i love how western carolina and ASU get into this giant pissing contest over who is better... yes WCU meets more frequently and is a better overall program. but all things considered, where are those amazing marching band parade appearances going to take them? exactly... just give it up. Your football team is so bad you have to devote your time to something else. this war needs to stop
I'm just astounded that a marching band that does one show a year, plugs up some of their instruments, can't get over the fact that college bands don't compeate...and that ASU has a better overall music program is still talking big...and the marching mountaineers only meets twice a week for two hours...I'd say we do a pretty damn good job
Okay...cool...your band marches...no one really cares except for you guys. keep trying to talk crap over the fence. we all know who has the better school...better lifestyle...and the jug. so shut it, kitties.
I'm actually in this video! That is so cool! And as for the whole ASU/WCU crap, that's really stupid. App has an amazing program and while I do not like the marching style of WCU, they too have an amazing program. Now, are you guys in pre school or college? Oh, and I totally love You Can Call Me Al!! I'm also a freshman at App and one of my best friends goes to WCU
both groups provide a different style of marching band to the carolinas and the rest of the country. Western is a good Marching Band and just bcs u get invited to BOA doesnt make u the best. and App has a great program for marching band. i dont understand why everyone has to think there is some contest here. there will be no contest in the near future to justify the statement on who is better, so arguing is just wasting time and breath.
im betting saxybeast704 is a freshman or sophmore...
Yay trumpbone you rock! Yes we have been taught better than this at App and its really stupid for both sides to be acting like this. We both have great programs and this childishness is getting old
This is STUPID! (And I'm talking about the trash talking) You do realize that just makes BOTH of our programs look like COMPLETE CRAP? Come on GROW UP! This isn't preschool, we're in college for crying out loud!
My gosh! I know Bob Buckner taut us better manners, respect, and sportsmanship than this!! (And I hope the same with Dr. Tobias over there at App.)
To conclude my comment stop TARNISHING the credibility of our programs! This is NOT the way to prove whose band is better!!
Well bless your heart! At least you think you have a good band because your football team sux and everyone knows that if you don't have good grades in high school, you can get into West Carolina. They don't call West Carolina and Eastern Carolina the "Directional Dummies" for nothing.
LMAO once again you have proven your ignorance. You don't have the simple mental capacity to get the names of the schools right. It's WESTERN Carolina (not West Carolina) and EAST Carolina (not Eastern Carolina)... stupid lol. Oh and by the way Western Carolina is #1 in the country in our school of education. So please do some research next time so that when you attempt to insult WCU, it is an accurate statement. Dummy!!!! lol
LMAO! The spellings were meant as an insult. But your too dumb to even pick up on that. BTW, there is NOTHING that West Carolina is ranked #1 in. Try to prove me wrong. Show me a link to some website where you found this mythical #1 ranking.
@WoodyRoo1 Maybe you should see the other posts. WHat is App #1 in?? And it was my understanding that your in band for band, not the football team. Maybe I was wrong. Maybe you havce to focus on your good football tream to take focus off your awful band. WCU is num,ber one, the #1 Band in the United States. Ask thr Sudler Foundation or better yet, when we play you, and after we totally blow your faces off on Oct. 23rd and make you see alllll that sucks about App and what is better about the POTM
@WoodyRoo1 Maybe you should come and see the SUdler Trophy with Western Carolina University "Pride of the Mountains Marching Band" on it, and how it says its given to the best collegiate band in the nation. App has never gotten an award for the best in the Western part of NC, let alone the nation. So, if were best in the nation, and technically, youre not anything, facts speak for themselves. POTM beats ASU...ANY DAY
@jerrygoodnght Jesus, you don't ever shut up, do you? No one cares, if you can't tell. Regardless of band quality, I'm glad I'm not stuck in that shithole you all call Cullowhee.
@goheels681 This is true. Cullowhee is sorta in the middle of nowhere. But thats beside the point. It doesnt matter where the college is, what matters is the quality that is provided. So yes, Cullowhee is small. But its not a shithole. An urban environment, such as say, Boone, could be called a shithole too. But I wont because thats not true. Cullwohee is small and were not stuck up here, were here by choice because the quality of band, school, etc is, in our opinion, unmatched.
The only reason WCU goes to BOA is because of Bob Buckner's connection with that organization. Nothing else. WCU has the best band electricity can power. WCU should try learning a new show for every home game. Maybe it would take the fan's mind off their losing football team.
We don't have to learn a new show every home game, thats why no fans leave the stands when we come on the field, they watch us and yes they do leave afterwards, but hey I never said that our football team was good.
