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« on: December 10, 2014, 04:36:00 AM » |
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Fritz The Cat
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« Reply #1 on: December 10, 2014, 05:34:55 AM » |
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No sir. Ain't clicking that link.
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777kingsman
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« Reply #3 on: December 10, 2014, 08:07:47 PM » |
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Thanks for sharing! Beautiful indeed!
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Psalm 91:14 "Because he loves me," says the Lord, "I will rescue him; I will protect him, for he acknowledges my name."
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« Reply #4 on: December 10, 2014, 10:11:43 PM » |
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Fantastic. Never heard of a pan flute. WOW!  |
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bigguy
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« Reply #5 on: December 11, 2014, 07:16:28 AM » |
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Fantastic. Never heard of a pan flute. WOW! I remember this guy from 10 or 20 years ago. I think he was pretty big stuff in Europe.
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John Schmidt
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« Reply #6 on: December 11, 2014, 08:28:50 AM » |
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I like this version as well, done in Cherokee which is kinda close to the heart. My wife is part Cherokee through her father and his ancestry. There are a number of versions sung by the same group and accompanied by various photos/paintings. One I had copied to my fairing although it's not in this version of the song. The picture at the bottom is my fairing, done by The Mountain Man in '08. It is a copy of one of the pictures snagged from one of the various YouTube videos done by Walela of Amazing Grace. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1nm_aWSqNs |
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« Reply #7 on: December 11, 2014, 08:53:41 AM » |
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Nice! But gotta love the classics too...
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« Reply #8 on: December 11, 2014, 11:29:18 AM » |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYMLMj-SibUIn my opinion, one of the finest performances of Amazing Grace I've yet seen and heard. Il Devo in the Colosseum in Pula, Croatia.
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Mike Luken
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« Reply #9 on: December 11, 2014, 02:54:51 PM » |
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I do like Il Devo, but you just knowed I was gonna throw in a Celtic Woman Link. And this is from back when Lisa Kelly and Chloë Agnew was still with them which is a real plus.
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« Reply #10 on: December 11, 2014, 03:29:42 PM » |
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The Greatest performance of Amazing Grace I have seen I can only tell you about.
June 21, 2007
My first PGR mission as a Ride Captain.
At the time we had a PGR member who would go anywhere to play the bagpipes for free for any Iowa Soldier Killed in Action. Steve Layton was his name. Great big guy. 6'4" at least, 60ish, huge salt and pepper beard, kilt and the works.
Anyway, he would play "Going Home" whenever the caskets would move and at the cemetery would play 2 verses of Amazing Grace at the gravesite. And he was more than a little good at it.
So, the funeral was in Onawa, Iowa for Llythanelle Fender, Army Cpl. 21 years old. He and a couple others were killed by an IED.
We are out at the Cemetery surrounded by US Flags and a huge crowd and the time comes for Steve to start playing Amazing Grace by the graveside. He finishes the first one, turns and starts walking away while playing the 2nd verse and as he gets to the end of the 2nd verse he is probably 50 yards away and everyone is trying to listen and BAM-BAM-BAM goes the rifle salute and then right into Taps.
Not a dry eye anywhere. Even now the thought of that moment tears me up.
And that was the Greatest rendition of Amazing Grace I've ever heard.
About 4 years ago Steve was playing at a Veteran's funeral and shortly after he was done playing was felled by a massive heart attack and died right on the spot. Doing what he loved to do. No one saw it coming. We think of him often.
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