UNDER CONSTRUCTION
Recorded
live in a hallway at the business offices of Cancer Research And
Biostatistics "CRAB" in Seattle, WA USA 08May08. The main
recording occurred during the evening of Thursday the 8th, the fina
received some finishing touches Tuesday the 12th, and went into
production Wednesday the 13th to be released the first Saturday of
Folklife 2008 on the 24th
Recorded during the week of May 8-12 2007 and completed on the 13th. There's two stories here to be told -- the information about this album, and what happened along the way and at the event that we were getting this album ready for -- hence "The Rocky Road To Folklife 2008" -- if you want to read about the album, read on ... if you want to jump to the story, click here.
Tracks aprox 0h36m37s
1) Paddy's Leather Breeches
Recorded 09May07 2:08 6/8 Jig 112 BPM I believe this is an Irish tune
Comments: Some of the arranging of this tune is my own, and is how my band John Cunningham Memorial Tartan Pipes & Drums performs the tune.
2) Dawning Of The Day
Recorded 09May07 1:44 4/4 March 90 BPM Irish
Comments: I've been recently turned on to this tune through St.Laurence O' Toole Pipe Band's concert album "The Dawning Of The Day".
3) Heights Of Dargai
Recorded 09May07 1:40 9/8 March 70 BPM Scottish
Comments: I'm afraid I don't know much about this tune, but that it marks a location and/or historical reference.
4) Loch Rannoch
Recorded 12May07 1:49 6/8 Jig 85 BPM Scottish
Comments: I like playing this tune for brides' entrances at wedding ceremonies.
5) Battle Of Waterloo set
Recorded 09May07 2:00 6/8 Jig 76 BPM Scottish & Irish
Comments: This track consists of The Battle of Waterloo and The Pikeman's March. Waterloo I had only learned a week or two before making the recording; Pikeman's I had been playing for a few months. I quite enjoy both compositions.
6) Scotland The Brave set
Recorded 09May07 3:38 4/4 & 3/4 March 96 BPM Scottish
Comments: This track consists of 4/4 Marches The Rowan Tree, Scotland the Brave and 3/4 Retreat Marches The Green Hills of Tyrol and When The Battle's Over. At present I intend to play this set on my first album along with The Pikeman's March from track 5.
7) Skye Boat Song
Recorded 12May07 1:22 6/8 Slow Air 45 BPM Scottish
Comments: A standard Bonnie Prince Charlie tune.
8) Highland Laddie set
Recorded 12May07 1:44 2/4 March 90 BPM Scottish
Comments: This track consists of Highland Laddie and Barren Rocks. I intend to play these tunes along with The Black Bear on my first album.
9) Mist Covered Mountains
Recorded 09May07 2:47 6/8 Slow Air Played by Feel Scottish
Comments: I understand this to be an old tune. The song that goes with it I believe is a piece from the perspective of a Scottish ex-pat who's missing home. I intend to play this tune on my first album; I've already made a demo of the set this is slated to a part of and it sounds great.
10) Brown Haired Maiden set
Recorded 09May07 3:20 4/4 March 85 BPM Scottish & Irish (both tunes)
Comments: This set consists of Brown Haired Maiden (aka Nut Brown Maiden) and The Highroad To Gairloch. These were the first two tunes I learned to play. Both tunes can be found in Scotland and Ireland with various sets of lyrics and arrangements.
To the best of my knowledge most of the compositions on this album are in the public domain.
Recorded live in a hallway at the business offices of Cancer Research And Biostatistics "CRAB" in Seattle, WA USA 08May08
© Don P. Scobie/Don P. Scoby 2008
{The following is an excerpt of an email to a friend who asked me how the event went -- while I've started to edit this, copying and pasting this bit from the message was the easiest way of getting this going ... and the least redundant out of my work}
Fun
Exhausting
Incredible
The whole thing is a big long story, which I'm figuring I'll probably make a page on my website about. As NWFL got closer and closer more maird hit the fan, and with each punch I rolled with it and came up better than before. I like to call it "The Rocky Road To Folklife 2008" (yes, similar to the song Rocky Road To Dublin).
Eg...