WOW you know HATERS are everywhere lol. Western gets invited to BOA cause we are THE BEST. Which is also why we are sponsored by every major percussion company in the US. Ive seen App up close and personal and on their best day they couldn't even top Western in our first week of band camp. Oh and by the way... our the electronics is the icing in the cake. Our Winds are incredible musicians and being completely honest could play yours under the table. lol
You should keep your mouth closed considering yall are playing our PEP TUNES on the field LMAO!!!! HA wow.... please up your game before you try to talk about WCU. LOL Man I wish you could hear wow hard Im laughing right now lol.
@WoodyRoo1 Oh, or maybe it would make the fans focus on how were tryin to wuss out like App. Remember, Bob got connetions with BOA because his high school band won NATIONALS. Sylva-Webster HS. Look it up. And considerin the electrics amplify the guitars we have, and notice how theyre better musicians thatn any from App because, well, theyre volume is up so you can actually hear them and they make NO mistakes. If we would learn a new show every week, like yall, we would be just like App, not goin
@WoodyRoo1 Any higher than a middle class college band, like App. Marching Band has nothing to do with the Band. Your team won National titles. Good for you. I hope your fans are proud. Our BAND won national titles. Because you have connections doesnt mean you go to BOA. You have to be invited. My high school band director had connections ion BOA, but with such a smalkl school, we really werent atr the caliber to be invited. Oh, yeah, much like App. The caliber...isnt high enough. So when you
@WoodyRoo1 decide to down WCU, think about it, about how you really are no better than a lower middle class HS band. And our shows are so bad, right? Electrics dont power our band. Musicianship does. POWER and love for the Pride empowers us, and makes us blow the faces off the crowd in one note one time, where App wouldnt come close to bein that full, that GOOD if they combined all their sound from the whole season and multiplied it by 1000. We dont have to change our show every week to hide
@WoodyRoo1 the fact that App is scared to be thought of as bad. SO they change their show every week to mask the fact that they can never get anything perfect, so if they change it, people will just forget about it. And thats was App's shows are FORGETTABLE. WCU is the Best Damn Band Anywhere. And if you doubt it, as the members of the Sudler Trophy FOundation, and asked who they decided was the best collegiate marching band in the US. ANd then ask the Rose Bowl foundation who after hearing that
@WoodyRoo1decided that it would be best if all of AMerica and the world heard us on January 1st on National TV. Yeah, I dont think Apps band has ever been on NAtional TV. Well, maybe the football team takes their minds off their losing band. Buit after you consider that, consider that WCU is performing at Bandfest by INVITATION only, and that were the only band in 50+ years theyve asked to perform twice. All of these are totally separate honors and awards. What does App have?? Oh yeah, a winning
@jerrygoodnght Oh sorry the ASU band will be too busy playing in SPAIN to see ya'll in California. Did I mention they only pick two bands from the USA to march in the Cabalgata de Reyes Parade in Madrid?
@tiffk9019 Oh Im sorry. I didnt mean to offend you about a parade that no one knows about. Well, while youre in Spain, you can watch the Rose Parade with the 2.1 billion TV sets in China alone, and the 3.6 billion world wide, you know...from a parade people have heard of.
Wow way to never let that go, when you get to go again call, but since you guys only do local stuff now how bout you just leave the big things to the real band.
I will have to agree with DrOldman, The Pride of The Mountains is way better band than ASU's, and no this isnt a bias from me going to WCU or being in the POtM but I have yet to see a show that compares to any of our halftime shows. Ohh by the way were takin it all the way to BOA Grand Nationals in INDY this year!!!!
Have fun with your one show this year. When we have to learn 5. That's us after two weeks. That's four rehearsals. Let's see the Pride of Electronics do that.
Because we learn them in four rehearsals. There is no way you guys can pull that off. True, you guys get invited to BOA...it's because you can't go anywhere else to showcase...probably due to the fact that the only close to decent on that campus is the band.
THANK YOU Scarpatimom! I really appreciate your effort with the video....I LOVE the band. My son is in the band and i really enjoy seeing these clips...HunkieSwimmer5 YOU need to learn some manners!! GO Band!!
To be fair, a lot of this has to do with my crappy shooting of the performance. I had trouble uploading and had to convert files, etc, so there is distortion, blurring, etc. ASU did a GREAT job! I put these up on here so family members, friends, etc can see their loved ones perform. Maybe you should just stick to the pool????
Well that was a great 2 songs and I mean the concert formation to stand and play was just my favorite part of the entire show!!! I mean way to promote yourselves through an announcment, we do it in style by just playing and having everyone BEGGING to come to play in our band!
