This is awesome! Thank you for sharing! 🎵🎶

WHAT A BLAST FROM THE PAST! I don't mean when they used to play this medley, I mean that I wish I could go back to when my ears weren't bleeding.

Journey To Skye. EPIC! Glorious!

Is this not the most epic opening to a medley ? Beautiful music. Just beautiful.

Unbelievable

C'mon! really? this is a trick for a grade 4 to pull, but for 78ths of Bill Livingstone??? what's next? "Scots wa hae" as a march? Why not do a march of Andy Rennick's Ferret, then strathspey into Camarionian Rant and jig into Price of a Pig?? Or am I just too old to dream of such things?? If you thought this performance was good, then you best kneel to the King of England. Bill Livingstone needs to come back and inject his creativity to 78ths again. I apologize. The 78th now isn't what the 78th was like when I listened to them.

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Paddy Donovan was my grandfather...my family came across a wonderful song written about him by Bobby Watts...I remember my father Joe being delighted we had stumbled across it. Bobby Watt told me he had met Alex Duthart on a bus in Glasgow going to some competition and Alex told him of the high regard he had for Paddy. I hope it is ok for me to post the link for the song here...if not please delete...kind regards...Anthony Donovan. kzbin.info/www/bejne/jIC8nWufidR1g8Usi=t6v24Yz42ezwRB_x

2:35 "Beverley's Wedding" medley 8:09: "Alan MacPherson of Dumbarton" and "The Korgi" 37:00 "Brigadier Cheape" set 1:17:20 "The Argyllshire Gathering" set

Do you have the MSR side digitized? Someone uploaded an indirect recording (HATE indirect recordings!!!!!!) of the MSR side played on their Victrola but I'd like the direct version please. I'm more a fan of direct recordings of 78's rather than Victrola-based recordings with room echos, warpy vibratos, etc.

Thanks for posting. I know only one piobaireachd, McIntosh's Banner, that I learned it from John MacFadyen who used to come to teach a weeklong piobaireacht summer camp at Trudy Campbell's farm near Wallaceburg, Ontario. It was a great adventure and an opportunity to learn piobaireacht from a master, one-on-one. Early in the week after lessons, the great MacFadyen handed his pipes to me, saying "go down that dirt road and give them a good, long blow". I headed a long way down the farm's dirt road to get out of sight and sound, bursting with youthful pride that I had been chosen for such an honor. Panic replaced pride as I struck up the pipes. The master's pipes which were excruciatingly hard to blow. I daren't touch the reed so I checked the bag for leaks. With nothing obviously "wrong", it simply took everything in me to play, but I wasn't going to complain or let anyone know of this condition which continued over days. As I handed his pipes back on the final day, he popped out the chanter, removed the reed and popped it into a small tin box with a HUGE grin. He said "good lad" and inserted a more vintage looking reed into the chanter and proceeded to play for the students with apparent ease. The following week, he gave a recital in Detroit's St. Andrew's Hall which is one of the greatest piping performances I have ever heard. I like to believe that on that night, he performed using the "Reed of Wrath" I had played in for him the week before. He was a great teacher and piper imprinting a deeper understanding of piobaireachd and piping which I will never forget.

Micheal bill lengeds pipeing

I real pipe band 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💙

Timeless tunes in a timeless medley 🤟🏼

Michael, what is the name of the tune the 78th played while marching up to the line for the msr at the 2024 world's?

Maggie’s Pancakes👌🏻

Vindication is knowing you played a tune almost identical to Mr. Grey and somehow I got 3rd in grade 3. Anyway, who needs judges anyway right🤣?

Love hot air ballons

Shout out from Scotland ❤

Sound projection would have been much more enhanced had this been recorded from the opposite side closer to pipe corps

So beautifully played. This audio is priceless

Every time I hear this concert it brings tears to my eyes. I was there. Wonderful

Excelente.

That entrance!!!!! 😱😱😱❤️❤️❤️🤩🤩🤩

As a classical violinist I'm always amazed how the pipe bands play such rhythmically intricate music without a conductor only the pipe major tapping his foot obscured much of the time to the pipers and drummers alike. I doff my hat to them all !!!

21st century pipe bands have been effeminized. Strathclyde Police 1960s-1990s was amazing stirring as was Dysart, Shotts Edinburgh Police. 21st century pipe bands arent worth listening to or watching. They do notinspire. Pipe bands have lost their strong male, military bearing character. There should be a male only bands category, female only category, and mixed category(to satisfy the PC Wokesters). Modern pipe bands are way too wimpy now. Deep down you know it's true.

100% honest here, the tune selection is cracked out. I like Michael quite alot but it seems like he was hitting the pipe when writing this medley. Regardless, I hope the band does well at worlds.

this is the best band north america has ever seen. Too bad Shotts is still better and just playing jimmy's gift lol what a world.

Lovely to hear these old classics again. Hence the Balmorals ?

A medley to win.

Innovative and brilliant, unlike some of the guff some bands are trying.

If I didn’t wrong that Allen came to Homg Kong at 1987 working at Mandrain Hotel then I met him.

I honestly was not expecting to hear something remonicent to toronto police from he 78th, im obsessed with both of medley. My only gripe is that the north star was slightly messy compared to everything else. Apart from that first class medley

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Great Job love the opener, and especially 4th part of LC!!!!

"Live in Ireland" was the first "real" pipe band album I obtained after I started learning the pipes. That was way before youtube and the plethora of easy access to recordings, so I listened to that album hundreds of times and it made quite the impression on me. This medley, along with the rest of the album is permanently seared into my mind in a good way. I'm sure I'm not alone. What a treat to hear a medley from that era brought back in its entirety.

quality ❤

A real blast from the past. Bravo.

That was a BLAST FROM THE PAST! But great to hear again in 2024.

Balmorals. . . !

An Act of Worship.The Spirit soars.

What an opener !

MAGNIFICENT💛Michael!😎🫶 (So glad to hear you're back at the helm of our beloved 'Frasers'!)❤

We love you, Michael!

Old. School. Fantastic.

Awesome track !!!!! This is the first I’m hearing it, and I love it

"Mason's" is a fun tune, "Cascade" is an intense/compelling tune, but man if those tunes in between aren't melancholy-inducing. There's something kind of bittersweet or even heart-wrenching about them. It's hard to describe. "Sad" is not the right word but definitely evocative of a kind of reflective mood. Thank you for playing this medley! Great sound, too.

LOVE THAT MEDLEY!!!!! Thanks for bringing it back, Mikey!! So well done, everyone!!

Brilliant. The 78th are back 👍👍🙌🙌

I couldn't believe that old medley had returned with an updated version. Happy 40th anniversary to the Mason's Apron Medley. I also loved how slow airs (Mist Covered Mountains and Behind The Hills) combind together since the Megantic Outlaw concert from Saint John, New Brunswick from 1992.