snitramc
(earth) | | Posted: Feb 15, 2011 - 17:19 | |
Trivia question - I remember a song by Knopfler and ... JT? In it, they reference workers that died building a dam. I think they referenced the Hoover Dam. I want to buy that song, but can't remember if it even was Knopfler. Can anyone jog my memory? Keep thinking it was Sailing To Philadelphia, but I doubt I'm right.
TIA
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gobits
(New York City by way of Tralfamadore & Titan) | | Posted: Mar 23, 2009 - 10:46 | |
Pyro wrote:bugleboy624 wrote:Ok, now I get it. The AC/DC leading into this was just a segue using the bagpipes. I get it. Masterfully done, Bill.
Edit:
I just looked at the setlist. Wow, what a roadtrip. Beethoven to Chuck Berry to AC/DC to Mark Knopfler. Worthy of our former DJ Corey and his Magnum PI I'll Play Whatever I Want show. Nicely done!
I've really enjoyed the last hour or so, too. Bill's programming is unparalleled! Rerun!!! |
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denmom
(Connecticut) | | Posted: Mar 23, 2009 - 10:44 | |
More pipes! WHOOT!!!  |
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jagdriver
(Tunin' in from the aptly-named Grass Valley, CA) | | Posted: Mar 23, 2009 - 10:44 | |
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Pyro
| | Posted: Feb 19, 2009 - 21:30 | |
bugleboy624 wrote:Ok, now I get it. The AC/DC leading into this was just a segue using the bagpipes. I get it. Masterfully done, Bill.
Edit:
I just looked at the setlist. Wow, what a roadtrip. Beethoven to Chuck Berry to AC/DC to Mark Knopfler. Worthy of our former DJ Corey and his Magnum PI I'll Play Whatever I Want show. Nicely done!
I've really enjoyed the last hour or so, too. Bill's programming is unparalleled! |
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bugleboy624
(Bluefield, WV) | | Posted: Oct 16, 2008 - 12:01 | |
Ok, now I get it. The AC/DC leading into this was just a segue using the bagpipes. I get it. Masterfully done, Bill.
Edit:
I just looked at the setlist. Wow, what a roadtrip. Beethoven to Chuck Berry to AC/DC to Mark Knopfler. Worthy of our former DJ Corey and his Magnum PI I'll Play Whatever I Want show. Nicely done!
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OldFrenchie
(Frozen wastes of Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada) | | Posted: Oct 16, 2008 - 12:00 | |
If I wanted to listen to a bag of wind wail on and on I'd seek out my grade 5 teacher, Mrs. Drabinasty.
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TexasAggies
(Houston, Texas y'all) | | Posted: Oct 16, 2008 - 12:00 | |
I see what ya did there, Bill!  Mark is such a bad mofo! |
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Ahnyer_Keester
(Chicago Il) | | Posted: Oct 16, 2008 - 12:00 | |
Oh this is awesome. Great follow up to Long Way To The Top!!
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prickelpit96
(Hannover, Germany) | | Posted: Jun 18, 2007 - 00:39 | |
football in combination w/ bagpipes...
what do i need more in my life?  |
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fireboydan
| | Posted: May 02, 2007 - 01:48 | |
More bagpipes! Less Knopfler-lite.
Hate to say it. Much as I like Mark, the Dire Straits guitar sound doesn't work for me with this song.
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SomeOldGuy
(Indianapolis IN) | | Posted: Feb 28, 2007 - 05:41 | |
Now THAT will wake you up in the morning!
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slartibart_O
(nw corner in austin) | | Posted: Feb 12, 2007 - 15:35 | |
Unfortunately; it is not impossible to play the bagpipes.
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xkolibuul
(Pacific Rim, watching the storms roll in) | | Posted: Jan 29, 2007 - 00:03 | |
Aye, yes you do! Oui! Si! Jaaj!
Old_Pat wrote:
No. No, I don't. |
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nuggler
(Oz via Good Hope) | | Posted: Nov 02, 2006 - 11:34 | |
Och, no wonder the Scots loved a good scrap. Who doesn't want to grab a Claymore & tear into a bunch of Romans or English or whoever after hearing those pipes. Just call me McNuggler....
