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  • we dont have 310 trumpets... Like 107..

  • 613 members 310 are trumpets :D

  • That's a pretty big band you guys got there. My high school band had about a third more than your band. It was like in the hundreds. It was huge.

  • @Frizzyjack allen high school is at 613 members

  • YEUH DRUMLINE.

  • our band is amazing.

  • i love my band!!!! <3<3<3<3<3

  • freaking amazing band if i do say so myself XD that was my freshman year and we have 150 more people now

  • this band has twice as many people in my town

    

  • Theres about 1300 kids in my school, and our band has around 95 this year.

  • @kklloorrm We have a good 3800 students without the freshmen, and the band is about 630 people strong. Band is as high up on the Coolness Scale as varsity football here. :) 

  • yay im in it this year BASS CLARINET!

  • 680 this year, im a freshman;] trombone...

  • about 600 of us this year (including Tallenets and colorguard) :)

  • @FearTheBeans more actually

  • @imthepinkpanther69 yeah. im not exactly sure of the number

  • lol oh how i love our high school band....go allen!!! lol

  • someone count them

  • I'm sure if we made our band a try out band, or made it upperclassman only, we would rock your socks, but we're not really a competition band, we just like to have fun! :)

  • my high school has a population of 5,000 people, too, but we only had about 27 members in the hornline the whole time I was there. It was pathetic.

  • @jonvidmusic the high school i went to which was bellaire high from bellaire texas had 4000 students in the school and only less the 60 students were in band last year. but back in 2007 we had about a little bit over 100 people thats when everybody anted be in band but after that year just about everyone quit

  • @jonvidmusic yea band is actually cool at allen

  • dang instruments and uniforms must cost a fortune for that school lol

  • @1digidude thats why they are all 20 years old and falling apart :D

  • Jesus H Christ.  That's LIKE STUPID BIG hahahahaha.

  • HOLY FUCK! Why don't they share?

  • they dont even march? course style bands suck

  • conplaining

  • my band has 23 member hahahaha but we do well so im not complainging

  • Thats amazing a high school band being that large. Its pretty funny considering your band has 600 members.... That would be half my high school enrollment being in band. Haha they would have to cancel school if band ever left for a competition. Half the school would be gone!! That would be pretty sick though.

  • I bet your band hasn't been to the rose bowl 3 times, soon to be 4, China, Obama's inaugural, citrus bowl, NYC st. Patrick's 7 15 years in a row, etc....My band has 320, which is lower than normal. Hello from New Hampshire.

  • yeah, but we've performed in Hawaii, Ireland, gotten State Champion 6 times and recieved the Sudler Shield Award. Hello from ALLEN.

  • The last time you received State Champion was in 1988-89. Just where are your 6 state titles from? Because they dont show up in the Texas UIL Archives. As far as that goes, Allen has only won 2 state Championships. (87-88 & 88-89) What have you done since then? You were a 4A band then and not near as many members in the band. You have not gone to state as a 5A band. Congrats on the 2 but I dont see 6 any where.

  • @johnnyblu56 dude look how big they are now so therefore they cant compete anymore cause they cant march even reliant stadium isnt a big enough feild for them to march on. the need a hundred acre golf course if they wanted to march

  • @TheDragonmaster18 we marched in reliant stadium when our football won state in 2008

  • @johnnyblu56 we're not a competition band, we are a fun football band. we like our size and we don't need a thousand state titles to prove it

  • that is not lower than normal. its ALOT bugger than normal

  • hooollllyyyy shit

  • i heard the director wants 76 trombones, he has 55

  • What...we march with 2 trombones in our band..

  • holy crap.. and i thought we were big with 196 members.. [biggest in new jersey]

  • im from new jersey but im studying in louisiana.....shall i guess roxbury or immaculatta?

  • No.. Bergenfield =]

  • sweet lol

  • wow thats like the whole schoo.

  • not even

    thats about 1/4 of the school, not including freshmen, they have their own campus

    i think we have the biggest high school band in the nation

  • Does your state require that you have manditory band credits?

  • nope, we have to have a fine arts credit

    which could be art, band, choir, or orchestra

  • it requires 6th graders to participate in choir, band, or orchestra. And requires everyone from grades k to 6th to be in choir. After 6th grade its an option

  • well like our city does

  • how is it that you can do designs and clean it up with so many people?

