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TR Trader Rick Member St Augustine Beach, FL Joined: Jul 04, 2003 Posts: 88	TR Trader Rick Posted posted on Fri, Jun 4, 2010 9:03 AM 'Amazing Grace' I play a great highland bagpipe and it is really the only bagpipe tune people know and ask for. Every piper HAS to know this tune and every bagpipe band has to know how to play it. It had better be on most ordinary bagpipe CDs or else! I have played it so many times that if I ever here it on a tape or CD it gets turned off in less that a nano-second. It's just like the Preservation Hall Jazz Band who get told to play "When the Saints go Marching In" every time they play. Since they hate playing it they make you pay through the nose to get them to play it for you. Once, long ago,I took my cue from this and I made some insistent drunk pay me $20 to play Amazing Grace at the Savannah St.Patricks day celebration. Ok, now that's out of my system. Politics - all of it! Since when does EVERYTHING in America revolve around these bottom feeders? Politicians are just successful criminals and aren't that interesting. I guess too many people watch and listen to the wrong shows and get obsessed. Folks, they don't want your love, just your money and fear is the way they get you to give it to them. Reenactments - I did them for over 30 years. It is not living history. It is about dressing up in a scratchy wool uniform hundreds of years out of date and shooting filthy black powder blanks out of reproductions of antique weapons all to the thrill of a crowd who came to hopefully see somebody get hurt. Face it you're having a costumed BBQ in a park and letting bugs eat you alive at night in your leaky tent. You're a freakin' history CLOWN. Honk Honk. OK, I go home now. All Hail Floyd!! (Mira Mar League of Extraordinary Gentlemen) [ Edited by: Trader Rick 2010-06-04 09:34 ]

'Amazing Grace' I play a great highland bagpipe and it is really the only bagpipe tune people know and ask for. Every piper HAS to know this tune and every bagpipe band has to know how to play it. It had better be on most ordinary bagpipe CDs or else! I have played it so many times that if I ever here it on a tape or CD it gets turned off in less that a nano-second. It's just like the Preservation Hall Jazz Band who get told to play "When the Saints go Marching In" every time they play. Since they hate playing it they make you pay through the nose to get them to play it for you. Once, long ago,I took my cue from this and I made some insistent drunk pay me $20 to play Amazing Grace at the Savannah St.Patricks day celebration.

Ok, now that's out of my system.

Politics - all of it! Since when does EVERYTHING in America revolve around these bottom feeders? Politicians are just successful criminals and aren't that interesting. I guess too many people watch and listen to the wrong shows and get obsessed. Folks, they don't want your love, just your money and fear is the way they get you to give it to them.

Reenactments - I did them for over 30 years. It is not living history. It is about dressing up in a scratchy wool uniform hundreds of years out of date and shooting filthy black powder blanks out of reproductions of antique weapons all to the thrill of a crowd who came to hopefully see somebody get hurt. Face it you're having a costumed BBQ in a park and letting bugs eat you alive at night in your leaky tent. You're a freakin' history CLOWN. Honk Honk.

OK, I go home now.

All Hail Floyd!! (Mira Mar League of Extraordinary Gentlemen)

[ Edited by: Trader Rick 2010-06-04 09:34 ]

Post #534179 by Trader Rick on Fri, Jun 4, 2010 9:03 AM