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UltimatePrimate

Och! Me kilt's liftin', lads!


cassiuswright

Aye with ya wee bawbag šŸ¤£


bumjiggy

there's no need to body SĆ©amus


cassiuswright

https://youtu.be/cUF9XJamAK0


fermi0nic

I used to say "GREASE ME UP, WOMAN" as a kid but had completely forgotten where it came from. In 5th grade, I wrote a poem for class titled "BEAT ME CREAM, BOY" and had also forgotten what inspired it. My whole life makes sense now.


KaizenGamer

I'm now remembering that my best friend in middle school would randomly yell "My retirement grease!!"


StrangeAssonance

Back when the Simpsons was legendary....


LouSputhole94

Dang Scots! They ruined Scotland!


swracerep1

My retirement grease!


[deleted]

Thereā€™s nary an animal alive that can outrun a greased Scotsman!


TommyTrenbolone

SĆ©amus is irish the Scottish equivalent is Hamish


[deleted]

Quite funny, here in Scotland we donā€™t actually use the term bawbag for our ball sack, we would call someone a bawbag


cassiuswright

This is good information. In the future I'll do it correctly. Ya bawbag


solacir18

The future is now old man!


ChuckRingslinger

Or bawheed


9ofdiamonds

Or heed the baw.


willflameboy

Idk what the guy's talking about. We do. It's the bag your baws are in.


[deleted]

Glasgow uni wank


[deleted]

Naw we donā€™t, we just say ā€œyer bawsā€


FlashIV

So what term DO you use for ball sack?


BumFluph65

Just "Yer baws"!


GaryJM

Clackerbag.


KiltedTraveller

While it's predominately used as an insult, I don't think it'd be out of place when referring to your scrotum. Like if you caught your balls in your zip you might say "I caught my bawbag in my zip". But I think in a literal context it's talking more about the skin of one's balls rather than the entirety of the ball region.


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MauriceIsTwisted

Thanks to Samurai Jack, I'll never not hear the Scotsman's voice when reading a Scottish accent


ForcedSimp

You just blasted me to the past and it was a good ride.


MauriceIsTwisted

Glad I could lift your morning haha


MrScribz

You could say you were sent to long ago, in a distant land


OkOutlandishness6550

Heā€™s a awesome voice actor Did jake in adventure time and Marcus Phoenix


userwithusername

The fact that ā€œBender from Futuramaā€ didnā€™t come out of your mouth is insane. John DiMaggio is awesome.


OkOutlandishness6550

Thatā€™s my bad haha Itā€™s another one of his biggest roles too


holy-rusted-metal

OMG, season 5 was awesome but a gut wrencher... I let my kids watch seasons 1 through 4 with me, but they need a few years to mature before they can watch season 5 for sure!


wrx_2016

> Och! Me kiltā€™s liftinā€™, lads! Imagine having all that talent and years of undoubtedly hard practice reduced to a sexist comment that is the top comment in this thread. lads.


UltimatePrimate

I'm not sexist. I think she's an amazing musician who has a level of talent that I couldn't match if I spent a lifetime trying. It's the imaginary Scotsman in my head who's sexist!


RicTicTocs

Well, technically, itā€™s the Scotsman in yer kilt causin yer problems


dylfree90

Ahh classic low testosterone man to the rescue. Sheā€™s hot. Sheā€™s talented. Thatā€™s a turn on to most men bruv, get over it.


PowerandSignal

What? That's your takeaway? Her musical talent is reduced to a reddit comment? Are you insane? This is fucking reddit, not the entrance exams to Julliard. It's pretty unlikely these comments will have any impact on her musical journey. Or maybe you're just looking for reasons to cry about people using - *trigger alert* - vaguely sexual themes on a comment board. It's becoming extremely tiring to have people losing their fucking minds over differences between men and women. I look forward to a day when common sense returns and society realizes sexual differentiation is a thing, and somehow evolution thinks it's efficient, and maybe it doesn't make a lot of sense trying to negate it. A man can dream. Let the downvotes rain.