The performance was longer than this clip. I am new at this and I don't know how to get longer than 10 minutes or so to post. That being said, I've heard your band perform in a guest performance (it was AWESOME!)and there was PLENTY of 'self-promotion' going on! I thought the petty stuff was left in high school.
Well first of all let's get on the beat, then the guard need some Heavy duty work, children of sanchez is one of my favorite songs and you guys murdered it and turned it into poop. I wouldn't be surprised if the audience was bored to death...Wow even in the 2nd tune you're not on beat...this is great guys...I mean it's slow and you can't even play on the beat, that's pretty sad....Straight lines would be nice also. You should also fire those terrible trumpet players...
i love how western carolina and ASU get into this giant pissing contest over who is better... yes WCU meets more frequently and is a better overall program. but all things considered, where are those amazing marching band parade appearances going to take them? exactly... just give it up. Your football team is so bad you have to devote your time to something else. this war needs to stop
cp911s 11 months ago
I'm just astounded that a marching band that does one show a year, plugs up some of their instruments, can't get over the fact that college bands don't compeate...and that ASU has a better overall music program is still talking big...and the marching mountaineers only meets twice a week for two hours...I'd say we do a pretty damn good job
sw79574 1 year ago
Musically both bands are great as in marching. but WCU's drumline is so above Apps.
tay44brass 1 year ago
Y'all sound good, but no offense, Western sounds a lot more impressive.
SnarlyCharly44 2 years ago
i go to this school!!
hey5544665577 2 years ago
I make comments on videos.
RandomxOne 2 years ago
Okay...cool...your band marches...no one really cares except for you guys. keep trying to talk crap over the fence. we all know who has the better school...better lifestyle...and the jug. so shut it, kitties.
jondrumline07 3 years ago
I'm actually in this video! That is so cool! And as for the whole ASU/WCU crap, that's really stupid. App has an amazing program and while I do not like the marching style of WCU, they too have an amazing program. Now, are you guys in pre school or college? Oh, and I totally love You Can Call Me Al!! I'm also a freshman at App and one of my best friends goes to WCU
flutebabe1990 3 years ago
both groups provide a different style of marching band to the carolinas and the rest of the country. Western is a good Marching Band and just bcs u get invited to BOA doesnt make u the best. and App has a great program for marching band. i dont understand why everyone has to think there is some contest here. there will be no contest in the near future to justify the statement on who is better, so arguing is just wasting time and breath.
im betting saxybeast704 is a freshman or sophmore...
cp911s 3 years ago
Yay trumpbone you rock! Yes we have been taught better than this at App and its really stupid for both sides to be acting like this. We both have great programs and this childishness is getting old
Marchaineer 3 years ago
This is STUPID! (And I'm talking about the trash talking) You do realize that just makes BOTH of our programs look like COMPLETE CRAP? Come on GROW UP! This isn't preschool, we're in college for crying out loud!
My gosh! I know Bob Buckner taut us better manners, respect, and sportsmanship than this!! (And I hope the same with Dr. Tobias over there at App.)
To conclude my comment stop TARNISHING the credibility of our programs! This is NOT the way to prove whose band is better!!
trumpbone07 3 years ago
*taught...
trumpbone07 3 years ago
Yeah, Dr. Tobias has made it quite clear to have good sportsmanship and he will ask you to leave the band if you do so otherwise
flutebabe1990 3 years ago
You know I love how all of you are making BOTH schools look stupid
Marchaineer 3 years ago 2
Well bless your heart! At least you think you have a good band because your football team sux and everyone knows that if you don't have good grades in high school, you can get into West Carolina. They don't call West Carolina and Eastern Carolina the "Directional Dummies" for nothing.
WoodyRoo1 3 years ago
LMAO once again you have proven your ignorance. You don't have the simple mental capacity to get the names of the schools right. It's WESTERN Carolina (not West Carolina) and EAST Carolina (not Eastern Carolina)... stupid lol. Oh and by the way Western Carolina is #1 in the country in our school of education. So please do some research next time so that when you attempt to insult WCU, it is an accurate statement. Dummy!!!! lol
saxybeast704 3 years ago
LMAO! The spellings were meant as an insult. But your too dumb to even pick up on that. BTW, there is NOTHING that West Carolina is ranked #1 in. Try to prove me wrong. Show me a link to some website where you found this mythical #1 ranking.