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cattgirl813
(All over the place and staying put) | | Posted: Nov 02, 2006 - 11:34 | |
"Look at that horrible monster attacking that poor old lady ! Have courage, granny! I'll save ya! I'll save ya!"
Did Bugs prevail? To find out, (click here) |
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Dopefinger
(Sydney Australia) | | Posted: Oct 18, 2006 - 20:40 | |
"...Ring around a-rosey, pocket full of posies...aaaa-shes, aaa-shes we all fall daa-aowwwn..."  |
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Old_Pat
(Belgium) | | Posted: Oct 17, 2006 - 13:40 | |
TobiMc3 wrote:
ditto...everyone loves ye old pipes. ARRRRRRGGGGHHHH (International Talk Like A Pirate Day)
No. No, I don't. |
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TobiMc3
(Sunny, Arlington VA) | | Posted: Sep 19, 2006 - 12:56 | |
Steven_G wrote:
Yes you do... 
ditto...everyone loves ye old pipes. ARRRRRRGGGGHHHH (International Talk Like A Pirate Day) |
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Steven_G
| | Posted: Sep 19, 2006 - 12:53 | |
Old_Pat wrote:
-relayer- wrote:Gotta love the 'pipes.
No I don't.
Yes you do...
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rumplestiltskin
| | Posted: Sep 19, 2006 - 12:52 | |
freeone1 wrote:Knew this was Knopfler, knew it without looking thanks to that distinctive style he has! Good tune!  Hunh. I didn't think his piping style was particularly distinctive... |
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Old_Pat
(Belgium) | | Posted: Sep 19, 2006 - 12:50 | |
-relayer- wrote:Gotta love the 'pipes.  No I don't. |
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Steven_G
| | Posted: Aug 21, 2006 - 07:50 | |
horstman wrote: Alpine wrote:Alpine wrote:
GIVE ME A FREAKING BREAK! I DON'T LISTEN TO THIS STATION FOR FREAKING BAGPIPES! WHILE I'M AT IT, I'M SICK OF THE IRISH FIDDLE MUSIC!!!!!!!!!!!
Please don't scream at us out here in radioland, okay? If you don't like it, turn it off. Or get up and use the toilet. That seems to be where this comment originated. 
I'm with you horstman. Some people need to expand their "freaking" range a bit!
Alpine, at least you are not a single guy in the military with a room mate that listens to military bagpipe music 24x7 in the dorm room. One morning several guys got together and tipped the poor bloke's cot over... while he was sleeping in it!
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ndfan75
(Texas) | | Posted: Aug 06, 2006 - 16:04 | |
most outstanding more cowbell, and bagpipes too
ps Irish eyes are smilin for the fiddle  |
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JohnErle
(Eiledon) | | Posted: Jun 09, 2006 - 01:55 | |
More bagpipes! Less Knopfler-lite.
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AlienRelic
(Lost in a lost world) | | Posted: May 25, 2006 - 11:44 | |
Alpine wrote:GIVE ME A FREAKING BREAK! I DON'T LISTEN TO THIS STATION FOR FREAKING BAGPIPES! WHILE I'M AT IT, I'M SICK OF THE IRISH FIDDLE MUSIC!!!!!!!!!!!
Listen to this station long enough and you can hear anything: bagpipes, Beethoven, God-awful vocals by The Flaming Lips, who knows? I would say just chiil out. It will be over soon and there will be something else that you can relate to... |
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-relayer-
(9500 ft ASL) | | Posted: May 25, 2006 - 11:41 | |
Gotta love the 'pipes. |
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physicsgenius
(90% of everything is crap) | | Posted: May 25, 2006 - 11:40 | |
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bigstory
(Ottawa, Canada) | | Posted: May 25, 2006 - 11:40 | |
I wish there were less Knopfler on RP. He's often played, and it's just too much of that one flavour. (That Knopfler is a flavour unto himself is a compliment.)
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Beastie
(Living with 22 million+, same city) | | Posted: Apr 26, 2006 - 08:30 | |
Love his contribution to this soundtrack. Particularly fond of bagpipes, too.
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