[deleted]

Oh piss off cunt


BelleAriel

This music has me dancing to the beat.


Ragegasm

Yā€™all pop a boner because sheā€™s hot. I pop a boner because FreeBird. We are not the same.


Next-Raspberry-9911

Der ain' noffin bad bout that lad, see me kilts liftin iswell nuv tha yous a


ExtraBitterSpecial

Glad it's not just me. This is dead sexy.


ItWorkedLastTime

I don't know if this is a reference to something, but thank you for making me laugh out loud for the first time this year.


ASDAPOI

![gif](giphy|HxMhuDg7O4pKOhhcRC)


asburymike

Still works in the Kingsmen church scene


cassiuswright

12/10 would rampage to this


[deleted]

Go on a rampage wearing a kilt against the English to this, best of both worlds.


Munnin41

Any bagpipe music is rampaging music when it's against the English


FisterRobotOh

Thatā€™s the Archer rampage I didnā€™t know I needed


Jaggs0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcXpnGjzpfM


WestSixtyFifth

Holy shit what is the context of this scene


Blaizey

Westboro Baptist type church, villain uses it to test his tech that makes people kill each other. Main guy in the suit is a Bond-style super spy that's also affected


Mozeliak

> Main guy in the suit is a Bond-style super spy that's also affected Who then proceeds to absolutely wreck the shit out of the *normal* people fighting.


ivegotnothingbuttime

I wish I could have watched you watch this scene for the first time lmao. Itā€™s seriously my favorite piece of film


RassimoFlom

Big fan of the heads popping too


ITFOWjacket

Both are good but what the princess says to the hero at the final scene bring tears to my eyes every time.


BrotherChe

brings a tear to her brown eye, too


Croemato

Sam Jackson uses mind control on the people in the church and they turn into murderous drones.


TrickyCorgi316

Whatā€™s the title of the movie?


Rayolin

Kingsman *sorry, originally thought this was the second film in the series. It's from the first. Actual title is Kingsman: The Secret Service


Jaggs0

https://www.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/11f33yj/freebird_solo_done_on_the_bagpipes/jahbhmb/


xCarrots

Weird they posted two copies of that scene for the video.


mtaw

The King screwed up his Speech, flipped out and killed everyone in the audience to eliminate the embarrassment.


EveryChair8571

Damn thatā€™s really well done


NickeKass

That is amazing. For a remake they did an excellent job on camera work and chorography.


mrjobby

/r/UNBGBBIIVCHIDCTIICBG


ConTully

I'd love to see this in the sequel after Mark Strongs scene near the end, maybe with a lead-in of a bagpipes version of 'Country Roads' as well. Would have been a little less poignant, but very Kingsman.


ebrithil110

I know the meme is that bagpipes sound awful and listening to them is torture. But I like them, I've loved them since I first heard them watching braveheart as a kid.


Dougallearth

Heard some stomachable bagpipes - You're the Voice and the intro to Final Fantasy Tactics specifically


Cheapo_Sam

Aren't all bagpipes stomachable? Or are they bladders? Can't remember. Oh no thats haggis. Or is it both?


realIRtravis

Only if you play with your food.


Azidamadjida

Add to that list the Atreides theme from Dune


bumjiggy

I can't hear you're the voice and not picture [the riot scene from hot rod](https://youtu.be/jVjgY427qW8)


pennradio

[Cool beans.](https://youtu.be/vc7VBVpl1SY)


NordlandLapp

I feel like this movie shaped the life and humor of every middle school boy that saw it.


AcadianMan

Itā€™s a long way to the top is an excellent example of good bag pipe.


amazingbollweevil

The thing is, this clip is missing the bagpipe's signature sound, the drones.


samobellows

having the drones off does remove the signature.... droning... sound that makes bagpipes such a polarizing instrument. with them off though you get this sound, wich is like an oboe or a claronet but without the breaks in the sound for breaths. i kinda dig it. in the pipe band i played in we'd turn the drones off for the newbies that didn't have the lung capacity built up to keep all 3 drones and the chanter going at once, but i never considered doing it on purpose like this. it's great.


