uilleann pop music

[AlanB]

To echo Hallion, Kila is the thing for modern approaches to music with Uilleanns. Eoin Dillon is as precise and magical a piper as I've ever heard. They do live what they do in studio. A very eclectic sound. Fun to watch too. A rare thing indeed. Mostly people make Pub Rock and add some pipes. hey presto! Celtic Fusion!!! Kila purely and simply excel. Go buy their works!!

Sin E!! There's a blast from the past! James O'Grady, another fine piper.....

Alan

[Hallion]

EEk Dropkick Murphy's.
Last I knew they had a GHB piper called "Spicy McHaggis".
Pretty much just a drunk that can play clumsy lover and slow aire's.
In the late 90's they invited me to play GHB's with them when they were in Milwaukee. I showed up after they had already tuned and said they didn't want to do it. I didn't care it was a free ticket to see the show. The Dropkick's have long been unity punks, where they don't care who comes to their shows, just working men BS. This brings a lot of Neo Nazi's to their shows, which is a big turn off for me.

As for uilleann pipes, what album did you hear it on?

Pop Uilleanns, listen to Black 47, that band is good and awful. Complete with a guy playing U pipes on a lot of tracks. I think he just uses a practice set as he is always playing standing up with a foot on a case.

Black 47 is a Northern Irish band

trashtalking The english and Michael Collins and the like. BUt they have some americans in the group, complete with a white rapper, that guy is hilarious to listen too.

Flogging molly's are great.

There used to be a Uilleann piper in a celtic rock band here in the states. The band Seven Nations. The piper has left now, but used to be a staple in the band, and you can hear him on their first couple of albums. Now seven nations just has two ghb pipers and an awesome fiddler, least they did a couple of years ago, haven't heard them in a while.

The dropkick murphy's have always used a bit of tin whistle, never heard a fiddler with them though. When I went to play with them I wound up hanging out backstage with them. Kind of rediculous, I was 16 hanging out backstage with Boston punks I knew nothing about.

Lots of Highland pipes get pop ized, and modified. It's a pretty strong subculture within a subculture. Some of the best pipers I've ever heard, Chris Armstrong, and Mark Saul do it. But because of the Techno aspects a lot of traditional scottish pipers claim that their piping is just recorded slow and sped up, making them sound better than they are... I think they're just jealous

http://www.marksaul.tv/Audio.html
http://www.black47.com/index.htm
http://www.sevennations.com/index2.asp
http://www.dropkickmurphys.com/index1.php

[Hallion]

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Black 47 is a Northern Irish band

Black 47 are from New York NOT Ireland. They do however, sing alot about the situation in Ireland.

[ausdag]

Audag..Bon Scott played the GHB in the song," Its a long way to the top". And Bon Scott was from Scotland not Australia..he moved there when he was older, and met the Young brothers there.

Yeah that's the song. I never said Scott was Australian, I said AC/DC was an Australian band. There was a Dutch guy as well, Harry "The Dutch Damager' Vanda, who was a record producer. I thought I heard him say Scott couldn't play the pipes, but actually I just found out he was in the Fremantle (Western Australia) Scots Pipe Band prior to joining AC/DC.

Edited not once, not twice, but thrice for added tidbits of nostalgia

[Wetootwaag]

Oh, I thought they were from Ireland, my mistake.
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