A friend of mine plays snare in the Atlanta Pipe Band. He's my housemate's son and I've known him for 30 years.
I actually like the stuff they play.

Bagpipes - The cure for Rap.

Well, how many rappers have you heard gettin' jiggy over some bagpipes? 

(I sincerely hope I did not just invent a new "artform"...)

(I sincerely hope I can rid myself of the mental image of several sweaty guys in parkas and kilts surrounded by a posse of Highland dancers...)

UbiquitousBubba


Bagpipes - The cure for Rap.

Well, how many rappers have you heard gettin' jiggy over some bagpipes? 

(I sincerely hope I did not just invent a new "artform"...)

(I sincerely hope I can rid myself of the mental image of several sweaty guys in parkas and kilts surrounded by a posse of Highland dancers...)

Luck of the Irish brings bagpiper and Jamaican rap artist together for 'The Sound of the Bagpipe'

BY PATRICE O'SHAUGHNESSY
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Wednesday, March 09, 2011

An Irish bagpiper and a Jamaican hip-hop artist seem an unlikely duo, but they've collaborated on a music video of reels and reggae filmed on the Emerald Isle.
Bronxites Brian McGuire, a banker by day and a piper with NY Metro Pipe Band and Rally Bop, who mixes rap and hard-charging reggae, made "The Sound of the Bagpipe" after a Harlem-born music producer brought them together.
McGuire, 31, was having a drink in the Hudson Hotel bar last fall when he met Will Roberson, an independent producer whose clients range from French hip-hop group KDD to New Age artist Jean Michel Jarre and Jose Feliciano. 
 
  
 

I don't think I want to see the video for "Baby Got Haggis".

Reminds me of the time I was at the Key West Sunset Pier (at sunset) where different street performers all gather to get a few bucks of change from the tourists like me. Nice event. Guitar players, singers, jugglers, etc. One time a bagpipe player showed up in full dress kilts. While bagpipes are a novelty to me and I enjoy them for the novelty, the other performers that evening were a bit irritated. Bagpipes can be loud, and trying to sing over them was not very doable.
 
On the other hand, bagpipes during a funeral march is a very stunning tribute. Hard not to have a tear come to your eyes.

Bagpipes be flat.

craigb


Ow!   Thorns...

UbiquitousBubba


Bagpipes - The cure for Rap.

Well, how many rappers have you heard gettin' jiggy over some bagpipes? 

(I sincerely hope I did not just invent a new "artform"...)

(I sincerely hope I can rid myself of the mental image of several sweaty guys in parkas and kilts surrounded by a posse of Highland dancers...)

Bagpipes are far more musical than Crap Rap.

http://www.fdnypipesanddrums.net/

Hey, look!  It's Rain's neighbors!

I wonder where the rest of them are lurking?