No youre more up to date than me. They did say what ever he had was dance threatening, but he was meant to be giving that up due to dodgey knees years ago. I’m just jealous of the fiddle floozeys, what we need are floot floozeys!! … an floot fellahs for the gels as well of course!
And a tight endcap, too 
Thanks to the wonders of self-nomination, I hereby designate Trees as our official Flute Feller! Let the 
ing begin!
Oh no! This means I have to wiggle up to a fiddle playing lady in a humiliating and ingratiating way whilst playing brilliantly the whole time.
I’m probably OK with the wiggling (within the limits of age) and ingratiation but the last item might prove tricky. 
Mind you if they pay as well as Mr Flatley does I’ll give it a go! 
Not to spread oil on the waters, but I would rather doubt that Mr. Flatley is actually playing the flute whilst cosying up to the fiddleladies. It’s too easy to lipsync, and much safer too, considering the difficulty of keeping a perfect sound whild dancing. Just a thought.
I confess I’ve always had a weakness for ‘split-skirt fiddling
floozies.’ Genetic, I reckon. Can’t help but wiggle up to 'em.
‘Humiliating and ingratiating’ are in the eye of the
fiddling floozy, I’m afraid. Yes to humiliating, no to
ingratiating, so far.
I really like Flatley’s bravura use of the flute as a
lead instrument. I didn’t know a flute could do that.
I suspect Mr Flatley is actually playing the flute, come on! He not only has Feet of Flames, (and buns of steel) but probably Lungs the size of Watermelons with all the dancing he can do… Can’t you waltz around whilst playing your flute? If you know the tune really well? I know I can, rough amateur that I am…
And I think the fiddle ladies are GREAT!!! If I looked that good in a leather suit, I’d wear one all the time, are you kiddin’ me?!?!?!?
M 
Here’s the clip I watched; same thing but maybe slightly different timecode…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsttkEZ3Pl8&mode=related&search= >
if you watch closely around 4:20 and 4:40 it is pretty clear they are not playing live, there’s a couple notes still playing when he’;s already moved his mouth away from the flute.
I’ve heard from a musician who toured with one of the shows that the music is pre-recorded.
Some was some wasn’t but the music was mostly live on the shows I worked on. The really odd thing was that the tap track of all the hoofers feet was pre recorded. So in rehearsal you had the chorus line there dancing away and then an invisible Flatley would come on and do his solo turn.
Some was some wasn’t but the music was mostly live on the shows I worked on. The really odd thing was that the tap track of all the hoofers feet was pre recorded. So in rehearsal you had the chorus line there dancing away and then an invisible Flatley would come on and do his solo turn.
I think there are obviously practical matters of managing a show like this, one is miking to get consistent performance and sound quality, so i would think that they have to pre-record the tap track.
I would also think you would want to minimize risk here of things going wrong. With a wireless mike set-up with that much movement plus throwing your flute around sounds like a lot of risk to me…so i wouldn’t be surprised if a lot of this was pre-recorded…
He better not use that nice boxwood rudall as a baton 
Yes…it’s a “spectacle,” not a concert. Risk-taking might make things, oh, I dunno, interesting? Alive? Can’t have that. Heck, I can’t wait until all the music is pieced together digitally so it can be really perfect, and then it can be danced by 3D animated dancers who are PERFECTLY in synch! Wouldn’t that be great? You could even make up steps that would be impossible for real people. Then maybe run it at double speed to make it really impressive.
I thought they looked great too! Well, except for the cheesy posturing, flinging the hair about, the plastic smiles, and all that, which pretty much ruins it. OK, sarcasm off: I actually think it’s quite likely they are fine, intelligent, sensitive ladies who are doing this because of their love for music and dance, and are putting up with the “glitz” temporarily for the opportunity and money. I have no problem with that.
What she said!
(Meanwhile, alas, even my big ol’ winter coveralls seem tighter than last year … 
)
Well, except for the cheesy posturing, flinging the hair about, the plastic smiles, and all that.
That’s Show Biz! I mean, I’m willing to prostitute myself for
the sake of creating a dazzling appearance…
Did anybody hear? I’m willing, I said, willing to prostitute
myself to create a dazzling appearance.
Hello? Yoo hoo!
Jim. Plastic. Dazzling. Spangles. Prostitute. Dazzling. Leather. Jim.
Heh-heh. 
Aw Man, there y’all go, telling me the music is pre-recorded…
I so want to believe.
Next thing I know, y’all will be telling me there’s no Santy Claus!!!
He is bringing me that nice 8-key Grinter that Blaine is selling, right?
M
Okay Mary, I hate to be the one to break it to you then, particularly on the heels (so to speak) of this last, but, well… You know Milli Vanilli weren’t really singing live either… Sorry, don’t hate me for being the one to tell you.
Loren
he should start a band with Esteban and Zamfir.
Noooooooooooooooooooooo!!!
M
Mr. Flat’s also a Golden Gloves Champion boxer, so I’d hesitate to call him a eblsaiux ecko nrosgnit alaiancgmemol wicdkede to his face.
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What a freak-show!
What’s wrong with Mike? He had some facial skin cancer which he said he’d overcome.
Doesn’t he also have a clear plastic flute with LED’s inside, like those glowing Rickenbacker guitars they marketed during the Haze of the late 60’s?
They shrunk, that’s all. They shrunk! (shrank?)
M