  • HOLY CRAP!!!! This band is huge!!!!!! And i thought the high school that competes with us was big....my god this is nothing compared to 300 band members haha wow man you guys are amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • thats huge they may have quantity but do they have quality i bet not

  • exactly... we dont.. we need to stop letting just everyone join and actually have tryouts.

    but you are right, and i CAN agree cause i am actually in it.

  • so at 22 you are still in high school? thats sad.

  • are you seriously that dumb? you dont think it is a fake age? hah.... what an idiot

  • you guessed correctly, but dont be a douchebag. youre probably horrible yourself.

  • It's really a shame that a band like this is allowed to compete against other area bands that actually MARCH and demonstrate foot technique. The playing field just doesn't seem level when it comes to grading the overall general effect of the performance.

  • I still Bet They not Blowing out FAMU

  • Chopp3d0ut: I think u suck balls the Allen eagle band is amazing

  • holly crap, their show must suck balls. they have no room to march!

  • there is no need for a band that big thats nonsenceis practically a army

  • I'm in this band

  • haha we got about 150 mmore players dis year too =D to bad 40% r fishy xD

  • we're even bigger this year

  • damn.

    freakin big ass band.

  • the band that never ends is an under statement... that is a freakishly large band

  • Cool! It's about twice the size of our band(Fresno State Bulldog Band). Go Bulldogs!!!

  • This is what happens when they allow anybody that wants to join band in.

  • I don't know of any high school bands that DON'T let just anybody in. Most HS bands require all of their members to be in the marching band, regardless of how bad they are.

  • I thought that if the school was large enough, people had to try out for marching.

  • Depends on the school, however i've never heard of trying out for marching band in HS. It's more common at large universities like UT who have student populations of over 50,000 and limit the band size to around 450. Allen HS would certainly benefit from auditioning their marching band though. If they reduced it to 400 they would still have one of the largest HS marching bands in the nation and their sound and marching would be a lot tighter.

  • Here you have to had been in concert band from 6th grade to now to be in our band.

  • where is this school at

  • These kids do have to try out for their spots, those that don't get to march are called "shadows" and shadow a person with a spot in case that person misses a performance!

  • nice stadium guys West Monroe, LA has a nice one too

  • that's like 10 times the size of our band XD

  • like 50 times the size of our band lmao

  • I'd LOVE to see a pic of this band from an aerial view! Probably look like a bunch of ants, literally!

  • I bet there drill is amazing........

  • they r huge.....they look awesome

  • for 4 grades, not bad. very huge. lol. I'm from Williams in Plano, and I feed into Plano East. if you take all 4 grades that combine into PESH, we have about the same amount as y'all (600 something...can't remember...lol. almost 700, i do know that). But that's out of 3 schools since we're so big, we can't fit into one. LOL.

    but you ARE huge for a 1 school, 4 grade band.

    ...wait. you ARE 4 grades, right? just want to be sure... ^^;;;

  • yup...... but thats also why pesh did so well at so many competitions last year, because those plano bands only have 2 grades, thus better sound quality and experience, and no annoying freshmen/sophomores..........

    but we still beat all the plano bands at competition this year.....

  • But Plano was always knocking on your heels XD no offense to ya'll but your drill is much easier then the Plano/Plano East...but musically, still amazing!

  • i know its easier......... but the directors do the best job they can in making it tough, just not enough room

  • right, sorry for being rude like that...i've always wanted to try and right drill for Allen...but i have no drill writing programs XD

  • it wasn't rude......... u should go read some of my other comments on other videos..... THOSE are rude :D / :(

  • I could get u one for free!

  • i cant wait until i get to that scool. rite now iam going to curtis middle school. go allen the one the state champion football

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  • how bigs the drumline?

  • this past year, i believe we had 4 quads, 7 snares, 5 basses, 6 cymbals

    then about 25-30 in the front ensemble

  • Having dealt with this band this past weekend, I do hope they aren't ALL as rude as the ones we met. The whole ordeal was very sad. The time will come when someone, bigger and obviously better will put them in their place.

  • still hasn't happened...... STATE CHAMPS 08!

  • You must've met the jerks of our band. We try to be respectful to everyone, but sometimes there are the idiots who think we're better than everyone just because we're big. I hope you don't have to deal with that in the future.

  • Our band has about 75 people!

  • when i was in 8th grade, we had a 17 member hornline, 10 percussion, and 6 guard. freshman year, i marched with a different band, and we had a 45 member hornline, 20 percussion, and 16 guard.

    talk about a huge jump! i'm marching with the same band this year and we only have 62 ppl this year.

