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  • AWESOME

    

  • fags

  • @pitisa1&MagusVideos I never heard of an artist being disappointed in an audience enjoying the performance. Enjoying & respecting are not mutually exclusive. Made me tap my feet (respectfully of course) anyway.

  • Nice ganzie Donal, you still got it ? :0) Erin Go Bragh

  • Just Wow

  • I thought initially that the title of this was a great example of drunken chinese whispers at folk sessions.

    But it turns out that this is a different tune to the hag in the kiln, or the hag at the churn (ok they probably are the same tune), and probably other confusing names, all with completely different connotations. Those hags get around...

    and dammit I am jealous of that seventies audience...

  • what happen with the audience........give me a pint!!!!please

  • @pitisa1 It's called "Respecting the music"

  • Looks like Helen Reddy playing keyboard!

  • This is one the best Irish traditionnal music group I know, with so brilliant musician as Paddy Keenan (Uileann pipe), Matt Molloy (Flute), Donal Lunny (Bouzouki) ...

    Bothy Band comes from Scottland (XIX century) when in the farms, men who were working in the fields during the day, had the habit to play music together in the evening = the bothy bands.

  • @33minutos the IRISH say FUCK YOU

  • Theyr'e not stoned cellokenno! They're aghast at Donal Lunnys jumper!

  • it's amazing to watch this and listen in, all together brilliant

  • absolutely cool! i'd never seen harp scichord played together with the folk insts before. looks like an old film though, very much stimulative and creative, aren't they?!!

  • I dream to drink a beer in Irish pub (in Ireland of course) with live celtic music, ahhh. ;)so far I've never been in Ireland

  • The audience should be leaping about dancing!

  • @thorbeast1 If this was filmed in Belfast in 1977 Irish music and culture were considered literally deadly serious, this music could get you killed in the wrong place at the wrong time.

  • The audience should be leaping about dancing!

  • Absolutely awesome. I didn't know live clips of this band existed (I've listened to their recordings for years, thinking "how in the world do they do that???"). Bless you @bilko1234 for posting.

  • 1977. Audience is too stoned to move.

  • Magic. Thank you so much.

  • God created whiskey,

    To keep the Irish from ruling the Earth.

  • Why wasn't the camera on Kevin for "Dinny Delaney's" ? Absolutely AWESOME stuff that has never been equalled to the present day; all the excitement of ANY rock music without ear-splitting volume.

  • The face on Lunny at 2.30 absolutely groovin to it!!

  • The face on Lunny at 2.30 absolutely groovin to it!!

  • its a pity the camera angle didn't know what was happening.

  • Probably the best Celtic folk band of the modern era.

  • The second part swing like crazy!

  • cool :)

  • WHY ARE NONE OF THE AUDIENCE DANCING??!!! i would in a second!!

  • I agree with fiddle4u below, the Bothies were were 'the Irish band of bands.'

  • In reply to the q below, it's Irish traditinal music. The pipes or uilenn pipes are an Irish traditional instrument. It's Irish traditional music played on a range of commin instruments and Donal Lunny, seen on left of picture is credited with briing the greek bouzouki into Irish trad music. His distinctive style of rhythm play brought a certain sound the music. The Bothies and a few more 'folk orientated' were frowned upon by the more conservative elements of Irish trad who wanted it kept pure.

  • The Irish Band of Irish band's -

    jim,,,

  • How is this kind of musik called?

  • @fromgermany79

    (Irish) folk music

  • tiens, mireille mathieu s'est mise au clavier ?

    bon ok, c'est nul...(ma blague, parceque la video est excellente... !)

  • i cant believe those people can sit there and not move, I'd be dancing all over that place. . .. honestly, i don't even see head bobbing

  • i cant believe those people can sit there and not move, i'd be dancing all over that place. . .. honestly, i dont even see head bobbing

  • Aaah Tríona ni Dónagh. If the top class if playing the piano is grade 8, then she must be grade 16!!!!!!!!!!

  • This is my favorite song!

  • looking at these fellows playing(Paddy in particular) makes me wonder what's going on in his head...

