Jamaica Rose

I thought the Kalmar Nyckel was supposed to be Swedish. The colony of Delaware originally had a lot of Swedes if I remember correctly. But I don't know the flags that well though.

Safe harbours and full tankards,

--Jamaica Rose

Aye - Coastie04 -- good plan. I like the way you think.

Frankly I don't know what's up. Hey-- Capt. ADMIN -- care to explain???

Safe harbours and sleeping sentries,

--Jamaica Rose

As for pirate music (by which I mean, pirates are referenced in the song, or they have "piratized" shanties and interspersed their songs with pirate humor, as versus albums of just shanties and other maritime music, which is also very appropriate), I probably have the largest collection of pirate music available. But no one album is all pirate songs. You might get a few of these, and then make your own mix burned onto a CD.

Here's some suggestions (in alphabetical order):

ANNWN: Come Away to the Hills

- "The Red Queen". Elf Hill Music & Mayhem Unltd., 2455 Ashby Ave.,

Berkeley, CA 94705-2034

"The Red Queen" (honoring Anne Bonney) is the best damn non-traditional

pirate song I've heard (it's in the NQG Pirate Song Book too). The Port Royal Privateers (my pirate crew) love to sing it, especially the women. It's the only pirate song on the album though. Most of the other songs on this album are traditional Renaissance era ballads and folk songs (I love their version of Matty Groves). I keep trying to encourage her (Leigh Ann Hussey) to write more pirate songs. She mentioned she was working on one about Francis Drake a few years ago, but haven't heard anything more about it since.

BILGE PUMPS: We do not recommend their first album "We Don't Know" (sorry guys -- I love the Bilge Pumps, but not this album)-- it was pretty bad. But their second album "Greatest Hits Vol. VIII" is a complete turn around (I understand they changed out some of the group, and they really got their act together). It is great. While the songs are mostly shanties, they have been done in a pyratical style. I especially love their version of "Spanish Ladies" -- rewritten from a piratical point of view. Look for the hidden tracks too. The CD has some skits between the songs, but the cassette has even more (the cassette tape could hold 90 min. but the CD only about 70 mins of material).

www.thebilgepumps.com

As mentioned in a previous post -- the guys have a new album coming out "Brigands with Big'uns". I haven't yet heard it but it will be reviewed in the May 2003 issue of No Quarter Given.

CAPTAIN BOGG & SALTY - Bedtime stories for Pirates

- good collection for youngun's, and fun for adults too (sort of on the level of Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean - "Yo Ho Yo Ho, A Pirate's Life for Me" - cute, but not sickeningly so). http://www.boggandsalty.com/

This album is the product of two musicians from PIRATE JENNY (see below), plus the other members of Pirate Jenny as backup musicians. It

is quite well done, and has great art work on the cover.

THE CORSAIRS - They currently have five albums out.

The Blue One - original compositions "Pirate's Life", "No Purchase, No

Pay", plus traditional "Golden Vanity",

The Red One - "Barrett's Privateers", more shanties

The Green One - "Sailor's Prayer", "King of the Cannibal Islands", "Blow

the Man Down", more shanties

The Black One - "Drunken Sailor", ""Life of a Sailor" (original), "Yo Ho

Ho and a Bottle of Rum", more

The White One "Pass the Bottle Round" (original composition), less

shantey, more folk songs

www.corsairs.com

- tthey record mostly shanties in a rowdy style (though The Green One

has a hidden track of singing Amazing Grace to dozens of other tunes --

hilarious). For piratical content, I recommend The Blue One album over the others, especially for the original pieces. I recommend The Red One least -- it was their first and isn't quite up to par with the others, but if you

get the others and really like them, then this one isn't bad -- just not

as good -- so you might get it.

CRAZY CAT GEORGE: Album: 2609 Manning, 1996

"Tender Young Men" is a wonderful story, though gdone in a more modern style, relating the adventures of a wild pirate woman. Only pirate song on the CD. Have no idea if still available - the address on my album is:

Crazy Cat George, PO Box 480471, Los Angeles, CA 90048 213-951-7069 (if anyone is able to get this album, let me know, so I know for sure it is still available)

DAVID GROSSMAN: Graffitti

"Bartholomew Roberts" is a wonderful song based on the historical pirate. (also to be found in the NQG Pirate Song Book)

David Grossman, PO Box 4681, Cave Creek, AZ, 85327

www.davidgrossman.com

Last I knew, CD's were $16.