My drum kit player copped an attitude and made himself unavailable for the event about 1.5wks before the date... I get a different drummer 4 days before the event who is a great guy and an INCREDIBLE player, and the husband of one of my bosses at the time -- Thane (auditioned him the TuesPM ... er, auditioned him on the phone, the did the first/only/last rehearsal w/ him on the TuesPM before the event). This guy is super hooked-up with big Seattle music-names and says that by knowing him I'll v.likely get networked onto some albums & etc ... I'm okay w/ that.
The CD situation took a change, but ultimately all came out AOK -- this with the help of my handdrummer and 5 fantastic friends spending 5hrs on ThrsPM before the event Sharpie-labeling and hand-stuffing all the CD materials.
My hand-drummer (Gabe), five of my friends (Annette, Jim, Mandy, K & Chris), and myself -- 7 people -- worked for 5 hours following a potluck dinner hand-labeling and stuffing our 990-some-odd CDs -- without a single serious complaint from the lot of the, real troopers. Had this not happened, Nae Regrets would not nearly have had the merchandise available that we did for NWFL. To my 5 friends who generously and lovingly volunteered their time and support, particularly Annette and Jim for hosting the dinner and CD stuffing party in their cozy toasty kitchen -- I humbly county myself as blessed to know you -- I know a pre-release copy of the CD is not much, but thank-you thank-you thank-you ... I can't stop saying that because I don't know of anything else to say. Thank you.
Oh... and lets not forget -- the CD artwork, a quarter page flyer, was not outside of the Murphy's Law stuff that was going on. I don't remember how close things cut -- but -- my friend, K, whom I count myself fortunate in that she's come back into my life right around this time, met with the three of us to get some photos for the CD artwork about two weeks before Folklife. On and off for the next couple of evenings, K and I had phone-&-email meetings where she'd send me images of the artwork she'd drafted, I'd make tweaks and send it back, and we'd talk about it at the same time -- at one point even while I was putting together the audio for the CD itself. Suffice to say, I think we both work well under pressure. Once everything was good to go, I contacted a photo-copy shop to arrange for the work to be done, and K took on handling the rest -- picking up the copies, everything, she was great. This was a few days before our CD-prep work-party. Somewhere in the process of getting the quarter-page flyers made -- our low-budget but effective CD-sleeve artwork -- not quite half of our information dissappeared off of the back side of the flyer ... which, under inspection, we found was a fault on our end. The copy shop was good to us -- they offered to run our job again fast, as long as we could get our corrected orriginals to them, and not charge us too much extra. So, now I have a bunch of partial spare inserts for the CDs.
My hand-drummer drops out right before our stage set on SatPM, he gets us a different drummer who was vaguely better from a drum-circle, we played the set, had a GREAT time and watched the audience tripple or quadrouple while we were playing. The next day my new kit player brings in this other effects drummer whos just as good a drummer as he himself.
After our SatPM stage set, as we were packing up our gear from our busking spot about 100ft away, there was a loud pop. About 5mins later (it seemed) there was a small stampeed coming from where the stage we just played on and the same pop sound -- and at the same time we started hearing sirens. Yeah, gun shot. ...This is where the story can get long and I don't have time time or energy right now, but the thing left a residue on the weekend.
And at the end of the whole thing, I came home with about 1/2 the money I'm used to seeing from The Hopper's years contrary to putting out 1-bagillion times better music than I've ever heard out of this bagpipe/drum-kit combo, higher energy shows, just the whole thing .... however, I can think of worse ways to earn a week's pay tax free in three days... which as of the deposit today makes my bank account that much more comfy and helps things along toward getting new pipes, tho I'll have to get other things first like a new bed.
So, thats the story. I have to wrap this up now 'cause the job keeps me busy & I'm still tired from this weekend. But at least the job keeps getting closer & closer to looking permanent.
So, more on this later huh. I hope you're doing well -- send me an up date.
27Sep08
Recorded during the week of May 8-12 2007 and completed on the 13th. There's two stories here to be told -- the information about this album, and what happened along the way and at the event that we were getting this album ready for -- hence "The Rocky Road To Folklife 2008" -- if you want to read about the album, read on ... if you want to jump to the story, click here.
- 08May08, Thursday evening -- The three of us set-up to play and record, thinking that we had two Thursday evenigns to work on this, then finding out we really only had this one. About 3 hours later, we had what we set out to do ... and all the time we had to do it in.
- 11May08, Sunday -- I spent a good portion of the day going over our material, selecting which takes to keep and what to discard, and what order to put it in.
