Blackmore's night - Past time with good company

[@melvingeloneck3344]

This is my favorite version of Pastime with Good Company. I wonder how many people know that this was composed by Henry VIII. Yes, THAT Henry VIII. The King Of England in the 1500s. Not the composer you were expecting, eh? Yes, he was cultured and quite an accomplished musician. He was a very different person after his jousting accident. Before that, he was generally very likeable and also well-liked. The words are his words. They speak to me through the centuries!

[@jacekszczecinski2766]

At least all Tull fans know about it because Ian always mentions Henry VIII when he introduces this piece. However, Jethro Tull always plays the instrumental version without singing.

[@maxlune391]

MERCI !!👍👍

[@barttheanorak]

Written by Henry VIII when he was young and virtuous. Honest!

[@merledoughty5787]

Oh am I hooked on this music have not heard of this before.

[@BespokeGroupUK]

Quite a fantastic arrangement of a medaeval classic. Nice

[@maxlune391]

j'aurais adoré assister à son concert !!

[@Patrick0900]

Beautiful Proformance 👏 well done. 😉

[@folkatka]

My favourite version of this song.

[@ADyingFaith]

I know, how long this song has lived, and it will probably live longer than any of us now. Its mad the way some people, or things that they done can last for so long, while others are just completely forgotten about. As if they were never here at all.

[@querannayl7544]

You were so english!!! Happy to see you!!

[@iulika08]

Beautiful performance. Wish I was there.

[@brigittegeorg]

Beautiful.

[@niuchemist]

"so God be pleased, thus live will I" ... it's such an interesting lyric because it contrasts so deeply with how we view the world today. (e.g. more like Invictus .... we're the Captain of our own ships)

[@ThrowerTimothy]

Oh do explain more?

[@WeebDweebTCG]

@@ThrowerTimothy Four years later I say that I think you were a decade too late. lol

[@べーべ-p4z]

父上のおかげで子守唄より何よりも耳に染みついた曲である、今の所日本で知ってる人1人しか会ったことないけど

[@SuperAna1954]

@ADyingFaith yes, i agree with you. I find this song 2 days ago, and I don,t get enough of it.

[@camelianucete]

Just excellent!! Spectacular voice and feeling! and of course great song! Why has it lasted that much?? The rythm! It's contagious! No need to know what the lyrics mean, just feel it and you may think you are in Ireland or England! that's my very humble opinion....

[@napoleonbouchet9712]

Young King Henry VIII is missing from there. He should appear there.

[@jbsmith966]

Ritchie was having Spinal Tap moment through most of this song

[@scottreeve5716]

1:10 looks like Tomi Iommi. Like when he was with Tull in RS RnR Circus. LOL.

[@alex302582]

haaaaaaaaaaa gooooood one!!

[@Zingo33]

She better than most pop princesses these days who have to resort to auto-tune.

[@maskedone13]

amazing.....what else is there to say

[@marcovolpi824]

Meravigliosa è dire poco!

[@yeddi66]

wow. great!!!

[@niuchemist]

@camelianucete and then the lyrics are poetry. It was something they taught us in High School that I didn't come to appreciate until years later. The best lyrical songs have poetic lyrics.

[@adrimantovani]

That's the best adaptation of "Pastime with good company" ever. Better then Jethro Tull's...

[@scottreeve5716]

Respect your opinion, but I like Tull's version.

[@greymountian]

I wonder if Henry the VIII had a drummer like that.

[@coulie27]

@ADyingFaith Loved your comment. It's so true... and with the internet and the information age, more people and deeds will be, and are being, rediscovered, disseminated, and burned deeper into our collective historical consciousness. Ben Franklin said "If you would not be forgotten, before you are dead and rotten, then write things worth the reading, or do things worth the writing." With our ever-growing ability to retain information, that is more true now than ever.

[@OwtDaftUK]

She does the Austin Powers face at around 1:48, lol.

[@CL-bf2io]

+OwtDaftUK Oh, behave Baby :D

[@D_Chan]

beautiful

[@SuperAna1954]

@folkatka - New World Renaissance Band,please see this version...

[@davidbutler8850]

What can you say in Good company Ritchie Blackmore and Candace Knight🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉❤

[@nt100t1]

Very cooool...

[@РоманПотоцкий]

Генрих VIII , классную песню написал)))

[@Alex-ShtG]

Вот так больше десятка лет слушаешь песню, а потом на пикабу узнаешь историю.

[@СветланаСоломатина-г5е]

Классно..

[@D_Chan]

Es la mejor versión en concierto que he oido de esta canción; mucho mas bella que la de Paris Moon

[@carolloucao]

of course dear.. nobody here is god to live forever

[@AdioPavel]

Epic 2018

[@biancademonet]

Henry VIII also composed music....

[@intoxicatedskier]

is this on one of there cds?

[@asphodelale]

Under a Violet Moon. (Man, talk about a delayed response, hey?)

[@GrichkaBogdanofff]

asphodelale lmao 6 years later

[@ThrowerTimothy]

Well you're helping me 9 years on, so thank you!

[@WeebDweebTCG]

@@ThrowerTimothy Me four years later. lol

[@ThrowerTimothy]

@@WeebDweebTCG I'd totally forgotten I'd posted this, but thank you for your reply!

[@codswallop321]

It's great. But the title is "pastime" (as in "hobbies and ...") not "past time"

[@antnyakwaduct]

the longbow

[@yatinexile7144]

WWH8D?

[@semihturuncu4239]

I falling love to her.

[@leone.6190]

*Pastime with good company mashed together with some dabbeling

[@jeffreyb7057]

i think Henry VIII would have liked this rendition. and so do I.

[@johnpolitis9060]

No, he wouldn't. He would like the song done by Musica Reservata, Alfred Deller, David Munrow, etc. instead.

[@menswear2112]

Ritchie keep fiddling with the amps, to the embarassement of the band.

[@anibalcesarnishizk2205]

Henry VIII won't suit them for copyrights.

[@Zingo33]

I suspect Henry the VIII had his ghost composers/writers make this song.

[@johnpolitis9060]

This version sucks! Listen a real authentic version done better by Musica Reservata, Alfred Deller, David Munrow, etc. who are real Medieval and Renaissance Purist groups and performers. I am also a Medieval and Renaissance. I am proud to be one those Purists that Blackmore hates!

[@scottreeve5716]

Dare I ask what you think of Tull's version?

[@ClassicalGuitarRulez]

Really don't like this version!

[@BarriosGroupie]

Really? explains why it's so bland

[@BarriosGroupie]

omfg, so predictable