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In the discussion thread: If I were Prez I would do away with brass bands and Sousa. [View all]

Mon Jan 21, 2013, 07:01 PM

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69. Hey... I love bagpipes too!

... I'm British Isles descended from way way back...1620 and forward. England, Ireland and Scotland. Why don't you get a training bagpipe and take a few lessons to get the hang of it. Practice it at home. After you have driven everyone at your home out of their minds with practicing, sign up for some long-term lessons and get the real McCoy..real bagpipes, i.e. No?

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92 replies	Author	Time	Post
If I were Prez I would do away with brass bands and Sousa. [View all]	Whovian	Jan 2013	OP
And risk as civil war?!?	NoOneMan	Jan 2013	#1
I find both your taste regrettable and your claim ridiculous. Your preference would be...?	WinkyDink	Jan 2013	#2
LOL. Sorry, Brass bands have one intention: Be loud.	Whovian	Jan 2013	#8
Did you play a brass instrument? I did: the trombone. And I played Sousa. And no, the sole intent	WinkyDink	Jan 2013	#13
Trumpet here.	MadrasT	Jan 2013	#30
You have my envy! I love the trumpet above all! "Cherry Pink and	WinkyDink	Jan 2013	#41
Not a brass player	sdfernando	Jan 2013	#52
um......nope......	dhill926	Jan 2013	#37
I'd say an electric guitar amplified is pretty fucking loud, wouldn't you?	KittyWampus	Jan 2013	#45
A double-stack Marshall cranked up to ELEVENTY!!!!!!!!!!	Bake	Jan 2013	#58
Try this on for size!	erinlough	Jan 2013	#70
Er. one needs to be "loud" to be heard in an open-air setting	stopbush	Jan 2013	#87
You are offensive to every one of us ...	dballance	Jan 2013	#92
More than regrettable	1983law	Jan 2013	#16
I don't mind it.	HappyMe	Jan 2013	#3
90%? Really?	The Velveteen Ocelot	Jan 2013	#4
Do The Stroll?	RKP5637	Jan 2013	#14
OMG, AWESOME! "Strolllllllll-in, strol-ol-ol-ol-ol-in,...."!	WinkyDink	Jan 2013	#24
So tell me, You sit around listening to band music in your leisure time?	Whovian	Jan 2013	#15
Look, you need to get off the ego trip of "we" and "90%." Not many people	WinkyDink	Jan 2013	#27
1st and 2nd Suites For Military Band, by Gustav Holst.	Paladin	Jan 2013	#34
I do listen to big band music. Oh, and there's some great dj's mixing with it too.	KittyWampus	Jan 2013	#47
I love it. Love tradition.	TwilightGardener	Jan 2013	#5
me too	sad-cafe	Jan 2013	#12
Where did the 90% estimate come from?	RKP5637	Jan 2013	#6
Because in 60 years I have never heard "Cool! There's a Sousa Fest Nearby!"	Whovian	Jan 2013	#17
Yep! Quite true! Have to go waaaayyyy back before you and I were here! n/t	RKP5637	Jan 2013	#19
I'm 63, and this is a crock.	WinkyDink	Jan 2013	#39
I'm beyond that age. When Sousa was alive I believe there were many very popular	RKP5637	Jan 2013	#46
Yet I've known plenty of people who like it in that context...	NYC Liberal	Jan 2013	#21
Fallacy.	bayareamike	Jan 2013	#35
You live in a narrowed world, one which doesn't grasp our musical heritage. Where I live,	WinkyDink	Jan 2013	#38
K&R !!! n/t	RKP5637	Jan 2013	#48
Does a concert qualify?	Sekhmets Daughter	Jan 2013	#51
I respectfully disagree	Siwsan	Jan 2013	#7
its good marching music,	hollysmom	Jan 2013	#9
Doesn't suck as much as Kelly Clarkson or Beyonce.	alarimer	Jan 2013	#10
