Changing of the Guard, London, England

[GothicBish]

For some reason... i've been looking up and watching these gaurds...Why? Because of their fuzzy hats.

[Shadowfang3000]

@GothicBish Apparantly they're actually afros D:

[GothicBish]

@Shadowfang3000 OMG THATS EVEN BETTTER!!! O_O

[mikeyduke10]

y do we wear those bloody bearskin hats! they dont even look the same its stupid tradition

[SinnFein4ever]

'Wonder how much it cost the British tax-payers to put on that little show at Fuckingham palace. ;p

[HelmutVillam]

69 pence per taxpayer, per year. Anything else?

[adamswampy]

lol, well that was varied. I saw Buckingham Palace, St James' Palace and Horse Guard's Parade. Not what I was expecting..

[readingrymer]

wow! Those looke like our marching band shakos years ago! Hats off to you!

[emptyangel]

@readingrymer

I think you mean that those hats look like your marching band hats.

There's a huge difference between the two statements.

[intrepberkexplorer]

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[emptyangel]

Woah what band is that?

The one with the glockenspiel(bell lyre).

[lirbugler]

@emptyangel Looks like the Royal Welsh Corps of Drums.

As far as I know only the Royal Welsh and The Royal Gibraltar Regiment wear those white pith helmets.

The Devonshire and Dorset Regiment (when they were a regiment in their own right) also wore White Pith helmets but they wore a Wolseley Pattern (same as Royal Marines) and had a band of Green Cloth around the helmet.

[bravemgl]

best 1 is russian guard change

[intrepberkexplorer]

Audio recorded at the time was an usuable mixture of noises, quite inferior to the Colonel Bogie March. And as explained earlier, seeing "Bridge Over the River Kwai" established this music as perfect for marching British soldiers. 40 years later the Colonel Bogie March was my homage to David Lean's magnificent film.

[Talbot6832]

Unfortunately you failed to eliminate the background noise to Bridge over the River Kwai. This is the South of England not the jungles of Burma XD

[intrepberkexplorer]

I hear no such background noise, because this version of the Colonel Bogie March, as I recall, did not come from "Bridge Over the River Kwai". That movie certainly created for me a strong association of the music with marching British soldiers.

[Talbot6832]

There is the noise of a jungle in the background at the end with "A Company" being shouted somewhere.

[Someloke8895]

Nah, thats just typical London background ambience.

:p

[livethedream212]

the music is funny lol