Brass0four Posted August 30, 2013 Share Posted August 30, 2013 Don't worry Tony, if everyone started posting pictures of cats... this would be Tumblr I'm cool, Iain. Tossing and turning all night I was inspired by a master plan: I leave, join again under new name, post, then leave again. Easy! Now if others can be persuaded to do the same... Tumblr I've seen does have loads of ******* on Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brass0four Posted August 30, 2013 Share Posted August 30, 2013 (edited) Have you been naughty, Allan - your post hasn't showed! Edited August 30, 2013 by Brass0four Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iain C Robinson Posted August 30, 2013 Share Posted August 30, 2013 Of course, I expect you will have heard about the origin of the bagpipes...a Scotsman spun a cat round and liked the sound... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allan downes Posted August 30, 2013 Author Share Posted August 30, 2013 Iain C Robinson, on 30 Aug 2013 - 11:36, said:Of course, I expect you will have heard about the origin of the bagpipes...a Scotsman spun a cat round and liked the sound... And here be those very cats - Jimmy and Shand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluebottle Posted August 30, 2013 Share Posted August 30, 2013 Appreciation of the Great Pipes depends upon time and place. I once met a chap who was with the Airborne troops landed behind enemy lines in the early hours of D-Day. Having secured their objective, they settled down to await reinforcements, while watching anxiously for German tanks. Eventually, they heard the skirl of Lord Lovat's piper leading the way up the road: "And does tha know - I've nivver 'eered finer music in mi life!" 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allan downes Posted August 30, 2013 Author Share Posted August 30, 2013 Welsh Rarebit ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iain C Robinson Posted August 30, 2013 Share Posted August 30, 2013 Appreciation of the Great Pipes depends upon time and place. I once met a chap who was with the Airborne troops landed behind enemy lines in the early hours of D-Day. Having secured their objective, they settled down to await reinforcements, while watching anxiously for German tanks. Eventually, they heard the skirl of Lord Lovat's piper leading the way up the road: "And does tha know - I've nivver 'eered finer music in mi life!" My Dad was in the Seaforth Highlanders and my two other uncles in various Scottish Regiments...they all attested to the fear that the pipes instilled in the enemy! In fact, my Uncle Peter is the oldest surviving Scottish regiment veteran in Belgium. (don't ask...he liked the place so stayed. Something to do with the incredibly beautiful woman that he met over there, too...) cheers, Iain 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brass0four Posted August 30, 2013 Share Posted August 30, 2013 (edited) Appreciation of the Great Pipes depends upon time and place. I once met a chap who was with the Airborne troops landed behind enemy lines in the early hours of D-Day. Having secured their objective, they settled down to await reinforcements, while watching anxiously for German tanks. Eventually, they heard the skirl of Lord Lovat's piper leading the way up the road: "And does tha know - I've nivver 'eered finer music in mi life!" I too am a firm supporter of the Kilties, in war or peace. On the peace side, when I was a kid in Whitley Bay, in the fifties, summer seemed to start as crowds waited in the Panama Dip. The skirl (only word) of the pipes caused high excitement as they started from the carpark a short distance away. Innocent, post war days, it heralded the music and dancing that always reminds me of the season, and of being young enough to have no worries beyond the purchase-time of the next ice-cream... Tony. (sad-old-weepy-git-smilie) Edited August 30, 2013 by Brass0four 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allan downes Posted August 30, 2013 Author Share Posted August 30, 2013 Andre Previn, or it might have been Eric Morecombe, once said of the bagpipes that - " The bagpipes are the only instrument that sounds the same after you've learnt to play it as it did when you couldn't " Allan 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iain C Robinson Posted August 30, 2013 Share Posted August 30, 2013 Andre Previn, or it might have been Eric Morecombe, once said of the bagpipes that - " The bagpipes are the only instrument that sounds the same after you've learnt to play it as it did when you couldn't " Allan In that case, I think my guitar must actually be a set of bagpipes... ? cheers, Iain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brass0four Posted August 30, 2013 Share Posted August 30, 2013 In that case, I think my guitar must actually be a set of bagpipes... ? cheers, Iain - Mine too! I blame the Chinese copies - Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iain C Robinson Posted August 30, 2013 Share Posted August 30, 2013 A friend of mine has a mexican strat...it sounds better than my genuine 1970's Strat....which I had overhauled by a luthier a few years ago...chizzz. But I recently bought a relatively inexpensive acoustic, looks very nice but hasn't really got the oomph. I gave my Simon and Patrick acoustic to my daughter, who plays infinitely more skilfully than me, as I am reminded every time she visits! cheers, Iain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alant Posted August 30, 2013 Share Posted August 30, 2013 (edited) A friend of mine has a mexican strat...it sounds better than my genuine 1970's Strat....which I had overhauled by a luthier a few years ago...chizzz. But I recently bought a relatively inexpensive acoustic, looks very nice but hasn't really got the oomph. I gave my Simon and Patrick acoustic to my daughter, who plays infinitely more skilfully than me, as I am reminded every time she visits! cheers, Iain My brother plays professionally and amongst a few guitars has a genuine 70's Strat and either a Chinese/Korean or Mexican Strat and he reckons it is better than the US version. I have both Mexican and US Fender Jazz bases and my US one is better but not by much. Edited August 30, 2013 by alant Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allan downes Posted August 30, 2013 Author Share Posted August 30, 2013 By the time the sound passes through all the electronics and in line gizmo's, it sounds nothing like the guitar you bought in the shop playing through a