  • That's my dad on the left at 1:49!! :D

  • @ellenlovesmario4eva Awesome xD

  • @smedaas LOL that was a long time ago! :P

  • @ellenlovesmario4eva Your dad was a lucky lad indeed to hear this band in person!

  • @Otispuss2 He was indeed :D He went to every appearance in the country to see them :)

  • Are there any videos of the Bothy Band playing the otter's holt? That's my favorite reel!

  • Ooooh... Eluveitie - tagernako?

  • a great sound !! ..

  • Wow Trina really keeps up with that right hand. Impressive.

  • One of the greatest irish bands of all time. Cameraman hadn't a clue. When Kevin Burke launches into Dinny Delaney's he focuses on Paddy Keenan and then on Donal Lunny.

  • Ahahaha I know that had me laughing.

  • ¡viva música del mundo!

  • Old hag you have killed meh, Hahaha I love Irish people.

  • Love the title, thats just what my fella says to me when he sees the credit card bill--and Im only 28...

    lol

    Great band they are!

  • @joygsmom: Great comment!!! I'm still chortling, I do believe you've topped even the delightful title - and you're only 28!! :) :)

  • y do all look so depressed?

  • 2:30

  • does anyone know what show this was part of?

  • Outfreakinstanding!! I came to Irish music largely because of Michael O`Domhnaill. I can`t say how much he is missed.

    Up the Bothy! Han Maith!

  • @Pagra50 LOVEW DOM,HNAIL LUNNYS JUMPER

  • So I'm searching for my favorite slip jig by my favorite fiddler - Tommy Peoples' The Old Hag In the Kiln - and stumble upon it done by my favorite Irish traditional band. 2nd tune in the set.

  • @syzygyne Also known as "The Old Hag at the Kiln"?

  • @basis64 no

  • Fantastic band ! Phalaïna

  • This is thrilling.

  • part since 2:33 is especially perfect!

  • The best... 5/5

  • wow I haven't heard this since I was really young. Thanks so much for posting it.

  • thank you!!!

  • Whao !

  • kevin burke has the County Sligo's technic , this violin technic is very very ornamented

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  • Am I the only person who thinks bothy band sounds like garbage with Kevin instead of tommy?

  • the more I watch this the more I wonder who was the idiot director - possibly somebody on work experience from the local special persons" home. The shoddiest TV work I have possibly ever seen

  • I agree! Kevin Burke doing his art an they are showing the public! Jesus!

  • And who would have thought that, hiding under that hat, was the Clapton of fiddle players aka Kevin Burke?

  • ha 420

  • Top performers !! Phalaïna

  • sehr gute musik :-)

  • The Bothy Band- the beginning the end and the be all of Irish traditional music, truly brilliant. I was in my early twenty's when they started and I have yet to hear a group to come near them, (and there have been some good ones, i.e. Clannad, A ltan, de dannan, etc.) what more can I say.

  • Den scoth! Cuireann an ceol seo athbheochan ar mo mhisneach agus spreagadh ar mo hanam!

  • Lovely how the people are listening and respecting this music.

  • This band was unbelievably good!

  • I pity the guys the crowd for being forced to sit still for so long without being able to burst into dancing.

    I'm finding hard to sit still to a video!

  • I need to revise a previous comment. Paddy Keenan, the Rory Gallagher of pipers.

  • Oh, I'd say he was better than that!

  • Have you ever seen and heard Rory Gallagher in full flow? I have and I've seen and heard Clapton. Give me Gallagher any day. I've been to plenty of Paddy Keenan gigs and the Gallagher comparison is well founded.

  • Yeah, I know...

  • Sounds like Eluveitie (3:30)...

  • I for one, do not like to laugh at peoples concentrated faces, my own is terrible when fiddling. But how can one not laugh at 2:27

  • Smile yes!, laugh no!

  • wonderful!! love it!

  • Paddy Keenan, the Jimi Hendrix of pipe players. But WHAT a band.

  • The Bothy Band is one of the most underrated bands of all time! I wish I could have heard them LIVE!

  • Me too. I LOVE these old videos of them! I have always loved this kind of music. Wish I'd known the Bothy band existed back then. I was in high school then, and would have persuaded my parents to let me travel to just about anywhere in the U.S. to see them!