EMERSON, LAKE AND PALMER: Works, Volume I - "Pirates"

HENDERSON, SKIP: Billy Bones and other Ditties

original composition "Billy Bones" (this song alone is worth buying the CD -- it's great -- done in an old fashioned style - you can find the lyrics and music in the NQG Pirate Song Book), plus somewhat traditional "Fifteen Men" (the tune is a little different but I really like it) and other nautical tunes. About half songs and half instrumentals (during one instrumental, a traditional hornpipe or something on the concertina, you can hear a brawl breaking out in the tavern - really funny) .

Wm. Bones c/o Canyon Studios, PO Box 13, Canyon, CA 94516

IRVINE, TONY: Outward Bound

original compositions "For God, King & Country", "A Pirates Night Before

Christmas" (both of which are featured in the NQG Pirate Song Book) plus traditional nautical tunes. Tony Irvine, 3267 Old Bridgeport Way, San Diego, CA 92111.

Email: airvine@san.rr.com

JOLLY ROGERS: Pirates Gold album, - "All for me Grog", "Haul Away Joe"

Loose Cannons album (a 2 disc album - great bargain) - "A Port in Every Girl", "Dread", "Bonnie Pirate Laddie"

Jolly Rogers, P.O. Box 2562, Kansas City, MO 64142 ,

http://www.chivalry.com/jollyrogers/

There's a couple of new original songs on "Loose Cannons" -- "Dread" --

about Bartholomew Roberrts, and "A Port in Every Girl" (hilarious --

alone this is worth the price of the CD).

Their songs "Teach the Devil's Son" and "L'Ollonais" are featured in the NQG Pirate Song Book.

Mc GUINN, ROGER: Cardiff Rose [Columbia] -- "Jolly Roger" (also called "Cardiff Rose"). Roger would have given me permission to feature this song in the NQG Pirate Song Book, but he no longer owns the rights to it (EMI has the rights).

MUPPET TREASURE ISLAND: Soundtrack - "Shiver Me Timbers" and "Professional Pirate" -- they have silly bits, but "Professional Pirate" actually does a good job of explaining how it's all how you look at piracy if you are bad or good.

PIRATE JENNY: Never-Sea Land

Once Upon a Wave

- Pirate Jenny is a four-piece Portland Oregon band specializing in

original rock & roll pirate sea chanties.

Pirate Jenny, P.O. Box 12264 Portland, Oregon 97212,

http://www.teleport.com/~stangetz/pj.html

--The entire album Never-Sea Land is filled with original songs about

pirates, but done in a rock and roll style or reggae style. I like them, except for the production quality makes some of the lyrics hard to understand. I really like "Sensitive Pirates No More" and "A Pirate's Life is Peaceful" (remind's me of Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean song) -- both songs are featured in the NQG Pirate Song Book.

The Once Upon a Wave album is not so accessible to general pirate listeners - sort of for those who are real groupies, and understand where the group is coming from.

PYRATES ROYALE: Their first album is Hello, Sailor - "Fireship", "Blow

the Man Down", "Maid on the Shore", "Down Among the Dead Men", "What Do You Do With a Drunken Sailor", more (done as if broadcast through "Pirate Radio" - the weather and traffic reports are very funny)

Their second album is Lyve Behind Bars - "Don't Sail There" (hilarious),

"Stumble/Beer, Beer, Beer", many shanties

Their third album is "Love at First Nyte" -- original composition "The

Ballad of Old Redcoat", "Swing the Cat" shanties

The Pyrates Royale, 1767 Old B&A Blvd., Annapolis, MD 21401

www.pyrates.com

None of the songs are really pirate songs (though I consider "Maid on

the Shore" a pirate song, since the crew kidnaps the girl, which seems

like an act of pirates to me, but they are never called such), but the songs

are often done in a pyratical, rowdy, comical style, with lots of scurvy

background dialog. They are songs pirates would have enjoyed singing.

