Ah, could we get security guards like that in London ?
Could we get musicians like that in London ? ( Capital cities get a little paranoid. )
Come on, folks, are we going to let the Canadians lead the world ?
Jigtime, I refer you back to a line in "The West Wing"...."....Canada has promised full support short of any action...."
Actually, I have a few relatives over there now.
There worst thing I found, coming via the USA from the UK, was I simply couldn't cope with converting cash values twice - should have looked up the direct exchange rate from sterling.
Anyway, who's for a CommandoTrad UK ?
What a horrific-looking dump. It looks like a cross between a veal farm, Galway Cathedral and the Prince Bishops Centre multi-storey car park in Durham. How many people throw themselves off those landings every year?
We Don't HAVE any fur trappers left, grizzled or otherwise. They've all starved to death, or found other occupations, since you EU types banned the fur trade. And as for heroic Mounties...
Here's why oily, trapperless Canada is A-OK in my book:
• I reckon most Mounties are heroic (except the one who tediously, needlessly lectured me at that drunk driving checkpoint just outside Banff last millennium).
• The Lake O'Hara / Lake MacArthur region in B.C. is the most beautiful place on earth. Only a fool would argue against it.
Help us to spread the word. Please send the link of mission 4 via mailing list,facebook,twitter!
By the way, the Commando Trad is québécois!
Hope to see a Commando in UK!
Le bedeau de l'enfer
co-founder
NPDECO, our national police force has a bad rep at present, partially due to arrogant unaccountability, and some incidents such as tasering to death a confused traveler for wielding an office stapler when approached by four officers; and shooting in the back of the head a young man who was in custody for being in possession of an open can of beer.
Hopefully there will be a major re-structuring to restore the RCMP to its former glory.
What Canada gave to Britain was the status (I don't actually know if it's authentic) of having the largest empire the world had ever seen.
This is because it included Canada, most of it a freakishly uninhabitable frozen morass populated by a few polar bears and the remains of Lord Franklin.
But the size beggared belief, and made for some incredible stats. And no-one else was going to be mad enough to go there and double-check them.
Talk about grade inflation!
(I ought to add - though I've never been, Canada has always struck me as a pretty OK place, as places go...)
Actually Canada is not really that big, it's just the Mercator projection that makes it look so big on the map.
And most people live within 50 miles of the US border.
But CommandoTrad remains superb.
Ou est CT Quinz ? Allez, allez !
CommandoTrad #4
CommandoTrad #4
As well as being lots of fun, it was also a plea for the inclusion of traditional music in university music studies.
A Canadian documentary film-maker, André Gladu, plans to use some of the footage in his next film about the pleasures of urban life in Montréal.
# Posted on May 13th 2010 by JNW
Re: CommandoTrad #4
I've been watching this over and over - great stuff.
# Posted on May 13th 2010 by rogfox
Re: CommandoTrad #4
Looks like a ton of fun. Any Weedgie musos want to take over Central Station?
# Posted on May 13th 2010 by DrSilverSpear
Re: CommandoTrad #4
Lovely! (But I can imagine the delay in that space being nightmarish.)
Was Kerri Brown in that crowd? Right up her alley, I can imagine.
# Posted on May 13th 2010 by Michele Sims
Re: CommandoTrad #4
What fun! Surprised the local rent a cops didn't have a nervous breakdown.
# Posted on May 13th 2010 by SWFL Fiddler
Re: CommandoTrad #4
Beats muzak n'est-ce pas?
# Posted on May 13th 2010 by gam
Re: CommandoTrad #4
Yes, the delay *was* a bit of a problem - but it had been anticipated so we all did our best to keep together. Great editing helps, too
A far as I know, Kerry hasn't lived in Montréal for a while ..
The security guards were cool - (like Montréal cops at a hockey game )- ‘live and let live’ - more or less. Guess they liked it, too.
# Posted on May 13th 2010 by JNW
Re: CommandoTrad #4
Ah, could we get security guards like that in London ?
Could we get musicians like that in London ? ( Capital cities get a little paranoid. )
Come on, folks, are we going to let the Canadians lead the world ?
# Posted on May 13th 2010 by Guernsey Pete
Re: CommandoTrad #4
"Come on, folks, are we going to let the Canadians lead
the world ?"
WE DO ? WOW. Oh, thank you
# Posted on May 14th 2010 by jigtime
Re: CommandoTrad #4
That suggests the idea of a "flash session". It would be better than
the mysterious public pillow fights we see around here.
# Posted on May 14th 2010 by Hup
Re: CommandoTrad #4
O Canada!
Our home and native land!
True patriot love in all thy sons command...
Yes, too many NHL games for me. Cheers to you Habs from a Bruins fan!
# Posted on May 14th 2010 by SWFL Fiddler
Re: CommandoTrad #4
Jigtime, I refer you back to a line in "The West Wing"...."....Canada has promised full support short of any action...."
Actually, I have a few relatives over there now.
There worst thing I found, coming via the USA from the UK, was I simply couldn't cope with converting cash values twice - should have looked up the direct exchange rate from sterling.
Anyway, who's for a CommandoTrad UK ?
# Posted on May 14th 2010 by Guernsey Pete
Re: CommandoTrad #4
Sorry SWFL. We have the Black Hawks
It's our year, unless Bobby Orr comes back!
# Posted on May 14th 2010 by zippydw
Re: CommandoTrad #4
Me! But I am way far north of you, Pete.
# Posted on May 14th 2010 by DrSilverSpear
Re: CommandoTrad #4
Merci, Veronique, for organizing these events!
Kerri is in BC according to her Facebook news.
