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  • i thought ut usualy marches a 8/5 march

    Im at farragut highschool, and we have a new band director. he loves a 8/5 march. but we do straight leg march

  • As a USC fan I will admit this is the best college pre game in the country.

  • Wow their majorettes are scary together! :)

  • I wouldn't mind having this as a fight song!

  • as far as the clapping it does get on my nerves as well..but with that said when they're coming down the hill the sound bounces off of so many places and throws people off who have no musical background

  • I love the song Rocky Top as both a Virginia Tech AND Tennessee fan. But could the crowd PLEASE refrain from clapping to the beat unless they have a sense of rhythm? As a performer I always hated a crowd that couldn't keep the beat.

  • @djtrumpet11 LOL, you will find those people who can't keep the beat EVERYwhere. I've been out of college marching band for 20 yrs., but I still march to the beat. :~)

  • @djtrumpet11 u try to keep a 100000 people doing the same beat

  • @WAGARTS yea at Bryant-Denny Stadium we're all on beat when OUR "unofficially fight song" is playing

  • @WAGARTS I have directed 500 in a high school marching band as a student director its a bitch

  • @djtrumpet11 It's so annoying. Just like the people who scream the whole time during the band videos.

  • @djtrumpet11 nothing pisses me off more... always rushing lol..

  • @djtrumpet11 it not about the beat its about the echo and the delayed sound from the band

  • GO VOLS!!

  • I wish crowds could keep the beat. I am considering getting my masters in music education or masters in trumpet performance at Tennessee.

  • As a proud West Virginian born and raised, I'm a big WVU football AND Pride of West Virginia Marching band fan, but I'm an even BIGGER UT fan... gotta love UT sports, the Pride of the Southland Band, and of course Rocky Top :) cant wait to move to Knoxville so I can be a Vol myself!

  • as a nebraska fan, I can objectively say this is probably the coolest fight song in the country. Love it!

  • Go Vol's 2010 we love ya. Love the Vol's. Welcome coach Dooley to Tennessee your going to love Tennessee. GO BIG ORANGE.

  • ah music to my ears this never gets old!! GO VOLS!!!

  • We are the Champions ... Roll Tide Roll ...

  • @JKM070 That's so like you Bama fans to get on here and talk crap.. typical.

  • Born and raised in East Tn, born and raised on UT football, born and raised to to hear the words," The Pride of the Southland Marching Band.." Now I live in CA and you guys have NO IDEA how lucky you are to hear this EVERY Saturday. I miss it, and you guys need to appreciate it !! This IS what you want to pass on to your kids.....

  • Sounds like you need to come back to Rocky Top

  • I from california and a die hard USC Trojans fan,but I love listening to Rocky Top.

  • I'm the same way, but with UGA and the Marching Redcoats. Nothing, nothing like SEC football.

  • totally agree with you. My hubbys active duty Marine Corps and we move around alot..NO WHERE is like home. I miss this. GO BIG ORANGE!

  • Man, to King23Tony, you really don't know what you're talking about. Can you say 45-19? I think Georgia fans got their fair share of Rocky Top! Go Vols!

  • go vols! i love ol' rocky top & theres no other tradition around the world thats greater than Tennessee! 'woooo' lol GO VOLS!!!

  • i hope to play in this band next school year.  Hopefully i will be on lead trumpet.

  • UGA all the way but the only thing I like about TN is their fight song. But UGA fans dont here it alot cuz they never score on us. Go Bulldogs

  • They sure heard it alot today. 45-19

  • Man, you really don't know what you're talking about. Can you say 45-19? I think Georgia fans got their fair share of Rocky Top! Go Vols!

  • Remember the last game we played? lol

  • I LOVE the Vols I've seen this band in person at the games they are AWESOME

  • There really is something magical about being on campus in the fall to watch an SEC game. The fans, the band, the atmosphere...just gives me goosebumps thinking about it.

    Can't wait, Go Vols!

  • best college band in u.s. ,go vols

  • @MrGizmo12 This band doesn't come close to the Marching Southerners buddy.

