, and 1 is usually on the field with the drumline so that they always can see the beat. she's in formation at the end of the show just to avoid sticking out.

[@gretsch1683]

sweet matched on the snares...

[@AirplaneSlave]

This is the best show ever. Til this day. It tops Ronald Reagan, Carmel, Westfield, LD Bell, Broken Arrow, and Avon ALL DAY. I don't know how in the hell Lassiter does it.

[@TheDrumlineChik]

Don't feel bad. This high school band is better than some professional drum corps out there. 0.0;

[@MusicNerd2014]

Man I wish y'all would go back to grand nats. Or come over to Jacksonville, AL and compete in the Contest of Champions at JSU or the BOA Regional at JSU. I'm a member of the Sparkman High School Marching Senator Band and would live to compete against yall, although we would lose cause yall are simply amazing, just to say I have competed against yall. I have tried to get my parents to move over there for the past 2 years just so I could be in the band at Lassiter.

[@BlueShades152]

This was one of their better shows. Their show left me a bit disappointed when I saw them in 2006 in St. Louis, when they lost to Broken Arrow and Carmel. I hope to see them back at Grand Nationals in the near future.

[@wongedc]

There must be an abnormally large number of charts for this book...

[@ashakir622]

Oh, u go 2 Walton? Congrats! I didn't get 2 c ur show, but I'm sure it was awesome!

[@drumcorps0junkie]

very good show

[@TheKarateKid100]

Not the Rancho Bernardo Royal Regiment. Our show this year was extremely difficult. And we won Arcadia.

[@tjodytrue]

Amazing!!!!!

[@DoloresGoffdeejays]

I must be really behind the times. I had no idea that High schools put on show just like Drum Corp now. My daughter will be in 9th grade next year. I think I just might get her high school on the band wagon for this.

[@papajohn5656]

god it's like non-stop sound compared to 2001 - even though they used a lot of the same music, the small differences in the closer make such a huge positive impact on the overall general effect. making the horns play non-stop helps the sound here, rather than having these glaringly obvious gaps. It just has 1000% more excitement than the year before design-wise.

[@papajohn5656]

those are some beastly trombones and horns.

[@raptor9110t]

As do I in most regards. But you can't argue that horn feature at the end. I would have been standing and screaming as I would have been for the end of Crown 09, had I not been in uniform.

[@cstahl24]

man I love the sound of those frenchies

[@dbrunone]

I took 5 AP classes and marched this show. Wasn't that big of a deal.

[@XXsniperzzXX]

AWSOME VID I LOVE IT

[@ashakir622]

Thanks =)

[@XXsniperzzXX]

part 4 is amazing

[@MrShaun03161979]

First song sounds like it was composed by David Holsinger?

[@peachy439]

We don't go to grand nationals anymore because Alfred Watkins doesn't want to take us. All they look for is synthesized marching bands. Which we are not. We are traditional, always will be.

[@Bjm702]

I agree because so far there has been no high school marching band in the state of Alabama that has gone to BOA this is due to a lack of funding. Also schools that are able to perticipate in BOA function come from schools that are well funded by there on school's band booster parents. Last your band directer plays a very important role in the marching band's growth.

[@CJAtlanta2]

I know that their Trumpet section was 32 people last year. I think about 2,000 go to Lassiter High.

[@Schacht197]

they move up to the front sideline where they play into microphones!

[@tootmyhorn8295]

I know nothing of your program, so take nothing personally, but "difficult" is an extremely relative term. In past years the term has been redefined to what it is now. In my opinion a hard show consists of mainly no-linear drill formations, fewer files, constant playing while marching, a complicated musical score, extreme tempos (190-216) with controlled technique, perhaps multimeter marching, and still maintaining a level of creativity and art. through choreography, props, both, etc.

[@beachX3baby2500]

thts like, my whole school right there O.o

[@dbrunone]

@kiman2 False. I marched both 2001 and 2002 at Lassiter, and I can say that 2002 drill was entirely different drill from 2001. The music was based on the same stuff, but it was also different. It was absolutely not the same show.

[@oruga101]

I'm sorry, but high school bands don't just pop into the ranks out of nowhere. To be as good as a band like Lassiter, you'd have to start practicing weeks before the rest of the competition.

[@AirplaneSlave]

i second that.

[@Euphy09]

Love those HORNS!!!

[@joshstauffacher819]

0:37 got chills lol

[@gl0bald0mination]

i think from 9:54 if you guys just hit that note really big i would have loved the entire thing instead of hitting it soft then going louder.

[@ThaDoomicorn]

@lhstrumpt2012 My high school is doing a variation of this show. My band director talked to Bocook.

[@ashakir622]

we don't go to bands of america EVERY year. sometimes we go to parades.

[@ashakir622]

The French horns kicked ass!!!!

[@VettesRock]

So, some bands just dont go. Mine does every year. Except when they were in macy's the last time.

[@TheHumorgod]

Sux, can't see toe height in this resolution, but great show, we watched this at band camp today