Classical Music for Aficionados
Jim Yes indeed, agree. Hard drives are so much easier to deal with. BTW Was Beethoven black? https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/sep/07/beethoven-was-black-why-the-radical-idea-still-has-pow... |
@Schubert Len right you are about the Shotts boys they had a great pipe band. I used to play in Ayr Pipe band when I was young and Shotts used to win all the trophies in the sixties under the rule of Pipe Major John K McCalister and Drum Major Alex Duthart and they were unbeatable at all the major highland games especially The Cowal Gathering. Then also Duthart's boys regularly used to take the prize for the drum corps home also. Now sadly a lot of those great pipe bands are no longer playing together because they were mostly miners and we know what Thatcher did to mining in the Eighties and we now have no colliery bands and deep coal mines in Scotland now. I know I shouldn't admit to this but I let out a wry smile when in the news they were filming Thatcher's funeral procession going down the Mall in London and there was a deputation of ex miners with a placard that read "ding dong the witch is dead" . Really good that one so don't ever mention Margaret Thatcher in Scotland or you could stand a chance of getting lynched. She is despised up here. |
@jcazador Hi Jeremy I can only describe your snippet as laughable in that if you go back in someone’s past that there may be a black gene floating about somewhere but I am glad that I am of the age now that I don’t care any longer. If you say anything nowadays against it you are instantly pegged as a racist. |