  • @MrGizmo12 I believe LSU is the "Battle of the Bands" defending champions. Love ur school spirit tho..

  • GO VOLS! AND yes...I'm yelling!

  • I cant wait till Tennessee vs Auburn so i can go 2 a game again, GO VOLS!!!!!!

  • There are a lot of incredible bands/programs out there in collages across the US. Almost all of the SEC schools have awesome bands and traditions. Michigan and Ohio state are pretty awesome also. Teh other ut (longhorns), are pretty good as are USC and UCLA, But I have to say the A&M band has got to be tops in the tradition and Esprit of any I have seen. And Yes I am Completly biased! lol. If you dont think yours is the best. You need to go somewhere else.

  • as a NOLES fan and alum, I luv the traditions of southern football. I am stuck here in little 10 country, with no tradition. Who cares about ND, give me the Big 8 entrance into the DOAK, Ga making the BULLDOG walk, Clemson and the hill. Rocky top at neyland, the wrambling reck at Ga tech, and whom can not forget War Eagle at Auburn. And whom cares about FL. gaytors.

  • *amen*

  • I went to the Cal - Tennessee game out in Berkeley a couple of years ago in all my Vols gear and some Cal kid asked me "Do you wear that Orange stuff normally?"... I had to explain to him that SEC football isn't seasonal and that SEC football is the best football there is.

  • so true man ... so true

  • the big ten has a lot of tradition they just arent as big as the sec

  • @mnnole I feel your pain. I miss those southern football traditions so much!! I lived in Indiana for 3years before I found out IU has a football team. well if ya can call it that. Gonna miss bobby this year. FSU baby!

  • I will bleed orange blood till the day i due

  • until the day you are due? lol jk i bleed red lol go dawgs

  • amen bro!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • im in the Carolina band, and I must say, though I think tenn band is kinda boring a lot of times, they are the overall cleanest and most precise band when it comes to marching and playing fundamentals. i get tired of hearing rocky top endlessly, however...it's a good song, not a great song.

  • ah, but repetitive playing of Rocky Top is to stir up the players and fans, not the other team. UT fans love Rocky Top so the band plays on...

  • like deneicee said, rockytop is for tennessee fans and the players and tennessee fans love the song rockytop and love hearing it over and over and never get tired of it. its not for you or the other team to listen to and they dont care and tennessee fans dont care if u like it or not so shut your garbage mouth

  • As a former member of the UCLA Marching Band and a board member of the UCLA Alumni Band. I can speak only for myself but I have no problem in hearing Rocky Top over and over when Tennessee comes to Pasadena. Hell, I'd prefer to hear ANY other fight song as long as it isn't that damnable "Tribute to Troy" that the "most hated band in America" plays.

  • Were ready for the 2009-2010 and come out to kick some SEC ass

  • tennessee im comming home GO BIG ORANGE

  • Tennessee rox !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • GO UT !!!!!!!!

  • Big Orange Country! Yeah!

  • Eastern Tennessee! Big Orange Country!

  • Go,Big Orange!

  • Mountainous East Tennessee is known as "Big Orange Country." Most that are unfamiliar with history associate the term only with the University of Tennessee (one of the largest universities in the states,) But primarily most peoples from Eastern Tennessee are made up of Ulster Ancestery. "Orange Country" sound familiar to any of our Ulster friends...or need I ask? LOL

  • Mountainous East Tennessee,U.S. is known as "BIG ORANGE COUNTRY"

    Does that sound familiar to those of Ulster? Well, it should.

  • WOOOO! BIG ORANGE COUNTRY!

  • will they be singing Rocky Top on the way back to Knoxville in September....after the Gators put the beatdown on them in Gainesville....I think not....then again, with Kiffin----wtf knows....

  • Gotta Love It ~~~> Go~VOLS~Go!

  • Gotta Love It ~~~> Go~VOLS~Go!

  • damn another year, another freaking year!!!!!

  • Go UT!