You do know what the work "pop" is an abbreviation of, don't you?	Bucky	Jan 2013	#49
poop?	bettyellen	Jan 2013	#55
mirror	Bucky	Jan 2013	#60
I'm rubber, see.....	bettyellen	Jan 2013	#61
.	Bucky	Jan 2013	#67
HA!	bettyellen	Jan 2013	#83
Wouldn't that mean hip-hop is pop?	Igel	Jan 2013	#82
+1,000	duffyduff	Jan 2013	#75
I didn't mind Beyonce so much Clarkson screeching at the top of her lungs......	tpsbmam	Jan 2013	#81
It's tradition. I respect it.	dmr	Jan 2013	#11
Dependent on measure	dipsydoodle	Jan 2013	#18
wow. YOU speak for 90% of the American Public? Amazing.	cali	Jan 2013	#20
Tell that to the The Palm Springs High School marching band	Brother Buzz	Jan 2013	#22
How can you have a parade without marching bands??	narnian60	Jan 2013	#23
Same could be said for the Shriners	Brother Buzz	Jan 2013	#42
I love Sousa music!	LeftofObama	Jan 2013	#25
Sousa's "Stars and Stripes Forever" is my favorite patriotic song.	kwassa	Jan 2013	#26
Yep. I like the King Cotton March and the Liberty Bell the best. n/t	duffyduff	Jan 2013	#74
The Liberty Bell	Art_from_Ark	Jan 2013	#79
I know!	kentauros	Jan 2013	#28
Well, okay	jberryhill	Jan 2013	#29
I love Sousa and brass bands....	gblady	Jan 2013	#31
I love the tradition of it.	bayareamike	Jan 2013	#32
Noooooooooooo!!!	MadrasT	Jan 2013	#33
Wow. I guess I stand corrected.	Whovian	Jan 2013	#36
it's war music, you lose :-) nt	msongs	Jan 2013	#40
Souza wrote marches.	Igel	Jan 2013	#85
I would much prefer the music of John Baptiste Philouza:	Guy Whitey Corngood	Jan 2013	#43
Aww, I love Sousa! It's so perfect for our American Inaugural.	CTyankee	Jan 2013	#44
I think when you celebrate democracy, you have to celebrate all the parts of it	Bucky	Jan 2013	#50
My husband is from Wisconsin! We have a vacation home there, in Door County, which we	CTyankee	Jan 2013	#71
Thank god the president isn't you. I like John Philip Souza music. Great marching	southernyankeebelle	Jan 2013	#53
Whew... boy did you peg this wrong...	ReRe	Jan 2013	#54
But I'm one of the rare who loves Bagpipes!	Whovian	Jan 2013	#56
I know a lot of people who love bagpipes, accordians too.	bettyellen	Jan 2013	#63
Some people even like -- gasp -- BANJOS!!!!!	Bake	Jan 2013	#76
Hey... I love bagpipes too!	ReRe	Jan 2013	#69
Bagpipes are one of my favorite musical instruments n/t	duffyduff	Jan 2013	#73
I love it. The 90% is your wishfull thinking.	demosincebirth	Jan 2013	#57
And this would be just one of many reasons that you would never be President, I think.	onenote	Jan 2013	#59
Is today the day you decided to just be miserable?	GoneOffShore	Jan 2013	#62
Oh boy another person with no musical	whistler162	Jan 2013	#64
You must not go to many football games.	Bake	Jan 2013	#65
What next? Bagpipes?	Hekate	Jan 2013	#66
I love the marches.	ellie	Jan 2013	#68
Speak for yourself	duffyduff	Jan 2013	#72
Sousa was head of the Marine Band	LeftInTX	Jan 2013	#77
i rather enjoyed tuning in to the inauguration and hearing the Monty Python theme	0rganism	Jan 2013	#78
OMG noooooooo!! Boooo!!	grasswire	Jan 2013	#80
I could play Sousa marches all day.	pangaia	Jan 2013	#84
Too bad for you. As a musician myself, I find Sousa to be great.	stopbush	Jan 2013	#86
90%	SayWut	Jan 2013	#88
I thought Sousa was in the Preamble	Canuckistanian	Jan 2013	#89
You are so wrong...	Sancho	Jan 2013	#90
Please do not speak for me because	dballance	Jan 2013	#91

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