  • Who Is playing the pipes please ?

  • Sure, it´s Paddy Keenan

  • Suas e!

  • best band ever ... r.ip MichAEL

  • The Bothy Band. They were and are in many repects still the standard.. Even though I'm sure those times were as hard to live in as today. If you had the privilage of seeing such a band live, you would be a happy man or woman indeed..

  • I saw them live in Camden with Andy Hepworth ... he was a friend of Kevin's.

  • My all time favourite band. ´have seen them four times in 1977! in Ireland and Germany.

    Even after all that time all the good memories come up again like it was yesterday and I feel home again.

  • Just excellent.. I love this music so much.

  • Paddy Keenan rules

  • Oh my goodness, these folks are a revelation,WOW!!!

  • awesome, been knowing them since the 80s in Boston, Irish capital of the World! Are they still playing?

  • They disbanded years ago. Mícheál Ó Domhnaill formed the band Nightnoise and died, tragically, from a fall in Dublin in 2006. Other members went on to join bands like Planxty. The shortness of this band's life makes these videos all the more special.

  • PS - They did do a reunion gig - I think it was in '07 - in Michael's honor.

  • WOW!!!!!Fantastic.

  • Are you a former Penguin???? I worked Vienna and as a floater 1976-77...Most of this great import stuff never even got to the shelves; those were the days when you actually had to KNOW the music to get a job at Penguin Feather

  • I can listen to this stuff for hours, and that's coming from a metalhead! Great upload, 5*!

  • Ahhh T'Be Sure!!!

  • Why is everyone so bloody stone-faced in the crowd?!

  • maybe they're in England?

  • Zing.

  • I freaken love the first tune!!!!!

  • awesome! i really love the bothy band!

  • sounds good ;)

  • kevin burke is some legend i tells ye folks

  • great stuff

  • A lot of comments address the issue of the rerstrained, respectful audience. This is interesting to me. You could say the same thing about jazz nowadays. This is "session" music, originally intended to serve as background in a drunken pub. Imagine the noise of people listening to their own bullshit and fantasising about getting laid! What is the purpose of music anyway?

  • Point of music is to gve people a way of entertaining and a way of relaxation,, this type of music ( inmy own opinion) is by far my favouite, due to the fact that it is one of the most renowned and enjoyed types of tradiona music known in the world, and secondly, i play it,

  • aww this is cool! I'm totally geeking out at this group's skill!

  • love this kinda stuff, awsome music, been looking for a while for this style of music love it !! 5/5

  • I love this band since I was 14.

    It's incredible how emotions can rise out of a laptop screen after 27 years and show you the band you listened to but had never seen before. Thaks youtube! Thanks bilko1234

  • well said.

  • Paddy Keenen = King of the Pipers! Wouldnt surprise me if the tune by that name (he Pipers) was actually written to commemorate him, though I think that tune has been around longer than that!

  • Most cameramen have to clue how to shoot music...uuugh!

    But great music; I got the LP when it came out in the 70s.

    That haircut on the woman playing keyboard would put off a newly released convict!

  • So would her dress. But she plays her keyboard, whatever it is, really well.

  • As newly released convict I say yer talking bollix!! :-)

  • Well, congratulations!

  • yeah Donal Lunny is god of Irish Bouzouki. Last I heard Japan...but not 100% sure.

  • Dónal Lunny is the fuckin man. anybody happen to know his whereabouts these days?

  • PADDY KEENAN ROCKS!!! He doesn't have his hat on in this, though...

  • thats awesome ^_^

  • They're Irish ya ignorant schaleen!

  • piss off ya dotty wee skid mark

  • The final tune has been taught to me as Morrison's Jig #2.

  • Any help with the first two tunes? The last one is Monaghan jig, am I right? Great stuff.

  • I guess I wasn't paying attention to the beginning. He called the final tune "Morrison's". I think I learned it as Monaghan, but who am I to argue the the Bothy Band?

  • It's called a clavinet, which is basically an electronic clavichord.

  • Could anyone please tell me what instrument is being played at the opening of this song? :)

  • Harpsichord

  • Sounds more like a clavichord to me.

  • Altan would be a fairly contemporary band, another worth checking out.

