Bagpipers

Southie St. Patrick's Day Parade 2007

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• Boston
• Parade

[PrideofNi]

O Americans can pretend to be scottish all they want. AND TRY play the pipes. That was the crappiest band i have ever listened to.

[awmascrotum]

What idiot posted this pish .Irish?The band are wearing a generic victorian BRITISH ARMY uniform wearing royal Stewart tartan(SCOTTISH)Glengarry bonnets(SCOTTISH) and playing SCOTTISH tunes on Highland pipes(SCOTTISH).Please rish/americans stop ripping off other countries traditions .I know imitation is the highest form of flatery but this is just too much to stomach

[halkburn]

i have never in my life seen such a rabble of a so called pipe band i have marched behind many pipe bands through the army highland games and marched with them in other countries but this is the worst i have ever seen or heard

[kaelig13]

Because of bands like this one people hate bagpipes. It's terrible

[MrJimmyboy1972]

@PrideofNi doesnt surprise me....lol

[PrideofNi]

@MrJimmyboy1972 lol i wonder what they sounds like with tuning...listening to it 2 years on it just as bad lol.

[MrJimmyboy1972]

@PrideofNi me too mate! i played bass and tenor drum in many a pipe band but, that is something else. the bands i played in were really good. just goes to show, ye can have as much tartan as ye like, but if ye canny play yer rubbish.

(nearly said shite ther)....lol

[finnbarrhagan]

@awmascrotum well said.... and it was royal stewart tartan, the queens clan... some of them birds look rough though, they could belfast... regards, finnbarr...

[dricardo2597]

I don't see any prats around, but I'm glad to see your on board with Clan Theory. The Scots were those Wild Irish cousins(we all have a few, don't we?) who moved, or were sent away to Caledonia, and have been rockin' on the pipes ever since. Remember your Irish History kids! Cuchullainn took a roadtrip to study at the mad shieldmaiden Scatach's warrior's school, on Skye, it is said.

[megatsunami99]

scottish gaelic music and culture came from ireland originally also scottish piping has been anglicised and militarialised to suit england and empire building over 3 centuries .what where pipe bands like 2 or 3 hundred years ago a bit ragged and not from lowland scotland who where seen as sasenachs .also rather pretentious nowadays.answer that you prats

[jdoflaherty]

@thecrusades2 I don't think anyone is trying to "steal" anyones culture here. The point I was trying to make was that the military tradition of piping is common to both Scotland and Ireland as part of a shared Gaelic heritage. The Irish Army and the Irish Guards & RIR in the British Army all have fine traditions of pipe bands, although they all wear saffron coloured kilts rather than tartan.