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COMMENT(S): Fairytale of New York
Published: May 10, 2012
Author: vapypr | (report inappropriate content) |
| Michael - I don't think it is so much that "people don't like it" as people don't know it. When the Black Watch came to Richmond a couple of years ago they packed the place (5-600 people) and we are a rather tiny city compared to NY. If SFU came to Richmond they would probably draw 50 people and they would just about all be from my band. Many people will state that they "love bagpipes", however if you ask them to name their favorite player, band or tune, they can't. Even within piping ranks we just don't know. I had a mother of a player in another local band ask me "who is the best in the world right now, the Black Watch?" She had never heard of the civilian grade I bands. Heck, i had been playing for probably five years before knowing what a grade I band was. Every Scottish culture enthusiast know of the Black Watch, but outside of the pipers in and around NY probably almost no one has ever heard of SFU, and I suspect that even within the piping community around NY it is s small percentage that have.
Though in comparison, anyone know how many people came to see SLOT in Pittsburgh a couple of years ago?
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Published: May 09, 2012
Author: Doc | (report inappropriate content) |
| "Good, but predictable", illustrates how some have become "jaded, by consistent quality". Enough of that. Those plexiglass sound barriers were really Reid's teleprompter. Kent Argubright |
Published: May 09, 2012
Author: Stig | (report inappropriate content) |
| A comment that caught my attention was "Good but predictable". Well so is Beethoven's fifth but I would still hear it again. Just by the looks of the pictures it must have been a great concert. I find it difficult to imagine the logistics behind it, let alone the hours spent rehearsing. |
Published: May 08, 2012
Author: malcolmmaclean | (report inappropriate content) |
| I sat in the Lincoln Centre wide-eyed and drop-jawed. It was simply the best pipe band concert I've ever had the pleasure to attend, with surprises at every turn. From a pipe major starting a set with finger clicks and rhythmic clapping, to a whole pipe corps singing a piobaireachd with perfect choir harmonies, it was a spectacular show. Neil Dickie was a brilliant compere with an endless arsenal of "dad jokes" to fill any sized gap in the program. And the impromptu set played in the foyer at the end of show was the icing on the cake. Well worth the 36 hours of travelling I did to get to New York from Perth, Western Australia! I can't wait for the CD to come out. |
Published: May 08, 2012
Author: MichaelGrey | (report inappropriate content) |
| This comment thread is feeling a bit "forest-for-the-trees". We know "Thunderstruck" is AC\DC. GD conceived of the thing on the pipes. Brilliant. Really. But, set that aside for a moment. The story here is this clearly fabulous concert. Who cares how many people turned up. SFU has the market near-cornered on pipe band big-idea initiative and wherewithal. They're paving the way. The challenges they face are a big fat bell-weather for what prevents the music of the bagpipe from moving forward: people generally don't like it - and pipers and drummers like it best when it's their own stuff. Eek.
I guess this state of affairs is why God made pubs. |
Published: May 08, 2012
Author: Stig | (report inappropriate content) |
| Mind you that only about the first minute of that piece is Thunderstruck. The following 3:30 is Angus Thing written by Gordon Duncan. |
Published: May 07, 2012
Author: Tullibardine | (report inappropriate content) |
| Mr. Mahoney should be reminded that Gordon Duncan didn't write Thunderstruck, Angus and Malcolm Young did, over twenty years ago. | |
