Mike!!! Mike!!!
don’t gooooooo
Well…
Ar Éireann Ní Neosfainn Cé Hí, I like very much. Well, I liked the tune even before I listened to the Youchube. And it’s ok if you like that kinda thing, but I’d rather have Petty Booka any day.
Goes on a bit
hmmm, personally I prefer jigs. This seems to drag on and on for a while and very monotoned.
If you haven’t heard this tune yet, you’ve not lived…
Seems I’ve missed a lot of living having not heard this tune before…I’m off for a listen,…although it is Mr Finnigan..I’m a glutton for punishment. 
Okay…I just had a listen…couldn’t listen to much of the second tune, I was so irritated by the finger vibrato on ‘For Ireland, etc’ that I had to give up.
I was glad that his customary triple tonguing was left out of it, though I did have my finger ready on the stop button waiting for the first triple 
I suppose I shall just have to go on living with not having lived. 
Hell yes! Sign me up for summa that.
Meanwhile, as regards your sig line, Mr. Nano, to wit:
“Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.” - Abbie Hoffman, 1936 - 1989
I find myself wondering if this is what Hoffman was saying just as Pete Townshend was vigorously encouraging him to leave the stage during the Who’s performance at Woodstock.
Rob
Hmm, could be. Could be. My memory is all too much a product of the times.
Of course, I’m sure my choice of a response line - “Cad faoi a bhfuil sé ag caint?” - couldn’t have been lost on you. A lesson demonstrated by a cheap shot, yes, but how could I resist? 
I won’t hear a bad thing said about Brian Finnegan. Apart from being a quite brilliant flute and whistle player, he is a thoroughly nice person. I have has the privilege of spending a week of my year with Brian playing tunes and being silly. And I wouldn’t swap that time for anything. I have learned more in these few weeks with Brian than in years of solo practice.
I suppose the purists might quail at some of his music and I agree, it may not be to the tastes of the TIM brigade, but you cannot deny that he takes his music to some wonderful places.
Keep it coming Brian!
he came, I listened, he kicked my ass!
having lived I can die now ; )
I’ll take BF’s music any day. It may not be the pure drop, but it is good music IMO & my hat is off to him for putting it out there.
Best,
Deisman
Easy there Jetboy
I for one am not saying anything bad about Mr.Finnigan, I may not like his triple tonguing and a few other things about his playing, but that is all down to personal taste.
I am sure he is a normally adjusted member of society and I wouldn’t doubt that he would be a great teacher and all round decent fellow, and fans of his style may enjoy him taking it to ‘wonderful places’, but for others it is a grating train-trying-to-slow-down-with-brakes-screeching type of ride.
what key instrument is he playing, anybody know
Ab flute, no?
That’s the bell note, all right.
I met the flute in the flesh yesterday. And Brian confirms that it’s an Olwell bamboo Ab (as JSCWhistler said at the top of the thread).
Brian also played this set live, and identified the title of the second little 7/8 tune as “If Only a Little”.
7/8 time! I thought it was probably that, but you know how it is, though: sometimes someone starts an unfamiliar (especially a through-composed) tune and you’re not sure where the launching downbeat was supposed to be and you end up hearing a metatune instead, and maybe it’s a rig or a jeel. Crazy wild stuff, almost as good as illicit pastimes which I of course would know nothing about.
Tell Brian he could maybe work on that, okay? 
Note the winky-smiley: Hey, there it is again:
Yes, I was there too.
In-effin-credible musician.
He proved to be terribly kind and generous to boot.
Some of you folks… goodness.
Expand your world a little.
You are missing it as it speeds by.
Brian is doing some wonderful things.
I like Brian…
not enough ta go to LA though
I for one keep saying that I like Brian’s stuff. Love some of it. But I can’t hear any connection with traditional music. And some things, like whenever he plays a slow air, I just can’t listen to. Same for others here, I guess. Each to his/her own.
Lovely fella, by all accounts. Genius musician, to boot.
I can hear enough of a connection ta wind some of 'em up