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Buckshot
06-19-2008, 02:23 AM
.............This may bering a tear to your eye. Turn up the sound.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=rSJamm327gE&feature=related

............Buckshot
Ben
06-19-2008, 02:37 AM
SUPER RICK !

THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR SHARING THAT WITH US.

BEN
Bret4207
06-19-2008, 07:16 AM
They say there's such a thing as "morphic resonance", that memories of your forebearors exist within your DNA. All I know is every time I hear bagpipes I have this weird urge to pick up a Claymore and start hacking heads!

Beautiful.
BeeMan
06-19-2008, 07:46 AM
I HIGHLY recommend the movie. My words can't express the combined effect of the story of William Wilberforce and the pipes playing at the end.

http://www.amazinggracemovie.com/

BeeMan
Mumblypeg
06-19-2008, 08:02 AM
You won't like this... I'm a fifer. Fifes and bagpipes don't go together. It's not that I hate bagpipes I just wished that they knew another tune other than amazing grace." Downfall of Paris", now that's a tune. Or "Slow Guilderoy" if you want tears. OK, I'll duck while you throw stuff at me.
Bret4207
06-19-2008, 10:57 AM
"Bonaparte's Retreat" ?
trickg
06-19-2008, 11:19 AM
You won't like this... I'm a fifer. Fifes and bagpipes don't go together. It's not that I hate bagpipes I just wished that they knew another tune other than amazing grace." Downfall of Paris", now that's a tune. Or "Slow Guilderoy" if you want tears. OK, I'll duck while you throw stuff at me.
I'll take "The Girl I Left Behind Me" or "World Turned Upside down" too.

Are you in a Fife and Drum Corps? I got a little spoiled - I was a trumpet player from Nebraska of all places, but wound up spending 7 years in the Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps playing bugle in the 90s. I learned how to play rudimental snare from those guys and did a little FDC playing myself as a drummer when I got out of the Army, but that was pretty short lived.

There are some ok pipe tunes (Amazing Grace is one of them) but I much prefer the sounds of Fife and American rudimental snare.
Mumblypeg
06-19-2008, 11:36 AM
trickg,Bret4207,
Now your talking! Trick, When I saw your post I figgered from your picture that you'd know what I was talking about. And yes I belong to the 26th N.C. Field Music and The Carolina Fifes& Drums. Check out our web sight.
trickg
06-19-2008, 11:46 AM
Yeah! Long live the FDC! I'm actually in that picture for my avatar - I'm in the back rank of bugles, clear on the right side. (left file if you are in the formation) When we were lining up for that picture, I made a point to place myself where I would always remember where I was since we kind of become faceless in the rear of the formation. :D

I'll make sure to check out the website. You know, the FDC world is a pretty small place - I'd lay money on it that we know/knew some of the same folks. The only guy I knew of (off of the top of my head) from NC was a guy named Derrek Kat - he was in the Old Guard for a time, and unfortunatley he is no longer with us.
Mumblypeg
06-19-2008, 11:53 AM
I'm getting ready for Gettsburg, July 2-6. If you happen to be in the neighborhood.
Mumblypeg
06-19-2008, 11:55 AM
Oh, and most people don't know that the music wore Red coats in those days.
trickg
06-19-2008, 12:01 PM
I'm getting ready for Gettsburg, July 2-6. If you happen to be in the neighborhood.
You know, it's interesting you should mention that because the missus and my daughter will be out of town in FL at a National dance competition through the 5th of July, so I might have to take my son, who happens to be a US History nut, up to Gettysburg for some of that. It would be pretty cool to meet someone from the forum! Besides, Gettysburg is only about a 90 minute drive from here - easily accessible.

You are 100% correct about the uniforms too. The red coats with the blue facings are opposite that of "The Commander In Chief's Guard" - Apha Company from the Old Guard, billeted on Fort McNair rather than Fort Myer. CINC Guard wears blue coats with red facings. The signal corps (aka Fifes and Drums) wore the opposite colors to better be seen in the smoke and confusion of battle, as well as to kind of protect them - it's my understanding that there was sort of a rule that you weren't supposed to fire on the fifers and drummers.

