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Hammerojustice

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Top O' the morning all yee lads & lassies

May the road rise up to meet you.
May the wind always be at your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your face,
and rains fall soft upon your fields.
And until we meet again,
May God hold you in the palm of His hand.

May love and laughter light your days,
and warm your heart and home.
May good and faithful friends be yours,
wherever you may roam.
May peace and plenty bless your world
with joy that long endures.
May all life's passing seasons
bring the best to you and yours!
 
Tis barely two years since, I wandered away,
with the local battalion, of the bold IRA.
I've read of our hero's, and I wanted the same,\
For to play out my part in, the patriots game.

This Island of ours has, for long been half free,
Six Counties are under John Bulls tyranny,
And most of our leaders, are greatly to blame,
For shirking their parts in, the patriots game.
 
...Scotch/Irish-Indian here...trust me, I will "celebrate" the day. :bgrin:
 
Picking up my new guitar amp today, will be giving some of my favorite Irish tunes a run, gonna be cool.
 
My Dad's family was from Leitrim, and my mother's side were from Dublin. So a Happy St Paddy's day to all.
 
Danny Boy, Garry Owen, Irish Washer Woman, Gypsy Rover, Cockles & Mussels, all good tunes, throw in Mull of Kintyre and some of the tunes on the Irish Rovers "Unicorn" album as well.
 
Though I like the song "Danny boy" I've never been a big fan of Irish music. Yeah I know, hey, I also don't like corn beef & cabbage. 50 lashes with a wet 4 leaf clover.
 
Oh Danny Boy-Always loved the tune.....Especially with the Bag Pipes More-so......

One of Two Bag Pipe tunes played at My Brothers Funeral, grave site, on bag pipes, and Yes, His Name Was Daniel......(the other; of course Amazing Grace)...! Cheers Ye Brothers............


Here's the Bag Pipes Version, which IMO is much better than the one above...!
 
...^^^ matts, though I was born in Jacksonville, I have no real "Irish" connection other than my last name. (O'_____)...Mom named my Brother "Danny" (Daniel) after the song "Danny Boy".

...but like the saxophone, I've always been drawn to to sound of the pipes...there's just something about them that's like a beckoning siren.

...Some people can't stand the bag pipes and they claim it makes their skin crawl...for me, I would equate that to the accordion. Tie me up and play accordion/polka music, and I'll confess to crimes I didn't even commit.
 
Mattingly23NY said:
What did you pick up Michael?
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Picking up a Fishman Loudbox Mini for acoustic Guitars. Got Bass, Treble Mid-range controls for the guitar along with Reverb & Chorus. Bass, Treble and reverb on the microphone side. Sixty watts of power may not light up the neighborhood but it does change the complexion of the guitar from a parlor Instrument to one with cojones. Next month I will complete the package with a TC Harmony stomp pedal which permits harmonies and additional reverbs selections to your vocals depending on the key in which the instrument is played. Gonna be nice.
 
Bagpipes: awesome as hell have liked them since I can remember. Wings put them to great use on Mull of Kintyre. If you wasn't to see something that catches one off guard go to You Tube, Glen Campbell. Merv Griffin 1981 and you'll see Campbell sing Mull of Kintyre and play bagpipes as well. Always liked Campbell as a guitar player, good voice as well just could never connect with the stuff he chose to record.
 
Yankeefan5545 said:
Bagpipes: awesome as hell have liked them since I can remember. Wings put them to great use on Mull of Kintyre. If you wasn't to see something that catches one off guard go to You Tube, Glen Campbell. Merv Griffin 1981 and you'll see Campbell sing Mull of Kintyre and play bagpipes as well. Always liked Campbell as a guitar player, good voice as well just could never connect with the stuff he chose to record.
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...ask and ye shall receive;


 
Now that the weather's turned I'm really looking forward to taking out the Paddy'O Furniture! lol, that's all my Italianness has on this wonderfully Irish day. Happy St. Patty's day to you all!
 
yankeesince59 said:
...^^^ matts, though I was born in Jacksonville, I have no real "Irish" connection other than my last name. (O'_____)...Mom named my Brother "Danny" (Daniel) after the song "Danny Boy".

