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Thursday, March 7, 2013

My Past Too: A Pointer

Less directly, these influences were also mine.

Childhood Mystery

And then more so, as my mother always loved the pipes, and at 85 still enjoys a good reel. (SF branch, Sac branch.)
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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

I first heard truly good piping when I was already college age, but took it to my heart. Something about it calls you, if you identify with the Scots part of your background (I did; my last name could be from either of two Scots clan septs or Irish, but I had already succumbed to the vision of people who toss great logs about for competitive recreation and live in a cold, beautiful, flinty land).

As a teenager I was made to play the oboe, a double reed instrument as well, but prissy and indoorsish. They should have given me a damned set of pipes.

Now I have to go look through my vinyl collection for my first LP of the Edinburgh Police Pipe Band.

3:52 PM, March 08, 2013
Harry said...

Sledpress, if you want to hear a truly great pipe band and maybe the last one in the last 30 years that plays swinging music well, listen to "Six in a Row" from the Strathclyde Police. You can find it on iTunes for sure, and also here:

http://www.amazon.com/Six-in-a-Row-1981-1986/dp/B006320XPQ/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1362859287&sr=8-2&keywords=Six+in+a+Row+Strathclyde

They were more musical than just about anything you will hear now. The first march, "Detroit Highlanders" is one which I never tire of playing.

12:02 PM, March 09, 2013
Anonymous said...

Thanks!! I'll go look that up.

9:33 PM, March 10, 2013

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