ROGERS, STAN: Fogarty's Cove [1977, Fogarty's Cove Music] - "Barrett's Privateers" and "Maid on the Shore"

Besides contacting each group or tracking down each album separately, I know Fern Canyon Press carries many of these -- www.ferncanyonpress.com

And if he doesn't, let him know you are interested in something he doesn't carry, and maybe he can start carrying it.

Dulcetly (not),

--Jamaica Rose

"With a black flag dancing overhead,

We'll salt your beef with flying lead,

And you'll regret that ever you fed

At the board of Anne Bonney"

The Red Queen -- by Leigh Ann Hussey

The Port Royal Privateers used to have an encampent at this faire. Not this year though (or last). But Rogues Cove (out of Las Vegas) will be there (a grand bunch they be too) -- and many of the Port Royal Privateers will join up with Rogues Cove for the weekend.

The faire is pirate friendly so feel free to come in yer best shore clothes. It's a nice smaller-sized faire. Don't let it's size fool you -- there's lots goin' on there, and many wonderful merchants just ripe for the raidin' ... er ... tradin'.

Safe harbours and full tankards,

--Jamaica Rose

You can find plans for making a leather baldric in the May 1999 issue of No Quarter Given. It's a special design that's comfortable and hangs attractively on the shoulder. It's available in the new NQG Collected Volume no. VI. It gives patterns for cutting the leather pieces, with instructions on how to put them together. I'm not a leatherworker - but I've been told ya only need basic leatherworking skills for this project.

Blackheartedly yrs,

--Jamaica Rose

"Those who live by the sword, get shot by those who don't."

Every year round about early October, Two Harbors in Catalina plays host to Buccaneer Days. I haven't been there for several years now, but I hear rather than a true pirate festival, it's more a gathering of boaters who don Halloween-type pirate costumes, wear eye-patches. fly Jolly Rogers, and swill lots of beer.

For other California events, there's the Pirate Festival at the San Juan Capistrano Mission, on the Saturday before Halloween (commemorating the 1818 raid of Hippolyte Bouchard and his crew of pirates), the Gold Coast Pirate Festival in late September, and the Toshiba Tallships Festival in Dana Point, while not a pirate event is very welcoming of pirates. Find out more about these, and other events at:

http://www.noquartergiven.net/calendar.htm

--Jamaica Rose

"Piracy's a dirty job, but someone's gotta do it."

There are, and have been, many events in the New England waters (and other areas as well). For a list of upcoming pirate get-togethers, consult the "On the Horizon" webpage at:

http://www.noquartergiven.net/calendar.htm

It might also behoove you to join up with a crew in yer port. They'll know about upcoming events, and if there be none, they might even stir up their own action. For a list of crew acceptin' new recruits, go to:

http://www.noquartergiven.net/crews.htm

Safe harbours and full tankards,

--Jamaica Rose

"Proud member of the Jolly Roger Glee Club and Boarding Party"

Hi everyone! I just checked out the chat room and it was great except I was the only one there. Just looking to talk with other pirates now and then. Hope to see more of you around later  

Might be better if a rendezvous time were set up -- certain hours when others agree to meet up in the Chat Room together. Might even assign particular topics at a certain time. Would others be interested in this? What times would be best for everyone? I'm guessing evening hours or sometime on the weekend. But evening hours are not so friendly if we have any crewmembers from around the world. Weekend hours might not be good for those who are out and about on weekend (in other words, those who have a life).

Once in a while I'd be glad to host a chat topic and help field questions. Maybe others would like to volunteer to do the same thing. Such arranged topics in the Chat Room could be announced in advance via the No Quarter Given email newsletter, as well as in the forum. Might help get more participation in the Pyracy Forum.

What topics would interest you?

Safe harbours and full tankards,

--Jamaica Rose

"Practice random acts of pillaging and plundering."

They have been showing a TV program on one of the History or Discovery channels recently on the QAR.

Based on the location, the number of cannons and dated items, they are pretty sure she be she.

Ahh -- Teach -- my old sweetheart -- now there was a man! His flagship the Queen Anne's Revenge was quite a vessel too.

To learn all that you wanted to, and more even, about the QAR here is the official website:

http://www.ah.dcr.state.nc.us/qar/

I know the head underwater archeologist on the project (David Moore) -- and though they have found no conclusive proof -- like a bell with the name of the ship on it -- all the facts and evidence so far points to the QAR. He's about 99% sure it's the QAR.

