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- Jethro Tull

MONDAY

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- Jethro Tull


- Jethro Tull

AC/DC - It's a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock 'n' Roll)

Bagpipes courtesy of lead singer Bon Scott

The Mighty Mighty Bosstones - The Impression That I Get

Joe Jackson - You Can't Get What You Want (Till You Know What You Want)

cheers for the dennistoun dazzler and some.


for decades i thought the definitive version of 'where have all the flowers gone belonged to the voice of mary travers a voice that resonates with the sixties movement..................then much more recently i heard this................the female voice good but no better than mary's...............the male voice a match for peter yarrow and paul stokey but no better for sure......it's the bit in the middle.........it's him................the greatest living piper...........get hold of the saun davey suite for uillean pipes 'the brendan voyage'.......listen to planxty's 'good ship kangaroo'.....what you hear is not just some piper.
what you hear is a genius at work...........fischer is chess.........best is football.......sobers is cricket................o' flynn is piping.

'where have all the flowers gone'........keane/sands and of course the great living legend......step forward liam og flynn

cheers frae the dale

(oh, and if the uillean pipes dont count as 'blowing' instruments, its him on the tin whistle)

The only way to finish the show:

Bryan, you have to play Anthem by the Sensational Alex Harvey Band. Nae talkin over the end though, listen it through.



I commend it tae the house


DC

Or.....


if it's the really, really end of the show,

Billy Connolly's version of Irish Heartbeat form his World Tour of Scotland.

Nae doot there's numerous klaxons soundin now but, kain what? Ah dinnae care...


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Bagpipes
Are you ready to rock / wizzard

Every other blowy thing
Angel fingers / Wizzard

For adam
Sound your funky horn / KC and the sunshine band



More, much more to follow....

You should have stuck to pipes bryan. Anything you can blow is a cop out and narrows it down to about 75% of every song ever recorded

Blow, blow sook blow blow blow blow blow blow blow blow blow blow blow...


Sook sook sook blow blow blow blow sook blow blow blow sook blow sook......











Name that choon

DC I confessd to a bit of a cheat as Paolo had this on his quiz the other night.

Bob Dylan - Blowin In The Wind

You would think auld Bob could have checked his spelling....

Something interesting..

Rock El Casbah - رشيد طه

#10
Aye yer richt Pablito.

But at least it gives us the chance to explore Glen Eric's idea of Oboes in Pop.

Talking Loud And Clear - Orchestral Maneuvres in the Dark

RJ could give us lots of Andy Mackay examples.

Two pieces of good news for the boys. ITV are showing Spartacus on Christmas Eve and Primark have mankinis on special (lime green only, I'm afraid).

Other green mankini specialists are available

#12 that is not the answer.

Blowin in the wind begins:

Blow blow blow sook sook sook blow blow sook blow

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Gabriel says you can blow his trumpet.


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- Slim Harpo - Not one wasted note

as Gaie will confirm ...

if it's pipes yer after, then here here's something a touch different ...

'Smokin Bowl' ~~ The Real MacKenzies

c'mon GIO jury ... there must have been a score of requests for this band ... and diddely squat to date ...

#15

A pedantic git might say that Spartacus is, in fact, being broadcast on Christmas Day.

02:10 to be precise.


>8-D

#20 here's another..

Alabama 69 ~ Humble Pie

#21

Just remember to change out of the mankini before the guests arrive.

#20 correct ✔

Piper To The End - Mark Knopfler

doesn't have the pipes in it but is about someone that played them.

Monday's hot air

Amazing Grace - Dropkick Murphys

Monday.. where are they now?

Hazel Eyes - The Darkness

Monday.. It came fae Fife feature


Hurry On Boys - T. Skids features bagpipe simulations & the didgeridoo!

MONDAY



Shadow of Doubt - Bonnie Raitt ~ Wi' oan the moothie.

... Letters from Home - John Michael Montgomery, dunno who's oan ra moothie!

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Do you have too much time on your hands? Check oot these repeat themes!


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Ah ken, it was a "Peace Of The Action" oversight!

B.T.W. I demand the vetting of all pipe submissions for Northumbrian smallpipes (a.k.a. Northumbrian pipes). Bellows-blown bagpipes don't ...

Please, Santa can you send the team a new Jotter. Thank you.

MONDAY

Woodenbox and a Fistful of Fivers -

Going Down the Road - Roy Wood

these two wood also fit a different theme.

last night at Barrowlands - The Imagineers, fantastic band, and then a band I commend to anyone who feels the need to keep on pogo-ing - . Not about to put a request in for them any time soon, but loads of energy, and entertaining if you'd remembered your ear-plugs.

