Edinburgh Military Tattoo 1998 - Hector The Hero

Hector the hero at the edinburgh tattoo 98

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Music

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• edinburgh
• military
• tattoo
• 1998
• 98
• bagpipes
• scotland
• hector
• the
• hero
• music
• live

[afyerheid]

Bang on,one o Scotlands finest.

[Outrider21]

I was there in '98 also..It's such a special event..This made the hair on the back of my neck stand up. So..very well done. Bravo!

[murfenator923]

What a fine display!!

[johnmillsauld]

@PraetorianXI11 hi i was there on that night and every night the tattoo was on i was one of the team of lighting operators for the show we all used to wait for this piece of music as we all thought it fantastic

[ZeitgeistWI]

@Mukahara Hector MacDonald wasn't in World War I which is what I think you are referencing but I understand what you were trying to say. This man was a man of quiet strength whose only fault was that he rose up through the ranks into the officer corps. That made certain "gentlemen" of the officer corps not only jealous but also dangerous. The British officers who were of "high birth" had a real problem with a man rising through the ranks who was not born a "gentleman

[ZeitgeistWI]

@Mukahara They had even more of a problem with it because MacDonald was a Scot.

[Mukahara]

@ZeitgeistWI I agree, I was just commenting that the fact that someone thought that someone was class just because they shot Germans is looking at the wrong stuff

[ZeitgeistWI]

@Mukahara The man whom the song was written about was a hero not for his martial prowse, which was considerable, but for who he was as a man. A father, a husband, a self made man who rose through the ranks to attain a commission and all by his own hard work and determination. I would dare say if we had more like him today and others, the world would be a far better place than it is. He was a man of courage, honor and decency. In the end, he was destroyed for being so. That is a hero.

[TheNaughtiusmaximus]

@amc3 I don't know about "pathetic" and it's just my humble opinion, but it could do without the electric instruments and choir, but the massed bands and massed pipes and drums with the fiddle and tin whistle parts left in would be nothing less than awesome

[thewindthatshakesbar]

I want to go there, to watch or to play bagpipe! my biggest dream...

[pjbrenna01]

A fantastic tune combining brass, electric, strings, vocals and the king of music, the pipes. From an Irishman.