- 13May08, Tuesday evening-- Got together with my hand drummer to record the primal yells for Black Bear set. Later that evening I tweaked these yells and inserted them into the set and made a couple master copies of what would be Nae Regrets first CD CRAB Hall Session 05.08.08.
- 14May08, Wednesday -- Nae Regrets first CD CRAB Hall Session 05.08.08 went into production to be ready for release 10 days later.
- 22May08, Thursday evening-- Following a fantastic potluck dinner, myself, my hand-drummer and five of my very gernerous and greatly appreciated friends hand-labeled and packaged 990 copies of this CD in a very warm, very small, and very happy kitchen. As a small tolken of gratitude of course each person received a pre-release copie of the CD -- the first going to our hosts. This was really the 11th hour, and Nae Regrets wouldn't have had a CD available at Folklife if not for these dear friends who volunteered their time. I cannot say Thank You enough -- I am blessed to have these friends.
- 24May08, Saturday -- Nae Regrets first CD CRAB Hall Session 05.08.08 was officially released at NorthWest Folklife 2008. busking downtown
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Notes about Nae Regrets CRAB Hall Session 05.08.08 INFO ABOUT NAE REGRETS CD TITLED "CRAB HALL SESSION 05.08.08" RECORDED ON SAID DATE IN SEATTLE, WASHINGTON |
Tracks aprox 0h36m37s
TrackInfo not yet updated
1) Paddy's Leather Breeches
Recorded 09May07 2:08 6/8 Jig 112 BPM I believe this is an Irish tune
Comments: Some of the arranging of this tune is my own, and is how my band John Cunningham Memorial Tartan Pipes & Drums performs the tune.
2) Dawning Of The Day
Recorded 09May07 1:44 4/4 March 90 BPM Irish
Comments: I've been recently turned on to this tune through St.Laurence O' Toole Pipe Band's concert album "The Dawning Of The Day".
3) Heights Of Dargai
Recorded 09May07 1:40 9/8 March 70 BPM Scottish
Comments: I'm afraid I don't know much about this tune, but that it marks a location and/or historical reference.
4) Loch Rannoch
Recorded 12May07 1:49 6/8 Jig 85 BPM Scottish
Comments: I like playing this tune for brides' entrances at wedding ceremonies.
5) Battle Of Waterloo set
Recorded 09May07 2:00 6/8 Jig 76 BPM Scottish & Irish
Comments: This track consists of The Battle of Waterloo and The Pikeman's March. Waterloo I had only learned a week or two before making the recording; Pikeman's I had been playing for a few months. I quite enjoy both compositions.
6) Scotland The Brave set
Recorded 09May07 3:38 4/4 & 3/4 March 96 BPM Scottish
Comments: This track consists of 4/4 Marches The Rowan Tree, Scotland the Brave and 3/4 Retreat Marches The Green Hills of Tyrol and When The Battle's Over. At present I intend to play this set on my first album along with The Pikeman's March from track 5.
7) Skye Boat Song
Recorded 12May07 1:22 6/8 Slow Air 45 BPM Scottish
Comments: A standard Bonnie Prince Charlie tune.
8) Highland Laddie set
Recorded 12May07 1:44 2/4 March 90 BPM Scottish
Comments: This track consists of Highland Laddie and Barren Rocks. I intend to play these tunes along with The Black Bear on my first album.
9) Mist Covered Mountains
Recorded 09May07 2:47 6/8 Slow Air Played by Feel Scottish
Comments: I understand this to be an old tune. The song that goes with it I believe is a piece from the perspective of a Scottish ex-pat who's missing home. I intend to play this tune on my first album; I've already made a demo of the set this is slated to a part of and it sounds great.
10) Brown Haired Maiden set
Recorded 09May07 3:20 4/4 March 85 BPM Scottish & Irish (both tunes)
Comments: This set consists of Brown Haired Maiden (aka Nut Brown Maiden) and The Highroad To Gairloch. These were the first two tunes I learned to play. Both tunes can be found in Scotland and Ireland with various sets of lyrics and arrangements.
To the best of my knowledge most of the compositions on this album are in the public domain.
