27th Lancers 1984 Finals || Aged Out Reacts 

My HS drum instructor Steve Campbell played with the Lancers and BD84-86 Center Snare 86! Steve is a BD Legend!

Thanks SO much for posting this. It brings back incredible memories. I was on 2-7's drum staff from 79-84. I'm going to share this on my facebook page where a LOT of Lancers will get to see it.

Marched in the 1984 snare line in the video. What a memory of a lifetime. Top drumline all year.

Devs 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986 Percussion Caption winners.

Thanks for reviewing this, it's one of the rare recordings of what we did (I wish there were videos like you have today). It was a gas playing in this line; I played snare 83-85 (when I was 17 to 19 yrs old, lol). I think the success in 84 came from all the woodshedding we did in 83. The 83 book was more "Scottish" with a lot of dotted figures, and we just drilled and drilled that year. The 84 book was a bit straighter with fewer dotted figures, and something just clicked for us early in the season. Much love to the other great lines like BD, SCV, Bridgemen, Regiment, Garfield for motivating us to be better, and to our writers and instructors.

I marched 83' Quads ! Best time ever !

OG!!! The year before Paul Rennick marched 27th Lancers.And yes, if it wasn’t for BD winning percussion from 83-86, the Lancers would have had the record for lowest placed corps winning percussion.

We saw them on June 24th that year and they were already cleaner than most lines are at Semis. That battery was absolutely insane, and the book is so juicy.

I can tell you, from firsthand experience, that the 1984 27th Lancer's drumline was something very special indeed. I marched snare with Bayonne in '84, and a good friend from my local corps was marching in the Lancer's tenor line, so I was paying close attention to them all year long. Make no mistake about it: They were awesome. And I got to see them up close, both in the lot and on the filed, many, many times that season. The videos and audio recordings will never do justice to what it was like to stand in front of that line. They were so tight, so clean, so _dynamic,_ and so powerful in a way that simply isn't possible anymore with Kevlar heads. When I finally saw Blue Devils that season, I was confident that 27th could beat them in percussion. And if memory serves, they did just that at DCI Midwest only a couple of weeks prior to Finals. BD was clean (of course) but I didn't think they had nearly the dynamics or intensity of 27th that year. In my mind, it wasn't even close (personal bias aside). Devils probably had a more advanced pit section, but when it came to the battery there was no comparison IMHO. 27th was firing on all cylinders. I've spoken quite recently with Charlie Poole (27th's percussion caption head at the time) about that '84 line, and he has always asserted that '84 was the best line he ever taught. They were chock full of veterans, and they weren't messin' around. They _knew_ they were sitting on top of something very special. Little-known trivia about 1984: Near the end of the season, Charlie invited Rob Carson to come in and work with the line, looking for any edge to secure their place in history. It's a shame that they weren't able to win high percussion at finals that year, and immortalize their name on the Fred Sanford trophy, but for those of us who know, you know: That was a once-in-a-lifetime drumline. I feel extremely lucky to have witnessed the 1984 27th Lancers as I did, along with so many other lasting memories from that season. DCI hasn't been the same since, as Kevlar would arrive only three years later, along with all the other inevitable changes that were eventually thrust upon the activity. To me, the early 80s was the Golden Era. Of course that'll be different for everyone, but I'm forever grateful for having been a part of it, and for all the legendary lines of that time period that I was fortunate enough to witness. I wouldn't trade it for anything in the world.

I loved marching in that line in 1980. This particular podcast should be titled "27th gets screwed AGAIN"

Yes, this was the second year of the Float Four-peat. They got us at Whitewater 2 weeks prior and we were very focused during the last few weeks of tour. We went from a distant 3rd in corps to almost pulling off the win. Hadn’t been for GE drums. Cheers!

Astounding percussion section. They were just so musical and dynamic.

dude those doubles pop so crazy I've never seen this thanks

We used to calling it " digging out a roll" with old school drums

I was the center snare in this show. I have a judge's tape of the last show before finals, in which we scored a 10 out of 10 in execution, and the tape sound quality is much better. You guys might like to review it. BTW, we had 4 competitions with the Blue Devils that year and won 3 times.

Loved those Slingerlands... The corp got those drums in 1980 and used them through the 84 season. As a young man at the time I thought those were the best drums ever and was so excited when they were given to the Lancer Cadets. Matched grip looked so much cooler back then. Also, take a listen to the 83 feature.

Saw these guys live. Even Better!!!!!

Loving the retro content lately! Keep it up!!!

One thing we don't think a lot about nowadays is how much HARDER it was to play clean in the Mylar era- the drill demands were increasing exponentially in the 1980s, the lines were BIG, the forms were spread widely, and the drums just physically could not produce the kind of clarity and articulation that Kevlar head free-floaters can produce. To play this clean under those conditions is like running a sprint with lead boots, but the chop monsters of the 1980s ate it up and spit it back out- true flam drag fighter pilots. This stuff is the best- this is why I love drum corps right here.

1984 27th Lancers is something I would have never appreciated if you two hadn't brought it up. Good stuff. Thoughts on 1992 Madison Scouts?

For the algorithm. ✊

27th didn’t make it to Finals.