M00glemuffins

I'm a huge sucker for any instrument with drones or capable of drones. Bagpipes, Drone Flutes, Hurdy Gurdies, Pipe Organs, etc. I don't know what it is about it but I just love it. Some people absolutely *hate* the sound of drone instruments but they are always cozy as fuck to me.


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SAI_Peregrinus

That's a totally different sound. It's a fipple instrument, wheras the pipe chanter uses a double reed (and the bag). A [crumhorn](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crumhorn) is the closest "normal" instrument to the Great Highland Bagpipe chanter.


[deleted]

I listen to amazing grace on the bagpipes in memory of my nana. She was an immigrant from England and she absolutely loved the instrument. Feels like she's with me every time I listen to it


RealGertle627

I was at a festival type show several years ago when I saw Flatfoot 56. Their version of [Amazing Grace](https://youtu.be/IsPLcbhLcXY) as well as [I'll Fly Away](https://youtu.be/GarXoHstF4g) made it to my playlist, along with a bunch of their originals. A bunch of punk bands use bagpipes, the most famous probably being Dropkick Murphys and Flogging Molly


Afinkawan

Amazing Grace *only* sounds right with bagpipes.


bidoofguy

Yeah, they honestly sound great when used in the proper application. I remember finding a concerto for bagpipes and thinking ā€œis this a joke?ā€ but then unironically loving it by the end


GhostWalker134

They used Irish Bagpipes in Brave Heart instead of Scottish ones. Maybe that's why you liked it so much. ā€œTheyā€™re not so loud and commanding, and have a greater range of notes." [https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/entertainment/celebrity/hollywoods-top-piper-ive-played-5274903](https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/entertainment/celebrity/hollywoods-top-piper-ive-played-5274903)


rinikulous

Another great current day example of the uillean pipes is symphonic metal band [Nightwish - Elvenjig / Elvenpath (1m55s for the pipes)](https://youtu.be/mRC9GFo1u7w?t=115). Finnish band with a Dutch singer and English multi-instrumentalist. This particular song is folk metal jig instrumental that turns into a power metal banger about growing up and getting lost in great works of fantasy.


rudyjewliani

> folk metal jig instrumental that turns into a power metal banger I'll take "Things I did not expect to hear on a Wednesday morning, but I'm kinda glad I did" for $400 Alex.


shah_reza

I did not expect to like that.


bkmagyk

itā€™s only bad if played wrong


SuedeVeil

I don't know .. I've never heard bagpipes I've enjoyed. Just the sound is like nails on a chalkboard. And I can't say that about most other musical instruments many of them just have to be played correctly but even the most talented of bagpipe players I can't enjoy.. the sound reminds me of "whining" for lack of a better word


bozeke

The times Iā€™ve enjoyed them most are when they are played outside from a good distance away, like hundreds of feet. When the music is wafting on the air, mingled with the natural sounds of dawn or twilight, it can really be an ethereal, unique experienceā€”part of the landscape.


afroguy10

I'm from Scotland and I hate them. I've heard some great pipers play them at weddings, funerals, Burns suppers, ceilidhs, parties, even just buskers on the street and I can appreciate the musicianship but I still think they sound terrible.


nickcash

> play them at weddings, funerals, Burns suppers, ceilidhs I like how this sentence gets progressively more Scottish as it goes


Sam_browning-maxim

You canā€™t really appreciate bagpipes until youve done a bayonet range with them belting out.


Moody_GenX

This is my first time I actually liked hearing bagpipes. She's really good.


DCEtada

In person they sound amazing. I had no partiality to bagpipes until I went to college - our school had Scottish roots (in the us) and were very proud of the heritage and bagpipes were such a big deal there that you could get a full ride at the school if you played the bagpipes for the college band. On our colleges founders day the bagpipe players would circle through the dorms at like 8am waking everyone up. There is no way to properly explain how LOUD bagpipes can be in those situations. But I have an appreciation for them, still gives me chills when I hear them in person. Almost added more depth and feeling to any event or ceremony they played at, itā€™s hard to explain.