Kassidy were brilliant - and so was Barrowlands. What is it about the place? Different bands, different audiences yet it's reputation totally deserved for an atmosphere second to none. Does the whole thing feed off itself? ie you expect excitement - and so on.
But how great is it when one of the band says it was happiest night of his life in the band? And you were there and you feel like you helped to make it an amazing night.

Well anyway, I'm interested in what anyone else thinks though you're probably all too busy listing songs about grannies for next week.

Happiest night of his life? Rehab before Christmas.

#31 to be fair "two hours of essential music as chosen by you" is different

Mars - Hurry On Boys great shout

#35 @ ya gaie.

its some place.
it has everything going for it.
location.
history.
with a very human touch.
its an emotional place.

when christy moore mentions the 'scotia bar' that gets a great cheer....thats a political statement a 'red clydside' moment and when 'jinky johnstone' gets a namecheck the place goes berserk.
and its interesting in itself that johnstone has that effect.
what a legend
what a working class hero.
the wee man that taunted the gorgeously chiselled looks of the italians in 1967.

the barrowlands encompasses all human emotions from joy enjoyment to tragedy.
and crucially its a working class thing.

i even love driving past it.....its a wonderful part of the city and i'm no even glaswegian

cheers frae the dale

yep, that's what my daughter said when she spotted the sign, how she loved just seeing it.

I presume they've kept the original carpet in case they ever find Bible John and need a DNA comparison. The last time I was there you could hardly walk on it never mind pogo.

OLD BUSH/ JOLLY TINKER/RICHARD DWYER'S from PARTNERS IN CRIME by ROSS AINSLIE AND JARLATH HENDERSON

#42 Crumbs, never thought of that!

Maybe the drunken scroat who I had to smack at a Cramps gig circa '84 "given his puke spray caught my suede shoes", could now lodge proceeding in the absence of video evidence back then?

carpet? on a dance-floor?

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Spew Suede Shoes



Theme Suggestion:- Alliteration

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Serious Theme Suggestion:-


Song lyrics: Words which have you reaching for the dictionary.

e.g.,

This Kiss - Faith Hill ~ Centrifugal

The Joker - Steve Miller ~ Pompitous

Play it All Night Long - Warren Zevon ~ Brucellosis

(No, not an overdose of Springsteen).



I commend it to the House!

MONDAY

- The Low Anthem

- The Low Anthem

BIG second for The Low Anthem (To Ohio) Gaie.... some wonderful woodwind!

yes, Mike, and so beautifully played at Òran Mòr earlier this year!

Well, -that's Kim Jong-il and Vaclav Havel away. And Christopher Hitchins (or did I report that one already).

Anyway, another three outlived by Megrahi.

The deaths go on.

regardez - youse

henri

#45
I'm still trying to find Spandau Ballet's 'Instinction' in a dictionary.

Does anyone know what language it is?

Hopefully the show will not descend into an outpouring of heederum-hoderum.

I've tried - really tried, but I just can't get into 'Pipeline'.

So, for those of us who just don't get bagpipe music and all that goes with it:

(I'm A) Roadrunner - Jnr Walker & the Allstars

A man who knew how to blow his horn.

regardez youse

henri

#45 - Scotch Gut wrote about "centrifugal" in Faith Hill's song, unfortunately it's even worse. The word she uses is "centripetal" which means something completely different and even fewer people (including me) have heard of it.

Anyway Bryan, how about Shakira with "Whenever Wherever" for the only ever enjoyable use of the Pan Pipes, or indeed Billy Joel with "Piano Man" which for some strange reason starts with an harmonica?

That should of course have read "Scotch Git"! Fat finger syndrome!

#49 was Kim Jong ill?

#58 don't worry about it, we'll not mention it













DC

I'm with Henri on this theme.How about Baker Street.If there's a better riff on sax by Raphael Ravenscroft,lets hear it.

Vaclav Havel – Frank’s mate.

And therefore a good reason to play

CLETUS AWREETUS-AWRIGHTUS from THE GRAND WAZOO by THE MOTHERS OF INVENTION

Woodwinds by Ernie Watts (Sax Solo) & Mike Altschul, brass by Sal Marquez & Ken Shroyer (Multiple Trombones)

Anything brassy and Christmassy by the Brian Setzer Orchestra

'Reindeer Rock' - The Sportsmen

Julian Cope - An Elegant Chaos

Kate St John on oboe

#60 Hazel O'Connor - Will You has the best sax solo

Not by Bob Holness ☺

#56 ff

The best sax solo is, of course, Junior Walker's on Foreigner's Urgent. If that trill doesn't make the hairs stand up on the back of your neck, you have alopecia.