It was always interesting doing parades in places where the people didn't know that. I can't tell you the number of times I heard some bystander yell out, "the British are coming! The British are coming!" We'd just ignore it and march on. :)
Mumblypeg
06-19-2008, 12:15 PM
If it works out I'm looking foward to it!
Bernie
GSM
06-20-2008, 01:08 PM
No tears - but the hair on the back of my neck stood at attention.

That performance would have been something to see in person. Beautiful.

Scotland the Brave or a quick advance would have been awesome.
Junior1942
06-20-2008, 01:41 PM
Any of you guys ever heard the "Blind Boys from Alabama" do their version of "Amazing Grace"? It's to the tune of "The House Of The Rising Sun." It's awesome!
Morgan Astorbilt
06-20-2008, 01:57 PM
I can't listen to this without tears coming to my eyes. Been to too many police funerals when I was a cop in New York. The Emerald Society Pipes and Drums play it many more times each year than we would like.
Morgan
EMC45
06-21-2008, 05:43 AM
Very nice Buckshot. I too once was lost and now I'm found! It always reminds me of the Grace of God. Thank you Sir!
Bigjohn
06-22-2008, 05:58 PM
BUCKSHOT; you sly ol' dawg, ya got me right through the heart with that one.

I want to go under to the sounds of Amazing Grace; I won't be able to hear it but at least they will shed a tear or two.

John.
Junior1942
06-22-2008, 06:34 PM
I want to go under to the sounds of Amazing Grace; I won't be able to hear it but at least they will shed a tear or two.

John.Me, too, Bigjohn. My daughter has these instructions. (1) as the services start, play Howlin' Wolf's "Going Down Slow" with the twangy Hubert Sumlin introduction, (2) no preacher except for a closing prayer, (3) at the end play The Holmes Brothers version of "Amazing Grace."
MtGun44
06-25-2008, 12:33 AM
Neat.

What in the world were they doing in Red Square with a Ruskii leading??

Bill
Buckshot
06-25-2008, 01:17 AM
Neat.

What in the world were they doing in Red Square with a Ruskii leading??

Bill

................T'was the Rooskies playing nice to 47 military bands. Plus it was a way to increase the standing of their own military in their citizens eyes. U-Tube had quite a few video's of them.

Here is another VERY good one. The Band of the Royal Regiment of Scotland. They play a beautiful song, and then march out to the tunes of Scotland The Brave. Keeno!

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=PKfnfcgH3L4&feature=related

..............Buckshot
Bigjohn
06-25-2008, 06:06 PM
................
Here is another VERY good one. The Band of the Royal Regiment of Scotland. They play a beautiful song, and then march out to the tunes of Scotland The Brave. Keeno!

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=PKfnfcgH3L4&feature=related

..............Buckshot

Thanks; Buckshot; first you get me with 'Amazing Grace' then you twist the Dirk!

Scotland the Brave was my Company's song when I served in the reserves. I still remember the night we almost had an all in brawl because a 'grunt' from another company "stomped & pi$$ed" on a bonnet of one of our company members.

Even saw officers removing their rank boards from shoulders on the way to the ruckus.

John.
floodgate
06-25-2008, 08:20 PM
I defy ANYONE not to get tears in his (or her) eyes when watching 500 pipers, drummers and a couple of Pipe Majors doing an interpenetrating-files precision march-and-counter-march maneuver at the finale to the Hieland Games, playing "Scotland the Braw' ". And I'm only a fifth Scots! And "Amazing Grace" just tears me up totally...., last played by a lovely little blonde at a friend's funeral a few years back. (Her husband is a world-class solo "pibrochead" player; that breaks me up, too!) I'm tearing up just thinking about it...

Floodgate

" 'Tis a braw, brecht nicht tonicht, an' if ye ken wha' I'm sayin', ye're alricht."