This? is music?

[LakeArenal]

Attorney General Bill Barr Dominates The Bagpipes With An Enthusiasm Unknown To Mankind

[amerikat]

1. Yes it is.

The question should be is this an attorney general. The answer is NO.

[elleng]

3. Right, music, NOT attorney general.

[yonder]

10. +1.

[mr_lebowski]

2. I cannot imagine what bagpipes must sound like indoors ... YUCK

If there was ever an 'outdoor' instrument created, it's those.

They can be kinda cool, in short intervals, OUTSIDE, for somber occasions ... but generally, they pretty much suck.

[LakeArenal]

7. I failed to hear any tune in that...music?

And my grandmother was a Murphy from Prince Edward Island. I’ve heard tunes from bagpipes.

[mr_lebowski]

8. Oh, I didn't listen ... I hate that f**ker way too much ...

And it's bagpipes indoors, which cannot even possibly sound good ...

[LakeArenal]

9. When you're right you're right.

But it is a colossal red faced pus bag fail.

[pangaia]

30. Seriously, you could not hear the tune?

[Jim_Pridx]

4. That's pathetically awful.....

.....regardless of how one looks at it.

[LakeArenal]

5. Or how one hears it.

[pangaia]

31. How is it awful ? Other then the desecration by the asshole playing pipes?

[Judi Lynn]

6. It would be better if he performed magic tricks, like turning himself into a legitimate A.G. n/t

[Heartstrings]

11. Bagpipes? Ugh!

I wish I could unhear that.....LOL!

[LakeArenal]

12. One wonders how they came up with them?

Prince Charles can squeeze a groan out of one.

[EarnestPutz]

13. After 9/11, New York City conducted funerals for the police, firemen....

.....and other emergency workers. There were over 400 of these and they were, for the most part, dignified events. But most, if not all, had police and fire department bag pipers perform, and I couldn't help but think "Haven't the people of New York suffered enough".

[Heartstrings]

14. Just visited the 9/11 Memorial at Ground Zero last week.

I felt the same way when I saw video of those dad gum bagpipes!

[EarnestPutz]

35. Painful music along with painful memories.

Thanks for concurring. I tried to be respectful, but took a chance because opinion here was really running against bagpipes.

[KT2000]

15. I like bagpipes

Don't like Bill Barr though.

[Raine]

16. I really like bagpipes

though it takes an awful lot of hot air to play them.

[whistler162]

17. Well he ain't no Andrew Douglas

https://www.syracuse.com/living/2017/08/where_does_a_world-class_bagpiper_practice_in_a_parking_garage_if_he_has_to.html - worked with his mother for years.

?t=748 - one of my favorite use of the bagpipes.

[tandem5]

18. Oh look sheep guts filled with hot air and some bagpipes.

[LakeArenal]

19. Winner.

[spanone]

20. Is he auditioning for something?

[demmiblue]

21. I get goosebumps whenever I hear "Scotland the Brave" on bagpipes.

To me, it is so beautifully visceral... which is why I clicked stop when I heard the first few notes. Sacrilege!

And if you ever see the pipes and drums performing it in person, even more so.



Speaking of pipes and drums... flashback to Madison, WI:

[smirkymonkey]

22. I knew it!

I knew there had to be some dark, horrible secret he was hiding from the public.

[LakeArenal]

23. For me he has the same florid greasy look of Steve Bannon.

Trump does have a type.

[Initech]

24. Just when you think real life can't get any stranger...

[llmart]

25. Someone should have given him the hook after three seconds. Ugh.

[wcmagumba]

26. Dislike the Scottish bagpipe but like the Irish...

Two different things, one is loud and obnoxious the other is generally played at much lower levels and has a
much wider range among other differences...

https://www.tartantown.com/blogs/news/what-is-the-difference-between-irish-and-scottish-bagpipes

[jberryhill]

27. Bagpipes are a sonic weapon invented in the British Isles to disorient and confuse enemies

It is not music. It is an assault with a sonic weapon.

[broiles]

29. I believe my ancestors left Scotland to get away from the bagpipes.

[EarnestPutz]

34. True, the highlanders used them to scare the lowlanders as they came down to do battle.

[fierywoman]

28. The composer John Cage defined music as:

"an arrangement of sounds in time and space."

[pangaia]

32. I love bagpipes. Use to play snare drum in a pipe band.

Powerful music, when you get right down to it.

[cutroot]

33. He is not really playing. He is a fake.