Amazing to see this again 48 years after I saw it 1976 as a young 17 yr old… had the privilege to see the opening night just last week in 2024…fabulous evening but so different to back then
@user-wd4ti8gn3oАй бұрын
My grand uncle was a Rock Ape and joined the regiment 1st January 1942, he was in RAF armoud car in middle east the to RAF Manston 1940 just before Battle of British
@bryantsmith33722 ай бұрын
I have never seen Irish dancing in kilts before.
@sithlordofoz3 ай бұрын
Stange no Anthems.
@SteveM-ly7oy4 ай бұрын
When we had an Air Force.
@sidpheasant75855 ай бұрын
0:59 - Fanfare Trumpeters of the 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards. Mostly the 5(V) DG letters were surmounted by a crown, and not by the castle keep we see. Whole bands on the ramparts that we never even get a proper look at (probably 1st Bn the Kings Regiment and 1st Bn the Royal Regiment of Wales). In the (admittedly crazy) days when every Batallion had bands. Now whole Corps don't have bands. The Iniskillings lasted until 1993. Apart from the Household Cavalry, the idea of the British Army having Cavalry Bands disappeared finally a couple of years ago, when most of us were trying not to die of COVID. Wikipedia bats not eyelid as it tells the following story: As part of the 2019-20 reorganisation of the then Corps of Army Music, the band of the Royal Armoured Corps joined the Band of the King's Division and Band of the Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers to form the new larger British Army Band Catterick. However, the bands still maintain their individual traditions, while their uniforms have become standardised. So basically the last Cavalry band was shoved together with an infantry band and a Corps band to form one of the "British Army Bands" (of which there are just 4), with a standardised (not-too-inspiring) uniform, even as the regimental traditions are maintained ... NOT. The bands are good and acquited themselves very well indeed at Her Late Majesty's funeral and the Coronation... But the powers that be did not bother to save any Artillery Band in the professional arrmy (there are Reserve military bands). When I was a kid, the Royal Artillery alone still had 3 bands, and large ones too! Well, I really don't hanker for the past, and nostalgia is abolished in me. But somehow the truth about what happened was never really presented to us ... one day we just realised that bands we had taken for granted (say of the Paras, Engineers, Army Air Corps, or you name it) were no longer there ... AT ALL.
@billchinook32926 ай бұрын
Well Done the Rocks!!!! Per Ardua!!!!!
@billchinook32926 ай бұрын
Fantastic to see the old Regimental Bands in full kit on parade.
@NicWells7 ай бұрын
Thanks for posting that, I just caught a Glimpse of my Late Father in there!!!
@Timemachine-cr4zj8 ай бұрын
8 miles of death
@bryanpanvert528810 ай бұрын
I was a Rock Ape 1959 to 1963.
@264Rockape10 ай бұрын
Per Ardua
@bryanpanvert528810 ай бұрын
Well done
@dampffussie10 ай бұрын
Even then, it was a great show!
@ozzy8286 Жыл бұрын
Oh dear,,, and then the RAF went woke. The Air Staff instead of being leaders ,, became sheep 🐑,,, and pandered to lefty political ideals.
@angelreal7974 Жыл бұрын
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOO I
@antimotranter9845 Жыл бұрын
PER ARDUA
@altaylor3988 Жыл бұрын
Why was there a Pongo sauntering along behind the Queen's Inspection party
@SDD3204 Жыл бұрын
Outstanding drill performance. Great occasion. Thanks for posting.
@countycricklewood Жыл бұрын
🤣🤣🤣
@deniseshephard3347 Жыл бұрын
Wow I’m impressed it’s great to see the what it was like back then I wonder whoever was participating so they remember taking part also in the background was that a goat
@geoffmitchell6515 Жыл бұрын
When it was a proper military tattoo
@jacobkeppler1984 Жыл бұрын
Senior drum major royal Scots royal highland regiment 💂♀️🏴
@jamesmurdoch9805 Жыл бұрын
I think you'll find the senior Drum Major on parade is D/M 'Maxi' MacDonald KOSB, Maxi was the last D/M of the Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) before they disbanded in 1968. He was also D/M of the Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment) during his service.