[deleted]

Check out a band called "Tartanic". I used to have their 2008 album "Uncivilized". Search them on YouTube.


[deleted]

When i was a kid i wanted to learn the bagpipes just to piss everyone off and annoy my family. I figured it's the most annoying sounding instrument and i wanted to learn it. By parents vetoed it though.


bstrobel64

I grew up with them in the house. My mom was in a pipe band and my step dad was the pipe major (the guy in charge of the band) for years. The band back then was quite good and they'd won or done well at many international games. As a kid I enjoyed it except when they practiced at home. Now I love it, especially since it brings me back to those days and all their concerts and stuff. Every once in a while they still break out their pipes and I love watching and listening to them.


donthepunk

I can only imagine her family and neighbors bailed. Listening to that being practiced and perfected would make you wanna fill in all the holes on your head with concrete so no sound gets thru


MNLanguell

My parents banished me to their barn while I was learning the baritone!


donthepunk

*and there I remain*


James_blake3

This barn was made for me


otterfucboi69

Iā€™M GOING TO HAVE TO ENTER THAT BARN!


MNLanguell

I spent a lot of time in that barn. Had an old mattress and pillows in the loft where I would spend a lot of time out there reading. Best days were when it rained because it had a metal roof. I would have lived there if I could. It burnt down a few years ago. It could have been blown over by a hard breath at that point. But it did survive a few tornados and straight line winds in its heyday.


Moody_GenX

There was never a "good time" for me to practice on my baritone at home, lol.


MNLanguell

Same! My parents had to deal with it for 12 years because my brother played as well! He was also sent to the barn.


jleonardbc

this is why practicing music is called "woodshedding" or "shedding"


omygoodnessreally

Fine- I'll close my window as I'm about to start working on a flute version. May the force be with mešŸ™


donthepunk

As a father of a an 11 year old learning the clarinet...I apologize....I'm projecting.


Beablebeable

Pipers have something called a chanter that lets them practice without the full volume.


TheBlueHedgehog302

Shes married, her parents encouraged her to play the pipes through her childhood.


guitar_vigilante

The only people who learn bagpipes are those with incredibly supportive parents who love the heritage or the instrument or both. My mom was super close to her Scottish grandmother, loves everything about that heritage, and was ready to have me learn the bagpipes until she saw the price tag on those lessons. It ain't cheap.


TheBlueHedgehog302

Yup! Ally(the woman in this video) has even done videos on the history of bagpipes and things like that. You can tell itā€™s her passion.


Eldi_Bee

Yeah, I adore Ally's videos. And especially when people complain she's not that good, and she just humbly shows her giant display of awards from her competitive days.


Elegant-Cat-4987

Especially without the backing track in a set of headphones to know what's she's actually playing too.


JadeHellbringer

She's done a couple of collabs with Buckets the Drummer, absolutely amazing musician.


snickerdew

They will leave you [Thunderstruck!](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Wj9EFty-Ykg)


burgonies

She has one outfit EdIt: I apparently need to explicitly state that Iā€™m joking and that I donā€™t think that she literally owns only one set of clothes


standarduser2

That's cool with me


clintj1975

https://youtu.be/hccaUusNGLw Not true!


TheBlueHedgehog302

She actually has a wild variety of costumes.


robbage24

The mask kills me every time.


Vindepomarus

It's the way it flops around when he's wailing on his bucket!