Blackheartedly yrs,

--Jamaica Rose

Lorelei,

I search TMC every couple weeks to see if "Against All Flags" is coming up. It's one of my absolute favorites! What a cast! What a Romp! What I wouln't give to be there....

Love n kisses,

Katey O'T

I do like "Against All Flags" -- love Maureen O'Hara's boots, that Scottish governess, and Anthony Quinn. Unfortunately -- Errol Flynn was a little past his prime and it showed.

Long time ago I saw "The King's Pirate" with Doug McClure, and I rememer liking it alot. But at the time I had a terrible crush on Doug McClure so that may have greatly influenced my opinion (fell in love with him first as Trampas from The Virginian). I figured out later the movie was a re-make of "Against All Flags". Would like to see it again sometime to update my opinion (and get a fresh dose of a young, handsome Doug McClure).

But my favorite pirate movies are:

"The Buccaneer" - the second version with Yul Brynner (the first version is good too, with Frederick March, but this one is better as far as I'm concerned) -- this is one of the few pirate movies that show an historical pirate with any sort of accuracy. Charlton Heston as Andrew Jackson, is great too. And Lorne Greene has a small role as an obnoxious character -- very fun to watch!

and

"Swashbucklers" -- starring Robert Shaw as Red Ned Lynch -- gosh he was a hunk too, and Genevieve Bujold as the heroine -- there's a great sword fight with her in her petticoats in the tide against Lynch. Also one of the Bridges lads make a great comic relief (can't remember if it's Jeff or Beau -- but it was one of Lloyd's offspring). Then there's the Kola Nut guy (if yer old enough to remember the commercials) -- Geoffrey Holder -- with his collar of knives. Very intimidating. And a very young, hunky James Earl Jones. Peter Boyle makes a really great bad guy. And I remember the lad with the stainless steel, long, sharp fingernails -- he shows up in my nightmares once in a while.

Blackheartedly yrs,

--Jamaica Rose

"Don't blame me! It was sinking when I got there!"

You can see a photo of the Kalmar Nykel, but I'm not sure if it's the ship in the foreground or the background.

http://www.noquartergiven.net/ae_philly.htm

More tall ships can be seen if you follow the various links at:

http://www.noquartergiven.net/aebattles.htm

Also, more tall ships at:

http://www.noquartergiven.net/clash.htm

http://www.noquartergiven.net/danapt97.htm

http://www.noquartergiven.net/ships.htm

http://www.noquartergiven.net/pip2001pg2.htm

http://www.noquartergiven.net/pip2002pg2.htm

If these aren't enough tall ships for you, you can find all sorts of links to other tall ship websites at:

http://www.noquartergiven.net/ports.htm#Tall Ship Sites

Fair wyndes, safe harbors and full tankards,

--Jamaica Rose

"A lemon a day keeps the scurvy away!"

But be warned! In my days sailing the trecherous seas that are the internet, I've captained forums me self. And indeed there are many a land lubber who will post crap to pad their posts.

The only real solution is when you find one of these grog hating dabloon pinching arses, is to make em walk the plank!

Aye, I did notyce that Bilgemonkey makes a lot of posts, yet says nothin' wurth readin'. Ifin I catch up with the scurvy squid-suckin' scallywag, he might just wish all we did wuz make 'im walk the plank!

If I'm gonna take the time to check out the posts made here, sure wish they were actually worth takin' the time to do so.

Now this is something different -- we get ranked by the number of our replies? We should get ranked by the QUALITY of our replies! Huzzah!

--Jamaica Rose

"It's not the length of the quill, but the penmanship that counts!"

If yer wanting to have a rip-roaring party, you'll find a treasure chest full of party ideas in our article "Throwing a Buccaneer Bash" at:

http://www.noquartergiven.net/articles.htm

As for gaming rules, try:

http://www.lepg.org/games.htm

Or there's an article in the May 1997 No Quarter Given issue called "Games Pirates Played" - includes rules to "Shut the Box" and others. While that issue is no longer available as a single back issue, it is available in the NQG Collected Volume 4 (1997)

Blackheartedly yrs,

--Jamaica Rose