  • haha its fun to read all these comments about us. im in this band and its amazing. i would never want to be in a smaller band.. were like a big family. theres a little less than 600 kids in our escadrille this year (this video is from 2 years ago) and my class size is about 1300. and yes getting off the field in time is very difficult. but yeah just wanted to let yall know a little about us!

    p.s. - the crowds reaction to our waves in the stands is one of the best things about contest! :D

  • thats crazy!

    where do yall get all these kids 4rm?!

    you must have like 8,000 students in your school.

    My band is about 214 and our student body is 1800.

  • DAMN!!!

    theres hardly any room to march!!!

  • This school is so big! I go to lovejoy and it is really small compared to you!

  • omg i thought our band was big

    arcadia- 410 members you guys - like 600

    WOW

  • yeah you guys r huge but, damn! that must be the biggest in nation. the judges must give them more time to get on the field

  • One year at the Mesquite Marching festival results were taking forever, so Allen started doing the wave in their bleachers. They took up an entire section, and had many coordinated waves. A few from corner to corner, one that went inside to out, top to bottom, left to right. Great stuff, great band.

  • getting off the field in time must be a bitch.

  • Our band is about 1/3 of theirs. Their band is Huge!!

  • damn, this band is fucking huge

  • its like the whole school is playing.... I LOVE IT. my school's band is so small... like less than 30......

  • we have 4 drum majors

  • so do we, but we have like 120 ppl though

  • how many drumajors you'll have??? like 50?

  • i LOVE the allen band. im a proud memeber.

    i would rather have our size than go to state any day.

    if we have to cut our band in half to go to state it is not worth it.

  • YEAH WE'RE FREAKING AWESOMME!

    being in allen is great:)

    STATE 08!

  • im going to see allen tomorrow at UIL area

    my director writes thier drill

  • OMG my our band only consists of like maybe60-70 including color guard!!!! HOLY JEBUS!!!!! how do you guys even form formations it looks impossible

  • What year was this from, because the 2008 AHS Band only has like 50 people including color guard.

  • Haha, this must not be the same AHS Band you're talking about.. This is from Fall 2006. Allen High School, Allen TX.

  • that's what I call ABSURD. Sounds is probably unbeatable but drill would be nearly impossible. I am in a state champion band of 130 and we can pull it off just as well if not better. GO AIR ACADEMY.

  • allen highschool is the best yea thats rite goooo ALLEN!!!!!!

  • My school--Plano West is playing them this friday. we're doing a west cluster concert, meaning we will have our 2 feeder schools on the field with us. we will be 2/3 that size.

  • We did our cluster game for East back in Sept. Whenever we do it, they always say that with all of us together, we make the biggest band in Texas, but I'm not sure how true that is... :/ At West, what do you do for Jasper kids? Do you only have the West feeding Jasper kids go, or all of Jasper?

    Haha, I look forward to the East v West game. Not. West is going to cream East this year. No doubt. Haha

  • haha we'll see. btw all of jasper go to the game, but then the non-westies go to the game of whatever school they go to i think.

  • oh dear god! i could only dream to be in a band like! if they learn to work tohether they could have some killer visuals!

  • HOLY JESUS!!!! thats a huge band! our band is almost a quarter of that. that band is so huge. thats crazy awesome.

  • It's very difficult sometimes to see how our director makes charts for us, but when he does come out with them, they are amazing. We are doing a space theme this year and so far it is fantastic.

  • No one's allowed on the visiting side since all the bands march facing the other way.

  • There's no one on the other side of the stadium because it was a competition, not a football game. At competitions, there aren't even seats available on the other side because who wants to watch a show backwards any way?

  • for the size of your band, you should be playing a lot louder

  • They are pretty loud. It might be that the video doesn't give them enough justice. But at football games, they can always outplay the other band. :P Annoying a lot of the times.

  • Yeah, it's definitely the video. i saw them at a contest at Plano East and believe me-they're loud. One of the most amazing things I've ever seen from a marching band ever.

  • how could you guys even do much of a drill? your band is so huge, you guys should divide or something, might help with sound and drill

  • "the band that never ends" haha, We get that a lot too.

  • haha ours was a western them this year... (2007-2008) and it was fun we had t ostop marching and the whole band squatet XD then we had to do like 20 waves on the field! it was amazing!!!! and also each section got to choose their own little moves during the march lol

    we had the trumbons(spl?) act like horses and the trupets go to throw their trupets up in the air. so cool!!!

    XD

  • Holy crap.

