Titanic~~

[fearfaoin]

@BrassBlower

And I almost forgot Tears for Beers with their thickly-overdriven electric fiddle!

Tears for Beers. Haven’t heard those guys since I stopped going to MP3.com! They still playing?
They always sounded really drunk to me… can’t get more traditional than that, I guess.

[Bloomfield]

@emmline

Is it against C & F community law to have enjoyed both the movie and the music therein? Or Riverdance? Is this some sort of stupid religion that seeks to squeeze out all but those who hew to the most Spartanly rigid rules of what constitutes smart and cultured preferences?

Yes.

[pthouron]

I haven’t read through the entire thread so this may have been answered already… Eric Rigler plays whistle and pipes on the Titanic S/T, and his whistles of choice are Kerry whistles. I inquired with him through his website last year(http://www.badhaggis.com) and he wrote back that the whistle used on Titanic is Chieftain Low D.

[mamakash]

@emmline

Is it against C & F community law to have enjoyed both the movie and the music therein? Or Riverdance? Is this some sort of stupid religion that seeks to squeeze out all but those who hew to the most Spartanly rigid rules of what constitutes smart and cultured preferences?

I saw Riverdance in 2000 and loved it, and think the Titanic soundtrack is pretty . . . although I thought the movie was trite, poorly written, and purposless. As one guy said, “The ship took forever to sink”. I couldn’t agree more. It was an agonizing bad movie that took forever to end.
I think if steven speilberg had directed it(and ditch the overplayed title song) we wouldn’t even be having this conversation.

“Secret of Roan Innish” seems to have a favorable opinion on the board. Guess it’s the handling of material rather than material itself.

In reference to Emma’s comment, I want to know the name of the album that manages to fall under everyone’s concept of Irtrad.

[U21]

@Peter Laban

@NorCalMusician

As long as they do not try to promote themselves as something they are not…

Remind me, what was it that abominable performance in the movie tried to portray?

I too get a kick out of this Peter, but I think for different reasons.

I’ve heard the criticisms of the band that portrayed the band in the ship’s steerage. However, it might have been shot down as somewhat unrealistic to have a nice, tight, group of top Irish musicans (insert your choices here). Dunno. But I presume the producers had the money to portray whatever they had in mind. The movie wasn’t for me either, but not because of the band. Best, Steve

[bjs]

I bought the CD and score from All Flutes. There are several copies of the tune in different keys. The CD accompaniment has the first half in Eb and the second in G. So I use my low F for the first half with score written in C and use a low D for second half with score written in G.

I have the video too from a while back. Can somebody tell me when the tune appears in the film - it would save me from watching from the start again.

Thanks
Brian

[emmline]

@Bloomfield

@emmline

Is it against C & F community law to have enjoyed both the movie and the music therein? Or Riverdance? Is this some sort of stupid religion that seeks to squeeze out all but those who hew to the most Spartanly rigid rules of what constitutes smart and cultured preferences?

Yes.

actually, more like

[Bloomfield]

@emmline

@Bloomfield

@emmline

Is it against C & F community law to have enjoyed both the movie and the music therein? Or Riverdance? Is this some sort of stupid religion that seeks to squeeze out all but those who hew to the most Spartanly rigid rules of what constitutes smart and cultured preferences?

Yes.

actually, more like

You will admit, it was hard to resist! Too hard for me.

[glauber]

@Bloomfield

You will admit, it was hard to resist! Too hard for me.

I’m glad you did it, so i didn’t have to!

[Cayden1]

@U2

However, it might have been shot down as somewhat unrealistic to have a nice, tight, group of top Irish musicans (insert your choices here). Dunno. But I presume the producers had the money to portray whatever they had in mind. The movie wasn’t for me either, but not because of the band. Best, Steve

Having Meryl Streep dance to a Donal Lunny composition played by Mairtin O Conor Davey Spillane and the rest of them in Dancing at Lughnasa was equally ridiculous.
By the end of the day i don’t think any movie can be expected to give any realistic take on the music [maybe The Boys from the County Clare will but I have yet to see that] and I don’t really mind that. But the whole hype around that steerage scene, which whatever way you look at it was very poor playing, just begs the odd pinprick.

[fearfaoin]

@Peter Laban

But the whole hype around that steerage scene, which whatever way you look at it was very poor playing, just begs the odd pinprick.

Wow, yet another reason why I will never see this movie. Thanks, all.
I want GS to live in my mind the way I saw them at Duke. They didn’t suck then, I swear.
I probably won’t go see them ever again, either. They’ve gone and changed half their members.
Won’t be the same without Kathleen. Man, that woman could play the hell out of a whistle!
(Incidentally they had a different fiddler when they filmed the movie, who left after the first album.
That’s when Kathleen joined… so maybe that explains some things)