For those who like bagpipes

thtpunkrockerkid · 03-09-2010, 11:10 PM

I've seen some of you guys joke around about bagpipies but I found a cool band that uses them.

God Willing by The Dropkick Murphys

Only Irish may reply!!! lol JK

Guitarist · 03-09-2010, 11:12 PM

I'm part Irish so I have the right, apparently, to reply. I only like bagpipes because my grandpa loves them.

Schmange · 03-09-2010, 11:55 PM

I don't mind em as long as they don't play Amazing Grace. God, I hate that song.

The Smitchens · 03-10-2010, 05:02 AM

I love bagpipes. I wish there was some bagpipe effect or something for the guitar. If such a thing exists then I've had shit luck finding it. I know Mike Oldfield used some giant box of shit to get his guitar to sound like that on Tubular Bells, but other than that I'm clueless.

Marty · 03-10-2010, 10:45 AM

Highland Bagpipes are awsome! I think I must be part Scottish cause hearing that sound makes my tummy warm and fuzzy

I love all that olde worlde military music.

YouTube - Scotland the brave bagpipe

Syntho-sis · 03-10-2010, 11:33 AM

Listen to "Going up to Boston" I think that's what it's called...It's by them as well

Kickass song

Gone Shootin' · 03-10-2010, 01:21 PM

didn't Big Country do something like this, using two guitars?

the notes on Mike's "Glorfindel" box are interesting...

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Notes on the Instruments...
Electric guitar - Mike only used one electric guitar on Tubular Bells, which was a blond Fender Telecaster with an extra pickup (a Bill Lawrence) fitted. This guitar was originally owned by Marc Bolan of T-Rex (although it only had 2 pickups at that stage). To create the 'speed guitar' and 'mandolin like guitar' sounds, the tape was ran at half speed while recording the electric guitar (meaning it plays back at double speed, which is what the 'double speed guitar' introduced at the end of part one is). Fuzz guitars just refers to the guitar being played through a distortion effect.

To create 'Guitars sounding like bagpipes', Mike employed the slightly mysterious Glorfindel box. This was an effects unit, encased in a wooden box, which Mike got from David Bedford, who'd been given the box at a party by its creator, a stoned hippy. The box was extremely unreliable in its operation, rarely giving the same result twice (Tom Newman was clearly unimpressed - talking in a 2001 interview with Q magazine, he said of Mike and the Glorfindel box: "he had this awful home-made electronics box full of horrid transistors, covered in faders and knobs which he called a 'Glorfindel'. This was a piece of plywood filled with junk that he could plug his guitar into and sometimes a sound would come out. Sometimes the sound was good, but most of the time it was terrible.")

It seems that, at least on this occasion, plugging the guitar into the Glorfindel box produced a heavily compressed and smoothly distorted guitar sound. Guitars were overdubbed at both normal and half speeds (as with the double speed guitar) to create the bagpipe sound on part two at 08:41. Mike took the idea of massed overdubbed guitars much further on the following two albums.

Minotaur · 03-10-2010, 01:51 PM

I love the pipes, and I'm of Mediterranean descent.

I don't know what kind of (guitar?) effect GL used in The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, but to me it sounded vaguely of the pipes. Of course, there's my no-talent-for-playing-by-ear at work.

Minotaur · 03-10-2010, 01:55 PM

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Originally Posted by The Smitchens

I love bagpipes. I wish there was some bagpipe effect or something for the guitar. If such a thing exists then I've had shit luck finding it. I know Mike Oldfield used some giant box of shit to get his guitar to sound like that on Tubular Bells, but other than that I'm clueless.

Tubular Bells is completely other-worldly. I mean that as high praise. I love Piltdown Man, and the hypnotic rhythmic lead-in to it. Mike was totally drunken-sailor-three-sheets-to-the-wind-fucked-up-beyond-belief-drunk when he recorded the grunts and growls and other vocals. Very cool.

Schmange · 03-11-2010, 05:28 AM

Back when I was hanging out with my teenage friends we had a next door neighbour who used to play bagpipes on the weekend in his backyard.

So we'd take my pals stereo and put the speakers in the window and blast Led Zeppelin at top volume back at him.

He didn't mind... it was actually a good laugh. He'd start up with the bagpipes and we'd counter with Immigrant Song or Deep Purple, Smoke on the Water. Then we'd start a music war with both of em going on once.

03-09-2010, 11:10 PM	#1 (permalink)
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Guitarist My dads favorite mistake. Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: So Cal Posts: 1,748	I'm part Irish so I have the right, apparently, to reply. I only like bagpipes because my grandpa loves them. __________________ The one you can't get enough of.

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Schmange Groovy Dude Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Holland Landing Posts: 2,431	I don't mind em as long as they don't play Amazing Grace. God, I hate that song. __________________ Peace & Grooviness! Schmange

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The Smitchens Villainous Mastermind Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: 12-Lat, 32-Long Posts: 4,760	I love bagpipes. I wish there was some bagpipe effect or something for the guitar. If such a thing exists then I've had shit luck finding it. I know Mike Oldfield used some giant box of shit to get his guitar to sound like that on Tubular Bells, but other than that I'm clueless. __________________ To that I say balderdash. *An egg - nature's perfect container. The container of all our hopes for the future.* *I think I am a genius, therefore I am a genius.*

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Syntho-sis Member Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: USA Posts: 91	Listen to "Going up to Boston" I think that's what it's called...It's by them as well Kickass song __________________ "Sometimes you want to give up the guitar, you'll hate the guitar. But if you stick with it, you're gonna be rewarded." -Jimi Hendrix

03-10-2010, 10:45 AM	#5 (permalink)
Marty Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: England Posts: 385	Highland Bagpipes are awsome! I think I must be part Scottish cause hearing that sound makes my tummy warm and fuzzy I love all that olde worlde military music. YouTube - Scotland the brave bagpipe

03-10-2010, 01:51 PM	#8 (permalink)
Minotaur Matthew 7:1-5 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: (Jersey Shore) NJ, USA. Posts: 1,352	I love the pipes, and I'm of Mediterranean descent. I don't know what kind of (guitar?) effect GL used in The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, but to me it sounded vaguely of the pipes. Of course, there's my no-talent-for-playing-by-ear at work. __________________ Η ΤΑΝ Η ΕΠΙ ΤΑΣ - "Come back with your shield or on it". Ancient Spartan saying before going into battle.

03-11-2010, 05:28 AM	#10 (permalink)
Schmange Groovy Dude Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Holland Landing Posts: 2,431	Back when I was hanging out with my teenage friends we had a next door neighbour who used to play bagpipes on the weekend in his backyard. So we'd take my pals stereo and put the speakers in the window and blast Led Zeppelin at top volume back at him. He didn't mind... it was actually a good laugh. He'd start up with the bagpipes and we'd counter with Immigrant Song or Deep Purple, Smoke on the Water. Then we'd start a music war with both of em going on once. __________________ Peace & Grooviness! Schmange

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