OMFG...Is Bush Jr Taken Up Bagpipes

[rsmith6621]

The guy playing Amazing Grace at the Ford Library must be drunk of has a mouse in his pipes.....How embarrassing!!!

[Gelliebeans]

1. I was waiting for this thread

sounds horrible eh?

[Brundle_Fly]

2. not that they sound all that great TO BEGIN WITH!!

but this was brutal

[Gelliebeans]

6. now Norah O'Donell

actually says on msnbc that it was a beautiful rendition :wtf:

[k_jerome]

3. that was bad. wow. nt.

[Cooley Hurd]

4. Holy shit - that was the WORST Bagpipist EVER!!!

:rofl:

[Gelliebeans]

7. I now have the giggles

bad gellie :rofl:

[madeline_con]

5. Dang! I just missed it.

It couldn't have been any worse than the organ "music" as they took the casket from the National Cathedral.

:puke:

[Cooley Hurd]

9. He (or she) was playing "Amazing Grace" and was all over the place...

Missed notes, wrong notes, no consistent tempo. If the Daily Show plays any clip from the funeral, they have to play this one!:spray:

[displacedtexan]

10. Wasn't that just morbid?

Who chose that piece? The Phantom?

[spanone]

8. Being drunk is part of the 'art'.

[BrotherBuzz]

11. In for a dime, in for a dollar

Someone didn't tune his Bagpipes before he started to play. Those pipers need to travel down the road a couple of miles and conform they are in pitch before jumping in. Same thing happened to by poor nephew who played at a wedding. I bet dimes to donuts, the piper knew he screwed up the moment he started to play.

[TechBear_Seattle]

17. Very likely

The great bagpipes is a difficult instrument to tune: Only one of those pipes (the one in the player's hands) actually carries the melody; the others provide the "drone." If the drone pipes are out of tune with one another, especially if by just a little bit... the sound a still-living cat makes when you swing it around by its tail compares favorably. And once you start playing, it is too late to stop and make adjustments.

[DoYouEverWonder]

20. Is it even possible

to 'tune' a set of bagpipes?

:sarcasm:

[conscious evolution]

22. no shit

How do you tune a bunch of cats in a sack being drowned?

[BrotherBuzz]

23. I would never tell a three hundred pound man wearing a skirt....

his pipes are out of tune. You know what I mean, Vern?

[DoYouEverWonder]

24. There was a bagpiper

who started showing up in Key West down at Mallory Square for the sunset celebrations. I think there were a number of people who had fantasies about drowning the guy.

[RedStateShame]

12. Yes, but the bagpipe player had a lot of courtesy, and the version of Amazing Grace

helped the nation heal.

Wow, conservative revisionism works on anything!

[shain from kane]

13. He deserves a pardon.

It didn't take me a month to make up my mind. I am the Decider.

[partylessinOhio]

14. Exit organ playing at Cathedral was out of a horror movie.

Bagpikes playing entering Gerald Ford Museum was the worst ever. I can only hope the piper was just a beginner and needs more practice.

[blogslut]

15. poor piper

I'm sure whoever it was, feels pretty awful.

[Hun Joro]

16. How can you tell if bagpipe playing is bad?

:shrug: It all sounds bad to me, although I missed this instance.

[greenbriar]

27. oh you could tell...stopped during part of it..notes wrong

at the end, he just gave up

[WinkyDink]

18. Maybe he had the hiccups or ran out of breath. But yeah, I had a WTH?! moment.

[Goblinmonger]

19. My favorite bagpipe joke

Man walks into a session with an octopus and declares that his critter can play any instrument in the room and $50 backs up his outrageous claim.
So the fiddler hands over the fiddle, the octopus picks it up and plays beautifully, $50 to the octopus. Same for the drums, the guitar and banjo....

Then the piper declares he is sure to meet the bet and come out on top. So he hands over his pipes and the octopus turns them first one way then the other, and not a sound comes out of it. The owner looks little nervous and asks the octopus whats wrong.

"Play it? I'm still trying to get her out of these pajamas!!!!!!!!!"

[Blue-Jay]

21. According to Alfred Hitchcock:

"I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made object never equaled the purity of sound achieved by the pig."

:D

The pipes are one of my favorite instruments, but I do love that joke.

[Benhurst]

25. I guess they couldn't get Zamfir on the pan flute at such short notice. NT

[valerief]

26. Was part of the agenda insulting Scotland? nt

[malaise]

28. Damn that was really horrible

What was worse was Nora saying it was beautiful. I was cracking up here.

[WinkyDink]

32. She probably didn't listen, and was just told it was finished. But then, she has no taste.

[qanda]

29. I missed it

I hope it's up on youtube soon.

[malaise]

30. CSpan1 will repeat everything starting at 8.00pm n/t

[Solo_in_MD]

31. I missed the funeral, but as a guy with a red plaid skirt, the pipes are about as moving as it gets

[Raine]

33. The guy was old

did you see him, he looked like he was at least 70 plus years old. It must take a lot of wind to play those things, for gosh sakes give him a break! x(

[Ron Green]

34. There ought to be a law against playing "Amazing Grace" on the bagpipes.

I mean, who in the hell first thought of that? And now, almost every funeral of a firefighter, soldier, police officer, or almost anyone gone too soon includes that particularly inapt pairing of instrument and melody.

For God's sake, play "Amazing Grace" on the guitar or with a string quartet, and "Scotland the Brave" on the pipes. Sheesh.

[BlueStorm]

35. I saw that too...God how horrible...

I know that Ford deserved better than that.

Blue