  • Let's go Tennessee Vols!

  • 29-9 roll tide !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • but no national title

  • And I'll add this one:

    90-72

    Go Cats. :)

  • Lane is going to spit in your eye and run you off the field.

  • is this is america?

    =]

  • bandgeek, what?

  • i hate people that clap to music.

  • i hate people that hate people

  • lol

  • i hate them too. it ruins the song

  • I'm not as low as you are,avinson45640....so i'll just leave it there:)

  • im a big time big 12 fan so ive gotta wonder whos got the best fan base in sec, whos got the best fans?

  • Georgia of course

  • i like that answer theyre my fav sec team

  • South Carolina, hands down.

    Of course ... I am a little biased. ;-)

  • Hey who isn't u always gotta support your team

  • Love this song.

  • Rocky Top you'll always be

    Home sweet home to me

    Good ol' Rocky Top

    Rocky Top Tennessee,

    Rocky Top Tennessee

    Oh yeah!!

  • it's great how fans from other conferences whine that their teams conference is as tough as the sec. noone ever qustions if the sec is the top conference. instead people try to make the cas that their conference compares.

    go vols!

  • and not to mention did anyone forget that we went undefeated in 98 and beat a very good FSU in a basic blowout sooo yea dont be hateing on UT whens the last time your teams ever went undefeated in there school history let alone in one damn year ^_^ SEC Rocks hard

  • Who'd have thought only 10 years later we'd be in the shape we're in? :(

  • tru. very VERY true.

  • USC has no hard teams to play yet UCLA is sucking so bad its not even funny and look what Happend to the ducks beaten by an unranked team so u have nothing to brag about pal.

    SEC is the best in the country no doubt we have UGA,Florida,LSU,and Bamba all in top ten try to argue to that.

  • was this the UAB @ Tennessee game that was like 2 weeks ago? if so i was there.

  • I miss Knoxville, I miss the people, the real meaning of loyalty...the passion for football...I'm in Los Angeles (now you know why I miss Knoxville so much...hahaha) I've never seen so many bandwagoners in my life, I'm talking about USC, Lakers, and Chargers' fans.

    Go Vols!

  • USC, Lakers, and Chargers are local teams to those in Los Angeles or Southern California, so how can the people be bandwagoners when these are their teams?

    Just because USC and Lakers are great (and Chargers more or less), doesn't make you a bandwagoner for liking them. It's showing support or at least interest for teams that are meant to represent the area.

  • i love this band. i want to go there one day

  • I hate walking up that hill.

  • Got to admit it but I was there in 2004 at he first home game and it is just NUTS when the parade starts. and yes they play all the fight songs of UT. Atleast they have more than 1 song. I am a Northwestern fan but GO VOLS. Rocky top 4 ever

  • Lord jessus how big is that dam band? Looks likea dam army coming to thru town.

  • 235. They're actually one of the smaller SEC bands.

  • 235???

    I'm sorry but you are horribly mistaken........the band is actually composed of 300 members.

    Not exactly what I would call "small".......

  • As a USC fan, I would like to congratulate UCLA on their victory over Tennessee.

    Great job representing the PAC10.

  • Pac 10. Lmfao. Sec is the toughest without a doubt.

  • Dude We have USC, UCLA,and OREGON, who beat this team "without a doubt"

  • And we have Tennessee, Auburn, South Carolina, LSU, Georgia, Florida, and Alabama. all powerhouses. oh did i mention that were the first conference in CFB history to have five teams in the top ten. and the SEC has won more national championships since the BCS started. with four out of ten. come to our conference. you wouldnt last a second. SEC put more players in the NFL than any conference

  • Being a die hard blue bleeder of a Kentucky Wildcat fan..I have always been fond of the song Rocky Top (lived in TN while in Army), this video brings chills to my spine. If this doesnt get you motivated for college football, I dont know what would! Ty for video!

  • i live in minnesota but recently i heard this song and i think im saying f the gophers go vols

  • whoo hoo!!