# Posted on May 14th 2010 by vonnieestes
Re: CommandoTrad #4
What a horrific-looking dump. It looks like a cross between a veal farm, Galway Cathedral and the Prince Bishops Centre multi-storey car park in Durham. How many people throw themselves off those landings every year?
# Posted on May 14th 2010 by nicholas
Re: CommandoTrad #4
Nicholas—
Certainly the place does not exist. It was clearly a computer-generated fake, along the lines of "Avatar."
Had the "people" in the video been actual, meat-space beings, at least one of them would have shouted out "Free Bird!"
Still, had the creators of this video included a heroic Mountie and a few grizzled fur trappers, I might well have been fooled by it.
# Posted on May 14th 2010 by NEW Pure Drop® Ear Canal Oil
Re: CommandoTrad #4
We Don't HAVE any fur trappers left, grizzled or otherwise. They've all starved to death, or found other occupations, since you EU types banned the fur trade. And as for heroic Mounties...
# Posted on May 14th 2010 by oldstrings
Re: CommandoTrad #4
Doesn't matter, you've still got OIL, you jammy so-and-sos..!
All else bows to that, n'est-ce pas?
# Posted on May 14th 2010 by nicholas
Re: CommandoTrad #4
oldstrings / nicholas—
Here's why oily, trapperless Canada is A-OK in my book:
• I reckon most Mounties are heroic (except the one who tediously, needlessly lectured me at that drunk driving checkpoint just outside Banff last millennium).
• The Lake O'Hara / Lake MacArthur region in B.C. is the most beautiful place on earth. Only a fool would argue against it.
# Posted on May 14th 2010 by NEW Pure Drop® Ear Canal Oil
Re: CommandoTrad #4
Help us to spread the word. Please send the link of mission 4 via mailing list,facebook,twitter!
By the way, the Commando Trad is québécois!
Hope to see a Commando in UK!
Le bedeau de l'enfer
co-founder
# Posted on May 14th 2010 by commandotrad
Re: CommandoTrad #4
NPDECO, our national police force has a bad rep at present, partially due to arrogant unaccountability, and some incidents such as tasering to death a confused traveler for wielding an office stapler when approached by four officers; and shooting in the back of the head a young man who was in custody for being in possession of an open can of beer.
Hopefully there will be a major re-structuring to restore the RCMP to its former glory.
# Posted on May 14th 2010 by oldstrings
Re: CommandoTrad #4
nicholas, there are disadvantages to having oil.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/americas/rig-survivors-recall-deadly-blast/article1561647/
and closer to home
http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=valdez+oil+spill+pictures&aq=2&aqi=g8g-m2&aql=&oq=valdez+oil+spill&gs_rfai=
and
http://environmentalism.suite101.com/article.cfm/alberta_tar_sands
but everything else here is wonderful!
# Posted on May 14th 2010 by oldstrings
Re: CommandoTrad #4
What Canada gave to Britain was the status (I don't actually know if it's authentic) of having the largest empire the world had ever seen.
This is because it included Canada, most of it a freakishly uninhabitable frozen morass populated by a few polar bears and the remains of Lord Franklin.
But the size beggared belief, and made for some incredible stats. And no-one else was going to be mad enough to go there and double-check them.
Talk about grade inflation!
(I ought to add - though I've never been, Canada has always struck me as a pretty OK place, as places go...)
# Posted on May 14th 2010 by nicholas
Re: CommandoTrad #4
Oldstrings-
"...us EU types"?
You need restrung.
# Posted on May 14th 2010 by Eòsaph
Re: CommandoTrad #4
as long as you don't mean 'strung up', I can live with that.
# Posted on May 15th 2010 by oldstrings
Re: CommandoTrad #4
Tres bien! What a great idea!
# Posted on May 15th 2010 by AlBrown
Re: CommandoTrad #4
Actually Canada is not really that big, it's just the Mercator projection that makes it look so big on the map.
And most people live within 50 miles of the US border.
But CommandoTrad remains superb.
Ou est CT Quinz ? Allez, allez !
# Posted on May 15th 2010 by Guernsey Pete
Re: CommandoTrad #4
zippy, we'll let the Blackhawks slide, fair play to the "Original Six" and all:
)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original_Six
Better them than some newfangled expansion team!
(Just seeing if I can bait Reverend or Jusa Nutter with some hockey trash talk.
# Posted on May 15th 2010 by SWFL Fiddler
Re: CommandoTrad #4
GO HABS GO!
Sorry for the outburst, but it was slightly cathartic.
# Posted on May 15th 2010 by Fanning
Re: CommandoTrad #4
Hi ear drop,
> Had the "people" in the video been actual, meat-space beings, > at least one of them would have shouted out "Free Bird!"
I think someone did .... around 5:55
# Posted on May 15th 2010 by spindizzy
Re: CommandoTrad #4
Okay, I've found a song and a novel entitled "Free Bird", but I'm none the wiser.
# Posted on May 16th 2010 by oldstrings
Re: CommandoTrad #4
I think we need to do one in Toronto, possibly in conjunction with Doors Open and the Chris Langan weekend...
# Posted on May 16th 2010 by rdi
Discussion: Celtic Guerrillas Vancouver
# Posted on June 18th 2010 by oldstrings
http://www.thesession.org/discussions/display/24875
# Posted on August 10th 2010 by ceolachan
More connections ~
Discussion: Cammando Trad #5 is out
# Posted on July 23rd 2010 by Carabus
http://www.thesession.org/discussions/display/25143
Discussion: Commando trad
# Posted on July 27th 2010 by commandotrad
http://www.thesession.org/discussions/display/25175
# Posted on August 10th 2010 by ceolachan