...but like the saxophone, I've always been drawn to to sound of the pipes...there's just something about them that's like a beckoning siren.

...Some people can't stand the bag pipes and they claim it makes their skin crawl...for me, I would equate that to the accordion. Tie me up and play accordion/polka music, and I'll confess to crimes I didn't even commit.
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I have no real Irish Connection, other than get this: born and raised a Canuck, Northern Kin to Cajuns, I bear my Step Grand Dad's name for my Middle name........ (who was the only Maternal Grand Dad I ever knew), by the name of Dale O'Dea, yep, there's the O'.....

Same here the bagpipes bring me to my knees; but IN joy, ....... crushing at one time, with the loss of Danny Boy, they've come to represent when Life was more forgiving a time, IMO.....

I'll still drop and stop what I am doing to hear those as you called it 59, "those beckoning sirens", every single time....with utter dignity of an entire Social Plight of the Irish....or as McCartney once sang: "Give Ireland back to the Irish"....

 
On another note, one of the best overall more Modern Day, mid 80s? was the Daniel Day Lewis Movie(s):

  • In the Name of the Father (my favorite of the 3)

  • There Will Be Blood

  • Sunday Bloody Sunday

I gotta' throw in a great Irish Flavored Hells Kitchen Flick other than Lewis' Work: ie,
Edward Burns in-
  • Ash Wednesday, what a great movie.
 
Yankeefan5545 said:
Picking up a Fishman Loudbox Mini for acoustic Guitars. Got Bass, Treble Mid-range controls for the guitar along with Reverb & Chorus. Bass, Treble and reverb on the microphone side. Sixty watts of power may not light up the neighborhood but it does change the complexion of the guitar from a parlor Instrument to one with cojones. Next month I will complete the package with a TC Harmony stomp pedal which permits harmonies and additional reverbs selections to your vocals depending on the key in which the instrument is played. Gonna be nice.
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Have a blast, sounds exactly like you will.........Kudos....!!
 
Yankeefan5545 said:
Bagpipes: awesome as hell have liked them since I can remember. Wings put them to great use on Mull of Kintyre. If you wasn't to see something that catches one off guard go to You Tube, Glen Campbell. Merv Griffin 1981 and you'll see Campbell sing Mull of Kintyre and play bagpipes as well. Always liked Campbell as a guitar player, good voice as well just could never connect with the stuff he chose to record.
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Just Curios Michael, when you mentioned you couldn't get into some of the stuff Campbell recorded, what were your feelings on Jimmy Webb? My own thoughts on Both, were Campbell made the best of his career launch off of the Smothers Brothers, with Webb's tunes to launch that career at his prime, (an oxymoron, Glen's Prime was his first and early works IMO.............(Steve Martin also got his start on the Smother's Brothers, not as a Musician of course but as a writer, part time actor)......

The few years I was in Wichita KS as a Kid, Campbell had just released Webb's you guessed it, "Wichita Lineman".....by the time Campbell married Tanya Tucker, and came out singing/acting like the Rhinestone Cowboy Himself, I lost all interests in Glen tho'. His early works, I enjoyed as a youth.....his latter, was often drugstore cowboy trash....

Is that what your basically saying?
 
Yankeefan5545 said:
Bagpipes: awesome as hell have liked them since I can remember. Wings put them to great use on Mull of Kintyre. If you wasn't to see something that catches one off guard go to You Tube, Glen Campbell. Merv Griffin 1981 and you'll see Campbell sing Mull of Kintyre and play bagpipes as well. Always liked Campbell as a guitar player, good voice as well just could never connect with the stuff he chose to record.
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yankeesince59 said:
...ask and ye shall receive;


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I Second that Notion:

 
Mattingly23NY said:
Is that the old black and white Chaplin era Audio-less soundless movies?????
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The Quiet Man was a color film, 1951 with John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara and Victor Mc Laughlin. Wayne plays a boxer who killed a man in the ring and returns to his native Ireland to live and finds trouble from Mc Laughlin after he and O' Hara marry. Not a bad flick though typical John Wayne fare.
 
