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7th December 20, 12:57 PM
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I believe that "Sgt. MacKenzie" was used in "We Were Soldiers" and not "Band of Brothers"
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7th December 20, 10:13 PM
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Richard, when I got married we had a piper, highland dancers and a djembe player.
Steve, you may well be right. It was some war movie which I haven't seen. I was playing it at work and one of my coworkers said somrehing to the effect of ' Hey , that's the song from..."
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8th December 20, 08:34 AM
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For a few years my office was on Princes Street in Edinburgh and had to listen to their noise for much of the day, every day, for a month every Edinburgh festival. They seemed to rotate with some pan pipes guys from South America and as a result I am now a fan of neither!
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12th December 20, 05:22 PM
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 Originally Posted by AbernethyCameron
For a few years my office was on Princes Street in Edinburgh and had to listen to their noise for much of the day, every day, for a month every Edinburgh festival. They seemed to rotate with some pan pipes guys from South America and as a result I am now a fan of neither!
Yes all day every day would get on anyone's nerves.
However I am a huge fan of Andean music, probably what you are referencing there, from Bolivia and Peru.
Like anything else, with Andean music there's the genuine indigenous stuff, and the schmaltz that's been repackaged for the "general public". The real music, played in the villages of the altiplano, is wonderful, primitive, and alien.
Proud Mountaineer from the Highlands of West Virginia; son of the Revolution and Civil War; first Europeans on the Guyandotte
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12th December 20, 05:26 PM
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Originally Posted by Steve Ashton
I believe that "Sgt. MacKenzie" was used in "We Were Soldiers" and not "Band of Brothers"
I'm sure you're correct. The only music Band Of Brothers had was the overwrought heroic orchestral themes, which did get old after ten or so hours.
(The show itself was great. My father-in-law, who had been an Infantry Officer in WWII, said it was the most authentic thing he had seen.)
Further offtopic, the phrase "band of brothers" was coined by- you guessed it- Shakespeare, and was quoted by George Washington in his farewell address to the Continental Army.
Last edited by OC Richard; 12th December 20 at 05:30 PM.
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12th December 20, 05:43 PM
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Originally Posted by OC Richard
Further offtopic, the phrase "band of brothers" was coined by- you guessed it- Shakespeare. . . .
Henry V? I'm trying to remember now that you mention it. I think it was his speech before battle.
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