I just happened to query oxfam’s uk site with the search word ‘uilleann’ and very surprisingly saw a copy of o’flynn’s first solo album on vinyl
i’ve never seen this for sale anywhere before so this goes to show there are a few gems out there that are worth scouring the internet for
It comes up on ebay fairly regularly.
Buy ,buy ,buy . Great if you’re a DJ and want to do some scratching.
RORY
Well, I guess someones bought it - no longer on the Oxfam site.
Anyone have a track list?
For those unaware, The Fine Art of Piping I highly reccomend. And no other musicians to clutter up the experience. Beautifully recorded, with great balance between chanter, drones and regs. L O’F sounds laid back, and really enjoying himself.
Pwrt
Anyone have a track list?
Thank you Mr G.
Pwrt
Such a shame that it’s not available anywhere. LoF was the first piper I ever heard, and hearing him was the reason I bought a set and have started learning. I would love to hear it.
It’s a fine recording indeed.
Has anyone got an mp3 of the recordings that Liam made in the early '60s?
I think it was on a Seoda Ceol record. He sounds just like Leo Rowsome. Loadsa regulator vamping.
I had the record years ago and loaned it to a friend and never saw it since. I’d love to hear it again.
Tommy
He was recorded at the '64 Oireachtas, and indeed was a faithful vampire back then. It is good practice, you know. Playing some other set, with some snarling 2nd octave notes. He wasn’t on the Seoda Ceol albums, that was Willie and Seamus. Felix Doran had one track on some Live at the Feis type album around that time, never heard of Liam sitting down in a studio before the Christy Moore record though. I think. Ciaran Mac recorded him in '67 and he was on that first CCE LP too, he sounded like he does now by then. “Classic Piping” as one reviewer put it.
I have that CCE album with LoF on CD, bought it about 10 years ago.
Can’t remember off hand the title, also had Sean Kean (fiddle), and Joe Burke (accordion) on it.
LoF’s playing reminded me of Leo Rowsome, a lot!
cheers to all.
Just found that what I assume to be Bulmer’s old Celtic Music is selling off old stock on ebay and found they have a number of copies of The fine art of piping on vinyl. Never even seen a vinyl copy. Ever.
Fine Art of Piping. Vinyl copies on ebay
bit steep
All three copies sold quickly though it seems. The first one only minutes after I posted the link.
copy of o’flynn’s first solo album on vinyl
By the way, if I remember correctly the Fine Art of Piping was done before LOF1 and although it flew under the radar a bit it is probably a better contender for the title of ‘first solo album’. My surprise above at seeing vinyl copies of it was caused by this album flying under the radar, most of us only became aware of it (ah yes, the times before the internet) when the CD edition became available.
Wikipedia has LOF1 as 1988 and The Fine Art as 1991 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liam_O’Flynn
Tara Music has it as 1988 and 1989 respectively.
You’re right. Sometimes you should look at the things rather relying on memory. F-art of pip was recorded in 1989 and (probably) released in 1991, the CD has a copyright notice that says 1989 on it though. I remember being surprised it had been around for a while, several years, when it was first mentioned in an Piobaire. I don’t think many people, for whatever reason, realised it existed before that.
I wouldn’t have been surprised if I’d found another source saying it was recorded earlier, though.
Honestly, I thought LOF1 was earlier than that. I had the loan of it on cassette - old and worn enough that you could play it and it sounded fine, but if you tried to copy it, it was terrible. I think I managed to copy it by playing it into a microphone… But I have a proper copy now.
Speaking of old vinyl on EBay, this http://tinyurl.com/mrcln8v
has a track of Maire. I actually saw this Comhaltas tour lineup in Liverpool in the late seventies, though it was slightly different from those that recorded. I’m pretty sure the two flute players were Patsy Hanley and Conal O Grada.
There’s also bunch of Comhaltas tour records listed from Celtic Music’s new old stock, some of them at quite the price. I actually just got one (a cheap one) last week, which is more or less how I stumbled into the F art of piping. There were several others going as well on the UK/IE ebay site anyway, got another one yesterday. The listing you linked normally wouldn’t come up for me: US only (and sold now too).