Bagpipes

[3fingerslinger]

Grew up listening to the pipes and I LOVE 'EM!!!!!!!

[Chase]

Pipes are the best to me...Wish you guys new my Uncle Arthur

[Macman]

neat page, I wasn't aware that there were bagpipes in countries other than the british isles. Is that cd any good?

It's a very interesting CD. I don't play it as much as my other pipe CD's, but it is an excellent survey of the many different bagpipes from around the world. I definitely had to have it. It's well put together and is a good CD.

[Chase]

Are there any good Rock bands that utilize the pipes and what are their names...I would like to hear some?

Thanks - Chase

[McMurdo]

Chase you might like the Mudmen
or Hunting McLeod
Two premier Canadian Celtic rock bands who use pipes, the Mudmen have two pipers on stage at the same time, it can get loud. They both put on great shows.

[Coinneach]

I don't know why, but I've always loved the sound of bagpipes. As far as I know, so have my siblings and many of my cousins. Yes, we have the Scots ancestry going on, but it couldn't be that simple.

Even Uillean pipes just connect to something deep inside.

I worked a company trade show many years ago. Found out that at the closing of the show, our company tradition was to blast "Amazing Grace". Sure enough, about 5 minutes to closing our booth got really crowded with people from other booths. I managed to snag a seat right up front. I think it was like being inside the bag. So much for being outside the box.

I think my favorite piece is "Going Home."

I hear Enter the Haggis (another fine Canadian group) also uses bagpipes in their music.

[kiltedinUSMC]

Hearing amazing Grace with a lone piper it gets you right in the heart

[TheKiltedWonder]

Perhaps that's just a reaction from playing so many festivals where "Scotland the Brave" and "Amazing Grace" are repeated hundreds of times..

I have to agree. Although I'm more tolerant of Amazing Grace. I personally think that Scotland the Brave is so ubiquitous that it just can't be enjoyed. At Celtic festivals each band seems to play it twice an hour. Heaven help you if there are four, five, six or more bands there. I wish there were a moratorium on playing that, then after a set period of time I could listen to it and enjoy it like I once did.

I know it's not that "out of the box" but i've always liked "The Rowan Tree".

[TheKiltedWonder]

Are there any good Rock bands that utilize the pipes and what are their names...I would like to hear some?

I was always a fan of Wolfstone. In high school if friends were taking the p!ss out of me for listening to "old fart music" like the chieftains or the battlefield band, I always used Wolfstone to try and introduce them to a broader musical spectrum.

Needfire was a band fitting that description that played at the Richmond Celtic Fest but my sis was dancing at about the same time, so I couldn't give them a proper listen. They're worth a quick glance; I believe they're online.

[Angus of Stewart]

love the pipes. i had the pleasure of hearing the Brian Boru Irish Pipe Band and i gotta say, the album is one of the best ones in recording quality that i've heard.