I know there have been too many discussions recently that are simply links to YouTube videos, but I just can't resist. For any of you out there who love the good old music, the pure drop, the sean nos, call it what you will, please take the time to watch all six and a half minutes of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8nxDqNMSp8&mode=related&search=
There is fine old-style singing, uninhibited dance, wild tunes--all untainted by the crass commercialism and fakery of the post-Riverdance era. This is what Irish music is all about, my friends.
Brilliant! - Are all Irish people like them. If they are then I am off to Stranraer to get the ferry across tonight. Did you see the way that guy was dancing with all those flips. Sensational. Even if he was on strings.
So fess up you lot. Which of you was it who snuck a video camera into our session last week?! And posting it online for all the world to see. Shame, shame! Now we'll be overrun with pure drop wannabe's storming our lovely little session for a taste of the craic.
Ah yes… that’s the way I remember Ireland being before the Celtic Tiger took over. The good old days when the ladies would do anything for a hug and a kiss. Now-a-days of course they’d slap you up-side the head if you suggested such a thing.
I really enjoyed the solo male polka step dancing in the street near the start. That’s what they used to call ‘Jack in the box’ style. Mind you it would be much easier with the center of many towns closed to traffic the way they are these days. But seeing them nearly getting run down by lorries really added to the excitement and spirit of the whole thing IMHO.
I miss that old tradition as well where they put a crown on the goat’s head before they make him into a bodhran. I also enjoyed seeing the age-old wisdom of the Irish single man who’s looking for a wife. Notice how he selected the one that would be best suited to look after him in his old age. Then he looks up into the balcony at the end and gets his mum’s approval. Those were the days.
No wonder my great -grandpa dropped his accent and all other tell-tale reminders of the old country when he hopped off the boat. Can you imagine having to wear one of those hats in public? Poor fellow. He couldn't become a Hoosier fast enough.
my current fave is the wonderful clip of West Clare Wrenboys from Clarebannerman.....my youtube link didn't paste properly, but "west clare wrenboys" should do it....
That's a good question, nicholas. It is a name applied to folks from Indiana (aka The Corn Belt) , but no one that I know can explain the origin or what the heck it means. It is just what you call people from Indiana. It's not insulting or anything.
Funny enough I was born a Hoosier. My mother was an Indiana farm girl of Irish origins. My Italian father had the Chico Marx accent and was constantly called a Honky cause of it. So back to Massachusetts we went. No more home of the Fighting Irish for me.
Liked the video, but for some reason I kept waiting for the Lollipop Kid from the Wizard of Oz to jump out
Ah sure and begorrah wasn't the tears running down me face when I watched this extract from the 1947 film My Wild Irish Rose'. Unfortunately I'm old enough to remember queuing for the fourpennies at the cinema to watch it first time around. How we laughed as we sat there in our gansies with snotty sleeves and no arse in our short trousers, to think that that the Americans thought we dressed like that back in the 'Auld Country'. Incidentally some of the tunes were The Kinnegad Slasher - Biddy the bould wife and the Rakes of Mallow.
PS..About four years ago in an pub in Ireland I was handed a $100 bill by a girl from Texas for playing 'My Wild Irish Rose' for her. Hurray for Hollywood..that's what I say.
This true old Irish culture lives on in the merry country towns of Western Australia. Most country pubs have their own music-hall choir and chorus-line. It's great for unwinding after a hard day slaughtering sheep or mining iron ore, and it gives the maori lads a chance to give their native tubas an airing.
While women may be allowed to help with decoratin' the pub and doin' a bit o' bakin', they'll generally be chased off before the real costume-wearin', shandy-drinkin' and amyl-sniffin' gets goin' proper loik.
for those who love the pure drop...
for those who love the pure drop...
I know there have been too many discussions recently that are simply links to YouTube videos, but I just can't resist. For any of you out there who love the good old music, the pure drop, the sean nos, call it what you will, please take the time to watch all six and a half minutes of this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8nxDqNMSp8&mode=related&search=
There is fine old-style singing, uninhibited dance, wild tunes--all untainted by the crass commercialism and fakery of the post-Riverdance era. This is what Irish music is all about, my friends.
# Posted on June 22nd 2007 by patrick cavanagh
Re: for those who love the pure drop...
I liked it. It reminded me of my youth.
# Posted on June 22nd 2007 by llig leahcim
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Brilliant! - Are all Irish people like them. If they are then I am off to Stranraer to get the ferry across tonight. Did you see the way that guy was dancing with all those flips. Sensational. Even if he was on strings.
# Posted on June 22nd 2007 by No Cause For Alarm
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Pause it at 5:00. The look on that girl's face is priceless: "fack off you paedophile weirdo".
# Posted on June 22nd 2007 by Dow
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I liked it a lot. And I completely agree with you. Give me the old stuff any day.