    Isn't this the competition where one of your buses crashed? =[

  • yeah it is.

    it was more like 3 of the buses.

  • i bet yall have to haul ass getting on/off the field so you don't go overtime.

  • yup yup! there was one time where we had to stop in the middle of the highschool almamter just so we owuldnt get a pently by the officals in one of football games. the band before us went into OUR time and that gave us only 9 minutes for a 12 minute show! we were so pissed lol

  • I used to live in Allen six years ago. I know Brandom Hemphill in percussion. I now live in Florida.

    Check ou my band, Search:

    Stoneman Douglas Eagle Regiment

  • they were alright.

    i just prefer high stepping showstyle marching bands.

  • they may be big but they're sound isnt all that great.put them up against Sachse H.S and see who wins.

  • There Big Band good marchers...but they cant play so well

  • you know that we were facing the opposite direction, right?

  • wow i go 2 a 5a school and that kicks our butt

  • ive been to this.

    i play for williams high school.

    and ive seen allen...

    pretty hugh kickass band.

  • Doesn't this band have over like 650 members?

  • big ass band

  • I LOVE MY TOWNS BAND.

  • Jesus, that's huge...

  • What district do you guys play for?

  • Like what UIL Region? We're Region 25. Or do you mean like for football or something?

  • No, hm....for example we play in SCSBOA.

  • The Percussion section alone has about as many people as most 3a bands.

  • they r good tho

  • lol its funny bc i saw there band on saturday @ a contest @ plano east. did u know they have 66 flutes and 78 clarinets this yr! its crazy @_@

  • I go to Plano East and I was helping all day, but I would have liked to see Allen's show!

  • thats nothin. were expect to haver over a thousand in the band in about 2 yrs... if it keeps growing every year!

    D:

    i dont think we can take it haha

  • lol man thats alot!

    its just that allen is such a small town so i always find it kinda funny that they have such a huge band :P

  • well its not that small of a town anymore. but here in allen u dont get to much made fun if ur in band cause practicaly every teen is in it! lol and trust me there are sooo many kids here too! Freshmen grads have over 1,200 kids in just that grade! so thats nothin lo

  • haha we had 8th grader night at a football game and we had no elbow room!!! haha it was so much fun though lol we take up at least 1/2 of the stand almost 2/3 lol

  • At the TTU band and orchestra camp, that school made up half of the thing. and its a big camp

  • I love TTU BOC. :) Gone there twice, and I plan on going there Summer 08.

    Woahhhh, Woahhh, Woahhh, I'm having fun on the roller coaster of life..

    Did you go this year? If you didn't.. that's probably the weirdest line ever.

  • now say it like a robot.

  • my high school band is half that size.-.- big ass band

  • lol thats about the size of our trumpet and horn section lol -^^- lol yeah

  • im in it and we have to have at least 100 people sit out of b a shadow cause we'd take up SOO much room! but it is awesome bein in it!

  • haha we find a way to get formations we just really use up the field trust me.

  • I used to be in that.

  • yep, good ole Allen, yall are just huge

    good luck this year!

  • hahaha i'm at Allen. yep thats us. did you figure out your audition music for TTUBOC 2007? i haven't found the vid of you playing it yet :-[

    lol i'm a saxophone but still interested :D

  • Haha, yeah, I've got it, but I haven't posted it yet. I've been gone for a while so I'll try my best to get it up tomorrow since I leave Sunday for it! This one kid in my school band plays sax, and I gave him the trumpet version so he played it with my on his soprano! :D Haha. I also gave it to my teacher who plays sax, but I never played my etude for him. :/

  • hmmm. if you look up "texas tech audition" i think.. it shows this sax player playing the music i have to learn. he's going a little over tempo and i like suck haha. i'm totally a procrastinator in EVERYTHING that i do :-\

  • Are you going to the camp? Or are you just learning the etude?

  • ha i'm actually going to camp :-P

  • Oh, cool! :D Hope to see you there. :) Did you go last year? I was in Band Five last year, but I hope I'll have a better audition this year since I've actually been working hard on this etude.

  • ya i was in band 6 :P sarah dempsky? lol. i'm just looking at that list of everyone and what band they're in :-P

  • Haha, yeah. I still have that too. Jason DeVout? lol

  • mmhmm

  • I was in that band last year when they went to the Rose Bowl...great memories

  • YAY! Go Allen Eagles! I've been to Allen before! It's Escadrille is massive! And the High school is as big as... like... a community college!

  • and the football team is insane....dang i love my life (im in football and band at allen)