@jacobkeppler1984Күн бұрын
@@jamesmurdoch9805okay thanks
@MrSandmartin Жыл бұрын
I was a Rockape 1980 -1986 QCS mostly
@MrSandmartin Жыл бұрын
Thank you Chez 🦍😘
@jacobkeppler1984 Жыл бұрын
Massed bands pipes and drums British armed forces
@barrynewman44562 жыл бұрын
1974 & 1986 Canadian Argylls
@jacobkeppler19842 жыл бұрын
Pipes and drums Scottish regiments with one Irish regiment
@Kirkee72 жыл бұрын
Great job by the RAF boys.
@Estaaa13062 жыл бұрын
Do you by any chance have any of the remembrance parades from 2010-2014?
@antonydean81462 жыл бұрын
This is so much more professionally done than today's tattoos. What's gone wrong in the intervening years to make it so limp nowadays?
@Kirkee72 жыл бұрын
Feminism , woke, genderism and lgbqt., inclusivism, tolerance with everything and pc correctness , oh I mustn't forget BLM the evils of colonialism, that s what's gone wrong.
@walkernick862 жыл бұрын
what do you mean by 'professionally done'? Professional just means to make money as a profession. By doing a trade. In which regsrds todays tattoos bring in so much more revenue that the 1870s tattoos! So which is really more 'professional. As someone who has performed on the tattoo several times recently, sorry there older tattoos are so dry and stiff upper lip! If the Top Secret Drum Corps were on this tattoo,THEN it would be a show!
@Kirkee72 жыл бұрын
@@walkernick86 I should think he means the regular Professional Soldier, not a money maker it has been for some time.
@antonydean81462 жыл бұрын
@@walkernick86 I am not critical of the show today. It is an entertaining show. However, it isn’t really a Military Tattoo anymore. A Tattoo is a ceremonial military parade signalling the end of the evening. You mention “Stiff Upper Lip” in a disparaging way. Believe me, if our soldiers are ever to come face-to-face with Putin’s lads they will need very stiff upper lips indeed!!! That is what being military is all about. The Edinburgh Tattoo is now a misnomer- it is now “Showtime at Edinburgh Castle with a bit of military involvement” - nothing wrong with that - but it isn’t strictly speaking a martial event of ceremonial tattoo. I like stiff upper lip military events like Trooping the Colour, Guard Mounting etc and a Tattoo should be the same in style and presentation. Today’s “Showtime at Edinburgh Castle” is excellent, but it is a show, not a military parade. That was my point that I admittedly put clumsily….
@CarzorStelatis Жыл бұрын
It's not really a military tattoo any more, for the simple reason that Western armies are much smaller (and consequently military bands far fewer) than they were pre-1990. It's more of an 'entertainment event' in which some of the performers are military bands.
@WootTootZoot2 жыл бұрын
We all miss Tom Flemming
@michaelgibouleau40882 жыл бұрын
For a free and independent Scotland. 🏴
@ambasteir83162 жыл бұрын
You'll have all the FREEDOM you want within the EU. Oh wait...........
@memphis64202 жыл бұрын
Nope
@Strength-in-Union Жыл бұрын
Oh do shut up!
@Landie_Man3 жыл бұрын
I’ve been looking for this episode for probably about 20 years!!! I thought it included a Section about the 1997 M42 pile up.
@ThereIsOnlyOneStuart3 жыл бұрын
Thank you for sharing this spectacle of old-school military music and 1970s facial hair!
@adrianmcmanus46953 жыл бұрын
Does anyone know what the second tune is in the medley played for the march off? The first one is 'Loch Lomond' but I'm not sure about the second tune which starts at 13:18 :)))
@avify33693 жыл бұрын
I’m pretty sure it sounds like Auld Lang Syne!
@ThereIsOnlyOneStuart3 жыл бұрын
"Take Me Home, Country Roads" by John Denver.
@avify33693 жыл бұрын
@@ThereIsOnlyOneStuart Oh yes!
@MajorDenisBloodnok3 жыл бұрын
2:46 "Le rêve passe" !?! A very French (anti Prussian) and nostalgic of Napoleon song!!!
@MajorDenisBloodnok4 жыл бұрын
Napoleon's eagle on the bass drums!?! As far as I know, today, The Republican Guard doesn't dare to carry it...
@stephentighe20054 жыл бұрын
I'm one of the Cavalry Trumpeters of the 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards on here. 2 Weeks rehearsals, 4 Weeks performances. Long job. Lost a few pounds.