The simplicity of the arrangements was stunning, wasn't it?
# Posted on June 22nd 2007 by benhall.1
Re: for those who love the pure drop...
So fess up you lot. Which of you was it who snuck a video camera into our session last week?! And posting it online for all the world to see. Shame, shame! Now we'll be overrun with pure drop wannabe's storming our lovely little session for a taste of the craic.
# Posted on June 22nd 2007 by Will CPT
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So this is where Riverdance came from! Who knew?
# Posted on June 22nd 2007 by Tracie
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Ah yes… that’s the way I remember Ireland being before the Celtic Tiger took over. The good old days when the ladies would do anything for a hug and a kiss. Now-a-days of course they’d slap you up-side the head if you suggested such a thing.
I really enjoyed the solo male polka step dancing in the street near the start. That’s what they used to call ‘Jack in the box’ style. Mind you it would be much easier with the center of many towns closed to traffic the way they are these days. But seeing them nearly getting run down by lorries really added to the excitement and spirit of the whole thing IMHO.
I miss that old tradition as well where they put a crown on the goat’s head before they make him into a bodhran. I also enjoyed seeing the age-old wisdom of the Irish single man who’s looking for a wife. Notice how he selected the one that would be best suited to look after him in his old age. Then he looks up into the balcony at the end and gets his mum’s approval. Those were the days.
# Posted on June 22nd 2007 by Phantom Button
Re: for those who love the pure drop...
That one guy is a cross between Michael Flatley and Chico Marx. With some Mary Lou Retton thrown in. Faith and begorrah!
# Posted on June 22nd 2007 by patrick cavanagh
Re: for those who love the pure drop...
No wonder my great -grandpa dropped his accent and all other tell-tale reminders of the old country when he hopped off the boat. Can you imagine having to wear one of those hats in public? Poor fellow. He couldn't become a Hoosier fast enough.
# Posted on June 22nd 2007 by Batlady
Re: for those who love the pure drop...
my current fave is the wonderful clip of West Clare Wrenboys from Clarebannerman.....my youtube link didn't paste properly, but "west clare wrenboys" should do it....
# Posted on June 22nd 2007 by ceemonster
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What's a Hoosier?
# Posted on June 22nd 2007 by nicholas
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The second jig was The Kinnegad Slashers, wasn't it?
# Posted on June 22nd 2007 by Key Maniac Lad
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That's a good question, nicholas. It is a name applied to folks from Indiana (aka The Corn Belt) , but no one that I know can explain the origin or what the heck it means. It is just what you call people from Indiana. It's not insulting or anything.
# Posted on June 22nd 2007 by Batlady
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Brought a tear to my eye.
# Posted on June 23rd 2007 by bodhran bliss
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Funny enough I was born a Hoosier. My mother was an Indiana farm girl of Irish origins. My Italian father had the Chico Marx accent and was constantly called a Honky cause of it. So back to Massachusetts we went. No more home of the Fighting Irish for me.
Liked the video, but for some reason I kept waiting for the Lollipop Kid from the Wizard of Oz to jump out
# Posted on June 23rd 2007 by Mariska Hargitay
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I don't know what youse are all on about. That's a fairly typical night in our session, was last night, anyway
# Posted on June 23rd 2007 by Pól
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I thought the guitars were best.
# Posted on June 23rd 2007 by maxF
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Wait are we all watching the same video? With the guy on the stage and all the rich people in the audience?
# Posted on June 23rd 2007 by possumawesome
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Ah sure and begorrah wasn't the tears running down me face when I watched this extract from the 1947 film My Wild Irish Rose'. Unfortunately I'm old enough to remember queuing for the fourpennies at the cinema to watch it first time around. How we laughed as we sat there in our gansies with snotty sleeves and no arse in our short trousers, to think that that the Americans thought we dressed like that back in the 'Auld Country'. Incidentally some of the tunes were The Kinnegad Slasher - Biddy the bould wife and the Rakes of Mallow.
PS..About four years ago in an pub in Ireland I was handed a $100 bill by a girl from Texas for playing 'My Wild Irish Rose' for her. Hurray for Hollywood..that's what I say.
# Posted on June 23rd 2007 by Free Reed
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This true old Irish culture lives on in the merry country towns of Western Australia. Most country pubs have their own music-hall choir and chorus-line. It's great for unwinding after a hard day slaughtering sheep or mining iron ore, and it gives the maori lads a chance to give their native tubas an airing.
While women may be allowed to help with decoratin' the pub and doin' a bit o' bakin', they'll generally be chased off before the real costume-wearin', shandy-drinkin' and amyl-sniffin' gets goin' proper loik.
# Posted on June 25th 2007 by Mairtin Lom
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That's six minutes of me life I wish I had back!
# Posted on June 26th 2007 by johnnevin