Reminds me of when a group of us trad players did a Murder She Wrote episode (ages ago of course!)
We had harp, fiddle, uilleann pipes, guitar, accordion (if I recall rightly) and we were to accompany a group of Irish dancers.
They danced a slip jig; we played a slip jig for them to dance to. Our playing and their dancing was perfectly synchronised.
My jaw dropped when I saw the scene as aired: they had removed our music and substituted some crappy non-Irish music (on clarinet or some such) which was in completely in the wrong rythm, probably 4/4, which made the dancers look like they were all dancing off the beat!
Another time I did several uilleann cues for Highlander 4 (OMG) and when I saw the movie they had removed my sound and put in crappy synth Highland bagpipes. I know why: they were editing various scenes of the movie at the same time that the poor composer was trying to write and record the score, and they must have edited the scened to the extent that the music I recorded no longer fit.
What’ll happen with Battleship??? I hope our stuff survives the editing process!
BTW here’s something that did survive and sounds pretty decent I think, some uilleann piping I did for the Highlander TV show:
Pancelticpiper, some times the best that we can hope for is that the ‘the piper gets paid’.
Slightly Off Topic: From my youth I recall a story about Dwight Eisenhower visiting the UK and Scotland. Partly to relive his glory as the Supreme Allied Commander, and partly to connect with some ancestral trace. He and his wife stayed at some Inn at a small village and were regaled by several pipers. The Presidential pair retired to sleep, not having been acquainted with the custom of ‘paying the piper(s).’ So the pipers continued playing, marching around the lodgings. Eventually an aide appeared to enquire why there was no peace. When he was apprised of the situation, some ‘brass’ was forthcoming and the pipers went home.
I just watched Brendan Gleeson and Don Cheadle in the Guard (very funny film), and there was Gay McKeon and and his wife Mary Corcoran playing in the pub with Colm Gannon and Johnny MacDonagh. Gleeson was a classmate of Gay’s if I remember correctly (and he plays the fiddle).
