superb stuff, bob shepherd is a legend take a bow. pipes and drums as they should be. bob just celebrated his golden weding with dorothy. all the best to all concened.
No1 uniforms...excellent. I remember wearing that get up in 1981 or 82 at Aberdeen...took about 45 minutes to get ready...spats, bearskins, plaids...deep joy!
Wow a blast from the past, great video, recognise willie burnside from a close up there, yes reid maxwell or "coffee" as he was nicknamed is teaching with shotts last i heard.
There has been a massive change over the years how bands play. Tuning from what I hear is way too sharp and as you can hear in this clip, the style of drumming has seen a massive change. So have standards gotten better, that's open to discussion and argument but don't base you opinion on an old piece of video. Phineas, you are attempting to say a lemon is sweeter than a spoon full of sugar.
That is completely false. The biggest difference is the arrangement/selection of competition tunes, and tuning to some extent. Probably across the board, standards are alot better now across all bands, but there is no way a grade 4 band now is better than a grade 1 band then. A top class band from the era playing the same set/tuning, as a grade 1 band today would be just as good, if not better.
Pipe bands Certainly Grade 1 sit at a Higher Pitch , please do not say it's Absurd tho, listen to FM and tell me their piping is Absurd with a Straight face! They are Boomin!
Wow, that is SO old school . . . very cool.
superb stuff, bob shepherd is a legend take a bow. pipes and drums as they should be. bob just celebrated his golden weding with dorothy. all the best to all concened.
Them were the day's... Only a kid at the time, None the less. Brought a tear to my eye. Thanks for the posting... shear class!!!!!
Rose, Morris & Co. Clansman drums, what a sound!
No1 uniforms...excellent. I remember wearing that get up in 1981 or 82 at Aberdeen...took about 45 minutes to get ready...spats, bearskins, plaids...deep joy!
Thanks for posting, pure class
Nice to some old footage!
Thanks for posting Chris
Wow a blast from the past, great video, recognise willie burnside from a close up there, yes reid maxwell or "coffee" as he was nicknamed is teaching with shotts last i heard.
it's a fair cop...you got me...feather bonnet it is! i just used bearskin as a generic description of the headgear. i won't do it again...
Ach.....the hair on some of those lads looks like a 2nd feather bonnet.
It's "Colonel MacLeod"
Bearskins?
What???
They're not bearskins...and piping has never used bearskins
it's emu feathers (and has the name Feather Bonnet)
yip collins cattle.
There has been a massive change over the years how bands play. Tuning from what I hear is way too sharp and as you can hear in this clip, the style of drumming has seen a massive change.
So have standards gotten better, that's open to discussion and argument but don't base you opinion on an old piece of video.
Phineas, you are attempting to say a lemon is sweeter than a spoon full of sugar.
Listening to it yes it is good but now in 2014, any really good grade 4 or grade 3b band would be better. Standards have got so much better
Eeee.. There's always one silly idiot around, isn't there, who can't tell shite from sugar. :-)
That is completely false.
The biggest difference is the arrangement/selection of competition tunes, and tuning to some extent.
Probably across the board, standards are alot better now across all bands, but there is no way a grade 4 band now is better than a grade 1 band then. A top class band from the era playing the same set/tuning, as a grade 1 band today would be just as good, if not better.
Ross Bates Indeed, the playing is bang on. The videos are really special and its good they are online for all to see
Ross Bates how are you ?? Still in Australia?? Are still in the vic police??
Pipe bands Certainly Grade 1 sit at a Higher Pitch , please do not say it's Absurd tho, listen to FM and tell me their piping is Absurd with a Straight face! They are Boomin!
1970’s male long hair style and No 1’s with feather bonnet was definitely not a good look!