The Live Oak High School Marching Band and Color Guard or The Emerald Regime is the official band of Live Oak High School in Morgan Hill, California. The band was started in the summer of 1970 with 36 band members and 10 color guard members, with Michael Rubino and Cricket Hathaway as directors. The band and color guard grew from that small start in 1970 to 146 members in 1976, when the band went on its first national tour to Whitewater, Wisconsin where they captured the Marching Bands of America Grand National Championship, winning "best winds," "best marching," and "best general effect." The band and color guard continued its winning ways for the next three years, winning dozens of local and regional awards and again winning the Marching Bands of America Championship in 1978 with the highest overall point score ever recorded in that competition, a record which still stands today. In June of 1987, the Emerald Regime became the first High School Marching Band to perform on the Great Wall of China which kickstarted The band's traveling show titled the "Journey of a Lifetime".
History with the Macy's Parade[]
The Marching Band only appeared at the 61st Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.