cool studio gig: Battleship

**OC Richard** · 19th October 11, 04:49 AM

The other day Aaron Shaw, the piper of Wicked Tinkers (and a piping judge) got a call from 20th Century Fox to round up five pipers for a new movie called Battleship.

It was a studio gig, that is, we'll be heard but not seen!

The music was challenging. One "cue" was a fairly fast thing which had Fnaturals and Cnaturals throughout; one cue had a big fat High G# which we had to nail in tune.

It went slowly by studio standards, because we had to spend time tuning notes not normally played on the pipes.

Here we are L-R Kevin Weed, Yours Truly, Aaron Shaw (of Wicked Tinkers), Eric Boyd (of the Celtic rock band 1916), and John Allan (of the Celtic rock band Stand Easy).

**Guinness>water** · 19th October 11, 05:21 AM

Wow, thats cool. You should feel good about your self being invited to play beside Aaron Shaw! I imagine thats a pretty big honor.

**piperdbh** · 19th October 11, 09:19 AM

How many rolls of electrical tape did you use up covering those holes?

**sydnie7** · 19th October 11, 09:21 AM

Very cool, we'll have to keep a collective eye out for that movie opening!

**piperdbh** · 19th October 11, 09:37 AM

Here's the movie's website.

Battleship

It doesn't look exactly like your everyday Navy movie.

**Highland Logan** · 19th October 11, 09:44 AM

Good for you.

Frank

**sydnie7** · 19th October 11, 10:19 AM

Corrected link:

movie site

OK, bagpipes meet nasty aggressive amphibious Transformers! Bring on the popcorn!

**mookien** · 19th October 11, 10:24 AM

Cool preview! Looks like my kind of movie. Visually reminded me a bit of the end of "The Abyss".

Are you guys providing sound track or alien dialogue?

In any case congratulations! Can't wait to hear you.