Mattingly23NY said:
Just Curios Michael, when you mentioned you couldn't get into some of the stuff Campbell recorded, what were your feelings on Jimmy Webb? My own thoughts on Both, were Campbell made the best of his career launch off of the Smothers Brothers, with Webb's tunes to launch that career at his prime, (an oxymoron, Glen's Prime was his first and early works IMO.............(Steve Martin also got his start on the Smother's Brothers, not as a Musician of course but as a writer, part time actor)......

The few years I was in Wichita KS as a Kid, Campbell had just released Webb's you guessed it, "Wichita Lineman".....by the time Campbell married Tanya Tucker, and came out singing/acting like the Rhinestone Cowboy Himself, I lost all interests in Glen tho'. His early works, I enjoyed as a youth.....his latter, was often drugstore cowboy trash....

Is that what your basically saying?
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I viewed Cambell as a fine guitar player, many don't know this but Campbell was a much in demand session player. It was Campbell, Leon Russell, who accompanied Roger Mc Guinns 12 string on Mr. Tambourine Man. The other Byrds were not happy but that is how it went down in addition Campbell assisted on Beach Boys Recordings. I liked Campbell as a vocalist and the Jimmy Webb Tunes were well done but those records never mad it into my collection. Campbell pretty much put Ovation Guitars on the map and I'll agree that stuff like Galveston & Rhinestone Cowboy weren't my cup of tea either. Tell you another guy whom I respect in somewhat the same manner and that would be Vince Gill. He play well, sings well, dresses to the nines and respects his art, but I never bought and of his records.
 
Wore a kilt on my wedding day & would have had the pipes played at our outdoor wedding, but the indoor alternate site for the ceremony was a small old mill in which they would have been far too loud for many of the guests.... The rain did hold off, but hard to know so far in advance...
 
Yankeefan5545 said:
The Quiet Man was a color film, 1951 with John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara and Victor Mc Laughlin. Wayne plays a boxer who killed a man in the ring and returns to his native Ireland to live and finds trouble from Mc Laughlin after he and O' Hara marry. Not a bad flick though typical John Wayne fare.
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Honestly sounds rather good.....one of a few Wayne Movies, I still haven't seen......but will have too.......

I enjoy John Wayne, not as Big a Fan of John's Rick is, yet I respect all he did for Western and G.I. Movies....(tho' I do on occassion, wear a "Old Guys Rule" JW T-Shirt).......

We were talking about Glen Campbell too, thought he did a good job in True Grit, ok as an Actor, yet I thought Glen's Soundtrack was pretty decent....

Not that I don't like Wayne, he's made so many great films, how can one not be a Duke fan. Loved the Longest Day, Green Berets, Liberty Valance, Rio Bravo, The Sons of Katie Elder, and the Cowboys was a Classic, or still is: one of Kim's favorite all time flicks....so many Good Wayne Movies to choose from......

Wayne actually went to a few years of School here in Lancaster, CA, when Judy Garland also lived here, then a true one horse town. Same with Zappa, then also a unknown town. Both Garland and Wayne inscribed their names in then, wet concrete, of a sidewalk, (Marion Robert Morrison, and Frances Ethel Gumm)..... which withstood the test of time, until 25 years ago, when the City had to expand the road, tear out the sidewalk, yet preserved that section of the Cement,and put it in the local Museum, which is about the only thing worth seeing in that POS Museum....LMAO....
 
John Wayne is my favorite all time actor. Just ahead of McQueen, Cagney, Stewart & Poitier.
 
[QUOTE="totus44, post: 3580729, member: 28042"]Erin go braless![/QUOTE]


So does my girlfriend sometimes but she's got the figure for it.
 
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