battered practice amp in a backroom filled with empty boxes and burnt out amps - suddenly you're under the misinformed illusion that you're a Star In reverse to this, why doesn't your grand's worth of signature Strat sound anything like it did when jacked into 120,000 quids worth of studio electronics, an engineer, and a sound specialist when played through an " ACME 6volt cornflake packet special free pick included " upstairs in the back bedroom where you are no longer under the misinformed illusion that you are a Star - or ever likely to be ? And why is that after buying Bert Weedon's "Play In A Day" I still can't play "God Save The Queen" like Hendrix ? Cheers. Allan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alant Posted August 30, 2013 Share Posted August 30, 2013 By the time the sound passes through all the electronics and in line gizmo's, it sounds nothing like the guitar you bought in the shop playing through a battered practice amp in a backroom filled with empty boxes and burnt out amps - suddenly you're under the misinformed illusion that you're a Star In reverse to this, why doesn't your grand's worth of signature Strat sound anything like it did when jacked into 120,000 quids worth of studio electronics, an engineer, and a sound specialist when played through an " ACME 6volt cornflake packet special free pick included " upstairs in the back bedroom where you are no longer under the misinformed illusion that you are a Star - or ever likely to be ? And why is that after buying Bert Weedon's "Play In A Day" I still can't play "God Save The Queen" like Hendrix ? Cheers. Allan. Surely it's "Star Spangled (or is that Strangled!) Banner" that Hendrix had us all trying to play. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Alister_G Posted August 30, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 30, 2013 Surely it's "Star Spangled (or is that Strangled!) Banner" that Hendrix had us all trying to play. I think I spotted Allan's problem... He should have been playing: duurrh-duh duurrh duurrh duurrh duuuurrrrhhh... and what he came out with was: duurrh duurrh duurrh duuuurrrrh duh-duurrhh... Please don't hesitate to contact me for further tuition Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alant Posted August 30, 2013 Share Posted August 30, 2013 I think I spotted Allan's problem... He should have been playing: duurrh-duh duurrh duurrh duurrh duuuurrrrhhh... and what he came out with was: duurrh duurrh duurrh duuuurrrrh duh-duurrhh... Please don't hesitate to contact me for further tuition Ah, I think you're right - Bert Weedon is alive and well and living in Bakewell ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allan downes Posted August 30, 2013 Author Share Posted August 30, 2013 Ah, I think you're right - Bert Weedon is alive and well and living in Bakewell ! Bert Weedon is as dead as you can get and burried in Beaconsfield ! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackRat Posted August 30, 2013 Share Posted August 30, 2013 Can I mention my accordion playing now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allan downes Posted August 30, 2013 Author Share Posted August 30, 2013 The last picture of Bert ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allan downes Posted August 30, 2013 Author Share Posted August 30, 2013 "Bert Weedon, the guitarist who inspired a generation of British rock stars including Eric Clapton and the Beatles, has died at the age of 91" Burt swanning it in the 50s! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allan downes Posted August 30, 2013 Author Share Posted August 30, 2013 And me swanning it now... And Strat after a heavy gig. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brass0four Posted August 30, 2013 Share Posted August 30, 2013 "Bert Weedon, the guitarist who inspired a generation of British rock stars including Eric Clapton and the Beatles, has died at the age of 91" Burt swanning it in the 50s! th.jpg Wot! No more guitar 'n cats! What the heck. Told Iain it was a really bad idea but he would insist! ;-) Guitar Boogie was the first really useful thing I learned from Mr Weedon. Then along comes the Blues and I thought, "I can do that!" (I can't) Talking of which, Q: Who is the fastest Blues Player on record? Tony. Humbled. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allan downes Posted August 30, 2013 Author Share Posted August 30, 2013 (edited) Wot! No more guitar 'n cats! What the heck. Told Iain it was a really bad idea but he would insist! ;-) Guitar Boogie was the first really useful thing I learned from Mr Weedon. Then along comes the Blues and I thought, "I can do that!" (I can't) Talking of which, Q: Who is the fastest Blues Player on record? Tony. Humbled. Guitar Bookie shuffle - a 12 bar shunt in E major, A major, B7th - first thing I ever learnt too, well the opening rift and to hell with the middle eight - "Move It" was easier so I stuck with Hank - him on a Burns, me on a Woolworth's special ! Allan (40 thou coming up guys, keep pluggin' ! ) Dunno about you Iain, but I reckon we ought to leave the honour of the 40k post to one of the guys - it's they that after all got us this far. Edited August 30, 2013 by allan downes 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brass0four Posted August 30, 2013 Share Posted August 30, 2013 (edited) Wot! No more guitar 'n cats! What the heck. Told Iain it was a really bad idea but he would insist! ;-) Guitar Boogie was the first really useful thing I learned from Mr Weedon. Then along comes the Blues and I thought, "I can do that!" (I can't) Talking of which, Q: Who is the fastest Blues Player on record? Tony. Humbled. Wot! No more guitar 'n cats! What the heck. Told Iain it was a really bad idea but he would insist! ;-) Guitar Boogie was the first really useful thing I learned from Mr Weedon. Then along comes the Blues and I thought, "I can do that!" (I can't) Talking of which, Q: Who is the fastest Blues Player on record? Tony. Humbled. And no, there can't be an answer because it would to stipulate what at. Somebody said, Buddy Guy, but - wonderful though he truly is - how the heck can that be true or even quantifiable! Records can be interesting, though. Google John Taylor, "Flight of the Bumblebee." Meanwhile, what is the fastest 1:76 construction of a windmill? Don't know why the double quote thing. Just a lil' gift of mine. Edited August 30, 2013 by Brass0four 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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