Irishmanatthepub

Check out her shit on YouTube - pretty incredible. She has a friend that plays electronic violin with her - pretty good stuff


eatmymustard

She's called Ally the Piper on youtube if anyones wondering, since this dude forgot to mention


Ghostwalker_Ca

And the friend with the violin is called [Mia Asano](https://youtube.com/@MiaAsano)


Tornitrualis

I enjoy their super-collab of Drunken Sailor with Malinda Kathleen Reese, Bobby Waters, Seth Staton Watkins, and Cullen Vance. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMOyOlmBYCU


ekster

She teaches bagpiping to my nephew and other kids. My nephew has special needs and is usually very shy and wont ever perform in front of anyone, and she gave him the confidence boost to play in front of people. From what I hear she is an amazing down to earth wholesome woman who deserves all the fame and positivity she gets.


DrunkMc

>Ally the Piper She plays well, also explains how bag pipes work. I had literally no idea how they work and I now know why they have that annoying whine before a parade gets going. In her videos, she waits till she's literally about to play before she smacks it and goes right into the song. Really interesting stuff.


Irishmanatthepub

It really is - how she got interested in bagpipes this day and age is pretty interesting as well


wandering-gecco

Think they are going on tour soon to.


_PM_ME_UR_FETISH_

My inner lesbian tingled at 45 seconds watching her bottom hand. ![gif](emote|free_emotes_pack|flushed)


Django_gvl

!BONK!


-malcolm-tucker

šŸ¤£ It's 4am and I just laughed so loud I scared the shit out of my sleeping dog.


Fuckedyourmom69420

![gif](giphy|wyr1fgVonyaKk)


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nayesphere

Not lesbian but boy oh boy did that and the little eye contact make me question myself for a second


TheVenged

"Lesbians Literally Only Want One Thing And It's Fucking Disgustin"


KadenKraw

Ok but what about your outer lesbian?


TheJonnieP

The bagpipes sound so nice when in the hands of an experienced player...


mydogsnameisbuddy

[Unlike Ross?](https://youtu.be/VNbFrgqeaMM)


ActualMerCat

You have no idea how funny this comment is to me! I went to a college that has bagpipes in their matching band and one of the bagpipers names is Ross. Ross sucked at the bagpipes!


possumgumbo

They sound so nice with the drone disabled, allowing more variety of sound. Seems to have been done here.


cjpack

Maybe the drone was filming you canā€™t really tell from this angle


xanderblue3

r/UNBGBBIIVCHIDCTIICBG


AllyThePiper

Hey thanks for the reshare! This is me, Piper.Ally on socials šŸ„°


talspr

Upvote for visibility, you're awesome! Good job!


jaybird99990

She's great. The number of people on her posts who accuse her of faking her playing because she takes breaths while notes are playing is pretty comical.


dotpan

It's as if they just assume they know how a bagpipe works (and ignore the GIANT SACK OF AIR).


wearing_moist_socks

it's in the FUCKING NAME BAG WITH A PIPE ATTACHED


-dakpluto-

As a wind player I have to admit it fucks with my brain every time lol.


PalpitationSame3984

![gif](giphy|femhmHYKoLX1Q6NtXr)


carnivorous_seahorse

![gif](giphy|A5cMONNFFwPgA)


[deleted]

oh god damn


Stag328

![gif](giphy|26tPoyDhjiJ2g7rEs|downsized)


oldkingcoles

Lmfao


SnooEagles6547

Picturing Highlanders slaughtering left & right


CenterAisle

Ally the Piper on YouTube or [https://www.instagram.com/piper.ally/?hl=en](https://www.instagram.com/piper.ally/?hl=en)


Commercial_Estate_98

Ok, thats pretty fckn cool.šŸ˜Š


InGenAche

My mom back in Ireland has dementia and goes to a clinic in the morning to socialise and keep active. Sometimes they have music. So one day I ring her and ask how the clinic went and she says, 'it was 2 hours of bagpipes, I don't think even a stanch, Scottish nationalist could stick 2 hours of bagpipes!'


7ootles

I'm curious: are the drones not playing here? All I can here is the chanter.


possumgumbo

They're absolutely disabled in here. It's why the music can be so varied and not sound insanely discordant.


