ALEX DUTHART ON DRAGS

Alex Duthart giving some thoughts on drags in & out of the pipe band idiom. This was taken from a personal VHS video shot at a clinic in LA, in 1984. Many, Many, Many thanks to Owen Nash for not only preserving a copy of this but sending one all the way across the pond from Scotland to me. Thanks to him we have some footage of the one of the greats. Remember it's from 1984 and it's VHS and yes its grainy and the sound echoes from the hall. Other than that, good stuff. More to come.

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Music

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• ALEX
• DUTHART
• PIPE
• BAND
• DRUMMING

[kovacs852]

I haven't played for years but stumbled upon this by accident. Both Mr Duthart and myself were taught by the great Jimmy Catherwood... although for me it was many years later in the early eighties at DSMC, Edinburgh.

maybe I will start again!

[coryhilliard]

I hate myself.

[maderasdemetal]

oh the great mother of god!....

[MrUlsterscot]

Great. I have been playing for 20+ years but this still taught me something! A great player and not as unapproachable as some of the contemporary crowd!

[rrdrums110]

Alex truely is too much. This guy has hands. Love it.

[avlewis]

This is the best explanation of the drag I've ever heard.

And a truly inspiring video--makes me excited to grab my sticks and practice, practice, practice...

[PatMulgrew]

Thanks a bunch for posting this group of videos. Freakin' awesome. Much appreciated!

[piperbob2]

American drummers (jazz, pop,pipe band etc.) used to say "When we think we know it all ........... we send for Alex Duthart!"

What a legend and pioneer!

[UdallIn72]

They're doing that on purpose.

[cahcadden]

These videos of Duthart are the only chance I get to see him play, since he died before I got into pipeband drumming. Please post more!