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COMMENT(S): Pipe-Major Angus MacDonald MBE: A pipes|drums Interview from the Archives
Published: August 14, 2009
Author: dawvid | (report inappropriate content) |
| Wonderful stuff...I missed the first time around. I'm printing a copy for a friend of mine, a retired Sgt. Major, who I think was Angus's drill instructor, when he was a boy soldier in the Guards. Looking forward to the next installments. |
Published: August 12, 2009
Author: Rajah | (report inappropriate content) |
| Pipe Major Angus was a major influence on my bagpipe experience and I served with him during his last few years in the Scots Guards when he was Senior Pipe Major at the Castle. He was certainly serving there when Sgt Brian Donaldson was taken off the Pipe Majors Course with only 3 weeks to go to join his Battalion when 2SG went to war in the Falklands. From the Editors great introduction and during big Angus telling his story via Q&A I find the whole interview fascinating and absorbing. Bravo |
Published: August 11, 2009
Author: AndrewBerthoff | (report inappropriate content) |
| Thanks for the comment, Graham. You can listen here for the snippet of the interview where Angus talked about his father in the Glasgow Police: (triple w) pipesdrums.com/imagelibrary/P_M_Angus_snip.mp3 . Re the Falklands, this information was in the original print interview introduction that Angus provided the information for and subsequently read. Not sure what's correct. Maybe Alasdair Gillies, Brian Donaldson or Roger Huth could chime in |
Published: August 11, 2009
Author: gdub | (report inappropriate content) |
| Gave up reading this in the end as so much is just factually incorrect. Father played in Glasgow Police? (try Glasgow Corporation) served in the Falklands? (2nd Btn 2SG served here, Jimmy Riddle was there but not Angus) Angus was a great man and his story deserves to be told with a bit more accuracy. |
Published: August 08, 2009
Author: rutherford | (report inappropriate content) |
| Thank you for this wonderful interview. I was a student of Pipe Major Angus from 1989 to 1999. He always had a tremendous amount of knowledge to convey and was very quick with a joke and what a gentleman he was! Always unassuming in spite of all his accomplishments. |
Published: August 07, 2009
Author: ThePilot | (report inappropriate content) |
| In the 1982 photo at Inverness the bloke to the left of Colin is Iain Marshall who won both the U18 piobaireachd and MSR. |
Published: August 07, 2009
Author: jaws | (report inappropriate content) |
| One or two little errors in the very interesting article by P.M. Angus MacDonald:
British Caledonian Airways were promoted to Grade One in 1978 under P.M. Robert Richardson:
P.M. Sanderson at Dunblane would have served in the Cameronian Scottish Rifles, not Caledonian.
I was a competing member of B.Cal Pipe Band from 1970 until its takeover by British Airways in 1988 enjoying the company of really great pipers and drummers.
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