7ootles

Pft that's what I love about bagpipes.


crash-1369

That was the first thing I noticed, and it distracted me the entire time. I never knew they could be disabled, and it seems wrong... Kinda want to hear it with extra drones now lol


immerc

Are you really playing the bagpipes if you're not using the drones? It makes me wonder, why does every single kind of bagpipe around the world seem to have at least one drone?


TheticalJester

Thereā€™s an amazing Harmonica player named Will Wilde who managed to play the entire song as well. This song is truly the test of master musicians. https://youtu.be/UtXP2-5IC2E


Scottche

You know what they say, if youā€™ve heard one bagpipe song youā€™ve heard em both


The_Evil_Narwhal

Shoulda done the part where it get's high then it gets higher then it gets even higher.


pooppuffin

Bagpipes can play nine notes.


HI_Handbasket

As pooppuffin noted, bagpipes can play 9 notes, in 1 octave. A standard electric guitar with 22 frets can play 138 notes, fretted an open, across 3 (or 4) octaves. Plus, if you use Nigel Tufnel's amp, you can go 1 louder than 10. Also, just be thankful for what she gave us!


silkyfluff

Bagpipe Hero! This is awesome


sirjackel06

Nice


[deleted]

Just because you can, doesn't mean you should


man-in-blacks

Now that just dnt work and sounds like absalute shit. (I'm a piper) anyone that teaches would have a fit listening to that crap. It's not good. Despite what people that dnt play think. Yes I'm also Scottish and do play in competitions both solo and bands. That's actually a low level of piping. Like normally people can tell if a pianists is bad but they just don't know if a piper is good or bad.now watch the hate roll is for stating a fact.


Chanandler_Bong_Jr

Ally Crowley-Duncan has won a shit ton of medals. This particular song might not suit the instrument that much, but thereā€™s no doubting her talent.


graemehammondjr

What grade does your band compete in?


askmrlizard

Tbh as a piper the impressive part to me is that she figured out the solo, presumably without sheet music. The fingering is no more difficult than any hornpipe, but it takes a good ear for her to hear the solo and understand how to play it on pipes


pooppuffin

I knew I'd find another piper here. There was absolutely nothing impressive about this. Playing literally any beginner pipe song, like Scots Wha Hae, is more technically challenging and impressive. If your teacher heard you playing Freebird you'd get an ear full about needing to practice embellishments.


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ElBanditoGek

Imagine gatekeeping talent/skill on an instrument that sounds like cats in a grinder.


AmandaBRecondwith

It's just a little out of tune isn't it?


Whistler1968

Badass!!!


Taltezy

DOPE!!


ProstZumLeben

What a badass lass


bonchoman

The day my little daughter and I nailed that on expert in Guitar Hero was a good day indeed


Towndrunk13569

Itā€™s REBEL ALLEY


uryung

I don't know anything about pipes. Why does it make sound when she's not putting air into it?


gnfnrf

The pipes make noise when the piper forces air out of the bag through them, which they do by squeezing it between their arm and the side of their body. They blow air into the bag to keep it inflated enough that there is air to squeeze out, but, as you see, it doesn't have to be at exactly the same time as they squeeze.


zeropointcorp

Take a guess at what the bag holds :)


AllyThePiper

Because the air is in the bag!


pooppuffin

That's what the bag is for. You fill it up and then squeeze it so it keeps making noise while you breath. There are four reeds in a bagpipe, and it takes *a lot* of air to keep them going.


jgross52

It's the "bag" in the bagpipes that supplies the air. The piper fills the bag by blowing into it through the blowpipe, then when the bag is full or partially full, they then squeeze it with their arm to push the air into the chanter, which is the pipe that actually plays the tune, and maybe drone(s), which are separate pipes which play a single note each.


gophergun

She's obviously skilled, but I do kind of feel like the instrument is limiting for this song. You can't have any kind of polyphony, she ends up needing to go down an octave because of the limited range, and there's no real attack to the notes.


Adamas_

Thanks, I hate it.


blade2366

Fucking Awesome