WoodyRoo1 3 years ago
@WoodyRoo1 Maybe you should see the other posts. WHat is App #1 in?? And it was my understanding that your in band for band, not the football team. Maybe I was wrong. Maybe you havce to focus on your good football tream to take focus off your awful band. WCU is num,ber one, the #1 Band in the United States. Ask thr Sudler Foundation or better yet, when we play you, and after we totally blow your faces off on Oct. 23rd and make you see alllll that sucks about App and what is better about the POTM
jerrygoodnght 1 year ago
@WoodyRoo1 Maybe you should come and see the SUdler Trophy with Western Carolina University "Pride of the Mountains Marching Band" on it, and how it says its given to the best collegiate band in the nation. App has never gotten an award for the best in the Western part of NC, let alone the nation. So, if were best in the nation, and technically, youre not anything, facts speak for themselves. POTM beats ASU...ANY DAY
jerrygoodnght 1 year ago
@jerrygoodnght Jesus, you don't ever shut up, do you? No one cares, if you can't tell. Regardless of band quality, I'm glad I'm not stuck in that shithole you all call Cullowhee.
goheels681 1 year ago
@goheels681 This is true. Cullowhee is sorta in the middle of nowhere. But thats beside the point. It doesnt matter where the college is, what matters is the quality that is provided. So yes, Cullowhee is small. But its not a shithole. An urban environment, such as say, Boone, could be called a shithole too. But I wont because thats not true. Cullwohee is small and were not stuck up here, were here by choice because the quality of band, school, etc is, in our opinion, unmatched.
jerrygoodnght 1 year ago
lol, asu, boa. lol. I was at boa with wcu in 98. Great times! This show is almost high schoolish.
janosha 3 years ago
The only reason WCU goes to BOA is because of Bob Buckner's connection with that organization. Nothing else. WCU has the best band electricity can power. WCU should try learning a new show for every home game. Maybe it would take the fan's mind off their losing football team.
WoodyRoo1 3 years ago
We don't have to learn a new show every home game, thats why no fans leave the stands when we come on the field, they watch us and yes they do leave afterwards, but hey I never said that our football team was good.
BeansLow 3 years ago
Our fans never leave the stands either. We got it all buddy. Quit trying to argue with it. ASU is better.
jondrumline07 3 years ago
At Football!
BeansLow 3 years ago
At football, music, academics, ALL athletics in general, student life, and a VERY faithful alumni base.
jondrumline07 3 years ago
Im going to stop, your stubborn, that must be a trait of all ASU students.
BeansLow 3 years ago
right we're stubborn - at least we argue for the truth
HzlEyedBeauty 3 years ago
This comment has received too many negative votes show
yall suck. at least our band marches.
Our one show has more sets in it than yalls entire years worth of shows.
bandnerd4life33 3 years ago
WOW you know HATERS are everywhere lol. Western gets invited to BOA cause we are THE BEST. Which is also why we are sponsored by every major percussion company in the US. Ive seen App up close and personal and on their best day they couldn't even top Western in our first week of band camp. Oh and by the way... our the electronics is the icing in the cake. Our Winds are incredible musicians and being completely honest could play yours under the table. lol
saxybeast704 3 years ago
including your woodwinds? (that's to say, when they aren't twirling color guard equipment?)
nateman115 2 years ago
You should keep your mouth closed considering yall are playing our PEP TUNES on the field LMAO!!!! HA wow.... please up your game before you try to talk about WCU. LOL Man I wish you could hear wow hard Im laughing right now lol.
saxybeast704 3 years ago
@WoodyRoo1 Oh, or maybe it would make the fans focus on how were tryin to wuss out like App. Remember, Bob got connetions with BOA because his high school band won NATIONALS. Sylva-Webster HS. Look it up. And considerin the electrics amplify the guitars we have, and notice how theyre better musicians thatn any from App because, well, theyre volume is up so you can actually hear them and they make NO mistakes. If we would learn a new show every week, like yall, we would be just like App, not goin
jerrygoodnght 1 year ago
@WoodyRoo1 Any higher than a middle class college band, like App. Marching Band has nothing to do with the Band. Your team won National titles. Good for you. I hope your fans are proud. Our BAND won national titles. Because you have connections doesnt mean you go to BOA. You have to be invited. My high school band director had connections ion BOA, but with such a smalkl school, we really werent atr the caliber to be invited. Oh, yeah, much like App. The caliber...isnt high enough. So when you
jerrygoodnght 1 year ago
@WoodyRoo1 decide to down WCU, think about it, about how you really are no better than a lower middle class HS band. And our shows are so bad, right? Electrics dont power our band. Musicianship does. POWER and love for the Pride empowers us, and makes us blow the faces off the crowd in one note one time, where App wouldnt come close to bein that full, that GOOD if they combined all their sound from the whole season and multiplied it by 1000. We dont have to change our show every week to hide
jerrygoodnght 1 year ago
@WoodyRoo1 the fact that App is scared to be thought of as bad. SO they change their show every week to mask the fact that they can never get anything perfect, so if they change it, people will just forget about it. And thats was App's shows are FORGETTABLE. WCU is the Best Damn Band Anywhere. And if you doubt it, as the members of the Sudler Trophy FOundation, and asked who they decided was the best collegiate marching band in the US. ANd then ask the Rose Bowl foundation who after hearing that
jerrygoodnght 1 year ago
@WoodyRoo1decided that it would be best if all of AMerica and the world heard us on January 1st on National TV. Yeah, I dont think Apps band has ever been on NAtional TV. Well, maybe the football team takes their minds off their losing band. Buit after you consider that, consider that WCU is performing at Bandfest by INVITATION only, and that were the only band in 50+ years theyve asked to perform twice. All of these are totally separate honors and awards. What does App have?? Oh yeah, a winning
jerrygoodnght 1 year ago
@WoodyRoo1 football team. Good for them. Well, we'll see you in California--wait. Nevermind
jerrygoodnght 1 year ago
@jerrygoodnght Oh sorry the ASU band will be too busy playing in SPAIN to see ya'll in California. Did I mention they only pick two bands from the USA to march in the Cabalgata de Reyes Parade in Madrid?