#63 Billy I gor talking to Kate St John after the recent Bible gig, went to the state bar for a couple of drinks and she was talking about all the different folk she has played with espacialy Van the Man. So the Julian Cope track would be good...

#45 Scotch Gut I can suggest hundreds of new words, mostly made up by myyself

Brecker Brothers - Some Skunk Funk

Lou Reed - High In The City

Broooooce - Meeting Across The River

Tanita Tikaram - Twist In My Sobriety

Van The Man and the Chieftans - I'll Tell Me Ma

Lou Reed would be a nice change

#66 Indubitably ☺

Oboe:
* Dream Academy - Life in a Northern Town

Clarinet
* Fairground Attraction - Clare
for that Mittel-European Jazz feel (I suspect it's an Eb clarinet too)

Sax
* Sade - Smooth Operator
* Madness - Embarrassment

Harmonica
* U2 - Slip Through Your Wires

Trumpet
* Fine Young Cannibals - Suspicious Minds
* Billy Bragg - The Saturday Boy - a lovely wee solo
* Modern Romance - Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White

Trombone
* Thomas Dolby - Hyperactive

Nice Brass Sections
* The Committments - Try a Little Tenderness
* Cab Calloway - Minnie the Moocher
* The Specials - Nelson Mandela

Whistle
* The Pogues - Jesse James

Flute
* TUUUUUULLLLLLLLL
gwan, gie's Solstice Bells

Organ (yes, it very much counts, as it has whistles and reeds and brass):
* The Nice - America

Capn I know you are trying to tempt us into making a comment about can you really blow the last instrument you have suggested. I will distract everyone by wondering out loud how on earth the henrimeister has resisted the following:

Soft Cell - Say Hello, Wave Goodbye 12" mix, not the rubbish one you played before or the David Gray one which pushed him over the edge....(Oboe )

#56 It will descend into an outpouring of eighties pop drivel.

#70

Well, you're quite right - I've petitioned for this particular version of Say Hello - Wave Goodbye for what feels like years now - it has the most magnificent oboe solo about two thirds of the way through it's 8:00 minute time slot - but it's absolutely worth it.

After the David Grey fiasco, our hero promised that he would play this version but has steadfastly ignored all subsequent reminding - so uncharacteristically, I'd kind of given up....and my interest was waning, but you've just given me a wake up call..

It's about time this great wrong was put right, Bryan.

Say Hello, Wave Good-bye- Soft Cell from the Soft Cell/Marc Almond album 'Memorabilia' the track is also known on that album as 'the long goodbye'

What more excuse do you need to play all eight magnificent minutes? This so much better than the version previously played by GIO that it will be ' a revelation for de nation'.

The only doubt in my mind is that the playing is so perfect I have wondered to myself - is that really an oboe? Could it be a Clarinet? An electric Oboe?

No matter, and it's hardly appropriate since all Marc Almond's records have an undercurrent of languid seediness and glamour about them (a bit like Steely Dan) but Smiffy and myself finally got engaged the other week, so that might be worth an 8 minute blast.

Certainly, it was as unpredictable as Bryan playing the 8:00 minute Say Hello Wave Goodbye.

Go on, stranger things have happened!

regardez youse

henri

#72 CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm amazed that no-one's suggested

Flute Salad - Gong

#72

Great stuff Hernri & Smiffy!

When's the party????????


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#73

Thank you!

And, on the subject of 'stranger things have happened' what was really weird was that it turned out that my ex wife got engaged the same night.

Now the kids are really confused.

My eldest is still trying to work out the odds of a couple splitting up and fifteen years later getting engaged to their new partner on the same night, each unaware of the others plans.

So playing this version of Soft Cell would round things off.

regardez youse

henri

#75

Thanks!

Well we were partying at the time (Smiffy's birthday) but no doubt there will be something to follow...no doubt it'll take us another fifteen years to organise the wedding.

regardez youse

henri

My sister saw a gravestone which referred to "my fiancé of 20 years".

#45, #55, #66 and #68

This might help:



#69 The Capn's back! Now, where's that Doll?

#72 Congrats Henri & Smiffy

Henri - many congratulations!

Congratulations Henri and Smiffy. May your marriage be blessed with happiness and lots more little Hannahs.


By the way when the lottery started a well known bookmakers spokesman was asked if there was anything he would offer 14 million to one against and replied yeah we would give you 14 million to one against elvis returning to earth on a spacebike and crash landing on the head of the loch ness monster.

I'm trying to work out your odds Henri but already I have Elvis giving marc bolan and bing crosbie a backy.

#81 warn elvis about that tree..........