Real Scotsmen, real pipes, real drums - hope you enjoy!

**A Robertson** · 7th February 13, 04:23 PM

To the rabble - Real Scotsmen, real pipes, real drums...........and whisky! (I just wish I could have been there!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkmB5QeB9nA

(Check out their fashion style)

**Chas** · 7th February 13, 05:47 PM

I do like pipe-rock - Thanks for posting.

Regards

Chas

**OC Richard** · 7th February 13, 06:44 PM

Sorry, I'll pass...

Here are more real Scotsmen with real pipes, I love this music

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDHhrf4WAp4

To me pipe-rock bands always have a portmanteau or cobbled-together sound: they either sound like pipers playing ordinary traditional pipe tunes with a rock rhythm section artificially grafted on, or otherwise, more rarely, they sound like a rock band with pipes shoved in. In other words they approach their music from one perspective or the other, and the foreign element sound precisely like what it is.

Few times indeed have I heard a pipe-rock band use an organic-sounding approach. One such is the band Stand Easy. Yes they do play some pipe standards with rock backup, but the core of the band's repertoire are the original songs written by songwriter/guitarist/singer/piper John Allan (a Scotsman by the way). These songs have the rock elements and the pipes integrated from the very get-go, and they sound like it.

Also the method of taking a more or less standard rock band and sticking pipes in there can sound pretty darn good. I heard a band that basically played 1960s style rock, but had the piper take the Hammond B3 Organ part (think of The Doors). The piper wasn't playing anything remotely like pipe music, but rather the standard old organ type of part. It worked great.

**aonghas** · 7th February 13, 07:26 PM

Rock pipes were a little odd when I first became aware of them a few years ago, but they do grow on you. Like all music and instruments they will progress.
I still like the traditional pipe and drums best but that is just my tastes.

**Nick the DSM** · 7th February 13, 07:33 PM

I like bagpipe rock, but this song just doesn't fit on the GHB...that's my only complaint.

**Tony** · 8th February 13, 07:25 AM

Not bad though I have to agree about the cobbled together bit. The pipes sound a bit added on, not integrated.
Yet to hear bagpipes and guitars as well put together as Real Mackenzies Stomping Intro though I live in hope.

Btw, how do you know they were "Real" Scotsmen?

**Geoff Withnell** · 8th February 13, 03:07 PM

Originally Posted by A Robertson

(Check out their fashion style)

I do like the way the one fellow color coordinated his kilt and mohawk.

**MacArthur Piper** · 10th February 13, 06:30 PM

I'm a piper and a drummer! And this is just bloody noise!

Totally agree! I'll pass too!

Sorry this is crap!

kiltedwolfman · 10th February 13, 07:00 PM

I don't think there is anything wrong with pipers expanding the realm a little and seeing what the can do. I love traditional pipe tunes, but I also quite enjoy some of the great contemporary pipe tunes coming out now. For examplehttp://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=...t+chili+pipers
There is room for evolution in everything, especially music. With something as great as the pipes it would be a shame to hold them back, or even worse to overly criticise those that choose to push the envelope with them. This was played at my wedding and shows how even a little variation on a theme can completely change a tune. I love this version and I get chills everytime I listen to it.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qA66buY-wqw