The sleeping tune THIS WILL SEND A SHIVER DOWN YOUR SPINE !!!!

[beloitpiper]

I caved and bought the individual track from iTunes. The rest of the tune is really amazing as well!

Warhoover, I'm pretty sure that was Duncan, seeing as how he wrote that tune.

[ccga3359]

With such a haunting tune in my head and a Gordon Duncan cd on the way (Just for Seamus), I searched for the Wolfstones album (The half tail) and order that as well. Sure glad I like the pipes.

[McG]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iK9LXdl-6eo

The sleeping tune by the late and much missed Gordon Duncan

by Wolfstone featuring Gordon on the pipes

absolutly incredible
the Pics are of Gordon

Gordon was renown for his incredible speed, but just listen to the emotion he gets into the pipes - an instrument sometimes criticised for having no dynamics

Is it possible tae git the sheet music fur that tune Daz?

[highlander_Daz]

Its Is Gordon o the CD, He wrote the tune and performed on a fairly regular basis with Wolfstone and the Tanhill weavers, as well as the Vale of Atholl pipe band.

He did write some tremendous tunes, and played some tremendous performances, there is a tune called "Lorient mornings" on the Thunderstruck album which has a similar haunting feel , strangly Gordons chanter is very slightly flat on the intro to this tune which adds to the haunting feel of the tune, it starts of as a slow air and develops into a frightningly menacing tune. a new CDs just been relesed called "just for Gordon" featuring sessions for the BBC various live recordings rare tracks as well as a head to head in a pipeing competition (Gordon wins)
I wish someone would write a book about him, he we such an intersting character, one story features him connecting his irish whistle to the oxygen mask on a aeroplane, another throwing himself through the xray machine at an airport, one time he played for a group of children and played "how much is that doggy in the window" and lets his drones drift in and out to make a barking noise,

he would scandalise traditionalists by sometimes performing in jeans or a baseball cap, using C and F naturals, combining piobaireachd and dance beats, yet he won countless traditional pipeing competitions and twice won the Macallan trophy.

Gordons Wicki

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Duncan

McG PM me if you want the sheet music

[jordanjm]

That was one of the best bagpipe pieces I have ever heard.

[highlander_Daz]

Its true yes that a lot of Gordons stuff really pushes the envelope in as far as what you can do with the pipes, I do understand that some stuff does sound a bit experimental, The tunes on the "thunderstruck" album are more mainstream, "just for Seumas" was recorded 13 years ago so its easy to forget the impact it had at the time on the pipeing world, the title track especially, with its fusion of dance beat and pibroch, at the time it had a massive impact on the pipeing world and made a lot of people relise that, to a degree pipeing had been "hijacked" by the British army and that notes like C Natural and F natural had a place in pipeing, and were not "false" notes at all.

One of the biggest effects was that young people realised that pipeing could be "cool" Gordon would often wear jeans/ baseball caps, play tunes like the mexican hat dance at breakneck speed, tunes by ACDC etc.
all things that the RHCP and "johnny bagpies" "get away" with doing today, mainly because Gordon Duncan took the flack from the traditionalists at the time. but because he wasnt a "novelty" piper (He played with and was a pipe major in grade one bands, and won countless comps including 2 Macallan trophies) he had the skill to be able to bridge the gap.