  • runs chills up me everytime i hear it

    GO VOLS!!

  • oh no u say its hot. come down to florida. see what the gators and their fans deal with. 100 F some times above. but i love this song its my favoret fight song. GO GATORS

  • Rock Top is not UT's offical song. Fight Vols Fight/Down The Field is which I am betting most UT fans don't know the words to.

  • MDB's better

  • Yeah, it is. At least we know the lyrics to all of our fight song (not just the chorus). "Wild as a mink but sweet as soda pop, I still dream about that". What the heck?! Will someone explain?

  • Fuck Bama UT owns yall

  • Rocky Top is a bluegrass song written about the hills of East Tennessee--Rocky Top. The song describes our love of the hills, the isolation of the area, and distrust of outsiders. It's a beautiful song in its bluegrass form, especially when performed by The Osborne Brothers.

  • I am an ardent fan of bluegrass & UT, so I am ok with the 'woooooo'

  • okay

    not being a tennesee vols fan i've always wondered what they fans say during the playing of Rocky Top

    can anyone tell me?

  • We are just singing the words to the song

    "Oh, Rocky Top, you'll always be, home, sweet, home to me. Good ole Rocky Top(whooo). Rocky Top Tennessee". This is not even the offical fight song, just the fan favorite!

  • now i know thankss

    and i knew that

    i think it should be made the fight song considering its played more than the real one

  • the team has to score for the band to play the real one. They just have to make a good play for them to play rocky top. And our fans just never ever get tired of it. I sure don't.

  • PLEASE NO WOOOOO!!!!!!

  • trambuled?

    nice word[that doesn't exist]

    it's trampled you dumb ass

  • Everyone loves to hate us, and I can see why they would be jealous.

  • Go STANFORD!!!!!

  • The Tennessee band had 288 Marching last year. This year they are expected at the 300ish mark.

  • goood ol rocky top whoo rocky top tennesee go vols!

  • Goosebumps! Go Vols!

  • Makes cold chills run up my spine-what a tradition!You get 90k= fans singing and Neyland stadium literally dances!

  • now those are gate turns... i almost went to UT in the band. but i started working. now i regret it. i was pretty decent

  • Sometimes the crowd is even bigger!

  • Are there always crowds that big just to see the band? My dream is to be in the Pride of the Southland... too bad it will never be a reality...

  • Yes. The crowd has just watched the football team march to the stadium and they stay for the band before they make their way in to see the game.

  • Its one of the best feelings in the world marching into all of that and you think nothing could ever top it. Then you open the T.

  • No man they're there to see the football team

  • Actually they ARE there strictly for the band. The football team and coaches take a different route and enter a different gate. The street you see in this video, is for the one and only Pride of the Southland Marching Band.

  • why don't they know (all) the words to the song.

  • "Once I had me a girl on rocky top,

    Half bear the other half cat.

    Wild as a mink, sweet as soda pop,

    I still dream about that." Need I say more.

  • GO VOLS! There is nothin like it.

  • goosebumps :) Hope i can get there someday to see it live!

  • GO VOLS!!!!!!

  • Much better video than mine, but the band is hard to hear. Take the audio from mine, add to your video...PRESTO!  lol

  • How many members does ut do they have in there band this year do they have over 400

  • I think there are 300 playing members...not sure. Anyone out there know?

  • 220 instrumentalists in pregame and in any given halftime. 192 winds. Around 240 players total. Almost none of them have scholarships. That's why LSU and UGA have such huge bands.

  • there are sround 350 to 450 players maybe more . My cousin plays in the band !! The drums . GO BIG ORANGE !!!

  • Best Band in the Land. I Love the Vols, they make me feel so proud to be from Tennessee. Rocky Top & Tennessee Waltz, I love it!

  • Definently NOT the best in the land....but they do play Rocky Top well!!

  • I love Fight Vols Fight. Wished they'd play it more often.

  • I've watched the band come down that hill a hundred times, and I still get goose bumps!! GO VOLS!!!!!

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