tiffk9019 1 year ago
@tiffk9019 Oh Im sorry. I didnt mean to offend you about a parade that no one knows about. Well, while youre in Spain, you can watch the Rose Parade with the 2.1 billion TV sets in China alone, and the 3.6 billion world wide, you know...from a parade people have heard of.
jerrygoodnght 1 year ago
Wow way to never let that go, when you get to go again call, but since you guys only do local stuff now how bout you just leave the big things to the real band.
BeansLow 3 years ago
This was suppose to go on another video but some how got put on this one
BeansLow 3 years ago
Wow I have seen pigs with more class than you people...although i do agree with you on the trumpet players...
Marchaineer 3 years ago
I will have to agree with DrOldman, The Pride of The Mountains is way better band than ASU's, and no this isnt a bias from me going to WCU or being in the POtM but I have yet to see a show that compares to any of our halftime shows. Ohh by the way were takin it all the way to BOA Grand Nationals in INDY this year!!!!
BeansLow 3 years ago
Have fun with your one show this year. When we have to learn 5. That's us after two weeks. That's four rehearsals. Let's see the Pride of Electronics do that.
jondrumline07 3 years ago
Yes you might learn 5 shows, but our one shows is way better than any of your guys 5 shows. Thats the reason we get invited to BOA
BeansLow 3 years ago
Because we learn them in four rehearsals. There is no way you guys can pull that off. True, you guys get invited to BOA...it's because you can't go anywhere else to showcase...probably due to the fact that the only close to decent on that campus is the band.
jondrumline07 3 years ago
the only *thing close to decent.
jondrumline07 3 years ago
@jondrumline07 The Rose Bowl in 2010
Enka Band Tournament
Cary Band Day
BOA - 2010,2009
tay44brass 1 year ago
The Appalachian State band does not even compare to the Western Carolina band. ASU's band is in the little league's compared to WCU's band.
DrOldman 3 years ago
THANK YOU Scarpatimom! I really appreciate your effort with the video....I LOVE the band. My son is in the band and i really enjoy seeing these clips...HunkieSwimmer5 YOU need to learn some manners!! GO Band!!
BANDMOM54 3 years ago
To be fair, a lot of this has to do with my crappy shooting of the performance. I had trouble uploading and had to convert files, etc, so there is distortion, blurring, etc. ASU did a GREAT job! I put these up on here so family members, friends, etc can see their loved ones perform. Maybe you should just stick to the pool????
scarpatimom 3 years ago
Well that was a great 2 songs and I mean the concert formation to stand and play was just my favorite part of the entire show!!! I mean way to promote yourselves through an announcment, we do it in style by just playing and having everyone BEGGING to come to play in our band!
HunkieSwimmer5 3 years ago
The performance was longer than this clip. I am new at this and I don't know how to get longer than 10 minutes or so to post. That being said, I've heard your band perform in a guest performance (it was AWESOME!)and there was PLENTY of 'self-promotion' going on! I thought the petty stuff was left in high school.
scarpatimom 3 years ago
Well first of all let's get on the beat, then the guard need some Heavy duty work, children of sanchez is one of my favorite songs and you guys murdered it and turned it into poop. I wouldn't be surprised if the audience was bored to death...Wow even in the 2nd tune you're not on beat...this is great guys...I mean it's slow and you can't even play on the beat, that's pretty sad....Straight lines would be nice also. You should also fire those terrible trumpet players...
HunkieSwimmer5 3 years ago