#bootstrapper pirate band

[kennedy-writes]

look at them i love them 😭

i saw them on thursday again. when I walked up at 10:30 Syd told me I was 23 seconds late and missed the best 23 seconds they've ever played. calling me out bc I come to so many sets in a day lmao. FAIR i guess 🥲

Grieving Tim asked what I was drinking and was disappointed to hear it was coffee

there were so many shenanigans and now i have enough good memories and fun video to last me the next month before I can return 🥹

[spikrock]

bootstrappers i lov you....

[abootstrapperlifeforme]

The World Famous Bootstrappers- icons

Disneyland's pirate band in New Orleans Square

[danfranklinmusic]

Happy 11th year anniversary to the world famous #bootstrappers pirate band. May there be 11 more. . . . #disneyland #piratesofthecaribbean #sockheadsyd #disney #breedlove #breedlovebass 📷: Courtney Lemon... I think... (at New Orleans Square)

[samsdisneydiary]

#Disneyland: #Bootstrappers on the #SailingShipColumbia a #Pirateband on a #pirateship #APiratesLifeforme The Bootstrappers spend most of their day wandering around New Orleans Square in Disneyland, singing a wide variety of their favorite sea shanties including Yo-Ho, Yo-Ho a Pirate’s Life for Me.

[fisheyland]

[kennedy-writes]

pirate band headcanons for the void

who else knows the pain of falling in love with something that doesn't have a defined fandom or much known lore? I love the Bootstrappers for their music and performance, but also LOVE the characters themselves and wish we had more developed canon stuff. i want to know what their actual roles in the crew are, if they've decided on this. but alas.

I can't draw, so I make up lil stories about them to keep entertained until the next time I go see them, and to keep me sane without an active fan community lol

so here, some current headcanon:

Stringfellow knows where Henry Avery went and has a small part of his treasure somewhere. He collects eccentric navigational instruments and can tell you the history of each one. He is skilled in roguery but kind at heart. He is also the ship dad.

Vivi is the world's best and most intimidating quartermaster, after Mean Jean, who trained her in the ways of the ship. Any of the crew would die for her in battle, but as she is the best fighter on the crew, it's usually her getting the others out of tight spots.

Grieving Tim was impressed into a smaller navy vessel as a young lad and it was so miserable that when pirates took the vessel he volunteered to join them. He got scurvy once on the navy ship.

Grieving Tim becomes everyone's favorite crewmate. His talent for turning up with impossibly stolen liquor wins them over at first, but then it's just him. He lifts the spirits of the crew. There's no one on the ship who doesn't have a soft spot for him and wouldn't want to give up some of their rations for him were they running low. This is especially true of Syd, though he would never admit it.

Before joining the crew, Syd had been nearly broken down by many prison sentences and hard labor. He has seen horrors and is capable of them, too. Stringfellow and Mean Jean kinda just found him one day. He started off as a cook. Pirate life suited him well and later he became the gunner's mate (maybe Yuri is the gunner). In both these roles he is surprisingly competent, though the crew had their reservations. Though he's still prone to mischief, he is now integral to the running of the ship and the reputation of the crew. His moods are variable, new crew are warned not to cross him, and he's summoned when torture is needed.

The Professor is the ship surgeon. On land he did go to medical school but was so thoroughly disgraced by his academic rivals that he resigned and took to drinking. One day while at the pub he was kidnapped by the pirates, who needed his expertise in medicine, for wounds incurred after exchanging broadsides with a spanish ship. He liked it better there and never left.

Schooner Bob is 100% a bosun. But he's also the captain/skipper a lot of the time. He prefers the bosun job but does like the full extra share that comes with the captaincy and he keeps getting voted in. Vivi, as the quartermaster, does most of the leadership. Schooner Bob mostly wants to vibe and be left alone, but he knows too much of the stuff that other people don't and is well respected for it.

anyway. this is how i imagine them sometimes based on vibes and tropes i like hehe. pirates and my brain just go together. i also have to talk about them or I'll go insane :)

[spikrock]

recent bootstrapping endeavors

[kennedy-writes]

back on tumblr bc I found a new favorite thing and I don’t have anywhere to yap at length about it. It is them:

I saw them 11 years ago, then somehow later thought they had gone away forever and missed them, and then re-found them at Disney this year. I bought a magic key (it was inevitable) and am going entirely too often to hear them play. I worry a little that I’m around too much and taking advantage of the atmosphere music but I can’t help it lol. They’re so good and so funny and they play the music I love. I never get to hear this music live otherwise. It’s honestly my favorite place to be right now. Specifically in New Orleans square, listening to them.

Anyway yes the Bootstrappers have made me a Disney person. Really I’m just a sea shanty person and a pirate person and I have a new favorite band.

[spikrock]

tonight im playing a show for a halloween movie night thing and the bands dressing up in our halloween costumes.. im gonna be a pirate playing bass. literally the bootstrappers. yeah im being pretty normal about it though