@sidpheasant75855 ай бұрын
Nice to read that, and thank you for your service! Above I commented that the Keep surmounted the DVG rather than the Crown, on those cloths of the fanfare trumpets. Your band ended in the 1990s, I see, and today there are not even Cavalry Bands at all... Ah well, everything changes...
@stephentighe20055 ай бұрын
@@sidpheasant7585 VDG (V being Roman numeral for 5). 5th Dragoon Guards.
@natheniel4 жыл бұрын
11:13 oops
@jpc71184 жыл бұрын
wow the french Guard dared to perform "La marche des Soldats de Robert Bruce", it was a song unifying France and Scotland in the Auld Alliance, in front of THAT crowd !
@militarymusicappreciations65854 жыл бұрын
Chez, very interested to know if there are other full length videos of the Tattoo from around 1965 to 1980. I know BBC did annual productions of all these years and wonder if anyone like yourself has access. These were the golden years of the Tattoo for sure.
@davidpennington97423 жыл бұрын
We were there in 1977, Australians working in Scotland. My parents back in Australia saw us in one of the BCC audience shots from 12,000 miles away!
@midnightteapot56334 жыл бұрын
taped this off the TV on new years day 1978 . must have played that audio cassette 200 times in the day. good to see it again @@ the glory days of the tattoo long gone .
@andrewrobertson39524 жыл бұрын
I had the Massed Pipes and Drums set on a cassette when I was wee, it's great to actually SEE it! With an extra four tunes too!! :D thanks for sharing this Chez! Quality
@midnightteapot56334 жыл бұрын
there is no comparison with todays military tattoo I am afraid. I have been watching the EMT since the early 1970,s and really lost interest in the late 1990,s . today I don't even bother with it . tnx for the post !!!
@walkernick862 жыл бұрын
Gotta move with the times I'm afraid! Sorry. If we went back to this dry format, the REMT would go bust! The more modern format introduces new young blood to the world of military music and cutlural arts!
@midnightteapot56332 жыл бұрын
@@walkernick86 Its true that military music has always been a mix of deep traditions and popular taste , even in the 1920s and 30s at the great tattoos they played "modern popular" tunes as well . Maybe it is me that is out of joint with the times we live in now but there it is . its not for me any longer.
@Kuiper3282 Жыл бұрын
Totally agree with you!
@alanwitton50394 жыл бұрын
My dad was a rockape and proud of it
@militarymusicappreciations65854 жыл бұрын
The Tattoo finale was so much less rushed and dignified than today. Please post others years if you have any.
@alvindurochermtl2 жыл бұрын
That is because nowadays they feel obliged to squeeze in a gazillion acts featuring performers from all over the world, when in fact this is entirely unnecessary. I live in Asia, and if I was to travel all the way to Edinburgh to see this, I will want to see things that are distinctively Scottish. I surely wouldn't care about the Singapore Army band or the Chinese Liberation Army band.
@thecurlew7403 Жыл бұрын
Notice the arm swing one movement of all the raf regiment todays arms are everywere and not in time hense no swagger and looks bad.
@militarymusicappreciations65854 жыл бұрын
Thank y ou so much for posting the 1977 Tattoo. A real treat and a sad example of how the show has changed so much from today. If you have other years please post.
@militarymusicappreciations65854 жыл бұрын
Great to see this vintage year. I have only heard this on my LP for this year. Wonderful to see entire show. Format was so much better. It was a real Tattoo in those days. All those old regimental bands which are no more now. Great and poigant to see there here. Please share any other years you have. I can post them on my military music appreciation page on FB. Many thanks
@alexgoodfellow67854 жыл бұрын
Chez you have put the wrong year can you edit the title I will try and splice them together absolutely brilliant
@264Rockape4 жыл бұрын
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@alexgoodfellow67854 жыл бұрын
Chez I remember that as if it was yesterday brought a tear to my eye and a lump to my throat even managed to spot myself and all my brothers pity it cut of before the final when we formed EIIR in honour of HM The Queen PER ARDUA
@264Rockape4 жыл бұрын
I'm going to trim it down from the original and repost.
@scotsexile6 жыл бұрын
Superb Drill Lads..Shame the Standard Bearer let you down..Get a grip man !! I Refer to the Old Colour Bearer
@anguskirk46966 жыл бұрын
Wat the F..k are you on about. The drill was fine. You are just another one who thinks they know everything. How about you show them how to march then ae???