  • man I love this music, can anyone suggest other good bands that play this instrumental irish music? Thx

  • Perhaps the greatest and most traditional are The Chieftains. Then there are (or were, mostly) Planxty (also songs), De Danann (also songs), Clannad (their older stuff), Finbar Furey (pipes).

  • I have to disagree that the Chieftains are "most traditional." The point of that ensemble was to produce western art music arrangements of traditional tunes and to perform with musicians of other genres. But they're not a bad starting point for someone curious about Irish traditional music.

  • check out planxty and fairport convention

  • Lunasa would be my favorite

  • 1st and foremost: The Chieftains, The Bothy Band, Planxty, Lúnasa, Flook, Moving Hearts, Altan, De Danann, Davey Arthur & the Fureys etc etc!

  • thanks guys!

  • hahaha! the cameraman never heard a fiddle before. he could not find the fiddler under his cap! it's kevin burke playing. new cd with ged foley - in tandem. harpsicord is played by triona ni'dhomhnaill, heard her often at slatterys in dublin 1975. she did a solo-album, splendid cover design!

  • It's really too bad they missed so much of Kevin Burke's playing on this clip. Still, AMAZING stuff.

    Thanks bilko!

  • ohhh, very lovely!! enrico from italy.

  • awsome, ive heard the tape of this record all growing up, its amazing to me to see them actually play it!!, i saw Paddy Keenan live in 2004, it was amazing very cool to see him when he was young as well.

  • kid on the mountain to finish...brilliant...doesnt donal lunny look like hes enjoying himself..the crowd arent bored..they were brought up on the stuff.. but that doesnt mean they werent appreciative..its a classic

  • Sorry for being so ignorant. I have just had very different experiences, and have been to a great many Irish concerts and gigs with "only listeners welcome". Even listeners sometimes even stir a little.

  • Sorry for being so ignorant. I have just had very different experiences, and have been to a great many Irish concerts and gigs with "only listeners welcome". Even listeners sometimes even stir a little.

    very true, this was actually being recorded hence the footage and was actually being made into an album, that is why everyone is being so respectful. 1976 Old Hag You Have Killed Me Polydor 2383417 Green Linnet 3005

  • Oh, all right, who could have known that? Of course then the audience would be very quiet in order not to disturb the recording. Thanks for telling, space9888.

  • I do have to admit that I'm "of the old school" - where the musicians "musicate", and the audience "audiates" (or listens) - as a listener, I'm never quite comfortable being part of the performance, but as a quiet listener, I'm appreciating the music every bit as much as the guy that's "whooping" so loud that he can't hear it.

  • In my experience, the best compliment to an Irish group's musical craftmanship is to listen carefully to their performance and - at most - maybe tap your toe during it. This audience seems to be listening both intently and appreciatively. I don't think they're indifferent... quite the opposite.

    And rightly so, because this is BRILLIANT stuff!

  • Where was that? Look at that stupid audience - was it a home for the deaf and dumb, or what? Incredible suckers.

  • i guess people are listening to the music sorry no white bikini washing over a car

  • You display a level of class that the rest of us can only yearn for.

  • All right, all right, I have only shortly learned that this was being recorded. Sorry again! No need to get sarcastic.

  • OMG that piano!! i want that piano!! BOTHY BAND is amazing

  • Thank you so much. My favorite band. But can you believe the AUDIENCE? They don't even move a finger...???

  • come on, part of the tradition is a bored audience. (i'm assuming anyway seeing as how it is always there)

    besides, no one is watching this video for the audience.

  • Bilko1234 - I,ll put in a good word for ye next time I meet the Pope !

  • One of the greats.  A Bothy's reunion is due.

  • Over the top. OVER THE FREAKIN' TOP.

  • This tune - as well as many others and especially "1975" release - make them for me the best Irish group I've heard. Thank You for posting! Wonderful to see them after hearing their tunes numerous times.

  • Agreed! I'd say Lunasaare the only ones to come near - the rest are trying!

  • Back in 1975 I borrowed Old Hag l.p. and it woke me up to my Irish roots .This music is timeless.Never been the same since.

  • bilko1234, May the good fairies dance around your happy home. Thank you so much for all these posts.