2 posts tagged “bagpipes”
Paddy Keenan. No clue what it's called; one of the comments says it's one Keenan wrote for his late brother. Keenan, of course, used to play in the Bothy Band back in the 1970s. Creepy stuff here.
He's pretty good.
This is where people start muttering about the "Moron" in "Moron with a Record Collection", because, my friends, my loyal devoted readers, it grieves me to inform you, but there are some people out there who don't like highland bagpipes. I've heard a theory that there are some who don't even like the nasal, befuddled little Irish pipes, but that's an obvious logical absurdity. The great pipes, though, it's true: I've seen some poor souls with my own eyes who really didn't appear to be moved to tears by 'em. There are more things in heaven and Earth, etc. The human family is infinitely varied.
The Battlefield Band released this on Stand Easy in... I don't know what year, late 1980s I think. It's one of their earlier albums, and those are the better ones, before they went overboard on synthesizers and drum machines and painfully overblown original songs. The liner notes have this to say:
A pipe tune about a fiddle. This is an attractive slow hornpipe composed by Captain DR MacLennan, one of the great characters of the piping world. Center's Bonnet is a tricky jig written in 1908 by William Ross, at the time pipe-major of the 2nd Battalion of the Scots Guards.
I like the way anything involving highland pipes involves a battalion or a regiment, more often than not. "74th Highlanders' Farewell to Edinburgh" on that same album is a good 'un, too.
