weirdest tune you've ever done

Tony · Post by **Tony** » Wed Dec 10, 2003 4:30 pm

I thought I was the only one...
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No E · Post by **No E** » Wed Dec 10, 2003 4:54 pm

Last night I found myself playing excerpts from the 1812 Overture (this is the cereal that's shot from guns*). Great fun with the regulators!

Larry

*TV commercial reference, for those old enough to remember (Fel?)

bcpipes · Post by **bcpipes** » Wed Dec 10, 2003 4:56 pm

Reminds me of when I tried to initiate the annual "BC Childress Inapropriate Tunes for Uilleann Pipes" contest at the Chicago tionol a few years ago. I couldn't generate enough interest to get going on it. But, there were a few inapropriate tunes played that weekend. John Gaffney has one of the printed T-Shirts that would have been the prize. The following year featured the first annual second attempted-and-failed Inapropriate tunes for the pipes competition. That time it was planned to fail, and thus, no t-shirt.

My favorites for goofing around: Jeopardy Theme (occasionaly, a really on-the-ball bodhran player will go "boom-BOOM" at the end), Theme from "The Wild Wild West" TV series, Adams Family TV series, The Brady Bunch TV Series, Black Sabbath "Iron Man" and "Colonel Freebird".

I have to much time on my hands.

BC

Tony · Post by **Tony** » Wed Dec 10, 2003 5:09 pm

I was working on America from West Side Story just this past weekend.

DDDGGG ECG

I like to be in America!
O.K. by me in America!
Ev'rything free in America
For a small fee in America

WistleEnvy · Post by **WistleEnvy** » Wed Dec 10, 2003 5:40 pm

Great!!!

THANKS TONY

Now I can't get that stupid tune out of my head

The Sporting Pitchfork · Wed Dec 10, 2003 10:18 pm

Dude man, I like, hate those weird tunes cause they're like so weird, and it's like, so dumb man cause they're so stupid. 'Cause they're like weird, you know?
Like, this one time, me and my buddy Trey were jammin' and Trey was like, totally goin' animalistic on the didj, you know, and I'm like, "Dude, let's play that weird song," and Trey's all, "Yeah dude! Play that weird song!" So I like, played this one song dude, and it was okay and all but it just didn't feel right, you know? It was just so, I dunno, like, "unpure" or something and it just totally, like didn't feel right. It was worse than that one time this dude showed up at the drum circle with a trumpet.

Weird tunes are for racist corporate oligarch fascists.

djm · Post by **djm** » Wed Dec 10, 2003 11:40 pm

WHOA! Come on, Pitch Dude. Like CHILL OUT, man. I mean, such total hostility from a man who studies Noh dance music first hand just to convert it to Celtic UP mood music! So like, lighten up, eh?

djm

brianc · Post by **brianc** » Thu Dec 11, 2003 12:34 am

this is the cereal that's shot from guns*).

OK, I'll admit it - I'm old enough to remember Puffed Wheat.

BrianC

Kevin L. Rietmann · Post by **Kevin L. Rietmann** » Fri Dec 12, 2003 2:46 am

Iron Man's been mentioned. Walk, Don't Run's a good 'un, Swingtown by the Steve Miller Band, Frankenstein. I used to play the piano accordion along with bar bands playing covers of Low Rider, Sweet Child of Mine, and the like. And, owning the Von Trapp family's set of pipes, I know Edelweiss, Do Re Mi, 16 Going on 17, etc. etc.
Brad Angus taught me the Rockford Files theme. I backed up some guys playing Stones covers on St. Patrick's day once; also sat in with a group playing pure improvisation...how 'bout Miserlou, or the Halloween and Good, Bad, and Ugly themes?

ChristianRo · Post by **ChristianRo** » Fri Dec 12, 2003 3:44 am

Ravel's Bolero is very nice indeed.
I remember seeing Peter Browne playing himself into trance with "Nagila hava" (sp?) some years ago...

The Sporting Pitchfork · Fri Dec 12, 2003 4:59 am

Ah yes, Hava Negilah.

A friend of mine does a stunning rendition of that one on Highland pipes.
Apparently, he learned it when he got hired to play at a bar mitzvah...

fel bautista · Post by **fel bautista** » Fri Dec 12, 2003 7:51 am

marcpipes wrote:Funny, Lead Zep lifted the beginning of Stairway to Heaven from an O'Carolan(sp?) tune.

Do you remember the tune???

fel bautista · Post by **fel bautista** » Fri Dec 12, 2003 7:54 am

No E wrote: (this is the cereal that's shot from guns*). ...for those old enough to remember (Fel?)

Me?? I don't know what you are talking about

I still remember the aluminized sugar pops bag-it made a great space suit for the little molded spacemen that you could by for 100/$1

Lorenzo · Post by **Lorenzo** » Fri Dec 12, 2003 10:23 am

We use to get a little wild on St. Padddy's Day and throw in this tune we nick-named 'Eddie Murphy's Hornpipe" --right in the middle of a set of three reels. The band use to include fiddle, uilleann pipes, and guitar/bouzouki, including bass and baritone marimbas(!). So, you can imagine how bouncy it sounded. We straightened the tune out just a little. If you forget the melody line of the movie theme (played on synthesizer) in Am, check it out here: http://www.docmelster.com/Sounds/b/bevhill1.mid

Pat Cannady · Post by **Pat Cannady** » Fri Dec 12, 2003 10:41 am

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!!!

Make it stop! Make it stop! Make it stop!

Lorenzo, that wasn't nice.