Boston Crusaders Drumline 2021 || Aged Out Reacts 

BREAKING NEWS: BAC wins the Aged Out Podcast “Fred Sanford Award” for outstanding percussion.

Hold up... that Spock roll that crescendos around 18:10 ... one quad plays a roll, another throws in singles, and 2 of them throw in some 2-4’s. Hilarious. Absolutely hilarious. That’s not supposed to work.

Boston 100% won the 2021 Sanford in my heart. GOOD GAWD

"Mike McIntosh just texted me" subtle flex haha 💪

"I don't care what your pit did..." Story of our lives. 😆😆😆

I like how Evan just casually gets texts from one of the most legendary percussion educators/writers in dci

Slurred 5’s on those rolls haha RllrrLrrll

Hey fellas I found the Facebook post from Colin regarding the prototype snares. “We have new Yamaha snare proto types....game changer for tuning. No more air trapped in the shell.. more air holes by strainer and snare unit, they sound more like the late 80s wood shells ala BD 88, no need to mess with guts etc”

Past few years their Color Guard carried this Corps now Boston's Percussion and Brass really stepped it up this year. With the right show they have a strong shot at winning in 22.

They 1 trillion should’ve won the Sanford if it was a normal summer, but at this point it’s just so hard to imagine them giving it to a corps other than SCV or BD after 8 years, especially a corps relatively new to the top 6 like Boston Also those were indeed Shirley Murphies in the snare break

The roll figure in the tenors discussed at 6:55 seems a reference to Krackus (SCV 2003)

He knows the tradition of this drumline, this is the corps that introduced a lot of the instruments including tympani, mallet keyboards and electric keyboards in 1985

So glad to see the quads continuing to utilize mallets.

The “Shirley Murphys” during the snare break was the same sticking but in a ninelet. Hella fun to play

They’re definitely going far in the near future. I was very fortunate to see them live. I am so proud to be alumni. Zoom was an unbelievable show. Can’t wait to see what they roll out in 2022.

Colin marched in this organization in mid to late eighties now he is teaching this line, he marched as a tenor drums

Awesome video fellas. Boston was on fire this year and I loved watching them. One thing that might have contributed to their more relaxed approach is the fact that Mike Jackson joined the team as a consultant. I am in no way affiliated with the corps, and I don’t know how involved his role was, but I would imagine he had something to do with it. The opening book chunk also sounds similar to BK 2017 show beats with the broken up offbeat triplet partial pattern. Coincidence? Maybe. Anyway, that’s my .02. Looking forward to the next video!

15:52, same

My snare tech is the bald guy on snare line and my high schools percussion tech is Alex Beltran😁

They are definitely tap 5’s😂

The dynamics, the writing, the chops, the clarity, you name it, clean! Enjoyable to watch. Jaw dropping performance!

10/10 tap 5’s

Lol those are slurred tap 5’s rolls. The rolls you inquired about at the beginning

7:20 "Either way, it's fast as hell and clean as shit"

Pretty sure that thing at 7:04 references the end of Krakus (The slurred 5's), and then that tenor tag ending is in a 2005 SCV video of them playing spanks.

From a Boston MELLOPHONE vet (2014 and 2017) this was amazing to watch.

This (and every other) drum and hornline would be in MID JULY if this was a normal season. To me, to think that if this was a “normal season” that they would have just about 3-4 more weeks left, is insane….

First sign that you need more morning coffee: My brain read "Aged Out Rejects" 🤣

Yup, snares had prototype drums

craziest thing about the spock roll crescendo at 17:33 is that they're playing different things. Left and right of center are doing RrLlll's , center is doing the singles to doubles, and right side is doing the roll check.

The quad figure that starts at 7:10 seems to be figures of 5s Rllrr Lrrll Rllrr Lrrll They just play it fast and so clean that is seems extra crazy.

17:34 the switch between doubles and singles was only done by the one tenor one in from the left

Don’t worry man I fanboyed with you guys just as much as you did lmao Boston was stupidly good

*Shots fired* Did you guys just ask who Star '93'd better? Congratulations BAC for winning the inaugural AOP High Battery Award!

I think the 5’s maybe a nod to another guessick lick from Krackus, they could be 5let rolls?

It's the underrated Snare Ping Shots @ 15:55 for me! 👏😎

"ARREST THEM" 🤣🤣

when i got off work and opened youtube to a new aop video, i got a giant fucking grin on my face >:))))

From what I understand, Boston had decently early-ish move-ins and had a very in-depth off-season program. Good for them. Also you mentioned dynamic contrast. I think that might be the little bit of Mike Jackson and Kevin Shah influence (broken city).

100% either tap 5s or slurred 5let Rllrr Lrrll

You guys should reach out to Brian Tinkel. Star 93 quad player. Have him on the podcast

Nick Angelis on the podcast 1 day?

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Awesome reaction guys! I love this channel. In terms of the more relaxed approach for anyone curious, it’s always been the philosophy honestly. But I’d say it’s a culmination of the consistency in instruction settling in and the individual players ability to take in that instruction and embody that approach and take it to life, exactly how you guys said it. In 2017 and 18, the players for sure had to get used to a new approach which I commend them for pulling off, especially for those who have been in the program already and had to essentially retrain how they would approach the instruments. But over time, it really settled in as new players came in and likely didn’t have to break down what they knew for so long and build back up. I’d also say the section leaders largely influenced the approach both stylistically and just fundamentally. The center here always had a very natural relaxed approach and it really rubbed off. His hands are a great expression and example of the teaching philosophy. As you guys said in previous videos, all the buzz words like soft hands etc. Colin’s baseline of instruction is always “rebound” or “bounce” and they train and teach from that baseline and build up from there. Hopefully that makes sense! I know a lot of folks had interpreted previous programs output as aggressive and pounding but it was definitely the opposite (at least tried to be lol), perhaps just a visual interpretation of how the style comes across, I.e high velocity, visually aggressive etc having been on the Cadets side as a member and then transitioning briefly to Boston staff myself! It’s awesome seeing those teachings come through. Of course every group is different as well, Individual skill set and all the other variables also like you said in the video! People like to ask about the approach so hopefully this gives anyone wondering a fair understanding haha. Great content again guys🤙🏼

I mean I can forgive the uniforms, because to me, it looks like it was suppose to be a “race car pit crew” look in align with their show

Is it fair to say BAC 2021 have stolen the Darkhorse title from mid 90s Crossmen? Damn I just aged myself. BAC brought all the beef and I'm here for it.

The quads have so much beef i love it. They have the 8 inch spock and 10 12 13 14 drums. The tuning is just so AHHHHH.

piss clean.... nahhh, but yeah this is great for the smidgen amount of time they had to put together

Hello BAC! uniform personality, all business, not "look at mes" can I download this and post it without the link?

i'm sorry you can't just flash that image of buff pulcinella and then move on as if nothing happened wtf

those were tap 5s

What in the fuck

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