Recorded live in a hallway at the business offices of Cancer Research And Biostatistics "CRAB" in Seattle, WA USA 08May08
© Don P. Scobie/Don P. Scoby 2008
{The following is an excerpt of an email to a friend who asked me how the event went -- while I've started to edit this, copying and pasting this bit from the message was the easiest way of getting this going ... and the least redundant out of my work}
Fun
Exhausting
Incredible
The whole thing is a big long story, which I'm figuring I'll probably make a page on my website about. As NWFL got closer and closer more maird hit the fan, and with each punch I rolled with it and came up better than before. I like to call it "The Rocky Road To Folklife 2008" (yes, similar to the song Rocky Road To Dublin).
Eg...
My drum kit player copped an attitude and made himself unavailable for the event about 1.5wks before the date... I get a different drummer 4 days before the event who is a great guy and an INCREDIBLE player, and the husband of one of my bosses at the time -- Thane (auditioned him the TuesPM ... er, auditioned him on the phone, the did the first/only/last rehearsal w/ him on the TuesPM before the event). This guy is super hooked-up with big Seattle music-names and says that by knowing him I'll v.likely get networked onto some albums & etc ... I'm okay w/ that.
The CD situation took a change, but ultimately all came out AOK -- this with the help of my handdrummer and 5 fantastic friends spending 5hrs on ThrsPM before the event Sharpie-labeling and hand-stuffing all the CD materials.
My hand-drummer (Gabe), five of my friends (Annette, Jim, Mandy, K & Chris), and myself -- 7 people -- worked for 5 hours following a potluck dinner hand-labeling and stuffing our 990-some-odd CDs -- without a single serious complaint from the lot of the, real troopers. Had this not happened, Nae Regrets would not nearly have had the merchandise available that we did for NWFL. To my 5 friends who generously and lovingly volunteered their time and support, particularly Annette and Jim for hosting the dinner and CD stuffing party in their cozy toasty kitchen -- I humbly county myself as blessed to know you -- I know a pre-release copy of the CD is not much, but thank-you thank-you thank-you ... I can't stop saying that because I don't know of anything else to say. Thank you.
Oh... and lets not forget -- the CD artwork, a quarter page flyer, was not outside of the Murphy's Law stuff that was going on. I don't remember how close things cut -- but -- my friend, K, whom I count myself fortunate in that she's come back into my life right around this time, met with the three of us to get some photos for the CD artwork about two weeks before Folklife. On and off for the next couple of evenings, K and I had phone-&-email meetings where she'd send me images of the artwork she'd drafted, I'd make tweaks and send it back, and we'd talk about it at the same time -- at one point even while I was putting together the audio for the CD itself. Suffice to say, I think we both work well under pressure. Once everything was good to go, I contacted a photo-copy shop to arrange for the work to be done, and K took on handling the rest -- picking up the copies, everything, she was great. This was a few days before our CD-prep work-party. Somewhere in the process of getting the quarter-page flyers made -- our low-budget but effective CD-sleeve artwork -- not quite half of our information dissappeared off of the back side of the flyer ... which, under inspection, we found was a fault on our end. The copy shop was good to us -- they offered to run our job again fast, as long as we could get our corrected orriginals to them, and not charge us too much extra. So, now I have a bunch of partial spare inserts for the CDs.
My hand-drummer drops out right before our stage set on SatPM, he gets us a different drummer who was vaguely better from a drum-circle, we played the set, had a GREAT time and watched the audience tripple or quadrouple while we were playing. The next day my new kit player brings in this other effects drummer whos just as good a drummer as he himself.
After our SatPM stage set, as we were packing up our gear from our busking spot about 100ft away, there was a loud pop. About 5mins later (it seemed) there was a small stampeed coming from where the stage we just played on and the same pop sound -- and at the same time we started hearing sirens. Yeah, gun shot. ...This is where the story can get long and I don't have time time or energy right now, but the thing left a residue on the weekend.
And at the end of the whole thing, I came home with about 1/2 the money I'm used to seeing from The Hopper's years contrary to putting out 1-bagillion times better music than I've ever heard out of this bagpipe/drum-kit combo, higher energy shows, just the whole thing .... however, I can think of worse ways to earn a week's pay tax free in three days... which as of the deposit today makes my bank account that much more comfy and helps things along toward getting new pipes, tho I'll have to get other things first like a new bed.
So, thats the story. I have to wrap this up now 'cause the job keeps me busy & I'm still tired from this weekend. But at least the job keeps getting closer & closer to looking permanent.
So, more on this later huh. I hope you're doing well -- send me an up date.
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